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Reviewers of a recent exhibition termed Federico Barocci (ca. 1533-1612), 'the greatest artist you've never heard of'. One of the first original iconographers of the Counter Reformation, Barocci was a remarkably inventive religious painter and draftsman,...

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...

Making and Relational Creativity explores the developing relationships that arise between art teachers and students through creative practices outside of the secondary school arts curriculum. The author offers a powerful account of both her own and...

The book presents the installation artist Markus Heinsdorff's continuing study of the topics of space, the forces of nature and upcycling by means of over 40 works. The overview is completed by text contributions by famous authors who interpret...

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...

The Catalogue Raisonne of the work of Giuseppe Capogrossi (Rome 1900-1972) presents for the first time all the painter's works up to 1949, in other words up to the birth of the sign with the works shown at the Galleria del Secolo in Rome in January 1950...

Beauty celebrates design objects and practices that are exuberant, ethereal, atmospheric, experiential, exceptional or sublime. Objects of beauty provoke immediate reactions and demand judgment - asking us to redefine what is lovely or grotesque, formed...

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

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...

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,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783869309965Author Roni HornFormat HardbackPage Count 342Imprint Steidl VerlagPublisher Steidl PublishersWeight(grams) 2260g

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...

At first glance, Anita Albus's artistic practice seems like a welcome anachronism in the midst of the fast pace of contemporary art production: the artist creates detailed images of plants and animals using color pigments she makes herself. She is...

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 *...

Melvin Burkhart the Anatomical Wonder; Zip the Pinhead; Chang and Eng, the original Siamese twins; Johnny Eck, the King of the Freaks; Koo Koo the Birdgirl; and 45 more fascinating sideshow freaks both famous and obscure are immortalized in Drew...

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...

As pioneers of abstract art Hans (Jean) Arp and Sophie Taeuber-Arp created a unique body of work. They met in Zurich in 1915 and never left each other's side, from drawing to construction, from textile to wall paintings. Sophie Taeuber-Arp and Hans...

Spanning the worlds of Portraiture, Landscape, The Nude, Abstraction and Still Life, Alexander Newley's project fuses the Fine Art traditions of patient observation and draughtsmanship with the transcendental intuitions of the mystic. 'For me, art is a...

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...

The archetypal artist of the High Renaissance, Raphael is regarded as one of the greatest painters of all time. Particularly noted for his paintings of Madonna and Child, his art spanned religious and classical subjects and included a number of portraits...

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 9781908211316Author Marc LevertonFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Carpet Bombing CulturePublisher Carpet Bombing CultureWeight(grams) 108gDimensions(mm)...

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

The Renaissance of the 14th-16th centuries was, and forever will be, one of the most pivotal periods in the development of Western art. Its roots spread wide and deep, and much social and intellectual revitalization had begun before this revered time,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780764999369Author Charles AddamsFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Pomegranate Communications Inc,USPublisher Pomegranate Communications...

Flower fans and nature enthusiasts will fall in love with this charming art book from Instagram sensation Flora Forager featuring the best of her unique floral compositions created with botanical materials. Flora Forager creates images out of flower...

"Although the street art is generally conveyed in a very natural matter, even his dead animal paintings seem at peace." - Streetartbio.com "Detached from the artist's identity, his detailed, illustrative animal paintings have brought him back to the...

Landon Metz's abstract paintings reflect the artist's deliberate and meditative attention that endures throughout each phase of the artist's process. From stretching canvas to selecting his specific palette to the actual application of paint and...

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...

The work of Slovak sculptor Maria Bartuszova (1936-96) was first presented to international audiences in Kassel in 2007. Although her art has appeared in influential exhibitions and been included in prestigious contemporary art collections, up until now,...