Art, Architecture & Design

Understanding Caricature offers a lively guide to an old and respected art form. A great caricature is one that not only captures the subject's look and personality but amplifies them significantly. They are almost always funny and very often (but not...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783956790072Author Isabelle GrawFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Sternberg PressPublisher Sternberg PressWeight(grams) 666gDimensions(mm) 191mm * 121mm...

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882), best known and admired for his striking and seductive portraits of women, was one of the founding members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a group of artists whose work is inspired by the art of the early Italian...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781458313249Author Maryellen VettoriFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 10mm

Best of 2000 AD is a landmark series from the cult comic, bursting with our greatest stories for a new generation of readers.Every Best of 2000 AD contains a mix of modern classics and gems from the vault. In each edition you'll find an explosive new...

A comprehensive and breathtakingly illustrated presentation of the genius of Michelangelo by the world's leading expert on the artist The Italian Renaissance master Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) was especially celebrated for his disegno, a term...

DreamWorks Animation brings Puss in Boots back to the big screen, following the daring outlaw as he risks his last life to find the fabled Wishing Star, which holds the power to restore his nine lives. The Art of Puss in Boots: The Last Wish celebrates...

Yorkshire by birth, resident of St Ives, Cornwall, for more than 30 years, scholarship student at the Royal College of Art at the age of 16, mother of triplets, Honorary Doctor of Letters of five universities, Cornish bard, Dame Commander of the Order of...

'The most entertaining book of the year' Sunday Times 'The autobiography of magazine kingpin Nicholas Coleridge is a Waugh-like whirlwind of eccentric characters, lavish parties and even a spell in a Sri Lankan jail. It was funny enough to excuse all...

Discover how to bring polar animals to life in 6 easy steps. Award-winning artist Jonathan Newey teaches you to transform simple shapes into majestic polar bears, snowy reindeer and awe-inspiring whales. Choose from an albatross mid-flight, a tottering...

In 1947, Christian Dior stunned the fashion world with his first collection, the &;New Look,&; which transformed the way women dressed, and he continued to send shock waves with his later shows, significantly altering the fashion landscape. Vogue on...

El Anatsui: Art and Life by Susan Mullin Vogel is the essential resource on the Ghanaian artist known worldwide for spectacular tapestries of reclaimed bottle tops. This revised and expanded book follows Anatsui on his remarkable journey from an obscure...

Explains construction professional practice in an appealing, succinct, and relatively informal way This book details the management of construction projects from beginning to end, concentrating on the principles underlying what construction professionals...

Elegant and beautiful, rich in history and supremely useful, birches have played an extraordinary yet largely unrecognized part in shaping both our natural environment and the material culture and beliefs of millions of people around the world. For...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949484106Author Catherine LordFormat HardbackPage Count 408Imprint No Place PressPublisher No Place Press

A fully illustrated biography of mystic, artist, and explorer Nicholas Roerich. Nicholas Roerich (1874-1947) was a Russian artist, writer, archaeologist, explorer, mystic, theosophist, and peacemaker who left a rich legacy of nearly 7,000 visionary...

The idea of heaven on earth haunts the human imagination. The day will come, say believers, when the pain and confusion of mortal life will give way to a transfigured community. Such a vision of the world seems indelible. Even politics, some reckon, has...

From the Chanel suit to the Wonderbra, via Jackie Kennedy, Ziggy Stardust and Alexander McQueen, respected fashion journalist and editor Paula Reed explores each of the styles and visionaries that have defined the way we dress. Spanning fifty years -...

Now enlarged and updated, this introduction to the greatest and famous women photographers of all time features the most important works of sixty artists, along with in-depth biographical and critical assessments. Since the inception of photography as...

In contrast to Henry Moore's well-known drawings depicting Londoners sheltering from the Blitz, little has been written about how this son of a Yorkshire coalminer tackled his second commission from the War Artists' Advisory Committee in 1941; drawing...

From court portraits for the Spanish royals to horrific scenes of conflict and suffering, Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828) made a mark as one of Spain's most revered and controversial artists. A master of form and light, his influence...

Emerging Iconographies of Medieval Rome examines the development of Christian iconographies that had not yet established themselves as canonical images, but which were being tried out in various ways in early Christian Rome. This book focuses on four...

Buried in the 14th century BC but unearthed by Howard Carter in 1922, the objects entombed with Tutankhamun are an invaluable window into a long-extinct belief system. Seen today, they create an intricate picture of how the ancient Egyptian people viewed...

An exquisite ode to color, this book presents the history of Dior cosmetics placed within contexts of fashion and art. Divided into twelve chapters (White, Silver, Nude, Pink, Red, Purple, Blue, Green, Yellow, Gold, Gray, and Black) Dior: The Art...

For more than 2,000 years the art of Greece and Rome has lain at the heart of western civilization. This book recaptures the excitement of the artists who first created it. It traces the daring innovations of those who, defying traditional wisdom,...

Design thinking is the core creative process for any designer; this book explores and explains this apparently mysterious design ability. This new edition is a completely revised, updated and extended version of a classic text. Focusing on what...

For much of the nineteenth century, women artists laboured under the same restrictions and taboos they had endured for centuries, and it was assumed that marriage and child-bearing were their goals in life. However, by the 1870s female art students of...

In her debut book, A. V. Marraccini explores how we inhabit works of art, and how our sense of longing informs and changes our relationship to them. Intertwining fig wasps, Updike, Genet, Twombly, Rilke, jewel heists, and a vividly rendered panoply of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783899554663Author Sven EhmannFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint gestaltenPublisher Die Gestalten Verlag

No city but Florence contains such an intense concentration of art produced in such a short span of time. The sheer number and proximity of works of painting, sculpture, and architecture in Florence can be so overwhelming that Florentine hospitals treat...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781452169507Author Wolfgang WildFormat HardbackPage Count 284Imprint Chronicle BooksPublisher Chronicle BooksWeight(grams) 1610gDimensions(mm) 282mm * 251mm...

A lavish expansion and update of Geoff Kersey's bestselling Perspective, Depth and Distance title in the Tips & Techniques series, this new edition features substantially expanded chapters on the key aspects of perspective along with new artwork and two...

The Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize showcases a wide range of portraits from inspiring contemporary photographers. The Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize is one of the most prestigious global photography awards, celebrating the very best in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800856516Author Alistair FairFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Historic EnglandPublisher Liverpool University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781624650710Author Ron AshtianiFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Design Studio PressPublisher Design Studio Press

An essential guide to working with porcelain, from its history and composition, to building, decorating and firing. For thousands of years, the special properties of porcelain - its delicacy, translucency and remarkable strength - have fascinated and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913947729Author Karolyn KiiselFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Laurence King PublishingPublisher Laurence King PublishingWeight(grams)...

Do recent moves in the construction industry towards collaborative working and other new procurement procedures really make good business sense? Procurement in the Construction Industry is the result of research into this question and it includes the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780671880750Author Thomas HovingFormat PaperbackPage Count 468Imprint TouchstonePublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 682gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

When the B-52 Stratofortress entered operational service with the US Air Force in 1955, work was already underway on defining its successor. The B-70 Valkyrie, a Mach 3 jet bomber, was one option. Although two XB-70A prototypes flew, the B-70 never went...