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How should Germany commemorate the mass murder of Jews once committed in its name? In 1997, James E. Young was invited to join a German commission appointed to find an appropriate design for a national memorial in Berlin to the European Jews killed in...

Graphis Poster Annual 2Throughout history, posters have served as a beacon of hope and change as they've encouraged the world to take the time to consider better outcomes and new ways of thinking. What started as communications to draw attention to...

Deliciously illustrated with masterpieces of western art, this latest volume in the highly acclaimed "Guide to Imagery" series explores the rituals, customs, and symbolism of food and dining in art.It features a dedicated mailing and e-mail campaign to...

Illustrator Djamila Knopf leads us through her world, where anime-influenced characters, exquisite settings, and the process of creating fantasies enchant her fans worldwide. Having settled on her own authentic, creative style, featuring line art and a...

"Neural networks do not understand what optical illusions are." - Technologyreview.com "Some pictures tell a thousand lies." - hplyrikz.com An optical illusion confuses the eye by pretending to be something it isn't. It both misleads and deceives the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986249853Author Drake Bear StephenFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Wisdom Weaver PressPublisher Wisdom Weaver PressWeight(grams) 458gDimensions(mm)...

A thought-provoking combination of visually powerful imagery and comment *Includes 260 stunning photographs by more than 50 international contributors *Keynote essay by Patricia Macdonald *Features an interview with Dan Bailey and George Monbiot ...

Recharge your creative spirit and rediscover the magic that is watercolor! Every watercolorist needs a creative kick in the pants now and then--to keep seeking inspiration when feeling uninspired, to keep going when a painting has stalled, to keep...

Penelope Fitzgerald, the Booker Prize-winning author of 'Offshore' and 'The Blue Flower', turns her attention to the remarkable life of the Pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones. 'I mean by a picture a beautiful, romantic dream of something...

Trompe-l'oeil, a French term meaning to trick, the eye, describes a painting that deceives the spectator into thinking that the objects in it are real, not merely represented. To successfully fool the eye of the viewer, trompe-l'oeil artists choose...

This title is a superbly illustrated and insightful guide to the symbols of power in Western art. This latest volume in the acclaimed "Guide to Imagery series" examines the way that sovereign rulers have employed well-defined symbols, attributes and...

The Art of Urban Sketching is both a comprehensive guide and a showcase of location drawings by artists around the world who draw the cities where they live and travel. This beautiful volume explains urban sketching within the context of a long...

Christopher White explains why he chose this title for his new book: 'The often intimate, reflective and personal side to Rembrandt's work in treating subjects from history or the Bible reveals an increasingly more introspective interpretation than his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781841145365Author Malcolm RootFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint HalsgrovePublisher HalsgroveDimensions(mm) 258mm * 238mm * 19mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989241151Author Tulasi ZimmerFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Crystal Moon PublishingPublisher Crystal Moon PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486473338Author Charles Dana GibsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783969120675Author Veronika RudorferFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Dr. Cantz'sche Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KGPublisher Dr. Cantz'sche...

This practical and stimulating book introduces and showcases a wide range of motoring art styles. Recognising the importance of drawing and research, it explains the key components of a successful painting, looking particularly at light, perspective,...

A selection of the most touching and transformative expressions of romantic love drawn from Tate's collection. Divided among key themes - such as courtship, passion, symbolism, enduring love and even loss - each of the 50 works of art included has...

"Character Design Quarterly (CDQ) is a lively, creative magazine bringing inspiration, expert insights, and leading techniques from professional illustrators, artists, and character art enthusiasts worldwide. Each issue provides detailed tutorials...

This stunning book charts the rich history of the blues, through the dazzling array of posters, album covers, and advertisements that have shaped its identity over the past hundred years. The blues have been one of the most ubiquitous but diverse...

The Quiet Eye is a book of great charm, imbued with a love and understanding of art that speaks directly to the heart.The thirty-three pictures selected by the American sculptress Sylvia Shaw Judson cover a wide spectrum of subjects and styles, from the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982127145Author Lee DurkeeFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 230mm...

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The emergence of the modern Western artwork is sometimes cast as a slow process of secularization, with the devotional charge of images giving way in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries to a focus on the beauty and innovation of the artwork itself. Our...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781793647443Author Eli BartraFormat HardbackPage Count 284Imprint Lexington BooksPublisher Lexington BooksWeight(grams) 152g

San Antonio in Color contains ninety paintings of San Antonio landmarks, neighborhoods, and local attractions painted by Trinity alumnus Bill Thompson ('88). Thompson uses flamboyant colors to paint animated, evocative scenes that have a touch of van...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780945558361Author Barry BindermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Illinois State University, University GalleriesPublisher Illinois State University,...

This new volume in the Performance Ideas series is drawn from the ongoing video work art is/poetry is/music is (Speaking Portraits), which features over 1000 artists--painters, poets, musicians, dancers, actors, video-/filmmakers--in eleven countries...

Published on the occasion of a groundbreaking museum exhibition curated by Lawrence Rinder with Matthew Higgs, Create showcases work made at the three foremost centers for artists with developmental disabilities: Creative Growth Art Center in Oakland,...

This is a vital new work; the first to take the University of Manchester's Museum as its subject. By setting the museum in its cultural and intellectual contexts, Nature and culture explores twentieth-century collecting and display, and the status of the...

In the acrylic paintings of Dusseldorf-based painter Sven Kroner (born 1973), what the viewer initially reads as a pleasant idyll in the style of the old masters frequently dissolves into an experience imbued with irony and unreality. This is Kroner's...

Tune Yer Head presents new and recent work by Texas born, LA-based artist Aaron Curry. Known primarily for his colossal biomorphic metal sculptures and more recently for his neon, cosmic paintings, Aaron Curry's work features a unique synthesis of the...

Since 1964, beginning with a reproduction of Jan van Eycke's St Jerome in His Study, the front cover of JAMA:The Journal of the American Medical Association has featured full-color images of renowned works of fine art as well as many lesser-known gems...

Ever since the creation of the world's first botanical and zoological gardens five thousand years ago, people have collected, displayed, and depicted plants and animals from lands beyond their everyday experience. Some did so to demonstrate power over...

Iconography is undergoing a revival in twenty-first-century American Catholicism. William Hart McNichols, who paints in his studio in New Mexico, is one of the most popular iconographers of this renaissance, and this book comprises a selection of his...

The revised and extended BMW Art Guide by Independent Collectors presents more than 270 private collections of contemporary art accessible to the public-featuring large and small, famous and the relatively unknown. Succinct portraits of the collections...

All the Buildings in London is a love letter to London, told through James Gulliver Hancock s unique and charming drawings of the city s diverse architectural styles and streetscapes. Hancock s offbeat drawing style gives a sense of whimsical and...

This book offers a fresh perspective on the history of birth and infancy by showing a rich array of images and objects ranging from paintings, prints, sculpture, metalwork, jewellery, textiles, ceramics, furniture and woodwork from both the fine and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789814068406Author Gretchen LiuFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Editions Didier Millet Pte LtdPublisher Editions Didier Millet Pte LtdWeight(grams)...