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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789462084995Author Reinier BaarsenFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint NAI PublishersPublisher Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi Uitgevers/Publishers)

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782330010133Author Eric M zilFormat HardbackPage Count 191Imprint Actes SudPublisher Actes Sud

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783906315010Author Maja OeriFormat HardbackPage Count 800Imprint Laurenz Foundation, SchaulagerPublisher Laurenz Foundation, SchaulagerWeight(grams) 2812g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789609931458Author Karen MartaFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Deste Foundation for Contemporary ArtPublisher Deste Foundation for Contemporary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615669458Author Eric BanksFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint East of BorneoPublisher East of Borneo

The Crocker Art Museum has one of the finest and earliest German drawings collections in the United States. Featuring artists such as Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner, Anton Raphael Mengs and Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein, The Splendor of Germany examines...

St Cecilia's Hall is Scotland's oldest purpose-built concert hall and home to the University of Edinburgh's world-famous musical instrument collection. Comprising over 500 rare and beautiful instruments from across the globe - many of which are still...

Assembling the voices of cultural leaders and curators, this book shares their insights on some of The Broad collection's most celebrated artists and works For decades, art patrons and philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad have sought to foster public...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783863352400Author Frederico CampagnaFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther KonigPublisher Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783863351748Author Julia FriedrichFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther KonigPublisher Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig

This beautifully illustrated catalogue presents a selection of exceptional seventeenth-century Dutch drawings from the Peck Collection in the Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Featuring many previously unpublished and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788417975630Author Monica AmievaFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint RM Verlag SLPublisher RM Verlag SL

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783944669199Author Eugen BlumeFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint Spector BooksPublisher Spector Books

Marking the remarkable century of Ben Uri Gallery and Museum, from humble beginnings in London's East End in 1915 to a fully-fledged mainstream art museum, under its banner Art, Identity and Migration , this publication reveals eleven essays covering...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938461835Author Skolnick Architecture + Design PartnershipFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Pointed Leaf PressPublisher Pointed Leaf Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997858914Author Wendy EarleFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Museum of the SouthwestPublisher Museum of the Southwest

Marcos Martin Blanco and Elena Rueda began to acquire artworks in 1979. Over the years, the MER Foundation has gathered more than 800 works and includes important pieces from the best contemporary artists. The collection specialises in European and...

This book grants unexpected, beautiful and provoking insights into the diversity of the collection of treasures held in Leipzig's GRASSI Museum of Applied Arts. Focusing on the joy of contemplating the works, its hope is to awaken the desire for a...

ArtScience Museum is the cultural heart of Marina Bay Sands in Singapore and explores the intersection between art, science, technology and culture. Since its opening in February 2011, ArtScience Museum has staged large-scale exhibitions by some of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646570096Author Riley RobinsonFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Artpace a Foundation for Contemporary ArtPublisher Artpace a Foundation for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789462085954Author Jacques PrinsFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Nai010 PublishersPublisher Nai010 PublishersWeight(grams) 267g

For the first time, this important volume features nearly all of the ancient glass objects in the collection of the Princeton University Art Museum. Collected over the course of more than a century, the objects originate from locations across the eastern...

Manchester Museum, part of the University of Manchester, has completed its most ambitious transformation in a generation. This beautiful guidebook is a tour and souvenir of the new museum, featuring spectacular objects and stories that inspire...

Formerly the official residences of the Tsars, the five buildings that comprise the State Hermitage Museum now house one of the finest art collections in the world. The collection is as vast and rich as its surroundings - ranging from prehistoric...

As prominent members of the Victorian cultural and artistic world, Sir Charles and Lady Elizabeth Eastlake, along with their nephew Charles Locke Eastlake, enjoyed the friendship and support of influential figures including Prince Albert, Sir Thomas...

This catalog assembles sumptuous photographs of the world's leading collection of Cham sculpture, along with the most recent insights of Vietnamese and international scholars. The Champa culture thrived in magnificent temples, sculpture, dance and music...

Czech Cubism is one of the most important contributions of modern Czech art to world culture. These works, created approximately between 1910 and 1935, embrace painting, drawing, graphic art, collage, sculpture, architecture and applied art, and the...

In October 1860, at the culmination of the Second Opium War, British and French troops looted and destroyed one of the most important palace complexes in imperial China-the Yuanmingyuan. Known in the West as the "Summer Palace," this site...

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston houses a world-famous collection of European painting and sculpture, including such masterpieces as Renoir's Dance at Bougival, Gauguin's Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?, Degas's Little Dancer,...

Patterns resonate and reveal themselves in this unique photographic essay featuring objects from the six museums associated with the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture (HMSC). The museums' encyclopaedic collections hold great significance in...

A powerful reframing of the study of Black art and the historical and contemporary status of Black livesPerceptual Drift offers a new interpretive model drawing on four key works of Black art in the Cleveland Museum of Art's collection. In its chapters,...

A new approach to the work of self-taught artist James Castle that focuses on how his drawings and practice resonate with earlier masters Drawing on the collections of the William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation and the James Castle Collection and Archive, this...

In the late 18th century, as a wave of English nationalism swept the country, the printseller John Boydell set out to create an ambitious exhibition space, one devoted to promoting and fostering a distinctly English style of history painting. With its...

"The collection of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French silver at the J. Paul Getty Museum is of exceptional quality and state of preservation. Each piece is remarkable for its beauty, inventive form, skillful execution, illustrious provenance, and...

The Royal Pavilion and Museums Trust cares for five venues in Brighton and Hove, including the spectacular Royal Pavilion, a royal palace created by George IV as his summer retreat, designed in its final form by John Nash in a Moghul Indian style and set...

Where do we begin to talk about abstract art? This question depends on one's worldview. From the point of view of the collection included in this book, the arc of abstraction is very broad, sweeping and multivalent. The essays included here take an open...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783906915159Author Luc SanteFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Hauser & WirthPublisher Hauser & WirthWeight(grams) 1746gDimensions(mm) 300mm * 244mm * 28mm

In nineteenth century Japan, woodblock prints were a cultural phenomenon, with thousands of designs issued annually. Prints were a cheap and colourful medium of entertainment, much like magazines and posters today. Kabuki is a unique combination of...

The Tyrolean State Museums, Innsbruck, Austria, hold a treasure-trove of over 5 million objects and offer an extensive, interdisciplinary program of exhibitions and events to introduce new audiences to the region and to explore the links between past and...

Impressionism and Post-Impressionism at the Dallas Museum of Art offers a series of intimate case studies in the history of 19th-century European art. Inspired by a series of public lectures given at the Dallas Museum of Art between 2009 and 2013, the...