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J.M.W. Turner is probably the greatest painter Britain has ever produced. Both profoundly original and astonishingly prolific, he helped transform landscape painting into an expressive art form of enormous range and power. This book reveals the extent to...

A major new book about Doris Lee, one of the top female artists - indeed among the top figurative artists, regardless of gender - in the American art world from the mid-1930s through the 1950s. Simple Pleasures presents the first major critical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916153707Author Adam RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 243Imprint A Nos AmoursPublisher A Nos AmoursWeight(grams) 493gDimensions(mm) 225mm * 150mm * 18mm

During Law's stay at St Ives in the late 1950s, the artist developed a series of Field drawings that reduced elements observed in the surrounding landscape - the sun, trees and clouds - into a set of abstract signs held within a rhomboid frame. The...

In a career that ranged over a turbulent era in European history, William Blake (1757-1827) produced one of the most singular and intense body of works in the history of art. Neglected and misunderstood in his lifetime, his extraordinary paintings,...

A master of colour and an ambitious cosmopolite: Hans Purrmann (1880-1966) was an authoritative figure who forged links in European Modernism both as an artist and a personality, as a stylist and a figure of social integration. The balance between a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262514866Author George BakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 1089gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 24mm

Leonardo da Vinci lived an itinerant life. Throughout his career - from its beginnings in the creative maelstrom of fifteenth-century Florence to his role as genius in residence at the court of the king of France - Leonardo created a kind of private...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781484755754Author Pete DocterFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint HyperionPublisher HyperionWeight(grams) 4728g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262571067Author Dan GrahamFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 975gDimensions(mm) 267mm * 191mm * 19mm

Four young artists set off on a year-long journey (Sept 02 - Sept 03) across the Middle East, working through Turkey, Iran, Kurdish Iraq, UAE, Oman, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria, Iraq and Israel. Their aim was to show - through art - their...

A unique behind-the-scenes guide to the painting process of one of the most popular artists working in the growing, underground art scene of Pop Surrealism. Painting superstar Camilla d'Errico opens up her studio and offers readers an insider scoop on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633450424Author Carolyn LanchnerFormat HardbackPage Count 56Imprint Museum of Modern ArtPublisher Museum of Modern ArtWeight(grams) 530g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584350354Author Sylvere LotringerFormat HardbackPage Count 220Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher AutonomediaWeight(grams) 816gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 178mm *...

Discover art that dared to be different, risked reputations and put careers in jeopardy. This is what happens when artists take tradition and rip it up. ArtQuake tells the stories of 50 pivotal works that shook the world, telling the fascinating stories...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156717205Author Andy WarholFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Mariner Books ClassicsPublisher Mariner Books Classics

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633451452Author Esther AdlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Museum of Modern ArtPublisher Museum of Modern ArtWeight(grams) 200g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525536727Author Kerby RosanesFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 255gDimensions(mm) 253mm * 254mm * 5mm

A leading female sculptor and figure in Chinese contemporary art, Yin Xiuzhen (b. 1963, Beijing, China) began her career in the early 1990s following her graduation from Capital Normal University in Beijing where she received a B.A. from the Fine Arts...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780867197372Author Mark RydenFormat HardbackPage Count 68Imprint Last Gasp,U.S.Publisher Last Gasp,U.S.Weight(grams) 1168g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780764975387Author Mike WilksFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint Pomegranate Communications Inc,USPublisher Pomegranate Communications Inc,US

In less than two decades, Jacoba van Heemskerck (1876-1923) created a powerful oeuvre comprising paintings, woodcuts, glass works and mosaics. Her expressive subjects, including landscapes, townscapes and harbour scenes, are characterised by luminosity...

Filled with photographs of unpopulated studios, Paul Winstanley's exploration of British art schools highlights their importance at a time when the art school system's existence is more fraught than ever. For this series, Winstanley (b.1954)...

In this landmark collection, William T. Vollmann offers a kaleidoscopic retrospective of the visual artwork he has produced over four decades, with new commentary from Vollmann on his process, inspiration, and the many intersections with his writing.The...

Essays, criticism, and performance scripts written between 1985 and 2003 by an artist whose artistic practice investigates and reveals the social structures of art and its institutions. Andrea Fraser's work, writes Pierre Bourdieu in his foreword to...

When Marcel Duchamp shipped Constantin Brancusi's sculpture Bird in Space to Edward Steichen in 1926, New York customs officials refused to accept that it was a work of art, instead levying the standard import tariff for a manufactured object. A legal...

A unique collection of brilliant quotations from the legendary Pop artistOne of the most influential artists of his time and ours, Andy Warhol is nearly as renowned for what he said as for what he did. Indeed, he is so quotable that things he never said...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633451308Author Ugochukwu-Smooth C. NzewiFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Museum of Modern ArtPublisher Museum of Modern ArtWeight(grams) 700g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781588344939Author Bulent AtalayFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Smithsonian BooksPublisher Smithsonian BooksWeight(grams) 1g

Paolozzi at Large in Edinburgh is an art book introducing the Scottish-Italian artist, Eduardo Paolozzi, to as wide an audience as possible: his pan-European vision; his eclecticism; his hybrid identity; his erudition; his modernity. This book focuses...

The painter Hans Purrmann (1880-1966) ranks among the most important colourists of twentieth- entury art. Drawing on Henri Matisse and the expressionists, he developed a distinct and acclaimed artistic practice over the course of a life lived in places...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780854882281Author Chris MarkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Whitechapel GalleryPublisher Whitechapel GalleryWeight(grams) 635g

Doris Salcedo, a Colombian-born artist, addresses the politics of memory and forgetting in work that embraces fraught situations in dangerous places. Noted critic and theorist Mieke Bal narrates between the disciplines of contemporary culture in order to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998929316Author Jeffery BeamFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Kin PressPublisher Kin PressWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 216mm * 6mm

Curating Dramaturgies investigates the transformation of art and performance and its impact on dramaturgy and curatorship. Addressing contexts and processes of the performing arts as interconnecting with visual arts, this book features interviews with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820344577Author Jane F. GerhardFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint University of Georgia PressPublisher University of Georgia PressWeight(grams) 456g

"Black women's heads of hair are galaxies unto themselves, solar systems, moonscapes, volcanic interiors." -Elizabeth Alexander, from the Introduction Using advertising photographs of black women (and men) drawn from vintage issues of Ebony and...

Near the end of his life, Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-78) created three colossal candelabra mainly from fragments of sculpture excavated near the Villa Hadriana in Tivoli, two of which are now in the Ashmolean Museum, and one in the Louvre. Although...

Fifty of the world's most creative people share their stories, their inspirations, and their unique takes on science and education, all inspired by the Exploratorium science museum.What do music visionary Brian Eno, kinetic sculptor Theo Jansen, science...

Elina Brotherus (* 1972 in Helsink) works in photography and moving image. Her work has been alternating between autobiographical and art-historical approaches. Photographs dealing with the human figure and the landscape, the relation of the artist and...