Art

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for NAACP Literary Non-Fiction Award 2009.Book InformationISBN 9780812969085Author Wynton MarsalisFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Random House USA...

As one of the founding figures of Impressionism, Camille Pissarro exerted considerable influence over the movement's other members, such as Paul Cezanne, Claude Monet, Paul Gauguin, Edgar Degas, and Mary Cassatt. This publication focuses on Pissarro's...

This title presents a gloriously illustrated exploration of 3,000 years of the iconography of death and resurrection in world art. As one of the unavoidable realities of human existence, death is also one of the oldest and most common themes in art. From...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486797335Author Anton SederFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 197gDimensions(mm)...

A selection of Michael Craig-Martin's paintings, prints and sculptures, with an interview. This book is the result of a collaboration between The Gallery at Windsor, Florida, and the Royal Academy of Arts, London. Born in Ireland, the artist Michael...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262044455Author Bruno LatourFormat HardbackPage Count 560Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

A unique, portable guidebook that sketches Rome's great philosophical tradition while also providing an engaging travel companion to the city. This is a guidebook to Rome for those interested in both la dolce vita and what the ancient Romans called the...

Keep calm and carry on. In 1939, Britain s Ministry of Information produced this now-ubiquitous reminder to its citizens in the event of widely predicted air attacks. But in the six consecutive years before Germany s surrender to Allied forces, the...

A feast for the eyes and an entertaining, erudite read, this book opens with an illustrated survey of the 120 doges who led the Venetian Republic before continuing with a detailed survey of the incredible array of sculptures and monuments that...

Get nose to bloom with one of the most beloved subjects of painters for generations of artists with Expressive Flower Painting and master pedals, stems, colors, and more. It's almost always one of the first things someone tries to paint--center, petals,...

Gainsborough is one of the most appealing artists of the eighteenth century. Renowned for such elegant portraits as The Blue Boy and Countess Howe, he also pioneered a new form of landscape with a moody sensibility that prefigured the Romantic movement...

Modern art is a mass phenomenon. The Tate Modern is the most popular tourist attraction in Europe. Conceptual artists like Tracy Emin and Damien Hirst enjoy celebrity status. Works by 20th century abstract artists like Mark Rothko are selling for record...

The painter and printmaker Albrecht Durer is one of the most important figures of the German Renaissance. This book accompanies the first major exhibition of the Whitworth art gallery's outstanding Durer collection in over half a century. It offers a new...

A reprinted edition of the highly popular book from 2006. Home Made Russia features over 220 artefacts of Soviet culture, each accompanied by a photograph of the creator, their story of how the object came about, its function and the materials used to...

MEDITATIVE MANDALAS . . . NOW IN AN EXCITING NEW SCRATCH COLORING FORMAT! Here's a new way to enjoy a selection of the most beautiful mandalas from the bestselling Mandala Meditation Coloring Book! These exquisite meditative designs are now in scratch...

"PURGE the world of dead art, imitation, artificial art. . . . Promote living art, anti-art, promote NON ART REALITY to be grasped by all peoples," writes artist George Maciunas in his Fluxus manifesto of 1963. Reacting against an elitist art world...

In the early modern period, rulers demonstrated their power and influence through carefully curated "display"-their presence in court ceremonies, their palaces and their contents, and their portraits. Henrietta Maria of France (1609-1669), queen consort...

Nava's playful update of history painting forges "new myths" for our times This is the first monograph on New York-based artist Robert Nava (born 1985), who paints using a raw, energetic mixing of spray paint, acrylics and grease pencil. Nava's...

This title is aimed at age 12 years and upwards. For more than thirty years, the bestselling "Draw 50" series has shown kids and aspiring artists alike to create everything from puppies to aircraft, horses to skyscrapers and aliens to racing cars. In...

This first full biography confirms Florine Stettheimer as one of the 20th century's most significant, progressive artists whose work remains highly relevant today. Stettheimer was a feminist, multi-media artist who painted several sexually explicit,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780228205364Author Coloring BanditFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Coloring BanditPublisher Coloring BanditWeight(grams) 216g

Created by the Society for All Artists (SAA), the world's largest and most influential art society, this practical and inspirational book features 101 essential techniques handpicked by the SAA from their most high-profile artists, bringing their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486482057Author Eric GillFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 460gDimensions(mm)...

Few decorative crafts can claim to be more ancient than stone carving, with the earliest carved objects being dated well into prehistory. The greatest monuments to human civilization, from the temples of ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt to the great...

Ranging from early twentieth century modernist appropriations of non-western art through to the ways in which Mexican muralists in the 1930s negotiated European avant-gardist strategies, and then up to contemporary installation and lens-based practices...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683834571Author Insight EditionsFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Insight EditionsPublisher Insight Editions

How and why did painters centre sensory experience, enchanting emotions, and cultural landscapes in South Asia? A Splendid Land is the first exhibition to address this question through dazzling paintings made over a period of two hundred years, spanning...

As artists push further and further beyond their, and our, comfort zones, this book aims to help decipher the bizarre and often intimidating aspects of modern and contemporary art by exploring twenty works of art in terms of seven 'keys'. History,...

Alice Neel was one of the great American painters of the twentieth century and a pioneer among women artists. A painter of people, landscape and still life, Neel was never fashionable or in step with avant-garde movements. "One of the reasons I painted...

A fascinating guide to Van Gogh's itinerant life, with vibrant images and stories about the many places where he lived and worked This exciting publication familiarizes readers of all ages with the many fascinating facets of Vincent van Gogh...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783958299153Author Gerhard SteidlFormat HardbackPage Count 104Imprint Steidl VerlagPublisher Steidl PublishersWeight(grams) 740g

Explore the versatile art form of printmaking and develop your skills with 30 eye-catching projects. Whether you are an experienced printmaker or discovering the medium for the first time, this book shows you the many different ways you can experiment...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780878468942Author Erica E HirshlerFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Museum of Fine Arts,BostonPublisher Museum of Fine Arts,Boston

The definitive biography of Edward Gorey, the eccentric master of macabre nonsense. 'A genius book about a bookish genius' Daniel Handler, author of A Series of Unfortunate Events ...

Built between 1855 and 1860, Oxford University Museum of Natural History is the extraordinary result of close collaboration between artists and scientists. Inspired by John Ruskin, the architect Benjamin Woodward and the Oxford scientists worked with...

This extensively illustrated book discusses the representation of women in the art of the late Middle Ages in Northern Europe. Drawing on a wide range of different media, but making particular use of the rich plethora of woodcuts, the author charts how...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506720098Author MicrosoftFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Dark Horse Comics,U.S.Publisher Dark Horse Comics,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788086264455Author Walter SernerFormat HardbackPage Count 189Imprint Twisted Spoon PressPublisher Twisted Spoon PressWeight(grams) 400gDimensions(mm) 190mm...

Follow the journey of David Hockney's exceptional life in a unique graphic novel format.From his childhood in Bradford and early years making it as an artist, to his sun-drenched Los Angeles period, his triumphal return to the UK and his recent iPad...

Celebrated British painter Rose Wylie-whose works are at once tactile, cerebral, and humorous-often draws her influence from a wide range of popular culture. Here her newest body of work references memories from her own life and mimics the way memories...