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A catalogue of five monumental new works, shown in two exhibitions at Gagosian Gallery, New York. Richard Serra's most recent sculptures, all from 2013, include 7 Plates 6 Angles, his largest indoor work to date.About the AuthorAnne Byrd is an art...

Born three hundred years ago in Smithfield, London, William Hogarth established himself as a central figure in eighteenth-century English culture through his paintings, engravings, and outspoken art criticism. In this new edition of Hogarth's Analysis of...

A comprehensive volume-overseen by the artist himself-on one of the most renowned living artists today, Takashi Murakami. Takashi Murakami is celebrated the world over for his deft blurring of high and low art. In this volume, accompanying a major...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906155445Author Duncan McCorquodaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Black Dog Publishing LtdPublisher Black Dog PressWeight(grams) 817gDimensions(mm)...

Works by the artist of Luther Arkwright and The Tale of One Bad Rat. From illustrations and covers to comics, Talbot presents his best.Book InformationISBN 9781561635122Author Bryan TalbotFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint NBM Publishing...

As children, learning to read, we look first at the illustrations - but how do these tell their stories differently to the words? Words & Pictures explores this question through three encounters between writers and artists. It looks at how artists have...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907317323Author Katarzyna Murawska-MuthesiusFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Black Dog Publishing London UKPublisher Black Dog Press

Since childhood, Keaton Henson has had a sketchbook by his side, catching moments and keeping him company. Inside Voice is a collection of his drawings, sketches and doodles from these sketchbooks over the last 12 years. Curated by Keaton himself, this...

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

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

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...

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...

Surrealist artist Max Ernst defined collage as the "alchemy of the visual image." Students of his work have often dismissed this comment as simply a metaphor for the transformative power of using found images in a new context. Taking a wholly different...

Reviewing the work of Bonnard, one of the best-loved artists of the modern period, this book draws insights into his personality from his paintings. It is published on the occasion of a retrospective exhibition at the Tate Gallery, London, in February...

The Belgian artist, illustrator, sculptor, and photographer Fernand Khnopff (1858-1921) became a popular society portraitist in the 1880s, using elements that had served him well as an avant-garde symbolist painter: visual realism and a mood of silence,...

Gustave Klimt (1862-1918) was one of the most brilliant artists of the Austrian avant-garde. Admired for his sensual images of women and for his powerful and original vision, he produced some of the most haunting and evocative images of all time,...

A lavish, full-colour hardcover art book taking readers on a visual guide through Stephen Hickman's artwork. The collection focuses on his book covers for famous SFF authors such as Harlan Ellison, Robert Heinlein, Anne McCaffrey, and Larry Niven...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982354476Author Liliana PorterFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Fundacion CisnerosPublisher Fundacion Cisneros

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...

A comprehensive study of Mark Wallinger's career that draws on extensive conversations with the artist, this book traces his development from early influences to winning the Turner Prize in 2007 and beyond. Over the past quarter-century Wallinger has...

A revealing collection of quotations from world-renowned artist Damien HirstHirst-isms is a collection of quotations-bold, surprising, often humorous, and always insightful-from celebrated artist Damien Hirst, whose controversial work explores the...

Auguste Rodin, the greatest sculptor of the 19th century, is also widely considered to be the greatest since Michelangelo, whose genius was a lifelong inspiration to him. Though the astonishingly life-like quality of his sculpture was in defiance of...

The perfect introduction to the life and work of Cindy Sherman.About the AuthorPaul Moorhouse is Curator of Twentieth Century Portraits at the National Portrait Gallery, London. From 1985 to 2005, he was Curator, Modern Collection, latterly Senior...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262525107Author Yvonne RainerFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 1021gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 24mm

J.M.W. Turner is probably the greatest painter Britain has ever produced. Both profoundly original and astonishingly prolific, he helped transform landscape painting into an expressive art form of enormous range and power. This book reveals the extent to...

Every once in a great while an artist emerges who does more than simply reflect the social trends of the time. These artists are able to transcend established thinking and help us redefine ourselves and our world. Today a growing number of art critics...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486460239Author Jeff A. MengesFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

How many times have you seen a woman artist solely referred to as the wife, girlfriend, muse, or 'mistress' of a man in the public eye?Throughout history, the achievements of women working across artistic disciplines - from visual artists to writers to...

John Constable is best known for his idyllic paintings of the English countryside. Yet he was also a brilliant innovator who brought a new vivacity to the observation of nature. He practiced oil painting in the open air, capturing in particular the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486497327Author Adolph MenzelFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780764958311Author Pomegranate PublishersFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Pomegranate Communications Inc,USPublisher Pomegranate Communications...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780903685375Author Adrian J. TilbrookFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Richard DennisPublisher Richard DennisWeight(grams) 662gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Fascinating pavement chalk art by a master of the craft, now with new art. "Beever's mastery and unbridled humour are on full display in these dazzling drawings, each accompanied by a description that details artistic techniques, discusses challenges...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784756253132Author Haruhiko MikimotoFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Pie International Co., Ltd.Publisher Pie International Co., Ltd.

This book highlights a theme that preoccupied Francis Bacon throughout his career: the relationship between two people, both physical and psychological. At its heart are two of the most uninhibited images that Bacon ever painted: Two Figures (1953) and...

In 1921/22 Edouard Vuillard created a cycle of six paintings for the entrance hall of the Villa Bauer in Basel. Four large-format pictures show exhibition rooms in the Louvre from Antiquity to French Rococo painting. Two overdoors provide an intimate...