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Young Aspirations/Young Artists (YA/YA) Inc., is a New Orleans nonprofit arts organization started by painter Jana Napoli in 1988. This book is a history, memoir and guidebook to what happens at YA/YA. It reviews YA/YA's work in raising funds, getting...

Steve Fagin is an artist whose videos incorporate, challenge, and cross over into the realm of literary and cultural studies. Talkin' with Your Mouth Full includes not only scripts of Fagin's works but critical responses to-and meditations on-a variety...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780765108654Author Erik LarsenFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Smithmark PublishersPublisher Smithmark PublishersWeight(grams) 780g

Text and artwork by Simon Combes. Foreword by David Shepherd. Available to the trade for the first time. A safari in Africa can be one of the great highlights of our lives, and Simon Combes has lived his life on one. He is one of the finest painters of...

Thomas Gainsborough (1727-88) was one of the most brilliant portrait painters of the eighteenth century, surpassing his great rival Reynolds with his ability to capture a likeness and in his superb handling of paint. He was also a talented and sensitive...

Hans Holbein the Younger (c. 1497-1543) is renowned for his incisive portraits of Norhern Europe's courtiers, thinkers and statesmen, but his output was far more various, and included book illustration, large religious paintings and designs for jewellery...

Paul Delaroche (1797-1856) was a significant figure in French 19th-century art. Reproductive engravings after his pictures helped make them familiar throughout the western world and his work was the first to be extensively photographed. Shortly after his...

Marc Chagall (1887-1985) was one of the giants of twentieth-century art, who with a powerful imagination and a wonderful sense of colour created a unique personal world of fantasy and memory. He was born into a poor Jewish family in Vitebsk, Russia, a...

Since 1984 the Turner Prize has done more than anything else to bring contemporary art to the attention of a wider audience. This updated edition of the only book to focus on the history and impact of the prize offers an opportunity to look back on all...

One of a series exploring the lives and work of major artists associated with St Ives, this is a study of Barbara Hepworth and her work as a sculptor, which spanned five decades. Her art is discussed in the light of her contemporaries, including Henry...

Norwegian painter Edvard Munch (1863-1944) is best known for his painting "The Scream", painted in 1893, which has become one of the most iconic images in the modern world. Munch was clear about his own mission in exploring the portrayal of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788484781691Author Antoni PixotFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Triangle Postals , S.LPublisher Triangle Postals , S.LWeight(grams) 580g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782080108739Author Guy LelongFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint FlammarionPublisher Editions FlammarionWeight(grams) 1360g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780918471598Author Mario BottaFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint San Francisco Museum of Modern ArtPublisher San Francisco Museum of Modern...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780886291358Author Naomi Jackson GrovesFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Carleton University Press,CanadaPublisher Carleton University Press,Canada

This is the first collection to be published of the superb fantasy art of Anne Sudworth, well known to gallery connoisseurs but rarely seen in print. In early sections of this book we are introduced to the artist, with discussion of the influences that...

Rob Alexander is one of the most versatile and highly respected artists working today. He paints in watercolours that look more like oils or acylics. His painting style is subtle, beautiful and emotionally evocative. It has enabled him to work well in a...

Writing under the pen name of Fougasse, Cyril Kenneth Bird was one of the most popular cartoonists and illustrators of the first half of the twentieth century and arguably the best-known and loved creator of British poster art. The images and captions to...

Near the end of his life, Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) began creating astonishingly an improvisatory and free life drawings. First published in a very limited edition in 1939, 31 of these drawings are paired here with selected Love Elegies from Ovid, one of...

A book of railway paintings with accompanying text, which depict the romance, the muck and the struggle against the elements endured by the men of steam. The book forms an historic tribute to the steam age, starting with the "Rocket" at Rainhill and...

The Tate owns the largest collection of J.M.W. Turner's work, its Clore Gallery houses the Turner Bequest - the paintings, watercolours, drawings, sketchbooks acquired from the artist's estate in 1856. Focusing on 120 works, this volume provides a survey...

Vincent van Gogh has become one of the best-known and best-loved artists in the history of art, but he is said to have sold only a single painting in his entire life. An extraordinary figure, whose art and life were inextricably and tragically...

Picasso Peace and Freedom is the first in-depth examination of Picasso as a politically and socially engaged artist, from the 1940s, when he defiantly remained in Paris during the Nazi occupation, through the Cold War period. Picasso was a member of, and...

Accompanying a major touring exhibition, "Picasso and Modern British Art" is the first book to explore Pablo Picasso's lifelong connections with the United Kingdom. Picasso's enormous impact on British modernism is examined through seven...

Aubrey Beardsley's art epitomises an age, often referred to as the 'Beardsley period'. In this book his letters and the memoirs and anecdotes of his mother, sister and contemporaries are complemented by numerous illustrations of his own works.Book...

Steve Fagin is an artist whose videos incorporate, challenge, and cross over into the realm of literary and cultural studies. Talkin' with Your Mouth Full includes not only scripts of Fagin's works but critical responses to-and meditations on-a variety...

In his extraordinary work, the Oregon painter Michael Brophy explores the intersections of history, forest ecology, and the rich tradition of landscape painting. Through images that depict the brutal and savage beauty of the altered landscapes of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789689056027Author Marta PalauFormat HardbackPage Count 260Imprint Turner/D.A.P.Publisher Turner/D.A.P.Weight(grams) 1823gDimensions(mm) 304mm * 245mm * 25mm

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Calvin called the Psalms 'an anatomy of all the parts of the soul'. Everything that anyone can feel or experience in relation to God can be found in all of the Psalms, which are both poetry and prayer. This is the best place in scripture to explore all...

Paul Cezanne (1839 - 1906) painted almost 200 portra its, including twenty - six of himself and twenty - nine of his wife . This book presents twenty - four `highlights' from a major international exhibition that explores the portraiture of this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783955881146Author Martina PadbergFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Koenemann.Com GmbHPublisher Koenemann.Com GmbHWeight(grams) 717g

Hanakam & Schuller are tricksters. As artists and researchers, they remodel the rules of fine art, creating idiosyncratic orders and new world designs incorporated in videos and objects. The artefacts of the two artists from Vienna are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840136609Author Grange BooksFormat HardbackPage Count 80Imprint Grange Books LtdPublisher Grange Books Ltd

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780977259465Author Brandon LaBelleFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Errant BodiesPublisher Errant Bodies

This book celebrates the artist's style of living, his unique eye for color, and his light-filled homes in the uplifting warmth of the South. Brilliant photographs evoke the bonheur of Matisse's life in Nice - the airy interiors that inspired him; the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780810946859Author Jose Maria FaernaFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Harry N. Abrams, Inc.Publisher AbramsWeight(grams) 885g

Internationally acclaimed photojournalist was a trusted friend of Pablo Picasso for 17 years. Now, in this candid, penetrating book, Duncan shares his most intimate images of the great Spanish master: a dramatic photo essay taken over two days as Picasso...

Mark Rothko (1903-1970) is generally considered, along with Jackson Pollock (1912-1956), the preeminent artist of his generation. He is closely identified with the New York School, a group of painters that emerged during the 1940s and re-invented...