Art

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783955886745Author Hajo DuechtingFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Koenemann.Com GmbHPublisher Koenemann.Com GmbHWeight(grams) 907gDimensions(mm) 188mm *...

This book is a celebration of the extraordinary variety of Calum Colvin's work from the past four decades. Tom Normand comprehensively explores the artist's collection, selecting core subjects and ideas, examining diverse tropes and genres, and reviewing...

Five decades of work by groundbreaking Indigenous artist Jaune Quick-to-See Smith Throughout her career as artist, activist, and educator, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (b. 1940) has forged a personal yet accessible visual language she uses to address...

This first-ever biography of American painter Grace Hartigan traces her rise from virtually self-taught painter to art-world fame, her plunge into obscurity after leaving New York to marry a scientist in Baltimore, and her constant efforts to reinvent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307277046Author Elia KazanFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 301gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 132mm...

Fury, the fiercest of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, has been tasked with capturing the Seven Deadly Sins to maintain the delicate balance between good and evil. With her deadly whip Scorn in hand, the Rider of the Black Horse battles her way from...

This is the first edited collection of essays entirely devoted to the women of the Pre-Raphaelite movement. Inspired by the Pre-Raphaelite Sisters exhibition and conference of 2019-20, the individual essays present new research into the wide-ranging...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905686469Author Christopher WhiteFormat HardbackPage Count 576Imprint Royal Collection TrustPublisher Royal Collection TrustWeight(grams) 3620g

Tamara de Lempicka (1898-1980) lived art in the fast lane. With an appetite for glamour and fame as much as Left Bank bohemianism, she fled her native Russia after the Bolshevik revolution and set about taking Paris by storm. Her prolific, monumental...

Winner, 2018 Canadian Museums Association Award of Outstanding Achievement in EducationShortlisted, 2018 Atlantic Publishers Marketing Association Best Atlantic Published Book AwardNunatsiavut, the Inuit region of Canada that achieved self-government in...

This substantial and beautifully illustrated volume documents the National Gallery's unrivaled collection of Venetian paintings created between 1540 and 1600, including some of the greatest works commissioned by the city from Veronese, Titian,...

The Routledge Companion to Photography and Visual Culture is a seminal reference source for the ever-changing field of photography. Comprising an impressive range of essays and interviews by experts and scholars from across the globe, this book examines...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262526128Author Judith F. RodenbeckFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 635gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm *...

How the Vietnam War changed American artBy the late 1960s, the United States was in a pitched conflict in Vietnam, against a foreign enemy, and at home-between Americans for and against the war and the status quo. This powerful book showcases how...

In 1926 22 year - old Dutchman Willem de Kooning (1904 - 1997) travelled to the USA on a British freighter - without papers and hidden in the machine room. The young art student eked out a living by painting houses, signs and facades, before he was...

"With its unprecedented depth and range, this massive new history of Surrealism from veteran French philosopher and art critic Durozoi will be the one-volume standard for years to come. . . . The book discusses expertly the main surrealist artists like...

A lavish hardback containing Orson Welles' Portfolio, much of which has never been seen before. Orson Welles, famous as an accomplished actor, writer, producer and visionary director, had originally aspired to become a musician or artist. Having studied...

While the masterpieces of the Italian Renaissance are usually associated with Italy's historical seats of power, some of the era's most characteristic works are to be found in places other than Florence, Rome, and Venice. They are the product of the...

Considered by Muslims as the only true art, calligraphy has played a prominent role in Islamic culture since the time of the prophet Muhammad. Exploring this central role of the written word in Islam and how writing practices have evolved and adapted in...

A century after the Bauhaus's founding in 1919, this book reassesses it as more than a highly influential art, architecture, and design school. In myriad ways, emerging ideas about the body in relation to health, movement, gender, and sexuality were at...

Create beautifully textured details in colored pencil-it's easier than you think! New in paperback! In Texture in Colored Pencil (formerly known as Capturing Soft Realism in Colored Pencil), learn to render lovely background and foreground elements in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646991778Author Victoria CharlesFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Parkstone Press USA, LimitedPublisher Parkstone Press USA, Limited

In 2019, Wolfgang Laib entered into a dialogue with masterpieces by Fra Angelico, Leon Battista Alberti, Filippo Brunelleschi and Benozzo Gozzoli in his philosophical and poetic installations of pollen and beeswax. The publication documents impressively...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629630366Author Martin BullFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 364g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683968832Author Anita KunzFormat HardbackPage Count 152Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher Fantagraphics

The first documentation of the legendary 1950 showdown between 18 leading abstract expressionists and the Metropolitan Museum of Art In 1950, 18 American abstract painters signed an open letter addressed to the president of the Metropolitan Museum of...

The critically-acclaimed biography chronicling the tumultuous personal and professional life of horror icon Bela Lugosi. "Poignant.... Shadmi smoothly blends characterization with chiaroscuro to perfectly spotlight Lugosi's uncanny magnetism. On the...

Claude Monet (1840-1926) is one of the best-known and most beloved painters in the history of art, with myriad publications and exhibitions devoted to his oeuvre. And yet there remains a previously undiscovered aspect of his career: his surprisingly...

This is the story of the forging of a national cultural institution in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain. The Royal Academy of Arts was the dominant art school and exhibition society in London and a model for art societies across the...

This handsomely illustrated volume traces the intersections of art history and paintings restoration in nineteenth-century Europe. Repairing works of art and writing about them-the practices that became art conservation and art history-share a common...

"Object Lessons ... is a grand tour of the latest obsession of an indefatigable collector. For the last decade ... George Loudon has gathered some 200 extraordinary natural-history specimens, scientific models and botanical drawings from the Darwinian...

Based on new research, this profusely illustrated book draws together for the first time a group of works from public and private collections to examine the relationship that Thomas Gainsborough had with the theatrical world and the most celebrated stage...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780764167911Author Juan Varela SimoFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint SourcebooksPublisher Sourcebooks

Luce Irigaray is one of the foremost philosophers and feminist thinkers of our day. Her work has had an enormous impact on the visual arts and is widely taught and read across the field - yet the actual implications of this influential body of thought...

The sacred sites of Burma are amongst the most beautiful and spectacular in all of Asia. However, the fame and sacredness of these holy places rests almost solely on the myths and legends that surround their founding and the origins of their relics. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783037785850Author Paul KleeFormat HardbackPage Count 56Imprint Lars Muller PublishersPublisher Birkhauser Verlag AG

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993337345Author Joe GrahamFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Marmalade, Publishers of Visual TheoryPublisher Marmalade, Publishers of Visual...

Everything you need to start drawing manga! In the jam-packed pages of Manga Crash Course, popular YouTube artist Mina "Mistiqarts" Petrovic shares with you all the techniques you need to create not just manga figures and faces, but full characters and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783899555479Author FaileFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint gestaltenPublisher Die Gestalten Verlag

Winner of the Barbara Jelavich Book Prize 2023"I am Jugoslovenka" argues that queer-feminist artistic and political resistance were paradoxically enabled by socialist Yugoslavia's unique history of patriarchy and women's emancipation. Spanning...