Art

This is the first book to survey the work of painter and printmaker Tom Hammick (b.1963). It sets Hammick's art within the context of contemporary debates about painting while relating it to the two-centuries-old Romantic tradition. Julian Bell explores...

Breathe life into your tangles with colour, using pencils and dual brush markers. Learn new techniques and 48 tangles and borders. Anyone who can hold a pen can create a Zentangle[registered]. Created by Rick Roberts & Maria Thomas for people who need to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684058242Author John RomitaFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Idea & Design WorksPublisher Idea & Design Works

A visual road trip from Route 66 to Route 666, this rockin' collection of more than 600 artworks presents the unapologetically fun and undeniably cool spirit of rockabilly and psychobilly. The 55 artists featured here represent a global subculture and...

In this pioneering book, Christopher Whitehead provides an overview and critique of art interpretation practices in museums and galleries. Covering the philosophy and sociology of art, traditions in art history and art display, the psychology of the...

Drawing and Reading In 2019, Berlin-based contemporary artist Stefan Marx created a series of drawings for a daily column in The New York Times. Now, he has turned his Reading the News series into quite a unique board book. Whether you think of it as an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989324144Author K D GalbraithFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Walnut Creek PublishingPublisher Walnut Creek PublishingWeight(grams)...

What a shock it must have been for the Utrecht painters Hendrick ter Brugghen, Gerard van Honthorst and Dirck van Baburen when they first encountered the breathtaking and unconventional paintings of Caravaggio in Rome. This volume shows impressively how...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781927987070Author Janine VangoolFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint UPPERCASE publishing incPublisher UPPERCASE publishing inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800083943Author Rodney HarrisonFormat PaperbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 500g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912722921Author Jeannette Lee, Don LettsFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Rough Trade BooksPublisher Rough Trade BooksWeight(grams) 140g

Hermann Nitsch, one of the most paradigmatic artists of the legendary Wiener Aktionismus, author of performances and installations, paintings and drawings, through his artistic expressions creates a genuine 'total theatre' that unites myth and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870709760Author Kynaston McShineFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Museum of Modern ArtPublisher Museum of Modern ArtWeight(grams) 600g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789492095985Author Guy CoolsFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint ValizPublisher Valiz

The Chinese are famed as the first to have discovered and mastered the techniques needed to produce porcelain. Yet carefully crafted ceramics are valued not only for their beauty, but also as precious cultural artifacts shedding light on the period in...

Rex Ray celebrates life, work, and legacy of iconic San Francisco fine artist Rex Ray (1956-2015). This comprehensive volume features more than 100 of his works on canvas, wood, and paper-including never-before-seen pieces courtesy of the Rex ...

Spanning nine decades and branded by the most trusted authority on film, Turner Classic Movies: Must-See Sci-Fi showcases 50 of the most shocking, weird, wonderful, and mind-bending movies ever made.From A Trip to the Moon (1902) to Arrival (2016),...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783753301181Author Kathy AckerFormat PaperbackPage Count 394Imprint Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig,GermanyPublisher Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther...

In this intriguing insight into the work and history of a museum, V&A director and historian Dr Tristram Hunt brings together ten renowned V&A curators to tell the stories behind ten of their most treasured objects. 'Tipu's Tiger' (an almost life-size...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783956793646Author Jon K ShawFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Sternberg PressPublisher Sternberg PressWeight(grams) 666gDimensions(mm) 197mm * 127mm *...

This intriguing book investigates the very rare discovery of a huge, lost, Last Supper painting produced in the workshop of Tiziano Vecellio, known as Titian. The discoloured canvas hung neglected in a parish church for 110 years until the conservator...

All Walks of Life offers a unique opportunity to get to know the 18th-century people of Saxony, Paris, London, and St. Petersburg through the Meissen porcelain sculpture of The Alan Shimmerman Collection. Johann Joachim Kaendler, along with his fellow...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781302934132Author Alex RossFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Marvel ComicsPublisher Marvel Comics

In October 2015, metal detectorist James Mather discovered an important Viking hoard near Watlington in South Oxfordshire. The hoard dates from the end of the 870s, a key moment in the struggle between Anglo-Saxons and Vikings for control of southern...

This transnational volume examines innovative women artists who were from, or worked in, Denmark, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Sapmi, and Sweden from the emergence of modernism until the feminist movement took shape in the 1960s.The book...

A playful room-by-room "bird-watching" guide to the Albert C. Barnes galleries. Rumor has it that Dr. Barnes put a bird in every room of his famed collection. But is this really true, and if so, why? The Barnes Foundation collection offers an astounding...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957656987Author The Gentle AuthorFormat HardbackPage Count 95Imprint Spitalfields Life BooksPublisher Spitalfields Life BooksWeight(grams)...

A critically acclaimed encounter between two American masters of threshold perception and color nuance This book brings together the work of abstract painter Ad Reinhardt (1913-67) and key figure of the Light and Space movement James Turrell (born...

Katja Haas introduces the art of beautiful writing, presenting the different types of lettering, materials, all the basic principles and practical tips and tricks for your own designs. Templates for special occasions, practical exercises and ideas for...

From internationally recognized master penman Michael R. Sull comes an incredible volume of advanced techniques in several forms of penmanship. In Sull's Manual of Advanced Penmanship, this second offering from author and master penman Michael R. Sull...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780952322528Author Jacqui CareyFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Carey CompanyPublisher Carey Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781636141527Author Chuck DFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Akashic Books,U.S.Publisher Akashic Books,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648746898Author Hikari ShimodaFormat HardbackPage Count 148Imprint Blue Angel GalleryPublisher Blue Angel GalleryWeight(grams) 1g

This story guide for Makoto Shinkai's hit your name. features beautiful scenes from the film, along with background art, character and concept art, storyboards, and a variety of exclusive interviews from the people who brought Mitsuha and Taki's story...

The Ashmolean Museum houses one of the most extensive collections of wood engravings in the world. The collection effectively began with the gift in 1964, by Arthur Mitchell, of over 3,000 prints, including a large group of wood engravings. During the...

A sequel to the pioneering volume, Feminism and Art History: Questioning the Litany, published in 1982, The Expanding Discourse contains 29 essays on artists and issues from the Renaissance to the present, representing some of the best feminist...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506713526Author Square EnixFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint Dark Horse Comics,U.S.Publisher Dark Horse Comics,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486460239Author Jeff A. MengesFormat 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 9781684620517Author Christopher HartFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Mixed Media ResourcesPublisher Mixed Media Resources

Alastair Gordon (b.1978, Edinburgh), is an artist based in London. This, the first major monograph of the artist's career, includes over 160 paintings, drawings and documentational photographs, along with notes by Gordon himself. The book introduces this...