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From the first ever sketch of the Red Cross logo by its founder Clara Barton to a cartoon scrawled on a love letter from Charles Bukowski, the objects in this fascinating collection are a perfect reflection of the eclectic and storied cast of characters...

Artists' Corner in St Paul's Cathedral is the final resting place for some of the greatest artists working in the United Kingdom, including Turner, Leighton and Millais. British painters of the 19th century are shoulder to shoulder with artists from...

A critical reexamination of Carpeaux's bust Why Born Enslaved! and other nineteenth-century antislavery images-this book interrogates the treatment of the Black figure as a malleable political symbol and locus of exoticized beauty This critical...

Paintings featuring harpsichords, virginals and organs offer us a glimpse of gorgeous interiors, amorous scenes and finely-dressed ladies - and the occasional young man too - at the keyboard. Keyboard instruments can also be the key to decoding an...

The essays in this lavishly illustrated volume offer a multi-faceted portrait of American financier J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) as a collector of art. A riveting exploration of Morgan's acquisitions from antiquities to medieval manuscripts to Old...

This volume presents 12 drawings made by the prominent British sculptor Alison Wilding during her time at art school in the 1960s and 1970s, offering an insight into a key period in the artist's development. The first nine works - collectively referred...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953683328Author Hans Christoph StimmerFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Hema BookshelfPublisher Hema BookshelfWeight(grams) 1034g

In 2018 the National Portrait Gallery, the National Gallery and the Royal Academy of Arts will host major exhibitions of the work of Tacita Dean. Each will provide a different encounter with her art. This book brings together new and existing works from...

For thirty years, until 2015, Richard Dorment was the art critic of the Daily Telegraph. Writing almost every week it was his job to introduce, to explain and to criticise for a popular newspaper the most significant current art exhibitions, mainly in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606066836Author Emily A BeenyFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint J. Paul Getty MuseumPublisher J. Paul Getty MuseumWeight(grams) 635gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782940710003Author Eva AssociationFormat HardbackPage Count 140Imprint Cuco Azul AssociationPublisher Cuco Azul AssociationWeight(grams) 576gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633451360Author Starr FiguraFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Museum of Modern ArtPublisher Museum of Modern ArtWeight(grams) 200g

From the soaring castles of Sleeping Beauty to the bloody battles of Game of Thrones, from Middle-earth in The Lord of the Rings to mythical beasts in Dungeons & Dragons and from Medieval Times to the Renaissance Faire to Disneyland, the Middle Ages have...

Tate St Ives is home to some of the most compelling art of the twentieth century. In this iconic gallery at the edge of the Atlantic Ocean, exhibitions of international modern and contemporary art uncover the far-reaching influence of modern artists...

In 1966 Mark Gambier-Parry bequeathed to the Courtauld the art collection formed by his grandfather Thomas Gambier Parry (who died in 1888). Since then, of the 28 ivories in the collection, about half have been on permanent display at The Courtauld, yet...

New exhibition catalogue on Belgian artist Marcel Broodthaers. Marcel Broodthaers's work is characterized by a complex exploration of the relationship of text and image. This catalog raisonne, prepared by WIELS and developed in close collaboration with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783753303239Author Manuela AmmerFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig,GermanyPublisher Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther...

This revised and redesigned edition of the Guggenheim Museum's guide to its New York collection is a concise primer on art of the late 19th to the early 21st centuries Revised, updated, and completely redesigned, the fourth edition of the Guggenheim...

Current discourse on Indigenous engagement in museum studies is often dominated by curatorial and academic perspectives, in which community voice, viewpoints, and reflections on their collaborations can be under-represented. This book provides a unique...

"This beautiful book reminds me that I was one of many whom Leo Lionni took by the hand, leading me into the world of writing and illustrating picture books." - Micha Archer, author and illustrator of Wonder Walkers, Daniel Finds a Poem, and the...

Shuvinai Ashoona (born 1961) is a third-generation Inuit artist based in Kinngait, Nunavut, Canada. Best known for her highly personal and imaginative iconography, Shuvinai's imagery ranges from closely observed naturalistic scenes of her Arctic home to...

Jean-Paul Goude is a modern legend in the world of commercial art. From his New York days with Esquire magazine to his latest work for Galeries Lafayette, he has consistently provoked and delighted those who have encountered his work. He was Grace...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789461616937Author Davy DepelchinFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Snoeck PublishersPublisher Snoeck PublishersWeight(grams) 782g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614040026Author Chris CooperFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Baby Tattoo BooksPublisher Baby Tattoo BooksWeight(grams) 1351g

A sweeping survey of the arts of Ireland spanning 150 years and an astonishing range of artists and media This groundbreaking book captures a period in Ireland's history when countless foreign architects, artisans, and artists worked side by side with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782365110839Author Eyal WeizmanFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Editions Xavier BarralPublisher Editions Xavier Barral

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783991530268Author Arianna AmbrosettiFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Verlag fur Moderne KunstPublisher Verlag fur Moderne KunstWeight(grams) 214g

In 1919, the state art school in Weimar was reopened under the direction of Walter Gropius, with a radical teaching approach and under the new name Bauhaus. Four years passed before the first exhibition took place, which conveyed a new approach to art to...

How the influential American art historian used his print collection to theorize body language and the concept of the copy Beginning in the early 1960s, with only the meager budget of a part-time art history professor, Leo Steinberg (1920–2011) amassed...

In the mid-1800s, a group of painters based in New York turned their focus to the theme of the natural landscape to demonstrate the beauty of the wilderness. Their work enjoyed a popular national success that no other group of artists has achieved since...

No Going Back Skin in the Game follows on from the acclaimed fieldwork diary, The Metabolic Museum. In this new book written in a conversational style, Clémentine Deliss expands on how artists today understand the creativity to be found in historical...

The legacy of the art and cultural scientist Aby Warburg offers many subjects for reassessment. Almost unknown until now are the artifacts he collected on a journey through the southwest of the US in 1895/96 and donated to the Museum fur Voelkerkunde in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262534321Author Paul O'NeillFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786156595300Author Tamas Kata BohusFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint Hungarian National GalleryPublisher Museum of Fine Art, Budapest / Hungarian...

The Art Institute of Chicago houses some of the most celebrated paintings from the 19th century to the present. Included in this collection are numerous masterpieces of realism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Surrealism, Cubism, Abstract...

A co-publication with The New York Public Library on the occasion of its 2024 exhibition The Awe of the Arctic, this richly illustrated catalogue with its groundbreaking scholarship is the first to survey five hundred years of Arctic imagery. The...

In Museum Skepticism, art historian David Carrier traces the birth, evolution, and decline of the public art museum as an institution meant to spark democratic debate and discussion. Carrier contends that since the inception of the public art museum...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789461618139Format HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Snoeck PublishersPublisher Snoeck PublishersWeight(grams) 1586g

Edouard Manet s Le Dejeuner sur l herbe (1863) is generally cited as the first modern painting. The entry slide in art history lectures about modernism, the work remains among the 'most audacious painting[s] ever seen in France,' as Ross King described...

A year's worth of tips, techniques, advice and more! Make watercolor a part of your daily life, turning every day into inspiration for your art. Designed to fit your life, Watercolor 365--the first watercolor book of its kind--provides a complete...