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The successor to the international bestseller Vermeer, featuring groundbreaking research on the Dutch master. Even 350 years after his death, Johannes Vermeer remains an inexhaustible source of fascination for art lovers and researchers alike. Closer to...

A stunning and comprehensive exploration of the work of visual artist-activist Zanele Muholi. Born in South Africa in 1972, Zanele Muholi came to prominence in the early 2000s with photographs that sought to envision black lesbian, gay, bisexual,...

Gillian Jagger's complex and moving sculptures are documented in this catalogue of the first museum-organized exhibition of her work, at the Elvehjem Museum of Art. Installation pleces and works on paper are featured, including Jagger's Rift - suspended...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780867195347Author Sandow BirkFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Last Gasp,U.S.Publisher Last Gasp,U.S.Weight(grams) 279g

A cultural history of nature may sound like a paradox, but a second glance proves it to be a clever theme. For though we are used to perceiving nature and culture as opposites, they are actually closely interwoven. This is precisely what Klaus Littman...

Social and ecological developments are closely intertwined in our present day. To what extent, however, is usually revealed too late and only at the moment of catastrophe. This is precisely what Julien Guinand's spectacular documentary photographs show...

Sonia Leimer's exhibition Space Junk tackles a range of issues linked to the concept of space in all its ambiguity and different nuances. The artist plays with the utopian mood of the 1960s and 70s by appropriating the "spaceage design" of the period in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781087508184Author Kananginak PootoogookFormat HardbackPage Count 84Imprint Pomegranate CommunicationsPublisher Pomegranate CommunicationsWeight(grams)...

This title was first published in 2002: JArg Breu belonged to the generation of German Renaissance artists that included DA1/4rer, Cranach, GrA1/4newald, Altdorfer, and, in his own city of Augsburg, Hans Burgkmair the Elder. His art registered the early...

On the occasion of the ninetieth birthday of Beverly Pepper, an illustrated biography of her life's work. Beverly Pepper has spent her lifetime at the forefront of monumental sculpture worldwide. From her first twenty-foot sculpture in Spoleto in 1962 to...

As a painter, filmmaker, and photographer, Ulrike Ottinger has created an entire artistic universe, a Cosmos Ottinger. Her transdisciplinary approach is groundbreaking today but Ottinger is also a pioneer of queer art, post-colonial criticism, and the...

An essential introduction to the life and work of Sonia Boyce, a leading contemporary artist whose interdisciplinary practice explores artistic authorship and the creative potential in unexpected play. Sonia Boyce (b.1962) is a groundbreaking artist...

Brazilian artist Juliana Cerqueira Leite's artist book following her solo exhibition at the National Archaeological Museum, Naples in 2019.Orogenesi is the culmination of two years of Cerqueira Leite's research on Pompeii and the 'calchi,' the plaster...

An insightful and much-needed introduction to the life and work of Malgorzata Mirga-Tas, a textile artist dedicated to celebrating the vibrant heritage of the Romani community. Malgorzata Mirga-Tas (b.1978) is a Romani artist and activist who is best...

Artist Irene Rice Pereira was a significant figure in the New York art world of the 1930s and 1940s, who shared an interest in Jungianism with the better-known Abstract Expressionists and with various women artists and writers seeking "archetypal"...

This artist's book, a catalogue of a museum without walls, reads like an account of a work under construction in response to a commission in a former coalfield. Joelle Tuerlinckx guides us through the studio's archives, and through the development of a...

May Morris (1862-1938) was a leading figure in the Arts and Crafts Movement and a key exponent of decorative needlework (or art embroidery). Following the critically acclaimed exhibition at the William Morris Gallery in 2017, research into her life and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865622067Author Steve FastnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint S Q Publications,USPublisher S Q Publications,USWeight(grams) 198g

Caravaggio's Portrait of a Gentleman with a Ruff, which is a recent arrival in the Klesch Collection, has a short critical history. It also has a very limited history as regards the associated bibliography and media coverage, perhaps because the painting...

Arthur Rackham was a Victorian born illustrator and artist who influenced much of the book and commercial illustration of the first half of the 20th Century. The impish detail of his hundreds of drawings brought humour and dark detail to the fairy...

The fascinating and truly exceptional Portrait of a Lady in White Satin, which forms part of The Klesch Collection, offers Marco Tanzi the leading expert on 16th- and 17th-century Cremonese painting an opportunity to delve into some hitherto unknown...

Visual artist Hans Op de Beeck (1969) will transform the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp this spring into a mysterious, deserted night park. A large, immersive walk will lead visitors through an enigmatic world where sculptures of characters, still...

Pre-Texts is a methodology developed by Doris Sommer for education professionals to stimulate close reading and critical-thinking skills by making art based on challenging texts. This book is a manual of sorts. Presented in both English and Spanish, it...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633451728Author Annemarie IkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Museum of Modern ArtPublisher Museum of Modern Art

Master printmaker Liu Chunjie is renowned for his beautiful woodcut art. Born to land reclamation workers in Heilongjiang Province's 856 Farm, Lui began life in a remote part of China that was deemed to be a place of cultural exile. But it is here that a...

First edition since 1865, this anthology brings together 80 of Sir John Everett Millais's finest illustrations. Collected from his work for Trollope, Tennyson, Collins, and the weekly periodicals over most of his long working life, these prints range...

Dynamic and accessible, this graphic novel explores the complex and multifaceted career of one of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries' most influential and iconoclastic artists. David Hockney's career is highlighted by his continuous pursuit of...

An enlightening introduction to the life and work of Gwen John, whose intense gaze and fascination with the female sitter created some of the most beguiling paintings of the modern age. Gwen John (1878-1939) is now widely recognised as one of the most...

Ever since the 1960s, Georg Baselitz has specifically alluded to Edvard Munch in a number of his works; Munch is very much an artist who can be found in Baselitz's artistic universe. In interviews and statements, Baselitz has spoken about his great...

A compelling introduction to the life and work of William Blake, an exuberant and rebellious personality whose radical vision was deeply concerned with the social, religious and political issues of his age. William Blake (1757-1827) is renowned today...

Master printmaker Liu Chunjie is renowned for his beautiful woodcut art. Born to land reclamation workers in Heilongjiang Province's 856 Farm, Lui began life in a remote part of China that was deemed to be a place of cultural exile. But it is here that a...

Marcel Duchamp is today considered one of the most significant 20th century artists worldwide. His far-reaching influence is visible within a variety of areas of creative production and critical inquiry, extending far beyond the world of art. Duchamp...

A richly illustrated new exploration of the painting, photography, and illustration of the politically progressive American artist Ben Shahn, On Nonconformity offers a fresh and wide-ranging account of the work of Ben Shahn (1898-1969), a Jewish...

In 1970, photographer Giorgio Colombo began a great relationship of friendship and esteem with Alighiero Boetti, to whom he dedicated this book. Certain biographical photos of Alighiero Boetti, taken by Colombo, have become iconic: when he is spraying...

Discover the fascinating world of taxidermy in Packshots, the second book by Darwin, Sinke & Van Tongeren. This breathtaking work introduces you to animals like never before, captured in masterful compositions that blur the line between nature and art,...

Wu Changshuo is one of China's most celebrated calligraphers and painters. On the 180th anniversary of his birth, the Shanghai Wu Changshuo Art Museum has put together this anthology of selected writings alongside over 130 works from the museum's...

Paul Nash, the British landscape and Surrealist painter, lived through both the First and Second World Wars. His depictions of these human catastrophes, with their damaged landscapes and broken machinery are much remembered today. His painting life moved...

The relationship Ernst Gamperl, an artist of international renown, has developed with wood as a living material and the acknowledgment of inescapable serendipity are a source of creative inspiration as well as the driving forces behind his work - a work...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262551533Author Midori YamamuraFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 369g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783936636215Author Robin MinardFormat HardbackPage Count 47Imprint Kehrer VerlagPublisher Kehrer Verlag