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"Andrew Hunter has looked with fresh eyes at [Colville's] paintings and made a coherent argument that Colville deserves to be understood far beyond the normal borders of the art world." - Robert Fulford, The National Post This magnificent, best-selling...

An illuminating look at a fundamental yet understudied aspect of Italian Renaissance paintingThe Italian Renaissance picture is renowned for its depiction of the human figure, from the dramatic foreshortening of the body to create depth to the subtle...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995590083Author Nicola StreetenFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Myriad EditionsPublisher Myriad Editions

With informative, enjoyable texts and over 100 illustrations - approximately 48 in full colour - this innovative series offers a fresh look at the most creative and influential artists of the postwar era. The authors are highly respected art historians...

With unprecedented access to newly discovered sources, Donna M. Lucey illuminates the lives of four women painted by the society portraitist John Singer Sargent. With uncanny clairvoyance, Sargent's portraits hint at the mysteries, passions and tragedies...

The fourth volume contains five tales of folklore set in colonial-era Africa, Australia, and the South Pacific, presented in English for the first time since their groundbreaking debut in the 1970s and 1980s. Included are THE KOKOMBO DOSSIER, BWUMA MY...

The classic book on the art and history of weaving--now expanded and in full color Written by one of the twentieth century's leading textile artists, this splendidly illustrated book is a luminous meditation on the art of weaving, its history, its tools...

An expanded edition of the definitive book on Ruth Asawa's fascinating life and her lasting contributions to American art. The work of American artist Ruth Asawa (1926-2013) is brought into brilliant focus in this definitive book, originally published to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262046039Author Joanna EbensteinFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870708176Author Leah DickermanFormat HardbackPage Count 148Imprint Museum of Modern ArtPublisher Museum of Modern ArtWeight(grams) 960g

A journey through the groundbreaking works of Bruce Nauman, one of the most restlessly inventive contemporary artists of today. Since the late 1960s Bruce Nauman has established a completely new understanding of contemporary art, and has been...

French artist Edgar Degas was famous for his drawing, painting, sculpture and printmaking. Although a member of the Impressionists, with Monet, Pissaro and Renoir his work focused on indoor subjects, particularly his acutely observed pieces on ballerinas...

A native of Valencia, Spanish Impressionist Joaquin Sorolla (1863-1923) first went to Paris in 1885 as a young artist at the age of twenty-three. He exhibited at the international salons, winning the Grand Prix at the Exposition Universelle in 1900, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262681582Author Martha RoslerFormat PaperbackPage Count 402Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 907g

"Superb...Gopnik persuasively assembles his case over the course of this mesmerising book, which is as much art history and philosophy as it is biography" Kathryn Hughes, The GuardianWhen critics attacked Andy Warhol's Marilyn paintings as shallow, the ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633450554Author Salah M. HassanFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Museum of Modern ArtPublisher Museum of Modern ArtWeight(grams) 290g

A richly illustrated exploration of Mina Loy's art and writingsMina Loy (1882-1966) was one of the most iconoclastic figures in modernism. A groundbreaking poet, she also left an indelible mark in painting, drawing, prose, art criticism, and fashion...

Vincent van Gogh used art to express his intensely emotional response to the world around him. Enraptured by the beauty of nature and tormented by the sorrows of human existence, he produced in his tragically short life some of the most powerfully...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910862582Author Helen ElliottFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Graffeg LimitedPublisher Graffeg Limited

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910862582Author Helen ElliottFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Graffeg LimitedPublisher Graffeg Limited

The archetypal artist of the High Renaissance, Raphael is regarded as one of the greatest painters of all time. Particularly noted for his paintings of Madonna and Child, his art spanned religious and classical subjects and included a number of portraits...

John Alvin's movie poster art is among the most iconic of the last 40 years, from Disney films such as Beauty and the Beast and Pinocchio, to Empire of the Sun, The Goonies, Blazing Saddles, Jurassic Park, and Star Wars Celebration posters. This book not...

This book presents 75 ways to look at art and the life lessons you can learn from it. From the works of ancient Egypt and Greece to today's abstract and conceptual pieces, by way of Leonardo, Durer and Rembrandt, Picasso, Warhol and Ai Wei Wei, art...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781576876220Author Chuck SmithFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint powerHouse Books,U.S.Publisher powerHouse Books,U.S.Weight(grams) 1147g

An intimate study of the friendship and creative dialogue between two artists, offering an in-depth understanding of their work and the upheavals of 1960s New YorkIrrational Judgments examines the close friendship and significant exchange of ideas...

One of the first female artists to achieve recognition in her own time, Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653) became instantly popular in the 1970s when feminist art historians "discovered" her and argued vehemently for a place for her in the canon of...

The most comprehensive collection to date of the artist Bruce Nauman's writings plus all of his major interviews from 1965 to 2001. Since the 1960s, the artist Bruce Nauman has developed a highly complex and pluralistic oeuvre ranging from discrete...

The career of Vincent Van Gogh (1853-90) as a painter was short, but his paintings revolutionized artistic practice and styles. The intensity of his vision, his wonderful sense of colour and the extraordinary boldness of his technique created...

The career of Vincent Van Gogh (1853-90) as a painter was short, but his paintings revolutionized artistic practice and styles. The intensity of his vision, his wonderful sense of colour and the extraordinary boldness of his technique created...

Reality and fiction, matter and spirit, subject and object - the artist Rebecca Horn constantly blurs these boundaries. Even the different media she uses are not clearly separated but their interweaving is part of her artistic principle. This catalog,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781927018408Author Rebecca ChaperonFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Simply Read BooksPublisher Simply Read BooksWeight(grams) 574g

The Fundacion Cisneros' Conversaciones/Conversations series is dedicated to preserving firsthand testimonies of leading artists and intellectuals from Latin America. Argentinian artist Liliana Porter has lived and worked in New York since 1964; her work...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783905829563Author Susan HillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint JRP RingierPublisher JRP RingierWeight(grams) 380g

Arts & Crafts: Masterpieces of Art is a celebration of the design movement that spread rapidly around the world at the end of the nineteenth century. Depicting both well-known and unusual artworks, textile patterns and decorations from this most...

The perfect introduction to the life and work of David SmithAbout the AuthorJoan Pachner, a David Smith scholar since the 1980s, has published and lectured widely on the artist's work. She pioneered the study of the artist's photographs in an essay in...

Exploring the convergence of art and science in the map renderings of one of the world's most beloved artists Marcel Proust declared View of Delft by Johannes Vermeer (1632-75) "the most beautiful painting in the world." Indeed, viewers have been...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486434018Author Albrecht DurerPage Count 96Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.

Near the end of his life, Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-78) created three colossal candelabra mainly from fragments of sculpture excavated near the Villa Hadriana in Tivoli, two of which are now in the Ashmolean Museum, and one in the Louvre. Although...

Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez's iconic depictions of DC's characters defined a generation-and he's illustrated some of the most immediately recognizable tales of the Dark Knight! This incredible hardcover collection is a can't miss for any fan of Jose Luis...

This retrospective of Jims skateboard art bombards the reader with colorful decks, logos, ad art, ad layouts, photos, and stickers to illustrate the history of skateboarding, from the urethane revolution to the present. Take a ride with an inside view of...