Art

Given unprecedented access to Calder's work and life during the course of their friendship, acclaimed photographer and graphic designer Herbert Matter captured Calder's sculptures, the artist at work in his studio and at home with his family in Roxbury,...

For beginner and experienced painters who want to try their hand at painting flowers with acrylics. Ruth Alice Kosnick teaches you how to transform the beauty of nature into true color explosions on large canvases in her intensely colorful and dynamic...

Some five hundred years ago, Sandro Botticelli, a painter of humble origin, created works of unearthly beauty. A star of Florence's art world, he was commissioned by a member of the city's powerful Medici family to execute a near-impossible project: to...

Unofficial and unauthorisedIn 1962, Andy Warhol displayed 32 canvases of Campbell's soup cans in a New York art gallery. The art world - and what we consider to be art - would never be the same again. Follow Warhol through his upbringing in Pittsburgh,...

As one of the most innovative artists of the last six decades, Walter de Maria challenged art in profound ways. He is known worldwide for his important sculptures such as Lightning Field, but his contributions to the practices of music, drawing,...

A dialogue of sensibility and attention: artists from Forrest Bess to Amy Sillman juxtaposed with the delicate paintings of Raoul De Keyser Over the course of his nearly five-decade career, Belgian artist Raoul De Keyser (1930-2012) created paintings...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062265715Author WetaFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 1542gDimensions(mm) 251mm *...

Cai Guo-Qiang is famous for his work with gunpowder explosions and fireworks, with which he has created spectacular displays in almost 30 countries, in the skies across Asia, Europe and America. This catalogue not only shows the artist's skills and...

Album Picabia is an inspiring, artistic chronicle of Francis Picabia's life (1879-1953) as seen through the eyes of his last wife and creative protegee, Olga Mohler Picabia. Begun in 1936, four years before their marriage, and left unfinished in 1951,...

Easy-to-follow watercolor techniques and projects help you find inspiration at home and paint what you see around you, from seasonal decor to favorite recipes and the flowers in your garden. As we all spend time at home, you may find yourself looking for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783741924330Author Martina PadbergFormat HardbackPage Count 540Imprint Koenemann.Com GmbHPublisher Koenemann.Com GmbHWeight(grams) 3497gDimensions(mm) 315mm...

In the fifteenth century, a number of master painters, including Jan van Eyck and Roger Campin, flourished in the Netherlands. However, by the early nineteenth century many of their works had been dispersed by the upheavals of the French Revolution. Any...

The debut monograph on the haunting, tenebrous figuration of the acclaimed Maine painter Maine-based painter Reggie Burrows Hodges (born 1965) explores storytelling and visual metaphor, often drawing inspiration from his childhood in Compton,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781648764844Author Jordan DewildeFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Rockridge PressPublisher Rockridge PressWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 231mm *...

In the same easy to understand and fun to experience style as Perspective Made Easy, Robbie Lee shows readers, step by step, the basic drawing skills they need to build a successful base on which to build any style of drawing expertise. With a fun robot...

Lumen, a survey of the four-decade career of British-Indian artist Sutapa Biswas, accompanies two solo exhibitions of the artist's work held in 2021-22. Biswas emigrated from India to the UK with her family in the 1960s. Taking the long histories of...

This vibrant catalogue presents the work of contemporary artist Harmonia Rosales. Featuring over twenty paintings and a monumental sculptural installation, Harmonia Rosales: Master Narrative is the artist's first major touring exhibition and first...

No other civilization in the pre-modern world was more obsessed with creating underground burial structures than the Chinese. For at least five thousand years, from the fourth millennium BCE to the early twentieth century, Chinese people devoted an...

The second edition of this elegant and accessible primer offers a helpful reference and resource for directing actors in film, television, and theatre, useful to directors, actors, and writers. Combining underlying theory with dozens of exercises...

Filled with photographs of unpopulated studios, Paul Winstanley's exploration of British art schools highlights their importance at a time when the art school system's existence is more fraught than ever. For this series, Winstanley (b.1954)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983505952Author Matthew AffronFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Fralin Museum of Art at the University of VirginiaPublisher Fralin Museum of Art at...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608879755Author Frank TieriFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Insight EditionsPublisher Insight Editions

This volume brings together new research by some of the world's leading experts, exploring the artistic production and cultural context of Renaissance sculpture from Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise to the small bronzes of Giambologna and his followers. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789078088769Author Nathalie ZonnenbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint ValizPublisher ValizWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 165mm * 20mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784756247599Author Nobuhisa KanekoFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint PIE BooksPublisher PIE Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781484755754Author Pete DocterFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint HyperionPublisher HyperionWeight(grams) 4728g

This beautiful and engaging volume charts the evolution of manga from its roots in late 19th-century Japan through the many and varied forms of comics, cartoons and animation created throughout Asia for more than 100 years. World authority on...

Pushed to the height of its illusionistic powers during the first centuries of the Roman Empire, sculpture was largely abandoned with the ascendancy of Christianity, as the apparent animation of the material image and practices associated with sculpture...

Just as punk created a space for bands such as the Slits and Poly Styrene to challenge 1970s norms of femininity, through a transgressive, strident new female-ness, it also provoked experimental feminist film makers to initiate a parallel, lens-based...

The links between the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and India go back for two and a half centuries. Surgeons who had studied botany at the Garden laid the foundations of western knowledge of the Indian flora. Supplementing their written plant...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947194830Author VOFANFormat PaperbackPage Count 1Imprint Vertical, Inc.Publisher Vertical, Inc.

Fashion in Fiction examines the ways in which dress 'performs' in a wide range of contemporary and historical literary texts. Essays by North American, European and Australian scholars explore the function of clothing within fictional narratives,...

In Britain at Play we collect the finest of William Heath Robinson's studies of the unique British character. Here we find Britain in the garden, at the beach and on the golf course - the 9th hole played with the grim reaper, rotating sunbathing...

This spellbinding look at the history and development of illusionistic art reveals wide-ranging techniques that have piqued the public's fascination with this medium. Beautifully reproduced, the images featured in the book includes centuries-old work...

ART AND ARCHITECTURE OF IRELAND is an authoritative and fully illustrated survey that encompasses the period from the early Middle Ages to the end of the 20th century. The five volumes explore all aspects of Irish art - from high crosses to installation...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780947830793Author Carmen HerreraFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Lisson GalleryPublisher Lisson GalleryWeight(grams) 1196g

The first book to feature Jacob Lawrence's Nigeria series, this richly illustrated volume also highlights Africa's place as a global center of modernist art and culture This revelatory book shines a light on the understudied but important influence of...

With a wealth of illustrated graphite portrait references and step-by-step pencil lessons, The Art of Drawing Poses for Beginners will help you master drawing realistic human figures in a range of different positions. This helpful 128-page guide reveals...

Juan Ortiz turns his unique eye for poster design to the classic sci-fi series Lost In Space. Each episode is lovingly reimagined as a visually striking poster, creating a one of a kind collection to accompany one of the most influential and celebrated...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783956795633Author Ramon AmaroFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Sternberg PressPublisher Sternberg PressWeight(grams) 329gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 133mm *...