Art

Collecting Activism, Archiving Occupy Wall Street explores the material collections produced by participants of Occupy Wall Street in 2011 that bear witness to the experience and agency of 'the 99%'.Examining processes of collection development as a lens...

A visual and literary meditation juxtaposing Isaac Julien's artworks with archival images of Frederick Douglass and essays that consider his enduring legacy This sumptuously illustrated artist's book and reader documents Lessons of the Hour (2019),...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486428529Author Ambroise VollardFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

In this smart survival guide for students and teachers--the only book of its kind--James Elkins examines the "curious endeavor to teach the unteachable" that is generally known as college-level art instruction. This singular project is organized around a...

An all-ages, adventure-comedy graphic novel, Billy Johnson and His Duck Are Explorers has it all: humour, peril and out-of-this-world archaeological adventures (oh, and ducks!). Billy Johnson, the son of two world-famous explorers (who mysteriously...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788365560049Author ColoringcrazeFormat HardbackPage Count 110Imprint Coloringcraze.comPublisher Coloringcraze.comWeight(grams) 549gDimensions(mm) 279mm *...

A visual history of the life of Augustus "Gus" Wagner and his work as a hand tattoo artist, exploring a relatively unknown area of American art history from the 1890s to the 1930s. In 1897, Gus embarked on a four-year career as a merchant seaman...

In 2013 Georg Baselitz declared that 'women don't paint very well'. Whilst shocking, his comments reveal what Helen Gorrill argues is prolific discrimination in the artworld. In a groundbreaking study of gender and value, Gorrill proves that there are...

Rembrandt is probably the most famous Dutch painter of the seventeenth century. His works are greatly loved today, but he was not always so well regarded. His life was one of a dramatic rise and fall, unfolding during the Golden Age of the newly formed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781736534656Author Mary HeilmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Primary InformationPublisher Primary InformationWeight(grams) 885gDimensions(mm) 302mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486798561Author Diego PereiraFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Dover Children'sPublisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 305gDimensions(mm) 274mm...

Leave your artistic insecurities behind as you easily re-create the simple but beautiful paintings in Art Made Easy: Easy Watercolor.Easy Watercolor offers you a definite way to succeed as a beginning artist. Without getting bogged down in a lot of...

Egon Schiele left an enormous artistic legacy that is all the more powerful for the brevity of his career. Isabel Kuhl's lively text follows Schiele's trajectory from an artist in the Art Nouveau style to a powerful interpreter of human sexuality and...

Rana Begum RA (b.1977) is an artist known for her wide ranging works, from the intimate to the monumental. Using a variety of materials and exploring the use of light, she blurs the boundaries between sculpture, architecture, design and painting to...

Henri Matisse created an oeuvre that is unparalleled in its brilliance and originality. His colorfully luminescent paintings are a sweeping affirmation of joie - de - vivre, levity and sensitivity. Featuring well - researched texts and numerous ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486813677Author Veronica WintersFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint 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 9780997366600Author Nathalie LegerFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Dorothy a Publishing ProjectPublisher Dorothy a Publishing ProjectWeight(grams)...

The official guide to the unrealised films of Ray Harryhausen. Known for his iconic stop-motion creatures, Ray Harryhausen was at the forefront of Hollywood special effects for much of the 20th century. His films include One Million Years B.C., Clash...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262528955Author Karen O'RourkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 21mm

'It is right that, after more than one hundred years, she should have her say' John Carey, Sunday Times Twelve days before her twenty-fourth birthday, on the foggy morning of Saturday 12 January 1901, Ida Nettleship married Augustus John in a private...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486285344Author Edward JohnstonPage Count 480Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.

Spanning the worlds of Portraiture, Landscape, The Nude, Abstraction and Still Life, Alexander Newley's project fuses the Fine Art traditions of patient observation and draughtsmanship with the transcendental intuitions of the mystic. 'For me, art is a...

Game design is changing. The emergence of service games on PC, mobile and console has created new expectations amongst consumers and requires new techniques from game makers.In The Pyramid of Game Design, Nicholas Lovell identifies and explains the...

Born to a prominent family in Havana but exiled to the United States as a girl, Ana Mendieta (1948-1985) is regarded as one of the most significant artists of the postwar era. During her too-brief career, she produced a distinctive body of work that...

The perfect guide to producing successful hand drawings of interior designs. Sitting quietly at home, sketchbook in hand, is the ideal way to tackle drawing. In fact, your home is an absolute mine of subjects to draw. Perhaps you already have a plan...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782869251458Author Bruce AlbertFormat HardbackPage Count 350Imprint Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporainPublisher Fondation Cartier pour l'art...

One of Europe's most beautiful cities is celebrated through the talents of artist Fabrice Moireau Florence, the capital of Tuscany, cradle of the Renaissance and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, unfolds in this book its architectural wealth, its emblematic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739603809Author Ian BeckFormat HardbackPage Count 194Imprint Red Boat BooksPublisher Red Boat Books

New scholarship on a little-known decorative commission undertaken by Pablo Picasso offers insight into the artist’s painting process and the evolution of Cubism   In 1910, Pablo Picasso began a series of 11 decorative paintings intended for the Brooklyn...

The primacy of words over images has deep roots in Western culture. But what if the two are inextricably linked, equal partners in meaning-making? Written and drawn entirely as comics, Unflattening is an experiment in visual thinking. Nick Sousanis...

Painting is one of humanity's oldest creative practices. In recent decades, there has been an increasing amount of scientific evidence on the use of such practices in the promotion of physical and psychological health. In the field of public health,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925968088Author James KaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Avenue House Press Pty LtdPublisher Avenue House Press Pty LtdWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783956790485Author Alex ColesFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Sternberg PressPublisher Sternberg PressWeight(grams) 666g

In Don't Look Away Brianne Cohen considers the role of contemporary art in developing a public commitment to end structural violence in Europe. Cohen focuses on art activism of the early twenty-first century that confronts the slow violence perpetuated...

The book examines how increasing engagement with the rest of the world transformed European art, architecture and design. It considers how commercial activity and colonial ventures gave rise to new and diverse forms of visual and material culture across...

We live in a world dominated by mass art. Movies, TV, pulp literature, comics, rock music -- both broadcast and recorded -- surround us everywhere in the industrialized world and beyond. However, despite the fact that for the majority mass art supplies...

A revelatory exploration of Mark Rothko's paintings on paper that transforms our understanding of a preeminent twentieth-century artist "[A] superb catalogue."-Charles Giuliano, Berkshire Fine Arts Mark Rothko (1903-1970) is renowned for his towering...

This book explores key themes in the making of Renaissance painting, sculpture, architecture, and prints: the use of specific techniques and materials, theory and practice, change and continuity in artistic procedures, conventions and values. It also...

Emotional Heritage brings the issues of affect and power in the theorisation of heritage to the fore, whilst also highlighting the affective and political consequences of heritage-making. Drawing on interviews with visitors to museums and heritage sites...

In the first decades of the 20th century, George Bellows and other painters of the Ashcan School, a loosely connected group of gritty, urban realists, created images of the city from street level. Following older artist Robert Henri's insistence that...