Art, Architecture & Design

This Handbook is the first to explore the emergent field of 'placemaking' in terms of the recent research, teaching and learning, and practice agenda for the next few years. Offering valuable theoretical and practical insights from the leading scholars...

Known since the early 1990s for his photographs of young people in their social environment - clubs, gay pride parades, warehouse parties - Wolfgang Tillmans created an enigmatic, sexy and highly innovative photography while inventing new icons of beauty...

The current focus on sustainable development opens up debates surrounding our relationship with the natural world, about what constitutes social progress and about the character of development, both in the Global North and the Global South. The promotion...

Artists are creative workers who drive growth in the creative and cultural industries. Managing artistic talent is a unique challenge, and this concise book introduces and analyses its key characteristics.Artist Management: Agility in the Creative and...

As Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art for a decade, Thomas Hoving brought art to a new level of public awareness by pioneering such blockbuster shows as the King Tut exhibit. Early in his career, Hoving was introduced to the "curator's game."...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643139470Author Philip HoareFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm *...

Tough and stubborn. That's Amsterdam Castle Muiderslot, the oldest and best-preserved castle in the Netherlands. It is a magical place, surrounded by greenery and water. Built by Count Floris V in 1285, during its long history it has been used as a...

Comprehensive and beautifully designed, Grease: The Director's Notebook also includes all new exclusive interviews with the key cast members and crew, including Olivia Newton-John, John Travolta, and Stockard Channing, original script pages, call sheets,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955862090Author Jake ChapmanFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint FUEL PublishingPublisher FUEL PublishingWeight(grams) 520g

In this captivating and richly illustrated account, Devika Singh presents together for the first time the work of Indian and foreign artists active in India after independence in 1947. The book engages with the many creators, critics and patrons of the...

Analyses of specific, animated films with timecodes give concrete lessons with pinpointed examples: Flee, Soul, Porco Rosso, and The Triplets of Belleville. Makes acting theory simple and straightforward for non-expert animation professionals and...

The Foremost Reference to World Bank Notes! Employing a worldwide network of numismatics experts, the 23rd edition of the Standard Catalog of World Paper Money, Modern Issues, provides the most comprehensive and complete reference to world bank notes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789492095756Author Emiel HeijnenFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint ValizPublisher Valiz

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506729220Author Ken PlumeFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Dark Horse Comics,U.S.Publisher Dark Horse Comics,U.S.Weight(grams) 2761gDimensions(mm)...

Dressed to Kill is a unique and detailed analysis of naval uniform and its historical, social and economic contexts in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This fully updated and expanded second edition examines the significance of male fashion and...

The first English collection of writings by Henry van de Velde, one of the most influential designers and theorists of the twentieth century. Belgian artist, architect, designer, and theorist Henry van de Velde (1863-1957) was a highly original and...

Explore Culzean Castle with this book! Culzean Castle on the Ayrshire coast is the most visited property of the National Trust for Scotland. This lavishly illustrated book tells the whole history of the castle. Michael Moss has carried out extensive...

A gorgeous and inspirational book, showing how to create pictures with thread. Increasing numbers of textile artists and designers now use thread to draw with, on a wide range of mixed-media - including paper, flat fabric, manipulated fabric, various...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789462084407Author Gerard UngerFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint NAI PublishersPublisher Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi Uitgevers/Publishers)

This lavishly illustrated volume is the first major global history of ornament from the Middle Ages to today. Crossing historical and geographical boundaries in unprecedented ways and considering the role of ornament in both art and architecture,...

Art Does art leave you cold? And is that what it's supposed to do? Or is a painting meant to move you to tears? Hemingway was reduced to tears in the midst of a drinking bout when a painting by James Thurber caught his eye. And what's bad about that?...

Sarah Lucas is an internationally celebrated artist known for the provocative use of materials and imagery in her work. Incorporating ordinary objects in unexpected ways, she has consistently challenged our understandings of sex, class and gender over...

Glorious works of art as well as documents of bygone eras, painted illuminated manuscripts supply perhaps the greatest and by far the best-preserved evidence of daily life during the Middle Ages and Renaissance. This Tiny Folio draws on one of the...

Almost nine million people from all over the world flock to the Louvre in Paris every year to see its incomparable art collection. Yet few, if any, are aware of the remarkable history of that location and of the buildings themselves, and how they...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941701768Author Gregg BordowitzFormat HardbackPage Count 108Imprint David ZwirnerPublisher David ZwirnerWeight(grams) 840g

Take your design work to the next level with Making and Breaking the Grid: A Graphic Design Layout Workshop (Third Edition), the essential easy-to-use guide for designers working in every medium. With over 150,000 copies in print, this new edition makes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941701645Author Rainer Maria RilkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint David ZwirnerPublisher David ZwirnerWeight(grams) 70g

A unique journey with James Ensor through the history of still life in Belgium in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries Still life played an important role within the work of Belgian expressionist and symbolist painter James Ensor (1860-1949). The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857945607Author Henry ConnFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media Group

Artists need to write, every day, to support their studio practice and careers. Working artists know this. Newly minted art graduates and emerging artists learn this the hard way-usually when a gallerist asks for basic documents like an artist resume,...

'Like a pizza delivery driver who travels everywhere by moped, or a volcanologist who keeps turning the central heating up, I'm a film critic who loves going to the cinema.' - Peter Bradshaw. Peter Bradshaw is the film reviewer for intelligent,...

As one of the people who defined punk's protest art in the 1970s and 1980s, Gee Vaucher (b. 1945) deserves to be much better-known. She produced confrontational album covers for the legendary anarchist band Crass and later went on to do the same for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993191152Author Damon MurrayFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint FUEL PublishingPublisher FUEL PublishingWeight(grams) 550g

Memory Art in the Contemporary World deals with the ever-expanding field of transnational memory art, which has emerged from a political need to come to terms with traumatic historical pasts, from the Holocaust to apartheid, colonialism, state terror and...

A veteran of Fruits magazine, Rei Shito is a pioneer of the Harajuku street-style scene. Known for her unique ability to capture the unexpected, Rei's collection of street snaps offers a local girl's look into Tokyo's inimitable style--one that is...

New Bracelets showcases more than 400 bracelets by 200 jewellers, selected from a pool of artists from across the world. This new title by Nicolas Estrada confirms that contemporary jewellery is flourishing: readers will be surprised and delighted with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506715995Author NC SoftFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Dark Horse Comics,U.S.Publisher Dark Horse Comics,U.S.

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Oxfordshire, once part of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia, has always been a wealthy county. Its landscapes vary from the chalk and beechwood Chiltern Hills in the south to the limestone uplands of the Cotswolds in the north-west, which give very fine...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783888143960Author Heinz LiesbrockFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Schirmer/Mosel Verlag GmbHPublisher Schirmer/Mosel Verlag GmbH