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Leading graphic designer Yang Liu brings the way we were face to face with the way we are. Reissued in four languages, Today meets Yesterday deploys vivid pictogram pairings to explore the transformations, and the challenges, of our ever-evolving world...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984734627Author Erica BaumFormat PaperbackPage Count 267Imprint Triple CanopyPublisher Triple Canopy

A leading figure of the postwar avant-garde, Danish artist Asger Jorn has long been recognized for his founding contributions to the Cobra and Situationist International movements - yet art historical scholarship on Jorn has been sparse, particularly in...

During the Georgian period there was a remarkable proliferation of seductive visual imagery and written accounts of female performers. Focusing on the close relationship between the dramatic and visual arts at this time, this beautiful and stimulating...

A tour through the dazzling Futurist Gesamtkunstwerk that was Giacomo Balla's home and creative laboratory Recently opened to the public for the first time, the home of the Futurist artist Giacomo Balla (1871-1958) is depicted and inventoried in this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783960984153Author Oscar MunozFormat HardbackPage Count 180Imprint Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther KonigPublisher Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig

Soft Power: A Conversation for the Future accompanies an exhibition of recent work and new commissions by twenty artists from around the world organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. These artists understand themselves as social actors,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606996911Author Janet HamlinFormat HardbackPage Count 174Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher FantagraphicsWeight(grams) 900g

Liza Lou first gained attention in 1996 when her room-sized sculpture Kitchen was shown at the New Museum in New York. Representing five years of individual labour, this groundbreaking work subverted standards of art by introducing glass beads as a fine...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789993278498Author Charlene VellaFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint Midsea Books Ltd,MaltaPublisher Midsea Books Ltd,MaltaWeight(grams)...

This big lettering workbook provides a valuable resource for anyone who wants to embellish crafts with beautiful letters and borders. With 50 traceable alphabets, expert lettering tips and interactive practice exercises, readers will learn to create...

Many traditional crafts practiced in contemporary Egypt can be traced back hundreds, if not thousands, of years. Scenes inscribed on the walls of ancient temples and tombs depict the earliest Egyptians making pottery and papyrus and working with stone,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781872501239Author Otto PachtFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Harvey Miller PublishersPublisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 1161gDimensions(mm) 281mm *...

In Enchanted Islands, renowned art historian Mary D. Sheriff explores the legendary, fictional, and real islands that filled the French imagination during the ancien regime as they appeared in royal ballets and festivals, epic literature, paintings,...

This ground breaking study examines decorative Chinese works of art and visual culture, known as chinoiserie, in the context of church and state politics, with a particular focus on the Catholic missions' impact on Western attitudes toward China and the...

Tom de Freston (born 1983) is a British artist and writer, living and working in Oxford. De Freston's multimedia art tackles themes of trauma, humanity and intimacy across paintings, films and performance. He builds rich visual narratives, drawing on...

A wolf's howl is felt in the body. Frightening and compelling, incomprehensible or entirely knowable, it is a sound that may be heard as threat or invitation but leaves no listener unaffected.Toothsome fiends, interfering pests, or creatures wild and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789887928355Author SendPointsFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint SendpointsPublisher Sendpoints

The first fifteen years of the twenty-first century have been an exciting transitional period in Russian cinema, as the industry recovered from the crises of the late 1990s and again stepped onto the global stage. During these years four generations,...

This book examines the multi-media art patronage of three generations of the Tornabuoni family, who commissioned works from innovative artists, such as Sandro Botticelli and Rosso Fiorentino. Best known for commissioning the fresco cycle in Santa Maria...

Focuses on the skillset of building digital character models for video games and collectibles. Teaches very real and current technical skills by an industry veteran, focusing on learning the digital character creation pipeline. Includes two highly...

In the ongoing aftermath of the nuclear accident in 2011, filmmakers have continued to issue warnings about the state of Japanese society and politics, which remain mired in refusal to change. Nearly a decade in the making, Japanese Filmmakers in the...

Discussing an aspect of the European avant-garde that has often been neglected-its relationship to the embodied experience of food, its sensation, and its consumption-Cecilia Novero exposes the surprisingly key roles that food plays in the theoretical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060776565Author Mary KarrFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

The classic diner is an icon of the American roadside. As cars were mass-produced, so were these aluminum gems, whose metal bodies and neon signs came to characterize modernity in the mid-twentieth century. From the 1920s to the 1950s, these eye-catching...

Repentant Monk: Illusion and Disillusion in the Art of Chen Hongshou is the first U.S. exhibition focusing solely on Chen Hongshou (1599-1652), a major figure in Chinese painting. Chen has long been regarded as one of the most visually exciting artists...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783037646083Author Carroll DunhamFormat HardbackPage Count 136Imprint JRP RingierPublisher JRP RingierWeight(grams) 1070g

Spectators at the sides of narrative vase paintings have long been at the margins of scholarship, but a study of their appearance shows that they provide a model for the ancient viewing experience. They also reflect social and gender roles in archaic...

Design and Aesthetics: A Reader is a comprehensive student reader on design history and aesthetic theory. It includes contributions from many of the writers whose work has been foundational to these two fields, including classic articles by Raymond...

Published by the Newark Museum. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press. "After twenty-eight years of desire and determination, I have visited Africa, the land of my forefathers." So wrote Lida Clanton Broner (1895-1982), an African American...

Circles and Circuits: Chinese Caribbean Art examines artistic production in Cuba, Trinidad, Jamaica, and Panama, where large immigrant populations and political, economic, and socio-cultural conditions enabled the development of rich art practices in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789385360404Author John GuyFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Mapin Publishing Pvt.LtdPublisher Mapin Publishing Pvt.Ltd

The complex blend of comedy and threat in the mounts on early American carousels still fascinates children and adults. For those who want to create that antique animal charm, Dale Power provides direct instructions and 267 color photographs illustrating...

"Lavin's study of the Pierro della Francesca "Flagellation" at Urbino, as befits this exquisite masterpiece, is a model of lucid and precise exposition as well as being an exciting exercise of scholarship. Informed with the intellectual rigour of...

A comprehensive examination of the Swiss artist's colorful homage to Oldenberg's soft sculpture installations Swiss mixed-media artist Sylvie Fleury (born 1961) has long been interested in depicting the juncture of materialism and materiality in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840683219Author Yuichi KonnoFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint ShinbakuPublisher Creation BooksWeight(grams) 571g

The first book about Mark Lindquist's impact on the rise of woodworking from the studio craft movement to high art. Carefully researched and beautifully illustrated, this history reveals a clearer understanding of the art of woodturning and its current...

In 1919, Florence Deshon-tall, radical, and charismatic-was well on her way to becoming one of Hollywood's brightest stars. Embroiled in a clandestine affair with Charlie Chaplin, she continued to remain romantically involved with the well-known writer...

Since the days of early television, video has been an indispensable part of culture, society, and moving-image media industries. Over the decades, it has been an avant-garde artistic medium, a high-tech consumer gadget, a format for watching movies at...

From the 'Monster of Ravenna' to the 'Elephant Man', Myra Hindley and Ted Bundy, the visualisation of 'real', human monsters has always played a part in how society sees itself. But what is the function of a monster? Why do we need to embody and...