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Concentrationary Memories has, as its premise, the idea at the heart of Alain Resnais's film Night and Fog (1955) that the concentrationary plague unleashed on the world by the Nazis in the 1930s and 1940s is not simply confined to one place and one time...

This innovative study considers one of the most important art and design movements of the 20th century, the Bauhaus, in conjunction with current research in public relations and organizational communication, elaborating on the mechanisms of internal and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013291036Author Caroline DakersFormat HardbackPage Count 428Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

For nearly half a century, celebrated historian Ron Tyler has researched, interpreted, and exhibited western American art. This splendid volume, gleaned from Tyler's extensive career of connoisseurship, brings together eight of the author's most notable...

At centre stage in this volume is the Royal Clock Salt, an exceptional national treasure from the courtly culture of the Renaissance. Most probably made in Paris around 1530 by Pierre Mangot, the royal goldsmith to Francis I, the Clock Salt is somewhere...

Vibrant tapestries of beribboned birds, cantering centaurs, and Dionysian dancers, woven in Coptic Egypt more than a thousand years ago, were artfully arranged in a handsome pair of albums in 1913. Some of the fabrics are shown in unique collage...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262038478Author Vanja V. MalloyFormat HardbackPage Count 344Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262546638Author Armin MedoschFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 178g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393333824Author Barbara StracheyFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint WW Norton & CoPublisher WW Norton & Co

Writing the Lives of Painters explores the development of artists' biographies in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain. During this period artists gradually distanced themselves from artisans and began to be recognised for their imaginative...

As one of the first academic monographs on Keith Haring, this book uses the Pop Shop, a previously overlooked enterprise, and artist merchandising as tools to reconsider the significance and legacy of Haring's career as a whole.Haring developed an...

This book explores the works of one of Sweden's most esteemed artists, Hilma af Klint, alongside others in her artistic circle - and examines their inspirational influence on contemporary artists working today.Swedish Ecstasy tells the story of renowned...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674281875Author Robert GoldwaterFormat HardbackPage Count 364Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 689g

In the wake of World War II, the paintings of Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Willem de Kooning, and other New York School artists participated in a culture-wide initiative to reimagine the self. At a time when widely held beliefs about...

Major General Sir Isaac Brock is remembered as the Hero of Upper Canada for his defence of what is now Ontario during the War of 1812, and also for his noble death at the Battle of Queenston Heights. In the more than two centuries since then, Brock's...

To their children, Karl and Anna were "ordinary" people. To the rest of the world they were the extraordinary faces immortalized by Andrew Wyeth. Their story shows they were also far more complicated. Reflecting unprecedented access granted to the author...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262047128Author Daniel NaegeleFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

"With its unprecedented depth and range, this massive new history of Surrealism from veteran French philosopher and art critic Durozoi will be the one-volume standard for years to come. . . . The book discusses expertly the main surrealist artists like...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783864421600Author Hanneke SkerathFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Snoeck Verlagsgesellschaft mbHPublisher Snoeck Verlagsgesellschaft mbHWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780228828365Author Terry WolfeFormat HardbackPage Count 378Imprint Tellwell TalentPublisher Tellwell TalentWeight(grams) 721g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912554249Author Bernard BousmanneFormat HardbackPage Count 205Imprint Harvey Miller PublishersPublisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 1139gDimensions(mm)...

Cybernetic-Existentialism: Freedom, Systems, and Being-for-Others in Contemporary Arts and Performance offers a unique discourse and an original aesthetic theory. It argues that fusing perspectives from the philosophy of Existentialism with insights from...

The first major publication in more than thirty years on contemporary artist Chryssa, an innovator of light art Chryssa & New York offers a timely reassessment of Greek-born artist Chryssa (Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali, 1933-2013). Chryssa was a leading...

This book brings together thirteen distinguished critics and scholars to explore children's art and its profound but rarely documented influence on the evolution of modern art. It shows that children's art and childhood have inspired major works of art,...

The rebirth of realistic representation in Italy around 1300 led to the materialization of a pictorial language, which dominated Western art until 1900, and it dominates global visual culture even today. Paralleling the development of mimesis,...

Pontius Pilate is one of the Bible's best-known villains--but up until the tenth century, artistic imagery appears to have consistently portrayed him as a benevolent Christian and holy symbol of baptism. For the first time, Pontius Pilate, Anti-Semitism,...

This is not simply a guidebook to the Acropolis Museum: by presenting the works of art exhibited in the museum, it endeavours to resynthesize the history of the Sacred Rock as part of the cultural and the wider historical process of Athens. Following the...

This is the first book to explore the global influence of Maoism on modern and contemporary art. Featuring eighteen original essays written by established and emerging scholars from around the world, and illustrated with fascinating images not widely...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783037644812Author Clement DirieFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint JRP RingierPublisher JRP Ringier

Focuses on IAFWA's status as a proponent of broadly applied conservation policies since its founding in 1902. The debate over state vs. federal jurisdiction in wildlife management is prominently discussed. Here are presented two essays by one of the...

Starving Artist Knifed to Death in Village Room… Famous Artist Dies Penniless and All Alone… Deep in the archives of The Metropolitan Museum of Art are two strange scrapbooks packed with century-old newspaper obituaries of painters, illustrators,...

A beautifully designed and lavishly illustrated survey of 19th-century paintings in the Netherlands This comprehensive overview is the first book in more than 60 years on the underexplored history of painting in the Netherlands in the 19th century. Jenny...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262043496Author Samuel Jay KeyserFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 21mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780917860577Author William Keyse RudolphFormat HardbackPage Count 114Imprint Historic New Orleans Collection,U.S.Publisher Historic New Orleans Collection,U...

Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) was a breaker of boundaries and a consummate collaborator. He used silk-screen prints to reflect on American promise and failure, melded sculpture and painting in works called combines, and collaborated with engineers and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262518345Author Hans BeltingFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 1860g

Silver transformed and convulsed the early modern world. Silver, even more than gold, occupied a deeply charged intersection of forces and dynamics - philosophical, religious, material, telluric, economic, colonialist, social, cultural, and courtly -...

Art in England fills a void in the scholarship of both English and medieval art by offering the first single volume overview of artistic movements in Medieval and Early Renaissance England. Grounded in history and using the chronology of the reign of...

During World War II, the Nazis plundered from occupied countries millions of items of incalculable value estimated in the hundreds of millions of dollars. Spearheaded by Hermann Goring the looting program quickly created the largest private art...

Essays on the chronology and interpretation of the Byzantine mosaics of Thessaloniki. Thessaloniki contains the finest collection of surviving Byzantine mosaics in any one city. Made over the course of a millennium between the fourth and the fourteenth...