Art

Visual Propaganda, Exhibitions, and the Spanish Civil War is a history of art during wartime that analyzes images in various media that circulated widely and were encountered daily by Spaniards on city walls, in print, and in exhibitions. Tangible...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783958299610Author Joseph BeuysPage Count 4Imprint Steidl VerlagPublisher Steidl PublishersWeight(grams) 160g

*Winner of the American Society for Aesthetics 2019 Outstanding Monograph Prize*Until now, research on art schools has been largely occupied with the facts of particular schools and teachers. This book presents a philosophical account of the underlying...

Founded and directed by Golden Globe-nominated actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt, hitRECord is an open collaborative production company where members can contribute their work in various forms including music, videos, text and drawings. Members are then...

This volume travels through the most important moments and crossroads in the lifetime and career of Christian Boltanski, which have led him into reflecting upon the outcome of some historical events during the twentieth century and on the need to...

A radical reassessment of the role of movement, emotion, and the viewing experience in Gothic sculpture Gothic cathedrals in northern Europe dazzle visitors with arrays of sculpted saints, angels, and noble patrons adorning their portals and interiors...

A raw collection of photos and stories spotlighting the artistic process and dangerous adventures of a Chicago graffiti artist as he creates unsponsored works of art around the world. More than 350 photographs combine with previously untold firsthand...

Jim Jarmusch: Music, Words and Noise is the first book to examine the films of Jim Jarmusch from a sound-oriented perspective. The three essential acoustic elements that structure a film - music, words and noise - propel this book's fascinating journey...

In an ancient account of painting's origins, a woman traces the shadow of her departing lover on the wall in an act that anticipates future grief and commemoration. Lisa Saltzman shows here that nearly two thousand years after this story was first told,...

Sophie Taeuber-Arp was a quiet innovator whose fame has too often been yoked to that of her husband, Jean Arp. Over time, however, she has slowly come to be seen as one of the foremost abstract artists and designers of the twentieth century. The...

A Companion to Medieval Art brings together cutting-edge scholarship devoted to the Romanesque and Gothic traditions in Northern Europe. Brings together cutting-edge scholarship devoted to the Romanesque and Gothic traditions in Northern Europe.Contains...

This unique book offers guidance for contemporary art practices in dialogue with history, story, memory, and tradition.Artist and lecturer Paul O'Kane uses innovative and creative means, informed by a storytelling tradition as well as academic research,...

The visible world overflows with pictures: more than three billion of them stream across social media every day. This overproduction this excess needs to be managed. Images must be stored, formatted and transported, their flow and exchange must...

"I've always looked upon cartooning as comedy's last frontier. I have done stand-up, sketches, movies, monologues, awards show introductions, sound bites, blurbs, talk show appearances, and tweets, but the idea of a one-panel image with or without a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781872501321Author Lucy Freeman SandlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Harvey Miller PublishersPublisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 562g

This book maps key moments in the history of postwar art from a global perspective. The reader is introduced to a new globally oriented approach to art, artists, museums and movements of the postwar era (1945-70). Specifically, this book bridges the gap...

Sunny cats, sad cats, grinning cats, bad cats, cats with scowls and cats with jowls ...hand-bound with a silk screened cover, "I Like Cats" features a gallery of irresistible feline characters from some of the best-known tribal and folk artists of India...

A new focus on the sublime landscapes in Lisa Yuskavage's voluptuous figure paintings Though she is arguably best known for the voluptuous female nudes that populate her paintings, Lisa Yuskavage's work is just as focused on the ethereal settings in...

In 1857 the French poet Charles Baudelaire, who was fascinated by lesbianism, created a scandal with Les Fleurs du Mal [The Flowers of Evil]. This collection was originally entitled "The Lesbians" and described women as "femmes damnees," with "disordered...

Seeing Differently offers a history and theory of ideas about identity in relation to visual arts discourses and practices in Euro-American culture, from early modern beliefs that art is an expression of an individual, the painted image a "world picture"...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635901047Author Masha TupitsynFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher Semiotext (E)Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 14mm

A complete 'How to' guide to obtaining a wide range of colours from natural dyes. This book is part of the popular Textile Handbook series and is a complete 'how to' guide to obtaining a wide range of colours from natural dyes, suitable for beginners...

Scott Lukas, famed industry expert on designing themed spaces, brings you a book that focuses on the imaginative world of themed, immersive and consumer spaces. Whether or not you are involved in designing a theme park, cultural museum, shop, or other...

A Sight & Sound Book of the Year Jez Stewart charts the course of this extraordinarily fertile area of British film from early experiments with stop-motion and the flourishing of animated drawings during WWI. He reveals how the rockier interwar period...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783741929359Author Emma HansenFormat PaperbackPage Count 540Imprint Koenemann.Com GmbHPublisher Koenemann.Com GmbHWeight(grams) 1225gDimensions(mm) 213mm *...

A must-have for Alexander von Humboldt fans and botanic enthusiasts, this gorgeous collection of frameable posters of his studies is filled with natural wonders and meticulous detail. More than two centuries after Alexander von Humboldt established...

Museums, Sexuality, and Gender Activism examines the role of exhibitionary institutions in representing LGBTQ+ people, cisgender women, and nonbinary individuals. Considering recent gender and sexuality-related developments through a critical lens, the...

The classic study of the timeless relationship between literature and the visual artsIn his search for a common link between literature and the visual arts, Mario Praz draws on the abundant evidence of mutual understanding and correspondence they have...

Meet some of the finest digital 2D and 3D artists working in the industry today, from Patrick Beaulieu, Philip Straub, Benita Winckler, Alessandro Baldasseroni to Khalid Al Muharraqi, Marcel Baumann and Marek Denko and see how they work. More than just a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783982389400Author William J. SimmonsFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Floating Opera PressPublisher Floating Opera Press

Although Vincent van Gogh's and Paul Gauguin's artistic collaboration in the South of France lasted no more than two months, their stormy relationship has continued to fascinate art historians, biographers and psychoanalysts as well as film makers and...

The Visual Candy paintings were made between 1992 and 1994.The works showcase the ways in which Damien Hirst used the signifier of candy during the early 1990's, exploring questions of pure aesthetics. Hirst says they were created as a direct riposte to...

Since the dawn of western fashion in the Middle Ages, women's dress has never stopped evolving, yet menswear has seen far fewer style revolutions. At the centre of the male wardrobe is the suit: relatively unchanged since the 17th century, its cut and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911703358Author Kevin FitzpatrickFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Mortons Media GroupPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 227g

In the art of the Italian Renaissance, the subject of the Madonna with Child was chosen for pictures more frequently than any other. Raphael's paintings are regarded as some of the most innovative compositions to this day, 500 years after his death...

In The Concealed Art of the Soul, Jonardon Ganeri presents a variety of perspectives on the nature of the self as seen by major schools of classical Indian philosophy. For Indian thinkers, a philosophical treatise about the self should not only reveal...

Terrence Malick's debut film, Badlands, announced the arrival of a unique talent. In the 40 years since that debut, Malick has only made 5 films, but they are distinctive in their beauty.This book is not meant to be a biography of Terrence Malick. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780947830700Author Christopher Le BrunFormat HardbackPage Count 80Imprint Lisson GalleryPublisher Lisson Gallery

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780907307013Author Nicola ColdstreamFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint British Archaeological AssociationPublisher British Archaeological...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857242675Author Louisa MacmillanFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 1820g