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The Welsh Gold King: The Life of William Pritchard Morgan by Shopland, Norena 9781399090605
RRP: £25.00£17.62In 1864, a poor Welsh boy, William Pritchard Morgan, emigrated to Australia to make his fortune. He returned a wealthy lawyer and aspiring politician, having used his riches to invest in gold mines and develop new techniques of recovering gold. His... -
When Color Is the Subject: Pastels Are Bold by Alexia Scott Mfa 9780991554744
RRP: £12.50£9.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991554744Author Alexia Scott MfaFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Alexia ScottPublisher Alexia ScottWeight(grams) 104gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
Art, Perception, and Reality E. H. Gombrich 9780801815522
RRP: £25.50£24.39"Three informed opinions on the classical question of representation...Provocative."--'Art Journal.' 'Softshell Books.'About the AuthorE. H. Gombrich is director emeritus of the Warburg Institute at the University of London. Julian Hochberg is professor... -
Tropical Aesthetics of Black Modernism by Samantha A. Noel
RRP: £21.99£19.19In Tropical Aesthetics of Black Modernism, Samantha A. Noel investigates how Black Caribbean and American artists of the early twentieth century responded to and challenged colonial and other white-dominant regimes through tropicalist representation... -
Reza Abdoh Charlie Fox 9783775745529
RRP: £45.00£31.65Over a brief, twelve-year career, the Iranian director and playwright Reza Abdoh broke all of the conventions of American theater, pushing actors and audiences past their limits to create hallucinatory, at times nightmarish, dreamscapes shot through with... -
Maiolica in Italy and Beyond: Papers of a symposium held at Oxford in celebration of Timothy Wilson's Catalogue of Maiolica in the Ashmolean Museum by J.V.G. Mallett
RRP: £40.00£27.75This book is an edited record of the papers given at the two-day symposium 'Italian Maiolica and Europe' held in Oxford on 22 and 23 September 2017. It is, in effect, a celebration of his long service in the Ashmolean Museum as the Keeper of Western Art... -
Luxus Kenneth Lapatin 9781606064221
RRP: £65.00£56.15This elegantly produced book brings the luxury arts of antiquity back into brilliant life. In contrast to other histories of ancient art that typically privilege well-preserved works of ceramics or stone, Luxus offers an integrated contextual analysis of... -
Six Stories from the End of Representation: Images in Painting, Photography, Astronomy, Microscopy, Particle Physics, and Quantum Mechanics, 1980-2000 by James Elkins 9780804741484
RRP: £29.99£26.90James Elkins has shaped the discussion about how we-as artists, as art historians, or as outsiders-view art. He has not only revolutionized our thinking about the purpose of teaching art, but has also blazed trails in creating a means of communication... -
Design Genius: The Ways and Workings of Creative Thinkers by Gavin Ambrose
£38.67Design Genius celebrates the creative thought processes of 69 leading artists, designers, creative agencies, animators, illustrators and typographers. While highlighting key design techniques and theories, the rich visuals presented in this book aim to... -
Listening to What you See: Selected Contributions on Dutch Art by Peter Hecht 9781915401083
RRP: £35.00£33.09This volume brings together over 25 scholarly essays, reviews and shorter contributions by Peter Hecht, preceded by an introduction on what he thinks his life in art history has taught him. The title indicates what his collected papers have in common:... -
Ellsworth Kelly: Color Panels for a Large Wall by Ellsworth Kelly
RRP: £40.00£27.33In the late 1970s Ellsworth Kelly (1923-2015) was commissioned by architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill to create an artwork for the lobby of a new office building underway in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio. Kelly responded with one of his most... -
Fiona Mcintyre: A Tree Within by Fiona McIntyre 9781908326898
RRP: £25.00£17.13monograph of artist Fiona McIntyreBook InformationISBN 9781908326898Author Fiona McIntyreFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Sansom & CoPublisher Sansom & CoDimensions(mm) 265mm * 230mm * 10mm -
The Spirit of Painting: Cai Guo-Qiang at the Prado Miguel Zugaza 9788484804031
RRP: £40.00£27.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788484804031Author Miguel ZugazaFormat HardbackImprint Museo Nacional del PradoPublisher Museo Nacional del PradoWeight(grams) 1620g -
500 Acrylic Mixes by Sharon Finmark
RRP: £9.99£7.00Colour is fundamental to painting and the ability to mix and reproduce specific hues is an art in itself. Colour theory can be dull and complicated, but in this book, experienced artist and teacher, Sharon Finmark, demonstrates colour mixing in a... -
Tantra: Tantric, Jain and Cosmic Art from India by Jan van Alphen 9780956682406
RRP: £17.50£12.62This beautifully illustrated book accompanies an exquisite exhibition of 70 tantric, Jain and related objects, paintings, manuscripts and drawings. In as far as the Indian term 'tantrism' is known in the West, it is generally linked with mystery and... -
Gauguin's Challenge: New Perspectives After Postmodernism by Norma Broude
£33.77Several decades have now passed since postcolonial and feminist critiques presented the art-historical world with a demythologized Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), a much-diminished image of the artist/hero who had once been universally admired as "the father... -
Inside Art Deco: A Pictorial Tour of Deco Interiors from their Origins to Today by Lucy D. Rosenfeld
RRP: £45.99£30.72Art Deco brings to mind a glamorous era of brilliant architecture, striking interior design, elegant furniture, and superb objets d'art. The term evokes an era of the 1920s and 1930s that prized elegant design elements combined with exotic materials,... -
Rubens' Antwerp: A Guide by Irene Smets 9789401453776
RRP: £15.00£9.80Rubens' Antwerp: A Guide highlights the life and work of Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) in a comprehensive and accessible way. The Antwerp museums and churches contain about a hundred paintings, drawings, designs and sketches by Rubens. A large part of... -
Sex Objects: Art And The Dialectics Of Desire by Jennifer Doyle
£21.48The declaration that a work of art is "about sex" is often announced to the public as a scandal after which there is nothing else to say about the work or the artist-controversy concludes a conversation when instead it should begin a new one. Moving... -
Ellsworth Kelly - Windows / Fenetres Serges Lasvignes 9782851173058
RRP: £32.00£20.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782851173058Author Serges LasvignesFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Cahiers d'artPublisher Cahiers d'artWeight(grams) 880g -
The Routledge Companion to Art in the Public Realm by Cameron Cartiere 9780367562465
RRP: £43.99£38.84This multidisciplinary companion offers a comprehensive overview of the global arena of public art.It is organised around four distinct topics: activation, social justice, memory and identity, and ecology, with a final chapter mapping significant works... -
Michelangelo Masterpieces of Art by Joseph Simas
£7.94Michelangelo was recognised as a great artist early in his long life. Along with a small number of contemporaries he was responsible for Renaissance Florence becoming the artistic fountainhead of western culture. This comprehensive new book offers a wide... -
Rachel Maclean: Wot u :-) About? by Bren O'Callaghan
£21.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993591211Author Bren O'CallaghanFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint HOME PublicationsPublisher HOME PublicationsWeight(grams) 680gDimensions(mm) 260mm... -
Icons and Power: The Mother of God in Byzantium by Bissera V. Pentcheva
RRP: £43.95£39.93The Virgin Mary embodied power rather than maternal tenderness in the Byzantine world. Known as the Mother of God, she became a guarantor of military victory and hence of imperial authority. In this pioneering book, Bissera Pentcheva connects the fusion... -
The Culture of Diagram by John Bender
RRP: £23.99£21.24The Culture of Diagram is about visual thinking. Exploring a terrain where words meet pictures and formulas meet figures, the book foregrounds diagrams as tools for blurring those boundaries to focus on the production of knowledge as process. It outlines... -
Joanna Drew: and the Art of Exhibitions Caroline Hancock 9788857239521
RRP: £35.00£22.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857239521Author Caroline HancockFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 720g -
Modern Scottish Painting by J. D. Fergusson 9781910021897
RRP: £30.00£21.18In 1939, Scottish artist and sculptor J.D. Fergusson was commissioned to write a fully illustrated book on modern Scottish painting. The Second World War made this difficult and the first edition of Modern Scottish Painting was published in 1943 without... -
Modern Indian Painting: Jane and Kito de Boer Collection by Rob Dean 9789385360589
RRP: £50.00£43.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789385360589Author Rob DeanFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint Mapin Publishing Pvt.LtdPublisher Mapin Publishing Pvt.Ltd -
Race-ing Art History: Critical Readings in Race and Art History Kymberly N. Pinder 9780415927611
RRP: £52.99£46.43Race-ing Art History is the first comprehensive anthology to place issues of racial representation squarely on the canvas. Art produced by non-Europeans has naturally been compared to Western art and its study, which refers to a binary way of viewing... -
The Grain of the Clay: Reflections on Ceramics and the Art of Collecting by Allen S. Weiss
RRP: £25.00£23.78People collect to connect with the past, personal and historic, to exercise some small and perfect degree of control over a carefully chosen portion of the world. The Grain of the Clay is Allen S. Weiss's engaging exploration of the meaning and practice... -
Pictures for Use and Pleasure: Vernacular Painting in High Qing China by James Cahill 9780520258570
RRP: £71.00£56.05In this groundbreaking book, James Cahill expands the field of Chinese pictorial art history, opening both scholarly studies and popular appreciation to vernacular paintings, 'pictures for use and pleasure'. These were works commissioned and appreciated... -
Ink Silk & Gold: Islamic Art from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston by Laura Weinstein 9780878468065
RRP: £29.95£20.85Ink, Silk, and Gold explores the dynamic and complex traditions of Islamic art through more than 115 major works in a dazzling array of media, reproduced in full color and exquisite detail - manuscripts inscribed with gold, paintings on silk, elaborate... -
Green Porno: A Book and Short Films by Isabella Rossellini by Isabella Rossellini 9780061791062
£17.60When Isabella Rossellini and The Sundance Channel set out to make a series of short films for the internet about the sex lives of animals, they had no idea what was in store. The overwhelming success of the shorts led Sundance to commission a second... -
Modern Japanese Art and the Meiji State - The Politics of Beauty . Sato 9781606060599
RRP: £65.00£54.75This is an insightful and intelligent re-thinking of Japanese art history & its Western influences. This broad-ranging and profoundly influential analysis describes how Western art institutions and vocabulary were transplanted to Japan in the late... -
Talking Art 2: Art Monthly Interviews with Artists Since 2007: 2 Patricia Bickers 9781909932425
RRP: £19.95£13.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909932425Author Patricia BickersFormat PaperbackPage Count 630Imprint RidinghousePublisher Ridinghouse -
The Carving of Mount Rushmore Rex Alan Smith 9781558596658
RRP: £17.99£12.54"I had seen the photographs and the drawings of this great work. And yet, until about ten minutes ago I had no conception of its magnitude, its permanent beauty and its importance." - Franklin Delano Roosevelt, upon first viewing Mount Rushmore, August... -
Animated Life: A Lifetime of tips, tricks, techniques and stories from an animation Legend Floyd Norman 9780240818054
RRP: £31.99£22.16Since Steamboat Mickey, animators have been creating characters and films that are charming, warm and humorous, allowing people to connect with the animated medium. Animation fans love the characters for a lifetime. This is the legacy of the countless... -
Accounts and Drawings from Underground: The East Rand Proprietary Mines Cash Book William Kentridge 9780857428523
RRP: £44.99£38.60In Accounts and Drawings from Underground, published in 2015, renowned artist William Kentridge and scholar Rosalind C. Morris brought us an unprecedented collaboration, taking pages of the 1906 Cash Book of the East Rand Proprietary Mines Corporation in... -
Splash 17 - The Best of Watercolor: Inspiring Subjects by Rachel Rubin Wolf
RRP: £31.99£21.61Readers discover new insights into the methods of top contemporary watercolor artists with each edition of Splash, now an annual competition with an accompanying book after more than 20 years as a series. Splash 17 will be loaded with more than 125... -
Contemporary Iranian Art: From the Street to the Studio by Talinn Grigor 9781780232706
RRP: £40.00£38.80The art world has recently witnessed a surge of interest in contemporary Iranian art, but what is the background to Iran's vibrant art scene? This is the first comprehensive book on Iranian art and visual culture since the 1979 revolution. Divided into...