Non-Fiction

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939931344Author Klaus WivelFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint New Vessel PressPublisher New Vessel Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910996522Author Warren HopeFormat PaperbackPage Count 338Imprint Greenwich Exchange LtdPublisher Greenwich Exchange Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780147530684Author Chris JohnsFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

This book demonstrates that copper-alloy casting was widespread in southern Nigeria and has been practiced for at least a millennium. Philip M. Peek's research provides a critical context for the better-known casting traditions of Igbo-Ukwu, Ife, and...

Since the 1970s, members of the Hilti family have been actively engaged in the collection of art. The systematic long-term development and growth of the collection began in the early 1990s.The collection of the Hilti Art Foundation currently contains...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781786276605Author David HornungFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Laurence King PublishingPublisher Laurence King PublishingWeight(grams)...

Artists from Francis Alys to the Otolith Group meditate on the aesthetic and political possibilities of "the percussive" Accompanying the 2022 exhibition at Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts in San Francisco, Drum Listens to Heart reflects on the...

They're back and more popular than ever! The Simpsons (TM) continues to be the longest-running prime-time program still on the air, and fans and collectors are still trying to keep up with the incredible variety of toys and collectibles they've inspired...

Sixteenth-Century Italian Art is a first-rate collection of the major classic and contemporary writings on the Italian Renaissance. Taking a thematic approach, the book exemplifies the traditional concerns of the field and presents arguments in a clear,...

In this volume, Elisabeth Fraser shows that artists and the works they created in the Mediterranean during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries were informed by mutual dependence and reciprocity between European nations and the Ottoman...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783735604583Author Helen AdkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Kerber VerlagPublisher Kerber Verlag

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912165247Author Gabriela PoundsFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Black Dog PressPublisher Black Dog Press

An investigation into Saar's lifelong interest in Black dolls, with new watercolors, historic assemblages, sketchbooks and a selection of Black dolls from the artist's collection This volume features new watercolor works on paper and assemblages by...

The book explores representations of the Holocaust in contemporary art practices. Through carefully selected art projects, the author illuminates the specific historical, cultural, and political circumstances that influence the way we speak-or do not...

Winner of the 2023 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism Winner of the 2023 ASAP Book Prize, given by the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present Explores expressionlessness, inscrutability, and emotional withholding in Black...

An incomparable look at how Chinese artists have used mass production to assemble exquisite objects from standardized partsChinese workers in the third century BCE created seven thousand life-sized terracotta soldiers to guard the tomb of the First...

Since Tate Modern opened in 2000, the Turbine Hall has hosted some of the world's most memorable and acclaimed works of contemporary art, reaching an audience of millions. The way artists have interpreted this vast industrial space has revolutionised...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780867198218Author Alan KaufmanFormat HardbackPage Count 700Imprint Last Gasp,U.S.Publisher Last Gasp,U.S.

Caroline Bachmann is one of Switzerland's foremost contemporary artists. Alongside her independent work in painting and drawing, she has also formed one half of the artist duo Bachmann Banz, together with Stefan Banz, since 2004. Together, the two...

New works from the celebrated Brazilian virtuoso of joyously chromatic abstraction Published in conjunction with the Brazilian artist Beatriz Milhazes' (born 1960) first solo exhibition at Pace since she joined the gallery in 2020, this book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783959055369Author Jason ReedFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Spector BooksPublisher Spector BooksWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 239mm * 170mm * 20mm

The Passion Translation is a modern, easy-to-read Bible translation that unlocks the passion of God's heart and expresses his fiery love-merging emotion and life-changing truth. This translation will evoke an overwhelming response in every reader,...

Digital Currents explores the growing impact of digital technologies on aesthetic experience and examines the major changes taking place in the role of the artist as social communicator.Margot Lovejoy recounts the early histories of electronic media for...

Historians have claimed that when social stability returned to Korea after devastating invasions by the Japanese and Manchus around the turn of the seventeenth century, the late Choson dynasty was a period of unprecedented economic and cultural...

The catalogue of an exhibition comparing versions of Monet's Waterloo Bridge at the Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester, NY. Impressionist master Claude Monet began over forty versions of Waterloo Bridge during his three London sojourns between 1899 and...

This title was first published in 2001. An examination of art and patronage in Britain during the post-war years. It consists of five case studies, initially written as MA theses, that closely investigate aspects of the mechanisms of patronage outside...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783895007033Author Beat BrenkFormat HardbackPage Count 131Imprint Reichert VerlagPublisher Reichert VerlagWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm) 244mm * 175mm *...

One of the largest and most important palatial houses of late 18th- and early 19th-century Damascus, Bayt Farhi belonged to the Farhi family, who served as financial administrators to successive Ottoman governors in Damascus and Acre. Lavishly...

In 1256, the countess of Provence, Beatrice of Savoy, enlisted her personal physician to create a health handbook to share with her daughters. Written in French and known as the Regime du corps, this health guide would become popular and influential,...

In exhibitions, illustrated art books, and classrooms, artworks or their photographic reproductions are arranged as calculated ensembles that have their own importance. In this volume, Felix Thurlemann develops a theory of this type of image use,...

Plural Heritages and Community Co-production is a landmark contribution on the nature and plurality of heritages and how they can be creatively and ethically presented in urban space.Providing an overview of the concept of plural heritages, this book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781631599002Author Peter BoerboomFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Rockport PublishersPublisher Rockport PublishersWeight(grams) 336gDimensions(mm)...

This book provides a new perspective on Sienese painting after the Black Death, asking how social, religious, and cultural change affect visual imagery and style. Judith Steinhoff demonstrates that Siena's artistic culture of the mid and late fourteenth...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884023586Author Gary VikanFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & CollectionPublisher Dumbarton Oaks Research Library &...

Published to coincide with Antony Gormley SUBJECT at Kettle's Yard in 2018, this book features installation shots and drawings alongside texts by Caroline Collier and Jennifer Powell, and Antony Gormley in conversation with architect Jamie Fobert. ...

Shio Kusaka's ceramic vessels articulate poetic connections, creating a cohesive and unique installation. ---------- "It's a striking effect-some pieces are bowl-shaped, others are cylindrical, a few have slim, sloping necks. Their linear arrangement...

Fujiko Nakaya is one of Japan's most important contemporary artists. Participating in the 1960s performances of the New York-based collective Experiments in Arts and Technology (E.A.T.), she became internationally renowned for her immersive fog artworks...

By placing emerging artists in their political and social contexts, this collection attempts to confront the new activist scene that has arisen in the Russian art world during the past few years. The recent explosion of protests in Russia - often with...

Between 1932 and 1934, Jose Clemente Orozco painted the twenty-four-panel mural cycle entitled The Epic of American Civilization in Dartmouth College's Baker-Berry Library. An artifact of Orozco's migration from Mexico to the United States, the Epic...

"The light in Pratt's paintings seems sentient, a living thing, a pulsation or emission, imbuing the paintings with an erotic and almost mystical desire." - Canadian Art Following a stunningly successful national touring exhibition and a sold-out...