Art

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...

Offering historical and theoretical positions from a variety of art historians, artists, curators, and writers, this groundbreaking collection is the first substantive source book on abstraction in moving-image media. With a particular focus on art since...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913230159Author R.J. MitchellFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Matthew James Publishing LtdPublisher Andrews UK Limited

Have you ever stopped to consider what goes into a painting beyond what you can see? Welcome to a fascinating journey of discovery... The Geometry of the Last Supper skilfully blends the worlds of Renaissance art, geometry and symbolism, allowing the...

Commemorating the 40th anniversary of the artist's accidental death at age 50, this volume offers the first substantial survey of the entire oeuvre of Wallace Berman (1926-76) from the late 1940s until 1976. Berman has been long heralded as one of the...

Enzo Mari was an inventor of languages, a constructor of grammars - intended as methods or sets of rules -, deeming these instruments necessary to “communicate knowledge with improved quality and efficiency”.It is impossible to define his discipline or...

A fascinating glimpse into the creative process of a major contemporary sculptor, featuring many previously unseen works on paper American sculptor Martin Puryear (b. 1941) creates work that combines the clean elegance of minimalism and the simplicity...

A survey of the fine illustration work that was done in Britain in the 20th century, focusing particularly on the work of staff and students of Central Saint Martins. It looks at not only book illustration for both adults and children but also fashion...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781890951153Author Christopher S. WoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 488Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 753gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Embroidery motifs for every hair type and person! Representation matters and this embroidery looks like you! Celebrate diversity with 10 projects and more than 50 motifs in a wide array of skin tones, body shapes, and hair textures. About the...

They were not only two of the outstanding artists of the Bauhaus, but also a well-known couple. Their many famous works and the artists they influenced as teachers and role models bear witness to their life and work. But that is not all, as another...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of 2019, AIGA Award for Best Design 2019.Book InformationISBN 9780262043281Author Marie-Pier BoucherFormat HardbackPage Count 210Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788869773365Author Shaun GallagherFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Mimesis InternationalPublisher Mimesis International

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262042741Author Jacquelynn BaasFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 29mm

From the editors of Another Man magazine, an epic journey into the world of men's style. Another Man magazine is revered around the world as the ultimate style bible for modern men. Elevating men's fashion to a lavish and luxurious level, it combines a...