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A collection of tales by master illustrator and storyteller Sergio Toppi featuring a series of fables set in Old World Italy, and a feature-length what-if tale about the New World, speculating on a history where Christopher Columbus never made it to...

The definitive and authorised biography of the artist Vanessa Bell. Even through the lens of the twenty-first century, the story of Vanessa Bell's life is unorthodox. A powerful magnetic figure, Bell lived at the heart of the Bloomsbury Group and was...

What is a pyxis? Who was the Amasis Painter? How did Greek vases get their distinctive black and orange colours? This volume offers definitions and descriptions of these and many other Greek vase shapes, painters and techniques encountered in museum...

'This is, I think, the best book on drawing animals I've seen. The sheer breadth of the coverage and the amount of detail that Tim goes into is breathtaking.' Henry Malt, Artbookreview.net 'Tim is a genius in every respect and this really could be the...

The new edition features additional real life application photos, diagrams, examples, and case studies on color theory in makeup design, including new examples of tattoo covering and prosthetic painting using optical mixtures, airbrush, and...

An essential new look at the diverse work and artistic methods of beloved American realist painters Andrew and Jamie Wyeth Father and son artists Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009) and Jamie Wyeth (b. 1946) are among the most celebrated American realist painters...

Colour yourself calm with this beautiful and therapeutic adult colouring book. Focusing on completing detailed patterns and adding colour creatively has a relaxing, stress-busting effect. There are no rules or complicated step-by-step instructions in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781624650499Author Nathan FowkesFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Design Studio PressPublisher Design Studio Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804670163Author Koosje KoeneFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint Bookvault PublishingPublisher Bookvault PublishingWeight(grams) 675gDimensions(mm)...

"Every line we succeed in publishing today...is a victory wrested from the powers of darkness." So wrote Walter Benjamin in January 1940. Not long afterward, he himself would fall prey to those powers, a victim of suicide following a failed attempt to...

Impeccably designed, and copiously illustrated with more than two hundred stills and behind-the-scenes images, this is the definitive celebration of one of cinema's most enduring talents. Since his emergence in the early seventies, Martin Scorsese has...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506728445Author MicrosoftFormat HardbackPage Count 488Imprint Dark Horse Comics,U.S.Publisher Dark Horse Comics,U.S.

Natalia Goncharova (1881-1962) was the leading female artist of the Russian avant-garde and a key figure of the modernist era. She embraced with a complete openness a wide range of artistic styles, traditions and media. From sculpture and painting,...

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A large gap exists in the literature of ancient numismatics between general works intended for collectors and highly specialized studies addressed to numismatists. Indeed, there is hardly anything produced by knowledgeable numismatists that is easily...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904263883Author Lisa DeLongFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Wooden BooksPublisher Wooden Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780953930371Author Martin BaxendaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 31Imprint Silent But Deadly PublicationsPublisher Silent But Deadly Publications

This little book on Being Healthy is part of an important series which focuses on feelings and the words we need to talk about big topics with young children in a way that feels good. Using carefully chosen words and phrases in a warm lyrical way, it...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789526787862Author Musigfi StudioFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint DeltaspektriPublisher DeltaspektriWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm) 297mm * 210mm * 3mm

Sour Mouth, Sweet Bottom is the book Simon Napier-Bell's fans have always hoped he'd write. His previous bestsellers lifted the lid on the industry, combining brilliant analysis with unforgettable stories of fame and wild excess. But those books hardly...

A new selection from Philip Hughes' unpublished notebooks going back over twenty-five years. In an astonishing collection of twenty-seven notebooks created over a quarter of a century, Philip Hughes has sought to capture the spirit of a place: its...

Artists have always been captivated by the colour, beauty and exoticism of flowers. Their fragility is a reminder to seize the day, whilst their rich sensory appeal jolts us into the present moment. In many cultures, they've become a fertile metaphor for...

"The How to Draw" series takes a highly visual and practical approach to drawing. It helps readers learn how to draw the human body in various sitting, standing and active positions. The titles feature step-by-step instructions for each art project...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578446929Author Phil WeidmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Verge Center for the ArtsPublisher Verge Center for the ArtsWeight(grams) 431g

The name Faberge has long been a byword for luxury. Combining an entrepreneurial vision for craftsmanship with innovative material sourcing and technical ability, Carl Faberge created an astonishing array of bespoke jewelled and enamelled objects at the...

Munch's pictorial worlds - the initial impetus for modernism Edvard Munch's radical modernity in painting was a challenge for his contemporaries. This applied in particular to the art scene in Berlin around 1900 which the Norwegian Symbolist artist...

Discover the world of possibilities offered by paperclay with basic and more advanced techniques. Now firmly established in the ceramics world, paperclay is a vital part of the modern clay artist and potter's repertoire. The workability of this...

This is the fascinating autobiography of a society heiress who became the bohemian doyenne of the art world. Written in her own words it is the frank and outspoken story of her life and loves: her stormy relationships with such men as Max Ernst and...

Artist, psychoanalyst, and feminist theorist Bracha Ettinger presents an original theoretical exploration of shared affect and emergent expression, across the thresholds of identity and memory. Ettinger works through Lacan's late works, the anti-Oedipal...

"A Nazi resistance story like none you've ever heard or read." -Hampton Sides, author of Ghost Soldiers and On Desperate Ground"Every page is gripping, and the amount of new research is nothing short of mind-boggling. A brilliant book for the ages!"...

The South African artist William Kentridge Hon RA was born in Johannesburg in 1955 and lives and works there to this day. He is internationally renowned for the expressionism of his work in numerous media, among them charcoal, printmaking, sculpture and...

Barrie Skelcher explains the nature of uranium-colored glass, or Vaseline glass, and attributes makers to many of the examples he presents. Over 400 items shown in the color photographs are from British, American, and European glasshouses, of the 19th...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681372846Author Eric KarpelesFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books,...

Celebrating the generous gift of Barbara Hepworth's plasters to The Hepworth Wakefield by the Hepworth Estate, this groundbreaking publication combines a fully illustrated catalogue of the sculptor's surviving prototypes in plaster, and occasionally...

Get up close to the beauty and detail of nature through the artwork of award-winning UK artist, Julia Trickey. See how ordinary and sometimes overlooked subjects, such as leaves and fading flowers, can be centre stage and come to life in this beautiful...

Davalyn "The Daredevil" Hart may be a new rider in the sport of wheelchair motocross, but this adrenaline junkie is ready to push herself. When she gets a new WCMX chair designed to take a beating at the skate park, she turns her stunts up to the next...

The city Fred Herzog documented over more than half a century has vanished-an early kind of urban flaneur, Herzog wandered the streets of Vancouver, creating an archive that encapsulates the essence of a bygone era. Considered today as one of the most...

Norman Rockwell's son, Tom, has put together the absolute finest collection of his father's bounteous body of work, illustrations that bespeak the golden glow of pre- and post-WWII Americana. Rockwell senior, who said he depicted life "as I would like it...

At the turn of the twentieth century, Swedish artist Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) created a body of work that left visible reality behind, exploring the radical possibilities of abstraction years before Vasily Kandinsky, Kazimir Malevich, or Piet Mondrian...

Art in Saudi Arabia spotlights the role that contemporary art will play in the country's new push for sweeping internal reform and cultural diplomacy. As the Kingdom mobilizes its vast resources behind the economic and social priorities of its Vision...