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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...

The influence of Roland Barthes on Burgin's work is well documented. Equally, Burgin's prominence as an artist and theorist concerned with text and image offers a productive dialogue with Barthes' work. Victor Burgin has long been considered both...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781517904647Author Matthew BiroFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher University of Minnesota PressWeight(grams) 178g

A wide-ranging retrospective that reveals a master printer's own photographs to be technically brilliant work of remarkable breadth and complexity This book presents the first in-depth survey of photographs by Richard Benson (1943-2017), who approached...

I'll never forget that first time a saw a New Orleans Mardi Gras Indian. I was driving home while the sun was setting and there was a flash of orange feathers. My heart jumped. I didn't take many photos that day, just three. Then, I handed my camera to...

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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781861717559Author Jeremy Mark RobinsonFormat HardbackPage Count 644Imprint Crescent Moon PublishingPublisher Crescent Moon PublishingWeight(grams) 984g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783958299177Author Joseph BeuysFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Steidl VerlagPublisher Steidl Publishers

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,...

This title was first published in 2002: JArg Breu belonged to the generation of German Renaissance artists that included DA1/4rer, Cranach, GrA1/4newald, Altdorfer, and, in his own city of Augsburg, Hans Burgkmair the Elder. His art registered the early...

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...

Although we know him best as a visual artist and filmmaker, Andy Warhol was also a publisher. Distributing his own books and magazines, as well as contributing to those of others, Warhol found publishing to be one of his greatest pleasures, largely...

150 works - mostly unpublished before - signed by the Moroccan contemporary artist Fouad Bellamine in a rich, complete monograph. Moroccan contemporary artist, Fouad Bellamine, was born in Fez in 1950 and was raised amidst varied artistic and creative...

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 9781646570065Author Sanford SchwartzFormat HardbackImprint Pulitzer Foundation For The ArtsPublisher Pulitzer Foundation For The Arts

Influenced by artists such as Cindy Sherman, Lake's work demonstrates the innovation and continued influence of the 'Feminist Avant-Garde' movement on contemporary art today. Lake's work forms part of the public collection at the Albright Knox Art...

Jorinde Voigt's new body of work On Reality, created in 2021 and 2022, continues the artist's investigation of using sculptural elements to expand on the medium of drawing. Using coloured paper, Voigt combines her visual vocabulary of drawing, writing...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857245461Author David RosenbergFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 240g

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...

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...

From September 2021, Jean-Michel Othoniel will be taking over the whole of the Petit Palais and its garden. It will be the biggest exhibition devoted to the artist in Paris since the My Way retrospective at the Centre Pompidou in 2011. The Petit Palais...

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,...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467983662Author Melissa PasillasFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262571067Author Dan GrahamFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 975gDimensions(mm) 267mm * 191mm * 19mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905464753Author William ScottFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint RidinghousePublisher Ridinghouse

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780967575605Author Christine FilipakFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint Monolith GraphicsPublisher Monolith GraphicsWeight(grams) 381g

Reputed to have initiated the young British art movement, Hirst is considered the pre-eminent artist of his generation. This project brings together for the first time all his works in the collection of Charles Saatchi, his most prolific and proactive...

This is a truly exceptional collection of drawings from one of our most revered cultural commentators. Gerald Scarfe began his career in the 60s working for PUNCH and PRIVATE EYE before taking a job as a political cartoonist for the DAILY MAIL. He then...

This monograph edited by Ilaria Bernardi is the first comprehensive examination of the oeuvre of the Italian artist Loris Cecchini, from his debut in the mid-1990s to the present. The publication coincides with the 30th anniversary of the artist’s first...

Maria Lai always had a special relationship with fairy tales. She considered them a metaphor for art and a way of communicating with the public in a simple, straightforward way. Starting in the 1980s, fairy tales became central to her art. Tenendo per...

At the end of 2024, Fondation Louis Vuitton will be holding for the first time a major exhibition dedicated to the work of the American Pop artist Tom Wesselmann. It will include around eighty of Tom Wesselmann's absolute masterpieces covering his...

This book accompanies a major exhibition in the Ashmolean Museum on the early work of internationally acclaimed German artist Anselm Kiefer. It focuses on his paintings, drawings, photographs and artist books created between 1969 and 1982, in the private...

A monograpgh dedicated to the leading German Reformation artist, Lucas Cranach, who was one of the most influential northern Renaissance printmakers. His Passion series has drama and pathos rivalling his contemporary Dürer.

Planned at the same time as his great Apocalypse, Dürer’s series of woodcuts illustrating the Passion of Christ, produced between 1497 and 1510, is one of the summits of his art and an astonishing sixteenth-century demonstration of virtuosic printmaking...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783753306841Author Dieter SchwarzFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther KonigPublisher Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig

Influenced by the exotic, lush landscapes of his childhood years in Hawaii, Hunt Slonem's richly colored, impressionistic bird paintings are celebrated worldwide. For the first time, Slonem's birds are collected into a single, luxurious volume. In Bitty...