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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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783958297524Author Jim DineFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Steidl VerlagPublisher Steidl PublishersWeight(grams) 2320g

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 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,...

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...

American artist Paul Re invites us to join him on his journey for harmony, wisdom, and inner joy with Art, Peace, and Transcendence. His hybrid hand-digital prints, Reograms, are a unique art form very different from the Rayograms made in the twentieth...

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 is the fourth monograph of the American artist Ann Mandelbaum. It offers both analogue black and white work from 1990-2000 and also digital colour images from 2007-present. None of the 100 examples have been exhibited or published before. The...

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...

With the complexity of his artistic expression, Armin Mueller-Stahl is an exceptional figure in the art of the 21st century. The different artistic activities of the painter, musician, actor, and writer influence each other. Thus, the actor's particular...

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

William Wegman's postcard paintings reflect a lifetime of engagement with narrative, perspective, art history, architecture, popular culture, humour and philosophy in art. Starting with one or more vintage postcards, Wegman constructs scenes that range...

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 -...

Even though we often hardly give it a second thought, we spend virtually every moment of our lives in two worlds: the analog world and the world of digital information, signals and networks. Whether visualizing invisible data streams or tracking down...

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...

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

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,...