History

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780764960536Author Scott A ShieldsFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Pomegranate Communications Inc,USPublisher Pomegranate Communications...

I am not one for pretty pictures.' Perhaps when I am long gone this will be a quote that I am remembered for alongside my paintings. For you will mostly find me in the gallery on a sunny day and out on the moors when it is at its most inhospitable, for...

Almost nine million people from all over the world flock to the Louvre in Paris every year to see its incomparable art collection. Yet few, if any, are aware of the remarkable history of that location and of the buildings themselves, and how they...

The first major publication to explore the work of Sonia Boyce, one of Britain's most exciting contemporary artists, including her newest and most ambitious work to date The British artist Sonia Boyce (b. 1962) is celebrated for depicting intimate social...

Why Piranesi's greatest works weren't his famous prints but rather the books for which he made themA draftsman, printmaker, architect, and archaeologist, Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-78) is best known today as the virtuoso etcher of the immersive and...

A superbly illustrated, innovative history of British art, seen from the perspective of the home.Book InformationISBN 9781789146233Author Nicholas TromansFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Reaktion BooksPublisher Reaktion BooksWeight(grams) 171g

De Stijl was the title of a magazine founded in the Netherlands in 1917 and is now used to identify the abstract art and functional architecture of its major contributors: Mondrian, Van Doesburg, Van der Leck, Oud, Wils and Rietveld. This book is the...

A discovery: Polish Symbolism between decadence and a new beginning The turn of the century was a golden age for Polish art. The publication shows about 130 masterpieces of painting from this era between decadence and a new beginning and describes its...

'A wholly delightful novel' Allan Massie, Scotsman'An excellent homage to The Glasgow Girls... both heart-breaking and hopeful' - Amy Jefferies, Scots MagazineLily Crawford and Jeanie Taylor, from very different backgrounds, are firm friends from their...

Building or rebuilding their houses was one of the main concerns of the English nobility and gentry, some might say their greatest achievement. This is the first book to look at the building of country houses as a whole. Creating Paradise shows why...

Contemporary art can be baffling and beautiful, provocative and disturbing. This pioneering book presents a new look at the controversial period between 1945 and 2015, when art and its traditional forms were called into question. It focuses on the...

The "infrathin" was Marcel Duchamp's playful name for the most minute shade of difference: that between the report of a gunshot and the appearance of the bullet hole, or between two objects in a series made from the same mold. "Eat" is not the same thing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789146448Author Peter DaleFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Reaktion BooksPublisher Reaktion BooksWeight(grams) 165g

Is Byzantine Studies a colonialist discipline? Rather than provide a definitive answer to this question, this book defines the parameters of the debate and proposes ways of thinking about what it would mean to engage seriously with the field's political...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857246734Author Meet My ProjectFormat HardbackPage Count 928Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 2460g

This fresh and engaging, illustrated history of art explains the fundamentals every art lover needs while presenting the development of different schools and styles as one continuous, astonishing timeline- from Giotto to Leonardo, Frida to Banksy.When...

The first comprehensive account of Charles J. Connick, America’s most innovative and influential stained glass artist working in the first half of the twentieth century When Charles J. Connick (1875–1945) began his stained glass career in Pittsburgh in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394704159Author Roger ShattuckFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 301gDimensions(mm)...

From the mangaka who told his life story in A Drifting Life, and gave you Abandon the Old in Tokyo and The Push Man and Other Stories, comes this collection of gekiga of the 1970s which have never before been translated into English. Personally selected...

The captivating tale of the plans and personalities behind one of New York City's most radical and recognizable buildings Considered the crowning achievement of Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959), the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan is often called...

A revelatory look at how the mature work of Caspar David Friedrich engaged with concurrent developments in natural science and philosophy Best known for his atmospheric landscapes featuring contemplative figures silhouetted against night skies and...

The Gayer-Anderson Cat has been one of the most admired objects at the British Museum since its arrival in 1947. This book presents a detailed description of the cat and a discussion of its possible meaning and role in ancient times. Surprising new finds...

Tracey Emin has undergone an extraordinary metamorphosis from a young, unknown artist into the 'bad girl' of the Young British Art (YBA) movement, challenging the complacency of the art establishment in both her work and her life. Today she is arguably...

Rain machines; alarmed kosher pickle jars filled with gemstones; replica corn flakes boxes; 'disco decor'; time capsules; art bombs; birthday presents; perfume bottles and floating silver pillows that are clouds; paintings that are also films; museum...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262046640Author Noam AndrewsFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

An innovative look at the creation of Leonardo's The Virgin of the Rocks This concise but innovative book, published to accompany an immersive digital exhibition at the National Gallery, London, focuses on a single Leonardo painting, and one of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783956796098Author Daniela ZymanFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Sternberg PressPublisher Sternberg PressWeight(grams) 785gDimensions(mm) 298mm * 232mm...

From Eastern Europe is a collection of work from some of the most talented designers, agencies and illustrators in this region - such as Anna Kulacheck, The Bakery, AKU, Dima Pantyushin, Metaklinika and many more. Countries included:...

Many of Magnum's most renowned photographers - beginning with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson on assignment in the 1930s - have been captivated by China. They've returned time and again, their fascination growing in line with China's burgeoning...

For more than 1500 years the hieroglyphs of ancient Egypt defied interpretation but were thought to conceal ancient wisdom and religious secrets. When at last they were deciphered, the hieroglyphs provided a surprisingly vivid picture of all areas of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954404007Author Hans Von TrothaFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint New Vessel PressPublisher New Vessel Press

The long-awaited reprint of an important illustrated reference work on the general history of the watch from 1500 to 1980. When Watches was first published in 1965 it quickly gained for itself a reputation as the foremost general history of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486248226Author Carol Belanger GraftonFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Almost nine million people from all over the world flock to the Louvre in Paris every year to see its incomparable art collection. Yet few, if any, are aware of the remarkable history of that location and of the buildings themselves, and how they...

With a body of work that explores a broad spectrum of subjects - from lesbianism and feminism to contemporary politics and the natural world - Nicole Eisenman (b.1965) challenges convention and encourages viewers to construe meanings from images that...

A charming portrait of early-20th-century European society through the lens of Lartigue, with 55 unpublished photographs Despite becoming interested in photography when he was barely in double digits, French artist Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894-1986)...

Photography and Collaboration offers a fresh perspective on existing debates in art photography and on the act of photography in general. Unlike conventional accounts that celebrate individual photographers and their personal visions, this book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143123477Author Kay LarsonPage Count 512Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

95 colour illustrations. The Athens Acropolis and its Museum constitute an integrated architectural and artistic unity, one of the most important in the history of global civilization. This informative and attractive guidebook is designed to be a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781869928988Author Eric RatcliffeFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Mandrake of OxfordPublisher Mandrake of OxfordWeight(grams) 776g