Art

First book on the life and career of Scottish artist Edwin LucasBook InformationISBN 9781911408208Author Helen ScottFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Sansom & CoPublisher Sansom & Co

Collaborative and collective art practices have proliferated around the world over the past fifteen years. In The One and the Many, Grant H. Kester provides an overview of the broader continuum of collaborative art, ranging from the work of artists and...

Can contemporary art say anything about spirituality? John Updike calls modern art "a religion assembled from the fragments of our daily life," but does that mean that contemporary art is spiritual? What might it mean to say that the art you make...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633450424Author Carolyn LanchnerFormat HardbackPage Count 56Imprint Museum of Modern ArtPublisher Museum of Modern ArtWeight(grams) 530g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789171265869Author Carl DouglasFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Bokforlaget Max StromPublisher Bokforlaget Max StromWeight(grams) 1940g

The art of Japanese woodblock printing, known as ukiyo-e ("pictures of the floating world"), reflects the rich history and way of life in Japan hundreds of years ago. Ukiyo-e: The Art of the Japanese Print takes a thematic approach to this iconic...

An authoritative introduction to one of the most influential painters in the history of art, written by the pre-eminent authority on the subject and informed by the latest research. More versatile and less idiosyncratic than Michelangelo, more...

With Art Makers: Empowered Embroidery, learn to sketch and stitch strong, recognizable women from all walks of life. Featuring sketching and illustration instructions, basic stitches, embroidery techniques, and 6 projects with portraits of famous women,...

Harald Szeemann is associated with some of the most important artistic developments of the postwar era. A passionate advocate of avant-garde movements like conceptualism and post minimalism, he collaborated with artists such as Joseph Beuys, Bruce...

The Florentine painter Botticelli personifies the Golden Age of the early Renaissance. Best known for The Birth of Venus and Primavera, Botticelli painted with an expressive poeticism that eschewed formal realism. He used line and colour to gorgeous...

A colossal, panoramic, much-needed appraisal of the visual cultures of Afro-Atlantic territories across six centuries Named one of the best books of 2021 by Artforum Afro-Atlantic Histories brings together a selection of more than 400 works and...

Women, Art, and Power?seven landmark essays on women artists and women in art history?brings together the work of almost twenty years of scholarship and speculation.About the AuthorLinda NochlinBook InformationISBN 9780064301831Author Linda NochlinFormat...

The first of three text books, published in association with the Open University, which offer an innovatory exploration of art and visual culture. Through carefully chosen themes and topics rather than through a general survey, the volumes approach the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486258058Author Carol Belanger GraftonFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909741492Author Helen MacdonaldFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Royal Collection TrustPublisher Royal Collection TrustWeight(grams) 510g

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell was created early in Blake's series of illuminated books, each of which was presented by him as an attractive work of art made entirely by his own hand. Written principally in prose, The Marriage represents Blake's first...

Deborah Solomon's biography sets Jackson Pollock in his time and portrays him as a shy, often withdrawn person, full of insecurities and self-doubts, and frequently unable to express himself about his art or its meaning. Solomon interviewed two hundred...

Nabil Anani is one of the most prominent Palestinian artists working today. A painter, ceramicist and sculptor, he has built an impressive catalogue of outstanding, innovative and unique art over the past five decades, pioneering the use of local media...

'A Shpeherd's Life' focuses on Jenny Armstrong, born in 1903 at the farm in Fairliehope, who spent her life working a s a shepherd in the Pentland Hills. In a series of remarkable paintings made over 20 years and based on close observation, Victoria...

With his smooth, warm, ruddy face which radiated light in all directions, Chairman Mao Zedong was a fixture in Chinese propaganda posters produced between the birth of the People's Republic in 1949 and the early 1980s. Chairman Mao, portrayed as a stoic...

Russian painter Olga Suvorova is internationally known for her brilliant reinterpretations of English Pre-Rafaelite art, described by critic Viktoriya Syslova as "amazingly modern in their exquisite theatricality." Both exuberant and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789462087286Author Marije JansenFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint NAI PublishersPublisher Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi...

Jeff Goins dismantles the myth that being creative is a hindrance to success by revealing how an artistic temperament is a competitive advantage in the marketplace.? The myth of the starving artist has dominated our culture, seeping into the minds of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635421705Author Anka MuhlsteinFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Other Press LLCPublisher Other Press LLC

Have you ever dreamt of having your own private museum tour with one of the world's most-celebrated artists? Take a walk through art history in the company of one of the pre-eminent American painters of our time, Alex Katz. Describing his personal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781624650291Author Terryl WhitlatchFormat HardbackPage Count 168Imprint Design Studio PressPublisher Design Studio PressWeight(grams) 1315gDimensions(mm)...

An in-depth look into the transformation of visual culture and digital aesthetics First introduced by the German filmmaker Harun Farocki, the term operational images defines the expanding field of machine vision. In this study, media theorist Jussi...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788867495856Author Farah Al QasimiFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint Mousse PublishingPublisher Mousse PublishingWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 302mm *...

Known for her radical textile sculptures combining natural materials with traditional crafts, Chilean artist and poet Cecilia Vicuna explores themes of ecology, community, and social justice. Showcasing Vicuna's extraordinary new work, commissioned for...

Great works of art cannot be fully understood in a single encounter: to revisit and reconsider art again and again throughout one's life is to be richly rewarded with an ever-deepening appreciation and insight. Similar benefits come from analysing a work...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857245379Author Marco BartolucciFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 490g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783956795626Author Larne Abse GogartyFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Sternberg PressPublisher Sternberg PressWeight(grams) 269gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...

In Mythical Beasts: An Artist's Field Guide to Designing Fantasy Creatures, thirty talented artists show you how to sketch, draw, and render thirty mythical creatures. Learn how to create some of the best-known fantasy creatures including the werewolf,...

Bring on the doodles! Zen doodle, that is! In Zen Doodle: Tons of Tangles, you'll find gorgeous images of the best doodle art from around the world. This collection of drawings and painted canvases from dozens of contributors features thousands of tangle...

Romanian-born Saul Steinberg (1914-1999) had one of the most remarkable careers in American art. While renowned for the covers and drawings that appeared in The New Yorker for nearly six decades, he was equally acclaimed for the drawings, paintings,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846826498Author Catherine WynneFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press LtdWeight(grams) 368g

"What a woman! And what a fabulous life to unearth. Zelia Nuttall was incredibly smart, determined, a divorced single mother in a man's world, a great scholar, and an original thinker-yet today she's completely forgotten. Merilee Grindle has dug deep...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781841147000Author Tom CrossFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint HalsgrovePublisher Halsgrove

Japanese woodblock prints of the Edo period (1615-1868) were the products of a highly commercialised and competitive publishing industry. Their content was inspired by the vibrant popular culture that flourished in Edo (Tokyo). At any given time scores...

Whether your favourite medium is digital, traditional, or a mix of both, Stockholm-based Feefal will have used it to explore her unique world of anthropomorphised figures, animals in dream-like settings, and cool-girl magic. Her spooky-cute style has...