Art, Architecture & Design

What is heritage? When was it invented? What is its place in the world today? What is its place tomorrow? Heritage is all around us: millions belong to its organisations, tens of thousands volunteer for it, and politicians pay lip service to it. When...

This collection of short, accessible essays serves as a supplementary text to Morgan Lloyd Malcolm's play, Emilia. Critically acclaimed and beloved by audiences, this innovative and ground-breaking show is a speculative history, an imaginative...

Winner, Canadian Museums Association's Outstanding Achievement in Research Award and IPPY Awards Silver Medal (Fine Art)A Toronto Star Holiday Gift Guide SelectionA Like Vision is a lavish celebration of the legacy of Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven,...

"We discover eco-hotels, slow-food producers and green initiatives, and meet a new generation of islanders dedicated to sustainability and to preserving the lush green biodiversity that remains. A beautiful escape." -Reclaim Magazine Mallorca: the jewel...

A detailed and practical guide focusing on the traditional methods of icon painting and its rich history. With all you would ever want to know, from the materials you need and how to prepare a panel to adding inscriptions and finishing off. Part of the...

The Hermes scarf is one of the greatest fashion icons of all time.Worn by royalty and celebrities, coveted and admired, and now avidly collected, this deceptively simple square of silk is much more than just an accessory: it is the stuff of legend. Now...

During the pivotal years between the world wars, Surrealist artists on both sides of the Atlantic responded through their works to the rise of Hitler and the spread of Fascism in Europe, resulting in a period of surprising brilliance and fertility...

Exploring some of the world's eeriest places, Abandoned Islands features American civil war forts, Europe's last leper colony and South Atlantic whaling stations, along with once grand mansions and colonial settlements and churches, and much more...

Leading theorist and art curator Nicolas Bourriaud tackles the excluded, the disposable and the nature of waste by looking to the future of art-the exform.He argues that the great theoretical battles to come will be fought in the realms of ideology,...

Joe Strummer was one of the twentieth century's iconic rock'n'roll rebels. As frontperson, spokesperson and chief lyricist for The Clash, he played a major role in politicising a generation through some of the most powerful protest songs of the era,...

This jewel-like book evokes unmistakable Italian landscapes and cityscapes. Anne Desmet's pen commits every detail to paper, and the small-scale format emphasises her distinctive flair for capturing the relationship between extreme foreground and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593235522Author Amber LewisFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Clarkson PotterPublisher Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/RodaleWeight(grams) 1468gDimensions(mm)...

A daring reassessment of Louise Nevelson, an icon of twentieth-century art whose innovative procedures relate to gendered, classed, and racialized forms of making "Here is a book that is not only a transformative study of a single artist but also a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781856697064Author Tomoko NakamichiFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Laurence King PublishingPublisher Laurence King PublishingWeight(grams) 370g

This is a fully revised and updated new version of a popular RSPB handbook to the art and joy of drawing birds. John Busby beautifully conveys his own remarkable ability to capture the grace and motion of living birds, illustrating his ideas and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559360098Author Lenora ChampagneFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486200545Author Cennio D'Andrea CenniniFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

The kitchen is the heart of the home, the destination of every party, everyone's favorite gathering spot, where style and functionality must go hand in hand. Designing a kitchen is a vastly complicated affair, involving an array of appliances (movable...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062024404Author Diana VreelandFormat PaperbackPage Count 195Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 191g

From Alvar Aalto to Marco Zanuso, Chairs introduces over 1,000 groundbreaking innovations by the world's greatest designers. Tracing the history of the modern chair from 1800 to the present day, revered experts Charlotte and Peter Fiell comprehensively...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399581854Author Kelsey OseidFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Ten Speed Press

From striking desert sunsets to misty mountains to fields of gorgeous wildflowers, Kolbie Blume's projects help you learn basic watercolour skills and techniques with the added bonus of resulting in beautiful paintings worthy of prominent display in your...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995099883Author Audrey NickelFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Bradan PressPublisher Bradan PressWeight(grams) 109gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 6mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316414470Author R G GrantFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Black Dog & Leventhal PublishersPublisher Black Dog & Leventhal PublishersWeight(grams)...

That incomparable melancholy in Edward Hopper's pictures occasionally leads us to look at the details of his life. Where exactly did this master of loneliness live and work? What were his most important influences while he was working on his great...

First published in 1996, this irreplaceable resource has now been updated, revised, and expanded by Kristine Stiles to represent thirty countries and more than one hundred new artists. Stiles has added forty images and a diverse roster of artists,...

Collage is one of the most popular and pervasive of all art-forms, yet this is the first historical survey book ever published on the subject. Featuring over 200 works, ranging from the 1500s to the present day, it offers an entirely new approach...

Come explore an incredible LEGO (R) universe in LEGO Space: Building the Future. Spaceships, orbital outposts, and new worlds come to life in this unique vision of the future, built completely from LEGO bricks. A selection of step-by-step building...

A major new look at how Africa's geological history, climate, geography and biology resulted in the wonderful diversity of life found there. It is also the story of how it was the crucible for the evolution most extraordinary species on...

In this path-breaking new history, Maja and Reuben Fowkes introduce outstanding artworks and major figures from across central and eastern Europe to reveal the movements, theories and styles that have shaped artistic practice since 1950. They emphasize...

Lose yourself in the vast sewer networks that lie beneath the world's great cities - past and present. Let detailed archival plans, maps and photographs guide you through these subterranean labyrinths - previously accessible only to their builders,...

Positioning Alice Neel as a champion of civil rights, this book explores how her paintings convey her humanist politics and capture the humanity, strength, and vulnerability of her subjects "One of the most ambitious and thorough collections of Neel's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781900565738Author Daniel SpoerriFormat HardbackPage Count 274Imprint Atlas PressPublisher Atlas PressWeight(grams) 683g

Part architectural guidebook and part critique, Sky-High documents the pencil-thin, supertall towers that are transforming New York City's skyline as well as its streets. New York City's penchant for building skyward has reached new heights with its...

The first biography of Gilbert Spencer, recounting the life and career of a long-overlooked twentieth-century British artist   Gilbert Spencer (1892–1979) was a British painter, muralist, illustrator, teacher, and writer whose career spanned more than...

The first comprehensive collection of the words and works of a movement-defining artist. Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) burst onto the art scene in the summer of 1980 as one of approximately one hundred artists exhibiting at the 1980 Times Square...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781591847038Author Sunni BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint PortfolioPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 457gDimensions(mm) 205mm * 205mm * 9mm

A newly expanded volume on England's preeminent "Home County," exploring its mix of rural and urban architecture as well as its many major historic buildingsSurrey, originally published in 1962, was the first Buildings of England volume that Pevsner...

Botanical gardens represent people's centuries-old fascination with exotic plants. Werner Pawlok has photographically explored special tropical greenhouses within Europe and shows us here his most beautiful pictures in his usual colourfully expressive...

Published annually from 1906 until 1980, Decorative Art, The Studio Yearbook was dedicated to the latest currents in architecture, interiors, furniture, lighting, glassware, textiles, metalware, and ceramics. Since the publications went out of print, the...