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This book considers questions of materiality and painting, focalized through the notoriously obscure work of Georges Rouault, and offers an innovative critical approach to the various questions raised by this challenging modernist. Described as a...

A singular thinker and an uncompromising seeker after artistic truth, Cezanne channelled a large part of his wide-ranging intellect and ferocious wit into his letters. This translation by Alex Danchev is based on a thorough re-examination of Cezanne's...

The artists as explorers: the Expressionist artists Kirchner and Nolde studied non-Western lifestyles and incorporated them into their artistic projects. Between "armchair anthropology" practised in the museums and "field-work anthropology", which also...

At the time of his death in 1820, Benjamin West was the most famous artist in the English-speaking world and celebrated throughout Europe. From humble beginnings in Pennsylvania, he had become the first American artist to study in Italy, and within a few...

Be inspired by Marjolein Bastin's passion for the natural world in this unique, inspirational sketchbook. The artist keeps detailed sketchbooks of the things she encounters in nature, combining both art and words. She draws inspiration from these...

Since the 1970s, the performance and conceptual artist Suzanne Lacy has explored women's lives and experiences, as well as race, ethnicity, aging, economic disparities, and violence, through her pioneering community-based art. Combining aesthetics and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262543538Author Benjamin H. D. BuchlohFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Best known for site-specific sculptures in steel, Serra has much to say about the relation of sculpture to place, whether urban, natural or architectural, and about the nature of art itself, whether political, decorative or personal. In interviews with...

Gustave Dores unforgettable images of Victorian London portray in stark contrast the affluent world of monumental buildings, horse racing, and scoiety balls against the teeming populace of city streets and the raw poverty of slums, homelessness, and...

In Collapsed Time, Christina Quarles (Chicago, 1985) shows an installation that occupies the entire exhibition space and exhibits her paintings alongside works from the Nationalgalerie collection. Quarles confronts several decades of diverse forms of...

From his earliest pointillist-influenced paintings to this mature and playful paper cut-outs; from enormous, ebullient murals to reverent stained glass--Henri Matisse was renowned for his dramatic use of color and fluid draftsmanship. Thirty of Matisse's...

The Imagery of Chess Revisited recovers a celebrated and extraordinary moment in art history: the 1944-45 exhibition The Imagery of Chess, held at the Julien Levy Gallery in New York City. The exhibit was a legend in its own time and has been considered...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788412010794Author Blanca Pons-SorollaFormat HardbackPage Count 560Imprint El CroquisPublisher El Croquis

Starting with James Abbott McNeill Whistler and ending with Matthew Barney, nearly every prominent figure in Modern art is represented in vibrant double-page spreads that show how these artists redefined norms and challenged tradition. Fascinating...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783864422584Author Mark GisbourneFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Snoeck Verlagsgesellschaft mbHPublisher Snoeck Verlagsgesellschaft mbH

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783864420368Author Natalia StachonFormat HardbackPage Count 164Imprint Snoeck Verlagsgesellschaft mbHPublisher Snoeck Verlagsgesellschaft mbH

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African American and American Indian artist Richard Mayhew was a pivotal member of the movement headed by Romare Bearden, consisting of the most important black artists of the Abstract Expressionist era. Bearden's association, Spiral, was formed as a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783864422270Author Ronald KodritschFormat HardbackPage Count 136Imprint Snoeck Verlagsgesellschaft mbHPublisher Snoeck Verlagsgesellschaft mbH

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783864421990Author Sigrid HermannFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Snoeck Verlagsgesellschaft mbHPublisher Snoeck Verlagsgesellschaft mbH

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783864422225Author Andreas BaurFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Snoeck Verlagsgesellschaft mbHPublisher Snoeck Verlagsgesellschaft mbH

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783864421136Author Jochen KienbaumFormat HardbackPage Count 40Imprint Snoeck Verlagsgesellschaft mbHPublisher Snoeck Verlagsgesellschaft mbH

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783864420337Author Oliver KornhoffFormat HardbackPage Count 84Imprint Snoeck Verlagsgesellschaft mbHPublisher Snoeck Verlagsgesellschaft mbH

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783864421143Author Jochen KienbaumFormat HardbackPage Count 40Imprint Snoeck Verlagsgesellschaft mbHPublisher Snoeck Verlagsgesellschaft mbH

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Towards the end of his life and much inspired by Japanese water gardens, Monet spent a great deal of time in his beloved Giverny. Adorned with poppies, blue sage, dahlias and irises, the waters were disturbed only by bamboos and water lilies. His water...

Jerry Pethick: Shooting the Sun/Splitting the Pie is the first major volume dedicated to the career of this multifaceted artist. Pethick's practice has always been difficult to categorize; though his work focused on questions of perception, which have...

Vincent van Gogh's paintings and his tempestuous life story continue to command enormous popular interest, inspiring numerous blockbuster exhibitions and biographies. This compact collection returns to what started it all--the paintings themselves. With...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783777430454Author Alphonse KnuselFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Hirmer VerlagPublisher Hirmer Verlag

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732734500Author SternbergFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint Hat & Beard, LLCPublisher Hat & Beard, LLC

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606066096Author George MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint J. Paul Getty MuseumPublisher J. Paul Getty MuseumWeight(grams) 91g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892362851Author . ThomsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Getty PublicationsPublisher Getty Trust PublicationsWeight(grams) 362gDimensions(mm) 235mm...

Mixed-media artist Carlos Betancourt and his influential studio, Imperfect Utopia, helped to launch the Miami art scene in the 1980's. Betancourt's oeuvre is a lush explosion of radiant, eccentric colors in which he explores the kaleidoscope...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783777440651Author Heinz MackFormat HardbackPage Count 348Imprint Hirmer VerlagPublisher Hirmer Verlag

The most comprehensive resource on this major American artistCharles Biederman (b. 1906) has been active in the avant-garde for three-quarters of a century. From his early experiments with cubism and surrealism to the brightly colored aluminum sculptures...

Mohammad Rawas stands today at the peak of an outstanding artistic career. Those familiar with his work will welcome this volume as a much-needed permanent source of reference, while those encountering the artist for the first time can enjoy a unique...

With Steel Shadows, you don't have to visit exhibition halls at Carnegie Mellon University or the John Heinz History Center to enjoy Douglas Cooper's unique, realistic and highly personal images of Pittsburgh. Steel Shadows brings his large charcoal and...

One of the most admired artists of the twentieth century, Max Ernst was a proponent of Dada and founder of surrealism, known for his strange, evocative paintings and drawings. In Prehistoric Future, Ralph Ubl approaches Ernst like no one else has, using...

A conceptual and multimedia artist known for her writing, photography, painting, installation, and public art, Celia Alvarez Muñoz has been invited to exhibit and to create site-specific works for more than fifty major U.S. museums and was included in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783777488608Author Hans Gotfried von StockhausenFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Hirmer VerlagPublisher Hirmer Verlag