Art, Architecture & Design

German artist Neo Rauch, championed as "the painter of the zeitgeist" by The New York Times's Roberta Smith, presents new paintings in PROPAGANDA.Rauch is widely celebrated for his captivating compositions that bring together figurative painting...

Always highly anticipated and beautifully packaged, this book is an essential record of the current trends in contemporary art in America Since its introduction by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney in 1932, the Whitney Biennial has charted new developments in...

This book gives a comprehensive overview of Russian decorative art from the twelfth century to the early twentieth and includes some of the most technically accomplished works of art ever produced. These exquisite pieces range from a twelfth-century gold...

Paint sweet watercolor fantasy characters and scenes, including all skin tones and hair types. Journey to a magical fantasy land! Learn to paint fairies, mermaids, creatures, and their realms with step-by-step watercolor demonstrations. The book includes...

In Dissident Practices, Claudia Calirman examines sixty years of visual art by prominent and emerging Brazilian women artists from the 1960s to the present, covering the period from the military dictatorship to the return to democracy in the mid-1980s,...

Like hardly any other artist, Pierre-Auguste Renoir has shaped our understanding of the atmospheric figure paintings of Impressionism. His painting La fin du dejeuner, which has been in the Stadel Museum in Frankfurt since 1910, is now the starting point...

Philippe Fatin is a traveler, photographer and collector who has established a world-class collection of tribal textiles from southern China. These exquisitely colorful, hand-woven textiles are highly prized by collectors and here for the first time is...

Conservation in the built environment raises fundamental questions which have been debated for centuries - what is worth preserving, how is it possible, why is it important?This book takes a modern approach to the meaning of a heritage structure and its...

The official art book for the Marvel's Avengers expansion Black Panther: War for Wakanda Blindsided by a betrayal and the resulting tragedy, King T'Challa, the Black Panther, devoted protector and current ruler of Wakanda finds it difficult to entrust...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781319208189Author Timothy CorriganFormat PaperbackImprint Bedford/Saint Martin'sPublisher Macmillan Learning

The essential design companion-now in an up-to-date new edition For architects, drawing is more than a convenient way to communicate ideas; it is an integral part of the creative process that has a profound impact on thinking and problem-solving. In...

A visible presence for some two decades, electronic literature has already produced many works that deserve the rigorous scrutiny critics have long practiced with print literature. Only now, however, with Electronic Literature by N. Katherine Hayles, do...

This is a new translation of Quiccheberg's seminal 16th century text on the collection and display of objects. Samuel Quiccheberg's Inscriptiones, first published in Latin in 1565, is an ambitious effort to demonstrate the pragmatic value of curiosity...

An elegant and lavish coffee table book revealing the origins, processes, and brilliant final paintings produced for the award-winning fantasy novel Stardust written by Neil Gaiman. From the moment Gaiman asked Vess to join him on the project, through...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781736534663Author Steffani JemisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Primary InformationPublisher Primary InformationWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789887849469Author SendPointsFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint SendpointsPublisher Sendpoints

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781786276896Author Jeffrey MayerFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Laurence King PublishingPublisher Laurence King Publishing

Designing Coffee Shops and Cafes for Community brings together research, theory, and practical applications for designing coffee shops and cafes as places to enhance community connections. As people search for meaning and connection in their lives, they...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639380176Author New SeasonsPage Count 64Imprint New SeasonsPublisher New SeasonsWeight(grams) 259gDimensions(mm) 249mm * 213mm * 10mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781786273901Author Harriet WorsleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Laurence King PublishingPublisher Laurence King Publishing

An engaging survey from the Middle Ages to the present, presenting fashion as a complex process that reflects economic, social, and political changes This engaging volume tells the history of Western fashion, exploring how and why it has influenced...

A nuanced reassessment that transforms our understanding of this self-taught artist Arguably the most successful African American artist of his day, Horace Pippin (1888-1946) taught himself to paint in the 1930s and quickly earned international renown...

One of the most charismatic feature films of the New Wave, A Bout de souffle (1960) has retained its appeal not only as the emphatic statement of a generational break with tradition, but also as Godard's earliest rendition of a set of thematic and...

We are just completing a thirty- year arc of digitization. Now we are beginning a thirty-year arc of tokenization. ---Kevin McCoy, artist and Erst person to make an NFT Since the NFT craze began in the art world, the information one can find for the...

Known internationally and variously described as the Godfather of Streetwear and one of the founding fathers of Tokyo's Harajuku scene, Hiroshi Fujiwara exerts a disproportionate influence over contemporary design culture. Fujiwara, who had collaborated...

Architecture and freehand drawing are inextricably linked. Even in the Gothic period, the principle applied: what you can't build, you at least draw. The same applies to the sketches of Wolf dPrix, co-founder and CEO of Coop Himmelb(l)au. Over the 53...

Suburbia. Tupperware, television, bungalows and respectable front lawns. Always instantly recognisable though never entirely familiar. The tight semi-detached estates of thirties Britain and the infenced and functional tract housing of middle America...

Picturing Kingship presents the first comprehensive art-historical study of the personal prayerbook of King Louis IX. The book approaches the St. Louis Psalter through a rich range of perspectives and methodologies and positions it within the contexts of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788890822308Author Hans Joachim NagelFormat HardbackPage Count 560Imprint Nawal MediaPublisher Nawal Media

After years at the tippy-top of the fashion world-modelling haute couture and starring in ad campaigns for the most exclusive fashion houses-GingerNutz, the naive Bornean orangutan turned fashion's darling, is itching for a new adventure. In GingerNutz...

Trimpin, the sound sculptor and composer, has received MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships; been the subject of a full-length documentary film and a profile in The New Yorker magazine; been included in hundreds of shows, performances, and new music...

The first and only book on one of the finest private collections of contemporary Iranian art This sumptuous volume features almost 250 contemporary artworks and a selection of medieval and early modern Islamic art - the heralded collection of Mohammed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627310857Author Sean TejaratchiFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S.

Shortlisted for the Millia Davenport Publication Award. Experimental Fashion traces the proliferation of the grotesque and carnivalesque within contemporary fashion and the close relation between fashion and performance art, from Lady Gaga's raw meat...

On the early work of Britain's most successful living artist, from his formative years at Goldsmiths to his pioneering conceptual pieces among the Young British Artists The stellar ascent of Damien Hirst (born 1965) began with his enrollment at...

In Disarmed, Gregory Curtis gives us the "life" of this magnificent statue. Unearthed by a farmer digging for marble building blocks on the Aegean island of Melos, at the moment a young officer and amateur archaeologist happened by, the ownership of the...

One of Scotland's finest late-medieval strongholds, Doune Castle stands high on a promontory between the River Teith and the Ardoch Burn in Perthshire. It is a testament to the power of one nobleman, Robert Stewart, Duke of Albany. He was known as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780854881260Author Catherine LampertFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Whitechapel GalleryPublisher Whitechapel GalleryWeight(grams) 560g

How have two-dimensional images of ancient Greek vases shaped modern perceptions of these artefacts and of the classical past? This is the first scholarly volume devoted to the exploration of drawings, prints, and photographs of Greek vases in modernity...

A monument to the talent of Canadian women artists in the interwar period, Uninvited: Canadian Women Artists in the Modern Moment provides a full and diverse cross-country survey of the art made by women during this pivotal time, incorporating the work...