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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865620742Author Daniel HorneFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint S Q Publications,USPublisher S Q Publications,USWeight(grams) 232g

Unique digital drawings from one of Switzerland's most prolific artists of today. Since early in his career, the Swiss artist Yves Netzhammer has used digital drawings as the basis of his work, which oscillates between sculpture and the moving image...

The Norwegian painter Bjorn Ransve (b. 1944) is one of the best-known contemporary Scandinavian artists. Very few painters indeed express themselves so brilliantly in two dimensions on a sheet of paper, thematically, technically and formally. His work is...

This new book, elegant and linear, tells the visionary power of the interior and the objects designed in the last twenty years by Fabio Novembre, where every element contributes to the development of a project. The pages show evocative environments...

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...

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...

In the 1950s the hospital Berlin-Havelhoehe (today the Clinic for Anthropo-sophical Medicine) took over the building that had originally been erected as the National Socialist State Academy for Aviation. It was also there that the pilots who had attacked...

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...

Accompanying catalogue of an exhibition at Gagosian Gallery, Paris. The catalogue includes a fully illustrated, comprehensive listing of the paintings, drawings, and prints in Lichtenstein's Expressionism series. Among the styles and movements...

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,...

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

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...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781685550394Author Mulvane Art MuseumFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint The Collective Book StudioPublisher The Collective Book StudioWeight(grams)...

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 *...

Ally brings together three artist personalities who are all outstanding in their fields: the sculptor and photographer Janine Antoni and the dancers and choreographers Anna Halprin and Stephen Petronio. Together they created a series of works -...

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...

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...

Marie Laurencin, in spite of the noticeable reputation she made in Paris in the first half of the twentieth century, has attracted only sporadic attention by late-twentieth century art historians. Until now the substance of her art and the feminist...

John La Farge, A Biographical and Critical Study is the first biography in a century of the American painter, illustrator, muralist, stained-glass artist, and writer. Examining La Farge's career from his youth to his late rebound as a decorative...

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...

In this study, first published in 1979, Landow contends that Hunt's version of Pre-Raphaelitism concerned itself primarily with an elaborate system of painterly symbolism rather than with a photographic realism as has been usually supposed. Like Ruskin,...

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...

People between light and shade, love and despair, closeness and distance, calm and restlessness. Miwa Ogasawara's painting represents the attempt to approach Man quietly in all his nuances. In her pictures she captures the brittle, shimmering present,...

Bianca Brunner is a young Swiss photographic artist whose work has gained considerable international recognition and acclaim. Following a degree in visual communication at the School of Art and Design Zurich in 1997 she continued her artistic education...

Prints changed the history of art, even as that history was first being written. In this study, Sharon Gregory argues that this reality was not lost on Vasari; she shows that, contrary to common opinion, prints thoroughly pervade Vasari's history of art,...

The career of Vincent Van Gogh (1853-90) as a painter was short, but his paintings revolutionized artistic practice and styles. The intensity of his vision, his wonderful sense of colour and the extraordinary boldness of his technique created...

Paul Cezanne challenged convention and pioneered new possibilities in painting. He was remarkable for his ability to perceive and paint aspects of everyday life in ways that revealed dynamic yet deeply harmonious visions of the world. But the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635917017Author Gladys PetoFormat HardbackPage Count 136Imprint Waxenwood EditionsPublisher Waxenwood EditionsWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...