Art, Architecture & Design

Where's Bob? On a mountaintop? In a wooded forest? Maybe a TV studio? Find the world's favorite painting instructor in more than a dozen unique settings within this original search-and-find activity book. Where's Bob? includes 15 full-color illustrated...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486430812Author Jeff MengesFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

The powerful aesthetic and philosophical framework that modernism ushered in during the early part of the 20th century revolutionized the built world, transformed our living spaces and lifestyles, and fundamentally changed the way we think about design...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143134596Author Jennifer DasalFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 312gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 151mm...

Surfside Style is a celebration of the simple colours, natural textures, and sun-bleached beauty of living by the sea. Beautiful specially-commissioned photography showcases twelve gorgeous homes across the United States - from California to Florida -...

Transforming unlikely pieces of scrap metal into significant works of art - giving new life to things we throw away - is an accessible, creative and fulfilling activity. This book describes and illustrates the concerns and techniques involved in making...

Second in its series and a facsimile edition of the original 1953 instruction manual, Wrought Ironwork is a practical and essential guide with a focus on technique for the modern smith. With 33 step-by-step lessons and coordinating photography for making...

A visual exploration of the Paris dining scene, with stories, guides, and recommendations from everyday patrons and famous aficionados alike Paris is a city like no other, beloved by travelers the world over for its incomparable architecture,...

This is a new collection of art from one of the UK's most acclaimed sci-fi artists featuring everything from his initial sketches to his final works and published book covers. It includes covers from the SF greats - Greg Bear, Neil Gaiman and Terry...

The first global history of comics from 1968 through to the present day, arranged chronologically and richly illustrated with prime examples of the artists, styles and movements being discussed. The authors contextualize the crucial modern period within...

Connect with your child as you make art side by side in this playfully illustrated journal, with 50 full-color spreads to color, fill in, and draw and creative prompts from licensed art therapist Lacy Mucklow. "How was your day, sweetie?" "Fine," the...

Now in its second edition, this volume is an accessible introduction to the history of art. Using an international range of examples, it provides the reader with a toolkit of concepts, ideas and methods relevant to understanding art history. This new...

An attractive new hardcover edition of the classic biography of Tamara de Lempicka, whose paintings defined Art Deco and whose life epitomised the Jazz Age. As F. Scott Fitzgerald portrayed the mad glories of the 1920s on the printed page, ...

Born in 1899 to Russian Aristocrats, Tamara de Lempicka escaped the Bolsheviks by exchanging her body for freedom, dramatically beginning a sexual career that included most of the influential men and women she painted. Her paintings, like the artist...

A groundbreaking and extensively researched account of the 1960s London art scene In the 1960s, London became a vibrant hub of artistic production. Postwar reconstruction, jet air travel, television arts programs, new color supplements, a generation of...

The humble sketch is the foundation of great art, where thoughts and concepts first come to life as an image-but rarely are sketches celebrated like they deserve to be for their power to explore, inspire, and entertain. In Sketching from the Imagination:...

Discover Jasper Johns as a passionate collector of drawings! From Paul Cezanne to Pablo Picasso to Willem de Kooning - the collection of Jasper Johns offers surprising juxtapositions. The drawings' consistently high quality is the result of his keen...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999594305Author Mandy StanleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Mandy Stanley Art and DesignPublisher Mandy Stanley Art and DesignWeight(grams) 199g

For more than two centuries Egypt was ruled by the most powerful, successful, and richest dynasty of kings in its long end epic history. They included the female king Hatshepsut, the warrior kings Thutmose III and Amenhotep II, the religious radical...

A beautifully illustrated and thoroughly engaging cultural history of beekeeping - packed with anecdote, humour and enriching historical detail. The perfect gift."A charming look at the history of beekeeping, from myth and folklore to our practical...

This concise yet wide-ranging survey of collectable antique furniture, illustrated throughout in full colour, guides the new collector through almost three centuries of Western Furniture with clarity and authority. Invaluable as a reference tool, it...

Over the past twenty years European cities have become the envy of the world: a Kraftwerk Utopia of historic centres, supermodernist concert halls, imaginative public spaces and futuristic egalitarian housing estates which, interconnected by high-speed...

Spirit, with Josephine Wall's celestial art is a remarkable evocation of mind, body and spirit, graced with poetry and quotations for readers of every age. Josephine is a popular artists with a huge following online. A new series of gift books from...

What do the ingenious sea otter, the incredible shrinking reindeer, the tree-dwelling baby dragon or the Dodo's long-lost cousin have in common?They are all at risk of disappearing from our world forever. This book is all about the amazing creatures...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783943105490Author Daniel FehrFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Edition ReussPublisher Edition ReussWeight(grams) 1005g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784616779Author Dorian Spencer DaviesFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y Lolfa

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780675664Author Harriet PosnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Laurence King PublishingPublisher Laurence King PublishingWeight(grams) 840g

Antoni Gaudi has a reputation as monastic, mad and hermetic. But the architect of many of the buildings that define Barcelona's cityscape was no mad eccentric. He was a genius inspired by his faith in nature and the divine. Picking up the same...

Creative Block is a book set out to ruffle feathers, get out of ruts and start those juices flowing. Focussing on creative process and theory, it is filled with over 100 tasks to get your head into a conceptual and creative space, encouraging...

The Cambridge Art Book contains a unique collection of contemporary images of this most beautiful city, from the grand architecture of its historic university to its more intimate corners. Cambridge is a unique place with a very special atmosphere...

The Japanese artist Kawanabe Kyosai (1831-1889) was celebrated for his exciting impromptu performances at calligraphy and painting parties. Dynamic, playful and provocative, Kyosai delighted his audience with spontaneous and speedy paintings of demons,...

Learn how to paint digitally in Adobe Photoshop; the key professional software for illustrators, video game artists, and the CG industry. Inside Digital Painting in Photoshop: Industry Techniques for Beginners is everything the budding digital painter...

The Field Guide to Typography explores and explains the myriad typefaces that we see around us in our day-to-day lives, from airplane liveries to computer screens, from billboard hoardings to signage systems. It presents over 120 typefaces - old and new,...

An awe-inspiring study of the enduring power of Paleolithic art The cave art of France's Dordogne region is world-famous for the mythology and beauty of its remarkable drawings and paintings. These ancient images of lively bison, horses, and mammoths, as...

World-renowned for her work during the Weimar period, Hannah Hoech was a pioneer in many aspects, both artistic and cultural. She was the lone woman of the Berlin Dada movement - the riotous form of art that deconstructed sound, language, and images to...

Let the wisdom and enchantment of timeless fables and fiction help you achieve your creative goals! From celebrated mixed-media artist and author of Create Your Life Book Tamara Laporte, Ever After is a rich collection of step-by-step mixed-media art...

When it comes to historical violence and contemporary inequality, none of us are completely innocent. We may not be direct agents of harm, but we may still contribute to, inhabit, or benefit from regimes of domination that we neither set up nor control...

Canadian-born Agnes Martin was one of the pre-eminent painters of the second half of the twentieth century, whose work has had a significant influence both on artists of her own time and for subsequent generations. A contemporary of the abstract...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789689056348Author Miss Melanie SmithFormat HardbackPage Count 105Imprint Turner (Spain)Publisher Turner (Spain)Weight(grams) 953gDimensions(mm) 262mm *...

Fronted by one of the world's most iconic doors, 10 Downing Street is the home and office of the British Prime Minister and the heart of British politics. This is the story of the intimately entwined relationships between the house and its post-war...