Art

This dazzling volume records the artist's travels through the Lone Star State, a grand expedition for our time Renowned artist Mark Dion (b. 1961) has a deep passion for history and the natural world. His installations mine the materials of the past to...

Known internationally and variously described as the Godfather of Streetwear and one of the founding fathers of Tokyo's Harajuku scene, Hiroshi Fujiwara exerts a disproportionate influence over contemporary design culture. Fujiwara, who had collaborated...

What does it mean for a sculpture to be described as 'organic' or a diagram of 'morphological forces'? These were questions that preoccupied Modernist sculptors and critics in Britain as they wrestled with the artistic implications of biological...

Suburbia. Tupperware, television, bungalows and respectable front lawns. Always instantly recognisable though never entirely familiar. The tight semi-detached estates of thirties Britain and the infenced and functional tract housing of middle America...

Digital Anthropology, 2nd Edition explores how human and digital can be explored in relation to one another within issues as diverse as social media use, virtual worlds, hacking, quantified self, blockchain, digital environmentalism and digital...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262028288Author Casey ReasFormat HardbackPage Count 672Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 22mm

Picturing Kingship presents the first comprehensive art-historical study of the personal prayerbook of King Louis IX. The book approaches the St. Louis Psalter through a rich range of perspectives and methodologies and positions it within the contexts of...

Starting in the mid-1960s, a group of Korean artists began to push paint, soak canvas, drag pencils, rip paper, and otherwise manipulate the materials of painting in ways that prompted critics to describe their actions as "methods" rather than artworks...

Focuses on IAFWA's status as a proponent of broadly applied conservation policies since its founding in 1902. The debate over state vs. federal jurisdiction in wildlife management is prominently discussed. Here are presented two essays by one of the...

This book establishes a fresh and expansive view of the grotesque in Western art and culture, from 1500 to the present day. Following the non-linear evolution of the grotesque, Frances S. Connelly analyzes key works, situating them within their immediate...

The portrayal of historical atrocity in fiction, film, and popular culture can reveal much about the function of individual memory and the shifting status of national identity. In the context of Chinese culture, films such as Hou Hsiao-hsien's City of...

In the Belgian artist Harold Ancart's rich new body of work, he turns an immersive landscape of trees, mountains, and seas into a meditation on painting itself. Harold Ancart often paints subjects that naturally invite contemplation, such as the horizon,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788890822308Author Hans Joachim NagelFormat HardbackPage Count 560Imprint Nawal MediaPublisher Nawal Media

From the director of Dawn of the Dead, Watchmen, and Man of Steel, comes Army of the Dead, Zack Snyder's eagerly awaited return to the zombie scene, staring Dave Bautista. Following a zombie outbreak in Las Vegas, a group of mercenaries take the ultimate...

Trimpin, the sound sculptor and composer, has received MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships; been the subject of a full-length documentary film and a profile in The New Yorker magazine; been included in hundreds of shows, performances, and new music...

National Museums and the Origins of Nations provides the first international survey of origins stories in national museums and examines the ways in which such museums use the distant past as a vehicle to reflect the concerns of the political present...

Covariant Physics: From Classical Mechanics to General Relativity and Beyond endeavours to provide undergraduate students as well as self-learners with training in the fundamentals of the modern theories of spacetime, most notably the general theory of...

Delving into a hitherto unexplored aspect of Irish art history, Painting Dublin, 1886-1949 examines the depiction of Dublin by artists from the late-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Artists' representations of the city have long been markers of...

Discover the alt worlds of The Man in the High Castle in this exclusive collection of art. Packed with concept art, final designs, and artist commentary plus previously unseen storyboards. The Man in the High Castle is the hit Amazon series, inspired...

Gideon Rubin (b. 1973, Israel) is an artist who lives and works in London. Exploring identity, history and the inheritance of trauma in his enigmatic paintings, Rubin's subject matter draws on myriad references such as film, popular culture, art history...

The first and only book on one of the finest private collections of contemporary Iranian art This sumptuous volume features almost 250 contemporary artworks and a selection of medieval and early modern Islamic art - the heralded collection of Mohammed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780764975387Author Mike WilksFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint Pomegranate Communications Inc,USPublisher Pomegranate Communications Inc,US

Structured around sexual desire as the central analytical category, this monograph systematically approaches a heterogeneous array of artworks to purposefully examine the entanglements of art, feminist theory, gender, and sexuality. This book considers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627310857Author Sean TejaratchiFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S.

The lives, works and imagery of women artists, patrons and icons in Renaissance Italy The story of the Renaissance in Italy is often told through the work of great male artists such as Michelangelo, Raphael, Donatello and Leonardo. But what about the...

On the early work of Britain's most successful living artist, from his formative years at Goldsmiths to his pioneering conceptual pieces among the Young British Artists The stellar ascent of Damien Hirst (born 1965) began with his enrollment at...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262546553Author Bruce M. TharpFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

In Disarmed, Gregory Curtis gives us the "life" of this magnificent statue. Unearthed by a farmer digging for marble building blocks on the Aegean island of Melos, at the moment a young officer and amateur archaeologist happened by, the ownership of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925240399Author Simon BarnardFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint The Text Publishing CompanyPublisher Text Publishing

To his contemporaries in late 16th-century Venice, El Greco (1541 -1614) was a contrary fellow, an innate artist blessed with extraordinary talent, but stubborn in the pursuit of his own path. Throughout his career, as he progressed from Crete to Venice,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780854881260Author Catherine LampertFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Whitechapel GalleryPublisher Whitechapel GalleryWeight(grams) 560g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780867198775Author Kevin EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Last Gasp,U.S.Publisher Last Gasp,U.S.

How have two-dimensional images of ancient Greek vases shaped modern perceptions of these artefacts and of the classical past? This is the first scholarly volume devoted to the exploration of drawings, prints, and photographs of Greek vases in modernity...

This multidisciplinary volume combines academic research with first-hand accounts of homelessness. It describes how people affected by homelessness are perceived as objects through the process of Othering. It also provides examples of how such Othering...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846382130Author Mark LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Afterall PublishingPublisher Afterall Publishing

A monument to the talent of Canadian women artists in the interwar period, Uninvited: Canadian Women Artists in the Modern Moment provides a full and diverse cross-country survey of the art made by women during this pivotal time, incorporating the work...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909051799Author Xavier TapiesFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Graffito Books LtdPublisher Graffito Books Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789492095466Author Taru ElfvingFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint ValizPublisher Valiz

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674281875Author Robert GoldwaterFormat HardbackPage Count 364Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 689g

Stanley Plumly explores immortality in art through the work of two impressive landscape artists: John Constable and J.M.W. Turner. Seeking the transcendent aesthetic awe of the sublime and reeling from personal tragedy, these painters portrayed the...