Art

What is beauty, and what is truth? These are some of the questions which aesthetics tries to answer. In our everyday life, we talk about the 'aesthetics' of an artwork or a piece of design. But aesthetics goes beyond the simple experience of art. It is...

This playful collection of rainbows is a bright and beautiful appreciation of all the colour that surrounds us. Artist Julie Seabrook Ream invites us to see the extraordinary beauty of ordinary objects: she gathers colourful iterations of a single type...

This beautifully illustrated book provides a complete overview of the art of the Southern Netherlands from 1585 to 1700. The author examines the development of Flemish and specifically Antwerp painting, the work of Rubens and other leading masters, and...

Vienna, 1900: the heart of the vast Austro-Hungarian Empire and a city populated with people from across the Imperial territories - stretching from central Europe to the Crown lands that reached far into South-eastern Europe. This was a dynamic capital...

Gothic architecture is the most visible and striking product of medieval European civilization. Jean Bony, whose reputation as a medievalist is worldwide, presents its development as an adventure of the imagination allied with radical technical advances...

In Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Freud observed that the life-enhancing pleasure principle seems disrupted by something internal to the psyche. He took into account the possibility of a "death instinct" bent on returning the living organism to its...

This pioneering book, the first monograph devoted to Donald Judd, addresses the whole breadth of Judd's practices. Drawing on documents found in nearly twenty archives, David Raskin explains why some of Judd's works of art seem startlingly ephemeral...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953691002Author Maryanne AmacherFormat PaperbackPage Count 398Imprint Blank Forms EditionsPublisher Blank Forms EditionsWeight(grams) 726gDimensions(mm)...

Sustainability is now a buzzword both among professionals and scholars. However, though climate change and resource depletion are now widely recognized by business as major challenges, and while new practices like 'green design' have emerged, efforts...

A master of colour and an ambitious cosmopolite: Hans Purrmann (1880-1966) was an authoritative figure who forged links in European Modernism both as an artist and a personality, as a stylist and a figure of social integration. The balance between a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780867195156Author Frank KozikFormat HardbackPage Count 116Imprint Last Gasp,U.S.Publisher Last Gasp,U.S.Weight(grams) 729g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398803589Author Barrington BarberFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Arcturus Publishing LtdPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957181182Author Michael WarrenFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Mascot Media LtdPublisher Mascot Media Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788086264547Author Jiri KolarFormat HardbackPage Count 142Imprint Twisted Spoon PressPublisher Twisted Spoon Press

A vivid and compelling collection of quotations from the influential contemporary artist and filmmaker Shirin NeshatNeshat-isms is an exciting collection of quotations from award-winning Iranian-American visual artist and filmmaker Shirin Neshat. Her...

In recent years, there has been a re-discovery of the importance of sensory experience in our daily lives. The senses play a vital role in our health, in our social interactions, and in enjoying food, music and the arts. This book provides an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633228825Author Mary WoodinFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Walter Foster PublishingPublisher Walter Foster PublishingWeight(grams)...

The Burlington Fine Arts Club was founded in London in 1866 as a gentlemen's club with a singular remit - to exhibit members' art collections. Exhibitions were proposed, organized, and furnished by a group of prominent members of British society who...

The native American face has long fascinated artists in every medium. Its strong features and deep character present a challenge and an opportunity for visual expression. In this new book, Terry Kramer offers the wood carver a method for creating...

In the 1930s sculptors began to heat and shape metal directly and a new type of sculpture and artist emerged. This revised and expanded edition retains all the techniques and inspiration to help artists find the answers they needed for creating direct...

The Edible Monument considers the elaborate architecture, sculpture, and floats designed for court and civic celebrations in early modern Europe, including popular festivals such as Carnival and the Italian Cuccagna. Like illuminations and fireworks,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262047708Author Frederic J. SchwartzFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

The Cambridge Companion to Velazquez, first published in 2002, offers a synthetic overview of one of the greatest painters of Golden Age Spain and seventeenth century Europe as a whole. With contributions from art historians and those working in other...

For millions of people around the world, Tibet is a domain of undisturbed tradition; the Dalai Lama, spiritual guide. By contrast, the Tibet Museum opened in Lhasa by the Chinese in 1999 was designed to reclassify Tibetan objects as cultural relics and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262534321Author Paul O'NeillFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Light pervades the world, and when it is not light, darkness emerges and is combated by electric illumination. Despite this globally shared human experience in which spaces appear radically different depending on time, season, and weather, social science...

From iMovie to Final Cut Pro X offers an accessible, introductory guide to those taking up video editing using Final Cut Pro X, especially users making the transition from iMovie, Apple's free video software, helping aspirational and mobile filmmakers...

Classic stories retold in exciting graphic novel format. Each title includes high-quality artwork, simple text, discussion questions and writing prompts.About the AuthorL. L. Owens has written more than 45 books of fiction and nonfiction for young...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551526393Author Yves Saint LaurentFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Arsenal Pulp PressPublisher Arsenal Pulp PressWeight(grams) 265g

Personal symbols and motifs can be explored endlessly when there are a solid number of painting techniques to draw from. In this workshop approach, the reader will be encouraged to explore a chosen theme in as many forms as possible. After learning where...

In 1970 photography curator Peter C. Bunnell organized an exhibition called Photography into Sculpture for the Museum of Modern Art, New York. The project, which brought together twenty-three photographers and artists from the United States and Canada,...

"Awwwwww!" There's nothing like a cute kitten, duckling or puppy to improve even the grumpiest mood. That's why coloring these little characters in their scenes is so appealing. Along with brief coloring suggestions and tips at the front,...

Completely updated for current HD, UHD, 2K, and 4K workflows, Avid Editing blends the art and aesthetics of motion picture editing with technical, hands-on instruction. Appropriate for beginners and intermediate users who need to refresh their knowledge...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789887928423Author sendpointsFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint SendPoints Publishing Co., LtdPublisher SendPoints Publishing Co., Ltd

An unprecedented, definitive look at the school's typography and print design, from its early expressive tendencies to the functional modernism for which it is famed today The Bauhaus looms large as one of the most influential legacies in 20th-century...

Ceramics had a far-reaching impact in the second half of the twentieth century, as its artists worked through the same ideas regarding abstraction and form as those for other creative mediums. Live Form shines new light on the relation of ceramics to the...

Drawing on the work of prominent art historians, curators, critics, and collectors, this exhibition catalogue presents the most current research on the work of Alina Szapocznikow. Born in Kalisz, Poland, in 1926, Szapocznikow studied in Prague and Paris,...

The Pixels of Paul Cezanne is a collection of essays by Wim Wenders in which he presents his observations and reflections on the fellow artists who have influenced, shaped, and inspired him."How are they doing it?" is the key question that Wenders asks...

The Cambridge Lower Secondary Complete English 9 Student Book embeds a solid foundation at Lower Secondary level and helps students reach their full potential, as well as preparing them to progress seamlessly to IGCSE (R) English. This resource fully...

A critical look at the renegade spirit that permeates Japanese prints and the posters of fin-de-siecle ParisBoth the Edo period (1603-1868) in Japan and the late nineteenth century in France witnessed a multitude of challenges to the status quo from the...