Art, Architecture & Design

Over six decades of brilliant prints and paintings from the most prominent Northwest Coast artist of his generation.Finalist for the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize, a BC & Yukon Book Prize Since leaving Haida Gwaii to study art in Vancouver-where...

Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2022 Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Nonfiction The Cold War was not just a contest of power. It was also about ideas,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780903685573Author Terry ParkerFormat HardbackPage Count 136Imprint Richard DennisPublisher Richard DennisWeight(grams) 971gDimensions(mm) 315mm * 235mm *...

The universe isn't made of atoms; it's made of tiny stories. Praised by fans and critics alike, The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories has been one of the most beloved projects to come out of actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt's online creative coalition hitRECord. With...

The Vintage Fashion Bible is the must-have accessory for all dedicated followers of vintage fashion. Written by Red or Dead co-founders, Wayne Hemingway, MBE and Gerardine Hemingway, this is a complete chronological look at 20th century fashion for men...

Hokusai (1760-1849) was an extraordinarily prolific Japanese master artist and printmaker of the ukiyo-e ('pictures of the floating world') school. More than 150 years after his death, his legacy remains as important as any Western painter's...

As early as the third century, St Maurice-an Egyptian-became leader of the legendary Roman Theban Legion. Ever since, there have been richly varied encounters between those defined as 'Africans' and those called 'Europeans'. Yet Africans and African...

You've seen their work-but have you seen them? From advertising to architecture, cartooning to fashion design, Black designers have been working in every major industry but, for the past decades, have not been given the spotlight anywhere near to the...

David Gentleman has lived in London for almost seventy years, most of it on the same street. This book is a record of a lifetime spent observing, drawing and getting to know the city, bringing together work from across his whole career, from his...

An exploration of philosophical and mystical sources of iconography in Renaissance art.Book InformationISBN 9780393004755Author Edgar WindFormat PaperbackPage Count 430Imprint WW Norton & CoPublisher WW Norton & CoWeight(grams) 467gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Feel the fear and draw faces anyway! Many beginner artists feel intimidated by drawing portraits - getting faces and anatomy in proportion can seem really difficult. But it doesn't have to be! This book alleviates all those anxieties by training the eye...

"That is the archaeology I am unearthing: the specter of police violence and state control over the bodies of young Black and brown people all over the world." -Kehinde Wiley Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence features a new body of paintings...

A spectacular collection of 50 magnificent contemporary houses across the globe, each built to exist harmoniously amid the trees Take a walk through luscious jungles, get lost among snowy evergreens, and look out from mossy banks across vast Nordic...

Forty-five key women of the Bauhaus movement. Bauhaus Women: A Global Perspective reclaims the other half of Bauhaus history, yielding a new understanding of the radical experiments in art and life undertaken at the Bauhaus and the innovations that...

Ever since it came to the world's attention in the 17th century, the world's most famous tapestry has been a source of never-ending speculation. This book highlights the background of its construction and the events of 1066 that it portrays. It details...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788155786Author David FlandersFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Onwards and UpwardsPublisher Onwards and UpwardsDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 22mm

A handsome, affordable introduction to the modernist polymath who charted the rhythms of color across textiles, illustration, painting and more Sonia Delaunay was a true pioneer of modernist abstraction; breaking with the figurative vocabulary that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912018734Author Robin WilsonPage Count 192Imprint Blue Crow MediaPublisher Blue Crow MediaWeight(grams) 450gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 150mm * 15mm

Due to the technological advances of the nineteenth century, an abundance of black drawing media exploded onto the market. Charcoal, conte crayon, and fabricated black chalks and crayons; fixatives; various papers; and many lifting devices gave rise to...

A unique approach to the history of art told through the story of colour and pigments. Did you know that the ultramarine that shimmers at the centre of Vermeer's Milkmaid connects that masterpiece with 6th-century Zoroastrian paintings found on the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782492175152Author Thomas MailaenderFormat PaperbackImprint RVB BooksPublisher RVB Books

The Ashmolean Museum and the Albertina are collaborating on a two-part exhibition project that will examine anew the role and the significance of drawing in Raphael's career. The Ashmolean holds the greatest collection of Raphael drawings in the world,...

Of all the architectural delights of British seaside resorts, the most astonishing and idiosyncratic is the seaside pier. Remarkable visual spectacles, piers are architecturally extraordinary in concept and at times outrageous in execution. They...

Craft colorful and unique jewelry with this Asian-inspired craft book.Bracelets embellished with Chinese floral and butterfly motifs, a gold-and-pearl lariat inspired by the fridges of a Persian carpet, and the popular Shamballa bracelet- these are just...

Acrylic Revolution is your essential, all-in-one guide for acrylic painting techniques and more. Use any of the over 101 strategies to break through the boundaries of conventional painting and redefine your creative potential with the world's most...

From its early origins, Worcester developed into a medieval cathedral city, and in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries into an industrial centre with a reputation for gloves, porcelain and engineering. This extraordinary history has given Worcester a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913947019Author Anne D'AllevaFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Laurence King PublishingPublisher Laurence King PublishingWeight(grams)...

The complete play translated into plain English. It's 11th century Scotland. Macbeth, Thane of Glamis, is one of King Duncan's greatest war captains. Upon returning from a battle with the rebellious Thane of Cawdor, Macbeth and Banquo encounter three...

Madge Garland, Janey Ironside, Joanne Brogden and Wendy Dagworthy, a quartet of remarkable educators and doyennes of style and skill, encouraged their students with rigorous determination to produce nothing but the best. Garland, previously Fashion ...

Take a fresh look at the world through the lens of a self-confessed nature-obsessed artist. Asuka Hishiki possesses not only a sense of profound awe and wonder at the intricacies of the natural world, but also the talent to communicate it through her...

Stephen Rogers Peck's Atlas of Human Anatomy for the Artist remains unsurpassed as a manual for students. It includes sections on bones, muscles, surface anatomy, proportion, equilibrium, and locomotion. Other unique features are sections on the types of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692344651Author Master KFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint King Cat InkPublisher King Cat InkWeight(grams) 467gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 11mm

Flemish painter Jan Van Eyck (c. 1390-1441) towered above his contemporaries. With his unprecedented technique, scientific knowledge and unparalleled powers of observation, Van Eyck lifted oil painting to previously unseen heights and helped determine...

In 1944, Glasgow received one of the greatest gifts ever made to any city in the world: a collection of over 6,000 artworks of many types spanning centuries and civilisations. The benefactors were Glasgow-born shipping magnate Sir William Burrell and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913689674Author Gary Zhexi ZhangFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Strange Attractor PressPublisher Strange Attractor Press

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) stands out among the great artists for his willingness to paint pictures that are straightforwardly pretty and charming: he chooses familiar and sympathetic human types as his subjects, and depicts them with an appealing...

Although the arts are often thought to be closer to the rim of education than to its core, they are, surprisingly, critically important means for developing complex and subtle aspects of the mind, argues Elliot Eisner in this engrossing book. In it he...

An unforgettable journey through art history with Yves Saint Laurent as a guide. January 1962 saw the launch of the very first collection by Yves Saint Laurent. To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the founding of his couture house, the Musee Yves...

Join photographer George Munday on a tour around the eccentric, beautiful, bizarre and eye-catching follies that decorate our island. Ireland possesses a wealth of follies - picturesque buildings erected to commemorate loved ones, to enhance a view,...

In the pages of this complete guide by "Britain's hottest new milliner," learn to express yourself through the design and creation of your own hats and headwear. Offers a fresh and enticing introduction to the art of millinery, blending modern...