Art

A heavily illustrated mid-career monograph exploring the 30-year creative journey of the 8-time Academy Award-nominated writer and director Paul Thomas Anderson has been described as a true auteur and among the foremost filmmaking talents of his...

A sweeping survey of hip hop's resounding impact on contemporary art and culture across the past 20-plus years Accompanying a groundbreaking exhibition originating at the Baltimore Museum of Art, this book captures the extraordinary influence of hip...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955647536Author Karen CaterFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint Hedingham FairPublisher Hedingham Fair

A mix of art, science and a touch of alchemy, taxidermy lets you engage with the natural world in ways most other people don't. In Stuffed Animals, "rogue" taxidermists Divya Anantharaman and Katie Innamorato demystify the practice, shatter the gross...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788418934322Author Tina ModottiFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint La FabricaPublisher La Fabrica

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621389811Author Ken HultgrenFormat HardbackPage Count 146Imprint Greenpoint BooksPublisher Greenpoint BooksWeight(grams) 630gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm...

Boost your productivity at work with the latest in the Visual book series. Enhance your productivity at work with "Visual Working," the follow-up to the successful "Visual Thinking" and "Visual Doing." This practical workbook shows you how to use drawing...

Hugely admired by artists and writers from Henri Cartier Bresson to the Booker prize winner Howard Jacobson, the extraordinary life and work of painter Dennis Creffield (1931-2018) are explored in this, the first major monograph on the artist. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645585664Author New SeasonsPage Count 128Imprint New SeasonsPublisher New SeasonsWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 251mm * 221mm * 13mm

In answering the question posed by its title, and drawing on his twenty year relationship with the artists, Michael Bracewell is the first writer to engage directly with Gilbert & George to understand why they have devoted their lives exclusively and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781624650208Author Eliott J LillyFormat PaperbackPage Count 143Imprint Design Studio PressPublisher Design Studio Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789076168760Author Franciszka ThemersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint Harmonie, Uitgeverij DePublisher Harmonie, Uitgeverij DeWeight(grams) 1g

How to make block prints for art prints, greeting cards, invitations, signs and more using both linoleum and wood. Covers transferring a design, carving, printing by hand in one or more colors, clean up, editioning, and tearing down paper. Detailed,...

In this brilliant and widely acclaimed work, Peter Burke presents a social and cultural history of the Italian Renaissance. He discusses the social and political institutions which existed in Italy during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and...

When the author bought a falling down fortified house on the Staffordshire moorlands, he had no reason to anticipate the astonishing tale that would unfold as it was restored. An increasingly mysterious, set of relationships emerged amongst its former...

The fabulous collections housed in the world's most famous museums are trophies from an imperial age. Yet the huge crowds that each year visit the British Museum in London, the Louvre in Paris, or the Metropolitan in New York have little idea that many...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627311250Author Adam ParfreyFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S.

This timely follow-up to Conway's highly successful Marine Art of Geoff Hunt (2004) presents the considerable artistic output of Britain's leading marine painter since 2003. This new volume is heavily illustrated with images ranging from large paintings...

Fill your home with original, professional art - and learn to paint at the same time. This innovative new series is a poster book, an art pad and a step-by-step painting book all rolled into one! Each of the five A3 posters are ready to pull out,...

When the First World War broke out, Morris Meredith Williams was living in Edinburgh with his wife Alice, a sculptor, and earning his living from book illustration and teaching. A short man, his attempt to join the army in 1914 failed, but six months...

An illustrated guide to harmonics--the sacred geometry principles that underlie the natural world--and its practical applications. We are in the midst of a revival of an ancient way of looking at the world--an approach that enabled great civilizations...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782869251618Author Graciela IturbideFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporainPublisher Fondation Cartier pour l'art...

This is a story about rivalry among artists. Not the kind of rivalry that grows out of hatred and dislike, but rather, rivalry that emerges from admiration, friendship, love. The kind of rivalry that existed between Degas and Manet, Picasso and Matisse,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780378346016Author C HartFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Ward Ritchie PressPublisher Ward Ritchie PressWeight(grams) 186gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 189mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767907323Author Margaret ShepherdFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm)...

'The lives of the characters get entangled in this powerful read' WOMAN'S OWN'A pacy, gripping tale... written with skill and colour. It gave me enormous pleasure to read such a satisfying novel.' SANTA MONTEFIORE 'If you're in desperate need of a...

Electroforming is a technique used by jewellery makers as well as ceramicists and glass artists. It allows the manufacture of delicate and/or irregular shapes that would be difficult to achieve by other means, as well as repetition pieces (using moulds),...

For hundreds of years English people have claimed that fair play is at the core of their national identity. Jonathan Duke-Evans looks at the history of fair play in Britain from earliest times to the present, asking whether it is in fact a British, or...

The first major English-language biography of Francisco Goya y Lucientes, who ushered in the modern eraThe life of Francisco Goya (1746-1828) coincided with an age of transformation in Spanish history that brought upheavals in the country's politics and...

The first encompassing publication on the work of Adam Pendleton, one of the most formally inventive and conceptually rigorous American artists working todayAdam Pendleton's original and powerful body of work has been described as the embodiment of a new...

The Role of Today's Museum provides a thorough investigation of what museums do and why. Arguing that museums are multifunctional institutions, the book examines the consequences of this for the services that museums provide, the publics to whom they are...

Rewritten from cover to cover and updated to include the discoveries and new theories from the past decade and a half, this classic guide to the art of the ancient Maya is now illustrated in full colour throughout. World expert Mary Miller and her...

Prospect New Orleans is a citywide contemporary art triennial that was conceived in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Emphasising collaborative partnerships and site-specificity, Prospect presents artwork by local, national, and international artists...

This is the perfect book for fans of Journal 29, and those who want to re-create an exciting escape-room experience in their own home!You are Adam Parkinson, an intrepid journalist who has recently been employed by the time-travelling Wexell Corporation...

This nostalgic, humorous and richly illustrated volume celebrates the Somerset of years gone by. Syd Durston was seven when the Second World War broke out. As well as causing panic in Britain's cities, the war transformed life in the countryside in all...

'Photography is not quite the future or past or present, it is an eternal moment.' Lieko Shiga makes intimate portraits, set among mystical landscapes and interiors, integrating her personal experiences with grander mythologies into surreal and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788799214709Author Patrick WoodroffeFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Fantasmus ArtPublisher Fantasmus ArtWeight(grams) 1725g

The third full-colour artbook from the hit series Naruto! Experience Masashi Kishimoto's artwork in all of its colourful glory in this collection of images from the conclusion of the best-selling Naruto manga! Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura, Kakashi and all your...

A timely introduction to the fields of environmental art, art and ecology, art and climate change, art and activism, and art in the Anthropocene. Global awareness of climate change is increasing, and the scientific evidence is incontrovertible: an...

String art, a summer camp staple in the `70s, is coming back in a big, big way as young urbanites and creative types yearn to decorate their own spaces with unique creative touches. From murals strung directly on the wall to a rustic wooden gift basket...