Art

A revealing collection of quotations from world-renowned artist Damien HirstHirst-isms is a collection of quotations-bold, surprising, often humorous, and always insightful-from celebrated artist Damien Hirst, whose controversial work explores the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732848207Author Phillip March JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Insitute 193Publisher Insitute 193Weight(grams) 998g

Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) was one of the last great artists in the ukiyo-e tradition. Literally meaning "pictures of the floating world," ukiyo-e was a particular genre of art that flourished between the 17th and 19th centuries and came to...

The Art of Drawing Manga Furries is packed with hundreds of tips, tricks, and step-by-step how-tos for creating a variety of manga furry characters, including kemono, kemonomimi, scalies, and fursonas. With its in-depth instruction, this book is...

The milestone 100th issue of Camera Obscura recognizes the work and legacy of Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman (1950-2015). Arguably the most important figure in feminist film culture, Akerman is central to Camera Obscura's own legacy, and her film...

Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) was a breaker of boundaries and a consummate collaborator. He used silk-screen prints to reflect on American promise and failure, melded sculpture and painting in works called combines, and collaborated with engineers and...

Master the art of drawing chibis! First, learn the key principles, then draw a wide variety of characters following step-by-step tutorials. In Draw Chibi Style, chibi artist Piuuvy is your guide to: Chibi Essentials. The first 18 lessons teach solid...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783969120415Author Terry R MyersFormat HardbackPage Count 56Imprint Dr. Cantz'sche Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KGPublisher Dr. Cantz'sche...

This wide-ranging book elucidates the symbolism of veils and highlights the power of drapery in Italian art from Giotto to Titian. In the cities of the Renaissance, display of luxury dress was a marker of status. Florentines decked out their palaces and...

This facsimile edition of a 1922 children's book features seventy-three dynamic and whimsical woodcut illustrations-the first woodcuts that the famed American craftsman Wharton Esherick produced. A high-quality replica authorized by the Wharton Esherick...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913689629Author Arik RoperFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Strange Attractor PressPublisher Strange Attractor Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781737797968Author Trinh T Minh-HaFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Primary InformationPublisher Primary InformationWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781736534694Author Constance DejongFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Primary InformationPublisher Primary InformationWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Winner, NEMA Publications Competition sponsored by the New England Museum Association..Book InformationISBN 9780262522403Author Debra Bricker BalkenFormat...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780946311033Author Patricia RailingFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Artists BookworksPublisher Artists Bookworks

From the creator of the bestselling Bad Girls Throughout History! Celebrated illustrator and author Ann Shen shares her striking study of history's most iconic styles, and the women who changed the world while wearing them. From the...

Simply opening these covers commits you to being dazzled by 100 of the UK's top "writers" and street artists, immersing yourself in the styles, past and present, which make UK street art great. Upon its arrival in the UK from New York in the 1980s,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506725314Author Yoshitaka AmanoFormat HardbackPage Count 168Imprint Dark Horse Comics,U.S.Publisher Dark Horse Comics,U.S.

Essays on the chronology and interpretation of the Byzantine mosaics of Thessaloniki. Thessaloniki contains the finest collection of surviving Byzantine mosaics in any one city. Made over the course of a millennium between the fourth and the fourteenth...

This new book showcases a vast array of ironwork commissioned for new commercial and residential building projects. Traditional styles in modern settings and designs that reach for new visual impact help to redefine ironwork's status in our current...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857248257Author Luca MasiaFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 1100g

The Benaki Museum of Islamic Art in Athens has a substantial collection of Iznik ceramics (tableware, tiles and sherds). Although well-known to those who visit the museum, this collection has never been fully published. John Carswell first studied the...

The heart of any system that simulates the physical interaction between objects is collision detection-the ability to detect when two objects have come into contact. This system is also one of the most difficult aspects of a physical simulation to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262038478Author Vanja V. MalloyFormat HardbackPage Count 344Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Global Pop examines the rise of "world musics" and "world beat", and some of the musicians associated with these recent genres such as Peter Gabriel, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, and Johnny Clegg. Drawing on a wide range of sources - academic, popular,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781624650543Author Christian GrajewskiFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Design Studio PressPublisher Design Studio Press

Art Sleeves is a time capsule of visual art and music culture as shown through the most important record covers designed by visual artists and graphic designers in the past forty years. This tightly curated collection of covers chosen includes works with...

For over 142,000 years, beads have played an important role around the world as the oldest form of personal adornment. Joyce J. Scott has revolutionised and transformed the potential of the ubiquitous bead as a relevant, contemporary art form. For over...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939994622Author Richard KlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint For BeginnersPublisher For Beginners

"A 'wrong' family moment that is full of truth." Like seventeenth century Dutch painters who made otherwise ordinary interior scenes appear charged with meaning, Jessica Todd Harper looks for the worth in everyday moments. The characters in her imagery...

The Academie Royale assembled nearly all of the important French artists working at the time, maintained a virtual monopoly on teaching and exhibitions, enjoyed a priority in obtaining royal commissions, and deeply influenced the artistic landscape in...

First published in 2011. Enhance your animated features and shorts with this polished guide to channeling your vision and imagination from a former Disney animator and director. Learn how to become a strong visual storyteller through better use of color,...

Find your unique fashion illustration style with Draw Fashion Now! Draw Fashion Now is a combination how-to guide and workbook that teaches the best techniques for illustrating and envisioning 21st-century fashion. Professional fashion illustrator...

Commemorating Sarah Sze's new permanent site-specific commission at Storm King Art Center Published to contextualize Sarah Sze's (born 1969) outdoor work Fallen Sky and the accompanying installation Fifth Season at Storm King Art Center, this book...

This third, updated and expanded edition of Christiane Paul's acclaimed book investigates key areas of digital art practice that have gained in prominence in recent years, including the emergence and impact of location-based media, interactive public...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952251986Author Sandra ChevrierFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Paragon PressPublisher Paragon Press

The Art of Mary Linwood is the first book on Leicester textile artist Mary Linwood (1755-1845) and catalogue of her work. When British textile artist and gallery owner Mary Linwood died in 1845 just shy of 90 years old, her estate was worth the...

Over the last three decades, Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist (born 1962) has been an original and impactful voice on the contemporary art scene with her sensuous, colorful and norm-subverting audio and video universes (the artist's first name is itself a nod...

Freedom of Expression as Self-Restraint provides a novel justificatory foundation for the principle of freedom of expression. As the book argues, such a principle is absolute in that it is exceptionless; it imposes general duties that are binding always...

Drawing Cartoons provides invaluable support for anyone who has ever dreamed of drawing cartoons, but lacks the confidence. Taking the approach that anyone can draw, the author leads the reader through the steps of putting together cartoon figures,...