Art

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913637705Author Tug J. WilsonFormat PaperbackImprint Candy Jar BooksPublisher Candy Jar Books

Winner, Book Prize in Latin American Studies, Colonial Section of Latin American Studies Association (LASA), 2016 ALAA Book Award, Association for Latin American Art/Arvey Foundation, 2016The capital of the Aztec empire, Tenochtitlan, was, in its era,...

Starring the likes of Brigitte Bardot, Catherine Deneuve, and Jeanne Moreau, and directed by iconoclasts such as Francois Truffaut, Eric Rohmer, and Jean-Luc Godard, French movies are as touching, beautiful, and romantic as they come in all of film.Le...

The Swiss National Museum is Switzerland's most frequently visited museum of cultural history. At its three sites in Zurich, Prangins and Schwyz, it presents Swiss identities from prehistory to the twenty-first century. At its Collection Centre, it...

Global Intersectionality and Contemporary Human Rights argues for an expansive definition of human rights, one that encompasses the harm caused by multiple, intersecting forms of subordination. Intersectionality theory posits that aspects of identity,...

Ask someone their thoughts about "democracy" and you'll get many different responses. Some may presume it a thing once established yet now under threat. Others may believe that democracy has always been compromised by the empowered few. In the...

Humor, Empathy, and Community in Twentieth-Century American Poetry explores how American poets of the last hundred years have used laughter to create communities of readers and writers. For poets slightly outside of the literary or social mainstream,...

for SATB and piano or orchestra Optional parts for bass and drum set enliven this joyous arrangement for choir and piano of a traditional spiritual. Propelled by a light swing tempo, the mood grows more and more euphoric with each succeeding stanza of...

General Amos Amir's autobiography tells the story of the man, the warrior and the commander and the story of the struggling, newly-born, Israeli Air Force. From the Six Days War of 1967 and onward, the IAF turned to be an extremely important component of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788415303565Author Sean ScullyFormat HardbackPage Count 76Imprint La FabricaPublisher La Fabrica

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio's life was turbulent and short. He was only in his late thirties when he died and yet he managed to achieve tremendous artistic success. A native of Caravaggio, near Milan, he was born in 1571 and moved to Rome after...

From Russian court to the mountains of Tibet, and from the laboratories of Pittsburgh to the salons of Park Avenue, the extraordinary career of the artist and entomologist Andrey Avinoff (1884-1949) has never been surveyed in its entirety. Avinoff...

This innovative and exciting volume celebrates the career of Janet Wolff: a highly influential voice in the literature of sociology, cultural studies, visual studies and art history, as well as dance and modernism for several decades. Her work has...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783865608802Author Hans-Ulrich ObristFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Buchhandlung Walther Konig GmbH & Co. KG. Abt. VerlagPublisher Buchhandlung...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783960983514Author Peter FischliFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint 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 9783037640814Author Sigismond De VajayFormat HardbackPage Count 408Imprint JRP RingierPublisher JRP Ringier

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783903131675Author Georg BaselitzFormat HardbackPage Count 72Imprint VFMKPublisher VFMK

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783037644942Author Trinie DaltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint JRP RingierPublisher JRP Ringier

Sea King was published in conjunction with the book launch of German artist Sabine Moritz s Helicopter at Serpentine Galleries and as a catalogue to a companion exhibition of the Sea King series. Originally derived from a simple black and white sketch,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905464685Author Guy BrettFormat HardbackPage Count 218Imprint RidinghousePublisher Ridinghouse

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771513852Author Robert AmosFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Touchwood EditionsPublisher Touchwood EditionsWeight(grams) 1061gDimensions(mm) 231mm *...

At once emphatically abstract and culturally specific, the work of Seung-taek Lee (born 1932) draws on the subtle beauty of Korean aesthetic traditions and folk art, also reflecting contemporaneous developments in earth art, Mono-ha and...

Figure Drawing for Concept Artists is an essential primer that aims to bring traditional figure drawing techniques and knowledge to every concept artist's skill set. Accessibly written and lavishly illustrated by Kan Muftic, a professional concept artist...

Published in conjunction with the first solo museum exhibition of the work of Sanja Ivekovic in the United States, this volume presents the most comprehensive survey on the artist available in English. A feminist, activist, video and performance pioneer,...

Helio Oiticica (1937-1980) altered the Brazilian art scene, and his works broke with accepted conventions. His oeuvre was seminal for the breakthrough of Tropicalia, the cultural movement that rebelled against the reprisals by the military regime...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783944669038Author Olaf NicolaiFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Spector BooksPublisher Spector Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783960987642Author Inger VinckFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint 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 9781624650673Author Chris AyersFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Design Studio PressPublisher Design Studio Press

What might Godzilla and Kurosawa have in common? What, if anything, links Ozu's sparse portraits of domestic life and the colorful worlds of anime? In What Is Japanese Cinema? Yomota Inuhiko provides a concise and lively history of Japanese film that...

The brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne have established an international reputation for their emotionally powerful realist cinema. Inspired by their home turf of Liege-Seraing, a former industrial hub of French-speaking southern Belgium, they have...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684058570Author Kevin EastmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Idea & Design WorksPublisher Idea & Design Works

Scholars have traditionally viewed the Italian Renaissance artist as a gifted, but poorly educated craftsman whose complex and demanding works were created with the assistance of a more educated advisor. These assumptions are, in part, based on research...

Ephraim Moses Lilien (1874-1925) was one of the most important Jewish artists of modern times. As a successful illustrator, photographer, painter and printer, he became the first major Zionist artist. Surprisingly there has been little in-depth scholarly...

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 perfect primer for anyone - no matter their age or artistic abilities - to learn how to draw flowers! Featuring easy-to-follow tutorials on doodling and drawing 100 flowers, 30 leaves and vines, and 20 more doodle art, all in five simple steps, this...

This book, first published in 2004, develops a theory for the understanding of Roman pictorial art. By treating Roman art as a semantic system it establishes a connection between artistic forms and the ideological messages contained within. The history...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781901785128Author Robert Saltonstall MattisonFormat HardbackPage Count 183Imprint 21 Publishing LtdPublisher 21 Publishing LtdDimensions(mm) 318mm * 255mm...

In 2019 Ali Kazim, one of the most exciting contemporary artists working in Pakistan today, became the first South Asian artist-in-residence at the Ashmolean Museum. Drawing inspiration from the objects in the Eastern Art collections, and their...

The first and only monograph to give a comprehensive examination of acclaimed American artist Sarah Sze's painting practice Since the late 1990s, Sarah Sze has developed a signature visual language that challenges the static nature of art with a dynamic...

Masterpieces of nineteenth-century French painting from the Ordrupgaard Collection in Copenhagen are travelling to the Royal Academy of Arts in the spring of 2020. Drawn from the remarkable collection of the Danish insurance magnate and art lover Wilhelm...