Art

Ink landscape painting is a distinctive feature of the Northern Song, and painters of this era produced some of the most celebrated artworks in Chinese history. The Efficacious Landscape addresses how landmark works of this pivotal period first came to...

Each story of the series bears the unique imprint of its narrator; each has its own atmosphere, logic and plot. Malevich's Black Square heralded the triumph of non-objectivity, when there was nothing left to destroy in the figurative form and the object...

The Art of Total War is a high-end art book based on the bestselling Total War[trademark] franchise, including the latest game in the series Total War[trademark]: ROME II. This volume will include full colour concept and development art throughout, as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909051676Author Ian Castello-CortesFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Graffito Books LtdPublisher Graffito Books Ltd

West of Eden is the definitive story of Hollywood, told, in their own words, by the people on the inside: Lauren Bacall, Arthur Miller, Dennis Hopper, Frank Gehry, Ring Lardner, Joan Didion, Stephen Sondheim - all interviewed by Jean Stein, who grew up...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788763546010Author Bodil Busk LaursenFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Museum Tusculanum PressPublisher Museum Tusculanum PressWeight(grams)...

Experience the brilliant artist's lifelong obsession with nature and immersion in gardens, a bedrock of her hugely influential work. Yayoi Kusama's work is the product of an infinite curiosity and obsessive drive to create. Throughout the artist's long...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633451018Author Starr FiguraFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Museum of Modern ArtPublisher Museum of Modern ArtWeight(grams) 1500g

A richly illustrated exploration of Hannah Wilke's provocative art and trailblazing feminismOne of the most groundbreaking artists to emerge in American art in the 1960s, Hannah Wilke consistently challenged the prevailing narratives of women's bodies...

Speaking directly to today's explosion of creativity, Ladies Drawing Night is for women looking to deepen their creative connections and expressions. Join rock star illustrators Julia Rothman, Leah Goren, and Rachael Cole for ten evenings of fun and...

The first publication on the work of London-based artist Freya Douglas-Morris documents her first solo exhibition with Alexander Berggruen, New York, in autumn 2023. This star I give to you is the first publication on the work of London-based artist...

This beautiful book, companion publication to the exhibition of the same name, presents a complex overview of the life and career of the pioneering African American artist Henry O. Tanner (1859-1937). Recognized as the patriarch of African American...

This groundbreaking text brings together experts in the field of visual art markets to answer some fundamental questions:Is art a good investment?Why is the art market dominated by America and Western Europe?Where are the key emerging markets and what...

At a critical point in the development of photography, this book offers an engaging, detailed and far-reaching examination of the key issues that are defining contemporary photographic culture. Photography Reframed addresses the impact of radical...

No comprehensive book of George Carlson s work has ever before been published, making this magnificent volume an incomparable addition to the libraries of collectors and students of Western art and American landscape painting. Likened to the French and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783868281026Author Paul PfeifferFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Kehrer VerlagPublisher Kehrer VerlagWeight(grams) 1118g

Uplifting quotes and stress-relieving designs will bring you to a whole new state of mindfulness. About the AuthorBook InformationISBN 9781631581366Author Racehorse PublishingFormat HardbackPage Count 120Imprint Racehorse PublishingPublisher Skyhorse...

Rudolph Zallinger's 110-foot (33.5-meter) fresca secco painting of The Age of Reptiles is one of the largest natural history murals in the world. Completed in 1947, it is an overview of prehistoric life told through the principal features and concepts...

In Red City, Blue Period, Kaplan combines the methods of anthropology and the new cultural history to examine the civic culture of Barcelona between 1888 and 1939. She analyzes the peculiar sense of solidarity the citizens forged and explains why shared...

The story of Lear, the old chieftain, who divides his kingdom among his three daughters is the most terrifying tragedy ever written. Shakespeare's apocalyptic play is vividly transferred to the colonial frontiers of 18th-century America, where it is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789078088752Author Suzana MilevskaFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint ValizPublisher ValizWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 135mm * 23mm

Around 1500, Lucas Cranach the Elder steps onto the world stage - in Vienna. The publication explores this, the artist's earliest period of work and presents all the paintings he produced during this time, their expressiveness radically different from...

The first book to consider the importance of commercial art and design for Ed Ruscha's work Ed Ruscha (b. 1937) emerged onto the Los Angeles art scene with paintings that incorporated consumer products, such as Spam and Sun-Maid raisins. In this...

* This catalog includes a careful and beautiful selection of sculptures that Picasso produced throughout his extensive artistic career. * Matter and Body covers the almost infinite plurality of styles used by the artist to represent human body forms,...

This book is a meditation on the different aspects of colour, particularly its relationship to healing. Drawing on examples from natural science and spiritual science, Klocek focuses on the real essence of colours and how they relate to human beings in...

In Utopian Ruins Jie Li traces the creation, preservation, and elision of memories about China's Mao era by envisioning a virtual museum that reckons with both its utopian yearnings and its cataclysmic reverberations. Li proposes a critical framework for...

A richly illustrated, expansive mid-career survey of the stand-out American artist's pioneering and influential work Published to coincide with a major exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art that travels to Dallas and Los Angeles, this book on...

Character Design Quarterly (CDQ) is a lively, creative magazine bringing inspiration, expert insights, and leading techniques from professional illustrators, artists, and character art enthusiasts worldwide. Each issue provides detailed tutorials on...

Articles crafted from lacquer, silk, cotton, paper, ceramics, and iron were central to daily life in early modern Japan. They were powerful carriers of knowledge, sociality, and identity, and their facture was a matter of serious concern among makers and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645178477Author Editors of Thunder Bay PressFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Thunder Bay PressPublisher Thunder Bay PressWeight(grams)...

How performance has transformed the status of the art object, in works by Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Oskar Schlemmer, Robert Morris and more Presenting works from the early 20th century to today, The Paradox of Stillness: Art, Object, and Performance...

Albrecht Durer is probably the most famous German artist of the Renaissance, if not of all time. His works are world-famous and he was a master in numerous artistic disciplines such as woodcut, copperplate engraving, drawing and painting. What is less...

The best way to learn to draw is to DRAW! And this exciting little sketchbook is going to help you do just that. From cover to cover, this book is filled with 900 inspiring, modern drawings of little black dresses, summery hats, stylish shoes, faux fur...

Jonathan Elphick tells the remarkable story of the development of bird art through the centuries. The book features early, skilfully executed but often fanciful images of birds, scientific illustrations produced during the ages of exploration, and modern...

Duke Riley s work explores his lifelong fascination with urban waterways, their historical relationship to the transgressive culture of life at sea, and the uneasy intersections of human geography with the physical world. His signature style interweaves...

Move over, movies: the freshest storytelling today is on television, where the multi-episodic format is used for rich character development and innovative story arcs. Directors Tell the Story, Second Edition offers rare insight and advice straight from...

To write about works that cannot be sensually perceived involves considerable strain. Absent the object, art historians must stretch their methods to, or even past, the breaking point. This concise volume addresses the problems inherent in studying...

As the nature of contemporary performance continues to expand into new forms, genres and media, it requires an increasingly diverse vocabulary. Reading Contemporary Performance provides students, critics and creators with a rich understanding of the key...

In the 1960s, art patron Dominique de Menil founded an image archive showing the ways that people of African descent have been represented in Western art. Highlights from her collection appeared in three large-format volumes that quickly became...

Prints of a New Kind details the political strategies and scandals that inspired the first generation of American caricaturists to share news and opinions with their audiences in shockingly radical ways. Complementing studies on British and European...