Art, Architecture & Design

In this book, comics icon Lee provides aspiring comics artists with the modern tools they need to succeed in the world of comic-book creation. Focusing on topics like anatomy, perspective and character design, as well as brand-new topics like manga art...

This collection interrogates relationships between court architecture and social justice, from consultation and design to the impact of material (and immaterial) forms on court users, through the lenses of architecture, law, socio-legal studies,...

Before the rise of Pop Art proper, Alex Katz developed an iconic style of figurative painting in the early 1960s- influenced by film, television, and billboard advertising. Seemingly detached and incredibly stylish, he created portraits of the New York...

A richly illustrated history of textiles in the Mughal EmpireIn the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, a vast array of textiles circulated throughout the Mughal Empire. Made from rare fibers and crafted using virtuosic techniques, these exquisite...

This ground-breaking book follows the rise of a distinctive school of Australian art that first emerged in the 1940s. Beginning with the artists of the 'Angry Penguins' movement, Arthur Boyd, Albert Tucker, Joy Hester and Sidney Nolan, whose work...

This book tells the story of a fascinating quilting tradition found in southern Pakistan and neighboring western India. These quilts, called ralli, are stunning in their designs, brilliant in their colors, and intriguing in their history. The designs,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783956793097Author Omar KholeifFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Sternberg PressPublisher Sternberg PressWeight(grams) 666gDimensions(mm) 191mm * 127mm...

In What Does It Mean to Be Post-Soviet? Madina Tlostanova traces how contemporary post-Soviet art mediates this human condition. Observing how the concept of the happy future-which was at the core of the project of Soviet modernity-has lapsed from the...

In 1997, Jeff Staple walked into a boutique in New York City wearing a shirt he printed in his silkscreen class at Parsons School of Design. What started as a small T-Shirt line handmade by Jeff Staple, grew organically and began to gain visibility in...

Always recognised as a master print from the moment of its appearance around 1649, the Hundred Guilder Print is one of Rembrandt's most compositionally complex and visually beautiful works. This book gives a full overview of the...

The revised and extended BMW Art Guide by Independent Collectors presents more than 270 private collections of contemporary art accessible to the public-featuring large and small, famous and the relatively unknown. Succinct portraits of the collections...

This collection of over 140 curated posters by the revolutionary graphic artist Seymour Chwast provides context and insight into not only his five-decade career, but the poster genre itself. Since founding Push Pin Studios alongside Milton Glaser and...

Color Scheme explores an alternative way of seeing through gridded systems of colors, or palettes," to take readers on a visual journey through art history and pop culture. From the various shades of pink used by artists to describe the blush of Madame...

The most exhilarating painter of the Renaissance and arguably of the whole of western art, Tintoretto was known as 'Il Furioso' because of the attack and energy of his style. His vaunting ambition is recorded in the inscription he placed in his studio: l...

In this book, esteemed television executive and Harvard lecturer Ken Basin offers a comprehensive overview of the business, financial, and legal structure of the U.S. television industry, as well as its dealmaking norms. Written for working or aspiring...

A close study of clothes worn by aristocratic families and their households at the time of the Black Prince - and of Chaucer - showing Europe-wide influences. 1340 to 1363 were years remarkable for dramatic developments in fashion and for extravagant...

Even Death cares about his work-life balance...Death never takes a day off. Until he gets a letter from the HR department insisting he use up his accrued vacation time, that is. In this humorous and heartfelt book from beloved illustrator Brian Rea,...

A diverse range of leading scholars, activists, archivists and artists explore the histories, practices and concerns of women making film and video across the world, from the pioneering German animator Lotte Reiniger, to the influential African American...

Learn how to draw and color the Baylee Jae way! YouTube superstar cartoonist and illustrator Baylee Jae presents her first-ever art instruction book! It's an easy-to-follow complete cartoon-style course covering everything from basic materials and...

Architect to Lady Gaga and Nicola Formichetti, Mark Foster Gage has spent 20 years leading the digital architectural avant-garde, pushing the boundaries of what is possible in architecture and design and exploding expectations. This volume features built...

An 'atypical' Flemish primitive unravelled: Hugo van der Goes In this fascinating introduction to the work and life of Flemish Primitive Hugo van der Goes (c. 1440-1482/1483), several experts and researchers shed light on the virtuosity of the master...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780854882878Author Whitney HintzFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Whitechapel GalleryPublisher Whitechapel Gallery

Nam June Paik (1932-2006) broke new ground in late-twentieth-century art, working on a global stage to transform video into an art medium. This book reflects on Paik s working method as well as the ideas and materials that inspired his art practice. It...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781624650451Author Luca ZamprioloFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Design Studio PressPublisher Design Studio Press

Adapting Building for Changing Uses discusses the comprehensive refurbishment of buildings to enable them to be used for purposes different to those originally intended.For those involved in the often risky business of conversion of buildings from one...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846382079Author Mitch SpeedFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Afterall PublishingPublisher Afterall Publishing

Learning from China showcases 50 of the country's pioneering retail designs and explores them as windows into the industry's future. As e-commerce uproots the norms and conventions of physical retail, Chinese retailers are showing the way forward. What...

This book is an essential and practical tool for designing and creating fashion accessories for men and women. Intended for fashion students and professionals, the book includes different pattern techniques for each accessory and explains production...

In light of environmental challenges architecture is facing, wood is no longer regarded as outmoded, nostalgic, and rooted in the past, but increasingly recognized as one of the most promising building materials for the future. Recent years have seen...

Drawing a Hypothesis is a reader on the ontology of forms of visualisation and on the development of the diagrammatic perspective and its use in contemporary art, science, and theory. Based on his artistic practice, Nikolaus Gansterer reveals drawing as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633451353Author Beverly AdamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Museum of Modern ArtPublisher Museum of Modern ArtWeight(grams) 200g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506718729Author Chris RobersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Dark Horse Comics,U.S.Publisher Dark Horse Comics,U.S.

Bethan Ash's rich, colourful quilts are created using improvisational collage techniques. Working instinctively, she simply layers fabric shapes onto a prepared background and fuses them down, then adds stitching later. Each quilt is cut freehand,...

Unlimited action concerns the limits imposed upon art and life, and the means by which artists have exposed, refused, or otherwise reshaped the horizon of aesthetics and of the practice of art, by way of performance art. It examines the 'performance of...

Manchester Museum, part of the University of Manchester, has completed its most ambitious transformation in a generation. This beautiful guidebook is a tour and souvenir of the new museum, featuring spectacular objects and stories that inspire...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789189069251Author Daniel BirnbaumFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Stolpe PublishingPublisher Stolpe PublishingWeight(grams) 1620g

Briefing is not just presenting a set of documents to the design team; it is a process of developing a deep understanding about client needs. This book provides both inspiration to clients and a framework for practitioners. The coverage extends beyond...

How the notorious author of The 120 Days of Sodom inspired the surrealists and other avant-garde artists, writers, and filmmakersThe writings of the Marquis de Sade (1740-1814) present a libertine philosophy of sexual excess and human suffering that...

Ireland was not unique in creating and perpetuating an institutional response to insanity, but did enjoy the dubious distinction of having, by 1950s, the world's highest number of psychiatric beds per capita. Social and medical historians have posited...

Future Beauty is the first comprehensive survey of Japanese avant-garde fashion of the last 30 years. Such designers as Issey Miyake, Yohji Yamamoto and Rei Kawakubo made an enormous impact on the world fashion scene in the late twentieth century,...