Art

Exotic lair, freezing garret or convivial rendezvous, artists' studios reflect their personalities, the way they work, their dreams and obsessions. Some are battlegrounds where hopes are dashed and original concepts fail dismally in their execution. A...

In this new book royal historian Lady Colin Campbell covers The Queen's Marriage in intimate detail. Using her connections and impeccable sources she recounts details of the inside story of the monarch's relationship with the Duke of Edinburgh and her...

Ways of Drawing brings together a sophisticated, exciting range of reflections on markmaking by practising artists, teachers and writers. From explorations of how it feels to draw and personal accounts of artistic development, to short, imaginative...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804910399Author Peter DavidFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Panini BooksPublisher Panini Publishing Ltd

After selling out his debut solo exhibition in New York City on opening night in 2010, Brad Kunkle has become internationally known for his unique use of gold and silver leaf in contemporary oil painting. His themes explore the shedding of dogmas...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Legion of Honor 1999 and National Book Critics Circle Awards 1994.Book InformationISBN 9780679756866Author Lynn H. NicholasFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789188369055Author Bjorn AlmqvistFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Dokument PressPublisher Dokument Forlag

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486813745Author Creative HavenFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

From field to forest and stream to sky, capture the harmony and beauty of the natural world with just some paper, flowers, leaves, and twigs.*As seen on the TODAY Show* Creating stunning yet fleeting works of art, artist Vicki Rawlins of Sister Golden...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941701980Author Helen MolesworthFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint David ZwirnerPublisher David ZwirnerWeight(grams) 950g

A haptic, funky body of ceramic works from the artist shaping the future of ceramics The San Francisco-based artist Woody De Othello (born 1991) finds inspiration for his paintings and ceramics by adapting a position of porousness to the things around...

Occasionally, when something seems very familiar you lose sight of what makes it so special: Flemish Masters. From van Eyck to Bruegel sets out to counteract this effect and opens our eyes once again to the revolution that took place in the Low Countries...

Tales throughout the world generally place fabulous beasts in marginal locations - deserts, deep woods, remote islands, glaciers, ocean depths, mountain peaks, caves, swamps, heavenly bodies and alternate universes. Legends tell us that imaginary...

Discover the power of mandalas with this drawing guide designed to help you look inward and give expression to your inner world of thoughts, feelings and experiences. Accessible for both artists and beginners, The Mandala Way acts as a gateway to the...

No other art movement in history has contained two artists as different as Magritte and Miro. This is because Surrealism was not in origin an art movement, but a philosophical strategy. It was a way of life - a rebellion against the establishment that...

This is the first of two volumes of the only English edition of Hegel's Aesthetics, the work in which he gives full expression to his seminal theory of art. The substantial Introduction is his best exposition of his general philosophy of art. In Part I...

Brimming with dazzling ink landscapes that anyone can do in 15 minutes or less, these relaxing step-by-step drawings will have readers mastering the medium in no time at all. In 50 showstopping nature-inspired projects, Rosa Hoehn invites you to...

Griselda Pollock, feminist art historian and longstanding advocate of gender and racial inclusivity, unpacks the racist, sexist and imperialist underpinnings of works by Gauguin and others as they competed for pre-eminence in the European avant-garde of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846381867Author Elena FilipovicFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Afterall PublishingPublisher Afterall Publishing

Featuring a rich array of magnificent artworks from the British Museum and beyond, the book showcases some of the most exquisite works of wood, stone, ceramics, beadwork, textiles and metalwork from Africa - from the Mediterranean coast to the Cape and...

The Books That Shaped Art History provides an invaluable roadmap of the field by reassessing the impact of the most important texts of art history published during the 20th century. Each of the sixteen incisive chapters, focusing on a single book, is...

Robert Gillmor, one of Britain's most influential wildlife artists, illustrated four sets of pictorial stamps featuring birds for Royal Mail's Post & Go. Brought together and reproduced here for the first time, in larger-than-stamp size, these prints...

An intimate and unique collection of the work of John Ashbery-a prolific poet and art critic-pairing poetry and art writings with playlists of music from his personal library. This book places poetry by Ashbery (1927-2017), gathered from his later...

**Shortlisted for the Deutscher Memorial Prize 2023** For mainstream economics, cultural production raises no special questions: creative expression is to be harvested for wealth creation like any other form of labour. As Karl Marx saw it, however,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781401307950Author Danny GregoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint HyperionPublisher HyperionWeight(grams) 192gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 152mm * 12mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627311243Author Michael TauFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S.

Hannah Gluckstein (who called herself Gluck; 1895-1976) was a distinctive, original voice in the early evolution of modern art in Britain. This handsome book presents a major reassessment of Gluck's life and work, examining, among other things, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781802585681Author David WilsonFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Bird Eye BooksPublisher Graffeg LimitedDimensions(mm) 250mm * 250mm * 20mm

Jim Henson's creations have inspired generations with characters that are among the world's most recognizable cultural icons. From Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy and their Muppet friends to the legendary Sesame Street and Children's Television Workshop,...

"A novel par excellence that is destined to become a classic' of almost byzantine splendour . . . At its best worthy of comparison with Gabriel Garcia Marquez" Catherine Taylor, Irish Times"Afonso Cruz is one of the strongest voices in contemporary...

The legacy of the art and cultural scientist Aby Warburg offers many subjects for reassessment. Almost unknown until now are the artifacts he collected on a journey through the southwest of the US in 1895/96 and donated to the Museum fur Voelkerkunde in...

Tracing the arc of van Gogh's career, this volume presents his portraits and self-portraits, landscapes, and haunting interiors. Readers will learn details of van Gogh's complicated personal life including his struggles with mental illness and his close...

The elegant pen-strokes and visual harmony of Chinese writing, known as hanzi, have long been admired in the west. Classical Chinese calligraphy is a popular and valuable art form, and with the increasing economic and cultural power of China, its writing...

An exclusive visual history of the creation of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, featuring original interviews, concept art, and behind-the-scenes photos from the studio's first decade The Story of Marvel Studios: The Making of the Marvel Cinematic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486819112Author Max ErnstFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 705gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684059324Author Todd McFarlaneFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Idea & Design WorksPublisher Idea & Design Works

Gamers, get ready to level up with How to Draw Video Games! From helpful sidekicks to 8-bit aliens and block-style beasts, the video game galaxy is an epic and endless world of battle-ready bosses, spewing lava levels and handyman heroes with the...

Glen Scouller's paintings are full of vibrant colour and light. In Colour and Line in Watercolour - his first book - he explains how he achieves these effects. He combines traditional watercolour techniques with adding pen and ink, pastels and crayons to...

The phrase 'art therapy' was first coined in 1942, but Susan Hogan's study begins in the latter part of the eighteenth century, when the arts were used as part of the 'moral treatment' method. In the nineteenth century psychological and anthropological...

Delve into the popular and competitive world of heroine design as 50 of the world's finest character artists from the fields of animation, illustration, comics, and games share a behind-the-scenes look at their stunning sketchbook pages, showcasing over...