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Piero Fornasetti was a master of the decorative imagination. His motifs conjure up the illusionism of Arcimboldo, the grand architectural fantasies of Piranesi and Palladio, and something of the wit of Pirandello or even Picasso. Fornasetti’s decorations...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262042710Author Tara McDowellFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 21mm

- Explores architecture's entanglement with contemporary image culture - Focuses on the relationship between representational conventions and technologies of mediation with both historical and contemporary examples - Discusses both historical and...

Persian Manuscripts & Paintings from the Berenson Collection presents an in-depth analysis of the little-known Persian manuscripts and paintings collected by the world-renowned art historian, art critic, and connoisseur Bernard Berenson (1865-1959). It...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780880013208Author Zbigniew HerbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint ECCO PressPublisher ECCO PressWeight(grams) 250g

Built upon the politics of difference, The Sphinx Contemplating Napoleon examines artistic practice through an international lens. This vibrant collection of essays and writings - produced in different cultural contexts and collected over two decades -...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262048798Author Garrett BradleyFormat HardbackPage Count 196Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

The first comprehensive assessment of Degas's legacy to be published in over two decades, Perspectives on Degas unites a team of international scholars to analyze Degas's work, artistic practice, and unique methods of pictorial problem-solving...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262543521Author Claire GraceFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR The ten years leading up to the First World War were the most exciting, frenzied and revolutionary in the history of art. They were the crucible of Modernism, when Fauvism, Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism and Abstract Art...

"Akasegawa is the kind of artist who inspires everybody every time he makes a new piece of art." -Yoko Ono In the 1970s, estranged from the institutions and practices of high art, avant-garde artist and award-winning novelist Genpei Akasegawa...

Phyllis Dodd was born in Chester and studied firstly at Liverpool School of Art 1917-21 After winning a Royal Exhibition scholarship spent a further four years at the RCA in the company of her life-long friends Henry Moore, Raymond Coxon and Edna Ginesi...