Art

33 Revolutions Per Minute tracks the turbulent relationship between popular music and politics, through 33 pivotal songs that span seven decades and four continents, from Billie Holiday singing 'Strange Fruit' to Green Day raging against the Iraq war...

This title was first published in 2003. Twenty-seven years after his death, Roger Hilton's reputation as a leading figure in British 'abstract expressionism' continues to rise. Following the major retrospective exhibition at the Hayward Gallery in 1993...

This new interpretation of the structure and meaning of the Happenings produced by Allan Kaprow (1927-2006) and Claes Oldenburg (b. 1929) in the late 1950s and 1960s sheds light on the context, theoretical framework, and working practice unique to this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783205201335Author Gabriela KristFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Bohlau VerlagPublisher Bohlau VerlagWeight(grams) 666g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645173885Author Editors of Thunder Bay PressFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Readerlink Distribution Services, LLCPublisher Readerlink Distribution...

Who gets to say what counts as contemporary art? Artists, critics, curators, gallerists, auctioneers, collectors, or the public? Revealing how all of these groups have shaped today's multifaceted definition, Terry Smith brilliantly shows that a...

Castlevania is a multi-generational video game series developed and published by Konami. The franchise was first released in 1986, but has evolved from a side-scrolling platformer into a full-scale adventure series - and has sold over 20 million copies...

The Day of the Dead is a festival of culture and youth, a feast of the senses and celebration of life in death. Originating in Mexico and the Latin American countries it began as a way of remembering departed relatives, as a means of embracing rather...

Enjoying art is all about responding to what you are seeing. Parents often lack confidence about how to look at art with children, however, there is no magic secret and there are no right or wrong answers. Old Masters Rock: How to Look at Art with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939931986Author Pauline Baer de PerignonFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint New Vessel PressPublisher New Vessel Press

In October 2018 Cornelia Parker's Transitional Object (PsychoBarn) lands in the courtyard of the Royal Academy of Arts, London. This meticulous and unsettling installation - first shown on the roof of The Metropolitan Museum of Art against the skyline of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506706443Author Square EnixFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Dark Horse Comics,U.S.Publisher Dark Horse Comics,U.S.

A biography of the great portraitist Frans Hals that takes the reader into the turbulent world of the Dutch Golden Age. Frans Hals was one of the greatest portrait painters in history, and his style transformed ideas and expectations about...

In this exploration of the idea of the masterpiece, over fifty world masterpieces, from cave paintings to Cezanne, are brought to life by internationally acclaimed writers, scholars and artists.Many of the contributors are celebrated artists in their own...

Once considered an outsider artist, after her show at the Guggenheim Museum was seen by more than half-a-mil-lion visitors, Hilma af Klint firmly established her place in art history. She has also been the subject of documenta-ry films and biographies...

Folk Art is a colouring book for adults that contains 30 amazing art activities involving patterning, shading and colouring. Each vibrantly detailed, charming and international folk illustration offers an easy way to de-stress, while allowing you to...

A classic monograph in the World of Art series, offering a a detailed insight into Rembrandt's life and work. Rembrandt is among the few Old Master artists to retain universal appeal among art lovers today, his striking self-portraits lauded the...

Originally delivered as the prestigious Mellon Lectures on the Fine Arts in 1995, After the End of Art remains a classic of art criticism and philosophy, and continues to generate heated debate for contending that art ended in the 1960s. Arthur Danto,...

Mad movie ad collector Michael Gingold returns with Ad Nauseam II, a deep dive into his personal collection of horror movie newsprint notices from the 1990s and 2000s. Feast your nostalgic eyes on more than 500 striking ads for the big-budget Gothics...

This book is the culmination of nearly thirty years' work in caring for, studying, and developing the collections in this Museum by Timothy Wilson, long-time Keeper of Western Art. Wilson is well-known as a specialist in the study of European Renaissance...

The award-winning VES Handbook of Visual Effects remains the most complete guide to visual effects techniques and best practices available today. This new edition has been updated to include the latest, industry-standard techniques, technologies, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683059547Author Coloring TherapistFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint Speedy Publishing LLCPublisher Speedy Publishing LLCWeight(grams)...

A heavily photographed guide to making natural plant dyes and using these dyes to create clothing and home decor, with over two dozen projects and ideas for every season, detailed instructions on dye methods and botanical information about the plants...

A surrealist exploration of the marvelous in ancient, classic, and modern works from around the world * Reveals the "marvelous" in works from William Blake, Edgar Allen Poe, William Shakespeare, Chretien de Troyes, and Arthur Rimbaud; legends and...

Virtually all the masterpieces of Islamic art-the Alhambra, the Taj Mahal, and the Tahmasp Shahnama-were produced during the period from the Mongol conquests in the early thirteenth century to the advent of European colonial rule in the nineteenth. This...

Rembrandt's life has always been an enigma. How did a miller's son from a provincial Dutch town become the greatest artist in the world? With his formative years shrouded in mystery, the only remaining evidence of Rembrandt's life as a young man is his...

I am not one for pretty pictures.' Perhaps when I am long gone this will be a quote that I am remembered for alongside my paintings. For you will mostly find me in the gallery on a sunny day and out on the moors when it is at its most inhospitable, for...

'England? It seemed to be raining the whole time . . . Or maybe it was me'MARILYN MONROEIn July 1956, Marilyn Monroe arrived in London, on honeymoon with her husband Arthur Miller, to make The Sleeping Prince (later released as The Prince and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908638373Author Dr. Joanna MeacockFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Glasgow Museums PublishingPublisher Glasgow Museums PublishingWeight(grams)...

'Dance, theatre, music, sculpture, painting, all of these different modes of art-making are encapsulated into my practice, which is why I chose film as a medium for making my work.' - Isaac Julien Celebrated for his compelling lyrical films and video...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780547247847Author Jonathan LopezFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Cengage Learning, IncWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 201mm...

Learn to draw your favorite manga and anime characters, and create your own, with Illustration Studio: Drawing Manga Heroines and Heroes! In this exciting extension of the interactive Illustration Studio series, learn how to illustrate a range of manga...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784756249661Author Pie InternationalFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint PIE BooksPublisher PIE Books

A raucous yet reflective look back at the evolution of the music press and the passionate rock and pop journalists who defined the music of the 20th century. Totally Wired is the definitive story of the music press on both sides of the Atlantic,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398828049Author Jennifer CrouchFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Arcturus Publishing LtdPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd

Roy DeCarava: the sound i saw is the pictorial equivalent of jazz. Here the visionary photographer turns his gaze on legendary jazz icons John Coltrane, Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington and Ornette Coleman, among many others. "This is a book about people,...

A superbly illustrated, innovative history of British art, seen from the perspective of the home.Book InformationISBN 9781789146233Author Nicholas TromansFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Reaktion BooksPublisher Reaktion BooksWeight(grams) 171g

This magnificent new volume presents works of art from the fabled collection of Philippe II, Duke of Orleans (1674-1723), including masterpieces by Raphael, Titian, Veronese, Correggio, Poussin, Rubens, and Rembrandt, bringing them together for the first...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944158019Author Kathryn MarcellinoFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Abundant Life PublishingPublisher Abundant Life PublishingWeight(grams)...

There is a growing interest in outdoor painting because it allows people to combine their interest in art with general outdoor activities; it connects them with social groups of artists; it involves them in an expanding market of festivals and...