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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...

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...

Internationally renowned Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei is one of contemporary art's most newsworthy figures, noted for both his groundbreaking work and his outspoken stance on human rights, which ultimately resulted in his controversial 2011...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783905829693Author Valerie MavridorakisFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint JRP RingierPublisher JRP Ringier

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783037642108Author Daniel BirnbaumFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint JRP RingierPublisher JRP Ringier

"When you revisit a place that matters to you for the first time in a long time it is a rich, spiritual experience, but if you then revisit such a place too frequently it loses some of its power. The power lies in the absences." - Christopher Pratt...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783037641972Author Jeff DerksenFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint JRP RingierPublisher JRP RingierWeight(grams) 367g

As a boy, Tom's first crush was a strapping young farmhand who worked the fields around his family home. Finland is a land of tough physical men, catching fish in the icy sea; cutting logs in the endless forests; threshing oats, rye, and barley on the...

In 1953 Marlon Brando donned a black leather Perfecto motorcycle jacket, military cap, denim jeans, and engineer boots to portray Johnny, sneering leader of the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, in The Wild One. In 1954 Tom of Finland abandoned brown leather...

Tom's taste for police officers and felons-and for sexual tension between the two-developed late in his career. "I've never been to prison," he told a class at the California Institute of the Arts in 1985, "but I hear it's a closed world where there are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789382381136Author Kumkum SangariFormat HardbackPage Count 392Imprint Tulika BooksPublisher Tulika BooksWeight(grams) 2626gDimensions(mm) 310mm * 244mm *...

Franciscan missionary friar Junipero Serra (1713-1784), one of the most widely known and influential inhabitants of early California, embodied many of the ideas and practices that animated the Spanish presence in the Americas. In this definitive...

Charles M. Russell has long been recognized for his action-packed paintings, drawings, and sculpture of cowboys, fur trappers, Native American buffalo hunters and warriors, and other heroes of the Old West. Russell's best-known works capture the...

Great American writers-William Carlos Williams, Jonathan Edwards, Emily Dickinson, Noah Webster, Hart Crane, Wallace Stevens, Henry James-all in the physicality of their archival manuscripts (reproduced in beautiful facsimiles here)-are the presiding...

When Union and Confederate forces squared off along Bull Run on July 21, 1861, the Federals expected this first major military campaign would bring an early end to the Civil War. But when Confederate troops launched a strong counterattack, both sides...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947016347Author Nicholas RoerichFormat HardbackPage Count 382Imprint Nicholas Roerich MuseumPublisher Nicholas Roerich MuseumWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947016361Author Nicholas RoerichFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Nicholas Roerich MuseumPublisher Nicholas Roerich MuseumWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262529327Author Mignon NixonFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 11mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947016354Author Nicholas RoerichFormat HardbackPage Count 284Imprint Nicholas Roerich MuseumPublisher Nicholas Roerich MuseumWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947016095Author Nicholas RoerichFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Nicholas Roerich MuseumPublisher Nicholas Roerich MuseumWeight(grams)...

Moholy-Nagy's efforts to have photography and filmmaking recognized as means of artistic design on the same level as painting are propounded and explained at length. The use of artistic instruments is thus radically reformed. The Hungarian artist makes...

Juan Jose Lahuerta's Columns of Smoke series offers bold new readings of modernity and its key figures while redefining the connections between architecture, ornamentation, and the portrayal of both in print media. The third volume focuses on the Spanish...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783037641927Author Meg CranstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint JRP RingierPublisher JRP Ringier

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781737797920Author Dick HigginsFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Primary InformationPublisher Primary InformationWeight(grams) 599gDimensions(mm) 234mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979321504Author Michael BetancourtFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Im PressdPublisher Im PressdWeight(grams) 213gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 8mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781955125185Author Joshua GlennFormat HardbackPage Count 152Imprint Hat & Beard EditionsPublisher Hat & Beard

The work of German sculptor Isa Genzken is brilliantly receptive to the ever-shifting conditions of modern life. In this first book devoted to the artist, Lisa Lee reflects on Genzken's tendency to think across media, attending to sculptures,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783037642566Author Meg CranstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint JRP RingierPublisher JRP RingierWeight(grams) 413g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781736534694Author Constance DejongFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Primary InformationPublisher Primary InformationWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783906915333Author Piero ManzoniFormat HardbackPage Count 268Imprint Hauser & WirthPublisher Hauser & Wirth

Higa's critical work on Asian American art history and the art of Japanese Americans imprisoned in World War II US internment camps provides a compelling view into the historical realities of racially marked identity and art-making Edited by artist,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909932296Author Nadia ChalbiFormat PaperbackPage Count 600Imprint RidinghousePublisher Ridinghouse

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783037641989Author Dan GrahamFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint JRP RingierPublisher JRP RingierWeight(grams) 251g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947016460Author Nicholas RoerichFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Nicholas Roerich MuseumPublisher Nicholas Roerich MuseumWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912759323Author Salim MujaisFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Black House PublishingPublisher Black House PublishingWeight(grams) 440gDimensions(mm)...

From Yves Klein's spotless tailoring to the kaleidoscopic costumes of Yayoi Kusama and Cindy Sherman, from Andy Warhol's denim to Martine Syms's joy in dressing, the clothes worn by artists are tools of expression, storytelling, resistance, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788396864659Author Tone TemptressFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Tone TemptressPublisher Tone TemptressWeight(grams) 177gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806165349Author Edward G LongacreFormat PaperbackPage Count 682Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma PressWeight(grams)...