Art

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781576879771Author John T. HillFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint powerHouse Books,U.S.Publisher powerHouse Books,U.S.

Everyday Sketching and Drawing offers an easy-to-follow, 5-step formula, which teaches beginner-friendly techniques for learning the skills necessary to make drawing and sketching an everyday habit. For those who have always wanted to or tried and...

The MFA's holdings of Japanese art make up the finest and most comprehensive collection outside of Japan. This stunning overview features many of the collection's best-known and most beloved works, including such rare paintings as the eighth-century...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783865213686Author Robert DeanFormat HardbackPage Count 564Imprint Steidl VerlagPublisher Steidl PublishersWeight(grams) 3880g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627310000Author Mike HunchbackFormat HardbackPage Count 198Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S.Weight(grams) 892g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633450196Author Carolyn LanchnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Museum of Modern ArtPublisher Museum of Modern ArtWeight(grams) 210g

By the author of Foolproof Color Wheel Set, Katie Fowler shares how to plan and practise colour theory. Guided by her expert tips, your creative juices will flow as you develop a comprehensive understanding of colour theory and colour relationships by...

In 1440, on the feast of Saints Peter and Paul, Florence unexpectedly defeated Milanese forces near the town of Anghiari in eastern Tuscany. Nicholas A. Eckstein reveals the impact of this celebrated victory on Florentine public life and how it could...

An authoritative history of art history from its medieval origins to its modern predicamentsIn this authoritative book, the first of its kind in English, Christopher S. Wood tracks the evolution of the historical study of art from the late middle ages...

This simple guide to calligraphy teach-as just the basics, allowing novices to jump right in and make their own wedding invitations, hand label envelopes, write their own placecards and explore their creative side. With the rise of 'do-it-yourselfers',...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783906915333Author Piero ManzoniFormat HardbackPage Count 268Imprint Hauser & WirthPublisher Hauser & Wirth

The Luxor Temple of Amun-Re, built to commemorate the divine power of the pharaohs, is one of the iconic monuments of New Kingdom Egypt. In the 4th century C.E., the Roman Imperial government, capitalizing on the site's earlier significance, converted...

A collection of 50 original posters celebrating the most compelling unmade films in the history of moviemaking For most films, it's a long, strange road from concept to screen, and sometimes those roads lead to dead ends. In Underexposed!: The 50...

Diego Velazquez (1599-1660), considered by many to be the greatest of Spain's great painters, spent his crucial formative years in Seville, learning his craft and producing many early masterpieces. When he departed from his native city as a young man of...

The first major book on OSGEMEOS (Gustavo and Otavio Pandolfo) follows the twins from their origins in 1970s Sao Paulo to the height of world graffiti fame. Combining folkloric and contemporary elements of Brazilian society with graffiti, hip-hop, and...

How do experts spot masterpieces? Paintings are not always signed or noted in historical records, so how can we tell an obscure gem from an altered image? Scientists, conservators and art historians use a range of methods to examine the physical nature...

Among the most radical of the great American Abstract Expressionist painters, Clyfford Still has also long been among the least studied. Still severed ties with the commercial art world in the early 1950s, and his estate at the time of his death in 1980...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626543867Author Ferdinand PetrieFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Echo Point Books & MediaPublisher Echo Point Books & MediaWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420974720Author AristotleFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 59gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 2mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780847861132Author Nancy IresonFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Rizzoli International PublicationsPublisher Rizzoli International...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783956794636Author Maria LindFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Sternberg PressPublisher Sternberg Press

Majestic Animals will take you on a journey of discovery across our planet, mixing journal entries, fun facts and information, plus scratch-art pages of Earth's most incredible animals and a fold-out Serengeti!Book InformationISBN 9781837714667Author...

Engagingly written and colorfully illustrated, The Experience of Modern Sculpture leads us to understand, and take pleasure in, the sculpture of the 20th and 21st centuries. It helps us see the different facets of modernism: the evolution of the figure,...

The first retrospective of artist Francis 'Frank' Montague Holl, one of the great painters of the Victorian era. Francis 'Frank' Montague Holl (1845-1888) was notable for his tragic social realism as well as his penetrating portraits. Although highly...

Intellectual, emotional, restless, dogged, loyal, selfish; Kandinsky was an artist - and a man - of contradictions. This genre-defying painter didn't pick up a brush until he was thirty years old. He was an academic with a promising career that he...

Max Weber studied under Matisse, associated with influential figures including Apollinaire, Picasso, and Delaunay, and is credited with bringing firsthand knowledge of the Parisian avant-garde to Alfred Stieglitz s modernist circle in New York, inspiring...

Before her death, the artist and writer Leonora Carrington (1917–2011) had already garnered a cult following, with numerous creative people making the pilgrimage to meet her at her home in Mexico City. Since then, her fame has only increased.Thinking...

Located in the West London suburb from which it takes its name, Ealing Studios is one of the best loved and best known institutions of British cinema. Ealing represents a particular kind of institutional practice a community of filmmakers who collaborate...

This is the first major group study of the lives and work of Edna Clarke Hall, Gwen John, Ida Nettleship and Gwen Smith whose work constitutes a previously neglected area of twentieth century British Art.About the AuthorAlison Thomas is a Lecturer at the...

Could Buster Keaton have starred in Battleship Potemkin? Did Trotsky plan to write the great Soviet comedy? And why did Lenin love circus clowns? The Chaplin Machine reveals the lighter side of the Communist avant-garde and its unlikely passion...

Showcasing Todd McFarlane's unique art style, which burst onto the comic book scene in the late 1980s and forever changed the landscape of comic book art. Features art from original comic art boards, rare, never-before-seen sketches, as well as art...

A groundbreaking survey of contemporary Indigenous art and its enduring connections to the landThe Land Carries Our Ancestors: Contemporary Art by Native Americans brings together works by many of today's most boldly innovative Native American artists...

This lavishly illustrated volume offers a fascinating glimpse into Ruben's artistic process. The six glorious scenes that make up the Triumph of the Eucharist series by Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) are highlights of the Museo Nacional del Prado's superb...

A great master of the early Renaissance, Piero della Francesca created paintings for ecclesiastics, confraternities, and illustrious nobles throughout the Italian peninsula. Since the early twentieth century, the rational space, abstract designs, lucid...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789188369697Author Lord K2Format HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Dokument PressPublisher Dokument Forlag

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904915171Author Vivien HalasFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Southbank PublishingPublisher Southbank PublishingWeight(grams) 971g

This inspiring and beautifully illustrated book chronicles the lives of seventeen pioneering women sculptors who dared to speak their truths about inequality and injustice and overcame obstacles of gender and race in the last hundred and fifty years. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780947830731Author Dana MillerFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Lisson GalleryPublisher Lisson Gallery

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...

California Locos brings together over 40 years of LA culture, presented through the eyes and hands of the artists who shaped it. Featuring three generations of legendary LA artists, this book chronicles the life and work of the five original locos, Chaz...