Art, Architecture & Design

A collection of essential quotations and other writings from artist and icon Jean-Michel BasquiatOne of the most important artists of the late twentieth century, Jean-Michel Basquiat explored the interplay of words and images throughout his career as a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506734521Author Amy RatcliffeFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint Dark Horse Comics,U.S.Publisher Dark Horse Comics,U.S.

In Picasso's Demoiselles, eminent art historian Suzanne Preston Blier uncovers the previously unknown history of Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, one of the twentieth century's most important, celebrated, and studied paintings. Drawing on her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913637705Author Tug J. WilsonFormat PaperbackImprint Candy Jar BooksPublisher Candy Jar Books

Starring the likes of Brigitte Bardot, Catherine Deneuve, and Jeanne Moreau, and directed by iconoclasts such as Francois Truffaut, Eric Rohmer, and Jean-Luc Godard, French movies are as touching, beautiful, and romantic as they come in all of film.Le...

Machine Embroidery is hugely exciting in terms of its potential as a creative medium and is part of a flourishing creative industry both in design and production. MMU hosts a specialist embroidery department, which has been instrumental in artistic...

Breakfast with Evil and Other Risky Ventures is a pre-emptive attempt to bring together the scattered writings of Ashis Nandy over his entire span of writing career and scan those scattered lectures, interviews, and writings including essays and columns...

Metaphysical and ontological debates, concerning what exists and the nature of reality, are perennial features of the philosophical landscape. However, some have argued that ontological debates are non-substantive, pointless, trivial, incoherent, or...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789462084285Author Reinier BaarsenFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint NAI PublishersPublisher Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi Uitgevers/Publishers)

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789462084810Author Eric FirleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint NAI PublishersPublisher Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi Uitgevers/Publishers)

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788415303565Author Sean ScullyFormat HardbackPage Count 76Imprint La FabricaPublisher La Fabrica

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio's life was turbulent and short. He was only in his late thirties when he died and yet he managed to achieve tremendous artistic success. A native of Caravaggio, near Milan, he was born in 1571 and moved to Rome after...

From Russian court to the mountains of Tibet, and from the laboratories of Pittsburgh to the salons of Park Avenue, the extraordinary career of the artist and entomologist Andrey Avinoff (1884-1949) has never been surveyed in its entirety. Avinoff...

Otto Steidle has devoted himself continuously to the subject of housing for over 30 years, more perhaps than almost any other architect in Germany. At first the Munich office experimented with building with prefabricated elements. This was not in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783865608802Author Hans-Ulrich ObristFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Buchhandlung Walther Konig GmbH & Co. KG. Abt. VerlagPublisher Buchhandlung...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783960983514Author Peter FischliFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther KonigPublisher Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783903131675Author Georg BaselitzFormat HardbackPage Count 72Imprint VFMKPublisher VFMK

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783037644942Author Trinie DaltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint JRP RingierPublisher JRP Ringier

Sea King was published in conjunction with the book launch of German artist Sabine Moritz s Helicopter at Serpentine Galleries and as a catalogue to a companion exhibition of the Sea King series. Originally derived from a simple black and white sketch,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905464685Author Guy BrettFormat HardbackPage Count 218Imprint RidinghousePublisher Ridinghouse

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771513852Author Robert AmosFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Touchwood EditionsPublisher Touchwood EditionsWeight(grams) 1061gDimensions(mm) 231mm *...

At once emphatically abstract and culturally specific, the work of Seung-taek Lee (born 1932) draws on the subtle beauty of Korean aesthetic traditions and folk art, also reflecting contemporaneous developments in earth art, Mono-ha and...

Figure Drawing for Concept Artists is an essential primer that aims to bring traditional figure drawing techniques and knowledge to every concept artist's skill set. Accessibly written and lavishly illustrated by Kan Muftic, a professional concept artist...

This catalogue documents an exhibition at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology of watercolor paintings by American artist Wendy Artin and selected objects from the Museum's permanent collections. Wendy Artin has been working for over a decade on a series...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551521718Author Ian ThomFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Arsenal Pulp PressPublisher Arsenal Pulp Press

Helio Oiticica (1937-1980) altered the Brazilian art scene, and his works broke with accepted conventions. His oeuvre was seminal for the breakthrough of Tropicalia, the cultural movement that rebelled against the reprisals by the military regime...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781624650673Author Chris AyersFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Design Studio PressPublisher Design Studio Press

This volume begins with the premise that the deepest respect is shown through honest critique. One of the greatest problems in understanding the influence of the author on cities and planning is that she has for much of the past five decades been "Saint...

In 2019 Ali Kazim, one of the most exciting contemporary artists working in Pakistan today, became the first South Asian artist-in-residence at the Ashmolean Museum. Drawing inspiration from the objects in the Eastern Art collections, and their...

Masterpieces of nineteenth-century French painting from the Ordrupgaard Collection in Copenhagen are travelling to the Royal Academy of Arts in the spring of 2020. Drawn from the remarkable collection of the Danish insurance magnate and art lover Wilhelm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783037643792Author Fabrice StrounFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint JRP RingierPublisher JRP Ringier

Focusing on one landmark catastrophic event in the history of an emerging modern nation - the Great Kanto Earthquake that devastated Tokyo and surrounding areas in 1923 - this fascinating volume examines the history of the visual production of the...

Hans Holbein the Younger is best known for his work in Henry VIII's England, where he painted portraits and designed decorative objects for courtly circles. England, however, only accounts for half of Holbein's working life. He developed his artistic...

Over the course of its seven-year run, Buffy the Vampire Slayer cultivated a loyal fandom and featured a strong, complex female lead, at a time when such a character was a rarity. Evan Ross Katz explores the show's cultural relevance through a book that...

When a new technology makes people ill, how high does the body count have to be before protectives steps are taken? This disturbing book tells a dark story of hazardous manufacturing, poisonous materials, environmental abuses, political machinations,...

Punjab, and especially Sikh art, has taken multiple forms ranging from scriptural manuscripts, floral adornments to illustrations and illuminations. This family collection showcases varied forms of jewellery, textiles, arms, coinage, along with...

Andrew Forge was an English painter and a teacher of painting (Yale University 1975-1994), renowned and respected on both sides of the Atlantic. But he was also known for his writing on the arts, spanning almost fifty years, which was admired for the...

This deeply informed and lavishly illustrated book is a comprehensive introduction to the modern study of Middle English manuscripts. It is intended for students and scholars who are familiar with some of the major Middle English literary works, such as...

An exploration of the personal and artistic connections between two icons of twentieth-century art Keith Haring (1958-1990) and Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) changed the art world of the 1980s through their idiosyncratic imagery, radical ideas, and...

Most known for her bold and darkly painted portraits, Brooks was revolutionary in her feminist renderings of women in resistance. Openly queer, she challenged conceptions of gender and sexuality in her art, which also served as her refuge. While many of...