Art

Seven decades of incredibly dynamic sculpture in bronze and steel from the Chicago virtuoso-with full-color plates, archival materials and much more Sculptor Richard Hunt was only 35 years old at the time of his 1971 retrospective exhibition at...

The story of the artistic collaboration between the originators of the ecosex movement, their diverse communities, and the Earth What's sexy about saving the planet? Funny you should ask. Because that is precisely-or, perhaps, broadly-what Annie...

Visually arresting and utterly one-of-a-kind, Sarah J. Sloat's Hotel Almighty is a book-length erasure of pages from Misery by Stephen King, a reimagining of the novel's themes of constraint and possibility in elliptical, enigmatic poems. Here, "joy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681372433Author Harold RosenbergFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books,...

A guide to the best of the collections at the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar. With flagship architecture by I. M. Pei, an interior designed by J.-M. Wilmotte, and one of the world's finest collections of its type, the Museum of Islamic Art in...

The most comprehensive account available of Michael Heizer's art by a writer and curator who has critical experience with the artist and his work. Michael Heizer is among the greatest, and often least accessible, American artists. As one of the last...

In January 2006 a man tried to break Marcel Duchamp's Fountain sculpture with a small hammer. The sculpted foot of Michelangelo's David was damaged in 1991 by a purportedly mentally ill artist. Each such incident confronts us with the unsettling dynamic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781786271556Author Edward J SullivanFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Laurence King PublishingPublisher Laurence King Publishing

Emma Stibbon's drawings and prints depict volcanoes, tectonic plates and powerful glaciers. Includes commentary by the artist on the making and location of each image. The artist is fascinated by environments in flux. Her work often explores the...

Describing drawing as her "primary activity," for over thirty years Roni Horn (b. 1955) has created innovative and experimental works on paper marked by both conceptual and technical complexity. This carefully curated survey of the artist's drawings from...

The paintings are grouped under various headings to take the reader through specific visual experiences beginning with some of the artist's tools, colour palettes and showing the development of texture. Seascapes and shorelines are the first stop, going...

People who saw the first moving pictures at the end of the nineteenth century were delighted by a new art that communicated without words - yet they were also alarmed to be witnessing events in a strange, mute, spectral realm, where the laws of time and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506719023Author George A. RomeroFormat HardbackPage Count 152Imprint Dark Horse Comics,U.S.Publisher Dark Horse Comics,U.S.

Women Art Dealers brings together fascinating case studies of galleries run by women between the 1940s and 1980s. It marks a departure from other work in the field of art markets, challenging male-dominated histories by analyzing the work of female...

William Bell Scott's screen, The King's Quair, was commissioned by James Leathart, an important collector of Pre-Raphaelite art. The beautifully decorated folding screen took as its inspiration The Kingis Quair, a 15th-century Scots poem attributed to...

Capture the hard shell of a turtle, the straggly hair of a llama, and the coarse skin of an iguana! With Learn to Draw Realistic Animals with Pen & Marker, aspiring artists will learn how to draw extremely detailed animal portraits using affordable felt...

The Great Landscape with a Tempest in Vienna is one of Peter Paul Rubens's largest and most dramatic landscapes. Starting from the far-reaching discoveries during the latest restoration, the volume provides a comprehensive insight into the process of...

The Paston Treasure, a spectacular painting from the 1660s now held at Norwich Castle Museum, depicts a wealth of objects from the collection of a local landed family. This deeply researched volume uses the painting as a portal to the history of the...

While Munch's pessimistic, melancholy world view crucially defines our understanding of his work, many important postwar and contemporary artists have drawn inspiration from several aspects of his oeuvre. This richly illustrated book explores how...

Departing from his earlier figurative works and engagement with Futurist ideals, Italian painter Osvaldo Licini (1894-1958) turned away from realism in 1940 and painted only abstract works from then on. His paintings from that fruitful decision engage in...

A monograph on this stained glass artistBook InformationISBN 9781911408215Author Robert SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Sansom & CoPublisher Sansom & Co

A stunning visual biography of one of Japan's most famous historical artists, this book beautifully illustrates the story of Katsushika Hokusai.Enter the world of Katsushika Hokusai - the enigmatic creator of Japanese art's all-time most iconic image...

Richard Viladesau's new book takes a look at an inviting topic that has come into increasing prominence in a number of fields lately--including theology. Theology and the Arts explores, in a timely and engaging manner, several aspects of the relations...

Tommy Kane brings together, for the first time, a collection of contemporary vegan artists whose works grapple with one of the biggest issues of our century and confront our conflicted relationship with animals. With diverse contributions, Vegan Art...

Donald Hankey was a writer who saw himself as a 'student of human nature' and peacetime Edwardian Britain as a society at war with itself. Wounded in a murderous daylight infantry charge near Ypres, Hankey began sending despatches to The Spectator from...

This book presents 75 ways to look at art and the life lessons you can learn from it. From the works of ancient Egypt and Greece to today's abstract and conceptual pieces, by way of Leonardo, Durer and Rembrandt, Picasso, Warhol and Ai Wei Wei, art...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784756253408Author GuweizFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Pie International Co., Ltd.Publisher Pie International Co., Ltd.

A beautiful book that argues artists were fascinated by still life painting considerably earlier than previously thought This eloquent and generously illustrated book asserts that artists were fascinated by and extremely skilled at still life...

The first publication devoted to the textile designs of one of the twentieth century's greatest artists, showcasing a rarely discussed aspect of the Pop Art superstar's career Andy Warhol (1928-1987), a giant of twentieth century art, is known to most...

Conservation Skills for the 21st Century provides a much-needed update to the original Conservation Skills volume, presenting an overview of current issues facing conservators of historic and artistic works. Beginning with the basics - why the past is...

Gerhard Richter is one of the most important and popular artists of the postwar era. For decades he has sought innovative ways to make painting more relevant, often through a multifaceted dialogue with photography. Today Richter is most widely recognized...

The Medici family ruled unofficially and later as dukes the city of Florence and Tuscany, from the end of 14th to the end of the 18th century. Under their patronage the Renaissance was born. The members of this powerful family were able to build their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262047173Author Victor Plahte TschudiFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

The first comparative history of African American and Black British artists, artworks, and art movements, Stick to the Skin traces the lives and works of over fifty painters, photographers, sculptors, and mixed-media, assemblage, installation, video, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780819573650Author Kyle GannFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Wesleyan University PressPublisher Wesleyan University Press

Unleash Your Creativity with Beautiful Watercolor Blooms From delicate magnolias and zinnias to exotic hibiscus and tiger lilies, you'll be ready to paint an entire garden with 25 breathtaking projects. Renowned watercolor instructor Cara Rosalie...

Ready-to-go, vetted approaches for facilitating artistic environmental projects How do we educate those who feel an urgency to address our environmental and social challenges? What ethical concerns do art-makers face who are committed to a deep green...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616898762Author Sean AdamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Princeton Architectural PressPublisher Princeton Architectural Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783753301198Author Pablo BronsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther KonigPublisher Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig

You are here, a map declares, but of course you are not, any more than you truly occupy the vantage point into which a landscape painting puts you. How maps and paintings figure and reconfigure space-as well as our place in it-is the subject of Edward S...