Art

An essay by Xavier F. Salomon paired with a contribution by award-winning novelist Alan Hollinghurst bring to life Jean-Honore Fragonard's (1732-1806) Progress of Love, a series of fourteen paintings considered by many to be the artist's masterpiece...

J.M.W. Turner is probably the greatest painter Britain has ever produced. Both profoundly original and astonishingly prolific, he helped transform landscape painting into an expressive art form of enormous range and power. This book reveals the extent to...

From the first ever sketch of the Red Cross logo by its founder Clara Barton to a cartoon scrawled on a love letter from Charles Bukowski, the objects in this fascinating collection are a perfect reflection of the eclectic and storied cast of characters...

Museums and art galleries appear to be and would claim to be open to all, and yet, in fact, they are visited only by a small segment of the population. Who are those whose love of art brings them into museums? What distinguishes them from the majority of...

A gloriously spooky, mischief-packed mystery from the author of Malice in Underland Every year a Halloween Ball is thrown by the Topunders for their friends in Underland. It's a big deal - excellent gloating fodder - and every Topunder family wants the...

Not to worry, a book on anxiety is finally here! A clever antidote to everyday angst, this illustrated book captures universal truths and comforting revelations about being human. Artist Catherine Lepage uses her wry humour to help us see that thinly...

Toxic Heritage addresses the heritage value of contamination and toxic sites and provides the first in-depth examination of toxic heritage as a global issue.Bringing together case studies, visual essays, and substantive chapters written by leading...

Like a long, funny letter from an old friend, an album of drawings by the legendary singer and activist for social justice, Joan Baez. Since retiring from active performing, Baez has focused her formidable talents on painting and drawing. This...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683838074Author Insight EditionsFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Insight EditionsPublisher Insight EditionsWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 91mm *...

Bryan Robertson (1925-2002) was the greatest director the Tate Gallery never had. In 1952, at the age of 27, and against formidable competition (which included David Sylvester and Lawrence Gowing), he became Director of the Whitechapel Gallery, a post he...

A lavishly illustrated collector's volume, this book is a wonderful introduction to the historic and ever-popular line of Wedgwood ceramics called Jasper Ware. The bas-reliefs on matte porcelain grounds make these products instantly recognizable...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935247142Author J Blake FicheraFormat PaperbackPage Count 356Imprint Silman-James Press,U.S.Publisher Silman-James Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 606g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789189425828Author Anna CasselFormat HardbackPage Count 150Imprint Stolpe PublishingPublisher Stolpe PublishingWeight(grams) 1540g

Friars transformed the relationship of the church to laymen by taking religion outside to public and domestic spaces. Mendicant commitment to apostolic poverty bound friars to donors in an exchange of donations in return for intercessory prayers and...

Taking the Noli me tangere and Doubting Thomas episodes as a focal point, this study examines how visual representations of two of the most compelling and related Christian stories engaged with changing devotional and cultural ideals in Renaissance and...

A journey through M+'s collection and Hong Kong's cultural spaces, telling the story of the city's past and present through its works of art and key landmarks. Key to the M+ collections are objects made in or associated with Hong Kong, from neon signs...

Explore how dot drawing can bring new style to your work, from lettering to nature subjects, and everything in between. Also known as "stippling," the dot-drawing technique is similar stylistically to pointillism. With the instructions and projects...

Ride back in time on the colorful New York City subway line of the 1970s to 1990s; the graffiti years, when subway cars became rolling metal canvases for some of the most notorious and influential graffiti "writers" of all time. Explore the amazing array...

Lynn Chadwick (1914-2003) was one of the leading British sculptors of his generation. This essential illustrated catalogue raisonne of his sculpture is published in a new, fourth edition to coincide with Chadwick's centenary in 2014 and incorporates a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506719740Author UbisoftFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Dark Horse Comics,U.S.Publisher Dark Horse Comics,U.S.

The official art book for the video game Gears Tactics. Gears Tactics is the fast-paced, turn-based strategy game from one of the most-acclaimed video game franchises - Gears of War. Outnumbered and fighting for survival, recruit and command your...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262542043Author Golan LevinFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903155899Author Dr John CoatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Persephone Books LtdPublisher Persephone Books LtdDimensions(mm) 194mm * 138mm * 20mm

The artists featured in Black Refractions, including Kerry James Marshall, Faith Ringgold, Nari Ward, Norman Lewis, Wangechi Mutu, and Lorna Simpson, are drawn from the renowned collection of the Studio Museum in Harlem. Through exhibitions, public...

A wide-ranging look at surrealist and postsurrealist engagements with the culture and imagery of childhood We all have memories of the object-world of childhood. For many of us, playthings and images from those days continue to resonate. Rereading a...

Whether antiquities should be returned to the countries where they were found is one of the most urgent and controversial issues in the art world today, and it has pitted museums, private collectors, and dealers against source countries, archaeologists,...

When the Leopard 2, a third-generation main battle tank, first entered service with the Bundeswehr in 1979, at the height of the Cold War, it was indisputably the most advanced and potent tank in the world. During the last four decades it has undergone...

This book is an exploratory adventure to defamiliarize calligraphy, especially Persian Nastaliq calligraphic letterforms, and to look beyond the tradition that has always considered calligraphy as pursuant to and subordinate to linguistic practices...

Darksiders: Genesis is an action/adventure game that tears its way through hordes of demons, angels, and everything in-between on its way to Hell and back with guns blazing and swords swinging. Showcasing the introduction of the Horseman Strife and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838108106Author Joanna WalshFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint No Alibis PressPublisher No Alibis PressWeight(grams) 350gDimensions(mm) 237mm * 172mm...

This engrossing memoir brings to vivid life the behind-the-scenes struggles of Marcia Tucker, the first woman to be hired as a curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the founder of the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City. Tucker...

Almost every museum in the world is confronted with plastics in their collections. Research initiatives and knowledge concerning the conservation of heritage objects made of plastics have proliferated over the last twenty-five years, necessitating this...

Jessica Lack introduces fifty pioneering modern and contemporary art movements born out of political engagement, decolonization, marginalization or conflict. These movements have aimed to revitalize society by challenging the status quo. While not as...

Master the Essentials of Illustrating Your Favourite Animals! Grab your pencil, whip out your sketchbook and get ready to draw! In this must-have book for beginners, beloved artist Jennifer Rae Phillips showcases her best step-by-step tutorials to...

The first publication to consider the relationship between these two major artists of the High Renaissance Through most of Michelangelo's working life, one of his closest colleagues was the great Venetian painter Sebastiano del Piombo (1485 -1541). The...

How many times have you seen a woman artist solely referred to as the wife, girlfriend, muse, or 'mistress' of a man in the public eye?Throughout history, the achievements of women working across artistic disciplines - from visual artists to writers to...

In The End of Art, Donald Kuspit argues that art is over because it has lost its aesthetic import. Art has been replaced by 'postart', a term invented by Alan Kaprow, as a new visual category that elevates the banal over the enigmatic, the scatological...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857247908Author Iftikhar DadiFormat PaperbackPage Count 532Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 1440g

The product of extensive interviews with the artist, this publication provides the definitive guide to the work of Jock McFadyen RA. The architecture critic Rowan Moore creates a fascinating portrait of the artist, weaving together stories from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683837510Author Insight EditionsFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Insight EditionsPublisher Insight Editions