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An artist travels to Communist China to learn the secrets of Chinese ink painting Was it really reasonable to drop everything overnight and go off alone into the depths of Communist China in search of the forgotten secrets of ancient Chinese art?...

Munch's Missing! Find the artist hidden in 12 vibrant illustrated scenes which are inspired by the artist's life, and the themes in his art. Spot him on the hill where he famously heard that resounding scream; find him hidden on stage amongst actors...

Goya's last set of etchings were made between 1815 and 1823, the dark years after the fall of Napoleon, when Goya was living in his farm, The House of the Deaf Man (Quinta del Sordo). Enigmatic and sinister, the etchings were not published until long...

Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840), one of the great visionaries of European art, spent all his life in Northern Germany, apart from four years studying in Copenhagen, and his output appears to consist almost entirely of German landscapes. But far from...

During the 1890s and early 1900s Edouard Vuillard (1868-1940) produced a body of work that combines intimate subject matter with abstract form through the simplification of pictorial elements and observation of decorative fabrics and wallpapers. Through...

Andrew Holmes is renowned for his hyper-real coloured pencil drawings. His subject matter is the fixed and mobile service infrastructure that sustains the city of Los Angeles. The gleaming trucks, automobiles, and motorcycles that traverse the highways,...

Since his first visit to Taos at age nineteen, Jerry Jordan was "captured" by the land, sky, and Indigenous peoples of Northern New Mexico. "I will never forget the feeling of awe," he says. "I remember taking a deep breath and thinking, How would I...

Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Whale and Star Press Enrique Martinez Celaya's aesthetic project revives and reinterprets the classic Western metaphysical tradition relating aesthetics to ethics, the Beautiful to the Good and the True...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783803032065Author Hannah DoughertyFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint WasmuthPublisher WasmuthWeight(grams) 336gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 215mm * 10mm

The art of Samuel Bak depicts a world destroyed and yet provisionally pieced back together. Across nearly seven decades of artistic production Samuel Bak has explored and reworked a set of metaphors, a visual grammar and vocabulary, that ultimately...

For three decades the signature "W. C. Hook" has connoted dynamic design, saturated colour, and muscular brushwork. William Cather Hook's ability to straddle the border between pictorial illustrationsion and pure paint, between traditional yet modern,...

Mary Edna Fraser has taken the art of batik to otherworldly heights. An internationally renowned artist, Fraser has had works grace galleries, museums, and public buildings throughout the United States - creating wonder, awe, and an awareness of the...

A full-color collection of important paintings, drawings, and printsCelebrating Florida: Works of Art from the Vickers Collection illustrates in full color a generous selection of paintings, drawings, and prints by some of the world's most significant...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954207977Author Nick WaplingtonFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Trolley BooksPublisher Trolley Books

This book presents a selection of the dramatic etchings and brilliant water colours of the Mediterranean countries produced by Lindsay in the 1920s and 1930s. 'The best compliment my work ever received was from Spanish artists who told me that I saw...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615547954Author Michael NaranjoFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Two Little Girls PublishingPublisher Two Little Girls PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782914563215Author Anaid DemirFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Dis VoirPublisher Dis Voir

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788867492909Author Samara ScottFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Mousse PublishingPublisher Mousse PublishingWeight(grams) 703gDimensions(mm) 239mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781897476963Author Liz ParkFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Simply Read BooksPublisher Simply Read BooksWeight(grams) 667g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865436060Author Betty LaDukeFormat PaperbackPage Count 117Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 490g

As an immigrant artist of Jewish background, who borrowed freely from Christology, Jewish, mystical, and modernist motifs, David Aronson has been an equally acclaimed controversial figure in the Boston Expressionist school and beyond. Defying all clear...

The first full-length critical analysis of the paintings of Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, this book focuses on Smith's role as a modernist in addition to her status as a well-known Native American artist. With close readings of Smith's work, Carolyn Kastner...

Drawing attention to the visual quality of concentration, sensation, relations,Book InformationISBN 9789078454618Author Saskia van de WielFormat HardbackPage Count 90Imprint OnomatopeePublisher Onomatopee

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789073362840Author Daniel BaumannFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Witte de With Centre for Contemporary ArtPublisher Witte de With Centre for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789073362833Author Sally O'ReillyFormat HardbackPage Count 26Imprint Witte de With Centre for Contemporary ArtPublisher Witte de With Centre for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789073362758Author Bina Von StauffenbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Witte de With Centre for Contemporary ArtPublisher Witte de With Centre for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788877572233Author Renata CaraglianoFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Hopefulmonster Editore SrlPublisher Hopefulmonster Editore Srl

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788416282937Author Miguel CalderonFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint RM Verlag SLPublisher RM Verlag SL

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783959050494Author Jesko FezerFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Spector BooksPublisher Spector Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783903439740Author Otto Hans ResslerFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint Verlag fur moderne Kunst GmbHPublisher Verlag fur moderne Kunst GmbHWeight(grams)...

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

Comic strips, psychedelic imagery and lo-fi digital wizardry from the Paper Rad collective This follow-up to the Paper Rad collective's recent hit, Paper Rad, B.J. and da Dogs, is both a return to form and a move forward. Comic strips, psychedelic...

This book is the first publication in English to examine the work of the celebrated Venezuelan artist Armando Reveron (1889-1954). Published to accompany the major exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, it is vibrantly illustrated with Reveron's highly...

Sound Speed Marker focuses on Hubbard / Birchler's recent trilogy of video installations--Grand Paris Texas (2009), Movie Mountain (M li s) (2011) and Giant (2014)--which explore the physical conditions and social character of the cinematic experience,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781932771909Author Charan SharmaFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Mandala Publishing GroupPublisher Mandala Publishing GroupWeight(grams)...

In The New Society for Universal Harmony, Lenore Malen uses pseudo-documentary photos, video and audio transcriptions, "testimonials," case histories, and arcane imagery to archive the functioning of her own reinvention of the utopian society established...

Robert Beck (b. 1959) makes drawings, photographs, sculptures, videos and installations investigating sexuality, masculinity and violence; his work has been collected by the Getty, the Whitney and MoMA, among others. Dust documents the eponymous recent...

Sadie Benning is not only among the country's most respected and influential video artists, she also broke cultural ground as a founding member of the multimedia feminist band Le Tigre. Suspended Animation, the first monograph on the artist and the...

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) 91gDimensions(mm) 140mm...

To create the Confluence of Civilizations in the Americas mural commissioned for the 1968 World's Fair in San Antonio, Texas, Juan O'Gorman collected natural stones from all over Mexico twelve colors in all field stones that the artist knew would never...