Art

Speed is an obvious facet of contemporary society, whereas slowness has often been dismissed as conservative and antimodern. Challenging a long tradition of thought, Lutz Koepnick instead proposes we understand slowness as a strategy of the...

The British Museum has one of the finest collection of antiquities from ancient Greece and Rome outside of those countries. This beautiful book investigates 180 of the most important works, including the most famous (such as the Parthenon sculptures) and...

The punk movement of the 1970s to early 1980s is examined as an art movement through archive research, interviews, and art historical analysis. It is about pop, pain, poetry, presence, and about a 'no future' generation refusing to be the next artworld...

Preeminent Iranian-American artist Ali Banisadr s canvases depict a complex swirl of action and abstracted figuration across a stagelike picture plane. Varied histories inform these paintings, ranging from the artist s synaesthesia, to Persian...

Magnificent hardcover art books featuring the incredible images and lore of Magic: The Gathering (R)! Step aboard the legendary airship Weatherlight and explore Dominaria, an ancient world whose stories are known throughout the Multiverse. Dominaria has...

A revisionist history of the early life and career of Renaissance artist Giovanni Bellini Widely recognized as one of the greatest painters of the Italian Renaissance, Giovanni Bellini is revered for his mastery of color, atmosphere and light. However,...

This book offers a fresh perspective on the history of birth and infancy by showing a rich array of images and objects ranging from paintings, prints, sculpture, metalwork, jewellery, textiles, ceramics, furniture and woodwork from both the fine and...

Design and implement video game sound from beginning to end with this hands-on course in game audio. Music and sound effects speak to players on a deep level, and this book will show you how to design and implement powerful, interactive sound that...

The work of Slovak sculptor Maria Bartuszova (1936-96) was first presented to international audiences in Kassel in 2007. Although her art has appeared in influential exhibitions and been included in prestigious contemporary art collections, up until now,...

Drawing Words and Writing Pictures is a course on comics creation - for college classes or for independent study - that centres on storytelling and concludes with making a finished comic.With chapters on lettering, story structure, and panel layout, the...

Acrylic paint is the preferred choice of many artists. This sourcebook demonstrates how artists can exploit this medium to open up a range of creative possibilities. Step-by-step lessons show artists how to use acrylic paint transparently, translucently,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780867198683Author Skinner!Format HardbackPage Count 172Imprint Last Gasp,U.S.Publisher Last Gasp,U.S.

The first appraisal of modern Native American abstraction, merging abstract expressionism, color field and hard-edge painting with Native American art The volume features paintings and works on paper from the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts'...

- Learn what it takes for editors, cinematographers, directors, producers, lighting technicians, and other filmmakers to work more effectively with visual effects artists on productions, use visual effects as an aid in visual storytelling, reduce...

"..new studies of Verger's archive show a greater range of interest in his pictures, many of which celebrated jazz age nightlife and an emergent professional class. The rediscovered images are collected in a new book that offers a nuanced portrait of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262048262Author Kat MustateaFormat HardbackPage Count 136Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783869306476Author Jim DineFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Steidl VerlagPublisher Steidl PublishersWeight(grams) 1240g

The first comprehensive account in English of Renaissance Spain's preeminent sculptor Alonso Berruguete (c. 1488-1561) revolutionized the arts of Renaissance Spain with a dramatic style of sculpture that reflected the decade or more he had spent in Italy...

Pictures for Charis offers a groundbreaking new work by artist Kelli Connell, synthesizing text and image, while raising vital questions about photography, gender, and portraiture in the twenty-first century. Pictures for Charis is a project driven by...

Probing material histories and Black feminist epistemologies, Rhea Dillon evokes the fragments of a conceptual body — eyes, hands, feet, mouth, soul, reproductive organs and lungs — in this poetic assemblage of responses to colonialism, patriarchy, and...

Philip Guston's legendary, prescient political satire of Richard Nixon In the summer of 1971-two years before the Watergate hearings-Richard Nixon was an incumbent whose grip on power was being tested by the Pentagon Papers. Inspired in part by the...

Women have been making art for centuries, yet their work has been seen as secondary or has gone unrecognised altogether. Women Making Art asks why this is so, and what it would take for us to realise the extent of women's extraordinary contribution to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802864970Author Solrunn NesFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing CoWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913689230Author Ken HollingsFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Strange Attractor PressPublisher Strange Attractor Press

'Janamsakhis' are stories about the life of Guru Nanak (1469-1539). They have been circulating orally, in writing, and in paintings and illustrations. B40 is one such documented artistic expression held at the British Library in London. Its 57 beautiful...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399576669Author Barry BlittFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Penguin Putnam IncPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Heritage's revival as a respected academic subject has, in part, resulted from an increased awareness and understanding of indigenous rights and non-Western philosophies and practices, and a growing respect for the intangible. Heritage has, thus far,...

The first substantial book on the French Neo-Romantics, a cosmopolitan group working in 1920s Paris who turned against modernist abstraction in favour of a new form of figurative painting. In 1926, the Galerie Druet in Paris made waves presenting a...

A collection of essays concerning religion and art, including contributions by Barbara Novak, Leo Steinberg, Paul Tillich, Wassily Kandinsky, John Dixon Jr., David Tracy, Joshua Taylor, and Langdon B. Gilkey.About the AuthorDiane Apostolos-Cappadona is...

The first comprehensive monograph on Mickalene Thomas, a key figure in 21st-century contemporary art Over the past two decades, Mickalene Thomas's critically acclaimed and extensive body of work has spanned painting, collage, photography, video, and the...

An illuminating reassessment of the architect whose innovative drawings of ruins shaped the enduring image of ancient RomeGiuliano da Sangallo (1443-1516) was one of the first architects to draw the ruins and artifacts of ancient Rome in a systematic way...

Melancholy is not only about sadness, despair, and loss. As Renaissance artists and philosophers acknowledged long ago, it can engender a certain kind of creativity born from a deep awareness of the mutability of life and the inevitable cycle of birth...

In the early 1400s, Iranian elites began migrating to the Deccan plateau of southern India. Lured to the region for many reasons, these poets, traders, statesmen, and artists of all kinds left an indelible mark on the Islamic sultanates that ruled the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781734154641Author John LemayFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint Bicep BooksPublisher Bicep BooksWeight(grams) 494gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm * 22mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623719579Author Joseph FarrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Interlink BooksPublisher Interlink BooksWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 193mm *...

Since its small screen debut in 1982, Macross has remained one of most influential mecha anime of all time. Longtime franchise illustrator Hidetaka Tenjin captures the high-flying action of the series' iconic "variable fighters" like no other artist...

This book explores a series of powerful artifacts associated with King Solomon via legendary or extracanonical textual sources. Tracing their cultural resonance throughout history, art historian Allegra Iafrate delivers exciting insights into these...

An essential guide to making ceramic jewellery from sourcing or creating fittings and findings, combining other materials and avoiding potential design issues. Ceramic jewellery is an ever-growing area of the ceramic world. Although ceramic beads have...

These essays by Hahn and West will deal respectively with the formation of the collection and the figure of Bent Juel-Jensen, the seminal Aksumite coin collector in Oxford (as well as a medical doctor, academic, and traveller). They will also discuss...

Framed by evocative inscriptions, tumultuous historical events, and the ambiguities of Christian death, Romanesque tomb effigies were the first large-scale figural monuments for the departed in European art. In this book, Shirin Fozi explores these...