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The eye of the beholder is fascinated by colours. Their symbolic and cultural historical meanings, which have often developed over centuries and are reflected in various narrative forms, are found to be equally fascinating. Thus in traditional folk tales...

The Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Annaghmakerrig celebrates a quarter of a century this year and marks this important milestone with the launch of a beautiful volume, 'Annaghmakerrig'. The Centre is an artists' retreat set amid the lakes and drumlins of...

Anti-Museum charts the development of the anti-museum as a concept and as it has been realised in practice. Drawing on a range of case studies, including the New Museum and PS1 in New York, Mona in Australia, Art42 in Paris and Donald Judd's Marfa, the...

This superbly illustrated book accompanies an exhibition of thirty objects from the exceptional collection of English silver in the Moscow Kremlin Museums, where the world's greatest surviving group of English sixteenth- and seventeenth-century silver is...

ART AND ARCHITECTURE OF IRELAND is an authoritative and fully illustrated survey that encompasses the period from the early Middle Ages to the end of the 20th century. The five volumes explore all aspects of Irish art - from high crosses to installation...

The artworks of Russian-born artist Evgeny Antufiev's pervade the interstices of the archaeological museum Salinas in Palermo; they are rooted in symbolic visual representations of archaic civilisations generating consonance between different worlds and...

In light of the recent rise of right-wing populism in numerous political contexts and in the face of resurgent nationalism, racism, misogyny, homophobia, and demagoguery, this book investigates how historical and contemporary cultural producers have...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873654074Author Maija M. LutzFormat PaperbackImprint Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology,U.S.Publisher Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology,U...

Nineteenth-century neoclassical sculpture was a highly politicized international movement. Based in Rome, many expatriate American sculptors created works that represented black female subjects in compelling and problematic ways. Rejecting pigment as...

Painting in the Age of Giotto is a revisionist account of central Italian painting in the period 1260 to 1370. The study is the first to discuss Giorgio Vasari's account of the "first age" of the Renaissance in his "Lives" and the character of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783903320420Author Ralf HermsFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Verlag fur Moderne KunstPublisher Verlag fur Moderne Kunst

While the importance of the relationship between anthropology and contemporary art has long been recognized, the discussion has tended to be among scholars from North America, Europe, and Australia; until now, scholarship and experiences from other...

Create high-quality models in no time at all with these comprehensive, full-color, techniques and tutorials from Antony Ward and David Randall. These step-by-step tutorials walk readers through the creation of a high-quality female model while teaching...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781872501499Author Anita Fiderer MoskowitzFormat HardbackPage Count 362Imprint Harvey Miller PublishersPublisher Brepols N.V.

Antarctica, that icy wasteland and extreme environment at the ends of the earth, was - at the beginning of the 20th century - the last frontier of Victorian imperialism, a territory subjected to heroic and sometimes desperate exploration. Now, at the...

This book examines the rich corpus of mosaics created in Crete during the Roman and Late Antique eras. It provides essential information on the style, iconography and chronology of the material, as well as discussion of the craftspeople who created them...

This book explores the nature of Britain-based artists' engagement with the transformations of their environment since the early days of the Industrial Revolution.At a time of pressing ecological concerns, the international group of contributors provide...

In Learn to Draw (Almost) Anything in 6 Easy Steps, artist Rich Davis breaks down 100 sketches into six simple steps, showing you how to draw all sorts of fun things, from animals and flowers to robots and cars.What can you draw in 6 steps? You can...

In 1964, inspired by both art history and by imagery found on printed postcards, Lichtenstein began to explore the genre of seascape, using both paint, plastic, enamel, drawings, collage, print and even film to realize his various works. Guild Hall will...

The year 2007 marked the bicentenary of the Act abolishing British participation in the slave trade. Representing Enslavement and Abolition on Museums- which uniquely draws together contributions from academic commentators, museum professionals,...

Beginning in the seventeenth century, many of Europe's greatest writers and artists became embroiled in a debate that centered on the priority of paintings or sculpture, touch or sight, colour or design, ancient or modern."The Blind Spot" guides us...

Women Artists in Interwar France: Framing Femininities illuminates the importance of the Societe des Femmes Artists Modernes, more commonly known as FAM, and returns this group to its proper place in the history of modern art. In particular, this volume...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604860917Author Josh MacpheeFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 164g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789492095022Author Pascal GielenFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint ValizPublisher ValizWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 135mm * 25mm

How does photography shape the way we see sculpture? In David Smith in Two Dimensions, Sarah Hamill broaches this question through an in-depth consideration of the photography of American sculptor David Smith (1906 1965). Smith was a modernist known for...

The present publication is an essential part of the narrative of Wayne Higby's retrospective exhibition - focusing on the concept of the artist scholar - at ASU Art Museum, in Spring 2013. It documents his ceramic work with over 150 images of 50 seminal...

This book includes a rich and fascinating consideration of the golden age of French printmaking. Once considered the golden age of French printmaking, Louis XIV's reign saw Paris become a powerhouse of print production. During this time, the king aimed...

The Queer Sixties assembles an impressive group of cultural critics to go against the grain of 1960s studies, and proposes new and different ways of the last decade before the closet doors swung open. Imbued with the zeitgeist of the 60s, this playful...

This is the second volume of the definitive reference series dealing with commercial bronze sculptures in the period 1800 to 1930. This period spans the rise and decline of commercial industrial foundries in Europe, especially in France, and a wide array...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857240695Author Monika JagfeldFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 980g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780854421176Author Jonathan Green-PlumbFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Stobart Davies LtdPublisher Stobart Davies LtdDimensions(mm) 297mm * 210mm * 19mm

Long viewed as a tabula rasa, the deserts of the American West have played a distinct role in the projection of American cultural identities. Historically represented through fantasies of individualism, frontier ruggedness, and land acquisition, the...

The first major overview of the works and career of Leopoldo Mendez-one of the most distinguished printmakers of the twentieth century and a contemporary and countryman of Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco, and Jose Guadalupe Posada-contains over 150...

Alarming environmental shifts and crises have raised public awareness and anxieties regarding the future of the planet. While planetary in scale, the negative effects of this global crisis are unequally distributed, affecting some of the already most...

Popular interest in body image issues has grown dramatically in recent years, due to an emphasis on individual responsibility and self-determination in contemporary society as well as the seemingly limitless capacities of modern medicine; however body...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262543576Author Michael ZrydFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

For two centuries, Gesamtkunstwerk-the ideal of the "total work of art"-has exerted a powerful influence over artistic discourse and practice, spurring new forms of collaboration and provoking debates over the political instrumentalization of...

Renowned for work that layers binary code with handmade craft, Fatimah Tuggar is one of the most original, incisive conceptual artists of the digital age. Tuggar's sculp-tures, photomontages, videos, and interactive works challenge roman-ticized notions...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838059842Author Margaret CorvidFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Patrician PressPublisher Patrician Press

Curiosity is the instinct that prompts us to act, and a book about curiosity should tell us how to live. This is the first to do so, with its twelve rules for life.While a fatal sin in Eden, curiosity is a necessary virtue in our world. It asks us to...