Art, Architecture & Design

Since the 1990s, artists and art writers around the world have increasingly undermined the essentialism associated with notions of "critical practice." We can see this manifesting in the renewed relevance of what were previously considered "outsider" art...

Create: Creativity before consumption is about reinvention and sustainability for the sake of the planet, and also for the joy and satisfaction of creating a home that is truly unique. In the first part of the book, Discovery, stylist and set...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912020935Author Paul DarrochFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Seaflower BooksPublisher Ex Libris Press

For someone who shuns the limelight so completely that he conceals his name, never shows his face and gives interviews only by email, Banksy is remarkably famous. From his beginnings as a Bristol graffiti artist, his artwork is now sold at auction for...

For more than 300 years, Kensington Palace has played host to a colourful cast of kings, queens, wayward children, royal aunts and uncles, distant cousins and assorted aristocratic hangers-on. This remarkable building has served as the stage for some of...

For more than 600 years the Livery Companies have played a leading role in commercial activities and social and political life in the City of London. These trade associations, each representing a particular craft or profession, were originally...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782080430533Author Francois ChailleFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint FlammarionPublisher Editions FlammarionWeight(grams) 1980g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647391225Author Jordan DewildeFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Rockridge PressPublisher Rockridge PressWeight(grams) 290gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm...

There are few pieces of pottery more recognisable than those designed by Clarice Cliff. For many the epitome of Art Deco, characterised by bold colour and lines, geometric shapes, and stylised representations of the countryside, Clarice Cliff's 'bizarre'...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578287393Author Elizabeth St HilaireFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Elizabeth St. Hilaire ArtPublisher Elizabeth St. Hilaire ArtWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486404691Author A. G. SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 190gDimensions(mm)...

The Architecture of Ruins: Designs on the Past, Present and Future identifies an alternative and significant history of architecture from the sixteenth century to the twenty-first century, in which a building is designed, occupied and imagined as a ruin...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912914494Author Theo FennellFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Mensch PublishingPublisher Mensch Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683838586Author Caroline JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Insight EditionsPublisher Insight Editions

Art meets science in this guide to creating colour with earth's extraordinary pigments and understanding their uses throughout history Part anthropological study, part art book, and part how-to, Book of Earth immerses you in the world of ochre, a...

Born Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, Le Corbusier (1887-1965) is widely acclaimed as the most influential architect of the 20th century. From private villas to mass social housing projects, his radical ideas, designs, and writings presented a whole-scale...

By the late 1960s, The Architectural Review had a history of campaigning for important issues related to the built environment. Photography had long been at the centre of their strategy as a means to communicate ideas and make them more easily understood...

The reader Art and its global histories represents an invaluable teaching tool, offering content ranging from academic essays and excerpts, new translations, interviews with curators and artists, to art criticism. The introduction sets out the state of...

Painting Light and Color in the Modern Landscape is a guidebook to help artists of all skill levels to create watercolors that are imbued with light and mood by working with value and color. For beginners, the basic materials and techniques are covered...

The importance of workplace design on productivity and health is as strong as ever. Great spaces encourage improved employee satisfaction, engagement, and morale. BDG is a team of architects, designers and creative thinkers, who believe that architecture...

Featuring over 450 archival photographs and line drawings, Chinese Dress traces the evolution of Chinese clothing from court and formal costumes to the everyday fashions of twenty-first century China.Author Valery Garrett skillfully weaves the story of...

Leading art critic and writer Richard Cork tells the stories of his personal encounters with some of the world's most influential modern and contemporary artists. Richard Cork draws on his impeccable skills as a critic and writer to tell the story of...

This highly anticipated catalogue, accompanying Gerhard Richter's first exhibition with David Zwirner, presents Richter's last paintings along with his recent explorations in drawing, printing, and sculpture. ---------- "[His last paintings] can feel...

This book closes the gap between what people think Excel can do and what they can achieve in the tool. Over the past few years, recognition of the importance of effectively visualizing data has led to an explosion of data analysis and visualization...

One of the leading lights of the Impressionist movement, Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) remains a towering figure in art history with enduring public appeal. Sun-kissed, charming, and sensual, his work shows painting at its most lighthearted and...

'I won't read a more interesting book all year... utterly fascinating' A. N. Wilson, Sunday Times 'Enormously good-humoured and entertaining... Hockney asks big questions about the nature of picture-making and the relationship between painters and...

A vibrant look at the celebrated artist and designer KAWS.Multidisciplinary artist KAWS was first known for his work as a graffiti artist and his subersive approach to poular imagery on bus shelter and phone booth advertisements. This is the first...

The exhibited works of Kurt Jackson (b.1961) do not necessarily reveal his day-to-day working practice. Behind his finished canvases are hundreds of sketchbooks borne out of his continual routine of making drawings, marks, notes, poems and scribbles...

Discover the joys of painting abstracts in acrylics with experienced artist and tutor Anita Hoerskens. In this visually exciting, inspirational book, Anita teaches you about the method of abstraction, and the paints, paper and other materials you need to...

When the original edition of this book was published, John Russell hailed it as a 'massive contribution to our knowledge of one of the most fascinating and mysterious episodes in the history of modern art.' It still remains the most compact, accurate and...

This third book in the popular Do More Art series exposes how the simplest of writing tools is in fact the key to an entire universe of artistic expression. From simple doodling and mark-making to meticulously built-up tour de forces - a piece of...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'A wonderful book, a wonderful read' Karen Joy Fowler, bestselling author of The Jane Austen Book ClubOnly a few months after the end of the Second World War, a new battle is beginning in the little village of Chawton. Once...

Drawing the Natural World is a practical and comprehensive guide for artists of all abilities to celebrate through art the beauty of the flora and fauna that make up our planet. The book is divided into the fundamental concepts of art - colour and...

98%EVERY GOOD DESCRIPTIONPALACE HAVE EVER DONEIN ONE ROWDY HARDBACK2% SOME RUBBISH ONES ALSO Phaidon presentsPalace Product Descriptions: The Selected Archive, the official printed archive of Palace Skateboard's online product descriptions. Since their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399941525Author Garry Fabian MillerFormat HardbackPage Count 252Imprint ArnolfiniPublisher Arnolfini

Before Damien Hirst stuffed a shark, before Basquiat picked up a spray can, before Andy Warhol started The Factory, a pile of unwanted Jackson Pollocks changed everything. From them emerged the first major modern art dealer. It was 1947, and the art...

Abstraction shook Western art to its core. In the early part of the 20th century, it refuted the reign of clear, indisputable forms and confronted audiences instead with vivid visual poems devoid of conventional representational imagery and characterized...

A newly reissued edition of the beloved illustrated survey of gnome life, history, and lore, which has sold astronomically since its original publication in 1977 Did you know that gnome couples always have twin children? Or that a gnome is seven times as...

A delightful gift book filled with the adorable animal paintings of Hannah Dale, creator of the immensely popular Wrendale Designs. This charming book, first published in 2014 but now reissued in a larger size to give the author’s beautiful images even...

The Queer Art of Failure is about finding alternatives-to conventional understandings of success in a heteronormative, capitalist society; to academic disciplines that confirm what is already known according to approved methods of knowing; and to...