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Michelangelo's nude drawings are celebrated for their depiction of the heroic figure. Emanating exceptional strength, monumentality, and vigorous emotions, his nudes became the standard bearers for centuries of figure drawing. This book examines the...

The romantic and enigmatic character of this picture has inspired many theories about its subject, meaning, history, and even its attribution to Rembrandt. Several portrait identifications have been proposed, including an ancestor of the Polish Oginski...

Take care of yourself. How many times a week do we hear or say these words? If we all took the time to care for ourselves, how much stronger will we be? More importantly how much stronger will our communities be? In Take Care of Your Self, Iraqi artist...

"Sue Kwon's undeniable hip-hop resume should be bowed down to! Sue is definitely one of the greats in visually capturing a culture." -Posdnuos of De La Soul A New York Magazine 2021 holiday gift guide pick The last decade of the 20th century into...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143116462Author Maira KalmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 669gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

Approximately 80 previously unpublished writings by Louise Bourgeois appear here in print for the first time, which, combined with eight extensive scholarly essays turns our critical understanding of Bourgeois' work on its head, offering a new and...

This book is an artist's guide to copyright, written for makers. Both practical and critical, this book will guide you through the concepts underlying copyright and how they apply in your practice. How do you get copyright? For what work? And for...

"The Outwardness of Art is a single-volume compendium of some of the best words ever written by this most subtle and wide-ranging of aesthetic theorists." - Michael Glover, Hyperallergic Immensely influential, and long beloved by artists, writers and...

Why Piranesi's greatest works weren't his famous prints but rather the books for which he made themA draftsman, printmaker, architect, and archaeologist, Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-78) is best known today as the virtuoso etcher of the immersive and...

Renowned artist Ai Weiwei engaged nearly 900,000 visitors in a conversation about human rights with his art installation @Large: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz. In one participatory piece, Yours Truly, visitors sent 92,829 postcards to prisoners of conscience...

As practitioner-researchers, how do we discuss and analyse our work without losing the creative drive that inspired us in the first place?Built around a diverse selection of writings from leading researcher-practitioners and emerging artists in a variety...

Hermann Nitsch, one of the most paradigmatic artists of the legendary Wiener Aktionismus, author of performances and installations, paintings and drawings, through his artistic expressions creates a genuine 'total theatre' that unites myth and...

Best known for site-specific sculptures in steel, Serra has much to say about the relation of sculpture to place, whether urban, natural or architectural, and about the nature of art itself, whether political, decorative or personal. In interviews with...

The catalogue Tunnel presents works from 2018 to 2023 by ceramicist Johannes Nagel (*1979). The majority of the objects were formed by the artist's hands digging into sand to form cavities, negative spaces, which were then molded and revealed using...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732098640Author Michael AsherFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Primary InformationPublisher Primary InformationWeight(grams) 1474gDimensions(mm)...

Investigations by Sara Penco stem from the insightful finding of the absence of a key figure in the Sistine Chapel's Last Judgement fresco. Prior to this illuminating research, Mary Magdalene was not unequivocally identified within Michelangelo's...

Another Chance Encounter celebrates Lubaina Himid's first UK museum exhibition since 2018. Beautifully designed in collaboration with the artist, this fully illustrated book documents three new bodies of paintings and installations created for the...

In the last quarter of the 19th century, the Netherlands was a popular travel destination for artists. The American artists Gari Melchers and George Hitchcock visited the country in the 1880s. In 1884, they settled in Egmond aan Zee, then little more...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780890136935Author Thomas LeechFormat HardbackPage Count 122Imprint Museum of New Mexico PressPublisher Museum of New Mexico PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615626673Author Richard Samuel WestFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Billy Ireland Cartoon LibraryPublisher Billy Ireland Cartoon...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399971188Author Andre BretonFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Fulgur PressPublisher Fulgur PressWeight(grams) 1882gDimensions(mm) 307mm * 246mm * 33mm

Artemisia Gentileschi has been the subject of much attention in recent decades. Research dedicated to her has, however, often returned a stereotyped and reductive image of the artistic universe and personality of the painter. The professional figure of...

Charley Toorop's work has its own originality and power. This is not to say that she did not have an eye to the work of other artists. On the contrary. Toorop admired the painting of Piet Mondrian, but also of foreign contemporaries such as Pablo Picasso...

As the creator of the 67-foot-tall "Big Sam" statue of Sam Houston that overlooks Interstate 45 just south of Huntsville, Texas, David Adickes is a pivotal, if sometimes enigmatic, figure in Texas art. Though he made many contributions to the early...

Robert Craig Bunch has interviewed sixty current Texas artists, focusing on painters, printmakers, sculptors, and others whose work, broadly speaking, is inspired by dreams, visions, myths, and imagined worlds. Working in the tradition of predecessors...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739339739Author Imogen LeperePage Count 1Imprint Herb Lester Associates LtdPublisher Herb Lester Associates Ltd

From its origins in the mail art movement through to its "destruction" of The 1984 Miss General Idea Pavillion in 1977, the Canadian collective General Idea constructed a comprehensive body of work as a performative fiction. Glamour Is Theft examines...

Stewart's paintings are highly engaging and attractive, covering a broad cross-section of later nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American Expat Parisian high society, its genteel past-times, and travel, in a style of painting that was uniquely his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783906915890Author Sigridur BjornsdottirFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Hauser & WirthPublisher Hauser & Wirth

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783869845005Author Jeff WallFormat HardbackPage Count 152Imprint Verlag fur moderne Kunst NurnbergPublisher Verlag fur Moderne Kunst

Having represented Beuys, Richter and Polke with his gallery and having curated eminent exhibitions and biennials, Rene Block ranks among the central figures of the neo-avant-garde. This publication brings together writings by and interviews with Block,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982743966Author Franco Berardi BifoFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Errant BodiesPublisher Errant Bodies

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783960987765Author William CopleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Walther Konig VerlagPublisher Walther Konig VerlagWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783865606358Author Hans-Ulrich ObristFormat HardbackPage Count 124Imprint Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther KonigPublisher Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther...

Tree Lines unites striking ink drawings of high-altitude pine trees with poetic vignettes about how people interact with mountain environments. The drawings and text work together to form a direct artistic encounter with timberline conifers. The husband...

A catalogue of an exhibition held at the Grolier Club, focusing on the significant contribution to printmaking by one of the greats of the German Expressionist movement.Book InformationISBN 9781605831169Author Albert SaxFormat PaperbackPage Count...

The Suspension of Time is a collection of essays on Dinnerstein's masterpiece, The Fulbright Triptych. It includes writing by an extraordinarily diverse range of contributors, from the Pulitzer-Prize-winning novelist Jhumpa Lahiri to acclaimed poet Dan...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982743973Author Brandon LaBelleFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Errant BodiesPublisher Errant Bodies

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780882150024Author Robert C HarveyFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Billy Ireland Cartoon LibraryPublisher Billy Ireland Cartoon LibraryWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780882150017Author Lucy Shelton CaswellFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Billy Ireland Cartoon LibraryPublisher Billy Ireland Cartoon...