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I'm not a portrait painter. If I'm anything, I have always been an autobiographer.Self-Portrait reveals a life truly lived through art. In this short, intimate memoir, Celia Paul moves effortlessly through time in words and images, folding in her past...

A biography of the great portraitist Frans Hals that takes the reader into the turbulent world of the Dutch Golden Age. Frans Hals was one of the greatest portrait painters in history, and his style transformed ideas and expectations about...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633450547Author Sarah SuzukiFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Museum of Modern ArtPublisher Museum of Modern ArtWeight(grams) 960g

Of all the great paintings in the world, Picasso's Guernica has had a more direct impact on our consciousness than perhaps any other. In this absorbing and revealing book, Gijs van Hensbergen tells the story of this masterpiece. Starting with its origin...

Toward the end of his monumental career as a painter, sculptor, and lithographer, an elderly, sickly Matisse was unable to stand and use a paintbrush for long. In this late phase of his life-he was almost 80 years of age-he developed the technique of...

Artemisia Gentileschi, widely regarded as the most important woman artist before the modern period, was a major Italian Baroque painter of the seventeenth century and the only female follower of Caravaggio. This first full-length study of her life and...

Italian sculptor Davide Rivalta seeks out wild animals in their natural habitat and in captivity, then creates sculptures in bronze that capture their energy, otherness, and power. This book documents an exhibition at the Forte di Belvedere in Florence,...

A collection of essential quotations and other writings from artist and icon Jean-Michel BasquiatOne of the most important artists of the late twentieth century, Jean-Michel Basquiat explored the interplay of words and images throughout his career as a...

A collection of compelling quotations from a rising star in contemporary art, architecture, and designThe work of renowned contemporary artist Daniel Arsham blurs the lines between art, architecture, archeology, and design. In his distinctive style, he...

The ultimate flower-arrangement reference book from New York's 'go-to' floral designers Putnam & Putnam - how to combine the extraordinary colors in nature to create stunning resultsCult floral designers Darroch and Michael Putnam's Flower Color Theory,...

The ultimate flower-arrangement reference book from New York's 'go-to' floral designers Putnam & Putnam - how to combine the extraordinary colors in nature to create stunning resultsCult floral designers Darroch and Michael Putnam's Flower Color Theory,...

Digital artist Zheng Wei Gu (AKA Guweiz) shares his anime-inspired world in this beautifully produced and insightful book, leading you through his fantasy world with a portfolio packed with gritty detail and a surreal vibe. Guweiz began drawing when he...

Kanishka Raja's ravishingly patterned work, as the artist put it, "explores the intersection of representation craft, technology, and the gaps that occur in the transmission of information." Conceptually heady and aesthetically alluring, Raja's I and I...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616286095Author Karen WilknsonFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Weldon Owen, IncorporatedPublisher Weldon Owen, Incorporated

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780867197792Author Mark BodeFormat HardbackPage Count 418Imprint Last Gasp,U.S.Publisher Last Gasp,U.S.Weight(grams) 1006g

This is an illustrated exploration of the artist, his life and context, with a gallery of 300 of his greatest works. It is a lively but expert account of Edouard Manet, one of the greatest French artists, whose striking realism has led to him being...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780867194791Author Stanislav SzukalskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Last Gasp,U.S.Publisher Last Gasp,U.S.

The paintings of Albert Oehlen live by audacious strategies, by questioning the image and the rules of abstraction, and by an openness and beauty often reached through the unlikeliest of means. In this expansive monograph, we meet the full range of...

The perfect introduction to the life and work of Brice MardenAbout the AuthorEileen Costello has studied Marden's work closely over the past decade through numerous studio visits and discussions with the artist. She has contributed towards the production...

Over the course of his artistic career, Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) transformed not only his own style, but the course of art history. From early figurative and landscape painting, he went on to pioneer a spiritual, emotive, rhythmic use of color and...

The alphabet, fantastically illustrated by the philosophical work of Damien Hirst From A is for Anatomy to Z is for Zebra, discover British artist Damien Hirst's painting, sculpture, and much more on every page of this fantastically illustrated...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957664944Author Emanuele TaglietteFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Korero PressPublisher Korero PressWeight(grams) 725g

A captivating and highly illustrated introduction to Vincent Van Gogh, told through 50 major works. This new book presents all you need to know about Vincent Van Gogh's turbulent and prolific creative life, featuring...

This lavishly illustrated book celebrates the life of Doris and Anna Zinkeisen, charting the rise of the sisters from a childhood in Scotland, to their emergence as amongst the most eminent artists of their day in London, to a quieter yet still highly...

Through his intense vision Van Gogh was able to create paintings that speak directly to us all, and today this disturbed and rejected misfit is the most universally loved of all artists. The story of his thirty seven years of poverty, loneliness and...

Through his intense vision Van Gogh was able to create paintings that speak directly to us all, and today this disturbed and rejected misfit is the most universally loved of all artists. The story of his thirty seven years of poverty, loneliness and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486449029Author Kay NielsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 255gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486438627Author Leonardo Da VinciFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Raw, unprettified and decried in conservative circles as "gutter art": Kathe Kollwitz employed her art uncompromisingly as a political voice for the social and human misery of her time. Her focus always lay on the dignity of humankind. The volume...

Although Franz Kline was one of the seminal figures of the American Abstract Expressionist movement, he is less well known than contemporaries such as Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning. This is partly because Kline, unlike most artists in his circle,...

Jean-Francois Jaussaud met Louise Bourgeois for the first time in 1994, at her studio in Brooklyn. But it was not before she had interrogated him about every aspect of his life that he earned her trust. A first photo session was set up in Spring 1995,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783753301259Author James AttleeFormat HardbackPage Count 396Imprint Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig,GermanyPublisher Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther...

In the 1970s, Manhattan's west side waterfront was a forgotten zone of abandoned warehouses and piers. Though many saw only blight, the derelict neighborhood was alive with queer people forging new intimacies through cruising. Alongside the piers' sexual...

The Wilton Diptych is a comprehensive account of one of England's greatest surviving medieval treasures, now in the collection of The National Gallery, London. The painting depicts King Richard II (1367-1400) being presented to the Virgin Mary and Christ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486271323Author ,Salvador DaliPage Count 192Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.

The first collection of Mark Rothko's writings, which range the entire span of his career While the collected writings of many major 20th-century artists, including Barnett Newman, Robert Motherwell, and Ad Reinhardt, have been published, Mark Rothko's...

An in-depth exploration of Malevich's pivotal painting, its context and its significance Kazimir Malevich's painting Black Square is one of the twentieth century's emblematic paintings, the visual manifestation of a new period in world artistic culture...

Recognized as a major figure in postwar American painting, Richard Diebenkorn (1922-1993) was an artist strongly identified with California but whose work is beloved throughout the United States and the rest of the world. This catalogue is the most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906155162Author Bob SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Black Dog Publishing LtdPublisher Black Dog Press

This groundbreaking graphic novel delves into the life of the acclaimed artist Edward Hooper, whose iconic works depict quintessentially American scenes and experiences. While many of Hopper's most acclaimed works have been embraced by American culture,...