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"The enemy bomber grew larger in my sights and the rear gunner was sprayed by my guns just as he opened fire. The rest was merely a matter of seconds. The bomber fell like a stone out of the sky and exploded on the ground. The nightmare came to an...

A charming and heartfelt story about war, art, and the lengths a woman will go to find the truth about her family. 'As devourable as a thriller... Incredibly moving' Elle 'Pauline Baer de Perignon is a natural storyteller - refreshingly honest,...

Bringing together the different aspects of pate de verre for beginners and advanced glassmakers alike. Why the increasing interest in pate de verre throughout the international glass art community? In this go-to resource, learn the reasons behind the...

The landmark survey of Judd's iconic spaces, featuring new drawing details, archival materials and more This second expanded edition presents an unprecedented visual survey of the living and working spaces of the artist Donald Judd in New York and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783967040838Author gestaltenFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint gestaltenPublisher Die Gestalten Verlag

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913971021Author Mark BerginFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Book HousePublisher Salariya Book Company Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941701799Author John RuskinFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint David ZwirnerPublisher David ZwirnerWeight(grams) 170g

'A masterly performance by the greatest literary biographer of his generation' Oldie In this kaleidoscope of stories spanning art, science and poetry, award-winning writer Richard Holmes travels across three centuries, through much of Europe...

This volume is a study of the connected ideas of "queer" and "gender performance" or "performativity" over the past several decades, providing an ambitious history and crucial examination of these concepts while questioning their very bases.Addressing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506720456Author UbisoftFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Dark Horse Comics,U.S.Publisher Dark Horse Comics,U.S.

A sweeping retrospective of Alma W. Thomas's wide-reaching artistic practice that sheds new light on her singular search for beauty Achieving fame in 1972 as the first Black woman to mount a solo show at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Alma W. Thomas...

Over the course of its seven-year run, Buffy the Vampire Slayer cultivated a loyal fandom and featured a strong, complex female lead, at a time when such a character was a rarity. Evan Ross Katz explores the show's cultural relevance through a book that...

The official authorized companion to the much-loved Netflix show Emily in Paris.Paris, J'Adore! is Emily Cooper's diary about her life in France so far. From leaving her boyfriend in Chicago to starting at marketing firm Savoir in Paris, it reveals all...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647227593Author Matthew ReinhartFormat HardbackPage Count 5Imprint Insight EditionsPublisher Insight Editions

In Black Bodies, White Gold Anna Arabindan-Kesson uses cotton, a commodity central to the slave trade and colonialism, as a focus for new interpretations of the way art, commerce, and colonialism were intertwined in the nineteenth-century Atlantic world...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781576876626Author Vivian MaierFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint powerHouse Books,U.S.Publisher powerHouse Books,U.S.Weight(grams) 1012g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781841147055Author Catherine WallaceFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint HalsgrovePublisher Halsgrove

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781529419764Author David RaizmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Laurence King PublishingPublisher Laurence King PublishingWeight(grams)...

The most comprehensive and best-illustrated history of watercolour painting ever published. The term watercolour calls to mind atmosphere, luminosity, and immediacy - qualities that derive directly from the quick-drying, translucent nature of...

Beautifully packaged, this lavish volume is certain to become the definitive study of one of the most significant periods in European art history. Coinciding with the rise of the Habsburg dynasty and the expansion of the Spanish Empire, the Spanish...

A book packed with one hundred monologues, aimed at young performers from pre teens to young adults. The book has been written by a drama teacher with over twenty years' experience which includes heading up a performing arts faculty in a secondary...

Beautiful Data is both a history of big data and interactivity, and a sophisticated meditation on ideas about vision and cognition in the second half of the twentieth century. Contending that our forms of attention, observation, and truth are contingent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399529839Author Mark HusseyFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913380625Author David ToppFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint Goldsmith's PressPublisher Goldsmiths, Unversity of London

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956267832Author Jungu YoonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Zidane PressPublisher Zidane PressWeight(grams) 284g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590172131Author Joseph ConnorsFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)...

How should Germany commemorate the mass murder of Jews once committed in its name? In 1997, James E. Young was invited to join a German commission appointed to find an appropriate design for a national memorial in Berlin to the European Jews killed in...

A comprehensive survey of the work of this most influential Florentine artist and teacherAndrea del Verrocchio (c. 1435-1488) was one of the most versatile and inventive artists of the Italian Renaissance. He created art across media, from his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915187147Author Rita ReadmanFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint McGeary MediaPublisher McGeary Media

The Belgian surrealist artist Rene Magritte redefined the way we think about art. Famous for his men in bowler hats, Magritte's witty and provocative work inspired generations of later artists, from Andy Warhol to Jasper Johns. In this illuminating new...

Desperate Times is the brilliant and unfl inching new collection of sketches of contemporary political life by The Times's master of satire, Peter Brookes. Within these pages, the multiple winner of the British Press Awards Cartoonist of the Year...

This title is aimed at beginner artists interested in cartooning and at the countless fans of cartoons, animation and comics. Not only are cartoons a form of entertainment, but they're an incredibly popular style of drawing! With a fresh and...

"This is a way of putting my life out there, because if I were to write a memoir, there'd be five volumes before I got to The Beatles. So I'm going at it this way, through photographs and quotes. And this is, I feel, a better way for me to do it." -...

In this critical biography of Robert Desnos (1900-1945), Katharine Conley reevaluates the surrealist movement through the life and works of one of its founders. Desnos was as famous among the surrealists for his independence of mind as for his elaborate...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954842123Author Richard OsborneFormat PaperbackPage Count 187Imprint Zidane PressPublisher Zidane PressWeight(grams) 294g

The Secessions artist groups at the dawn of modernism in a splendid new volume. At the end of the 19th century the term "Secession" stood for the artistic beginnings of modernism. Art was surging forward towards freedom. Avant-garde artists showed...

Popular coloured pencil artist and teacher Kristy Kutch guides readers through the myriad of new developments in coloured pencil materials, techniques and practices, focusing on traditional, wax and watersoluble coloured pencils. With lessons in colour...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990373537Author Jeffrey R WattsFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Leucadia Publishing LLCPublisher Leucadia Publishing LLCWeight(grams) 272g

Recognized as a major Pop artist in his day, Allan D'Arcangelo (1930-1998) has yet to receive the critical reevaluation of painters like Roy Lichtenstein and James Rosenquist. His first monograph in nearly a decade introduces new audiences to his iconic...

A lively and thought-provoking tour of the intertwined histories of art and walking "A broad-ranging book [that] has something for every rambler."-Benjamin Riley, New Criterion What does a walk look like? In the first book to trace the history of...