Art

Chris Hart's latest entry in his blockbuster series explodes with girl power! From fighters and princesses to magical characters and ordinary schoolgirls; manga features an array of female types and Hart goes step-by-step through the techniques for...

Having forged his graphic style painting subways in New York in the late 1970s, Futura was among the first graffiti artists to be shown in contemporary galleries in the early 1980s, where his paintings shared space with works by Keith Haring, Jean-Michel...

A collection of probing and imaginative discussions on the relation between the Incarnation and the arts.Book InformationISBN 9780801022449Author Jeremy S. BegbieFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Baker Academic, Div of Baker Publishing GroupPublisher...

Shepard Fairey is arguably the most influential street artist in the world. His art captures the spirit of our times, while he asks viewers to "question everything". Fairey's work has challenged artistic conventions, visual formulas, and traditional...

Everyday practices of state building interrogates the question about how to reinstate movement to our conceptualisation of state formation in Africa at a time in which the continent witnesses profound social and political transformations inscribed in...

This new edition of The Photographic Image in Digital Culture explores the condition of photography after some 20 years of remediation and transformation by digital technology. Through ten especially commissioned essays, by some of the leading scholars...

Numerous contemporary artists, particularly female artists, have chosen to examine the idealization of the female body. In this crucial book, Emily L. Newman focuses on a number of key themes including obesity, anorexia, bulimia, dieting, self-harm, and...

Australian governments at all levels have been engaged with arts and culture in many different forms since the beginning of European settlement. The way this has occurred is documented and analysed here, both from an historical and critical perspective...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780861661442Author Hunt EmersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Knockabout ComicsPublisher Knockabout ComicsWeight(grams) 404g

There has long been a politics around the way in which women are represented, with objection not so much to specific images as to a regime of looking which places the represented woman in a particular relationship to the spectator's gaze. Artists have...

Paul Scheerbart (1863-1915) was a visionary German novelist, theorist, poet, and artist who made a lasting impression on such icons of modernism as Walter Benjamin, Bruno Taut, and Walter Gropius. Fascinated with the potential of glass as a medium for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781988111339Author Liz MagorFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Concordia UniversityPublisher Concordia University

Experimental Filmmaking and the Motion Picture Camera is an introductory guide to experimental filmmaking, surveying the practical methods of experimental film production as well as the history, theory, and aesthetics of experimental approaches.Author...

It illuminates multiple facets of the era the lives of its people, the art, the literature, the music, and the social history through paintings, prints, photography, sculpture, and contemporary documents and ephemera. The lushly illustrated chronicle...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506478753Author Matthew J. MillinerFormat HardbackPage Count 298Imprint Fortress Press,U.S.Publisher 1517 MediaWeight(grams) 318g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780867197372Author Mark RydenFormat HardbackPage Count 68Imprint Last Gasp,U.S.Publisher Last Gasp,U.S.Weight(grams) 1168g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732669741Author Sven KirstenFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Luz de JesusPublisher Luz de JesusWeight(grams) 1531gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 229mm * 25mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925422047Author Nikk Nakk DesignsFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Westminster DesignsPublisher Westminster DesignsWeight(grams) 177gDimensions(mm)...

A bold exploration of modern psychedelic culture, its history, and future * Examines 3 modern psy-culture architects: chemist Alexander "Sasha" Shulgin, mycologist-philosopher Terence McKenna, and visionary artist Alex Grey * Presents a "History of...

With 142 photos and these short, step-by-step lessons from a master Chinese calligrapher, you can enjoy the basics of the beautiful characters of Chinese. Begin by learning the history and traditions of this art form, and the techniques of using the...

Mapping a New Museum seeks to rethink the museum's role in today's politically conscious world. Presenting a selection of innovative projects that have taken place in Latin America over the last year, the book begins to map out possibilities for the...

From the depths of the Great Depression in 1929, John D. Rockefeller Jr. envisioned an unprecedented, modern, and luxurious building project. Given the theme "New Frontiers," nearly forty artists created everything from paintings and sculpture to fabrics...

is a comprehensive introduction to the British tradition of cultural studies. Turner offers an accessible overview of the central themes that have informed British cultural studies: language, semiotics, Marxism and ideology, individualism, subjectivity...

Video Production Techniques is an essential guide to the art and craft of video production. It introduces students to the theoretical foundations as well as the practical skills needed to make a successful video project.The opening chapter introduces the...

In this new collection of essays on memory and amnesia in the postmodern world, cultural critic Andreas Huyssen considers how nationalism, literature, art, politics, and the media are obsessed with the past. The great paradox of our fin-de-siecle culture...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783903320673Author Hildegund AmanshauserFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Verlag fur Moderne KunstPublisher Verlag fur Moderne Kunst

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942130147Author Christopher P. HeuerFormat HardbackPage Count 262Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone Books

With ruminations on drawing, colour and caricature, on the political meaning of fairy-tales, talking animals and human beings as machines, Hollywood Flatlands brings to light the links between animation, avant-garde art and modernist criticism.Focusing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981328072Author Tom SmartFormat HardbackPage Count 80Imprint Beaverbrook Art GalleryPublisher Beaverbrook Art GalleryWeight(grams) 634gDimensions(mm)...

Twenty-nineteen marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of Maestrapeace, the monumental and fabulously detailed mural that adorns two sides of the Women's Building in San Francisco's Mission neighborhood. Weaving in myriad female figures, historical and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781760762018Author David ColesFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Thames & HudsonPublisher Thames & HudsonWeight(grams) 739gDimensions(mm) 218mm * 166mm *...

Documents on Contemporary Crafts is a book series published by Norwegian Crafts in collaboration with Arnoldsche Art Publishers. The series provides a critical reflection of contemporary crafts in a wider context and in doing so asks questions ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840683080Author Jack HunterFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint ShinbakuPublisher Creation BooksWeight(grams) 602g

What and how we eat are two of the most persistent choices we face in everyday life. Whatever we decide on though, and however mundane our decisions may seem, they will be inscribed with information both about ourselves and about our positions in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933492445Author Chris AyersFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Design Studio PressPublisher Design Studio Press

With a focus on socially engaged art practices in the twenty-first century, this book explores how artists use their creative practices to raise consciousness, form communities, create change, and bring forth social impact through new technologies and...

The first edition of 3D Game Engine Design was an international bestseller that sold over 17,000 copies and became an industry standard. In the six years since that book was published, graphics hardware has evolved enormously. Hardware can now be...

Picking up where Bushido: Legacies of the Japanese Tattoo left off, join Horiyuki as she studies the art of Japanese tattooing with Master Horiyoshi III. Jill "Horiyuki" Mandelbaum takes you on a very candid firsthand account of her exploratiion. Follow...

A guide to choosing, completing, and sharing a 100-day creative project. There s a creative person inside every one of us! You don t have to consider yourself an artist to create and share fun or expressive work; sometimes all it takes is commitment...

You've got the artistic talent; now learn how to make a career out of it!Fine artists are taught many things about the history, theory, and craft of art in art schools and university art programs, but rarely do they learn much, if anything, about how to...