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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783110726848Author Barbara BaertFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint de GruyterPublisher de Gruyter

"Gartel has so superbly captured...the essence of erotic desire. In an age of sex being turned into merely a forbidden behavior and a troublesome medical condition, Gartel has rallied and preserved sexual teasing, seduction, and allure into its...

For centuries, erotic art has brought together the intense passions of both artistic expression and human sexuality. This volatile mixture continues to draw a full spectrum of reactions, from ecstasy to outrage. Above all, it provokes an unquenchable...

C. Curry Bohm was a talented and highly regarded landscape artist who is most commonly associated with Brown County, Indiana. Most consider him a leader of the second generation of Brown County painters. However, Curry's career and success expanded well...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912066544Author Gylnn Boyd HarteFormat HardbackPage Count 40Imprint Design For TodayPublisher Design For TodayWeight(grams) 215g

Founded in 1984 by women around Gabriele Stötzer, the Erfurt Women Artists’ Group pursued a radically creative lifestyle to counter the rigid structures of everyday life in the GDR, over a period of ten years. Subversive, witty, borne of a liberating...

Kiki Kogelnik (1935-1997) worked in the United States for almost four decades, for many years on an equal level with pop artists like Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. However her work was overlooked for a long time. Kogelnik, who lived and worked in...

The collections of the Museum der Kulturen Basel contain numerous fragments that bear witness to practices of sharing and connecting. They include fragments from history, remnants of destruction, and once powerful objects made up of single parts. The...

This book showcases a wide variety of Nativity sets that display multi-cultural artistic interpretations of the true meaning of Christmas. Artisans from more than forty countries on five continents are represented, each with beautiful expressions of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857239507Author Bonnie ClearwaterFormat HardbackPage Count 166Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 980g

The paintings in this book depict 'object-type' - general yet specific, generic yet designed, familiar yet estranged. They are 'Purist' forms depicted in a still life landscape. The compositions employ overlap, convergence and diminution to imply depth...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646995851Author Marco PoloFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Parkstone Press USA, LimitedPublisher Parkstone Press USA, LimitedWeight(grams) 216g

Through its provocative examination of feminist and Marxist approaches to women's art and female representations, this book challenges the widespread belief that Marxism has nothing valuable to contribute to women's studies. The author argues that, from...

The Salem Witch trials were one of the darkest chapters in American history. With absorbing historical narrative and 300 photographs, Pamela E. Apkarian-Russell recounts three hundred years of a city's past, from the trials themselves through the 1890s,...

Whether a horse occupies a place in your yard or simply a niche in your heart, this engaging book was written for you. It showcases a broad array of horse-related items from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including many striking Art Deco pieces...

More than one hundred and fifty years after Confederates fired on Fort Sumter, the Civil War still occupies a prominent place in the national collective memory. Paintings and photographs, plays and movies, novels, poetry, and songs portray the war as a...

Throughout the past century, traumatic experiences have been re-enacted frequently by evolving media and art forms. Now there is a significant body of theory across academic disciplines focused on the representation of cataclysmic European and US...

Energy Overlays provides a glimpse into our post - carbon future where energy infrastructure is seamlessly woven into the fabric of our cities as works of public art. Fifty designs use a variety of renewable energy technologies to arrive at innovative...

Using the theme of Currency to invite reflection on the contemporary power of the photograph to relay and relate meaning across distance, the Triennial of Photography Hamburg explores the value of photography in the 21st century. The extension of this...

A dazzling cross-section of turtle figures from a diverse group of cultures are gathered here--including Waterford crystal from Ireland, Native American pueblo pottery and fetish carvings, and Japanese netsuke carvings, among many others. Nearly 350...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915958112Author Adrian Dudley FrostFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint MAPublisherPublisher MAPublisher

From the authors of NYC Storefronts comes a sprawling collection of intimately rendered shops that line the streets and sidewalks of the Big Apple's most populous borough Nowadays, Brooklyn is both destination and home to so many New Yorkers that...