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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781929280629Author Laura HeinFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Center for Japanese Studies, University of MichiganPublisher The University of Michigan...

"It is important for us to be visually literate; it is a survival skill. The media is what passes for culture in contemporary U.S. culture, and it is extremely powerful. It is crucial that we systematically explore the cultural misdefinition of Mexicans...

Claude Lorrain (1600-1682), an eminent seventeenth-century landscape painter, was an equally talented graphic artist. Lorrain's etchings match the mastery and execution of his paintings and yet are largely unrecognized by contemporary collectors and art...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783777487700Author Hans Gotfried von StockhausenFormat HardbackPage Count 152Imprint Hirmer VerlagPublisher Hirmer Verlag

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606061602Author Alex DanchevFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint J. Paul Getty MuseumPublisher J. Paul Getty MuseumWeight(grams) 1016g

William H. Johnson painted his Fighters for Freedom series in the mid-1940s as a tribute to African American activists, scientists, teachers, and performers as well as international heads of state working to bring peace to the world. He celebrated their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783926048905Author Elisabeth BuddeFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Nieswand-Verlag GmbH.Publisher Nieswand-Verlag GmbH.Weight(grams) 625g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550176704Author Suzanne FournierFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Harbour PublishingPublisher Harbour PublishingWeight(grams) 528g

The eruption of the absurd into normality: since he studied drawing, the easy option for Valentin Magaro would have been to represent people and objects naturalistically. However, he has chosen to go a different way in his drawings and paintings. Whereas...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783868280135Author Christina KubischFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Kehrer VerlagPublisher Kehrer VerlagWeight(grams) 1056g

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

Up until a few years ago, biographies of both J.M.W. Turner and John Ruskin had claimed that, in 1858, Ruskin burned bundles of erotic paintings and drawings by Turner in a fit of embarrassed Victorian censorship, to protect Turner's posthumous...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781929280636Author Laura HeinFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Center for Japanese Studies, University of MichiganPublisher The University of Michigan...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908966728Author Jonathan ShaughnessyFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Black Dog Publishing London UKPublisher Black Dog PressWeight(grams) 921g

Provides a visual account of the life and art of Schomer Lichtner (1905–2006), a much-celebrated artist working in the American Midwest. Susan Montgomery draws on archival materials and interviews with Lichtner and others to trace the development of his...

Primarily known only for his immensely popular children's books, such as Make Way for Ducklings and Blueberries for Sal, Robert McCloskey was first and foremost an artist and produced a large body of paintings and other artworks in addition to his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789881902436Author Eddie LuiFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint The University of Hong Kong. University Museum and Art GalleryPublisher The University of...

An amazing chronicle of the wild and wonderful world of Deitch Projects, the innovative and groundbreaking New York art gallery.About the AuthorJeffrey Deitch was the director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles from 2010 to 2013. Before...

Published to accompany an exhibition presented by the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) in San Francisco, this new volume showcases the work of Eritrean-born artist Ficre Ghebreyesus. Many of the paintings featured are abstracts, studies of geometric...

In this study, John O'Brian argues that Henri Matisse's sober presentations of himself were calculated to fit with the social constraints and ideological demands of the times. Matisse's strategy included co-operating with museums, cultivating private...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578997711Author M. M. McAllenFormat HardbackPage Count 104Imprint Witte MuseumPublisher Witte MuseumWeight(grams) 254g

Iv n Navarro is known internationally for his sociopolitically charged sculptures of neon and fluorescent light. The sculptures and installations of Iv n Navarro grow out of the legacy of minimalism and modern design, but they subvert the cool detachment...

American artist Paul Re invites us to join him on his journey for harmony, wisdom, and inner joy with Art, Peace, and Transcendence. His hybrid hand-digital prints, Reograms, are a unique art form very different from the Rayograms made in the twentieth...

Currently underappreciated, William B. Post (1857–1921) was a pioneer fine art photographer at the turn of the twentieth century. Admired by Alfred Stieglitz, he was among the first American photographers to compose his images and sensitively craft his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781565540071Author Brian AldersonFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Pelican Publishing CoPublisher Pelican Publishing CoWeight(grams) 955g

This book documents two new bodies of work; a series of large four-part aluminium panel paintings incorporating Oehlen's recurring motif of trees and a series titled Finger Paintings, in which colour-blocked advertisements are an extension of the canvas,...

The first monograph on the popular New York-based artist Will Cotton, best known for his large-scale portraits of female nudes in candy-coated dreamlike landscapes.   Will Cotton is best known for his depictions of “landscapes” composed of sweets:...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788893970266Author Giorgio and Isa de Chirico Foundation RomeFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Manfredi Edizioni SrlPublisher Manfredi Edizioni...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781560981701Author Joni Louise KinseyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Smithsonian BooksPublisher Smithsonian BooksWeight(grams) 595gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262528795Author Jennifer KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 10mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780890136676Author Charles S KingFormat HardbackPage Count 236Imprint Museum of New Mexico PressPublisher Museum of New Mexico PressWeight(grams) 254g

Sold in packs of 6. Gorgeous, foiled, handmade greeting cards, blank inside and shrink-wrapped with a gold envelope. Themed with our art calendars, foiled notebooks and illustrated art books. Our greeting cards are printed on FSC paper and wrapped in...

Although Salvador Dalí’s characteristically provocative behavior and bizarre pictorial language made him an outlier in high society, his body of work reflects his century’s most important innovations and concerns. This introduction to Dalí’s work...

The performance artist Joanna Frueh has emerged over the past twenty-five years as a wildly original voice in feminist art. Her uninhibited performances are celebrations of beauty, sensuality, eroticism, and pleasure. Clairvoyance (For Those In The...

Martin Werthmann (*1982) is one of the most prominent artists worldwide to make an intensive study of the woodcut as a genre. His monumental colour woodcuts, executed on large widths of paper, enchant by means of his radically new language of forms and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943444762Author Mort KunstlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint New TexturePublisher New TextureWeight(grams) 381gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 8mm

Peter Hachler (1922-99) ranks among the most revered and formerly most radical sculptors in contemporary Swiss art. Geometric rigor as well as an intuitive playfulness distinguish Hachler's work. The range of materials he used for his sculptures is...

Using new techniques and new materials, Bernhard Huber creates abstract paintings in glass in large formats that shift on multiple planes between transparency, reflection and opacity. His colours are vibrant and clear. Rarely does he indulge in an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Received an Honorable Mention in the Art & Art History category of the 2005 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Annual Awards Competition presented by the...

The Hahnloser Collection was created in the early twentieth century in close friendly exchange between the collectors Arthur and Hedy Hahnloser-Buhler and their famous artist friends. The book provides with some 120 works an overview of this unique...