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Today few would think of astronomy and astrology as fields related to theology. Fewer still would know that physically absorbing planetary rays was once considered to have medical and psychological effects. But this was the understanding of light...

The catalogue focuses on the entire non-numismatic contents of the Cuerdale hoard (discovered in 1840), together with all the other hoards and single-finds of gold and silver artefacts (ornaments and ingots) of Viking character in the British Museum, ...

This dazzling volume records the artist's travels through the Lone Star State, a grand expedition for our time Renowned artist Mark Dion (b. 1961) has a deep passion for history and the natural world. His installations mine the materials of the past to...

Cotton Claudius B.iv, an illustrated Old English Hexateuch that is among the treasures of the British Library, contains one of the first extended projects of translation of the Bible in a European vernacular. Its over four hundred images make it one of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939994622Author Richard KlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint For BeginnersPublisher For Beginners

The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Chinese Art Initiative presents Tales of Our Time, an exhibition and accompanying catalogue of commissioned works by seven artists based in mainland China, Hong Kong or Taiwan. The exhibition's title is inspired by...

Franco Albini's works of architecture and design, produced between 1930 and 1977, have enjoyed a recent revival but to date have received only sporadic scholarly attention from historians and critics of the Modern Movement. A chorus of Italian voices has...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945078002Author Mary-Margaret MarxFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Mary-Margaret MarxPublisher Mary-Margaret MarxWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm)...

"Virilio offers a cool, precise look at an impending future in which reality shall simply cease to exist. Highly recommended." -ChoiceSurveying art history as well as the technologies of war and urban planning, one of France's leading intellectuals...

This wide-ranging book elucidates the symbolism of veils and highlights the power of drapery in Italian art from Giotto to Titian. In the cities of the Renaissance, display of luxury dress was a marker of status. Florentines decked out their palaces and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623173562Author Celia RabinovitchFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912554515Author Nina DubinFormat HardbackPage Count 157Imprint Harvey Miller PublishersPublisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 1656gDimensions(mm) 267mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262539456Author Annie OchmanekFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

This book traces the emergence of modernism in art in South Asia by exploring the work of the iconic artist George Keyt. Closely interwoven with his life, Keyt's art reflects the struggle and triumph of an artist with very little support or...

It is no coincidence that a historical figure such as Patrice Emery Lumumba, independent Congo's first prime minister, who was killed in 1961, has lived in the realm of the cultural imaginary and occupied an afterlife in the arts. After all, his project...

Michelangelo's genius is revealed as never before by the man who became Michelangelo's last apprentice- an American artist and art historian whose family helped carve Mount Rushmore. Many believe Michelangelo's talent was miraculous and untrained, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942130000Author Mitchell B. MerbackFormat HardbackPage Count 360Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262026703Author James NisbetFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 885gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 16mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954452353Author Michael ParaskosFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint Orage PressPublisher Orage PressWeight(grams) 102g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781890951849Author Zainab BahraniFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 25mm

Early in this century, Futurist and Dada artists developed brilliantly innovative uses of typography that blurred the boundaries between visual art and literature. In this text, Johanna Drucker shows how later art criticism has distorted our...

An important examination of how artists have grappled with anti-Black violence and its representations from the late nineteenth century to the presentFrom the horrors of slavery and lynching to the violent suppression of civil rights struggles and recent...

An exquisite and authoritative look at four centuries of quilts and quilting from around the world Quilts are among the most utilitarian of art objects, yet the best among them possess a formal beauty that rivals anything made on canvas. This landmark...

'The most important art historian of his generation' is how some scholars have described the late Michael Baxandall (1933-2007), Professor of the Classical Tradition at the Warburg Institute, University of London, and of the History of Art at the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983121770Author Roger ManleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint NC State University Gregg Museum of Art and DesignPublisher NC State University Gregg...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857235639Author Ashraf JamalFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 1480g

In the Middle Ages, writing conveyed far more than information. In contradistinction to the modern separation of image and text and, by implication, form and content, which was reified with the invention of printing, illuminated...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578595825Author Josephine S WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Lowbrow Literati PressPublisher Lowbrow Literati PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013291029Author Caroline DakersFormat PaperbackPage Count 428Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

It was in large part the lure of riches, such as spices and gold, and the promise of fertile land which tempted the British and other Europeans to venture out to unknown lands. These intrepid explorers, who devoted and often lost their lives on journeys...

Material relations, now available in paperback, tells the story of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century middle-class families by exploring the domestic spaces they inhabited and the material goods they prized. By opening the doors of the house, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262038997Author Peggy PhelanFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

The Artangel Trust has been credited with providing artists with all the money and logistics they need to create one-off dream projects. An independent art commissioning agency based in London, it has operated since 1985 and is responsible for producing...

Though Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari were not strictly art historians, they reinvigorated ontological and formal approaches to art, and simultaneously borrowed art historical concepts for their own philosophical work. They were dedicated modernists,...

Spanning four decades of radical political and social change in Italy, this interdisciplinary study explores photography's relationship with Italian painting, film, literature, anthropological research and international photography. Evocative and...

The first full-length study of the impact of the discovery of the Americas on Italian Renaissance art and culture, Imagining the Americas in Medici Florence demonstrates that the Medici grand dukes of Florence were not only great patrons of artists but...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142180297Author Will GompertzFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 652gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 137mm * 29mm

Using both textual and iconographic sources, this richly illustrated book examines the representations of the body in Greek Old and Middle Comedy, how it was staged, perceived, and imagined, particularly in Athens, Magna Graecia, and Sicily. The study...

Monumental cares rethinks monument debates, site specificity and art activism in light of problems that strike us as monumental or overwhelming, such as war, migration and the climate crisis. The book shows how artists address these issues, from Chicago...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789385360992Author X WaswoFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Mapin Publishing Pvt.LtdPublisher Mapin Publishing Pvt.LtdWeight(grams) 28g