Art

The first pop-up book on Florence. Dario Cestaro's spectacular drawings and paper architecture reveal Florence and its treasures in a pop-up book telling the city's history with straightforward texts and interesting facts. This fascinating journey in...

As seen in The Paris Review, The Art Newspaper, and Whitehot Magazine The most comprehensive survey of the celebrated Dutch artist Michael Raedecker's work spanning his 30-year career Michael Raedecker, the acclaimed Dutch artist, records the memories...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994731302Author Dr Paul RicherFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Benham BooksPublisher Benham BooksWeight(grams) 780g

This compilation of lessons brings together the simplest characters from the' Master Guide to Drawing Anime' series for beginning anime artists. Readers will learn how to use simple templates to draw the head from different angles, bodies of characters...

An exploration of the treasures of Japanese art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art reveals a wealth of fascinating works dating from prehistoric times to todayArt of Japan presents one hundred highlights of Japanese art from the collection of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635901641Author Paola IglioriFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher Semiotext (E)

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506731162Author MicrosoftFormat HardbackPage Count 488Imprint Dark Horse Comics,U.S.Publisher Dark Horse Comics,U.S.Weight(grams) 3787gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997442304Author Brian RutenbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Permanent Green LLCPublisher Permanent Green LLCWeight(grams) 476g

In the summer of 1905, the French painters Henri Matisse and Andre Derain changed the course of art history with their radical color experiments During the summer of 1905, Henri Matisse and Andre Derain went on holiday in Collioure, a modest French...

microbursts is a collection of hybrid, lyric essays about the places between life and death; memoir and poetry; making and letting go. Originally written by Reeder as an intense text-based collection of lyric and experimental essays responding to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955374180Author Malcolm HaslamFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Richard DennisPublisher Richard DennisWeight(grams) 458gDimensions(mm) 244mm * 173mm...

A fresh perspective on British history from award-winning broadcaster Fatima ManjiWhy was there a Turkish mosque adorning Britain's most famous botanic garden in the eighteenth century? How did a pair of Persian-inscribed cannon end up in rural Wales?...

It has been more than fifty years since John Waters filmed his first short on the roof of his parents' Baltimore home. Over the following decades, Waters has developed a reputation as an uncompromising cultural force not only in cinema, but also in...

In 1904, when Leicester Corporation opened its state-of-the-art electric tram network, it enjoyed a monopoly on routes and convenient central terminal points. But soon the first small independent motor bus companies became active, and by 1921, Midland...

In this beautifully illustrated study, Paul Binski offers a new account of sculpture in England and northwestern Europe between c. 1000 and 1500, examining Romanesque and Gothic art as a form of persuasion. Binski applies rhetorical analysis to a wide...

The gorgeously illustrated contemporary edition of an ancient Chinese text-for fans of fantastic beasts everywhere Fantastic Creatures of the Mountains and Seas is a new translation for contemporary readers of a classic Chinese text that is at once the...

Quentin Tarantino is one of the most influential and distinctive filmmakers at work in the world today. His films are so admired that nearly every one he makes becomes an instant cult classic. Here, Tom Shone presents in-depth commentaries on each of the...

This new title in the renowned Art & Ideas series is a thorough introduction to, and significant appraisal of, the art of Pop. Bradford Collins explains the essence of Pop art and examines its full history in contemporary cultural and political context -...

'It has been hand-planted by Tsarinas and felled by foresters. It has been celebrated by peasants, worshipped by pagans and painted by artists. It has self-seeded across mountains and rivers and train tracks and steppe and right through the ruined...

Massively popular and highly regarded, Chris Achilleos science fiction/fantasy artwork ranges from his acclaimed Doctor Who and Star Trek covers to the erotic pin-ups that made him famous, embracing along the way Greek mythology, role-playing games,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910839546Author Robert WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Logaston PressPublisher Fircone Books Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683836209Author Andrew FaragoFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint Insight EditionsPublisher Insight Editions

A Closer Look is the new series title for the updated and refreshed National Gallery Pocket Guide range. The series has been enhanced with a stronger format, attractive design, new photography, and additional information. It is self-evident that colour...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635576689Author David ByrneFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 580g

'There is a space between life and death: it's called waxworks' Born in Alsace in 1761, the unsightly, diminutive Marie Grosholtz is quickly nicknamed "Little." Orphaned at the age of six, she finds employment in the household of reclusive anatomist, Dr...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784756253118Author PIE InternationalFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Pie International Co., Ltd.Publisher Pie International Co., Ltd.

"Dissanayake argues that art was central to human evolutionary adaptation and that the aesthetic faculty is a basic psychological component of every human being. In her view, art is intimately linked to the origins of religious practices and to...

This book analyzes contemporary visual art produced in the context of conflict and trauma from a range of countries, including Colombia, Northern Ireland, South Africa, and Australia. It focuses on what makes visual language unique, arguing that the...

Math and art might seem like completely different worlds - especially to the number-phobic. But where they intersect, we can find the fractal growth of a snowflake, the spiral seeds of a sunflower, and dazzling abstract designs born of patterns and...

Tour the city of Venice through the panoramic paintings of one of its most celebrated chroniclers The lagoon city of Venice was home to some of the greatest painters of the Italian Renaissance. Among them was Vittore Carpaccio (c. 1465-1525), whose...

Famous Female Authors Who Wrote Their Way Into History"An absolute 'must read' for anyone thinking that centuries of literature being almost exclusively dominated by men."-Library Bookwatch#1 Bestseller in SociologyFrom the first recorded writer to...

"Marcel Duchamp, one of this century's pioneer artists, moved his work through the retinal boundaries which had been established with impressionism into t field with impressionism into t field where language, thought and vision act upon one another,...

Donald Judd Interviews presents more than sixty interviews with the artist over the course of four decades, and is the first compilation of its kind. It is the companion volume to the critically acclaimed and bestselling Donald Judd Writings.This ...

From the New York Times ebook bestselling author of the Because You Are Mine series and The Affair, for fans for Sylvia Day, J. Kenner and Maya Banks. This is the fourth in Beth Kery's One Night of Passion series about a group of connected characters who...

The Natural History Museum, London is home to one of the world's most important collections of natural history specimens, literature and artworks. This book showcases treasures, selected both from objects on display and those stored behind the scenes...

Over the past twenty-five years, photography has moved to centre-stage in the study of visual culture and has established itself in numerous disciplines. This trend has brought with it a diversification in approaches to the study of the photographic...

The term "sense of place" is an important multidisciplinary concept, used to understand the complex processes through which individuals and groups define themselves and their relationship to their natural and cultural environments, and which...

Michelangelo is considered one of the greatest poets of the sixteenth century. He also filled hundreds of sheets of paper with exquisite drawings, many of which went on to become some of the most celebrated masterpieces of all-time.Organized...

Arising from the proceedings of two symposia, this text is composed of contributions by scholars who examine the social, intellectual and historical contexts of the work of the Italian Renaissance artist Giovanni di Lutero, who used the name Dosso.Book...

Elisabetta Sirani of Bologna (1638-1665) was one of the most innovative and prolific artists of the Bolognese School. Not only a painter, she was also a printmaker and a teacher. Based on extensive archival documentation and primary sources - including...