Art, Architecture & Design

The really easy way to learn how to paint flowers in watercolour! Using a simple ten-step process, learn how to draw a basic outline starting with simple shapes, then add washes of colour and fine details to complete your work. Arranged in three...

At the end of his long, prolific life, Titian was rumored to paint directly on the canvas with his bare hands. He would slide his fingers across bright ridges of oil paint, loosening the colors, blending, blurring, and then bringing them together again...

A laugh-out-loud visual history of the strangest piece of men's clothing ever created: the codpiece.The codpiece was fashioned in the Middle Ages to close a revealing gap between two separate pieces of men's tights. By the sixteenth century, it had...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781786272294Author John J. CurleyFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Laurence King PublishingPublisher Laurence King Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780854882861Author Barbara Rodriguez MunozFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Whitechapel GalleryPublisher Whitechapel GalleryWeight(grams) 560g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262539470Author John MaedaFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

This visually stunning love letter to the art of craft takes readers inside Europe's most illustrious-and in many cases endangered-decorative arts workshops to profile how artisans continue to maintain the highest centuries-old standards of workmanship...

Hadley Freeman brings us her personalised guide to American movies from the 1980s - why they are brilliant, what they meant to her, and how they influenced movie-making forever. For Hadley Freeman, American moves of the 1980s have simply got...

A lavishly-illustrated study of Tolkien's paintings and drawings, set in the context of his writings. J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973), renowned author of The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion was an artist in pictures as well as in...

Interior design was supremely important to Gustav Klimt, and many of his paintings were created for specific settings or spaces. This aspect of Klimt's practice comes beautifully to life in this book that illustrates how some of the artist's most...

Sure to be hailed alongside H is for Hawk and The Hare with Amber Eyes, an exceptional work that is at once an astonishing journey across countries and continents, an immersive examination of a great artist's work, and a moving and intimate...

Rethinking questions of identity, social agency and national affiliation, Bhabha provides a working, if controversial, theory of cultural hybridity - one that goes far beyond previous attempts by others. In The Location of Culture, he uses concepts such...

This book is a comprehensive up-to-date survey of the Aegean Bronze Age, from its beginnings to the period following the collapse of the Mycenaean palace system. In essays by leading authorities commissioned especially for this volume, it covers the...

Following in the steps of Gerhard Richter's catalogue raisonne of drawings, published 20 years ago, HENI Publishing's new monograph devoted to Gerhard Richter's recent drawings will illustrate 80 works produced between 1999 and 2021. Drawings 1999-2021...

Would you love to take your art in a new direction? In Abstract Art Painting, you will enter a realm of tactile, intuitive excitement, combining pastel and acrylic to achieve results as unique as you are. You'll learn how to explore the use of color...

People involved in architecture need to be familiar with construction methods in order to be in control of their designs. New technical requirements impact on our buildings and call for up-to-date specialist knowledge, which leads to new forms of...

"This book is as beguiling as a book can be ... From the first glimpse of its most agreeable small format - so satisfying to hold and with a cover that positively sings of the delights to be found within - you are charmed out of your wits." - Lucinda...

Using photographs and illustrations, Trevor Yorke lists the key attributes which make the cottage an iconic building type. The cottage breathes history, witnessing centuries of social change and is made from materials that reflect the local landscape...

Airbrush is used in creating advertising and fantasy illustrations; for decorating T-shirts, cars and motorcycles with high gloss; hyper-realistic imagery; creating dramatic body and fingernail art; and even embellishing decorative objects, fabrics and...

Tony Hunt's Sketchbook illustrates the connection between brain and hand in conceiving structural concepts and details as possible solutions to structures in architecture. This new edition features 100 previously unpublished sketches. These sketches...

Following the success of the established titles in this popular series, Sketching from the Imagination: Storytelling brings to life the characters, worlds, and tales of traditional stories and modern tales alike. 50 professional storybook artists from...

The Botanical Bible tells the story of plants and flowers, beginning with an overview of the plant kingdom and the basics of botany, then offering strategies for gardening with purpose. Later chapters introduce seasonal eating, the healing...

Handling this traditional but still captivating building material has its quirks, today perhaps more than ever. On the one hand it can no longer be taken for granted that stonemasonry skills will be readily available, while there are also new...

Prophet, poet, painter, engraver - William Blake (1757-1827) was an artist of uniquely powerful imagination and far-reaching creative gifts. His work expresses the spiritual drama of the English national being, integrating poetry and visual art in a...

A gloriously illustrated celebration of one of the greatest movies ever made, this exclusive behind the scenes book documents a piece of cinema history. It is the true story of human endeavour and creativity that led to the production of one of the most...

Exploring the ways in which painting, applied design and illustration intertwined over the course of the accomplished career of Paul Nash (1889-1946), this book provides a new perspective on one of the most gifted and celebrated English artists of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781734489736Author Deforrest BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Primary InformationPublisher Primary InformationWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm)...

Railway posters have huge appeal for the modern audience, but just what explains this continuing interest? Enduring images of iconic locomotives, bathing beauties and characters such as Sunny South Sam are testament to the creativity of the railway...

Russian portraiture enjoyed a golden age between the late 1860s and the First World War. While Tolstoy and Dostoevsky were publishing masterpieces such as Anna Karenina and The Brothers Karamazov and Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov were...

Austin Kleon is a cartoonist and poet from Austin, Texas, who takes a page from an existing newspaper and blacks out words until he finds a new hidden meaning in the text. Hilarious and profound, silly and contemplative, the poems in this collection will...

On January 21, 1971, couturier Yves Saint Laurent presented his Spring-Summer haute couture collection. Inspired by the garments of the war years, the collection included short dresses, platform shoes, square shoulders, and exaggerated makeup. The show...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486497150Author Frank LohanFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 350gDimensions(mm)...

At the turn of the twenty-first century, many felt sceptical or confused about painting's on-going cultural relevance. In this context, Julian Bell's What is Painting? provided an accessible and inspired account of artistic thinking and practice, and of...

Since childhood, Kusama has been afflicted with a condition that makes her see spots, which means she sees the world in a surreal, almost hallucinogenic way that sits very well with the Wonderland of Alice. She is fascinated by childhood and the way...

The fifth and final volume in the Essays by Leo Steinberg series, focusing on modern artists. Leo Steinberg was one of the most original art historians of the twentieth century, known for taking interpretive risks that challenged the profession by...

Alan Male's Illustration is a classic in the field. Bringing together theory, context and issues around conceptual understanding, the book is a perfect companion for illustration students around the world. Hundreds of images from a wide variety of...

Edvard Munch (1863-1944) is best known today as a painter, but his reputation was in fact established through his prints, which were central to his creative process. His printmaking was experimental and innovative, and he continually revisited the...

This invaluable handbook for all watercolourists takes a practical problem-and-solution approach to painting a range of popular subjects, showing common mistakes and how to rectify them. Mastering fundamental drawing and watercolour techniques forms the...

Urbane Freiraume bilden eine ideale Buhne fur oeffentliche Events. Massgeblich fur deren Planung in einer zunehmend heterogenen, multikulturellen Stadtlandschaft ist das Zusammenspiel von Gestaltung, Nutzung und sozialer Funktion. Das Buch...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486465234Author Utagawa KuniyoshiFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...