History

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648727606Author Lyn MerringtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Are PressPublisher Are PressWeight(grams) 118g

This generously illustrated volume surveys a new chapter in the history of environmental art, one in which space, geopolitics, human relations, urbanism, and utopian dreamwork play as important a role as, if not more than, raw earth. Discussed are case...

In this book, Claire Reddleman introduces her theoretical innovation "cartographic abstraction" - a material modality of thought and experience that is produced through cartographic techniques of depiction. Reddleman closely engages with selected...

Often referred to as the last Surrealist and first Abstract Expressionist, Arshile Gorky (c. 1900-1948) appears as an interstice within art history's linear progression. Gorky embraced dream imagery in the tradition of the Surrealists, used all-over...

Alone of his contemporaries, J.M.W. Turner is commonly held to have prefigured modern painting, as signalled in the existence of The Turner Prize for contemporary art. Our celebration of his achievement is very different to what Victorian critics made of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780228838531Author Hyounjeong YooFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Tellwell TalentPublisher Tellwell TalentWeight(grams) 172gDimensions(mm) 178mm *...

Memory as a dynamic process has been the underlying theme of Sabine Moritz s drawings and paintings since the early 1990s. In her work the Cologne-based artist has captured remembered images from her childhood in the GDR; drawn flower compositions; and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788862640084Author Renzo Piano FoundationFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Fondazione Renzo PianoPublisher Fondazione Renzo Piano

This is a study of the artistic and political context that led to the production of a truly exceptional Byzantine illustrated manuscript. Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale de France, codex grec 54 is one of the most ambitious and complex manuscripts produced...

From abolitionist medallions to statues of bondspeople bearing broken chains, sculpture gave visual and material form to narratives about the end of slavery in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Sculpture at the Ends of Slavery sheds light on the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612480923Author Timothy McCallFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Truman State University PressPublisher Truman State University PressWeight(grams)...

Long before 'collabs' became a buzzword, artists influenced every aspect of the fashion world. This approachable collection compares fashion and art side-by-side to highlight a variety of relationships: inspiration, collaboration, and artists working to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781462887811Author David KingFormat HardbackImprint Xlibris CorporationPublisher Xlibris CorporationWeight(grams) 272g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912554591Author Stella PanayotovaFormat HardbackPage Count 524Imprint Harvey Miller PublishersPublisher Brepols N.V.

Interest ages: 4-7 Level: KS1 Subject: reading In this non-decodable, non-fiction Reading Corner book, learn how to grow a sunflower! * Part of the Bug Club reading series used in over 3500 schools * ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781292447285Author Liz MilesFormat PaperbackPage Count 16Imprint Pearson Education LimitedPublisher Pearson Education Limited

Red Squirrel Phonics is a new series of decodable readers from Raintree, packed with real stories using words that children can read. The programme teaches children phonics skills in a sequential and systematic way so that they can learn the sounds...

In his figurative painting, Tim Sandow (*1988) brings together the imagined cliche of a type of person with a superabundance of details. Situations that seem to come from day-to-day life appear perplexing at second glance. The paintings give the...

A longing for togetherness - for love - shows insistently in this 17th edition of MOMENTA Biennale de l'image. The artists and authors invite us to forge intimate kinships with nonhuman life-worlds. They propose that we listen to - and observe, smell,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781786375193Author Kirsty HolmesFormat HardbackPage Count 24Imprint BookLife PublishingPublisher BookLife PublishingWeight(grams) 250g

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MPT's spring issue 'Clean Hands' focuses on the Covid-19 pandemic in Europe, featuring the Stanza/MPT Windowswap Project; a conversation between Simone Atangana Bekono and Jay Bernard about the language of lockdown; and new poems and translations from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916007277Author Diana Matos GagicFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Crafty Birdie DesignsPublisher Crafty Birdie Designs

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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,...

The Swiss scholar Jacob Burckhardt (1818-1897) was one of the first great historians of culture and art. In his manuscript on the genres of Italian Renaissance painting - still unpublished in the original German and published here in English for the...

This book traces the history of three dimensional perspective in art from prehistoric and ancient times, during which the portrayal of depth was practically nonexistent, through its early development by the Greeks and Romans; its virtual disappearance...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789887928409Author SendPointsFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint SendpointsPublisher Sendpoints

Engaging with the imaginative, nonreligious response to Gothic sculpture in German-speaking lands and tracing high and late medieval notions of the 'living statue' and the simulacrum in religious, lay, and travel literature, this study explores the...

A novel investigation into art pedagogy and constructions of national identities in Britain and Ireland, this collection explores the student-master relationship in case studies ranging chronologically from 1770 to 2013, and geographically over the...

This beautiful and rare textile, now in the British Museum, was produced in the late seventeenth century in the wake of the remarkable outflow of Krishna veneration resulting from the ministry of the great eastern Indian saint, Sankaradava (died 1568)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884023753Author Joanne PillsburyFormat HardbackPage Count 584Imprint Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & CollectionPublisher Dumbarton Oaks Research...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780976820291Author Colum HourihaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Index of Christian Art, Dept. of Art and Archaeology, Princeton UniversityPublisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992753825Author Richard FalconerFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint Obsidian PublishingPublisher Obsidian PublishingWeight(grams) 395g

Interiors in the Age of Enlightenment provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the cultural history of interior design and interior spaces from 1700 to 1850. Considering the interior as material, social and cultural artefact, this...

This book is a comprehensive up-to-date survey of the Aegean Bronze Age, from its beginnings to the period following the collapse of the Mycenaean palace system. In essays by leading authorities commissioned especially for this volume, it covers the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Winner, Scholarly Illustrated Category, 2009 AAUP Book, Journal, and Jacket Show 2009.Book InformationISBN 9780262533577Author Sven SpiekerFormat PaperbackPage...

A critical look at the renegade spirit that permeates Japanese prints and the posters of fin-de-siecle ParisBoth the Edo period (1603-1868) in Japan and the late nineteenth century in France witnessed a multitude of challenges to the status quo from the...

Almost two hundred years after they were "purchased" from Greece, the finest and most famous marbles of antiquity still remain a burning issue. This compelling, controversial story of the Elgin marbles re-creates in full and colorful detail "the greatest...

Der Band untersucht das OEuvre Ostades erstmals unter dem Gesichtspunkt der Komik. Es wird dabei in Bezug gesetzt zur Kultur des Komischen im 17. Jahrhundert im Bereich der Literatur und der Malerei. Das Buch interpretiert das Werk Ostades auf diese...