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Tells the story of Rembrandt and his marriage to Saskia, the love of his life. Paintings, drawings, etchings, objects, letters and poems tell the tale of a society marriage in 17th century Holland. Accompanies a travelling exhibition in The Netherlands...

Paul Klee experienced his 1914 trip to Tunisia as a major breakthrough for his art: Color and I are one," he famously wrote. I am a painter." Kandinsky and Klee in Tunisia sets the scene for Klee's breakthrough with a close study of the parallel voyage...

A visual delight, and a designer's dream-the decorative details of great European paintings transformed into beautiful two-dimensional patterns Richly embroidered robes. Intricate lace collars. Elaborately laid floor tiles. Delicately carved and...

When art hits the headlines, it is usually because it has caused offence or is perceived by the media to have shock-value. Over the last fifty years many artists have been censored, vilified, accused of blasphemy and obscenity, threatened with violence,...

With his distinctive paintings of landscapes, figures and still lifes, Paul Cezanne (1839-1906) profoundly influenced the Cubists and the direction of twentieth-century art in general. In this lively account of the artist's life and work, Mary Tompkins...

The first book to put the sacred and sensuous bronze statues from India's Chola dynasty in social contextFrom the ninth through the thirteenth century, the Chola dynasty of southern India produced thousands of statues of Hindu deities, whose physical...

Exploring the significance of metaphor in modern art "Where do the roots of art lie?" asked Der Sturm founder Herwarth Walden. "In the people? Behind the mountains? Behind the planets. He who has eyes to hear, feels." Walden's Der Sturm-the journal,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944038526Author Isabella Stewart Gardner MuseumFormat HardbackPage Count 36Imprint Benna BooksPublisher Benna BooksWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 208mm...

An expansive collection of texts providing insight into the inner life, creativity, and practice of the innovative American artist Anne Truitt Spanning more than fifty years, this comprehensive volume collects the letters, journal entries, interviews,...

From the first announcement in 1839 of the daguerreotype process at a joint meeting of the French Academy of Sciences and the Academie des Beaux-Arts, photography found itself suspended uneasily between science and the arts, a new technology that offered...

A Companion to Medieval Art brings together cutting-edge scholarship devoted to the Romanesque and Gothic traditions in Northern Europe. Brings together cutting-edge scholarship devoted to the Romanesque and Gothic traditions in Northern Europe.Contains...

The brightly colored tin-enameled earthenware called maiolica was among the major accomplishments of decorative arts in 16th-century Italy. This in-depth look at the history of maiolica, told through 140 exemplary pieces from the world-class collection...

Surrealist cinema, as epitomised by Un Chien Andalou and L'Age D'Or, was a knife through the very heart of the establishment - a scorpionic, scatological black joke galvanised by the irrational, the uncanny and the spectre of de Sade. Author Robert Short...

Is gender implicated in how art does its work in the world created by global capital? Is a global imperative exclusive to capital's planetary expansion or also witnessed in oppositional practices in art and curating? And what is new in the gendered...

Goldsmiths' products examined, combining discussion of object with analysis of inscription and design, and literary and archaeological evidence for smiths and their work. Throughout the Anglo-Saxon period, goldsmiths produced work of a high standard...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781872501321Author Lucy Freeman SandlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Harvey Miller PublishersPublisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 562g

King''s Royal is an epic story of bitter riva lry, illicit passion and soaring ambition, chronicling the l ife and times of a Glasgow family whose wealth has been buil t up in the Scotch whisky business at the height of the Vict orian era. 'A historical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262042741Author Jacquelynn BaasFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 29mm

This book examines the career of New York-based artist Sherrie Levine, whose 1981 series of photographs "after Walker Evans" - taken not from life but from Evans's famous depression-era documents of rural Alabama - became central examples in theorizing...

"St George and the Dragon" is a supremely beautiful painting. It is an exquisitely rendered vision of a universal tale of good and evil. And it is also an example of how art witnesses and participates in the ebb and flow of world power. For its artist,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2013 2013.Book InformationISBN 9780262536554Author Linda Dalrymple HendersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 760Imprint MIT...

In 1857 the French poet Charles Baudelaire, who was fascinated by lesbianism, created a scandal with Les Fleurs du Mal [The Flowers of Evil]. This collection was originally entitled "The Lesbians" and described women as "femmes damnees," with "disordered...

Conceptualism played a different role in Latin American art during the 1960s and 1970s than in Europe and the United States, where conceptualist artists predominantly sought to challenge the primacy of the art object and art institutions, as well as the...

A masterful deciphering of an extraordinary art object, illuminating some of the biggest questions of the eighteenth century The Throne of the Great Mogul (1701-8) is a unique work of European decorative art: an intricate miniature of the court of the...

Proposes a revolutionary approach to the interpretation of art, film, and the digital. In Touch, Laura U. Marks develops a critical approach more tactile than visual, an intensely physical and sensuous engagement with works of media art that enriches our...

This unique book offers guidance for contemporary art practices in dialogue with history, story, memory, and tradition.Artist and lecturer Paul O'Kane uses innovative and creative means, informed by a storytelling tradition as well as academic research,...

Since the dawn of western fashion in the Middle Ages, women's dress has never stopped evolving, yet menswear has seen far fewer style revolutions. At the centre of the male wardrobe is the suit: relatively unchanged since the 17th century, its cut and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780907307013Author Nicola ColdstreamFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint British Archaeological AssociationPublisher British Archaeological...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787359178Author Philip SteadmanFormat HardbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 970g

Innovative artists in 1960s Japan who made art in the "wilderness"-away from Tokyo, outside traditional norms, and with little institutional support-with global resonances. 1960s Japan was one of the world's major frontiers of vanguard art. As...

This new title celebrates 50 years of the creative force of nature that is the artistic partnership of Gilbert & George. Published in cooperation with the LUMA Foundation in Arles, France, on the occasion of their retrospective exhibition on show from 2...

The 1960s were heady years in Argentina. Visual artists, curators, and critics sought to fuse art and politics; to broaden the definition of art to encompass happenings and assemblages; and, above all, to achieve international recognition for new,...

'Creative License' describes what happened next and the continuum leading up to this moment. In this ground-breaking study, James Charnley reveals the personalities and events that ignited an explosion of radical creativity such that a contemporary...

Although objects associated with the Passion and suffering of Christ are among the most important and sacred relics venerated by the Catholic Church, this is the first study that considers how they were presented to the faithful. Cynthia Hahn adopts an...

Perspective has been a divided subject, orphaned among various disciplines from philosophy to gardening. In the first book to bring together recent thinking on perspective from such fields as art history, literary theory, aesthetics, psychology, and the...

Photography as an everyday practice is once again changing dramatically. At this moment of transition from analogue to digital, Digital Snaps aims to develop a new media ecology that can accommodate these changes to photography 'as we know it'. Expert...

This volume examines the relationship between occultism and Surrealism, specifically exploring the reception and appropriation of occult thought, motifs, tropes and techniques by Surrealist artists and writers in Europe and the Americas, from the 1920s...

Exploring the origins and lasting significance of a dynamic, subversive, and interactive art form This is the first publication to consider art to wear, also known as wearable art, as a discrete American movement that mirrored the cultural, political,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262038973Author Ria BrodellFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

The study of Roman sculpture has been an essential part of the disciplines of Art History and Classics since the eighteenth century. Famous works like the Laocooen, the Arch of Titus, and the colossal portrait of Constantine are familiar to millions...