Art

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942130697Author Anthony J. CascardiFormat HardbackPage Count 376Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 982gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 167mm *...

One of the few women Impressionists, Mary Cassatt (1844-1926) had a life of paradoxes: American born, she lived and worked in France; a classically trained artist, she preferred the company of radicals; never married, she painted exquisite and beloved...

Diary of A Young Artist is a beautiful reproduction of the diary notes and sketches of Vietnamese war artist Pham Thanh Tam, created in the Vietminh trenches while on the front line of the decisive battle of Dien Bien Phu.About the AuthorPham Thanh Tam,...

Written by his daughter, Evelyn A. Williams, The Art of Denis Williams is a long-overdue illustrated guide to the work of a man praised worldwide, including by the likes of Wyndham Lewis, Henry Moore and Salvador Dali. In the 1940s, Denis Williams was...

The most comprehensive monograph available on the greatest living glassblower, Lino Tagliapietra. Lino Tagliapietra has been described as the world's greatest glassblower, a figure born from the five-hundred-year-old culture of Venetian glass, but one...

In the last decade, Spanish film auteur Pedro Almodovar has grown from critical darling of the film circuit scene to mainstream success. Frequently comic, often deadly serious, always visually glorious, his recent films range from the Oscar award-winning...

Velazquez. Poussin. Carvaggio. Bernini. Despite their disparate backgrounds, these greats of European Baroque art converged at one remarkable place in time: Rome, 1630. In response to the Protestant Reformation, the Catholic Church turned to these...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907317262Author Bob SmithFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Black Dog Publishing London UKPublisher Black Dog PressWeight(grams) 1559g

From a renowned illustrator of DC and Marvel comic books, an engaging full-color instruction book for teens and adults alike This is an art instruction book filled with original, full-color art and step-by-step instructional texts, teaching burgeoning...

Museums, Society, Inequality explores the wide-ranging social roles and responsibilities of the museum. It brings together international perspectives to stimulate critical debate, inform the work of practitioners and policy makers, and to advance...

Artworld Prestige examines the ways in which cultural arguments about value develop: the processes by which some practices, artists, and media in the artworld win and others lose. Timothy Van Laar and Leonard Diepeveen argue that the concept of prestige,...

This stunning catalogue presents an exceptional collection of rare Burmese silver. Accompanied by detailed photographs and explanatory texts, this ground-breaking book proposes a new way of looking at Burmese silver. Names, dates, places, and stories...

This volume addresses the question of the relation between sculpture and coins-or large statuary and miniature art-in the private and public domain. It originates in the Harvard Art Museums 2011 Ilse and Leo Mildenberg interdisciplinary symposium...

Art + Science Now is a groundbreaking overview of the art being made at the cutting edge of scientific research. The first illustrated book in its field, it shows how some of the world's most dynamic art is being produced not in museums, galleries and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782914563765Author Sophie OrlandoFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Dis VoirPublisher Dis Voir

The first book to explore the role of images in philosophical thought and teaching in the early modern period Delving into the intersections between artistic images and philosophical knowledge in Europe from the late sixteenth to the early eighteenth...

Following a spectacular surge in interest for Egyptian masters, Modern Art in Egypt fills the void in Egyptian art history, chronicling the lives and legacies of six pioneering artists working under the British occupation. Using Western-style academic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783943330212Author Gingko PressFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Gingko PressPublisher Gingko Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593312728Author Rax KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 210gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 132mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781440303876Author Cowan, FinlayFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint IMPACT BooksPublisher F&W Publications IncWeight(grams) 520gDimensions(mm) 280mm *...

"The most elegant of all art critic cowboys" -Spike Art MagazineColor beams at us from the everyday, but within each of the ten million shades are hidden our best and worst stories. Colors is a collection of lush short stories about the many different...

For more than three centuries Oxford has been the subject of fine illustrated books and engraved prints. These exquisitely made illustrations have become part of the historical record, showing how Oxford's identity is rooted in the past and tracing a...

WHAT MAKES A CULT MUSICIAN? Whether pioneering in their craft, fiercely and undeniably unique or critically divisive, cult musicians come in all shapes and guises. Some gain instant fame, others instant notoriety, and more still remain anonymous until a...

In The Mirror, the Window, and the Telescope, Samuel Y. Edgerton brings fresh insight to a subject of perennial interest to the history of art and science in the West: the birth of linear perspective. Edgerton retells the fascinating story of how...

These extraordinary works by Cecily Brown, of wrecked ships, frantic and prone bodies, carefully illuminate the tensions between the past and the present. Taking inspiration from Delacroix's shipwreck paintings, as well as one of the most feted paintings...

In the early 19th century, artists and printers embraced the new medium of lithography, an innovative method to mass - produce and distribute images. Known for its collection of French prints and posters, the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780764981777Author Leslie BoydFormat HardbackPage Count 84Imprint Pomegranate Communications Inc,USPublisher Pomegranate Communications Inc,USWeight(grams)...

Original and idealistic, Mary Wykeham (1909-1996), to date neglected in the histories of surrealism, is brought centre stage in this first study of her remarkable pursuit of art - a creative impulse that witnessed her crossing Europe and finding success...

Living Room Wars brings together Ien Ang's recent writings on television audiences, and , in response to recent criticisms of cultural studies, argues that it is possible to study audience pleasures and popular television in a way that is not naively...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647220525Author Joel SelvinFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Insight EditionsPublisher Insight Editions

The ultimate guide to core jewellery-making techniques, packed with unique (and money-saving) tips. This book gives you an overview of core jewellery-making techniques and helps you to achieve the same results as traditional methods with easier and...

Oscar Wilde's fairy tales are some of his most elegant and charming pieces of writing. He produced two books of fairy tales -- THE HAPPY PRINCE AND OTHER TALES, and A HOUSE OF POMEGRANATES . They've rarely been collected in one volume -- and never with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908211316Author Marc LevertonFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Carpet Bombing CulturePublisher Carpet Bombing CultureWeight(grams) 108gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789057011122Author Mieke BalFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint G&B Arts InternationalPublisher Gordon and BreachWeight(grams) 657g

Timing for Animation has been one of the pillars of animation since it was first published in 1981. Now this 40th anniversary edition captures the focus of the original and enhances this new edition with fresh images, techniques, and advice from...

Featuring a wide array of iconic rock posters, period photographs, music memorabilia and light shows, "out-of-this-world" clothing, and avant-garde films, this catalogue celebrates San Francisco's rebellious and colorful counterculture that blossomed in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913029814Author MattinFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Urbanomic Media LtdPublisher Urbanomic Media Ltd

In Climate Change and the New Polar Aesthetics, Lisa E. Bloom considers the ways artists, filmmakers, and activists engaged with the Arctic and Antarctic to represent our current environmental crises and reconstruct public understandings of them. Bloom...

Situated in a Mediterranean landscape, the Maeght Foundation is a unique Modernist museum, product of an extraordinary collaboration between the architect, Jose Luis Sert, and the artists whose work was to be displayed there. The architecture, garden...

Collecting objects gives enormous pleasure to approximately one third of the population, providing such benefits as intellectual stimulation, the thrill of the chase, and leaving a legacy. On the other hand, the same pursuit can engender pain; for...