Art
Discover the best-selling art books and insightful artist biographies at our online bookstore, featuring a curated selection of must-read books about art and artwork. Explore our collection to find the best books to read, from captivating artist biographies to beautifully illustrated artwork books.
-
Natural History Drawings: The Complete William Farquhar Collection, Malay Peninsula 1803-1818Colonel William Farquhar (1774-1839) was a British Colonial Officer who became Commandant of Malacca in 1803, a post through which he was able o indulge his interest in natural history, sending men to collect various plant and animal specimens, which he then commissioned artists...
- €74,00 EUR
- €74,00 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
Yayoi Kusama: Life Is the Heart of a RainbowAccompanying the first major survey of Yayoi Kusama's work in Southeast Asia, this catalogue explores the captivating work of one of the world's most influential artists. It features essays by curators from National Gallery Singapore and Queensland Art Gallery Gallery of Modern Art, a...
- €52,74 EUR
- €52,74 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
Il Fior di Battaglia: Ms Ludwig XV 13The manuscript of Il Fior di Battaglia is in the Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Ms Ludwig XV 13. It is dated to about 1410, and was written by Fiore dei Liberi. This book is a complete representation of the Art of Arms (armizare), on...
- €122,71 EUR
- €122,71 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
Lost and Living (In) Archives: Collectively Shaping New MemoriesAn archive is a site of collective memory, a collection of documents and records that is preserved for historical purposes.But the stability and permanence of the traditional archive has been reconfigured by digital archives, which are "living," flexible and virtual repositories. How has this...
- €35,24 EUR
- €35,24 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
Sketch: Karim: Artworks of Karim RashidSketch: Karim showcases the illustrations and digital artwork of New York-based designer Karim Rashid from early career to present. Selections include experimental drawings, computer-rendered artistic explorations, and architectural illustrations that were produced for client projects.Sketches are integral to Karim's design process. A talented artist...
- €63,43 EUR
- €63,43 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
The Secret of the Highly Creative Thinker: How to Make Connections Others Don'tPeople who are good at creating ideas are good at seeing connections. Could teaching people to see connections be a way to help them be more creative? Over the years, there's a need for a book on creativity that complements the teaching of the...
- €32,87 EUR
- €32,87 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
The Interior of the Medieval Village ChurchThe thousands of medieval village churches that lie scattered across Europe provide us with unique insights into society and religion during the Middle Ages. Although many original furnishings fell victim to iconoclasm, war, neglect or refurbishment, some church interiors have remained surprisingly intact. Since...
- €252,17 EUR
- €252,17 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
Bollettino d'Arte. 2017. Serie VII-Fascicolo N. 35-36Author: L'Erma Di BretschneiderPublisher: L'Erma Di BretschneiderPublished: 03/30/2019Pages: 356Binding Type: PaperbackISBN: 9788891317674Language: ItalianThis title is not returnableThis title is only available via back order
- €348,12 EUR
- €348,12 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
Richard Pousette-Dart: The New York School and BeyondThis groundbreaking volume on Richard Pousette-Dart is the most comprehensive publication on his painting to be published since the artist's death. It provides fresh insights into his oeuvre by five outstanding, contemporary art historians, who have interpreted the artist's creative output from the 1930s...
- €112,75 EUR
- €112,75 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
Lucio Fontana: Catalogue Raisonne Di Sculture, Dipinti, Ambientazioni Tomo IIThe catalogue raisonn of the work of the Italian painter and sculptor presents a historical profile of the artist's complete body of work. Organized chronologically and subdivided into categories of the extremely broad creative oeuvre of Lucio Fontana (Rosario de Santa F , 1899-Varese,...
- €718,80 EUR
- €718,80 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
Toilet Paper, Volume IIA selection of the best images from the past five issues of Toilet Paper magazineSince its very first issue in June 2010, Toilet Paper magazine, the brainchild of Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari, has celebrated the riotous and repulsive image. In an interview with...
- €91,61 EUR
- €91,61 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
Giorgio Morandi: 1890-1964: Nothing Is More Abstract Than RealityThis volume showcases 116 masterpieces arranged into the four major themes that characterize Giorgio Morandi's work: self portraits, still lifes, landscapes, and flowers. The collection represents all the various expressive techniques used by Morandi over the years, including paint, etching, drawing and watercolor.The volume...
- €91,61 EUR
- €91,61 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
Slime Mould in Arts and ArchitectureThe slime mould Physarum polycephalum was a source of explosive growth of bioengineered hybrid sensing and computing devices in the past decade. Being in its vegetative state, the plasmodium, the slime mould configures its protoplasmic network to optimize its geometry with relation to patterns...
- €190,27 EUR
- €190,27 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
GaudiThis book unearths the most intriguing details surrounding the life of one of the greatest influencers in our culture: Antoni Gaudi. From parks that are guarded by a dragon, to roofs protected by knights and helms, to a cathedral which resembles a mystical fairy...
- €11,42 EUR
- €11,42 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
Lourdes Grobet: On the Eye's EdgeOne of Mexico's leading contemporary artists, Lourdes Grobet is a photographer who, for the past 20 years, has set her camera lens to look at Mexican popular culture, from female wrestling to northern emigration, from neo-Mayan architecture to Cuban immigration. Beyond photography, she has...
- €63,43 EUR
- €63,43 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
Dhanurveda: The Vedic Military ScienceDhanurveda, the standard work on Vedic military science being lost, the dissertations on the science found in the Mahabharata, the Agni Purana, Akasha Bhairava Tantra, Kautilya Arthashastra, Manusmriti, Matsya Purana, Mahabharata, Manasollasa, Yukti Kalpa Taru, Vishnudharmottara Purana, Veeramitrodaya, Samarangana Sootradhara, Shukraneeti, and other small...
- €24,36 EUR
- €24,36 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
SparklingThe first collection from popular Japanese illustrator Chika Takei. Takei's illustrations can be described as fancy, sparklingly cute, and adorably happy. Looking through this book, you'll see they're so much more than that. They are real, somewhat nostalgic, and completely original. This first collection...
- €70,47 EUR
- €70,47 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
A+u 19:02, 581: The Thinking Hand - Takenaka Corporation and Takenaka Carpentary Tools MuseumTraditional Japanese carpentry is known throughout the world for the skill of its craftsmen. a+u 19:02 explores architecture built using traditional Japanese tools and methods. Featuring the Takenaka Carpentry Tools Museum, which exhibits the history, tools, and techniques of the daiku (carpenters) throughout the...
- €116,29 EUR
- €116,29 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
Origami for Busy People: 27 Original On-The-Go Projects [Origami Book, 48 Papers, 27 Projects]Make quick and easy origami projects with this origami book with tear-out folding paper. Origami for Busy People is the first origami book for people who love to fold paper for fun and relaxation but have trouble finding the time in their busy day...
- €23,88 EUR
- €23,88 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
Ja 113 Spring, 2019: Reprint Edition Expo '70Expo '70 in Osaka was conceived in the late 1960s when the world was facing changing values in the midst of social and cultural turbulence. JA 113 is a reprint of selected articles originally published in the May 1970 issue of Shinkenchiku and May/June...
- €88,80 EUR
- €88,80 EUR
- Unit price
- per