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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789057010439Author John C. WelchmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint G&B Arts InternationalPublisher Gordon and BreachWeight(grams) 600g

Peeking into the home through the eyes of artists and image-makers, this book unveils the untold story of Italian domestic experiences from the 1940s to the 1970s. Torn between the trauma of World War II and the frenzied optimism of the postwar decades,...

Unprecedented in its range - extending from Venice to the New World and from the Holy Roman Empire to the Ottoman Empire - this collection probes the place that the Ottoman Turks occupied in the Western imaginaire, and the ways in which this occupation...

Portraying people is undoubtedly one of the most difficult aspects of drawing. Expressions, movements, emotions and gazes add a series of challenges not present when drawing still lifes or landscapes. In addition, the scant number of books specifically...

Founded by a band of young iconoclasts, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood stunned Victorian England with its revaluation of culture and lifestyle. With Pre-Raphaelitism ascendant in the 1850s and canonical by the 1880s, the movement's refractory reception...

The Victorian Artist, first published in 2003, examines the origins, development, and explosion of biographical literature on artists in Britain between 1870 and 1910. Analyzing a variety of narrative modes, including gossip, anecdotes, and...

Gabriel Rockhill opens new space for rethinking the relationship between art and politics. Rather than understanding the two spheres as separated by an insurmountable divide or linked by a privileged bridge, Rockhill demonstrates that art and politics...

Aleksandar Sasa Petrovic (1929-1994) was one of the most significant filmmakers to come out of Socialist Yugoslavia. He was by far the most awarded director on a national level, winning three Golden Arenas at the Yugoslav Film Festival in Pula, as well...

Employing an interdisciplinary approach, this book breaks new ground by considering how Robert Motherwell's abstract expressionist art is indebted to Alfred North Whitehead's highly original process metaphysics. Motherwell first encountered Whitehead and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646994175Author W. H. HelmFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Parkstone Press USA, LimitedPublisher Parkstone Press USA, Limited

Doing Science + Culture is a groundbreaking book on the cultural study of science, technology and medicine. Outstanding contributors including life and physical scientists, anthropologists, sociologists, literature/communication scholars and historians...

From producing sterile goldfish to choreographing the factory assembly line, Revital Cohen and Tuur Van Balen's work could be thought of as situated-that is to say, it is performed within particular networks. These networks-whether connecting raw...

The volume, dedicated to Marine Hugonnier (Paris, 1969), filmmaker and contemporary artist, presents a selection of works representative of her artistic approach since her beginnings in 1998. At the border between documentary and fiction, the work of...

During the 1960s and 1970s, the Russian conceptual artist Ilya Kabakov was a galvanizing figure in Moscow's underground art community, ultimately gaining international prominence as the "leader" of a band of artists known as the Moscow Conceptual Circle...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909932463Author Roelof LouwFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint RidinghousePublisher Ridinghouse

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781588340009Author Stephen WeilFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Smithsonian BooksPublisher Smithsonian BooksWeight(grams) 397gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

The appearance of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus and the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) in the early 1980s and its subsequent rapid spread around the world has left deep marks in society. The illness itself and its effects on society...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782940271542Author Barry Le VaFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint JRP EditionsPublisher JRP Editions

A photographer of the so-called Dusseldorf School, Axel Hutte trained under Bernd Becher with Thomas Struth, Thomas Ruff, Candida Hofer and Andreas Gursky. This volume presents two series of photographs. The first illustrates the author's journey from...

Symeon Stylites the Younger and Late Antique Antioch: From Hagiography to History is a study of the authority of the holy man and its limits in times of crisis. Lucy Parker investigates the tensions that emerged when increasingly ambitious claims about...

The Renaissance of Letters traces the multiplication of letter-writing practices between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries in the Italian peninsula and beyond to explore the importance of letters as a crucial document for understanding the Italian...

In this fully updated second edition, award-winning film director and Slamdance Film Festival co-founder Dan Mirvish gives you soup-to-nuts, cradle-to-grave advice on every aspect of the filmmaking lifestyle and craft. He drops advice on playing the...

Walter Pater and the Language of Sculpture is the first monograph to discuss the Victorian critic Walter Pater's attitude to sculpture. It brings together Pater's aesthetic theories with his theories on language and writing, to demonstrate how his ideas...

On the occasion of the Beyeler Fondation's 20th anniversary, this richly illustrated publication gathers quotes, letters, interviews and writings from Arp, Bourgeois, Cezanne, Degas, Dubuffet, Kandinsky, Klee, Malevich, Matisse, Mondrian, Monet, Picasso,...

The past decade of both economic crises in Europe and North America as well as an extraordinary museum boom in many Asian countries has led to new questions and concepts for future museum buildings. New Museums: Intentions, Expectations, Challenges...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782851173096Author Guilherme WisnickFormat PaperbackPage Count 165Imprint Cahiers d'artPublisher Cahiers d'artWeight(grams) 1260g

You may know Bill Campbell's name, but chances are, you know his handiwork better, especially the Weird-Ohs models that burst on the pop culture scene in the 1960s. Enjoy looking back over the career of this colorful artist in over 700 brilliant photos...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783960988465Author Marian GoodmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther KonigPublisher Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781576873533Author Jeremiah GoodmanFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint powerHouse Books,U.S.Publisher powerHouse Books,U.S.Weight(grams) 2417g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262045186Author Laura A FrahmFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618083619Author Wayne G. HammondFormat PaperbackPage Count 207Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 864g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781737797975Author Mel ChinFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Primary InformationPublisher Primary InformationWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 274mm *...

Before the eighteenth century, the ocean was regarded as a repulsive and chaotic deep. Despite reinvention as a zone of wonder and pleasure, it continued to be viewed in the West and elsewhere as 'uninhabited', empty space. This collection, spanning the...

This book examines the art and writings of Wassily Kandinsky, who is widely regarded as one of the first artists to produce non-representational paintings. Crucial to an understanding of Kandinsky's intentions is On the Spiritual in Art, the celebrated...

This richly illustrated book provides an anthology and summation of the work of one of the world's leading historians of Chinese painting and calligraphy. Wen Fong helped create the field of East Asian art history during a distinguished five-decade...

Images of the classical female figure are more prevalent in the contemporary figurative art world, as the nude male has been shunned as too potent or treated as a sex symbol. This book bravely showcases works by male and female artists from around the...

From psychedelic abstraction to paintings of water droplets: essential insight into one of Korea's most celebrated painters Internationally acclaimed painter Kim Tschang-Yeul (1929-2021) spent most of his career in Paris after having fled his North...

Michelangelo, Raphael, Bramante-together these artists created some of the most glorious treasures of the Vatican, viewed daily by thousands of tourists. But how many visitors understand the way these artworks reflect the passions, dreams, and struggles...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912165490Author Leena Al-NasserFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Black Dog PressPublisher Black Dog PressDimensions(mm) 248mm * 187mm * 30mm

This is the first catalogue raisonne of Frans Post (1612-1680) published in over 30 years. Post is the first trained artist from the Old World to paint landscapes of the Americas. He lived seven years in Brazil (1637-1644) where he painted seven canvases...