Art, Architecture & Design

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910809907Author Tony ButtlerFormat HardbackPage Count 360Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing

Representing four centuries of collecting and 1,000 years of Jewish history, this book brings together extraordinary Hebrew manuscripts and rare books from the Bodleian Library and Oxford colleges. Highlights of the collections include a fragment of...

Interior design in Barcelona, an important Mediterranean metropolis and a city with a rich history, draws influences from many different styles. The interiors featured here - notable for their airy sense of space and tiled floors - are cool in the summer...

Workstead designs one-of-a-kind interiors and pieces that balance beauty with necessity, and this book presents a special blend of their tour-de-force historic renovations and innovative yet elegant new constructions. Over the past decade, the...

For many decades, play has been placed outside of learning spheres and only meant for children. What can be observed now is a revival of the phenomenal characteristics and potentials found in strong play experiences across life-long learning target...

The Ashmolean Museum is fortunate in having the most comprehensive British collection of the art of the Indian subcontinent outside London. Especially strong in sculpture, this rich representation of Indian art from prehistory to the twentieth century...

Majestic and magical landscapes, the soft beauty of fields of flowers, the raw cold of winter: the works of Harald Sohlberg combine a Romantic perception of nature with a contemporary pictorial language akin to Symbolism. This volume assembles some...

From 'cabinets of curiosities' to assemblages of found objects and imitations of museum displays, artists have often turned their attention to the ideas and systems traditionally embodied in the museum - display, archiving, classification, storage,...

Chronicling the development of an exciting new cultural space In 2014, Mexican architects Javier Sanchez and Aisha Ballesteros, of the firm JSa, were commissioned to build a new museum in Cuernavaca dedicated to the work of artist Juan Soriano and a...

Since the 1979 publication of The Writings of Robert Smithson, Robert Smithson's significance as a spokesman for a generation of artists has been widely acknowledged and the importance of his thinking to contemporary artists and art critics continues to...

This volume forms part of Tate Publishing's Modern Artists monographs. In a career spanning five decades, Peter Blake has established himself as one of the most influential and original artists working in Britain. Coming to prominence in the late 1950s...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783967040050Author GestaltenFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint gestaltenPublisher Die Gestalten Verlag

Wilton House in Salisbury, England, has been the ancestral home of the Earl of Pembroke for nearly 500 years and boasts one of the most fascinating and varied histories of all Britain s historic houses. Shaped over centuries by the most significant names...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486283579Author Kristina HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Shortly after midnight on March 18, 1990, two men broke into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston and committed the largest art heist in history. They stole a dozen masterpieces, including one Vermeer, three Rembrandts, and five Degas. But after...

How Art Is Made looks at renowned works of art from across the centuries and around the globe and asks the intriguingly simple question - how were these works actually made? Divided into two sections - materials and methods - each chapter showcases a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633450325Author Ann TemkinFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Museum of Modern ArtPublisher Museum of Modern ArtWeight(grams) 1820g

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Small gardens can be as versatile as their gardeners - personal, peaceful havens, sophisticated spaces for entertaining or bold showcases for plant displays.Features and reviews in BBC Gardener's World, Garden Answers, Amateur Gardening and More From...

White T-shirt, Miniskirt, Hoodie, Jeans, Ballet flat, Breton top, Biker jacket, Little black dress, Stiletto, Trench. What are you wearing? In all likelihood, your outfit will feature at least one of these 10 items. Familiar, commonplace, ubiquitous -...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486449029Author Kay NielsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 255gDimensions(mm)...

This monograph gathers and presents the largest assemblage in one volume about the life, work, and ideas of Banksy - the world's most discussed artist of recent decades. Featuring hundreds of works - Girl with Balloon, Mickey Snake, Dismaland, Love is in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913622350Author Jared Cooney HorvathFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint John Catt Educational LtdPublisher Hodder EducationWeight(grams) 300g

Vanguard follows their award-winning hit Fantastic Paintings of Frazetta book by J. David Spurlock with definitive reference on Frazetta Book Cover Art. Frazetta is the revolutionary fantasy artist of Conan, King Kong, Death Dealer, Edgar Rice...

In this beautifully produced volume, young readers are given the opportunity to study masterpieces of Impressionist work in great detail. From Monet's Impression, Sunrise, which is attributed to starting the movement, to Seurat's pointillist masterpiece,...

Hailed as "British dance's true iconoclast", Michael Clark is a defining cultural figure in the contemporary dance world. Since emerging in the early 1980s as a prodigy at London's Royal Ballet School, Clark has remained at the forefront of innovation in...

This second edition of the best-selling, comprehensive handbook The Essential Guide to Business for Artists and Designers will appeal to a wide range of artists, makers, designers, and photographers looking to set up and establish an arts practice or...

Hackers, scholars, artists and activists of all regions, races and sexual orientations consider how humans might reconstruct themselves by way of technology When learning about internet history, we are taught to focus on engineering, the...

Arthur C. Danto argues that recent developments in the art world, in particular the production of works of art that cannot be told from ordinary things, make urgent the need for a new theory of art and make plain the factors such a theory can and cannot...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956440594Author Gill HackmanFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Folly Books LtdPublisher Folly Books LtdWeight(grams) 1475gDimensions(mm) 260mm * 255mm...

What were the conditions of possibility for art and music-making before the era of neoliberal capitalism? What role did punk play in turning artists to experiment with popular music in the late 1970s and early 1980s? And why does the art and music of...

Essential quotations from renowned artist and pop icon Keith Haring Keith Haring remains one of the most important and celebrated artists of his generation and beyond. Through his signature bold graphic line drawings of figures and forms dancing and...

Explore the stunning, moving, and exciting work of visual artist-activist Zanele Muholi Born in South Africa in 1972, Zanele Muholi came to prominence in the early 2000s with photographs that sought to envision black lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans,...

Learn to draw 28 dynamic manga heroes and villains using this simple step-by-step book. Manga artist Yishan Li teaches you to transform simple shapes into a characterful range of 20 valiant heroes and eight despicable villains. Each project starts...

Colours of Nature is the perfect companion for anyone who is puzzled by the seemingly unpredictable behaviour of the paints on their palette, as well as those who would like their watercolour paintings to look fresher and livelier. In this new paperback...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783037786222Author R Buckminster FullerFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Lars Muller PublishersPublisher Birkhauser Verlag AG

Covering more than 100 techniques and mediums for drawing, painting, and mixed media, The Everything Art Handbook is an all-inclusive, go-to resource for artists of all skill levels. A refreshing, accessible compendium of art materials and techniques,...

The revolutionary artist and naturalist Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) has come into the spotlight in recent years. The life and work of this German-born woman, who would later settle in the Netherlands, has been studied internationally by...

With the rapid and unprecedented global expansion of the art market, new collectors are emerging every day. This new edition of Mary Rozell's definitive handbook is required reading for new and experienced collectors alike, as well as for anyone aspiring...

Paul Klee was endowed with a rich and many-sided personality that was continually spilling over into forms of expression other than his painting and that made him one of the most extraordinary phenomena of modern European art. These abilities have left...