Non-Fiction

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789185639427Author Bjorn AlmqvistFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Dokument PressPublisher Dokument ForlagWeight(grams) 665g

Miquel Barcelo is one of the most interesting artists active today. For over 40 years, his poetics has embodied different languages such as painting, sculpture, graphics and publishing, in a great and very original artistic pathway. The ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679446316Author National Audubon SocietyFormat HardbackPage Count 992Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780913372982Author Reviewer Roger D AbrahamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Mystic Seaport MuseumPublisher Mystic Seaport Museum

The celebrated Ashcan School artist John Sloan produced a distinctive body of work depicting life on the rooftops of early twentieth-century New York City. Designed to accompany the major loan exhibition of the same name organized by the Palmer Museum of...

A chronological history of art that assembles chef d'oeuvres from all artistic disciplines around the globe and throughout the ages. The Louvre Abu Dhabi, which has aroused great curiosity since plans were first announced for the groundbreaking museum in...

The story of a seminal experience on the international art scene in the 1960s. In the post-war period characterized by wide-ranging experimentation involving major artists and international exchanges, Azimut/h played a key cultural and expressive role...

In West Africa, especially among Yoruba people, masquerades have the power to kill enemies, appoint kings, and grant fertility. John Thabiti Willis takes a close look at masquerade traditions in the Yoruba town of Otta, exploring transformations in...

Sixteen international artists at the forefront of feminism This book focuses on a selection of midcareer international artists whose oeuvres are informed by the legacies of feminist thought. Each artist adds to the feminist discourse, whether by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781567699012Author Sinclair B. FergusonFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Ligonier MinistriesPublisher Ligonier Ministries

The bead played a vital role in Pueblo Indian jewelry design, and its influence continues today in modernist American design. In these pages, featuring more than 250 breathtaking photos, renowned expert Baxter integrates her decades of research with...

Insightful essays and rarely-seen images tracing, from birth to maturation, several generations of Hungarian modernism, from the avant-garde to neo-avant-garde. This wide-ranging collection by Eva Forgacs, a leading scholar of Modernism, corrects...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780953942268Author R. FebdallFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Paul Holberton Publishing LtdPublisher Paul Holberton Publishing Ltd

One of the most imaginative and fascinating artists of eighteenth-century France,Edme Bouchardon (1698-1762) was instrumental in the transition from Rococo to Neoclassicism and in the artistic rediscovery of classical antiquity. Much celebrated in his...

A breathtaking collection of work celebrating 125 years of San Francisco's legendary museum The de Young is San Francisco's oldest art museum, treasured in a unique verdant setting. Beginning as the Golden Gate Park Memorial Museum in 1895, the museum...

In 1972, artist Garth Evans welcomed the opportunity to create a public sculpture in Cardiff, Wales, as part of the Peter Stuyvesant Foundation's City Sculpture Project. Concerned that the increasing demand for his work served only to reinforce the...

Over the course of her career, Barbara Stafford has established herself the preeminent scholar of the intersections of the arts and sciences, articulating new theories and methods for understanding the sublime, the mysterious, the inscrutable. Omnivorous...

By developing his own conception of the 'figure' Andrew Benjamin has written an innovative and provocative study of the complex relationship between philosophy, the history of painting and their presentation of both Jews and animals. As Benjamin makes...

Eadweard Muybridge is among the seminal originators of the contemporary world's visual form. Projectionists examines mostly unknown aspects of Muybridge's work: his period as a touring projectionist who enthralled audiences with unprecedented...

This four-part publication, bound into a single volume with binding screws, catalogues a four-part exhibition at the Berlinische Galerie, Deutsche Bank KunstHalle, KW Institute for Contemporary Art and Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin. It includes work by...

At the core of both art and science we find the twin forces of probability and uncertainty. However, these two worlds have been tenuously entangled for decades. On the one hand, artists continue to ask complex questions that align with a scientific...

Every Spider-Man fan knows Peter Parker's origin story, knows about his clashes with the Green Goblin, and is eager to see actor Tom Holland don the red and blue suit on the big screen. But do you know the genesis of Venom or the Sinister Six? Have you...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781937720179Author Bruce MunroFormat HardbackPage Count 207Imprint Sea-Hill PressPublisher Sea-Hill Press

Berlin, city of Bertolt Brecht, Marlene Dietrich, cabaret and German Expressionism, a city identified with a female sexuality - at first alluring but then dangerous. In this fascinating study, Dorothy Rowe turns our attention to Berlin as a sexual...

Glitch Art in Theory and Practice: Critical Failures and Post-Digital Aesthetics explores the concept of "glitch" alongside contemporary digital political economy to develop a general theory of critical media using glitch as a case study and model,...

Curator Germano Celant presents the largest exhibition in Europe of works by American artist, Richard Artschwager (1923-2013), commencing Italy, then in Spain. Turning to the understanding of space, everyday objects and perception, the poetics...

Creating a discourse between Eastern "otherness" and Western concepts of beauty Los Angeles-based artist Hayv Kahraman (born 1981) creates exquisite paintings and other wall works that address diasporic cultural memory, feminine collectivity and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788997639076Author Robert KoehlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Seoul Selection Co., Ltd.Publisher Seoul Selection Co., Ltd.Weight(grams) 186g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941701607Author Hilton AlsFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint David ZwirnerPublisher David ZwirnerWeight(grams) 1030g

What it is like to be an animal? Ron Broglio wants to know from the inside, from underneath the fur and feathers. In examining this question, he bypasses the perspectives of biology or natural history to explore how one can construct an animal...

Perhaps best known for his iconic paintings and sculptures of LOVE, also featured on a U.S. postage stamp, and HOPE, created in support of Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign, Robert Indiana (b. 1928) has been living and working in Maine since 1978...

For the past thirty to forty years, cultural analysis has focused on developing terms to explain the surpassing of modernity. Discussion is stranded in an impasse between those who view the term modernity with automatic disdain-as deterministic,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780867197938Author Mike DavisFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Last Gasp,U.S.Publisher Last Gasp,U.S.Weight(grams) 944g

Providing a fresh perspective on an important but underappreciated group of late nineteenth-century French painters, this is the first book to provide an in-depth account of the Nabis' practice of the decorative, and its significance for...

Greek Art and Aesthetics in the Fourth Century B.C. analyzes the broad character of art produced during this period, providing in-depth analysis of and commentary on many of its most notable examples of sculpture and painting. Taking into consideration...

Arvey Foundation Book Award, Association for Latin American Art, 2019Quito, Ecuador, was one of colonial South America's most important artistic centers. Yet the literature on painting in colonial Quito largely ignores the first century of activity,...

At the beginning of the last century, Marc Chagall, Pablo Picasso, Piet Mondrian and other acclaimed and unknown artists moved to Paris, the art capital of the world. They learnt to survive in a society that was becoming increasingly polarised, ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781588345073Author Tawaraya SotatsuFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Smithsonian BooksPublisher Smithsonian BooksWeight(grams) 3g

Donated to the museum in 1925, the Yale University Art Gallery's Education of the Virgin-depicting Saint Anne teaching a young Virgin Mary to read-was long considered to be a work by an unknown Spanish artist. Considerably damaged, the painting was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486834016Author Nc WyethFormat PaperbackPage Count 12Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 125gDimensions(mm)...