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When Oskar Reinhart (1885-1965) bequeathed a significant part of his remarkable art collection - chiefly of French nineteenth-century painting but also containing a number of outstanding Old Masters - to the Swiss nation, he did so on condition that the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780905203928Author John WilliamsFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint Harvey Miller PublishersPublisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 2219g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955961328Author Elena Ochoa FosterFormat HardbackPage Count 131Imprint Ivory PressPublisher Ivory PressWeight(grams) 1040gDimensions(mm) 295mm * 240mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780902752887Author Katie BrucePage Count 108Imprint Glasgow Museums PublishingPublisher Glasgow Museums PublishingWeight(grams) 447g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780810955509Author Diana LandauFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Harry N. Abrams, Inc.Publisher AbramsWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 159mm * 140mm * 13mm

A selection of 85 Flemish drawings gives an astonishing and representative overview of the art of drawing in the 16th and 17th centuries. The publication focusses on the drawings subjects and compositions but also on how and why they were created and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781885923493Author I. SacaFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Oriental Institute of the University of ChicagoPublisher Oriental Institute of the University...

It is not easy being a Museum Director in Malaysia - culture and history are seen as sensitive subjects, always viewed through ethnic and political lenses, and national narratives are highly contested. The post-colonial transformation of Malaysia's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789881902351Author Florian KnotheFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint The University of Hong Kong. University Museum and Art GalleryPublisher The University...

Earth Work, originally staged at the National Museum Art Gallery In 1980 by Singaporean artist Tang Da Wu, was one of the earliest exhibitions of land art in Singapore. Earth Work 1979, a restaging of selected works from the seminal 1980 exhibition,...

Tracy Mackenna & Edwin Janssen are interested in the relationship between conflict, looking and art. In War as Ever!, through visual reflection on images of war and violence they investigated the relationship between seventeenth century visual...

JR's triumphal march through the world goes on in an effort to create a new way of connecting the streets with the system. For the first time in the heart of America, in the City of the Angels, JR's unique way of operating devastates the mecca of youth...

An integral part of the work of An Order of Things II, presented by Petra Feriancova in the 55th Venice Biennale, the catalogue An Order of Things I forms the prelude, memory, inventory, extension and, above all, systematic organisation of that tangible...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781988002163Author Marc H ChokoFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Juniper PublishingPublisher Juniper PublishingWeight(grams) 1270gDimensions(mm) 279mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783906915050Author Chiara Vecchiarelli, Douglas FogleFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Hauser & WirthPublisher Hauser & Wirth

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781589801028Author Jeffrey EleyFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Pelican Publishing CoPublisher Pelican Publishing CoWeight(grams) 748g

Presents recent work by the Brooklyn-based artist known for unsettling works that contend with such topics as domesticity, the body, consumer culture, fashion, and violence.The boxing term "gloves off"-frequently used as a metaphor to characterize brutal...

The curatorial premise behind Lucky Number Seven--SITE Santa Fe's seventh international biennial, curated by Lance Fung--is to invite a host of emerging artists, all sponsored by international institutions, to create new commissions that are ephemeral...

Panic Room collects works by 91 of the most exciting new and emerging artists on the international scene, all of whom work with drawing as their primary medium. Gathered into book form by the well-known Washington State designer, Rachel Carns, this big,...

The suburbs have always been a fertile space for imagining both the best and the worst of modern social life. Portrayed alternately as a middle-class domestic utopia and a dystopic world of homogeneity and conformity--with manicured suburban lawns and...

Taking Neil Young's often-quoted line from the song "Pocahontas" on his 1979 masterwork, Rust Never Sleeps, English artist Jeremy Deller's exhibition Marlon Brando, Pocahontas, And Me explores some wide-ranging themes shared by Deller and Young,...

Chicago-based artist David Klamen fuses op-art effects with art historical images to create high impact and engaging artworks looking like obsessive crosses between bar codes, puzzles, and old master paintings.About the AuthorDavid Pagel writes art...

The National Gallery's collection of nineteenth-century sculpture is dominated by thirty-seven works by Auguste Rodin, among them The Kiss, and Honore Daumier's celebrated portrait busts. These works, as well as sculptures by Antoine-Louis Barye,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780871300737Author Mary FrankFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Eakins Press,N.Y.Publisher Eakins Press,N.Y.

Kristie C. Wolferman tells the story of how the Nelson-Atkins came to be by re-creating the fascinating combination of people, events, and circumstances that culminated in this temple of art in the Midwest. This revised and expanded edition take the...

Sir William Van Horne (1843-1915), a gifted connoisseur most famously associated with the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway, amassed of one of the most extensive collections of Japanese ceramics in North America. Obsession is an illuminating...

This volume explores the relationship between temporality and presence in medieval artworks from the third to the sixteenth centuries. It is the first extensive treatment of the interconnections between medieval artworks' varied presences and their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780916365738Author Judith O. RichardsFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Independent Curators Inc.,U.S.Publisher Independent Curators Inc.,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606066232Author Giovanni BaglioneFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint J. Paul Getty MuseumPublisher J. Paul Getty MuseumWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783832176587Author Uta GrosenickFormat HardbackPage Count 540Imprint DumontPublisher DumontWeight(grams) 3166gDimensions(mm) 300mm * 243mm * 44mm

The penny bank craze of the twentieth century began quietly enough. Here, a slotted pottery pig from Scotland. There, a grimacing human face made in Bennington, Vermont. In 1793, penny banks first appeared in America, along with the first large copper...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789881902368Author Edward ZhouFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint The University of Hong Kong. University Museum and Art GalleryPublisher The University of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783868283839Author Paul KleeFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Kehrer VerlagPublisher Kehrer VerlagWeight(grams) 1694g

The Emscherkunstweg (Emscher Art Trail) currently comprises 24 works of public art on the banks of the Emscher River in the heart of the Ruhr region in western Germany. Once the most polluted river in Europe, the Emscher has been dramatically transformed...

A catalog for an exhibition of the latest chapter in Miriem Bennani’s CAPS film project. Meriem Bennani is a Moroccan artist who lives and works in New York. Life on the CAPS is the final chapter in her film trilogy of the same name. Set in a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783865605405Author Mark WigleyFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther KonigPublisher Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig

A compelling regional and historical study that transforms our understanding of film history, Amateur Movie Making demonstrates how amateur films and home movies stand as testaments to the creative lives of ordinary people, enriching our experience of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789462085169Author Sema BekirovicFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint NAI PublishersPublisher Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi Uitgevers/Publishers)

At how many lux .... do Banse and Pohl switch on the street lighting? We slowly feel the suspense build up towards this one decisive second when the two engineers approach the city's electricity control centre to press the button. Light is cast upon...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789078454274Author Erik SpinoyFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint OnomatopeePublisher Onomatopee