Art, Architecture & Design

- Explores architecture's entanglement with contemporary image culture - Focuses on the relationship between representational conventions and technologies of mediation with both historical and contemporary examples - Discusses both historical and...

In The End of Art, Donald Kuspit argues that art is over because it has lost its aesthetic import. Art has been replaced by 'postart', a term invented by Alan Kaprow, as a new visual category that elevates the banal over the enigmatic, the scatological...

This is the first book to address the long art history of dynastic marriage exchange between Denmark and Britain between 1600 and 1900. It explores an intersection of three themes trending in early modern studies: portraiture, gender and the court as a...

A collection of stunning brand-new exclusive original art celebrating the TV series Firefly. An original glossy coffee table book bursting with brand new and exclusive art. The book includes over 120 pieces by professional artists, illustrators,...

Through various thematic perspectives and a range of media, this book will shed new light on the history of Surrealism. With the idea of the unconscious as a turning point, The Savage Eye traces the roots of Surrealism in Symbolism and shows how the two...

During the late 18th and early 19th centuries, there was a tubercular 'moment' in which perceptions of the consumptive disease became inextricably tied to contemporary concepts of beauty, playing out in the clothing fashions of the day. With the ravages...

Sewing patterns have been the principle blueprint for making garments in the home for centuries. From their origins in the tailoring manuals of the 16th century to the widely produced pamphlets of the 18th and 19th centuries, through to the full size...

Who hasn't dreamed of spending a night in a castle? A heavenly bed, creaking floorboards, silk wallpaper, glittering chandeliers, expansive grounds, and, for good measure, discreet service, fulfilling wishes before you have said a word. Anyone...

The Afterlives of Greek Sculpture is the first comprehensive, historical account of the afterlives of ancient Greek monumental sculptures. Whereas scholars have traditionally focused on the creation of these works, Rachel Kousser instead draws on...

Dick Hebdige looks at the creation and consumption of objects and images as diverse as fashion and documentary photographs, 1950's streamlined cars, Italian motor scooters, 1980's 'style manuals', Biff cartoons, the Band Aid campaign, Pop Art and...

Red Squirrel Phonics is a new series of decodable readers from Raintree, packed with real stories using words that children can read. The programme teaches children phonics skills in a sequential and systematic way so that they can learn the sounds...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780151003877Author Ralph SteadmanFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint HarperPublisher HarperWeight(grams) 1406gDimensions(mm) 291mm * 242mm * 25mm

William "Braveheart" Wallace did battle in it. Queen Victoria decked Balmoral in it. Madonna donned it to strut around the stage. Tartan, the beloved symbol of kin, clan and nation to the Scots, has evolved into the one of the world's favorite fabrics...

This volume presents a collection of the most recent knowledge on the relationship between gender and fashion in historical and contemporary contexts. Through fourteen essays divided into three segments - how dress creates, disrupts and transcends gender...

This study examines the waves of graffiti that occur before, during, and after a conflict-important tools of political resistance that make protest visible and material. Graffiti makes for messy politics. In film and television, it is often used to...

A new title in the Design series and an excellent introduction to the life and work of this versatile Russian artist. Alexander Mikhailovich Rodchenko (1891-1953) was a central figure in the Russian Constructivist art movement; a radical activist, a...

Celebrating 50 years of Vampirella! Dynamite continues to roll out amazing tributes to everyone's favorite babe with bite! This breathtaking tome reproduces countless already and soon-to-be classic portrayals of the Daughter of Drakulon on beautiful...

Many people crave a creative outlet, but more often than not, don't know where to start. In Colours, Giovanna Ranaldi invites you to nurture your creativity and build your confidence by taking inspiration from famous works of art that celebrate colour...

Learn to draw authentic anime and manga faces and expressions from a manga master. In this follow-up to Manga Drawing Deluxe, renowned Japanese manga artist and international instructor Nao Yazawa guides you step by step through all phases of drawing and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784756257178Author TanakaFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Pie International Co., Ltd.Publisher Pie International Co., Ltd.

A richly illustrated glimpse into the magnificent collection of seventeenth-century men's dress from the Danish kings' wardrobesTen Kings' Clothes: Royal Danish Dress, 1596-1863 presents the unparalleled collection of seventeenth-century male dress,...

In Nature's Wild, Andil Gosine engages with questions of humanism, queer theory, and animality to examine and revise understandings of queer desire in the Caribbean. Surveying colonial law, visual art practices, and contemporary activism, Gosine shows...

Helene Cixous is undoubtedly one of the most brilliant and innovative contemporary thinkers. Published here in English for the first time Helene Cixous, Rootprints is an ideal introduction to Cixous's theory and her fiction, tracing her development as a...

On October 24th, 1971, an exciting new anime premiered based on the hit manga "LUPIN III" by legendary creator Monkey Punch. For 50 years, the exploits of master thief Lupin III and his gang of outlaw pals have thrilled and entertained audiences...

The Easter Sepulchre is the English form of a monument known throughout Western Europe in the Middle Ages as the sepulchrum domini, the tomb of the Lord, the monument associated specifically with the commemorative Easter rites. The Easter Sepulchre stood...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789386906991Author Joanne TaylorFormat HardbackPage Count 284Imprint Niyogi BooksPublisher Niyogi BooksDimensions(mm) 220mm * 180mm * 20mm

Art in Zion deals with the link between art and national ideology and specifically between the artistic activity that emerged in Jewish Palestine in the first decades of the twentieth century and the Zionist movement. In order to examine the development...

Concentrationary Memories has, as its premise, the idea at the heart of Alain Resnais's film Night and Fog (1955) that the concentrationary plague unleashed on the world by the Nazis in the 1930s and 1940s is not simply confined to one place and one time...

Despite the tremendous number of studies produced annually in the field of Dutch art over the last 30 years or so, and the strong contemporary market for works by Dutch masters of the period as well as the public's ongoing fascination with some of its...

A beautifully designed and lavishly illustrated survey of 19th-century paintings in the Netherlands This comprehensive overview is the first book in more than 60 years on the underexplored history of painting in the Netherlands in the 19th century. Jenny...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262529747Author Paul O'NeillFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 10mm

The postsocialist contemporary joins a growing body of scholarship debating the definition and nature of contemporary art. It comes to these debates from a historicist perspective, taking as its point of departure one particular art programme, initiated...

Iain Chambers approaches the often overlooked details and textures of popular culture through a series of histories which show how it becomes continually remade as each of us defines our own urban space.About the AuthorIain ChambersBook InformationISBN...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647221553Author Denis VilleneuveFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Insight EditionsPublisher Insight EditionsWeight(grams) 1905gDimensions(mm) 264mm *...

This encyclopedic reference book is packed with fascinating insights from the Metabaron's original creators, Jodorowsky and Moebius, alongside revealing text, and rare and unseen preliminary illustrations from Juan Gimenez. Discover the complexities of...

For tourists and locals of sunny Los Angeles, see and explore the City of Angels as you never have before with this travel-sized illustrated guidebook and journal, all in one. Filled with colorful illustrations by Betsy Beier of WanderlustDesigner.com,...

Fashion studies is a burgeoning field that often highlights the contributions of genius designers and high-profile brands with little reference to what goes on behind the scenes in the supply chain. This book pulls back the curtain on the global fashion...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782851173157Author Staffan AhrenbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Cahiers d'artPublisher Cahiers d'artWeight(grams) 1700g

A revised and expanded edition of a key text for librarians, scholars, and museum professionals Metadata provides a means of indexing, accessing, preserving, and discovering digital resources. The volume of digital information available over electronic...

Fashion Sewing: Advanced Techniques guides the reader through a range of intermediate and advanced skills, such as tailoring, sewing with knits, inserting linings and facings and how to sew a wide range of design variations for collars, pockets and...