Art, Architecture & Design

Over the past 40 years, Japanese designers have led the way in aligning fashion with art and ideology, as well as addressing identity and social politics through dress. They have demonstrated that both creative and commercial enterprise is possible in...

Game Audio Implementation offers a unique practical approach to learning all about game audio. If you've always wanted to hear your sound or music in a real game then this is the book for you. Each chapter is accompanied by its own game level where you...

On the occasion of his 85th birthday the famous international German artist Georg Baselitz (*1938) has donated a collection of works on paper to both the Albertina Museum in Vienna and the Morgan Library in New York. The publication combines the 100...

With the exceptional heritage, critical acclaim and tremendous sales of the Thief franchise, fans of the series will be delighted to add this book to their collection in anticipation of the new Thief game.The Art of Thief demonstrates the stunning...

This publication accompanies an exhibition on Georgian architecture at the Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM) in Frankfurt am Main, which is the first of its kind in Germany. The catalogue examines the multi-layered processes of social and urban...

The Polo shirt is to Ralph Lauren what Mickey Mouse is to Disney or the Empire State Building is to New York City. Whether worn with the collar popped up, open and untucked, or dressed up under a suit jacket, the Polo embodies the optimism of American...

& Western approaches to Africa's visual culture have until recently separated 'traditional' from 'modern' as if the two categories had no common ground, and as if only the former was authentically African. Yet 'tradition' is also an active process of...

The collection of Roman art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the finest in the world. It contains more than 5,000 objects, including exquisite cameos, refined silver vessels and utensils, spectacular Pompeiian frescoes, monumental sculptures...

Whatever your age, if you have a sense of fun you'll love drawing cartoons. With the help of professional cartoonist David Mostyn, you can create wonderful comic drawings to amuse yourself, your family and friends. * Draw the funniest cartoons free hand...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013288821Author Louise HardimanFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789814068406Author Gretchen LiuFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Editions Didier Millet Pte LtdPublisher Editions Didier Millet Pte LtdWeight(grams)...

Ashley Longshore now turns her eye toward badass women throughout history with Roar! A Collection of Mighty Women. Longshore s pop art paintings are never shy of daring; her art makes noise, and her singular portraits of legendary stateswomen, artists,...

Capturing the boundless creativity of the LEGO (R) brand, this colorful book recreates objects and scenes from everyday life using LEGO bricks. Transforming handfuls of bricks into minty toothpaste, eggs and bacon, lush houseplants, and more, LEGO...

This catalog assembles sumptuous photographs of the world's leading collection of Cham sculpture, along with the most recent insights of Vietnamese and international scholars. The Champa culture thrived in magnificent temples, sculpture, dance and music...

From her early rarely seen Riot Grrrl-influenced fanzines and performances to a career that has produced seminal films, fiction, sculptures, public art, and even a smartphone app, Miranda July has proven adept at articulating the poignancy and humour of...

Set between the sound and the sea, Long Island is home to some of America's most intriguing country houses. This book highlights the best examples, telling the story of each through outstanding contemporary color photography. The dwellings, which began...

The Cultural Studies Reader is the ideal introduction for students. A revised introduction explaining the history and key concerns of cultural studies brings together important articles by leading thinkers to provide an essential guide to the...

From a veteran culture writer and modern movie expert, a celebration and analysis of the movies of 1999-"a terrifically fun snapshot of American film culture on the brink of the Millennium....An absolute must for any movie-lover or pop-culture nut"...

Berlin Drawings 2 is released three years after the first volume, one could say the two volumes span pre- and post-pandemic Berlin. The small scale drawings were made in different situations - being on public transport, in nature, at the TXL airport,...

This book gathers the published and unpublished writings of Dr Grace Pailthorpe (1883-1971), English surgeon, specialist in psychological medicine and surrealist artist to provide an in-depth study of her work and legacy.Pailthorpe's theoretical...

How do fashion designers conceive of, develop and ultimately launch commercially and creatively successful collections? Developing a Fashion Collection walks you through the process, exploring research techniques, sources of inspiration, forecasting...

Art Essays is a passionate collection of the best essays on the visual arts written by contemporary novelists. This vibrant and diverse selection includes essays by award-winning writers such as Zadie Smith, Chris Kraus, Teju Cole, Orhan Pamuk, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592214389Author Bolaji CampbellFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 390g

Three decades of the beloved Japanese artist's paintings, drawings, sculptures and more Yoshitomo Nara is among the most beloved Japanese artists of his generation. His widely recognizable portraits of menacing figures reflect the artist's raw...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262516051Author Arata IsozakiFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 635gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 17mm

Characters are a vital aspect of today's transmedia practices. Combining theories on fictional persons from Japanese and Euro-American practices, this book discusses video game characters embedded in our popular media culture in which they are constantly...

Victor Burgin revisits Walter Benjamin's essay 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction' to argue that the camera today is profoundly imbricated in that which is not visible.Book InformationISBN 9781913620912Author Victor BurginFormat...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781901785005Author Matthew CollingsFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint 21 Publishing LtdPublisher 21 Publishing Ltd

This magnificent new volume presents works of art from the fabled collection of Philippe II, Duke of Orleans (1674-1723), including masterpieces by Raphael, Titian, Veronese, Correggio, Poussin, Rubens, and Rembrandt, bringing them together for the first...

"Destination Culture" takes the reader on an eye-opening journey from ethnological artifacts to kitsch. Posing the question, 'What does it mean to show?' Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett explores the agency of display in a variety of settings: museums,...

Nineteenth Century British Painting provides a succinct and informative chronological survey of a century of British painting which produced a great variety of work. It progresses from the beginnings of Romanticism in the late eighteenth century to the...

In Art to Come Terry Smith-who is widely recognized as one of the world's leading historians and theorists of contemporary art-traces the emergence of contemporary art and further develops his concept of contemporaneity. Smith shows that embracing...

There are no rules, and even less justice. Death takes everyone without discrimination. Sometimes it is accidental - like Signorelli, who fell from scaffolding. Sometimes it is expected, as with the diabetic Cezanne, who wrote "I am old, sick, and I...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780517037355Author Joseph AronsonFormat HardbackPage Count 496Imprint Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House IncPublisher Random House USA...

"Art as Social Action . . . is an essential guide to deepening social art practices and teaching them to students." -Laura Raicovich, president and executive director, Queens MuseumArt as Social Action is both a general introduction to and an...

Do you love the look of fancy letters but think they are too hard to draw? Think again! Everyone's favorite art teacher, Mrs. Arnold, is back with another super-fun guide that breaks popular art techniques down into bite-sized lessons. In this newest...

Bring your own anthropomorphic fantasy characters to life!Furries fuse human and animal characteristics to create unique and fantastical hybrid forms. This book contains everything you need to start drawing furries for the printed page, for the screen,...

The fast and easy way to learn the art of fashion drawing This fun guide gives you dozens of step-by-step diagrams that walk you through the process of preparing creative illustrations that you can later develop into dynamic presentations for your...

Until now, Orientalist art-exemplified by paintings of harems, slave markets, or bazaars-has predominantly been understood to reflect Western interpretations and to perpetuate reductive, often demeaning stereotypes of the exotic East. Orientalism's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783960985952Author Moises PuenteFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig,GermanyPublisher Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther...