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With unprecedented access to newly discovered sources, Donna M. Lucey illuminates the lives of four women painted by the society portraitist John Singer Sargent. With uncanny clairvoyance, Sargent's portraits hint at the mysteries, passions and tragedies...

Anni Albers (1899 - 1994) was one of the most influential textile designers of the 20th century. Born in Berlin, in 1922 she became a student at the Bauhaus in Weimar, where she met her husband, Josef Albers. From 1933 to 1949 Albers taught at Black...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743299596Author Maya LinFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 794gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780847836949Author Tim NobleFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Rizzoli International PublicationsPublisher Rizzoli International Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783905829518Author Andro WekuaFormat HardbackPage Count 72Imprint JRP RingierPublisher JRP Ringier

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943444311Author Samson PollenFormat HardbackPage Count 140Imprint New TexturePublisher New TextureWeight(grams) 744gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 279mm * 13mm

The first monograph on the popular New York-based artist Will Cotton, best known for his large-scale portraits of female nudes in candy-coated dreamlike landscapes.   Will Cotton is best known for his depictions of “landscapes” composed of sweets:...

A luxurious, richly illustrated monograph, Piotr Uklanski Fatal Attraction consists of images of works made by Piotr Ukla?ski, as well as groupings of images of artworks selected by Ukla?ski from the Met's collections for an accompanying exhibition. Both...

Accompanying the retrospective exhibition of their work at Tate Modern opening February 2007, the largest ever staged at the museum, "Gilbert & George" provides a highly affordable introduction to the career of these extraordinary artists. Featuring...

Accompanying the retrospective exhibition of their work at Tate Modern opening February 2007, the largest ever staged at the museum, "Gilbert & George" provides a highly affordable introduction to the career of these extraordinary artists. Featuring...

The first publication devoted to the work of Sydney Lee RA (18661949), this fully illustrated and annotated catalogue raisonne of his prints offers a long overdue appraisal of his contribution to British art. Primarily a painter, Lee was widely acclaimed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783906915753Author Musa MayerFormat PaperbackPage Count 372Imprint Hauser & WirthPublisher Hauser & WirthWeight(grams) 866g

Making a fanzine is an act of rebellion, even more so if it is published and produced by a woman. The grrrls of today use them to inspire countless young people around the world, to take control of their lives and to create their own culture. These...

This is a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the making of a post-war masterpiece and its restoration. In many ways, Mural, Jackson Pollock's (1912-1956) first large-scale painting represents the birth of his legend. The controversial artist's...

A biography of Rembrandt examines his most important drawings and paintings, describes his personal life, and assesses his contribution to art.About the AuthorChristopher White was Director of the Ashmolean Museum and Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782080419682Author Didier OttingerFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint FlammarionPublisher Editions FlammarionWeight(grams) 1360g

The renowned artist Ed Ruscha was born in Nebraska, grew up in Oklahoma, and has lived and worked in Southern California since the late 1950s. Beginning in 1956, road trips across the American Southwest furnished a conceptual trove of themes and motifs...

This book considers questions of materiality and painting, focalized through the notoriously obscure work of Georges Rouault, and offers an innovative critical approach to the various questions raised by this challenging modernist. Described as a...

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 9780764975387Author Mike WilksFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint Pomegranate Communications Inc,USPublisher Pomegranate Communications Inc,US

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 9780143124245Author Peter SisFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 459gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 178mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780965618311Author Harmony KorineFormat PaperbackPage Count 1Imprint Drag CityPublisher Drag CityWeight(grams) 541g

In Atomic Time, sculptor, photographer and conceptual artist Jim Sanborn has combined his longstanding interests in invisible natural forces and secrecy, pairing together two separate but related projects: a series of photographs called Atomic Time and...

An exploration of the creative process of one of the most innovative theatre directors working today.An exploration of the creative process of one of the most innovative theatre directors working today.About the AuthorAleksandar Sasa Dundjerovic is...

Dahlov Ipcar is best known for her vibrant collage-style paintings of jungle and farm animals. This clearly evident love of animals is due in part to the summers she spent with her family in Maine. In 1923 the Zorach family (her parents were the famous...

Hi, Konnichiwa is a substantial, brilliant little book that brings together Kusama's vivid imagery throughout the various phases of her work during the course of her long life. Here are her large-scale canvases, environmental sculptures, multi-media...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905464777Author Dr. Penelope CurtisFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint RidinghousePublisher Ridinghouse

The Art of Transformation Using her own body as raw material for her artistic practice, French artist ORLAN deconstructs the traditional iconography of the feminine. In the 1990s, ORLAN caused a sensation with surgical operations performed on her body,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780867197624Author Danni Shinya LuoFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Last Gasp,U.S.Publisher Last Gasp,U.S.Weight(grams) 596g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846382031Author Howard SingermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Afterall PublishingPublisher Afterall Publishing

In 1921/22 Edouard Vuillard created a cycle of six paintings for the entrance hall of the Villa Bauer in Basel. Four large-format pictures show exhibition rooms in the Louvre from Antiquity to French Rococo painting. Two overdoors provide an intimate...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846380501Author Dan AdlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Afterall PublishingPublisher Afterall PublishingWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn was the leading painter and graphic artist of the 'Golden Age of Dutch Art'. He excelled in imbuing his art with the 'deepest and most lifelike emotion', with rich detail and stunning lighting. This richly enjoyable book...

This book will accompany the first major solo exhibition of Douglas Gordon's work in Scotland since he presented his now celebrated work, 24 Hour Psycho at Tramway in Glasgow in 1993. Gordon is one of a number of Glasgow-trained artists who came to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781886449541Author George QuashaFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Barrytown Ltd ,U.S.Publisher Barrytown Ltd ,U.S.Weight(grams) 299gDimensions(mm) 175mm...

An expansive and revelatory study of Robert Smithson's life and the hidden influences on his iconic creations This first biography of the major American artist Robert Smithson, famous as the creator of the Spiral Jetty, deepens understanding of his art...

Zao Wou-Ki (1920-2013) was the first artist of the Chinese diaspora to achieve international recognition and was one of France's most important painters of the postwar era and beyond. His large abstract canvases were in step with those of New York School...

Holly Addi is a U.S.-based artist who creates abstract paintings focused on the philosophy of beauty in imperfection. With a background in psychology, Addi examines energy, colour, space, and landscape through tempered abstraction. Addi considers her...

As one of the key figures of Brazil's Neo-Concrete movement of the late 1950s and early 1960s, Lygia Pape developed a specific understanding of geometric abstraction that resulted in a radical new conception of concrete-constructivist art, challenging an...