Art

Official companion book to the Netflix TV series featuring concept art, sketches, behind-the-scenes photography and interviews with cast and crew. Based on the worldwide phenomenon from Sunrise Inc., Cowboy Bebop is the jazz-inspired, genre-bending...

Applying for Jobs and Internships in Museums offers a straightforward approach to applying for positions within a museum. Martha M. Schloetzer provides practical advice about the application and interview process that will prepare emerging museum...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780867197471Author Monte BeauchampFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Last Gasp,U.S.Publisher Last Gasp,U.S.Weight(grams) 600g

Welcome to a lovely world of flowers and patterns! Inside you ll find 32 modern floral coloring activities from visionary designer Debra Valencia. Perfect for enhancing with markers, colored pencils, gel pens, crayons, or watercolors, each of these...

Fully illustrated hardback catalogue to the exhibition Viktor Wynd's UnNatural History Museum within The National Maritime Museum, Cornwall running until December 2022 Introduced by The Museum's Director Richard Doughty With Essays by art historian...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941701652Author Alexander NemerovFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint David ZwirnerPublisher David ZwirnerWeight(grams) 80g

A fascinating exploration of the introduction of Vincent van Gogh's work to the United States one hundred years later Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) is one of the most iconic artists in the world, and how he became a household name in the United States is...

Expeditions and Endeavours is illustrated with over 100 paintings and drawings created on some of the most significant voyages of natural history discovery undertaken over the past 300 years. Andrea Hart and Paul Martyn Cooper explore how these...

Explicit material is more widely available in the internet age than ever before, yet the concept of 'obscenity' remains as difficult to pin down as it is to approach without bias: notions of what is 'obscene' shift with societies' shifting mores, and our...

Because I Tell a Joke or Two explores the complex relationship between comedy and the social differences of class, region, age, gender, sexuality, ethnicity and nationhood. It shows how comedy has been used to sustain, challenge and to change power...

Age range 12+Five teenaged fourth-class Terrans are rough-around-the-edges Ghost cadets in training, and they are forced to deal with everyday teen issues such as crushes, physical and emotional pain, addiction to drugs and their own budding telepathic...

This ground-breaking exhibition focuses on an overlooked strand in British painting of the 1930s. It reveals a small group of figure painters, situated stylistically between the avant-garde abstractionists and the entrenched Edwardian traditions of belle...

"An invaluable resource a delightful and compendious opus." - The Pre-Raphaelite Society Review The Death of Chatterton hangs from the wall of the Tate Britain, a resplendent depiction of tragedy. This is the canvas that earned Henry Wallis...

Goldsmiths' products examined, combining discussion of object with analysis of inscription and design, and literary and archaeological evidence for smiths and their work. Throughout the Anglo-Saxon period, goldsmiths produced work of a high standard...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857245546Author Gianni CanovaFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 1840g

Garland of Visions explores the generative relationships between artistic intelligence and tantric vision practices in the construction and circulation of visual knowledge in medieval South Asia. Shifting away from the traditional connoisseur approach,...

Conceptualism played a different role in Latin American art during the 1960s and 1970s than in Europe and the United States, where conceptualist artists predominantly sought to challenge the primacy of the art object and art institutions, as well as the...

Elina Brotherus (* 1972 in Helsink) works in photography and moving image. Her work has been alternating between autobiographical and art-historical approaches. Photographs dealing with the human figure and the landscape, the relation of the artist and...

Working with Young Children in Museums makes a major contribution to the small body of extant research on young children in museums, galleries and heritage sites. Bridging theory and practice, the book introduces theoretical concepts in a clear and...

Collecting 100 full-color pages and featuring 48 different Japanese manga and anime artists, Black Tights features some of the best illustrators in Japan. With stockings as their primary themes, WIDE focuses on thighs. Overseen by cover artist and art...

An artist's book compendium of the Hammer's Museum's entire incoming mail, designed in the style of a mail-order catalog For Mail, Los Angeles-based artist Mungo Thomson (born 1969) asked the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles to let its incoming mail...

What is conceptual art? Is it really a kind of art in its own right? Is it clever - or too clever?Of all the different art forms it is perhaps conceptual art which at once fascinates and infuriates the most. In this much-needed book Peter Goldie and...

Edward Bawden had already established a growing reputation as a printmaker, designer and book illustrator when at the age of 36 he was appointed one of the original five Official War Artists for the Second World War. Between 1940 and 1944, during his two...

Draw unique cartoon characters using simple geometric shapes! In Cartooning Made Easy: Circle, Triangle, Square, professional artist and My Modern Met contributor Margherita Cole offers easy-to-follow instruction for using basic shapes to draw cute...

Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717-1768), one of the most important figures ever to have written about art, is considered by many to be the father of modern art history. This book is an intellectual biography of Winckelmann that discusses his magnum opus,...

Czech Cubism is one of the most important contributions of modern Czech art to world culture. These works, created approximately between 1910 and 1935, embrace painting, drawing, graphic art, collage, sculpture, architecture and applied art, and the...

Unlike the other two master Renaissance painters associated with Venice, Titian and Veronese, Tintoretto (1519-94) alone was born in Venice and he left his mark there more than either artist. His paintings can still be found everywhere in the city: not...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143134367Author Harry DodgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 306gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 140mm *...

Curating the Future: Museums, Communities and Climate Change explores the way museums tackle the broad global issue of climate change. It explores the power of real objects and collections to stir hearts and minds, to engage communities affected by...

Haraway's discussions of how scientists have perceived the sexual nature of female primates opens a new chapter in feminist theory, raising unsettling questions about models of the family and of heterosexuality in primate research.About the AuthorDouglas...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905464562Author Iwona BlazwickFormat PaperbackPage Count 588Imprint RidinghousePublisher Ridinghouse

Exploring the writings of major thinkers (among them Montesquieu, Burke, Kant, Marx, and Freud), and leading art historians (including Pliny, Winckelmann, Ruskin, Pater, Gombrich, and Baxandall), as well as artists such as Alberti and Leonardo and...

Austin Cooper was by chance of birth a Canadian but built his career as a commercial artist in London. Art-educated in Wales and Scotland, he became, in the inter-war years, one of the most highly-respected poster artist in the United Kingdom - one of L...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857248059Author David Alan BrownFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 670g

Street-cool visual artist-cum-nightlife guru, Andre Saraiva, whose life dovetails into graffiti subculture, chic jet-setting, and the fashion world, presents an autobiographical visual diary of sorts, a revealing window into the worlds he inhabits...

Go behind the scene of the behind the scenes to learn how the business of producing the dazzling visual effects we see in movies and on TV works. With decades of combined VFX production and supervisory experience in Hollywood, the authors share their...

Animals have always been compelling subjects for artists, but the rise of animal advocacy and posthumanist thought has prompted a reconsideration of the relationship between artist and animal. In this book, Steve Baker examines the work of contemporary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262201612Author Nato ThompsonFormat HardbackPage Count 140Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 1043gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 254mm * 19mm

In this landmark collection, William T. Vollmann offers a kaleidoscopic retrospective of the visual artwork he has produced over four decades, with new commentary from Vollmann on his process, inspiration, and the many intersections with his writing.The...

Informative, illuminating, insightful and erudite, Slogan T-Shirts: Cult and Culture is completely unique. Featuring interviews with a wealth of credible fashion insiders, cultural commentators and creative luminaries, from Holly Johnson (of Frankie Goes...