Art, Architecture & Design

Men in Black: The Official Visual Companion to the Films is the first book to cover all four films, including Men in Black International. Men in Black: The Official Visual Companion to the Films is the ultimate retrospective to the universally...

An easy-to-follow, step-by-step manga drawing instruction book from fan favourite manga artist and painter Camilla d'Errico, featuring 30 lessons on illustrating cute, cool and quirky characters in the Pop Surrealist style with pencils. With appearances...

Drawing the Line: Technical Hand Drafting for Film and Television is the essential resource for students and aspiring professionals studying and working in film and television design. The book covers all aspects of scenic drafting by hand - a technique...

The perfect introduction to the life and work of Jackson PollockAbout the AuthorHelen A. Harrison is the Director of the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center. She has written numerous exhibition catalogues and articles in popular and scholarly...

Design Anthropology brings together leading international design theorists, consultants and anthropologists to explore the changing object culture of the 21st century. Decades ago, product designers used basic market research to fine-tune their...

For much of early modern history, the opportunity to be immortalized in a portrait was explicitly tied to social class: only landed elite and royalty had the money and power to commission such an endeavor. But in the second half of the 16th century,...

When digging for clues about an ancient society's culture, nothing is more valuable to an archaeologist than ceramic remnants. Dawn Whitehand explains why. Her text is the first to comprehensively explore the complex nature of pit firing based on...

From a platypus scarf to a giant crocodile rug, this fabulous activity book features animal-themed knitting patterns and fun puzzles, stories and quizzes to knock your socks off. Louise Walker, also known as Sincerely...

Discover how to collect, process, and use pigments from the earth. Starting with the equipment and tools needed for gathering soils, the author takes the reader from the field to the studio where the processes of cleaning, sifting, and mulling result in...

Fifth Quarter: Derek Jarman, Keith Collins & Dungeness brings together collaborators, friends, contemporary artists, writers, musicians, and curators to respond to the influence and legacy of Jarman and his late partner Collins. Drawing inspiration...

Hollywood Cocktails is a true toast to Hollywood and the film industry!Paramount Pictures, the oldest Hollywood studio in operation, has released countless award-winning and box office-busting movies that have spanned the age of cinema, from the medium's...

Can painting transform philosophy? In Inventing Falsehood, Making Truth, Malcolm Bull looks at Neapolitan art around 1700 through the eyes of the philosopher Giambattista Vico. Surrounded by extravagant examples of late Baroque painting by artists like...

Since childhood, Keaton Henson has had a sketchbook by his side, catching moments and keeping him company. Inside Voice is a collection of his drawings, sketches and doodles from these sketchbooks over the last 12 years. Curated by Keaton himself, this...

The bestselling introduction to designing the written word Typographic Design: Form & Communication is the definitive reference for graphic designers, providing a comprehensive introduction to the visual word. Done well, typopgraphy can communicate so...

Fashion writing now enjoys its highest-ever profile as the digital world has multiplied the number of platforms on which it is available. No longer confined to restrictive print schedules or occasional broadcast slots, fashion has become an ever-present...

Following the arc of Bellini's career, from his early devotional paintings to his later, occasionally secular works, this book offers an in-depth appreciation of the Venetian master who dominated the Early Renaissance. Featuring nearly every extant...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789188369000Author Frank Steam156 MaltFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Dokument PressPublisher Dokument Forlag

Get Rolling on Your Most Inventive Artwork Ever! What lurks in the shadows of your imagination? This book takes you deep into the dusty corners and dark recesses where your most original ideas lie in wait, showing you how to lure them out into daylight,...

This visually rich survey - the first of its kind - showcases the work of over 200 artists and celebrates the explosion of street art in Africa over the last decade. Including eleven in-depth interviews with street artists active in Africa today as well...

Now in full-colour comes a witty and engaging look at Europe's history and art, from America's European travel guru. Rick Steves' Europe 101 helps you make the most of your sightseeing. A fun but informative guide, this "professor in your pocket"...

As the world rapidly urbanizes, its cities sink themselves into the ground in sprawling tendons of tunnels - conduits for transport, utility, communication, shelter and storage. The excavation of these spaces, at ever-increasing depths and speed, has...

Barrow-in-Furness has a proud and distinctive identity, embodied in the many fine buildings that have shaped this Cumbrian town. At first glance it appears to be seated firmly in the nineteenth century, but a closer inspection reveals an architectural...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993337420Author Rian HughesFormat HardbackPage Count 564Imprint Korero PressPublisher Korero Press

This groundbreaking edition of AD brings together a range of global expertise on social value, exploring its potential for demonstrating the positive impact of both architecture and architects on homes and communities in terms of social justice,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486473338Author Charles Dana GibsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Gustav Klimt, well known for his sensual, arresting depictions of women (The Kiss, Fulfillment, The Tree of Life), was a founder of the Viennese Secession movement at the turn of the 20th century, Vienna's own Art Nouveau. His extravagant work, was an...

A native of Valencia, Spanish Impressionist Joaquin Sorolla (1863-1923) first went to Paris in 1885 as a young artist at the age of twenty-three. He exhibited at the international salons, winning the Grand Prix at the Exposition Universelle in 1900, and...

This accessible and useful book will be an invaluable guide for all those interested in printmaking - from obtaining an understanding of different prints to buying for investment. The author covers areas such as collecting, explaining what constitutes an...

Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages are now understood as times of extraordinary skill and creativity in the decorative arts. In the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantium) artists and craftsmen transitioned from 'Roman' to 'Byzantine' art and inspired a...

A timely and expansive survey of a groundbreaking American art movement that overturned aesthetic hierarchies in a riot of color and ornamentation The Pattern and Decoration movement emerged in the 1970s as an embrace of long-dismissed art forms...

History of Japanese Art after 1945 is a compilation of essays that surveys the development of art in Japan since WWII. The original Japanese work, which has become essential reading for those with an interest in modern and contemporary Japanese art and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780679488Author Ellen MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Laurence King PublishingPublisher Laurence King PublishingWeight(grams) 10g

Making Working Women's Costume gives a unique account of the clothes of ordinary women from the mid-fifteenth century to the early twentieth century. As well as introducing the historical periods, it gives patterns for a range of typical garments that...

Lavishly illustrated with over 175 black-and-white and color images that range from high to popular culture and from Ancient Greece to contemporary America, Christopher Reed's arresting book reveals the deep linkages between art and homosexuality as we...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780676012Author Paul JacksonFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Laurence King PublishingPublisher Laurence King PublishingWeight(grams) 1150g

This original and unique new book takes an integrated approach to interrogating the experience and location of the self/s within the context of performance art practice. In its framing and execution of practical exercises and focused snapshots of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846382574Author Richard BirkettFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Afterall PublishingPublisher Afterall Publishing

Browse more than 500 book cover designs and listen to more than 50 of today's top designers discuss their process for creating the perfect book cover. Award-winning creative professionals from around the world have applied astonishingly clever cover...

The story of cult figure Cookie Mueller's life through an oral history composed of more than 80 interviews with those who knew her, with photographs by David Armstrong, Robert Mapplethorpe, Peter Hujar and others Cookie Mueller (1949-1989) was a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780673011Author Sass BrownFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Laurence King PublishingPublisher Laurence King PublishingWeight(grams) 830g