Art

The exhibition Maison Sonia. Sonia Delaunay and the Atelier Simultane is dedicated to the applied work of Russian-French artist Sonia Delaunay (1885-1979), with a focus on her textile design work. The accompanying catalogue includes the first scholarly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780359753246Author Brad JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Abbott PropertiesPublisher Abbott PropertiesWeight(grams) 86gDimensions(mm) 297mm *...

Philosophy, art, literature, music, and politics were all transformed in the turbulent period between the French Revolution of 1789 and the Communist Manifesto of 1848.This was the age of the 'Romantic revolution', when modern attitudes to political and...

This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the history and culture of the Parthian Empire, which existed for almost 500 years from 247 BC to 224 AD.The Parthians were Rome's great opponents in the east, but comparatively little is known about them...

Rose Wylie RA (b.1934) trained as an artist in the 1950s, but it was her re-engagement with painting in the early 1980s, after a period spent raising a family, that marked the beginning of a remarkable career that continues to evolve and impress. This...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525560203Author Alexander NemerovFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

A practical and inspirational book of printmaking techniques and modern working practices. This book is your basic and essential guide to a wide range of printmaking techniques. Through step-by-step instructions, it covers the processes of monotype,...

A medium that has often been characterized as more craft than art, clay is now an exciting platform for formal and conceptual innovation. Traditionally diverged from engagement with popular culture, clay is now adding a new dimension to Pop Art. ...

The Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos (*1971) is famous internation-ally for her three- dimensional works, in which she explores the boundaries between tradi tion and modernism, high and everyday culture, craftsmanship and industrial production in a...

This book is a bold and expressively designed treasure trove of information about the history of swearing. With its bold and expressive design, The F***ing History of Swearing is an outstanding visual feast. Swearing is and always has been regarded as...

This book presents and explores the Waddesdon Bequest, the name given to the Kunstkammer or cabinet collection of Renaissance treasures which was bequeathed to the British Museum by Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild, MP in 1898. The Bequest is named after...

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) created many of the most beautiful and important drawings in the history of Western art. Many of these were anatomical and became the yardstick for the early study of the human body. From their unique perspectives as...

The hilarious and heartwarming companion to international bestselling author Liz Climo's You're Mum. DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD! Oh, hello! Now that I have your attention... You must be dad! ...

A nostalgic celebration of the glamour of warm-weather destinations in the Caribbean and Florida, from the great estates of ambitious patrons to the most exclusive resorts of the mid-twentieth century. Through iconic photography capturing the cultural...

"The most elegant of all art critic cowboys" -Spike Art MagazineColor beams at us from the everyday, but within each of the ten million shades are hidden our best and worst stories. Colors is a collection of lush short stories about the many different...

Originally published as Volume 2 of The Tao of Painting, this is the first English translation of the famous Chinese handbook, the "Chieh Tzu Yuan Hua Chuan" (original, 1679-1701). Mai-mai Sze has translated and annotated the texts of instructions,...

This first volume of the Getty Conservation Institute's "Readings in Conservation" series presents a comprehensive collection of texts on the conservation of art and architecture. Designed for students of art history as well as conservation, the book...

Although Franz Kline was one of the seminal figures of the American Abstract Expressionist movement, he is less well known than contemporaries such as Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning. This is partly because Kline, unlike most artists in his circle,...

The Arts of Living explores the range, depth and beauty of the V&A's European collections from 1600-1815, the period that laid the foundations for the world we know today. At the heart of the book is in investigation into the objects of everyday life,...

While any subject can be developed with a variety of compositional strategies, in most cases, it is not the subject but the composition of the work that gives a painting its originality and appeal. How you compose your painting determines the way people...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789461616203Author Snoek PublishersFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Snoeck PublishersPublisher Snoeck PublishersWeight(grams) 820g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781899262441Author Claudia MyattFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Golden Duck (UK) LtdPublisher Golden Duck (UK) Ltd

Painting expressive portraits of iconic faces has never been easier with this unique approach to watercolor painting. In this fresh and super-accessible approach to modern portraiture, artist Nelli Andrejew removes any barriers to painting instantly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781484727812Author Mindy JohnsonFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint HyperionPublisher Hyperion

A highly entertaining read for anyone with even a passing interest in art and art history. This myth-busting book takes you on a great ride through the lives of starving (and not so starving) artists, unusual exhibitions and painting blunders throughout...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785950841Author Elizabeth JamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Kyle Craig PublishingPublisher Kyle Craig PublishingWeight(grams) 172gDimensions(mm)...

Anyone who has always wanted to draw in coloured pencil but finds all those colours intimidating can breathe a sigh of relief after opening this book. Drawing Made Easy: Colored Pencil shows readers how to draw almost anything in coloured pencil with...

Artefacts, Archives, and Documentation in the Relational Museum provides the first interdisciplinary study of the digital documentation of artefacts and archives in contemporary museums, while also exploring the implications of polyphonic, relational...

Elevate your manga drawings to the next level with help from a Japanese professional! Manga drawing expert and author Ebimo is an action film junkie who taught herself to draw by studying martial arts films. In this book, she brings those techniques,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787354609Author Ana DebenedettiFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 670g

The perfect introduction to the life and work of Jackson PollockAbout the AuthorHelen A. Harrison is the Director of the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center. She has written numerous exhibition catalogues and articles in popular and scholarly...

An innovative survey of Native North American art history which fully incorporates substantive new research and scholarship, and examines such issues as gender, representation, the colonial encounter, and contemporary arts. By encompassing both the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262047999Author Sarah J. MontrossFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Discover how to collect, process, and use pigments from the earth. Starting with the equipment and tools needed for gathering soils, the author takes the reader from the field to the studio where the processes of cleaning, sifting, and mulling result in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857246390Author Mary Jane JacobFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 860g

How can the EU be made legitimate and sustainable through (constitutional) law - and what is the role of constitutional lawyers and their ideas in creating this "sense of legitimacy"? This book seeks to answer these questions through the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683834526Author Insight EditionsFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Insight EditionsPublisher Insight Editions

The art of the Fang, the BaTeke, the BaKota and other African peoples is extremely vigorous and shows brilliant sense of form. The substantial aesthetic impact of their works upon the development of 20th-century Western art - on Picasso, Derain, Braque...

The Merton library is rightly known for its antiquity, its beautiful medieval and early modern architecture and fittings and for its remarkable and important collection of manuscripts and rare books, yet a nineteenth-century plan to tear the medieval...

Learn creative lettering and modern calligraphy through reading, meditating, and memorizing Psalms! Immerse yourself in the Psalms while learning how to hand letter the alphabet in various styles, and then apply your knowledge to create scripture artwork...