Art

Steinberg argues in this work that the artists regarded the deliberate exposure of Christ's genitalia as an affirmation of kinship with the human condition. Christ's lifelong virginity, understood as potency under check, and the first offer of blood in...

Focusing on a unique arena, Thinking Through Art takes an innovative look at artists' experiences of undertaking doctorates and asks: If the making of art is not simply the formulation of an object but is also the formation of complex ideas then what...

The Space that Separates: A Realist Theory of Art radically challenges our assumptions about what art is, what art does, who is doing it, and why it matters. Rejecting the modernist and market-driven misconception that art is only what artists do, Wilson...

The Body in Sound, Music and Performance brings together cutting-edge contributions from women working on and researching contemporary sound practice. This highly interdisciplinary book features a host of international contributors and places emphasis on...

How science changed the way artists understand realityExploring the Invisible shows how modern art expresses the first secular, scientific worldview in human history. Now fully revised and expanded, this richly illustrated book describes two hundred...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781648265075Author David FreemanFormat PaperbackImprint Primedia eLaunch LLCPublisher Primedia eLaunch LLC

Explore William Kentridge's remarkable performance piece, The Head & The Load, and discover how music, dance, writing, and fine art are combined to tell the haunting story of Africans during WWI.For over thirty years, William Kentridge has been combining...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486464428Author Tanigami KonanFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

An overdue evaluation of the life and work of a prolific and significant contemporary artist Cuban-born artist Carmen Herrera (b. 1915) has painted for more than seven decades, though it is only in recent years that acclaim for her work has catapulted...

In this new monograph, the latest in Phaidon's Art and Ideas series, Wayne Franits examines the work of Vermeer within the framework of his times, one of the most intellectually creative periods in this history of art. Written in a lively and accessible...

Studio Thinking 3 is a new edition of a now-classic text, a research-based account of teaching and learning in high school studio arts classes. It poses a framework that identifies eight habits of mind taught in visual arts and four studio structures by...

Exhibiting the mastery of the gem-engraver from prehistory to the present, Masterpieces in Miniature offers a survey of the finest products of the gems craft over millennia. The creation of miniature intaglios - or incised carvings - which could be...

TRANSLATED BY ALISON McCULLOUGH'One of the best books on the many diverse migrations to London . . . revealing the extent to which the diversity of immigrant origins has had transformative effects - through food, music, diverse types of knowledge and so...

Basil Gogos changed the face of classic horror with his film monster portrait art. Like a bizarro-world Norman Rockwell, he created magazine covers of Frankenstein, the Creature from the Black Lagoon. the Phantom of the Opera, and countless others in...

Filled with hundreds of stunning examples of successful two-dimensional design, this how-to book explains design theory and gives students the tools needed to create successful designs. DESIGN BASICS presents art fundamentals concepts in full two- to...

"I think in pictures. Poems help me with this. They are like buoys in the sea. I swim to them, from one to the other. In between, without them, I am lost. They are the handholds where something masses together in the infinite expanse."-Anselm Kiefer ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784756249586Author Pie InternationalFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint PIE BooksPublisher PIE Books

This book focuses on the iconic Umber Paintings of Lee Krasner (1908-84), which consist of only 24 paintings. Painted between 1959 and 1962, the Umber Paintings were realized during one of Krasner's most ambitious periods of cproduction following the...

Raw, unprettified and decried in conservative circles as "gutter art": Kathe Kollwitz employed her art uncompromisingly as a political voice for the social and human misery of her time. Her focus always lay on the dignity of humankind. The volume...

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...

Japanese artists celebrate the phenomenon that is the Marvel Universe!Experience a fresh take on the Marvel Universe with this collection of stunning illustrations from over twenty exceptional Japanese artists, including Yasuhiro Nightow, Akira Himekawa,...

"This stylish and erudite thematic study of the influence Romanticism exerts upon Western culture and particularly the visual arts is the companion volume to Honour's equally valuable Neo-classicism.... The text is supported by a useful selection of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783956794247Author Melissa McCarthyFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Sternberg PressPublisher Sternberg PressWeight(grams) 666gDimensions(mm) 241mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907700095Author Richard WheelerFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Fircone Books LtdPublisher Fircone Books LtdDimensions(mm) 242mm * 171mm * 7mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857239897Author Demetrio PaparoniFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 3080g

One of the most influential anthropological works of the last two decades, Alfred Gell's Art and Agency is a provocative and ambitious work that both challenged and reshaped anthropological understandings of art, agency, creativity and the social. It has...

Stizzo, the proud owner of Best of Times Tattoo, presents the best work to come out of his famous parlor in Milan, Italy, in the form of beautiful flash, and provides an intimate look into the house artists in action. At turns exotic, religious, and...

On two cold grey days in 1966, LS Lowry was joined by a young photographer on one of his first assignments for Nova Magazine. Clive Arrowsmith had been commissioned to photograph Lowry at home. Perhaps it was Arrowsmith's youthful exuberance that...

This stunning book charts the rich history of the blues, through the dazzling array of posters, album covers, and advertisements that have shaped its identity over the past hundred years. The blues have been one of the most ubiquitous but diverse...

Known for her evocative portraits, Diane Arbus is a pivotal figure in American postwar photography. Undeniably striking, Arbus's black-and-white photographs capture a unique gaze. Criticized as well as lauded for her photographs of people deemed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783420025Author Desmond MorrisFormat HardbackPage Count 340Imprint Red Lemon PressPublisher Red Lemon PressWeight(grams) 1383gDimensions(mm) 260mm * 32mm...

Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2023 A critical analysis of contemporary art collections and the value form, this book shows why the nonprofit system is unfit to administer our common collections, and offers solutions for diversity reform and...

The ninth edition of Marketing Concepts and Strategies has been fully updated to reflect the latest marketing themes, together with the authors' real-life practitioner expertise. The marketing world has gone digital as consumers rely on social media; new...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262026598Author Nicholas BaumeFormat HardbackPage Count 143Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 241mm * 165mm * 13mm

The first overview in a decade on Arke's poetical explorations of dual ethnicity Central to the multimedia oeuvre of Pia Arke (1958-2007) was the artist's dual ethnicity in Greenland and Denmark, excavated in video works, collaged maps and landscape...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781871480580Author Andy GoldsworthyFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Yorkshire Sculpture ParkPublisher Yorkshire Sculpture ParkWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857241951Author Filippo MaggiaFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 1480g

Artist Leonardo Pereznieto's hyper-realistic surfaces and textures - and his instructional YouTube videos on how to recreate them - have earned him millions of views. Now, for the first time, this international Internet sensation brings his amazing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060953508Author Scott McCloudFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 540g

In 1921/22 Edouard Vuillard created a cycle of six paintings for the entrance hall of the Villa Bauer in Basel. Four large-format pictures show exhibition rooms in the Louvre from Antiquity to French Rococo painting. Two overdoors provide an intimate...