Monographs

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679434481Author Audrey GeiselFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 607gDimensions(mm) 283mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783906915968Author Vilhelm HammershoiFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Hauser & WirthPublisher Hauser & Wirth

'Dance, theatre, music, sculpture, painting, all of these different modes of art-making are encapsulated into my practice, which is why I chose film as a medium for making my work.' - Isaac Julien Celebrated for his compelling lyrical films and video...

Capturing a crucial moment in the artist's career, To Exalt the Ephemeral showcases Alina Szapocikow's powerful sculptural meditations on terminal illness and the female experience.Tracing a body of work by Alina Szapocznikow from 1962 to 1972, this book...

Step into a world of star-crossed lovers, magical winds, mischievous giants, and trolls, through some of the most exquisite illustrations in publishing history. In this gorgeous reprint, TASCHEN revives the most ambitious publication project of beloved...

An exploration of Durer's career and legacy as an international traveling artist The visual legacy of Durer's travels extends far beyond his lifetime and throughout Europe, and the documents illuminating them offer unique insights into the distinctive...

This handsome box set provides hours of enlightening entertainment for those curious about farm life, the natural world, and food. Best-selling author and illustrator Julia Rothman presents Farm Anatomy, Nature Anatomy, and Food Anatomy in a specially...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486436692Author Edmund DulacFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 250gDimensions(mm)...

Illustrator and cartoonist W. Heath Robinson is renowned for his ingenious and haphazard contraptions. His witty drawings of complicated machines, are ironically designed to simplify everyday life, but always manage to make everything appear more...

J. D. Fergusson (1874-1961) is one of the four artists known as the Scottish Colourists, the others being F. C. B. Cadell, G. L. Hunter and S. J. Peploe. Fergusson was born in Leith, and was essentially a self-taught artist. In Paris 1907 he became...

The second in a series of books that seeks to illuminate Francis Bacon's art and motivations, and to open up fresh and stimulating ways of understanding his paintings.Francis Bacon is one of the most important artists of the 20th century. His works...

An investigation of conceptual artist Hanne Darboven's artistic practice and her highly personal mark-making as a form of marking time on paper Hanne Darboven (1941-2009) is best known for her immersive installations of individually framed sheets...

'I was raised with an artist's mentality; my first 25 years were spent as somebody who wanted to live among graphics and artwork and illustration, and then for the next 30 years it was all music. Recently, I've reverted into the arts, combining all these...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938221019Author Karen GreenFormat HardbackPage Count 188Imprint Siglio PressPublisher Siglio Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781842048597Author John McKeanFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Lomond BooksPublisher Lomond Books

The companion to the groundbreaking new retrospective at the Gropius Bau, this publication examines Kusama's life and work through wholly original insights by leading experts. The book traces the development of Kusama's creative output from her early...

Immerse yourself in the rich shades and textures of Tiziano Vecellio (c. 1488-1576), commonly known as Titian, and the figurehead of 16th-century Venetian painting. With his bold approach to form and startling, opulent colors, Titian worked with a number...

Leonardo da Vinci lived an itinerant life. Throughout his career - from its beginnings in the creative maelstrom of fifteenth-century Florence to his role as genius in residence at the court of the king of France - Leonardo created a kind of private...

Immediately upon his death in 1963 at the age of thirty, Piero Manzoni s reputation as a provocateur and wild child preceded him, with his most subversive work, Artist s Shit, 1961, elevating him to cult status. But what actually came before, and lay...

Nobles, ladies, scholars, and merchants were the subjects of Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/98-1543), an inventive German artist best known for his dazzling portraits. Holbein developed his signature style in Basel and London amid a rich culture of...

This kaleidoscopic exhibition catalog celebrates Lichtenstein’s multifaceted career—from his iconic achievements in the Pop Art movement and beyond.Published to mark the centennial of Lichtenstein’s birth, this retrospective volume is brimming with...

Andersson's works embody a new genre of landscape painting that recalls late nineteenth-century romanticism while also embracing a contemporary interest in layered, psychological compositions. Her panoramic scenes draw inspiration from a wide range of...

An essential overview of Jafa's sweeping, dynamic and disquieting video portraits of Black American life Though he has worked in film and music for decades, American video artist Arthur Jafa only garnered acclaim in the art world in 2016 for his video...

Of all the great paintings in the world, Picasso's Guernica has had a more direct impact on our consciousness than perhaps any other. In this absorbing and revealing book, Gijs van Hensbergen tells the story of this masterpiece. Starting with its origin...

A cutting-edge illustrated survey of 75 contemporary tattoo artists from around the world who are pushing the boundaries of their art form With nearly 700 images, Tattoo You: A New Generation of Artists showcases 75 rising stars who are redefining the...

The first book to survey the full range of J.M.W. Turner's extraordinary sketchbooks, beginning with his teenage explorations and culminating in the masterful colour studies of his later years. J.M.W. Turner's sketchbooks provide us with a rare...

A new and revised edition of the 2002 popular title, The Barbara Hepworth Sculpture Garden, this exquisitely produced book showcases the garden in St Ives throughout the seasons, with new photography and updated information on the plants from the Head...

Written by Musa Mayer - Philip Guston's daughter and President of The Guston Foundation - this book brings Guston's life and his hugely rich and diverse output together into one succinct volume. Split into three sections covering Guston's early career,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782370741790Author Emilia PhilippotFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Editions Skira ParisPublisher Editions Skira ParisWeight(grams) 1800g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486281506Author Egon SchieleFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 185gDimensions(mm)...

Hannah Gluckstein (who called herself Gluck; 1895-1976) was a distinctive, original voice in the early evolution of modern art in Britain. This handsome book presents a major reassessment of Gluck's life and work, examining, among other things, the...

A joining of two artists, exploring their shared fixation on the problematics of architecture, language, institutions, scale, and value '[The exhibition is] powerful and unhinged and overbuilt-a monument to the entropy of the postindustrial city, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782869251618Author Graciela IturbideFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporainPublisher Fondation Cartier pour l'art...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781900565615Author Grayson PerryFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Atlas PressPublisher Atlas PressWeight(grams) 514g

The perfect introduction to the life and work of Richard EstesAbout the AuthorLinda Chase is a noted author and curator, whose writings on Photorealism have helped define the movement. Her first interview with Richard Estes was published in 1972 in Art...

The most comprehensive survey to date of the legendary feminist artist Judy Chicago One of the most important contemporary American artists, Judy Chicago is known for multimedia works that embrace an explicitly feminist methodology. Accompanying a major...

A beautiful new gift art book all about Edvard Munch, the Norwegian artist behind the first truly Expressionist picture The Scream. Absorbed by such motifs as love, life, death and anguish, Munch's paintings captured the psychological feelings evoked by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783906915487Author Sara HarrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Hauser & WirthPublisher Hauser & WirthWeight(grams) 926g

100 Theatres showcases an eclectic range of paintings of theatres, from ancient to modern and from the smallest travelling theatre in Rome to one of the largest in New York. We are lucky to still have some of them; it is surprising how many of these...

This beautiful book is a brilliant exploration of a fascinating artist who changed the world of art in the 20th century and inspired future painters such as Picasso and Matisse, who said of Cezanne that he was "the father of us all."About the AuthorSusie...