Art

An innovative look at the creation of Leonardo's The Virgin of the Rocks This concise but innovative book, published to accompany an immersive digital exhibition at the National Gallery, London, focuses on a single Leonardo painting, and one of the...

Born in Buenos Aires in 1899, and reborn in Paris in 1928, Eileen Agar was an artist whose work throughout her long career synthesized elements of the two main art movements of the twentieth century: Cubism and Surrealism. This monograph, the first full...

A contemplative exploration of the work of Yun Hyong-keun, a renowned Korean abstract painter, during a transformative period in the early 1980s. 'His brushstrokes bled naturally across the linen or cotton raw canvas -appearing light brown as its fabric...

Rob Ryan is a star of the London arts and crafts scene whose work has succeeded thus far both as fine artwork and as commercial art, design and decoration. His work is irresistibly bright and colourful, and will find universal appeal as a gift book. He...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Winner, Trade Typographic Category, 2010 AAUP Book, Jacket, and Journal Show. 2010.Book InformationISBN 9780262134934Author Steven Henry MadoffFormat...

Enter a world of creative self-expression with this charming Christmas coloring book. Inside you ll find 30 fun and playful art activities that will take you on a festive journey of patterning, shading, and coloring. These whimsical holiday images offer...

The definitive volume on Gaetano Pesce's incomparable life and career, as told in the artist-designer's own words In a category all his own, Gaetano Pesce is widely considered one of the most important, and elusive, creative figures of the last half...

This is a collection of sporting prints lampooning the work of expert draughtsmen such as Stubbs, Rowlandson, Fernley and Pollard. Thelwell, the creator of the cartoon character Penelope, has a superb eye for detail and for the relationship between...

A guide to the historical and technical side of salt glazing with work from leading international salt glazing artists. Salt-glazing has a long history, from its early use in German storage jars, then in Victorian industrial sewage pipes to its...

The official catalog accompanying the major retrospective at MoCA LA: Henry Taylor creates a grand pageant of contemporary Black life in America Surveying 30 years of Henry Taylor's work in painting, sculpture and installation, this comprehensive...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909526068Author Tony NourmandFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Reel Art PressPublisher Reel Art PressWeight(grams) 2232g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783956796098Author Daniela ZymanFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Sternberg PressPublisher Sternberg PressWeight(grams) 785gDimensions(mm) 298mm * 232mm...

Changing how we look at and think about the color grey Why did many of the twentieth century's best-known abstract painters often choose grey, frequently considered a noncolor and devoid of meaning? Frances Guerin argues that painters (including Jasper...

Kogin-zashi is an iconic form of sashiko that is both functional and breathtakingly beautiful. Detailed photography and step-by-step visual instructions guide readers to create stunning projects using Kogin-zashi stitching.About the AuthorShannon Leigh...

Beginning in Paris in the 1920s, women poets, essayists, painters, and artists in other media have actively collaborated in defining and refining surrealism's basic project-achieving a higher, open, and dynamic consciousness, from which no aspect of the...

Discover the techniques behind beautiful design by deconstructing designs to understand them The term 'hacker' has been redefined to consist of anyone who has an insatiable curiosity as to how things work-and how they can try to make them better. This...

James J. Rorimer, former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, became a leading figure in the art recovery unit known as the Monuments Men, an elite group imbedded in the US Army, who risked their lives during World War II to save Europe s greatest...

Illuminated addresses were at their most popular in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. They are books, scrolls or certificates presented to individuals, often in celebration of a distinguished service or event. Typically they are...

For more than 1500 years the hieroglyphs of ancient Egypt defied interpretation but were thought to conceal ancient wisdom and religious secrets. When at last they were deciphered, the hieroglyphs provided a surprisingly vivid picture of all areas of...

Black Acting Methods seeks to offer alternatives to the Euro-American performance styles that many actors find themselves working with. A wealth of contributions from directors, scholars and actor trainers address afrocentric processes and aesthetics,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954404007Author Hans Von TrothaFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint New Vessel PressPublisher New Vessel Press

In 1643/4 the once-famous Francis Cleyn painted the unhappy young heir of Corfe Castle, John Bankes, and his tutor, Dr Maurice Williams. The painter is now almost forgotten,the painting much neglected, and the sitters themselves have left little to mark...

The long-awaited reprint of an important illustrated reference work on the general history of the watch from 1500 to 1980. When Watches was first published in 1965 it quickly gained for itself a reputation as the foremost general history of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486248226Author Carol Belanger GraftonFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint 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 9781941701683Author Tiffany BellFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint David ZwirnerPublisher David ZwirnerWeight(grams) 1620g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506722283Author Jeremy GilforFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Dark Horse Comics,U.S.Publisher Dark Horse Comics,U.S.Weight(grams) 1741gDimensions(mm)...

Recent works and a gorgeously crafted miniature gallery from the much-loved Japanese artist From the outset of his career, Japanese painter and sculptor Yoshitomo Nara (born 1959) has fruitfully explored the relationship between art and the space in...

A thought-provoking combination of visually powerful imagery and comment *Includes 260 stunning photographs by more than 50 international contributors *Keynote essay by Patricia Macdonald *Features an interview with Dan Bailey and George Monbiot ...

For artists looking to grow beyond the studio, En Plein Air: Watercolor is the definitive resource for experiencing the rewards and invigoration of watercolor painting on location.En Plein Air: Watercolor introduces beginning artists and fine-art...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399616362Author Johanna BasfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Laurence KingPublisher Laurence KingWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 249mm * 251mm *...

This exquisite gift book explores the phenomenon of 'garnitures', or matching sets of ceramic vases. From the 1650s such sets were used in elite European interiors as an integral part of the decorative scheme; displayed on chimney-pieces, cupboards,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874776539Author Julia CameronFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Tarcher/Putnam,USPublisher Tarcher/Putnam,USDimensions(mm) 210mm * 140mm * 27mm

In 1955 seventy-four original plasters recording sculptures by Edgar Degas (1834-1917) were moved to the old Valsuani foundry in Paris only to reappear in France in 2004. These plasters are now being published for the first time, presenting new...

Since the publication of his first book in 1953, Yves Bonnefoy has become one of the most important French poets of the postwar years. At last, we have the long-awaited English translation of his celebrated work "L'Arriere-Pays", which takes us to the...

Face to Face presents a selection of portraits of artists by three of the most prominent portrait artists of our time. Bringing together the diverse and distinctive work of Tacita Dean, Brigitte Lacombe, and Catherine Opie, this book forms an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789493039759Author Susan TallmanFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint LudionPublisher LudionWeight(grams) 2100g

One of Europe's most beautiful cities is celebrated through the talents of artist Fabrice Moireau In Rome, the only guide is the curiosity of the places, the monuments, the sculptures, which Fabrice Moireau reveals to us in watercolors. Rome the ancient,...

In The Miserable Lives of Fabulous Artists, Chris Orr turns his humorous gaze on some of the most famous - and fabulous - artists of the past. With over 30 new works, accompanied by Orr's captions, artists from Edward Hopper to Pablo Picasso find ...

Near the end of his life, Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-78) created three colossal candelabra mainly from fragments of sculpture excavated near the Villa Hadriana in Tivoli, two of which are now in the Ashmolean Museum, and one in the Louvre. Although...

As Deryn Rees-Jones writes in her foreword, one of the most striking elements of Paula Rego's art is her ability to hint at implied narratives, to dramatise the 'pause between feeling and action, between knowing and not knowing'. Into this pause, Owen...