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During the day, painter and graphic artist Fred Bervoets (1942) works almost routinely at his large format etchings. At night, he lets his imagination run wild. The hundreds of drawings, sketches, doodles and paintings done in the margin today fill...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683960270Author Robert WilliamsFormat HardbackPage Count 450Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher Fantagraphics

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783905701081Author John ArmlederFormat HardbackPage Count 1200Imprint JRP EditionsPublisher JRP Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551522951Author Attila Richard LukacsFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Arsenal Pulp PressPublisher Arsenal Pulp PressWeight(grams) 2953g

The first monograph of a contemporary artist, whose work offers a look at the world from a different glance, refusing to be blinded by the conventions. Mounir Fatmi was born in 1970 in Tangier, Morocco and now lives and works between Paris and Tangier...

LeRoy Neiman was arguably the world's most recognizable contemporary artist until his passing in June 2012. He broke the barrier between fine art and popular art while creating indelible images that helped define the twentieth century. But it is the life...

When This You See... is a series of 31 artworks in the medium of embroidery, made between 1996 and 1999, by the American artist Elaine Reichek. All of these beautiful images are reproduced here in full colour and three appear in spectacular gatefolds...

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...

Where Is My Home?: The Art and Life of the Russian-Jewish Sculptor Mark Antokolskii, 1843-1902 is the first full-length study in English of the art and life of Mark Antokolskii, the widely recognized Russian and European sculptor of the late 19th century...

One of the most important British graphic artists of the nineteenth century, George Cruikshank (1792-1878) illustrated over 860 books, including several by Charles Dickens, and produced a vast number of etchings, paintings, and caricatures. The ten...

These volumes continue the only complete edition of the surviving correspondence of William Morris (1834- 1896), a protean figure who exerted a major influence as poet, craftsman, master printer, and designer. Covering the years 1881 through 1888, they...

Jacob Lawrence was one of the best-known African American artists of the twentieth century. In Painting Harlem Modern, Patricia Hills renders a vivid assessment of Lawrence's long and productive career. She argues that his complex, cubist-based paintings...

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...

This book discusses how we can and want to relate to our environment. It poses the question of the possibility of social interaction through symbolic gestures and through the meanings manifesting themselves in and via a work of art in its context. In...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789073362499Author Jorge Luis MarzoFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint 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 9789073362673Author Alexander AlberroFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint 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 9789076979106Author Michael TarantinoFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint MER Paper KunsthallePublisher MER Paper Kunsthalle

Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) is without doubt the most famous Latin-American painter of the 20th century and a fundamental figure in Mexican art. Her work has been celebrated internationally as emblematic of Mexican national and indigenous traditions, and by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783865215659Author Hilke OhsolingFormat HardbackPage Count 608Imprint Steidl VerlagPublisher Steidl PublishersWeight(grams) 3180g

A conceptual and multimedia artist known for her writing, photography, painting, installation, and public art, Celia Alvarez Munoz 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 9781455624126Author John R KempFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Pelican Publishing CoPublisher Pelican Publishing Co

Siebren Versteeg creates computer-driven video installations that situate the viewer in paradoxical realms where the real and the virtual seem to interconnect. At once humorous and unsettling, his works feed real-time online data culled from CNN, the AP,...

In her first museum exhibition in the United States, Irish artist Katie Holten joins the Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, as an artist-in-residence to create her largest and most ambitious work to date. The exhibition presents a new site-specific...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783947127092Author Loris GreaudFormat HardbackPage Count 140Imprint Holzwarth PublicationsPublisher Holzwarth Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789881902573Author Kevin McLoughlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Hku Museum and Art GalleryPublisher Hku Museum and Art GalleryDimensions(mm) 267mm *...

Vera Rohm's name comes up in discussions of contemporary constructive art as an unorthodox example of the sculptural approach. Since the very beginning of her artistic career she has been concerned with a repertoire of elementary geometrical shapes. Her...

Tomiyama Taeko, a Japanese visual artist born in 1921, is changing the way World War II is remembered in Japan, Asia, and the world. Her work deals with complicated moral and emotional issues of empire and war responsibility that cannot be summed up in...

Pier Paolo Calzolari, born in 1943 in Bologna, is recognized as a leading figure of the Arte Povera movement and a seminal artist whose practice spans painting, sculpture, video, audio, text, performance, installation, architecture, light, and video...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780945558385Author Michelle GrabnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Illinois State University, University GalleriesPublisher Illinois State University,...

Funny and insightful, Chart Sensation is a hilarious collection of Power Point illustrations by Michael Lewy, depicting his daily struggle with boredom and malaise, success and failure. Michael Lewy is an artist who holds a day job at MIT in Cambridge,...

The Purification of Fagus Sylvatica Var Pendula is emblematic of Paul Etienne Lincoln's inquiry into the origin and production of memory--and our ethereal relationship to that intangible evidence of our consciousness. In this pursuit Lincoln has employed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783939738275Author Andres LutzFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Verlag Fur Moderne KunstPublisher Verlag Fur Moderne KunstWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782915359213Author TraquandiFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Onestar PressPublisher Onestar PressWeight(grams) 1179gDimensions(mm) 297mm * 213mm * 15mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788475067278Author Terence GowerFormat HardbackPage Count 80Imprint Turner (Spain)Publisher Turner (Spain)Weight(grams) 581gDimensions(mm) 245mm * 224mm *...

"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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788791607127Author Michael BevilacquaFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Louisiana Museum of Modern ArtPublisher Louisiana Museum of Modern Art

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782910055332Author Emilia KabakovFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Galerie Thaddaeus RopacPublisher Galerie Thaddaeus RopacWeight(grams)...

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 9781894994033Author Shary BoyleFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Conundrum PressPublisher Conundrum Press