Art

The first major publication devoted to weaver and designer Dorothy Liebes, reinstating her as one of the most influential American designers of the twentieth century At the time of her death, Dorothy Liebes (1897-1972) was called "the greatest modern...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800085725Author Arthur MacGregorFormat HardbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 1070gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 37mm

Draw colorful subjects with bestselling author Lee Hammond. This book is loaded with fun lessons and projects from popular instructor Lee Hammond on drawing brightly colored nature subjects realistically-more easily than you ever thought possible! The...

Painters in the past and commercial artists in our own day have relied on allegory to create "message pictures." Once thought to rival literary works or political oratory in influence and prestige, such paintings, with their references to ancient myth,...

An essential piece of Disney history has been unreported for eighty years. Soon after the birth of Mickey Mouse, one animator raised the Disney Studio far beyond Walt's expectations. That animator also led a union war that almost destroyed it. Art...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781841147345Author Ray BalkwillFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint HalsgrovePublisher Halsgrove

This richly illustrated publication explores the diversity and innovation of a legendary dynasty of Flemish painters over four generations. From the peasant festivals and proverb pictures of Pieter Bruegel the Elder and his son Pieter Brueghel the...

Would you believe that you could ask a full-grown man to hold a penny for you and then tell him to drop it and finds he can't, hard as he may try? In what is undoubtedly the most original magic book of our time, John Fisher shows the reader how, with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906245061Author Eamonn McCabeFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Angela Patchell BooksPublisher Angela Patchell BooksWeight(grams) 481gDimensions(mm)...

The career of Vincent Van Gogh (1853-90) as a painter was short, but his paintings revolutionized artistic practice and styles. The intensity of his vision, his wonderful sense of colour and the extraordinary boldness of his technique created...

Mist and fog engender fascination and mystery, enticing with their wispy veils and vapourous moods, and they are the stuff of dreams and visions. 'The mists of time' and 'in a fog' are common expressions that substantiate the long association of mist and...

This revised and updated new edition provides a comprehensive introduction to the history of cinema in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, as well as to disaporic and transnational Chinese film-making, from the beginnings of cinema to the present day. ...

Landscape has been a key theme in world archaeology and trans-cultural art history over the last half century, particularly in the study of painting in art history and in all questions of human intervention and the placement of monuments in the natural...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783952446188Author Alec FinlayFormat HardbackPage Count 284Imprint Hauser & WirthPublisher Hauser & Wirth

"Presented alongside Hiroshige's prints, with descriptions and context, Delord's work offers an absorbing contemplation of Japan's past and present via one legendary travel route, and shows how thoroughly upended our surroundings have been in what was,...

William Reid Dick (1878-1961) was one of a generation of British sculptors air-brushed out of art history by the Modernist critics of the late twentieth century. This long-overdue monograph adds to the recent revival of interest in this group of...

Small bronze figures, made in Vienna, Austria, beginning around 1850, are well known for their great detail and expressiveness. They were produced in small factories and private artist studios in the forms of animals and humans, and were exported to sell...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780867197792Author Mark BodeFormat HardbackPage Count 418Imprint Last Gasp,U.S.Publisher Last Gasp,U.S.Weight(grams) 1006g

Learn to create your own beautiful watercolor botanical art with more than 30 projects, as well as information on materials and basic techniques. The graceful, contemporary style of these flowers and foliage is attractive and accessible to all no matter...

The art of Makoto Azuma uses flowers and plants as its starting point, but juxtaposes their timeless yet transient beauty with an incredibly diverse range of striking settings. In a series of sculptures, installations and interactive events, he delights...

Close-up photos of plump apricots, juicy mangoes, crisp lettuce ... these are familiar to us all through cookery books and garden guides. But seeing fruit and vegetables as detailed art, viewed through eighteenth-century eyes, is something very different...

The perfect subject for a graphic novel, Frida Kahlo's brief life was dramatic and romantic, tragic and painful. In this illustrated "biography", Vanna Vinci captures the spirit of Kahlo's world in boldly colored, minutely detailed illustrations...

An in-depth look at the work and career of this fascinating artist, who is having a profound impact on contemporary painting Nigel Cooke is known for his complex paintings, which thematically explore the meeting point between creative labour,...

'a game-changer, a must-read for scholars, students and artists alike' - Tom FinkelpearlAt a time when art world critics and curators heavily debate the social, and when community organizers and civic activists are reconsidering the role of aesthetics in...

What does an assemblage made out of crumpled newspaper have in common with an empty room in which the lights go on and off every five seconds? This book argues that they are both examples of a 'precarious' art that flourished from the late 1950s to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781419625916Author Eric AlayonFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint CreateSpacePublisher CreateSpace

Vidhi Khandelwal takes readers step-by-step through the process she uses to create her beautiful signature floral illustrations. Brighter and more vibrant than watercolours, gouache is easy to work with, especially for beginners, and provides a quick,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913380830Author Ben BurbridgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Goldsmith's PressPublisher Goldsmiths, Unversity of London

How can one person change everything?'It truly broke my heart and put it back together again' Reader review'This story is beautiful, it has touched my soul and has lit up my heart' Reader review'You literally feel every emotion on the spectrum along with...

Chateau La Coste, near Aix-en-Provence, is a unique property that combines sculptural artworks by leading contemporary artists alongside works by some of the world's best-known architects, all within the grounds of a working organic vineyard. Since 2004...

From Snow White to Moana, from Pinocchio to Frozen, the animated films of Walt Disney Studios have moved and entertained millions. But few fans know that behind these groundbreaking features was an incredibly influential group of women who fought for...

In this stimulating book, a leading authority on the Spanish master Diego Velazquez discusses this enigmatic artist and explores the mysteries presented by his paintings. The essays collected here, written over the course of Jonathan Brown's...

The print repertoire of the 16th and 17th centuries in England has been neglected historically, and this remarkable book rectifies a major oversight in the history of English visual art. It provides an iconographic survey of the single-sheet prints...

The first retrospective in 30 years on the immensely influential abstractionist, theorist, art-world scourge and forefather of Minimalism The first monographic exhibition on the artist in Spain and one of the most complete surveys ever curated in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784756252968Author Shirow MiwaFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Pie International Co., Ltd.Publisher Pie International Co., Ltd.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608878642Author William StoutFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Insight EditionsPublisher Insight EditionsWeight(grams) 565gDimensions(mm) 279mm *...

The Quiet Eye is a book of great charm, imbued with a love and understanding of art that speaks directly to the heart.The thirty-three pictures selected by the American sculptress Sylvia Shaw Judson cover a wide spectrum of subjects and styles, from the...

Innovation, technology, and spectacle combine in wondrous works of decorative art and furniture that embody the splendor and luxury of the royal courts of Europe At once beautiful works of art and technological wonders, the objects featured in Making...

"Undoing is just as much a democratic right as doing."---Gordon Matta-Clark This revealing book looks at the groundbreaking work of Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-1978), whose socially conscious practice blurred the boundaries between contemporary art and...

This book examines the reception in Latin America of prints designed by the Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens, showing how colonial artists used such designs to create all manner of artworks and, in the process, forged new frameworks for artistic...