Art

This magnificent new volume presents works of art from the fabled collection of Philippe II, Duke of Orleans (1674-1723), including masterpieces by Raphael, Titian, Veronese, Correggio, Poussin, Rubens, and Rembrandt, bringing them together for the first...

"Destination Culture" takes the reader on an eye-opening journey from ethnological artifacts to kitsch. Posing the question, 'What does it mean to show?' Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett explores the agency of display in a variety of settings: museums,...

This book introduces an archaeological approach to the study of media - one that sifts through the evidence to learn how media were written about, used, designed, preserved, and sometimes discarded. Edited by Erkki Huhtamo and Jussi Parikka, with...

Nineteenth Century British Painting provides a succinct and informative chronological survey of a century of British painting which produced a great variety of work. It progresses from the beginnings of Romanticism in the late eighteenth century to the...

The Renaissance was probably the most influential and fertile period of European cultural history. We are all familiar with the giants of High Renaissance art - Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael - but how much do you really know about how it all started...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991558599Author Ursula BlockFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Primary InformationPublisher Primary InformationWeight(grams) 1157gDimensions(mm) 257mm...

In Art to Come Terry Smith-who is widely recognized as one of the world's leading historians and theorists of contemporary art-traces the emergence of contemporary art and further develops his concept of contemporaneity. Smith shows that embracing...

BRAND NEW & EXPANDED EDITION! Packed with dozens of additional horror titles and containing limited edition enhanced packaging (gilded foil page edges + ribbon marker). Are you obsessed with John Carpenter's iconic music for the Halloween series? Do...

When is a work of art finished? Can it be complete in a mental sense? And who decides? In this highly original and wide-ranging study, Carel Blotkamp explores the concept and manifestations of 'the end' in art. From the idea of a mortal end to the...

What is so "primitive" about primitive art? And how do we dare to use our standards to judge it? Drawing on an intriguing mixture of sources-including fashion ads and films, her own anthropological research, and even comic strips like Doonesbury-Price...

There are no rules, and even less justice. Death takes everyone without discrimination. Sometimes it is accidental - like Signorelli, who fell from scaffolding. Sometimes it is expected, as with the diabetic Cezanne, who wrote "I am old, sick, and I...

In 1994 the Arts Council of Great Britain brought together a number of theatre directors as part of the City of Drama celebrations. This is a collection of interviews and discussions with directors who have helped shape the development of theatre in the...

Mood is a phenomenon whose study is inherently interdisciplinary. While it has remained resistant to theorisation, it nonetheless has a substantial influence on art, politics and society. Since its practical omnipresence in every-day life renders it one...

"Art as Social Action . . . is an essential guide to deepening social art practices and teaching them to students." -Laura Raicovich, president and executive director, Queens MuseumArt as Social Action is both a general introduction to and an...

The market for contemporary Chinese art is one of the fastest-growing internationally, attracting buyers from all over the world, including, increasingly, from within China itself. There are thriving artistic communities in major cities throughout China,...

With his distinctive paintings of landscapes, figures and still lifes, Paul Cezanne (1839-1906) profoundly influenced the Cubists and the direction of twentieth-century art in general. In this lively account of the artist's life and work, Mary Tompkins...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Lawrence J. McCaffrey Prize 2021 (United States).Book InformationISBN 9781788551496Author Eimear O'ConnorFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Merrion...

An illustrated reference book for students and scholars of Persian art, poetry, and literature. With this book, Barbara Brend provides thorough consideration of two celebrated Persian manuscripts housed in the British Library. These two copies of the...

Do you love the look of fancy letters but think they are too hard to draw? Think again! Everyone's favorite art teacher, Mrs. Arnold, is back with another super-fun guide that breaks popular art techniques down into bite-sized lessons. In this newest...

Bring your own anthropomorphic fantasy characters to life!Furries fuse human and animal characteristics to create unique and fantastical hybrid forms. This book contains everything you need to start drawing furries for the printed page, for the screen,...

Museums and the Working Class is the first book to take an intersectional and international approach to the issues of economic diversity and class within the field of museum studies. Bringing together 16 contributors from eight countries, this book has...

Until now, Orientalist art-exemplified by paintings of harems, slave markets, or bazaars-has predominantly been understood to reflect Western interpretations and to perpetuate reductive, often demeaning stereotypes of the exotic East. Orientalism's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692254349Author Victory Hall PressFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Victory Hall PressPublisher Victory Hall PressWeight(grams) 186gDimensions(mm)...

The long nineteenth-century--the period beginning with the French Revolution and ending with World War I--was a transformative period for women philosophers in German-speaking countries and contexts. The period spans romanticism and idealism, socialism,...

The National Gallery, London possesses an important collection of paintings by 16th-century Netherlandish artists, including Joachim Beuckelaer, Hieronymus Bosch, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Jean Gossart, and Quinten Massys. They are grouped here with a...

The most comprehensive publication of Kodojin - beautiful and mysterious - a collection of more than 100 paintings with the English translations of his inscribed Chinese poems. The Art and Life of Fukuda Kodojin is the first publication in English to...

"Black women's heads of hair are galaxies unto themselves, solar systems, moonscapes, volcanic interiors." -Elizabeth Alexander, from the Introduction Using advertising photographs of black women (and men) drawn from vintage issues of Ebony and...

Learn how to draw manga characters and scenes! Best-selling author, Christopher Hart, teaches budding artists how to master drawing manga hair, poses, facial expressions, and more in this essential how-to-draw volume.About the AuthorChistopher Hart is...

From Renaissance fresco painters to contemporary graphic novel artists, the ability to draw clothed figures from one's imagination has always been crucial to artists - and exceptionally difficult to attain. With over 220 illustrations, The Art of Drawing...

Up-to-date account of media art issues in the early 21st centuryEarly 21st century media arts are addressing the anxieties of an age shadowed by ubiquitous surveillance, big data profiling, and globalised translocations of people. Altogether, they tap...

Focuses on teaching the reader how to create their own rigs that fit the specific needs of their own animators, game and animation. Includes access to a high-quality character model that the reader can use to follow along with the book.There is no other...

Let your spirit soar with 30 uplifting and encouraging designs in this extraordinary coloring activity book. Zenspirations(R) creator Joanne Fink reveals her easy-to-learn techniques for combining positive messages and playful patterns. So much more than...

Presented to Stan Beckensall on his 90th birthday, this diverse and stimulating collection of papers celebrates his crucial contribution to rock art studies, and also looks to the future. It should be of value to students of prehistoric Britain and...

Inspired by the groundbreaking work of W. E. B. Du Bois, this beautiful collection brings together an amazing roster of Black creative voices to honor, celebrate, and foster Black excellence. The New Brownies' Book reimagines the very first publication...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993337352Author John SnijdersFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Marmalade, Publishers of Visual TheoryPublisher Marmalade, Publishers of Visual...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912500048Author Paul E H DavisFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint The University of Buckingham PressPublisher Legend Press LtdWeight(grams) 400g

Among the foremost feminist critics to have emerged to international eminence over the last fifteen years, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has relentlessly challenged the high ground of established theoretical discourse in literary and cultural studies...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857241869Author Christian PadillaFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 1260g

In Technocrats of the Imagination John Beck and Ryan Bishop explore the collaborations between the American avant-garde art world and the military-industrial complex during the 1960s, in which artists worked with scientists and engineers in universities,...

In the 1960s, art patron Dominique de Menil founded an image archive showing the ways that people of African descent have been represented in Western art. Highlights from her collection appeared in three large-format volumes that quickly became...