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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781735766003Author VangelineFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint New York Butoh InstitutePublisher New York Butoh InstituteWeight(grams) 644gDimensions(mm)...

CO-WINNER: The Triennial Alan Walker Book Award, sponsored by the American Liszt Society 2023 A new and wide-ranging collection of essays by leading international scholars, exploring the concept and practices of virtuosity in Franz Liszt and his...

Through embodied and material practice research, underpinned with theories of new materialism, Tara Page shows how our ways of knowing, making and learning place are entangled with embodied and material pedagogies.Book InformationISBN 9781474428774Author...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783959050333Author Jonas MekasFormat PaperbackPage Count 456Imprint Spector BooksPublisher Spector BooksWeight(grams) 400g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857238326Author Marta GnypFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 1180g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781899296163Author Gabriele KochFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Alphabet and Image LtdPublisher Stenlake Publishing

Square meters of empty toothpaste tubes and bottles of cleaning solution, pencils, balls of wool, or shoes-all of it in neat rows: Waste not, the spectacular installation by Song Dong (*1966) comprising more than ten thousand individual items, traveled...

Mieke Bal has had a significant impact on every field she has touched, from Old Testament scholarship and narratology to critical methods and visual culture. This brilliant and controversial intellectual invariably performs a high-wire act at the point...

The new Cuban art grew up in the supercharged and conflicting currents of revolution, sometimes tracking to its optimism and at others scalded by it. But even more than that it was an art with extraordinary relation and relevance to the life of the...

Performing the Visual explores the practice of wall painting in China from a new perspective. Relying on rare, virtually unpublished drawings on Buddhist themes from a long-hidden medieval library in western China, the author analyzes the painters'...

Romantic Paris is a richly illustrated survey of cultural life in Paris during some of the most tumultuous decades of the city's history. Between the coups d'etat of Napoleon Bonaparte and of his nephew, Louis-Napoleon, Paris weathered extremes of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783863351472Author Brigitte HuckFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther KonigPublisher Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig

The Dusseldorf Art Academy has trained painters, sculptors, set designers and architects for more than 200 years. Numerous artists of international stature have studied or taught there. Including more than 20 richly illustrated essays by current and...

This beautiful publication presents for the first time the Eveillard Gift of drawings to The Frick Collection, the most important gift of drawings and pastels in its history. It accompanies an exhibition at the Frick and includes a catalogue of the works...

Williams draws on her background in dramaturgy to envision a space that accommodates the biopolitical economies that inform how movement might be read. Looking at the interconnections between popular culture and myth, she relates in her work anatomy,...

A stunning collection of works from the groundbreaking grantLOVE philanthropic art projectWhat is love? In LOVE: A Visual History of the grantLOVE Project, artist Alexandra Grant explores that question in this stunning, multifaceted volume. This...

How Helio Oiticica led Brazilian art's transition from abstract art to performable sculpture One of the most radical and joyful artists of the 20th century, Helio Oiticica (1937-80) helped lead the charge in Brazilian art's unique transition from...

Longlisted for the 2019 Historians of British Art book prize While the connected, international character of today's art economy is well known, the 18th century too had global systems of artistic production and consumption. Eighteenth-Century Art Worlds...

The first major history of the bravura movement in European paintingThe painterly style known as bravura emerged in sixteenth-century Venice and spread throughout Europe during the seventeenth century. While earlier artistic movements presented a...

In July 1975, Sheikh Nasser Sabah Ahmed al-Sabah showed his wife, Sheikha Hussah Sabah al-Salem al-Sabah, a splendid enamelled glass bottle dating from the Mumluk period (Egypt or Syria, 14th century), the first object of Islamic art he had acquired...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780975456408Author J R DunsterFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Green Verdugo PressPublisher Green Verdugo PressWeight(grams) 549g

Lorenzo Lotto's Portrait of Andrea Odoni is one of the most famous paintings of the Italian Renaissance. Son of an immigrant and a member of the non-noble citizen class, Odoni understood how the power of art could make a name for himself and his family...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934389003Author Peter BethanisFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint For BeginnersPublisher For Beginners

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788492505913Author Chad EliasFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Museu D'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA)Publisher Museu D'Art Contemporani de...

Museums and Atlantic Slavery explores how slavery, the Atlantic slave trade, and enslaved people are represented through words, visual images, artifacts, and audiovisual materials in museums in Europe and the Americas. Divided into four chapters, the...

Courts and societies across the early modern Eurasian world were fundamentally transformed by the physical, technological, and conceptual developments of their era. Evolving forms of communication, greatly expanded mobility, the spread of scientific...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905582891Author David Fraser JenkinsFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Graffeg LimitedPublisher Graffeg Limited

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789078088493Author Wouter DavidtsFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint ValizPublisher Valiz

In Advanced Visual Effects Compositing: Techniques for Working with Problematic Footage, learn to tackle difficult visual effect composites in layer-based and node-based compositing programs.In this book, industry veteran and compositing expert Lee...

This reader is intended to accompany undergraduate courses in the history of Russian cinema or Russian culture through film. It consists of excerpts from English language criticism and translations of excerpts of Russian-language criticism, as well as...

Edited by A. R. practice (Ann Richter & Agnieszka Roguski), Introduction by A. R. practice (Ann Richter & Agnieszka Roguski), Texts by Melanie Buhler, Erika Landstroem, Agnieszka Roguski When the exhibition enters the digital realm, as it is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783735605122Author Wolfgang ThalerFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Kerber VerlagPublisher Kerber VerlagWeight(grams) 1550g

More than two hundred years ago, Russian Empress Catherine the Great and some of her courtiers developed a taste for British art and collected some spectacular items including paintings, drawings, sculpture, silver, and Wedgwood ceramics. This...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262537896Author Maria HlavajovaFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Between 1667 and 1792, the artists and amateurs of the Acade mie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture in Paris lectured on the Acade mie's 'confe rences', foundational documents in the theory and practice of art. These texts and the principles they embody...

The early collections from Africa in Liverpool's World Museum reflect the city's longstanding shipping and commercial links with Africa's Atlantic coast. A principal component of these collections is an assemblage of several thousand artefacts from...

We are witnessing a sea change regarding mental health in sports media, led in part by professional athletes such as Michael Phelps, Kevin Love, Naomi Osaka, and Simone Biles, who are sharing their own experiences with mental illness, bucking stereotypes...

Of Modernism presents original research by ten contemporary scholars of modern art. By turns provocative, insightful and informative, these essays - written in honour of the eminent British art historian Christopher Green - rethink some of the crucial...

The idea that Japanese art is produced through rote copy and imitation is an eighteenth-century colonial construct, with roots in Romantic ideals of originality. Offering a much-needed corrective to this critique, Michael Lucken demonstrates the distinct...

Soothe Yourself With These Creative Drawing Pages and Coloring Pages for AdultsNeed some time to unwind? These mandala art activities provide a relaxing mindfulness for beginners experience for calming adult fun!Mindfulness activities for the stressed...