Public Art

Following The Little Book of Hygge, The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning and other bestsellers, Shikake introduces the latest example of practical wisdom from abroad: shikakeology, a phenomenon sweeping Japan. Naohiro Matsumura-renowned as the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999717998Author Kelvy BirdFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Kelvy BirdPublisher Kelvy BirdWeight(grams) 313gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 14mm

'Fascinating ... not only a history of graffiti, but also a history of the 18th century through lost voices of the people who lived through it.' The Times What if walls could talk? For historian Madeleine Pelling, they can - if you know where to look...

Star Trek: Picard stars Patrick Stewart, reprising his role as Jean-Luc Picard from Star Trek: The Next Generation. The book explores each of the three separate season-long narratives, which tell the story of Picard in later years, as he is brought out...

Essential reading for anyone interested in art, community, and the built environment A towering abstract steel sculpture in the middle of a traffic island in Spoleto, Italy. Soaring vertical gardens enhanced with digital technology in Singapore’s Marina...

How today's questions surrounding monuments and the ways we commemorate our past first arose in Rembrandt's timeMonuments occupy a controversial place in nations founded on principles of freedom and self-governance. It is no accident that when we think...

Paris is the city of light, the city of love, and the city of more art than you could possibly explore in a lifetime-and not just in museums. Tucked away in tree-lined parks, preserved in world class restaurants, emblazoned on Metro station walls, and...

New York Times Bestseller An addictive collection of new full-color postcard secrets and app secrets from the author of the smash the #1 New York Times bestselling PostSecret books-with more secrets than any previous PostSecret book! A decade ago,...

Reveals how American art in the 1930s-intertwined with the political, social, and economic tumult of an era not so unlike our own-engaged with the public amid global upheaval This publication examines the search for artistic identity in the United...

There's so much to love about New York, and so much to see. The city is full of art, and architecture, and history -- and not just in museums. Hidden in plain sight, in office building lobbies, on street corners, and tucked into Soho lofts, there's a...

The work of the artist couple Christo (born 1935) and Jeanne-Claude (1935-2009) resists categorization. It is a hybrid of art, urban planning, architecture, and engineering, but above all an aesthetic uniquely their own: surreal and ethereal...

An illuminating account of the importance of public investment in arts and culture.Book InformationISBN 9781783965182Author Darren HenleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Elliott & Thompson LimitedPublisher Elliott & Thompson Limited

For decades, artists and architects have struggled to relate to the Holocaust in visual form, resulting in memorials that feature a diversity of aesthetic strategies. In Memory Passages, Natasha Goldman analyzes both previously-overlooked and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781734965926Author Caveat MagisterFormat PaperbackPage Count 388Imprint Burning Man ProjectPublisher Burning Man ProjectWeight(grams) 517gDimensions(mm)...

In this classic text, James Elkins communicates the experience of painting beyond the traditional vocabulary of art history. Alchemy provides a strange language to explore what it is a painter really does in the studio-the smells, the mess, the struggle...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788360425Author Alexander AdamsFormat PaperbackImprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 135mm * 15mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788360739Author Alexander AdamsFormat PaperbackImprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 250gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 135mm * 12mm

The official Star Trek: Discovery art book. Star Trek: Discovery, the newest chapter in the Star Trek Universe, follows the exploits of Vulcan-raised science officer Michael Burnham and the crew of the U.S.S. Discovery as they boldly go where no one...

Named one of The Progressive magazine's Favorite Books of the YearAn inside look at the organizers and artists on the front lines of political mobilization and social change"Ken [Grossinger] is one of the smartest strategists I know." -John Sweeney,...

An impassioned and convincing case for the importance and rewards of public investment in arts and culture.Book InformationISBN 9781783968831Author Darren HenleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Elliott & Thompson LimitedPublisher Elliott & Thompson...

Engagement in the City: How Arts and Culture Impact Development in Urban Areas provides readers with numerous examples of ways that the arts can contribute to community development. Through the diverse backgrounds of its contributing authors -...

On Common Ground: The Public Art of Spartanburg features 120 pages of images by local photographer Carroll Foster capturing outdoor works on side streets to college campuses, from public parks to river banks, from corporate headquarters to art centers...

Engagement in the City: How Arts and Culture Impact Development in Urban Areas provides readers with numerous examples of ways that the arts can contribute to community development. Through the diverse backgrounds of its contributing authors -...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780921344568Author Janine MarchessaultFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint Public AccessPublisher Public AccessWeight(grams) 1000g

The first comprehensive book about the Washington, D.C., art world, this study features humorous and unique stories about the artists and art districts of one of the U.S.'s most visited cities. The city's many firsts include are the first modern art...

Cross the Streets is a multimedia exhibition that celebrates 40 years of the evolution of street art in Rome. No other city has such an untouched history and so it is fitting that Rome begins its cultural regeneration from its streets and its past...

Borderwall as Architecture is an artistic and intellectual hand grenade of a book, and a timely re-examination of what the physical barrier that divides the United States of America from the United Mexican States is and could be. It is both a protest...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789188369352Author Enrico BonadioFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Dokument PressPublisher Dokument Forlag

An elegant and lavish coffee table book revealing the origins, processes, and brilliant final paintings produced for the award-winning fantasy novel Stardust written by Neil Gaiman. From the moment Gaiman asked Vess to join him on the project, through...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789887679158Author MyojiFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint SendPoints Publishing Co., LtdPublisher SendPoints Publishing Co., Ltd

"Art as Social Action . . . is an essential guide to deepening social art practices and teaching them to students." -Laura Raicovich, president and executive director, Queens MuseumArt as Social Action is both a general introduction to and an...

A rich history and moving look at the accessible, immersive art embedded in the Paris subway systemSubmarine wall decorations, a ceramic declaration of human rights, a stained-glass red hen, a mosaic mouth, an aedicule made of Murano glass. The Paris...

Tribal Streetwear is lifestyle streetwear brand that seeks to represent a variety of southern California sub-cultures that includes graffiti, street art, skateboarding, surfing, tattoos, hip hop, breakdancing, punk, lowriders, and custom culture. Based...

Enter the world of gravity-defying 3D street art and the artists who have defined the movement. Featuring full colour photography throughout and an exclusive list of graffiti artists from around the world. 3D Street Art is the first book to bring...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997095029Author Doron RosenthalFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Anza Borrego PressPublisher Anza Borrego PressWeight(grams) 431g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955978159Author James Fox RobinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Original Redux PressPublisher Original Redux PressWeight(grams) 318g

This edited collection examines the important and multi-varied role that art plays in today's diverse society. Art is linked to the worldviews and mind-sets from which it results and, as a complex and ambiguous product of culture and perception, it can...

Breaking the Bronze Ceiling uncovers a glaring omission in our global memorial landscape—the conspicuous absence of women. Exploring this neglected narrative, the book emerges as the foremost guide to women's memorialization across diverse cultures and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781734607239Author Bob PalmerFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Marla F. JonesPublisher Marla F. JonesWeight(grams) 279g