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In photos, drawings and words, Sign Language pays homage to the lost art of urban outdoor sign painting. In a working environment both novel and ambitious, author John S. Paul found success, noting, "No other job gave me such a direct impact on the urban...

This first book on the Philadelphia-based artist features work from his 2009 ICA exhibition--an installation composed of a six-minute, animated, high-definition projected video and five bronze sculptures. Dread was premiered at the 52nd Venice Biennale...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783935567374Author Richard PhillipsFormat HardbackPage Count 80Imprint Holzwarth PublicationsPublisher Holzwarth Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782906571204Author Peter GreenawayFormat HardbackPage Count 125Imprint Dis VoirPublisher Dis Voir

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788496466326Author Antoni MuntadasFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint La FabricaPublisher La Fabrica

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) 1016gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922979001Author Charlotte DayFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780977868681Author Wayne KoestenbaumFormat HardbackPage Count 34Imprint Jeffrey Deitch IncPublisher Jeffrey Deitch Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783865605092Author Anna GrandeFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Buchhandlung Walther Konig GmbH & Co. KG. Abt. VerlagPublisher Buchhandlung Walther Konig...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783940064745Author Fabian ReimannFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Spector BooksPublisher Spector Books

Evan Gruzis' deceptively photographic-seeming ink paintings feature palm trees, digital clocks, 1980s graphic-design tropes, ghosts and strange texts, channeling a certain Hollywood Hills malaise via Ed Ruscha. With the sardonic wit of Brett Easton Ellis...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783868280562Author Andrej KrementschoukFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Kehrer VerlagPublisher Kehrer VerlagWeight(grams) 854g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783868280876Author Frank-Thorsten MollFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Kehrer VerlagPublisher Kehrer VerlagWeight(grams) 422g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583227411Author Micah Ian WrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 245g

This title was first published in 2003. The artist Paula Rego was born in Portugal but has lived in Britain since 1951. In this well-illustrated book, Maria Manuel Lisboa explores the background behind Rego's decision to leave the land of her birth and,...

Based on a close study of Van Dyck's Self-portrait with a Sunflower, this book examines the picture's context in the symbolic discourses of the period and in the artist's oeuvre. The portrait is interpreted as a programmatic statement, made in the...

John Everett Millais (1829-1896) is undoubtedly among the most important of Victorian artists. In his day, and our own, he remains also the most controversial. While, during his lifetime, controversy centred around his early Pre-Raphaelite paintings, in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780867196955Author Scott HarrisonFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Last Gasp,U.S.Publisher Last Gasp,U.S.Weight(grams) 432g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780867194838Author Eric WhiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Last Gasp,U.S.Publisher Last Gasp,U.S.Weight(grams) 622g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780867197105Author Scott MusgroveFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Last Gasp,U.S.Publisher Last Gasp,U.S.Weight(grams) 932g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780867196559Author Tony FitzpatrickFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Last Gasp,U.S.Publisher Last Gasp,U.S.Weight(grams) 593g

A book documenting Michael Craig-Martin's installation of twelve new large-scale works in the gardens at Chatsworth House. Each work is an immense, vibrantly coloured line drawing in space, fabricated in steel. The book also documents a concurrent...

Originally published in 2004. Once the most popular Victorian artist, G. F. Watts was also a complex and elusive figure. Influenced by evolutionary theory, he reinterpreted the tradition of the classical body, while his philanthropic and educational...

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) 517gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783905829853Author Sylvia ChivaratanondFormat HardbackPage Count 116Imprint JRP RingierPublisher JRP Ringier

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783905829648Author Michael BracewellFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint JRP RingierPublisher JRP Ringier

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783905770681Author Kelley WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint JRP RingierPublisher JRP Ringier

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783037643488Author Colin ChinneryFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint JRP RingierPublisher JRP RingierWeight(grams) 951g

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865621015Author Archie DickensFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint S Q Publications,USPublisher S Q Publications,USWeight(grams) 230g

Robert Smit tells a story about an empty house and the people who lived in it. He tells his story with his jewellery, inviting the reader to one of the most extraordinary encounters with this art form ever to have appeared in print.Book InformationISBN...

The first monograph on Kata Legrady's works presenting a collection of drawings, photographs, sculptures and video-installations. Kata Legrady (Hungary 1974) belongs to that long line of artists for whom an object offers the stimulus for artistic thought...

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...

The Waldfrieden Sculpture Park is honouring the great painter and sculptor Heinz Mack on his 90th birthday with an exhibition devoted exclusively to his sculptural work. In its three exhibition halls and in the open grounds, the sculpture park presents...

George Inness (1825-94) is considered one of America's greatest landscape painters. A complicated artist and thinker, he painted stunning, evocative views of the American countryside.Throughout his career, Inness struggled to make visible what was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780867196962Author Tony FitzpatrickFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Last Gasp,U.S.Publisher Last Gasp,U.S.Weight(grams) 751g

"Sometimes I surprise myself. I am always looking for some mysterious in-between place where ideas and images come together to show me a new, exciting path to follow." -- Elizabeth SandvigMuch of Elizabeth Sandvig's work has dealt with the transitory and...

An original and valuable intervention in the fast-growing field of feminist and new art histories, Nancy Spero, Encounters offers a sophisticated interpretation of the work of a highly original and under-represented woman artist. The study proposes a new...

The first volume exclusively devoted to J.M.W. Turner's erotic works, bringing together an outstanding selection of sensual and passionate drawings by the great master, all drawn from Tate's collection. Up until a few years ago, biographies of...