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The Secret Lives of Color by Kassia St. Clair 9780143131144
RRP: $29.67$18.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143131144Author Kassia St. ClairFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 624gDimensions(mm) 222mm *... -
Dying Of Thirst by Gary Baseman
RRP: $32.19$22.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780867196924Author Gary BasemanFormat HardbackPage Count 48Imprint Last Gasp,U.S.Publisher Last Gasp,U.S.Weight(grams) 804g -
Designing Sound for Animation by Robin Beauchamp
RRP: $55.46$48.22Sound is just as crucial an aspect to your animation as your visuals. Whether you're looking to create a score, ambient noise, dialog, or a complete soundtrack, you'll need sound for your piece. This nuts-and-bolts guide to sound design for animation... -
Behind Communism by Frank L Britton 9781930004863
RRP: $19.29$11.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781930004863Author Frank L BrittonFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint Rivercrest PublishingPublisher Rivercrest PublishingWeight(grams) 168gDimensions(mm)... -
Marketing Maximilian: The Visual Ideology of a Holy Roman Emperor by Larry Silver
RRP: $96.75$76.23Long before the photo op, political rulers were manipulating visual imagery to cultivate their authority and spread their ideology. Born just decades after Gutenberg, the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I (1459-1519) was, Larry Silver argues, the first... -
Art's Properties by David Joselit 9780691236049
RRP: $28.38$20.95A revisionist reading of modern art that examines how artworks are captured as property to legitimize powerIn this provocative new account, David Joselit shows how art from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries began to function as a commodity,... -
Marion Von Osten: Once We Were Artists: A Bak Critical Reader in Artists' Practice by Tom Holert 9789492095145
RRP: $30.96$29.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789492095145Author Tom HolertFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint ValizPublisher ValizWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 165mm * 117mm * 30mm -
REBECCA WARREN:: ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS by ANNE, LAURA, REBECCA BARLOW, SMITH, WARREN
RRP: $25.80$17.42A significant British artist, Warren's exuberant, roughly-worked sculptures and neon vitrines engage with the canon of art history. Warren first came to prominence in the 1990s and exhibits widely in Europe and the United States. This new exhibition will... -
Women, Environment, and Networks of Empire: Elizabeth Gwillim and Mary Symonds in Madras by Anna Winterbottom 9780228018865
RRP: $79.98$69.09Elizabeth Gwillim (1763-1807) and her sister Mary Symonds (1772-1854) produced over two hundred watercolours depicting birds, fish, flowers, people, and landscapes around Madras (now Chennai). The sisters' detailed letters fill four large volumes in the... -
Cross and Culture in Anglo-Norman England - Theology, Imagery, Devotion by John Munns
RRP: $122.55$118.27An examination of the passion and crucifixion of Christ as depicted in the visual and religious culture of Anglo-Norman England. The twelfth century has long been recognised as a period of unusual vibrancy and importance, witnessing seminal changes in... -
Physics in the Arts by Pupa U.P.A. Gilbert
RRP: $59.28$57.13Physics in the Arts, Third Edition gives science enthusiasts and liberal arts students an engaging, accessible exploration of physical phenomena, particularly with regard to sound and light. This book offers an alternative route to science literacy for... -
Making It: The Artist's Survival Guide by Jasa
RRP: $18.05$13.98What Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential did for the world of chefs and restaurants, Making It does for the art world.Making It is a gonzo memoir of an established artist crossed with objective advice, tips and tricks fleshed out by a best-selling... -
Marshall Plan Modernism: Italian Postwar Abstraction and the Beginnings of Autonomia by Jaleh Mansoor
RRP: $28.37$24.76Focusing on artwork by Lucio Fontana, Alberto Burri, and Piero Manzoni, Jaleh Mansoor demonstrates and reveals how abstract painting, especially the monochrome, broke with fascist-associated futurism and functioned as an index of social transition in... -
Postcards on Parchment: The Social Lives of Medieval Books by Kathryn M. Rudy
RRP: $83.85$71.40Medieval prayer books held not only the devotions and meditations of Christianity, but also housed, slipped between pages, sundry notes, reminders, and ephemera, such as pilgrims' badges, sworn oaths, and small painted images. Many of these last items... -
Watercolour Secrets by Jill Leman
RRP: $38.69$29.45A beautiful survey of the work of the members of the internationally respected Royal Watercolour Society, representing the finest contemporary watercolour painting in Britain today. This stunning book showcases the work of the members of the... -
Charles Rennie Mackintosh: Architect, Artist, Icon by John McKean
RRP: $20.63$17.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781842048597Author John McKeanFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Lomond BooksPublisher Lomond Books -
Still Standing: Antony Gormley at the Hermitage Margaret Iversen 9781906257095
RRP: $32.19$21.61The book is made up of 10 classical sculptures from the Hermitage Museum (mostly Roman and one or two Greek), removed from their plinths and repositioned to share a raised floor with the viewer; and 17 highly abstracted body-forms by Antony Gormley. The... -
Taking the Train: How Graffiti Art Became an Urban Crisis in New York City by Joe Austin 9780231111430
RRP: $45.15$35.78In the 1960s and early 1970s, young people in New York City radically altered the tradition of writing their initials on neighborhood walls. Influenced by the widespread use of famous names on billboards, in neon, in magazines, newspapers, and... -
Consuming Stories: Kara Walker and the Imagining of American Race by Rebecca Peabody
RRP: $38.70$30.04In Consuming Stories, Rebecca Peabody uses the work of contemporary American artist Kara Walker to investigate a range of popular storytelling traditions with roots in the nineteenth century and ramifications in the present. Focusing on a few key pieces... -
The Great Image Has No Form, or on the Nonobject Through Painting by Francois Jullien 9780226415307
RRP: $103.20$98.83In premodern China, elite painters used imagery not to mirror the world around them, but to evoke unfathomable experience. Considering their art alongside the philosophical traditions that inform it, "The Great Image Has No Form" explores the 'nonobject'... -
Constructing Masculinity Maurice Berger 9780415910538
RRP: $58.04$52.57This anthology takes us beyond the status of masculinity itself, questioning society's and the media's normative concepts of the masculine, and considering the extent to which men and women can transcend these stereotypes and prescriptions.About the... -
Venice, the Jews and Europe: 1516-2016 by Donatella Calabi 9788831724944
RRP: $96.75$67.03The history of the Venice Ghetto, how it developed, its architecture, the concrete life of its inhabitants and their relations with the whole city form the subject of this book. A reconstruction of the Ghetto in its various historical phases makes it... -
The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art by MS Don Thompson 9780230620599
RRP: $25.80$15.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780230620599Author MS Don ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint MacmillanPublisher Pan MacmillanWeight(grams) 313gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 167mm * 19mm -
John Grade: Reclaimed Julie Decker 9783777430775
RRP: $64.44$44.80John Grade's drawings, sculptures and installations are weathered, marked, worn and disintegrated. Made of reclaimed wood or paper, the works are buried for termites to devour, sunk into a bay to collect barnacles, or hung in forest trees for birds... -
Paola Pivi by Paola Pivi
RRP: $129.00$94.94The first complete survey of the work of the much-loved and collected contemporary Italian multimedia artist Paola Pivi - with more than 250 images, including previously unpublished work. Published in association with Anchorage Museum, Alaska; The Andy... -
Gerhard Richter: Volume 8 by Benjamin H. D. Buchloh
$34.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262513128Author Benjamin H. D. BuchlohFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Marylin Minter: All Wet by Marylin Minter 9782365680424
RRP: $32.25$20.43American artist Marilyn Minter (born 1948) has long cultivated a space between the classical and the commercial for her photorealistic paintings and visceral photographs. Minter's art is characterized by an emphasis on natural textures in all of their... -
Michelle Stuart: Drawn from Nature Alicia G. Longwell 9783775735490
RRP: $45.15$30.22American artist Michelle Stuart (*1938 in California) is internationally known for a rich and diverse body of work stemming from her lifelong interest in the natural world and the cosmos. Working in drawing, sculpture, photography, video, installation... -
National Gallery Technical Bulletin: Volume 41 Paul Ackroyd 9781857096705
RRP: $51.60$49.73The latest in this annual bulletin based on research carried out at the National Gallery, London, draws on the combined expertise of scientists, conservators, and curators, bringing together a wealth of information about artists' materials, practices,... -
Czech Secession: Art and Architecture 1890-1914 Petr Wittlich 9788024651330
RRP: $61.92$59.33A lavishly illustrated exploration of forward-looking Czech art around the turn of the twentieth century. Though it's less widely heralded than Berlin and Vienna, 1890s Prague was every bit as much a fin-de-siecle cultural center as its Mittel European... -
Joan Jonas Haus der Kunst 9783777429793
RRP: $38.64$25.52Joan Jonas (b. 1936, New York) is one of the most highly regarded and influential artists working today. This book focuses on her new exhibition, film screenings and performances at Tate Modern and Haus der Kunst, and includes several interviews with the... -
Form and Surface: African Ceramics from the William M. Itter Collection by Allison J. Martino 9781785512094
RRP: $51.54$37.51This richly illustrated volume highlights one of the most significant collections of African ceramics in the United States, distinguished for its breadth and representation of women’s excellence in ceramics. Collected by William M. Itter, Professor... -
Mounting Frustration: The Art Museum in the Age of Black Power by Susan E. Cahan 9780822371458
RRP: $30.95$27.40Prior to 1967 fewer than a dozen museum exhibitions had featured the work of African American artists. And by the time the civil rights movement reached the American art museum, it had already crested: the first public demonstrations to integrate museums... -
Terracene: A Crude Aesthetics by Salar Mameni 9781478025061
RRP: $27.08$23.70In Terracene Salar Mameni historicizes the popularization of the scientific notion of the Anthropocene alongside the emergence of the global war on terror. Mameni theorizes the Terracene as an epoch marked by a convergence of racialized militarism and... -
Anglo-American: Artistic Exchange between Britain and the USA David Peters Corbett (University of East Anglia, UK) 9781444351439
RRP: $30.96$27.61For the first time, a set of distinguished American and British art historians consider the complex history of Anglo-American relations from the colonial period through to the 1960s Features a transatlantic group of scholars considering the impact of... -
Walk on the Wild Side: At the heart of the Carmignac Collection Nicolas Bourriaud 9782370740410
RRP: $70.95$47.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782370740410Author Nicolas BourriaudFormat HardbackPage Count 284Imprint Editions Skira ParisPublisher Editions Skira ParisWeight(grams) 1810g -
The Archaeology of Seeing: Science and Interpretation, the Past and Contemporary Visual Art by Liliana Janik
RRP: $49.01$43.06The Archaeology of Seeing provides readers with a new and provocative understanding of material culture through exploring visual narratives captured in cave and rock art, sculpture, paintings, and more. The engaging argument draws on current thinking in... -
Body Stages: The Metamorphosis of Loie Fuller Giovanni Lista 9788857220291
RRP: $36.12$23.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857220291Author Giovanni ListaFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 680g -
Two by Two: Tango, Two-Step, and the L.A. Night by Eve Babitz
$13.07Two by Two is a fast-paced swirl through the dancing scene in L.A., where Leonardo DiCaprio has been known to swing at The Derby and Sandra Bullock salsas at El Floridita. Eve Babitz, a writer known for her hip, off-the-cuff, idiosyncratic style, spends... -
Houdini On the Spot: Time-Saving Tips and Shortcuts from the Pros Craig Zerouni 9780240808628
RRP: $38.69$32.55Packed with more than 350 techniques, this book delivers what you need to know-on the spot. Its concise presentation of professional techniques is suited to experienced artists whether you are:* Migrating from another visual effects application*...