Art, Architecture & Design

London is the only city in the world where you could ever find Gilbert and George sharing space with the Gherkin and the Globe while the Great Fire burns and a gin drinker glugs her favorite tipple, and where members of the Bloomsbury Group hail a black...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486203270Author Daniel V. ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Discover the complete history of DC Comics' Harley Quinn comic art with this deluxe book. Harley Quinn made her comic book debut in The Batman Adventures #12 and soon became one of the most popular characters in the DC Comics pantheon. From there,...

This stunning book showcases the bold and original work of Royal Designer Tony Meeuwissen. The artist also writes about his life at the drawing board and the inspiration and ideas behind his imagery.From the foreword by Peter Marren:Welcome to this...

The second installment in the intriguing journey of Guweiz, whose stunning art has earned him over 1 million followers on Instagram. Following on from his first book, Guweiz: The Art of Gu Zheng Wei, the artist now takes us deeper into his world of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486236728Author Alphonse MuchaFormat PaperbackPage Count 75Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

There's no great secret to drawing. Anybody can draw. If you can write your name, you have enough touch to learn to draw. Let ILYA inspire you to pick up your pencil and create a magical masterpiece. His positive approach secures quick, accurate results...

From the medieval cobbles, through Dickensian iron and fog, to the neon lights and bustle of the twenty-first century, the ever-changing streets of London map out the vibrant stories, triumphs and struggles of everyone who ever called London home. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262543385Author Beatriz ColominaFormat PaperbackPage Count 472Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Unlocking Paintings is a new guide, highlighting masterpieces from the collection of Dulwich Picture Gallery while also offering universal tools to help 'unlock' the secrets behind any work of art. This book provides an in-depth look into the mind of...

Spanning 300 years of art history and weaving art styles including Cubism, Surrealism, and the Baroque into his prose, Jake Kendall tells the stories of those with an obsession for creation-artists who sacrifice friendships, careers, romance, and even...

A classic of modernism - a new Feininger retrospective in the light of current knowledge Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956) was a painter, graphic artist and caricaturist. From 1919 he served as one of the original masters at the Bauhaus in Weimar and...

Nobody captures seascapes quite like Claudia Nice. In this guide, she shares her approach to creating dynamic watercolor compositions textured with pen & ink, acrylics and gouache. More than 60 step-by-step demos, simple enough for beginners, teach how...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781581156638Author Bertrand PellegrinFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Allworth Press,U.S.Publisher Allworth Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 508gDimensions(mm)...

Biographies of artists and writers have traditionally presented an individual's lone struggle for self-expression. In this book, critics and historians challenge these assumptions in a series of essays that focus on artist and writer couples who have...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399508028Author Jack HammFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint TarcherPerigeePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

The first comprehensive reference publication on the world-class collection at the Museum of Islamic Art, Qatar, featuring examples of dazzling artistic achievements from across the Islamic world. With flagship architecture by I. M. Pei, an interior...

Essential reading for anyone interested in art, community, and the built environment A towering abstract steel sculpture in the middle of a traffic island in Spoleto, Italy. Soaring vertical gardens enhanced with digital technology in Singapore’s Marina...

Best known for his depictions of fierce samurai warriors in battle, Utagawa Kuniyoshi also produced landscapes, portraits of Kabuki actors, and images of mythical animals. His dynamic action scenes and fantastic creatures are recognized today as...

As a reaction to the dominant effect and interpretive authority of the digital, Data Loam combines radical approaches based on positions taken in the international practice of contemporary art. Previously: insistence on indexicality and the instrumental...

This book is the first to explore, in depth, major painters of the period and the factors that shaped their art. Accessible to both art novice and specialist, it is written in jargon-free, readable language, blending vignettes about the soaring art...

Enter the vivid world of manga and anime art, with its unique aesthetic and unmistakably rendered characters. The latest in the popular Sketching from the Imagination series, Anime captures the work of 50 artists as they put their own spin on this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486833934Author Annika SauerbornFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

An enthralling journey through time, fashion and theatreland: from hairdressing student in the early 1960s to theatrical wig creator for the biggest shows of our time over five decades - from the West End to Broadway - Box Brownie to Cinemascope. My Name...

With The Fashion Design Toolkit you'll learn how tried-and-tested techniques like gathers, pleats, tucks, and twists can help you adapt patterns and create your own original garment designs. Tracy Jennings walks you through 18 patterning tactics to...

Terrorist groups are no different from other organizations in their use of branding to promote their ideas and to distinguish themselves from groups that share similar aims. The branding they employ may contain complex systems of meaning and emotion; it...

Focussing on the period from 1930 to 1960, this fascinating publication considers the transition of Victor Pasmore (1908-1998) from one of Britain's leading figurative painters to one of its foremost exponents of abstract art. From Pasmore's own...

Residential Property Appraisal, Volumes 1 and 2 are essential handbooks not only for students studying surveying but also for surveyors and others involved in the appraisal of residential property.Volume 1 has been updated and covers the valuation...

The Italian sculptor known as Donatello helped to forge a new kind of art - one that defines the Renaissance. His work was progressive, innovative, challenging and even controversial. Using a variety of novel sculptural techniques and perspectives,...

Throughout England there are thousands of lost or deserted villages. Most were abandoned after the Black Death or other plague epidemics, but some were lost to coastal erosion or the encroaching sea, while others were resettled elsewhere when the...

Offers you a joy-based, hands-on way to enrich your art-making journey and your creative life! Kristy Rice's joy-focused approach to watercolor art has won the hearts of fans worldwide. Here she teaches the basics of painting, infusing the learning...

Acclaimed as one of the best books ever published on the subject, "A Complete Guide to Special Effects Makeup" covers everything from basic facial makeup styles, and simple scars and gashes, to masks, molds and cast-making: everything you need to know to...

Art is not political action. Art is not education. Art does not exist to make society stronger, or the world a better place. Art disrupts and resists the comfortable, the stiflingly familiar and the status quo, or it only serves to deaden a...

Create your own one-of-a-kind kicks with painting, drawing, stenciling, and marbleizing techniques from celebrated sneaker customizer Xavier Kickz (aka Xavier Crews). In Art of Custom Sneakers, Xavier shares his innovative ideas and techniques for...

"Art is necessary in order that man should be able to recognize and change the world. But art is also necessary by virtue of the magic inherent in it."-Ernst FischerReissued with an introduction by John Berger, The Necessity of Art is a beautifully...

Performance Now charts the development of performance by visual artists across six continents since the turn of the 21st century. It reveals how live art, so integral to the history of art in the 20th century, has become an increasingly essential vehicle...

Acclaimed artist Andrew DeGraff has created beautiful hand-painted maps of all your favorite films, from King Kong and North by Northwest to The Princess Bride, Fargo, Labyrinth, Pulp Fiction, even The Breakfast Club - with the routes of every major...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993337406Author Alessandro BiffignandiFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Korero PressPublisher Korero PressWeight(grams) 726g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781853323614Author Cornelia ParkerFormat HardbackPage Count 104Imprint Hayward Gallery PublishingPublisher Hayward Gallery PublishingWeight(grams) 390g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399531972Author John DeweyFormat PaperbackPage Count 371Imprint Perigee Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 301g