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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783905701111Author Doug AitkenFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint JRP EditionsPublisher JRP Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783832175016Author Ulrich LoockFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint DuMont Literatur und Kunst Verlag GmbH & Co KGPublisher DuMont Literatur und Kunst...

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...

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 9783958297524Author Jim DineFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Steidl VerlagPublisher Steidl PublishersWeight(grams) 2320g

This book, published to accompany the recent 'Works of Fire' exhibition at the Ceret Museum of Modern Art, presents Miquel Barcelo's ceramics work. Created in Majorca in a former tilery and brickyard transformed into a workshop, the terracotta figures...

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...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783944669021Author Dagmar KellerFormat HardbackPage Count 156Imprint Spector BooksPublisher Spector Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781560976707Author Charles M SchulzFormat HardbackPage Count 330Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher FantagraphicsWeight(grams) 887g

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:...

Alexander Calder was one of the most original artists of the twentieth century and a major figure in American art. Renowned for his mobiles and stabiles, he also created the beloved Calder Circus, an early performance piece now preserved at the Whitney...

Barry Gealt's nature paintings, with their thick layers of pigment and saturated colors, evoke the drama of place-purple waves splashing over shell-pink sands, mossy rocks protruding among twisting water surfaces, the windless mists of Indiana mornings,...

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 9781910433317Author David JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Black Dog Publishing LtdPublisher Black Dog PressWeight(grams) 255g

The works showcased span 60 years and represent the many forms this internationally acclaimed American artist works in—paintings, drawings, sculpture, video, and more. Essays by critics, scholars, and colleagues accompany the art. The book celebrates the...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639362721Author James HamiltonFormat HardbackPage Count 496Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 676gDimensions(mm) 230mm * 152mm *...

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...

Weimin He's 324 ink drawings, pen sketches and woodblock prints comprise an intimate record of the progress of construction in the newly designed Ashmolean Museum that opened late last year. An unusual approach to documentation in the age of digital...

In "How Artists See Families", children can see how Carmen Lomas Garza captured the simple pleasure of a family eating watermelon on the front porch; how Kikugawa Eizan used curved lines to show the gracefulness with which a mother carries her young son;...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979209819Author Christopher SchnoorFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Stephen Knapp StudioPublisher Stephen Knapp StudioWeight(grams) 249g

Kata Legrady (Hungary 1974) belongs to that long line of artists for whom an object offers the stimulus for artistic thought. Her approach takes the form of a symbolic encounter between objects associated with childhood with those associated with...

The first monograph on an American abstract artist of unparalleled subtlety. James Howell (1935-2014) was an American abstract artist who used infinite variations of the colour grey to explore the fundamentals of light, space, time, and [kinesthetic]...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783905929454Author H. R. GigerFormat HardbackPage Count 660Imprint Edition Patrick FreyPublisher Edition Patrick Frey

Before the rise of Pop Art proper, Alex Katz developed an iconic style of figurative painting in the early 1960s- influenced by film, television, and billboard advertising. Seemingly detached and incredibly stylish, he created portraits of the New York...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892363926Author . WalshFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint J. Paul Getty MuseumPublisher Getty Trust PublicationsWeight(grams) 288gDimensions(mm) 234mm...

As a major member of the New York School, Barnett Newman is celebrated for his radical explorations of color and scale and, as a precursor to the Minimalist movement, for his significant contribution to the development of twentieth-century American art...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780670078769Author Michael LeunigFormat HardbackPage Count 408Imprint Viking AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House Australia

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780867196887Author Daniel Martin DiazFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Last Gasp,U.S.Publisher Last Gasp,U.S.Weight(grams) 984g

The Art of Winold Reiss brings to light the creative and forward-thinking work of this German-born artist. Winold Reiss (1886-1953) arrived in New York in 1913, the year of the ground-breaking Armory Show. The exhibition shook the American art scene to...

Acknowledged as one of the major sculptors and avant-garde artists of the twentieth century, Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957) also remained one of the most elusive. His mysterious nature was not only due to his upbringing in Romania - which, at the time,...