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Throughout his entire career, from his debut in the 1860s up to his final works post1900, the Opera formed the focal point of Degas's output. It was his own 'front room'. He explored the theatre's various spaces - auditorium and stage, boxes, foyers and...

The impressions which Paul Klee collected on his journey to Tunisia in 1914, and especially to the city of Kairouan, were of fundamental significance: "Colour and I are one. I am a painter." A few years later, in 1921, Wilhelm Hausenstein placed his...

Extensively illustrated, this is the first accessible publication on the history of tapestry in over two decades. Woven with dazzling images from history, mythology and the natural world, and breath-taking in their craftsmanship, tapestries were among...

Now available again, this visually stunning collection of Gustav Klimt's landscape paintings brings to light a lesser-known aspect of the Viennese painter's oeuvre. While Gustav Klimt is largely revered for his opulent, symbolladen portraits of the...

Tadema Gallery was founded in 1978 by Sonya and David Newell-Smith in London's famed Camden Passage in Islington. They were successful photo-journalists who ventured into the field of 20th century abstract art and the decorative arts of the 19th and 20th...

Journey through the entire Marvel universe in this comprehensive book of official Marvel maps!This fully illustrated collection of detailed Marvel maps begins in New York before moving out to America, planet Earth, the solar system and the entire...

A comprehensive and timely exploration of the key role Jerusalem played in shaping the art and culture of the Middle Ages Medieval Jerusalem was a vibrant international center and home to multiple cultures, faiths, and languages. Harmonious and...

A unique picture of Rembrandt's mastery of light and visual storytelling. Rembrandt's Light brings together 35 carefully selected paintings, concentrating on his greatest years from 1639-1658, when he lived in his ideal house at Breestraat in the...

For generations, Black artists from the American South have forged a unique art tradition. Working in near isolation from established practices, they have created masterpieces in clay, driftwood, roots, soil, and recycled and cast-off objects that...

"I went to Noma and interviewed Rene (Redzepi). We were talking about art and food but the restaurant was closed. Everybody asked me how was the food, what did you eat - and he basically gave me some marmite. The best marmite I've ever had." - David...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781956309072Author Patrick KelleyFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Dalton Watson Fine BooksPublisher Dalton Watson Fine Books

This is the first book to concentrate on Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Hals's highly innovative approach to male portraiture. Frans Hals is one of the greatest portrait painters of all time and, together with Rembrandt, is one of the most eminent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908638304Author Dr. Joanna MeacockFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Glasgow Museums PublishingPublisher Glasgow Museums PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783753300962Author Akintunde AkinleyeFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther KonigPublisher Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther...

Follow these Canadian artists as they travel abroad and return home again, over a series of journeys taking place during the last decades of the nineteenth century to the turn of the twentieth. 130 masterworks by some 35 artists situate Canadian art...

This important publication accompanies a major exhibition at The Courtauld Gallery, London, of paintings by Edvard Munch, one of the world's greatest modern artists. The exhibition and catalogue showcase 18 major works from the collection of KODE Art...

Encompasses an impressive and engaging variety of fabulous objects from the most important faience centres, dating from the late sixteenth to the mid-eighteenth century. A feat of great technical achievement, French faience was introduced to Lyon in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857244341Author Donna SteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 1000g

"The richness of the illustrations in this larger format enables us to better appreciate the intricacy of her illuminated manuscripts, the tonal subtleties of Traquair's tooled leather book bindings and the processional scale of her muraled interiors." -...

An irresistible look into more than 300 years of fashion through an exquisite collection of designer dresses What woman can resist imagining herself in a beautiful designer dress? Here, for the first time ever, are 100 fabulous gowns from the permanent...

First opened in 1873, the Victoria and Albert Museum's Cast Courts were purpose built to house copies of architecture and sculpture from around the world. They contain some of the Museum's largest objects, including casts of Trajan's Column (shown in two...

This publication is the first survey of Katrina Palmer's career to date, introducing her research-led practice to a broad audience. The book provides an overview of Palmer's work across a range of media including sculpture, audio environments, printed...

Based on the critically acclaimed video series of the same name, Cocktails with a Curator presents a lively, relaxed, and informative mini-lecture on a single work in the Frick s collection. Most of the works discussed are paintings, but sculpture,...

The Ashmolean Museum holds a world-class collection of over 200 prints made by Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn (1606-1669). Widely hailed as the greatest painter of the Dutch Golden Age, Rembrandt was also one of the most innovative and experimental...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789569633041Author Jimmy LangmanFormat HardbackPage Count 102Imprint Patagon JournalPublisher Patagon JournalWeight(grams) 216g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907071805Author Omar KholeifFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Morel BooksPublisher Morel Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781956470420Author Elizabeth WilliamsFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Redwood Publishing, LLCPublisher Redwood Publishing, LLCWeight(grams)...

In 1911 the French couturier Paul Poiret challenged Edward Steichen to create the first artistic, rather than merely documentary, fashion photographs, a moment that is now considered to be a turning point in the history of fashion photography. As fashion...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633450776Format PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint Museum of Modern ArtPublisher Museum of Modern ArtWeight(grams) 560g

The Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (KMSKA) has reopened after several years of major renovation. It is home to an especially varied collection of art that runs to more than 9,000 items: paintings, sculptures, assemblages, drawings and prints from the...

Every map tells a story. Some provide a narrative for travellers, explorers and surveyors or offer a visual account of changes to people's lives, places and spaces, while others tell imaginary tales, transporting us to fictional worlds created by writers...

A resplendent celebration of the spectacular fashion designs of Guo Pei, China's first and preeminent couturier Guo Pei: Couture Fantasy is a journey into the imaginative world of Guo Pei, China's first couturier and one of the world's most innovative...

The magnificent Burke Collection of Italian miniatures, which is housed in Special Collections in the the Stanford University Libraries, has been built over more than twenty years and includes manuscript leaves, cuttings, and codices by many of the...

"Swiss explorer and photographer Stefan Forster admits that he is no stranger to dodging alligators and hiking for weeks in pursuit of the perfect photo. And an impressive new photobook shows that his efforts pay off handsomely." - Sarah Holt, Mail...

For hundreds of years English people have claimed that fair play is at the core of their national identity. Jonathan Duke-Evans looks at the history of fair play in Britain from earliest times to the present, asking whether it is in fact a British, or...

A landmark new presentation of the work of J.M.W. Turner, repositioning the great painter as a pioneering chronicler of contemporary life, and exploring what it really means to be a modern artist. J.M.W. Turner's career spanned revolution and the...

Year 3 is one of the most ambitious records of citizenship ever undertaken. Using the medium of the traditional school class photograph, this epic work captures tens of thousands of London schoolchildren from a single academic year. Mapping a picture of...

English edition This catalogue provides a spectacular overview of painting on the theme of football in European artistic modernism. Here, painting gets to the bottom of football's mystique. And vice versa, since football with its aesthetics, dynamics,...

Ambrose McEvoy was one of the most modern and daring English society portrait painters of the early 20th century. His quick, confident style of painting drew the attention of many leading society figures, from Winston Churchill to Lady Diana Cooper, and...

Treasures at Canterbury Cathedral brings the reader up close to some of the most significant and priceless objects on display at Canterbury Cathedral. Each item has been carefully selected from more than half a million objects currently held in...