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Authors Sandy Nairne and Sarah Howgate select over fifty contemporary works from the Gallery's collection, including images of David Beckham, Zaha Hadid, J.K. Rowling and Akram Kahn, and portraits by leading British artists Tracey Emin, David Hockney,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907533952Author Michael Craig-MartinFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Royal Academy of ArtsPublisher Royal Academy of Arts

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904048244Author Andrew M. ButlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Kamera BooksPublisher Kamera BooksWeight(grams) 60g

This is the first comprehensive survey of Modernist graphic design as it emerged in America in the period from 1920 and 1960 in various media - advertising, information design, brand identity, magazine design, book design and posters. It examines the...

Featuring works from an international list of artists, the BP Portrait Award highlights the vitality of portrait painting today. This book presents the diverse range of styles in contemporary portraiture and the variety of techniques used by artists...

With roots in early Cubism and Futurism and reaching maturity in Op art and Minimalism, "Abstract Art" encompasses all forms of non-figurative expression. This book explores the diverse ways artists from the early 20th century, beginning with...

The Royal Academy's popular Summer Exhibition has been an annual event since 1769. Today, around a thousand works are selected each year from over 10,000 entries. The exhibition includes paintings, drawings, prints, sculpture, architectural design and...

The BP Portrait Award, now in its thirty-sixth year, is one of Britains most prestigious art prizes, and is the leading showcase for artists throughout the world specialising in portraiture. In 2014 more than 280,000 people visited the exhibition based...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954556396Author Pippa Kenyon-LeighFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint ShishaPublisher Shisha

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783899551600Author Nicholas BourquinFormat HardbackImprint Die Gestalten VerlagPublisher Die Gestalten Verlag

Lily van der Stokker (b.1954) is a Dutch artist based in Amsterdam and New York. Her bold, colourful works most often take the form of large-scale decorative wall drawings and deal, in a disarmingly unashamed and exuberant way, with ideas of beauty,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783865607010Author Tom HolertFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Buchhandlung Walther Konig GmbH & Co. KG. Abt. VerlagPublisher Buchhandlung Walther...

Welcome to a world where fashion is Victorian punk, steam technology is a modern marvel, and inventors’ workshops are filled with bizarre gadgets and contraptions you haven’t imagined in your wildest dreams. From a crafty villain and a Victorian steam...

The work of Paul Sietsema (born 1968) might be described as a sequence of multimedia suites, each of which begins with a phase of intensive research into historical–political themes, and which results in a body of interrelated sculptures, photographs,...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993473609Author Paul WatsonFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint The Lazarus CorporationPublisher The Lazarus Corporation

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993179884Author Cat TurnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint Victoria Miro GalleryPublisher Victoria Miro GalleryWeight(grams) 210g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780901673817Author Koyo KouohFormat PaperbackImprint Manchester City Art GalleriesPublisher Manchester City Art Gallery

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783836560412Author Claire ZimmermanFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Taschen GmbHPublisher Taschen GmbHWeight(grams) 567g

Artists, both historical and contemporary, have been captivated by books. From Rembrandt's mother studying the Bible, to Edvard Munch asleep next to a brothel madam reading a book after a bacchanal, to Picasso, who was never seen holding a book, this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935202622Author Marcel DzamaFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Distributed Art PublishersPublisher Distributed Art Publishers

Situated in the unlikely environs of a former power station on the banks of the River Thames, Tate Modern is the most visited modern art museum in the world and a global landmark. This revised and updated edition of the best-selling Tate Modern: The...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955654039Author Doreen MasseyFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Aye-Aye BooksPublisher Aye-Aye Books

This book is a highly personal, chronological account of Beryl's life and work - both her writing and her painting - and provides a vivid first-hand portrait of this free-spirited and uniquely talented woman. Beryl Bainbridge is best known as a prolific...

After a decade of art revolving around sensation and celebrity, New Art from London identifies the emergence of a more mature and motivated strain of artists. Although far from being a coherent generation of tyros with a manifesto, their work suggests,...

This volume which looks at the work of Friedensreich Hundertwasser: his art; his philosophy; and his architecture. This museum guide reveals the unique architecture of the KunstHausWien.Book InformationISBN 9783822866139Author Joham HarelFormat...

In this fourth volume of the Art of the Twentieth Century series, the contributors address a fascinating variety of themes relating to art from the 1960s to the end of the century-the period of "postmodernism." The first of the book's seven...

Richly illustrated and clearly focused, "Post-Modern Art" surveys American and European art, 1945-2008. It discusses the major art movements and features all the great painters who changed the landscape of art history, including Pollock, Rauschenberg,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910089514Author Jody ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Tangent BooksPublisher Tangent BooksWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm) 260mm * 260mm * 10mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991213207Author Dawud KnucklesFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Art on DekzPublisher Art on DekzWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 213mm * 20mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783639021042Author Paulina BochenskaFormat PaperbackImprint VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publisher VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Weight(grams) 386g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908419347Author James CahillFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint CV PublicationsPublisher CV Publications

Who are the important artists of the 1980s? This book urges a new look at that question in light of the digital direction of our culture since then. Specifically, five artists used advanced technology during that decade in ways that foreshadow many of...

Unveiling Jan Hendrix's graphic journey which spans almost half a century, offering a rich tapestry of maps and coordinates. Featuring essays by esteemed colleagues such as Estrella de Diego, Patricia Sloane, Olivier Debroise, and more, "ATLAS" not only...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781622731954Author Leda CempellinFormat HardbackPage Count 254Imprint Vernon PressPublisher Vernon Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781507821497Author Jerry a SierraFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781721230372Author Annette CramerFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781779412195Author Paul CadeFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Tellwell TalentPublisher Tellwell TalentWeight(grams) 268g