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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...

A compelling examination of French sculptor Auguste Rodin from the perspective of his enthusiastic American audience This exhibition catalogue explores the American reception of French artist Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), from 1893, when his first work...

This monograph uses the national pavilions of the Venice Biennale as a vehicle to examine the development of international contemporary art trends within the Asia-Pacific region, including Australia, Japan and Korea and 16 additional national entities...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857252216Author Bonnie ClearwaterFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 1280g

Model of a Summer Camp is an intriguing object with a range of stories to tell. Originating in the Sakha (Yakutia) region of far northeastern Russia, it depicts a yhyakh celebration - a festival of huge cultural importance to the region. This concise...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789461617729Author Guy DelmarcelFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint Snoeck PublishersPublisher Snoeck PublishersWeight(grams) 2494g

A glorious trove of miniature art across eras and mediums-from ancient Egypt to the present, from netsuke to medieval shrines Intricate and appealing, curious and uncanny, miniature works of art exert surprising power. Over thousands of years and...

The Kunstkammer was a programmatic display of art and oddities amassed by wealthy Europeans during the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. These nascent museums reflected the ambitions of such thinkers as Descartes, Locke, and Kepler to unite the...

The Neue Galerie New York opened in November 2001, showcasing its collection of Austrian and German art from 1890 to 1940. This publication is issued in celebration of the museum's twentieth anniversary. The Austrian holdings encompass significant...

An exploration of the fascinating parallels and differences between Picasso's Woman with a Book and Ingres's Madame Moitessier This publication examines, in detail, two extraordinary interrelated works: Picasso's Woman with a Book (1932) and Ingres's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262545280Author Sam ThorneFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783037643839Author John BaldessariFormat PaperbackImprint JRP RingierPublisher JRP Ringier

Known for installations exploring science, natural phenomena, and contemporary mythologies, French artist Laurent Grasso presents a visual journey of his avant-garde, conceptual work.Drawing on the visual possibilities of electromagnetic energy, radio...

The world's most important contemporary designers showcase their work within the historic setting of Chatsworth House to shine light and spark conversation on the intriguing juxtaposition of the old and the new, the past and the future, and the evolution...

"An informed and detailed assessment by someone with a deep understanding of art" - Martin Gayford, The Sunday Telegraph "It has sufficient breadth of content and clarity of purpose to have wide appeal among the uninitiated, and yet would not be out of...

In a few short years, Isaac Layman (b. 1977) has established himself as an exceptional talent. In Paradise, Layman expands his practice of constructing large-scale, psychologically charged photographic-based visions of the spaces and objects found in his...

Exceptional works from the Boston-based couple's collection, a tribute to the Golden Age of Flemish and Dutch culture A woman gazing squarely at the artist, arm akimbo; a lush tablescape with oysters and sweets; a sweeping view of Haarlem under a...

This collection of essays by major scholars in the field explores how the rich intersections between Italy and Spain during the early modern period resulted in a confluence of cultural ideals. Various means of exchange and convergence are explored...

What does money really stand for? How can the abstractions of high finance be made visible? Show me the money documents how the financial world has been imagined in art, illustration, photography and other visual media over the last three centuries in...

Accompanying the first U.S. museum exhibition devoted to contemporary art from Pakistan, this dynamic catalogue provides a groundbreaking look at recent and current trends in Pakistani art. Hanging Fire covers a fascinating range of subjects and media,...

Museums, modern concepts of culture, and ideas about difference arose together and are inextricably entwined. Relationships of difference-notably, of gender, ethnicity, nationality, and race-have become equally important concerns of scholarship in...

Searching for the Face of a New Time Whether in the visual arts, literature, cinema, science or fashion–in the crises after World War I, the fascination with “types” was largely influenced by a debate that was pervasive in the Weimar period: the search...

Notions of invisibility and obscurity weigh on Strachan's excavation of overlooked figures throughout history Bahamian-born artist Tavares Strachan's (born 1979) In Total Darkness engages with French colonialism through an investigation of the Haitian...

A momentous publication that opens the doors to the Donald B. Marron Collection and celebrates the collector's enduring legacyOver six decades, American financier and entrepreneur Don Marron acquired more than 300 modern and contemporary masterworks...

Graphis Poster Annual 2Throughout history, posters have served as a beacon of hope and change as they've encouraged the world to take the time to consider better outcomes and new ways of thinking. What started as communications to draw attention to...

Inspired by poets, draftsmen and printmakers, painters also discovered Haarlem and its beautiful surroundings as rewarding subjects for their work. Jacob van Ruisdael and Gerrit Berckheyde both repeatedly pictured the city – the former with his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783864423437Author Christian Viveros-FauneFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Snoeck Verlagsgesellschaft mbHPublisher Snoeck Verlagsgesellschaft mbH

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789461616524Author Exhibitions InternationalFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Snoeck PublishersPublisher Snoeck PublishersWeight(grams) 1536g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783969120347Author Irina Hiebert GrunFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Dr. Cantz'sche Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KGPublisher Dr. Cantz'sche...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732143548Author Stacia LeighFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Espial DesignPublisher Espial DesignWeight(grams) 122gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 4mm

Like hardly any other artist, Pierre-Auguste Renoir has shaped our understanding of the atmospheric figure paintings of Impressionism. His painting La fin du dejeuner, which has been in the Stadel Museum in Frankfurt since 1910, is now the starting point...

It is a fascinating survey of the modern obsession with the destruction of Pompeii as seen through the eyes or artists. Destroyed yet paradoxically preserved by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in a.d. 79, Pompeii and other nearby sites are usually...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908638328Author Dr. Yupin ChungFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Glasgow Museums PublishingPublisher Glasgow Museums PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783960980230Author Alexandra DanilovaFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig,GermanyPublisher Verlag der Buchhandlung...

This comprehensive book brings to light the portraits, private collections and public patronage of the princesse de Lamballe, a pivotal member of Marie-Antoinette's inner circle. Drawing extensively on unpublished archival sources, Sarah Grant examines...

The Kunstmuseum Bern owns one of the most important art collections in Switzerland. Since the foundation of the Staatliche Kunstsammlung in Bern in 1809 and the opening of the first museum building in 1879 the collection has grown continuously and has...

A New Kinship Life in its many forms is intertwined in manifold ways. Making the coexistence of different beings and worlds tangible through an exploration of objects, stories and works of art, this book shows that in many regions of the earth, our...

Patron Saints: Collecting Stanley Spencer is a revealing new exhibition at the renowned Stanley Spencer Gallery in Cookham - Spencer's spiritual home and major source of inspiration. The exhibition draws together a spectacular collection of loans,...