Art, Architecture & Design

This volume is a study of the connected ideas of "queer" and "gender performance" or "performativity" over the past several decades, providing an ambitious history and crucial examination of these concepts while questioning their very bases.Addressing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789188369703Author Kate BlandfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Dokument PressPublisher Dokument Forlag

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941701904Author Christian Viveros-FauneFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint David ZwirnerPublisher David ZwirnerWeight(grams) 230g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646113866Author Amanda KammaradaFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Rockridge PressPublisher Rockridge PressWeight(grams) 667gDimensions(mm) 279mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorScott Melbourne, Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Hong KongBook InformationISBN 9783035616101Author Scott Jennings MelbourneFormat...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635618655Author Tom BrowningFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Echo Point Books & MediaPublisher Echo Point Books & MediaWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780987206633Author Susan HayesFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Susan HayesPublisher Susan HayesWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 5mm

Interactive Narratives and Transmedia Storytelling provides media students and industry professionals with strategies for creating innovative new media projects across a variety of platforms. Synthesizing ideas from a range of theorists and practitioners...

For the first time, this book brings the insights, methodologies and visions of film to the practice of architecture.Walls Have Feelings poses unanswered questions from our immediate past, crucial for the future of the city: what was the cultural mindset...

This veritable marine treasure trove of a book is richly illustrated by the author, with fifty of the most beautiful, easily encountered, and sometimes astonishing marine organisms found on British coasts, from seemingly exotic seahorses and starfish, to...

The history of art from the early nineteenth century on- ward is commonly viewed as a succession of conflicts between innovatory and established styles that culminated in the formalism and aesthetic autonomy of high modernism. In Art and Crisis, first...

The book responds to the challenge of the global turn in the humanities from the perspective of art history. A global art history, it argues, need not follow the logic of economic globalization nor seek to bring the entire world into its fold. Instead,...

An accessible, beautifully designed introduction to Celtic art, written by the world expert, this book offers a carefully chosen sequence of 250 masterpieces ranging from the fifth century BC to the eighth century AD. The great variety and full range of...

Carpeted in boreal forests, dotted with lakes, cut by rivers, and straddling the Arctic Circle, the region surrounding the White Sea, which is known as the Russian North, is sparsely populated and immensely isolated. It is also the home to architectural...

Women have been making art for centuries, yet their work has been seen as secondary or has gone unrecognised altogether. Women Making Art asks why this is so, and what it would take for us to realise the extent of women's extraordinary contribution to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262046343Author Julio Mario OttinoFormat HardbackPage Count 376Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781786273253Author Steven HellerFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Laurence King PublishingPublisher Laurence King Publishing

Beginning in the 16th century, the golden age of European navigation brought about the flowering of an abundant textile trade, spurred by Western tastes for Eastern spices. While previous studies have focused on this story from the viewpoint of trade,...

This is the greatest work of the greatest pulp artist. The masterful paintings of J. Allen St. John, the illustrator of "Tarzan", John Carter of "Mars", and many other pulp icons, inspired generations of later artists, including Frank Frazetta, Roy G...

The heritage of traditional American tattooing is extensive and rich, encompassing unique design motifs and themes that represent the desires, loves, and ambitions both of the artists and the individuals who adorn their bodies with these artworks...

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN WITH SKETCHUP The most complete reference for anyone using SketchUp, fully updated to cover the latest features, with a new chapter on drawing preparation using LayOut This newly updated and revised Third Edition of Architectural...

An extraordinary and inventive graphic biography, Steffen Kverneland's Munch explores the relationships and obsessions that drove the artist behind 'The Scream'. Using text drawn from the writings of Edvard Munch and his contemporaries, this...

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...

How are great turning points in history experienced by individuals?As Britain pulls away from Europe great British writers come together to give voice to their innermost feelings. These writers include novelists, writers of books for children, of comic...

How can architecture develop better aesthetic directions for the twenty-first-century built environment? Our world, increasingly defined by efficient but unconsidered architecture and cities, seems to be getting uglier. In On the Appearance of the World,...

Filled with fantastic photography and beautifully designed Tattooed focusses on the work of Mo Coppoletta and The Family Business, based in London's Exmouth Market. Filled with spectacular artwork and original designs from one of the world's...

The ultimate guide to achieving beautiful and inspirational quilt blocks. Modern Japanese quilting uses Eastern and Western techniques to create quilts of extraordinary beauty. This book is a treasury of more than 125 block designs, characterised by...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art celebrates 150 years by presenting its evolution into one of the world's greatest museums and its vision for the future Published to celebrate the Museum's 150th anniversary, Making The Met examines the institution's...

Michel Chion is renowned for his explorations of the significance of frequently overlooked elements of cinema, particularly the role of sound. In this inventive and inviting book, Chion considers how cinema has deployed music. He shows how music and film...

28 different characters, poses and expressions that offer a dynamic selection of Manga-style male figures. Drawing boys is a very popular subject within the manga genre and this book is perfect for anyone seeking to learn the basics of creating these...

Between 1933 and 1945, artistic creativity within the German Reich was almost totally under the control of the National Socialist state. Many artists emigrated. But what about the ones who remained in Germany? Under what social and economic conditions...

The official 10th anniversary making of book for the Duncan Jones directed sci-fi film Moon. Directed by Duncan Jones, and written by Nathan Parker from a story by Jones, Moon is a 2009 science fiction drama following Sam Bell, a man who experiences a...

This book deals with ceramic work that does not have a glaze, but instead is finished by other methods such as Burnishing, terra sigillata, engobes, oxide washes, laminating, smoke firing and other methods. The book will look briefly at the historical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789493246119Author Janneke WesselingFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint ValizPublisher ValizWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 109mm * 30mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262045728Author Jonathan ChapmanFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Featuring excerpts from Fred's varied career, as well as his personal multimedia project 'Dark Shepherd', this monograph is a must-have for science fiction art fans.About the AuthorFred Gambino has worked as a diverse illustrator and artist, providing...

New in the architectural series (previous published in this series: The Fast Guide to Architectural Form) is The Fast Guide to Accessibility Design. Written by Baires Raffaelli, this book explores ways to create a project that focuses on accessibility...

Nowhere is the complex and destructive painter Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) revealed with more compassion and insight than in this exemplary biography. Friedman, a friend of Pollock's and active in the art world, shows him to be a brilliant man tormented...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957167940Author Ray ElmittFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Hampton Wick HistoryPublisher Hampton Wick HistoryWeight(grams) 332gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Under a Banner of Concern is a compilation of drawings and poetry from acclaimed artist and musician, Tim Presley. Featuring art from Presley's 2019 exhibition in Chicago and Los Angeles-Under the Banner of Concern-the black ink drawings merge abstracted...