Art

Discover everything you need to know about historic flourished hands and how to create elegant, modern artwork inspired by traditional calligraphy techniques in this follow-up to the first and best-selling lettering book in Walter Foster's Creative...and...

Official companion book to the Netflix TV series featuring concept art, sketches, behind-the-scenes photography and interviews with cast and crew. Based on the worldwide phenomenon from Sunrise Inc., Cowboy Bebop is the jazz-inspired, genre-bending...

Tiny PANTONE Objects is the perfect exploration of PANTONE colours in the everyday world. Inka Mathew has spent years photographing miniature objects that perfectly match the hues of the PANTONE rainbow. In this book, inspired by her Tiny PMS Match...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782869251762Author Fabrice HyberFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporainPublisher Fondation Cartier pour l'art...

Fiftieth anniversary reissue of the founding media studies book that helped establish media art as a cultural category. First published in 1970, Gene Youngblood's influential Expanded Cinema was the first serious treatment of video, computers, and...

Renowned Japanese manga artist, international instructor, and illustrator of the Wedding Peach series Nao Yazawa guides you step by step through all phases of manga drawing, from developing characters to creating a story line and story boards. With this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781617750809Author The Jesus LizardFormat HardbackPage Count 178Imprint Akashic Books,U.S.Publisher Akashic Books,U.S.Weight(grams) 1312g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262044844Author Marko IlicFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262528429Author Beryl GrahamFormat PaperbackPage Count 370Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 22mm

Despite playing canvas to a long list of talented writers, the IND (Independent) and BMT (Brooklyn Manhattan Transit) lines have been underrepresented in graffiti history. This is now rectified with a collection of high-quality images from the 1970s and...

Many people crave a creative outlet, but more often than not, don't know where to start. In Yellow, Valentina Zucchi and Sylvie Bello invite you to nurture your creativity and build your confidence by taking inspiration from modern works of art that...

This book is a celebration of trees, with beautiful botanical art at its centrepiece, accompanied by an entertaining and informative text. The paintings by Japanese artist Masumi Yamanaka illustrate the oldest and finest trees growing at the Royal...

Covenant boasts the first collection of Allen's personal drawings and paintings. Each of his fantastical characters is accompanied by a line of text, a poem or a brief story that captures their essence. These visual narratives are pulled to the surface...

This fascinating book tells the story of the building of William M. Voelkle's collection of fakes and forgeries of manuscript illumination. With thorough essays and beautiful illustrations, Voekle tells the story of nearly seventy fakes and forgeries.The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782370740564Author Jean-Paul DesrocheFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Editions Skira ParisPublisher Editions Skira ParisWeight(grams) 1630g

How fluorescent orange symbolizes the uneven distribution of safety and risk in the neoliberal United States Safety Orange first emerged in the 1950s as a bureaucratic color standard in technical manuals and federal regulations in the United States...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780947830731Author Dana MillerFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Lisson GalleryPublisher Lisson Gallery

As one of the first academic monographs on Keith Haring, this book uses the Pop Shop, a previously overlooked enterprise, and artist merchandising as tools to reconsider the significance and legacy of Haring's career as a whole.Haring developed an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486295640Author Trina RobbinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.

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)...

From Irish painter Genieve Figgis (born 1972) comes a book-object that is both exquisite and utilitarian, nostalgic and new. Wrapped in plush suede of deep violet, Something for Lovers compiles 34 of Figgis' paintings into a compact coloring book. The...

From the age of Aristotle to the age of AIDS, writers, thinkers, performers and activists have wresteled with what "performance" is all about. At the same moment, "performativity"--a new concept in language theory--has become a ubiquitous term in...

A revised and expanded edition of a key text for librarians, scholars, and museum professionals Metadata provides a means of indexing, accessing, preserving, and discovering digital resources. The volume of digital information available over electronic...

Meaning in the visual arts centers on how the physical work makes its content or presence visible. The art object is fundamental. Indeed, the different object forms of each visual medium allows our experience of space-time, and our relations to other...

Inside this book you ll find 30 creative art activities inspired by the Mexican holiday Dia de los Muertos. Fun, exotic, and full of psychedelic details, these intricate drawings are sure to spark your imagination and awaken your inner artist. Express...

An exploration of the artistic and cultural influences that shaped writer and illustrator Edward GoreyThe illustrator, designer, and writer Edward Gorey (1925-2000) is beloved for his droll, surreal, and slightly sinister drawings. While he is perhaps...

Prints of a New Kind details the political strategies and scandals that inspired the first generation of American caricaturists to share news and opinions with their audiences in shockingly radical ways. Complementing studies on British and European...

Leaving fingerprints and tool marks behind, a Sao Paulo artist evokes the cycles of the cosmos This volume takes an expansive view of the bold and influential practice of Brazilian artist Erika Verzutti (born 1971), surveying more than 60 pieces made...

Tristan Manco, perhaps the world's most influential commentator on street art, showcases the work of 38 truly innovative and inspirational artists who use low-cost, low-tech media and often totally original techniques to produce work that defies...

"A Companion volume to James Hall's perennial seller Dictionary of Subjects & Symbols in Art. which deals with the subject matter of Christian and Western art, the present volume includes the art of Egypt, the ancient Near East, Christian and classical...

Face to Face presents a selection of portraits of artists by three of the most prominent portrait artists of our time. Bringing together the diverse and distinctive work of Tacita Dean, Brigitte Lacombe, and Catherine Opie, this book forms an...

While historically focusing on the object, the study of ethics in conservation has expanded to consider the human aspect of conservation work. This book offers a flexible framework to guide decision-making in line with this development, offering an...

From vampire apocalypses, shark attacks, witches, and ghosts, to murderous dolls bent on revenge, horror has been part of the American cinematic imagination for almost as long as pictures have moved on screens. But why do they captive us so? What is the...

In the turbulent global context following the fall of the Russian Empire and the October Revolution, Georgia declared its independence in 1918. Between then and the beginning of Soviet rule in 1921, an Avant-Garde creative scene burgeoned. Artists met,...

Engaging fiction and non-fiction fully aligned to each stage of the Floppy's Phonics teaching programme, allowing children to consolidate their phonic knowledge through reading in context. These fully decodable stories are 100% matched to the phonic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262043670Author Paul StephensFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 25mm

This book contains all of Gary Gianni's artwork for George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series.Over 300 pages of beautifully illustrated scenes from the five novels in the series - A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast...

The New History in an Old Museum is an exploration of "historical truth" as presented at Colonial Williamsburg. More than a detailed history of a museum and tourist attraction, it examines the packaging of American history, and consumerism and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905464777Author Dr. Penelope CurtisFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint RidinghousePublisher Ridinghouse

WHAT MAKES A CULT MUSICIAN? Whether pioneering in their craft, fiercely and undeniably unique or critically divisive, cult musicians come in all shapes and guises. Some gain instant fame, others instant notoriety, and more still remain anonymous until a...