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Add more color to every day! Uplift your thoughts and everyday tasks with inspiring words and your own splash of color. This interactive coloring book--charged with positivity--includes daily and monthly calendars, shopping lists, cards to share with...

A study of the representation of education in material culture, at a period of considerable change and growth. On the facade of Chartres cathedral serene personifications of the arts of grammar, rhetoric, dialectic, music, arithmetic, geometry and...

Oslo's Fornebuporten business and residential district boasts its own sculpture park, Imprints, featuring ceramic works by the Norwegian artist and musician Magne Furuholmen (born 1962). Furuholmen has created totemic sculptures of glazed and unglazed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614292555Author Khenpo SodargeFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Wisdom Publications,U.S.Publisher Wisdom Publications,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789078088677Author Myriam MihindouFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint ValizPublisher ValizWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 240mm * 170mm * 10mm

Described by Art Review as 'one of the most influential people in the contemporary art world in 2018', Theaster Gates (b. 1973, Chicago) explores the complex and interweaving issues of race, territory and inequality as a socially engaged artist. Living...

Yi Lei published her poem "A Single Woman's Bedroom" in 1987, when cohabitation before marriage was a punishable crime in China. She was met with major critical acclaim-and with outrage-for her frank embrace of women's erotic desire and her unabashed...

Few monuments have fascinated people as much as the Parthenon. Two and a half millennia after its construction, this monument continues to generate important research across a wide range of fields, from classics and art history to archaeology and the...

Almost all museums hold photographs in their collections, and museum professionals and their audiences engage with photographs in a myriad of ways. Yet despite some three decades of critical museology and photographic theory, and an extensive debate on...

In 1939, a ten-year-old Igor Golomstock accompanied his mother, a medical doctor, to the vast network of labour camps in the Russian Far East. While she tended patients, he was minded by assorted 'trusty' prisoners - hardened criminals - and returned to...

From the Preface:"The essays in Feminist Art Criticism are theoretical, and we selected them for several reasons. First, they show a diversity of concerns. These include spirituality, sexuality, the representation of women in art, the necessary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781853323522Author Professor Michael FriedFormat PaperbackPage Count 500Imprint Hayward Gallery PublishingPublisher Hayward Gallery Publishing

From the girl next door to sexy switch-blade sisters, the pin-up girls depicted in this collection of works by 15 of today's best artists boldly display the full spectrum of the genre. Through masterful use of color and media, both traditional and...

Meticulously woven by hand with wool, silk, and gilt-metal thread, the tapestry collection of the Sun King, Louis XIV of France, represents the highest achievements of the art form. Intended to enhance the king's reputation by visualizing his manifest...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486804958Author Doug ChiangFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782370740359Author Francis HodgsonFormat HardbackPage Count 168Imprint Editions Skira ParisPublisher Editions Skira ParisWeight(grams) 1040g

"Originally published in Japanese, Antiquarians of Nineteenth-Century Japan looks at the approach toward object-based research across the late Tokugawa and early Meiji periods, which were typically kept separate, and elucidates the intellectual...

A new set of striking, elegant flash from Stizzo, owner of Best of Times Tattoo, who continues his dedication to the tradition and craft of tattooing. Highly detailed, thoughtfully colored and shaded, Stizzo's flash is hand drawn and painted, finding its...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783735604637Author Matthias StraubFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Kerber VerlagPublisher Kerber Verlag

In 1910 New York's art scene was dull and stuck in the past-lagging considerably behind Europe. Before the century reached its midpoint, however, New York would come to dominate the art world. It seemed that in a blink of an eye New York City transformed...

Robert Ross was one of the first people that Aubrey Beardsley met when he arrived in London to make his name in 1892. Within six years the young artist was dead; but the work he produced in that short time revolutionised British art, and he was fixed...

Celebrated connoisseur, drawings collector, print dealer, book publisher and authority on the art of antiquity, Pierre-Jean Mariette (1694-1774) was a pivotal figure in the eighteenth-century European art world. Focusing on the trajectory of Mariette's...

An ambitious study of what it means to be a museum in the twenty-first century In Museums Inside Out, Mark W. Rectanus investigates how museums are blurring the boundaries between their gallery walls and public spaces. He examines how artists are...

Boats Crosses Trees Figures 1977-78 is a survey of Peter Halley's (born 1953) early works on paper made during his years as a graduate student at the University of New Orleans. Already pointing clearly to the pictorial concerns that he would focus on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938922336Author Jens HoffmannFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Distributed Art PublishersPublisher Distributed Art PublishersWeight(grams)...

Four essays on the oldest church in Istanbul. The Monastery of Stoudios was built in the fifth century in Constantinople and for centuries constituted one of the most significant monasteries of the Byzantine capital. Today, only the church of the...

The unparalleled competition showcase for outstanding acrylic artists! There's an old saying among artists that "value does all the work, while color gets all the credit." AcrylicWorks 5 gives value its due, showing how--in the hands of today's top...

The work of the prize winning Peruvian American light artist Grimanesa Amoros is characterised by organic forms and an instinctive approach. The basis of her fascinating sculptures lies, however, in the natural sciences, social history and critical...

Gorgeous archival photos capture Calder's transformation of sculpture with his invention of the mobile With multiple essays by renowned scholars, artwork and installation images, and a suite of historic photographs of Alexander Calder's (1898-1976)...

Hans Josephsohn, born in 1920 in Koenigsberg (now Kaliningrad, Russia), came to Zurich via Florence as a Jewish immigrant in 1938. In more than six decades he has created a sculptural oeuvre that transcends the fashions and fads of the art world and yet...

Creativity and Learning in Later Life examines how processes such as 'creativity' and 'inspiration' are experienced by writers who engage with the visual arts, and questions how age is perceived in relation to these processes. The author's careful...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780909952068Author David HomewoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 346Imprint Power PublicationsPublisher Power Publications

The surge of evolutionary and neurological analyses of art and its effects raises questions of how art, culture, and the biological sciences influence one another, and what we gain in applying scientific methods to the interpretation of artwork. In this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806350974Author LeckeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 786Imprint ClearfieldPublisher ClearfieldWeight(grams) 894g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780893709556Author Michael R CollingsFormat HardbackImprint Borgo PressPublisher Borgo PressWeight(grams) 354g

Red Squirrel Phonics is a new series of decodable readers from Raintree, packed with real stories using words that children can read. The programme teaches children phonics skills in a sequential and systematic way so that they can learn the sounds...

Every manual is written from hands-on experience gained from stripping down and rebuilding each vehicle in the Haynes Project Workshop. The practical step-by-step instructions and clear photos are easy to follow and provide information on maintenance,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783869931289Author Future PressFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint Future Press Verlag und Marketing GmbHPublisher Future Press Verlag und Marketing GmbH

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989442893Author Tracie Ann Saunders MDFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Professional Woman PublishingPublisher Professional Woman...

Weekend Makes: Embroidery with Buttons is a delightful collection of 25 colourful embroidery projects which use buttons in an innovative and creative way. Embroidery is an ancient craft that has been enjoyed and practiced for centuries, providing...