Art

The first book-length study of household servants and slaves, exploring a visual history over 400 years and four continents The first book-length study of both images of ordinary household workers and their material culture, Household Servants and...

"Start Your Engines" compiles works from Scott Robertson's, vast archives of ground vehicle drawings and renderings, and features the following chapters: Cars, Bicycles, Snowcraft Mechanimals and selected work from the conceptual design of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783960987956Author Matilda Olof-OrsFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig,GermanyPublisher Verlag der Buchhandlung...

Take pen to paper and let your imagination flow. Best-selling author Carrie Bloomston brings you a hands-on interactive experience and guides you through 30 creative exercises to ignite your creative fire and nurture your artistic soul. Examine your...

Iconoclastic, generous, inventive, impulsive, sensitive, gregarious, prodigious: these are just some of the words to describe Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) and the art he made over his career. From the age of 38, when he received the grand prize at the...

From essays on gender in the work of Louise Bourgeois to a review of Art Spiegelman's comix memoir Maus, Writings on Art is expertly curated from his prolific output and illustrated with 175 images to accompany the texts. Written with Storr's signature...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780764984327Author Martin F KrauseFormat HardbackPage Count 72Imprint Pomegranate Communications Inc,USPublisher Pomegranate Communications Inc,US

Tate St Ives is home to some of the most compelling art of the twentieth century. In this iconic gallery at the edge of the Atlantic Ocean, exhibitions of international modern and contemporary art uncover the far-reaching influence of modern artists...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262043670Author Paul StephensFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 25mm

Even before the original Frostgrave rulebook landed in players' hands, its artwork, previewed in the run-up to release, attracted widespread attention and acclaim. Today, some eight volumes, two novels, and multiple boxed sets of plastic miniatures...

A major reassessment of Germaine Richier's work and impact on 20th-century sculpture. Germaine Richier (1902-59) occupies a central position in the history of modern sculpture. Predominantly working in bronze, her art revitalized the form of the figure,...

Persian Manuscripts & Paintings from the Berenson Collection presents an in-depth analysis of the little-known Persian manuscripts and paintings collected by the world-renowned art historian, art critic, and connoisseur Bernard Berenson (1865-1959). It...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857246529Author The Africa InstituteFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 980g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911164210Author Martin HolmanFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Black Dog Publishing LtdPublisher Black Dog Press

Animals were everywhere in the early modern period and they impacted, at least in some way, the lives of every kind of early modern person, from the humblest peasant to the greatest prince. Artists made careers based on depicting them. English gentry...

Learn and master the beautiful and varied art of Western calligraphy. This lavishly illustrated guide includes all the information you need to get started in calligraphy, as well as techniques for the more advanced artist, including using color, carving...

This book explores the fusion of myth, history and geography which leads to ideas of primitivism, and looks at their construction, interpretation and consumption in Western culture. Contextualized by Susan Hiller's introductions to each section,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909399389Author Lucy WilliamsFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Roads PublishingPublisher Roads PublishingWeight(grams) 1184g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783753305868Author Franz WestFormat HardbackPage Count 255Imprint Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther KonigPublisher Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992930929Author Martin HerbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Timothy Taylor GalleryPublisher Timothy TaylorWeight(grams) 665g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783959051392Author Dieter DanielsFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Spector BooksPublisher Spector BooksWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 175mm * 109mm *...

Incorporating copious archival research and original close readings of American artist Grant Wood's iconic as well as lesser-known works, Grant Wood's Secrets reveals how his sometimes anguished psychology was shaped by his close relationship with his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788763542579Author Anne Ring PetersenFormat PaperbackPage Count 507Imprint Museum Tusculanum PressPublisher Museum Tusculanum PressWeight(grams)...

An overview of John Stezaker's film still collages, this book showcases the evolution of the artist's relationship with a specific material. Leading British collage and appropriation artist John Stezaker began his ongoing series of film still collages...

Old St Peter's Basilica in Rome stood for over eleven centuries until it was demolished to make room for today's church on the same Vatican site. Its last eyewitness, Maffeo Vegio, explained to the Roman hierarchy how revival of the papacy, whose...

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In Becoming Palestine, Gil Z. Hochberg examines how contemporary Palestinian artists, filmmakers, dancers, and activists use the archive in order to radically imagine Palestine's future. She shows how artists such as Jumana Manna, Kamal Aljafari, Larissa...

The groundbreaking trilogy concludes! Struggling to forget her harrowing past, Nova, a powerful psionic soldier-in-training, has found strength in her fellow trainees. That newfound resolve will be put to the test when she and her team are...

As children, learning to read, we look first at the illustrations - but how do these tell their stories differently to the words? Words & Pictures explores this question through three encounters between writers and artists. It looks at how artists have...

Gavin Aung Than, creator of the innovative Zen Pencils, shares his passion for creativity and reveals how you, too, can live a creative life.Zen Pencils: Living a Creative Life is a call to wake up the creative spirit inside you. Through Zen Pencils...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780861967483Author David CurtisFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint John Libbey & Co LtdPublisher John Libbey & Co

In Dragging Away Lex Morgan Lancaster traces the formal and material innovations of contemporary queer and feminist artists, showing how they use abstraction as a queering tactic for social and political ends. Through a process Lancaster theorizes as a...

During the Victorian period there developed a new anxiety about male-female relations and roles in modern society, as described by a member of the Athenaeum in 1858, 'the distinction of man and woman, their separate as well as their joint rights, begins...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904212089Author Neal TaitFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Other CriteriaPublisher Other CriteriaWeight(grams) 960g

Showcasing his entire Star Trek career to date, this visually stunning retrospective celebrates the inventiveness of Neville Page's designs. During a career spanning over twenty years, visionary creature designer Neville Page has applied his...

The first major monograph on the visionary nature paintings of the pioneering American modernist Though Joseph Stella is primarily recognized for his dynamic Futurist-inspired paintings of New York, particularly of the Brooklyn Bridge, he was also...

The history of posters is rich in variations on the hand. In consumer posters, a hand presents desirable products. But the hand can also take the form of a symbolically charged gesture in the political poster. In cultural posters, the hand then becomes...

This is the first complete translation of the biographies of fifteen artists, including Annibale Carracci, Caravaggio, Rubens, Van Dyck, and Poussin, written by the seventeenth-century antiquarian Giovan Pietro Bellori. Originally conceived as a...

The most comprehensive overview of the art of Bruce NaumanAbout the AuthorPeter Plagens is best known to the general public for his work as Senior Writer and staff art critic at Newsweek (1989-2003), for which he continues to write occasional art...

This treatise on aesthetics begins by showing that the word "art" is used as a name not only for "art proper" but also for certain things which are "art falsely so called." These are craft or skill, magic, and amusement, each of which, by confusion with...