Art

Otherwise: Imagining queer feminist art histories is the first book to address queer feminist politics, methods and theories in relation to the visual arts, including new media, installation and performance art. Despite the crucial contribution of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692836118Author Robert W Sullivan IVFormat PaperbackPage Count 462Imprint Deadwood Publishing, LLCPublisher Deadwood Publishing, LLCWeight(grams)...

In its far-ranging and comprehensive scope, Crafting: Transforming Materials & the Maker is at once both a manual and a manifesto for crafters and craft enthusiasts the world over. A must-have for any craft and educational library, it is a volume that...

The influence of digital media on the cultural heritage sector has been pervasive and profound. Today museums are reliant on new technology to manage their collections. They collect digital as well as material things. New media is embedded within their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983967071Author Carl LittleFormat HardbackPage Count 108Imprint Marshall WilkesPublisher Marshall WilkesWeight(grams) 918gDimensions(mm) 264mm * 264mm *...

Metamorphosis is a central theme of contemporary creativity, investigated by artists, stylists, designers, philosophers and craftsmen who have crossed the exclusive fences of their respective disciplines in search of the changing inclusiveness of...

The revised edition of Acoustic Territories: Sound Culture and Everyday Life offers an expansive reading of auditory life. It provides a careful consideration of the performative dynamics inherent to sounding and listening, and discusses how sound...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781890951153Author Christopher S. WoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 488Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 753gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784756243768Author PIE BooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint PIE BooksPublisher PIE Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942130147Author Christopher P. HeuerFormat HardbackPage Count 262Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909394667Author Nick CatoFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint HeadpressPublisher Headpress

Although less than twenty of Leonardo da Vinci's paintings are known to exist today, some of them - the Mona Lisa, The Last Supper, along with his drawing of the Vitruvian Man - are among the most identifiable, reproduced, and popular works in the world...

Introduction to Cinematography offers a practical, stage-by-stage guide to the creative and technical foundations of cinematography. Building from a skills-based approach focused on professional practice, cinematographer and author Tania Hoser provides a...

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),...

The latest addition to the best-selling Colour Library series of introductory books on the great masters and movements in art features all Leonardo's painted works and a detailed illustrated introduction.About the AuthorPatricia Emison is a specialist in...

Artist Philip Reeves (b.1931, Cheltenham) has lived and worked in Glasgow since the mid-1950s. Landscape and cityscape underpin his artistic vision, which has explored varying degrees of representation and realism, as well as an ever-evolving abstraction...

The first in-depth study of a monumental wall hanging-rediscovered after many years-by renowned Bauhaus artist Anni Albers.Albers was influential in elevating textiles from craft to fine art. Her exquisite wall hanging Camino Real-seen for the first time...

American artist Sam Francis (1923-1994) brought vivid colour and emotional intensity to Abstract Expressionism. He was described as the "most sensuous and sensitive painter of his generation" by former Guggenheim Museum director James Johnson Sweeney,...

This title is suitable for children aged 5-11 years old. It is targeted at young aspiring artists seeking to develop their technical skills and build a repertoire of subjects. Acclaimed author Lee J. Ames shows readers how to draw dozens of aliens with a...

In 1498, with Europe trembling before an Ottoman assault and mortally afraid of what the ominous year 1500 might bring, Albrecht Durer published his Apocalypse with Pictures, a hallucinatory exploration of the Revelation of St John. Durer's woodcut...

Utilizing found images from textbooks along with his own geometric patterns, Matthew Craven's collages and illustrations seek to create a new handmade universe, juxtaposing imagery from different cultures and time periods to celebrate commonalities...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857246390Author Mary Jane JacobFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 860g

The conventional history of art is one of great men making great paintings, and displaying their works to a predominantly male audience in male-run institutions. Women, however, have had a role, often working behind the scenes, out of sight or in...

A unique look at how classical notions of ascent and flight preoccupied early modern British writers and artistsBetween the late sixteenth century and early nineteenth century, the British imagination-poetic, political, intellectual, spiritual and...

An exquisitely illustrated volume that emphasizes the importance of drawing in Fragonard's creative process One of the most forward-looking artists in 18th-century France, Jean-Honore Fragonard (1732-1806) is considered the preeminent draftsman of his...

We are surrounded by images, fairly drowning in them. From our cell phones to our computers, from our televisions at home to the screens that light up while we wait in the grocery store checkout line, images of all kinds are seducing us, commanding us to...

*Winner of the ICA Book of the Year, 2015* Now that we 'curate' even lunch, what happens to the role of the connoisseur in contemporary culture? 'Curate' has become a buzzword, applied to everything from music festivals to artisanal cheese. Inside...

What is Venice worth? To whom does this urban treasure belong? This eloquent book by the internationally renowned art historian Salvatore Settis urgently poses these questions, igniting a new debate about the Pearl of the Adriatic and cultural patrimony...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857236537Author Ashraf JamalFormat HardbackPage Count 168Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 1270g

The Author gave up his medical studies at Freiburg University in 1914 to enlist in the German Army. He was soon involved in bloody hand-to-hand fighting against the French before moving to the Russian front. Promoted to medical officer, despite being...

With unprecedented access to personal letters, private family diaries, and the Frick archives at the Frick Collection in New York City and at family residences in Pittsburgh, Martha Frick Symington Sanger has written a unique and penetrating account of...

In 1992, Marvel Entertainment commissioned Jim Lee, the young superstar penciller behind X-Men (vol. 2) no. 1, the bestselling single-issue comic book of all time, to create all of the art for a new set of 105 trading cards-a set that would go on to...

A biography of the great portraitist Frans Hals that takes the reader into the turbulent world of the Dutch Golden Age. Frans Hals was one of the greatest portrait painters in history, and his style transformed ideas and expectations about...

Chibis are mini versions of Japanese anime and manga characters and are defined by their large heads and tiny bodies. They also have characteristically large eyes and all these features together give them a huge score on the cuteness factor. This book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781898253877Author Katie ArberFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Middlesex University PressPublisher Middlesex University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262518345Author Hans BeltingFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 1860g

An in-depth examination of the crucial role that Amsterdam played in Rembrandt's evolution as an artist Around the age of 25, Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) moved from his hometown of Leiden to Amsterdam, which was the commercial capital of northern...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781958862087Author Tom GrimmFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Insight EditionsPublisher Insight Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870709623Author Manuel J. Borja-VillelFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Museum of Modern ArtPublisher Museum of Modern ArtWeight(grams) 2330g

The frescoes of Peruzzi, Raphael and Sodoma still dazzle visitors to the Villa Farnesina, but they survive in a stripped-down environment bereft of its landscape, sealed so it cannot breathe. Turner takes you outside that box, restoring these canonical...