Art

Written by one of the foremost scholars of African art and featuring 129 color images, Postcolonial Modernism chronicles the emergence of artistic modernism in Nigeria in the heady years surrounding political independence in 1960, before the outbreak of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781514004838Author Bette DickinsonFormat HardbackPage Count 120Imprint Inter-Varsity Press,USPublisher InterVarsity PressWeight(grams) 240gDimensions(mm)...

The paintings of the Belgian Surrealist Rene Magritte (1898-1967) have exerted an extraordinary fascination, particularly since the enormous increase in awareness and popularity of his work during the 1960s. Magritte shows us a world of silence and...

Figure Drawing For Dummies appeals to both new art students and veteran artists who find it difficult to proportionally draw the human form. The illustrations and examples in Figure Drawing For Dummies are designed to help readers capture this elusive...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830846511Author Carol A. BerryFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Inter-Varsity Press,USPublisher InterVarsity PressWeight(grams) 362gDimensions(mm)...

Leonardo da Vinci's reputation as an inventor and scientist, and the complexity of his creativity and personality, have sometimes almost overshadowed the importance of his aims and techniques as a painter. This catalogue focuses on a crucial period in...

Packed with festivity, Christmas is full of crafts ideas, yuletide facts and decorative scratch-art pages for some festive creativityBook InformationISBN 9781803682709Author Igloo BooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 34Imprint Igloo Books LtdPublisher Bonnier...

Since software programs have come to dominate offices and studios, the pencil has become a symbol for creative freedom. In other words, the work you do on the computer is what you do for work, to pay the rent, whereas the stuff you do with your pencil is...

From the editor of Yale's Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons, and True Stories, a smart and charming guide to the art of cartooningWinner of the 2012 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award for the Best Academic/Scholarly Work "Brunetti has given the...

"All this must be either surfed or painted": This is the underlying sentiment behind Raymond Pettibon's iconic paintings of surfers and waves in this quintessential volume dedicated to the motif. Pettibon is known for his characteristically youthful...

Peter, Matthew, Thomas, John: who were these men and their fellow Apostles? What was their relationship to Jesus? Tom Bissell gives us rich answers to these ancient and surprisingly enigmatic questions in an unusual, erudite and fascinating book. By...

Art therapy and all of the other creative arts therapies have promoted themselves as ways of expressing what cannot be conveyed in conventional language. Why is it that creative arts therapists fail to apply this line of thinking to research? In this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789493148789Author Kris DittelFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint OnomatopeePublisher OnomatopeeWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 163mm * 114mm * 23mm

From Irish painter Genieve Figgis (born 1972) comes a book-object that is both exquisite and utilitarian, nostalgic and new. Wrapped in plush suede of deep violet, Something for Lovers compiles 34 of Figgis' paintings into a compact coloring book. The...

Shuvinai Ashoona (born 1961) is a third-generation Inuit artist based in Kinngait, Nunavut, Canada. Best known for her highly personal and imaginative iconography, Shuvinai's imagery ranges from closely observed naturalistic scenes of her Arctic home to...

"I lived in a haunted apartment." Davisson opens this definitive work on Japan's ghosts, or yurei, with a personal tale about the spirit world. Shifting from anecdotes to deep research to translation of ancient ghost stories, he explores the persistence...

Piet Mondrian had a decisive influence on the development of painting from figuration to abstraction. On the occasion of his 150th birthday, Mondrian Evolution is dedicated to his multifaceted work and artistic development. Initially working in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906690601Author Wrenford J. ThatcherFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint HalstarPublisher Halsgrove

Girls being fearless. Girls being silly. Girls being wild, stubborn, and proud. Girls whose faces are smeared with dirt and lit up with joy. So simple and yet so powerful, Strong Is the New Pretty celebrates, through more than 175 memorable photographs,...

A behind-the-scenes look at leading contemporary artists at work in their studios, with original art projects to recreate at home Open Studio invites you into the private studios of seventeen of the most celebrated contemporary artists as they draw,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646091454Author Square EnixFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Square EnixPublisher Square Enix

A bold revision of the history of European art, told through the lens of neuroscience Ambitious and much anticipated, this book celebrates the value of recent neuroscientific discoveries as tools for art-historical analysis. Case studies ranging across...

Outdoor painting tips and more from the best landscape painters working today. Many painters enjoy working outdoors when the weather is good, but they also need to know how to deal with it when the weather changes! This book includes the best...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997023756Author Bonnie S MacLachlanFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Art.Z IllustrationsPublisher Art.Z IllustrationsWeight(grams) 154g

How did the statues of ancient Greece wind up dictating art history in the West? How did the material culture of the Greeks and Romans come to be seen as "classical" and as "art"? What does "classical art" mean across time and place? In this ambitious,...

"I am not aiming to provoke. For me, art is a possibility to defend myself, to retaliate." Gottfried Helnwein's (b. 1948) paintings of children are both touching and disturbing. The hyperrealistic character of his images serves to intensify this effect...

Get to know your digital drawing board Adobe Illustrator CC offers a vibrant tool for creating drawings and illustrations in a digital environment. It takes some practice to get a feel for the digital pens, pencils, paintbrushes, and erasers, though...

This is a guide to the basic storytelling principles essential for producing truly memorable video games. It provides developers with comprehensive, but easy-to-follow advice. It comes from video game writer and game writing instructor Evan Skolnick...

This accessible and engaging text covering sketch, sitcom and comedy drama, alongside improvisation and stand-up, brings together a panoply of tools and techniques for creating short and long-form comedy narratives for live performance, TV and online. ...

The beautiful catalogue that accompanies the critically-acclaimed exhibition currently on view at the Metropolitan Museum Best known for her striking drawings of ocean surfaces, begun in 1968 and revisited over many years both in drawings and paintings,...

Dive into figure painting with this fresh take on capturing the human form in watercolour. Painter Leo Crane and art model Roy Joseph Butler explore how to interpret the gestures and movements of the figure through the language of paint. Through a range...

This visually rich survey - the first of its kind - showcases the work of over 200 artists and celebrates the explosion of street art in Africa over the last decade. Including eleven in-depth interviews with street artists active in Africa today as well...

Traces a tradition of ironic and irreverent environmentalism, asking us to rethink the movement's reputation for gloom and doomActivists today strive to educate the public about climate change, but sociologists have found that the more we know about...

A new edition of a classic title from a master artist! From the basics of drawing from life, to drawing the human figure from memory, Figure Drawing without a Model is the perfect introduction to the technique of drawing accurate and evocative figures...

Considered one of the most important religious structures of the twentieth century, the Chapel of the Rosary in Vince was regarded by Matisse himself as his great masterpiece. He dedicated four years to the creation of this convent chapel on the French...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781631405396Author Kevin EastmanFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Idea & Design WorksPublisher Idea & Design WorksWeight(grams) 1537gDimensions(mm) 281mm...

A new edition of artist-poet Cecilia Vicuna's artist's book on the politics of the sea Beginning and ending at the edge of the ocean at the sacred mouth of the Aconcagua River, About to Happen serves as a lament as well as love letter to the sea. In...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914236105Author Babak GanjeiFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint Rough Trade BooksPublisher Rough Trade Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789493246089Author Geert LovinkFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint ValizPublisher ValizWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 239mm * 147mm * 23mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486247151Author Gertrude SteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...