Art, Architecture & Design

Eighteenth-century women told their life stories through making. With its compelling stories of women's material experiences and practices, Material Lives offers a new perspective on eighteenth-century production and consumption. Genteel women's making...

War Culture and the Contest of Images analyzes the relationships among contemporary war, documentary practices, and democratic ideals. Dora Apel examines a wide variety of images and cultural representations of war in the United States and the Middle...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262546119Author Pippin BarrFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

A detailed study of the role and legacy of weaving at the legendary Black Mountain College In the mid-twentieth century, Black Mountain College attracted a remarkable roster of artists, architects, and musicians. Yet the weaving classes taught by Anni...

An inspiring, interactive guide for drawing people, places, food, and things you come across in your travels. This book offers aspiring urban sketchers a series of 40 step-by-step lessons showing you how to draw everything from the meal you ordered at a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784756255471Author Nanaco YashiroFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Pie International Co., Ltd.Publisher Pie International Co., Ltd.

This volume showcases 200 works by California Art Club artists who have focused on the evocative seascapes, charming seaside towns, and beach communities from San Diego to San Francisco, demonstrating a breathtaking range of natural settings suffused...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506724348Author UbisoftFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Dark Horse Comics,U.S.Publisher Dark Horse Comics,U.S.

Monumental cares rethinks monument debates, site specificity and art activism in light of problems that strike us as monumental or overwhelming, such as war, migration and the climate crisis. The book shows how artists address these issues, from Chicago...

Stickerbomb Monsters features an extensive assortment of fantastic and scary monster designs. Including weird and wonderful creatures ranging from zombies and ghosts to spaghetti monsters and love bugs, the stickers are fun for everyone to play with, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840686715Author Pep PentangeliFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Creation BooksPublisher Creation Books

The alphabet, fantastically illustrated by the philosophical work of Damien Hirst From A is for Anatomy to Z is for Zebra, discover British artist Damien Hirst's painting, sculpture, and much more on every page of this fantastically illustrated...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782370741684Author Ivan MiettonFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Editions Skira ParisPublisher Editions Skira ParisWeight(grams) 1570g

This book presents the designs for bookplates and badges by the English Arts and Crafts designer and architect, C.F.A. Voysey, (1857-1941). Perhaps the most recognised and influential designer of his age, Voysey designed over one hundred bookplates,...

A unique behind-the-scenes guide to the painting process of one of the most popular artists working in the growing, underground art scene of Pop Surrealism. Painting superstar Camilla d'Errico opens up her studio and offers readers an insider scoop on...

Black artists have been making major contributions to the British art scene for decades, since at least the mid-twentieth century. Sometimes these artists were regarded and embraced as practitioners of note. At other times they faced challenges of...

A radical new perspective on the dynamics of urban life in Renaissance Italy The cities of Renaissance Italy comprised a network of forces shaping both the urban landscape and those who inhabited it. In this illuminating study, those complex relations...

This book examines the emergence and evolution of the discipline of urban design as articulated through the work of Josep Lluis Sert (1902-1983), one of its most influential practitioners. Sert was noted for his city planning and urban development...

Elwes takes a journey through the twin histories of landscape art and experimental moving image and discovers how they coalesce in the work of artists from the 1970s to the present day. Drawing on a wide geographical sampling, Elwes considers issues...

These essays address the epistemological, aesthetic and political implications of scale in both scholarly and artistic work. From the mass image in vernacular culture to transformations of photography in contexts of big data and artificial intelligence,...

'Where can the human animal seek its energy in this era of lockdowns and social distancing? Dodge may help us to find out' Guardian'If you're a fan of Maggie Nelson's work, you'll like this book. It's truly beautiful' DazedIs love a force akin to...

Collecting Activism, Archiving Occupy Wall Street explores the material collections produced by participants of Occupy Wall Street in 2011 that bear witness to the experience and agency of 'the 99%'.Examining processes of collection development as a lens...

A dazzling collection of rare art and documents illuminate the life of Sherlock Holmes beyond the page. As one of the most beloved characters in the English language, Sherlock Holmes sometimes seems to have a life of his own, one that leaps beyond the...

A timely and splendidly illustrated global exploration of the complex intersections of fashion and politics from the mid-19th century to the present day Taking a multifaceted look at a topic of widespread fascination, this pioneering book presents new...

Praise for the previous edition:"[A] fascinating book." John Thackara, Doors of Perception"Provides the foundations for a radical new perspective." Ethical Pulse"At last a book that dispels the idea that fashion is only interested in trend-driven fluff:...

Style Legends, Rebels, and Visionaries is an inclusive and eclectic collection of 50 illustrated portraits by the immensely talented artist Bijou Karman. This curated collection of portraits features vintage and contemporary style legends such as Cher,...

Design has a history of violence. It can be an act of creative destruction and a double-edged sword, and yet professional discourse around design has been dominated by voices that only trumpet its commercial and aesthetic successes. Violence, defined...

Film and video create an illusory world, a reality elsewhere, and a material presence that both dramatizes and demystifies the magic trick of moving pictures. Beginning in the 1960s, artists have explored filmic and televisual phenomena in the controlled...

Henri Dorra, in his comprehensive new book, presents the development and the aesthetic theories of the symbolist movement in art and literature. Included are writings (many never before translated or reprinted) by artists, designers, architects, and...

In this volume, Heather McPherson examines the connections among portraiture, theater, the visual arts, and fame to shed light on the emergence of modern celebrity culture in eighteenth-century England.Popular actors in Georgian London, such as David...

Adriana Varejao s rich and diverse artistic oeuvre including her distinctive tile paintings, large-scale sculpture, photography and video installation embodies the mythic pluralism of Brazilian identity. Drawing upon the aesthetic traditions and visual...

A history of 1960s activist art group Black Mask. With Up Against the Real, Nadja Millner-Larsen offers the first comprehensive study of the group Black Mask and its acrimonious relationship to the New York art world of the 1960s. Cited as pioneers of...

Cool, talented and transgressive, Jean-Michel Basquiat's life is just as fascinating as the work he produced.Delve into 1980s New York as this vivid graphic novel takes you on Basquiat's journey from street-art legend SAMO to international art-scene...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780300273168Author Charles BossuFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Yale University PressPublisher Yale University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909051676Author Ian Castello-CortesFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Graffito Books LtdPublisher Graffito Books Ltd

West of Eden is the definitive story of Hollywood, told, in their own words, by the people on the inside: Lauren Bacall, Arthur Miller, Dennis Hopper, Frank Gehry, Ring Lardner, Joan Didion, Stephen Sondheim - all interviewed by Jean Stein, who grew up...

Experience the brilliant artist's lifelong obsession with nature and immersion in gardens, a bedrock of her hugely influential work. Yayoi Kusama's work is the product of an infinite curiosity and obsessive drive to create. Throughout the artist's long...

A richly illustrated exploration of Hannah Wilke's provocative art and trailblazing feminismOne of the most groundbreaking artists to emerge in American art in the 1960s, Hannah Wilke consistently challenged the prevailing narratives of women's bodies...

Interweaving architecture, philosophy and cultural history, Materials and Meaning in Architecture develops a rich and multi-dimensional exploration of materials and materiality, in an age when architectural practice seems otherwise preoccupied with image...

The story of Lear, the old chieftain, who divides his kingdom among his three daughters is the most terrifying tragedy ever written. Shakespeare's apocalyptic play is vividly transferred to the colonial frontiers of 18th-century America, where it is...