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Mati & the Music: 52 Record Covers 1955-2005 Mati Klarwein 9788492480197
RRP: £45.00£34.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788492480197Author Mati KlarweinFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint RmPublisher RmWeight(grams) 2087gDimensions(mm) 302mm * 302mm * 23mm -
The Comedy Carpet Blackpool: the Making of a World Class Monument to Comedy by Gordon Young 9781861543394
£27.77Laid out in front of Blackpool Tower in England's famous seaside resort, the Comedy Carpet is the largest work of public art in Europe. Thousands of jokes and quotations by more than 850 comedians and writers from the early days of variety to the present... -
Just Between Us: A Couple's Guided Journal for Building the Life You Want by Janine Wilburn
RRP: £10.99£8.94Share, reminisce, laugh, and dream together with this guided couple's journal to foster an enduring relationship filled with love, support, and joy.Created from scientific research in neuroplasticity and how people build resiliency, Just Between Us is... -
Raffaello Borghini's Il Riposo by Lloyd H. Ellis
RRP: £34.00£28.61Raffaello Borghini's Il Riposo (1584) is the most widely known Florentine document on the subject of the Counter-Reformation content of religious paintings. Despite its reputation as an art-historical text, this is the first English-language translation... -
The Painter Angelos and Icon-Painting in Venetian Crete Maria Vassilaki 9781138375222
RRP: £49.99£43.90The sixteen studies in this book include six specially translated from Greek and another two published here for the first time. They deal with the art of painting in Crete at a time when the island was under Venetian rule. The main emphasis is on the... -
Buffalo Heads: Media Study, Media Practice, Media Pioneers, 1973-1990 by Woody Vasulka 9780262720502
RRP: £55.00£43.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262720502Author Woody VasulkaFormat PaperbackPage Count 840Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 3515gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 53mm -
Buy This Book: Studies in Advertising and Consumption Mica Nava 9780415141321
RRP: £36.99£34.25Buy This Book is an important contribution to the history and understanding of consumption and advertising. This book brings together an outstanding collection of writing on the study of advertising, consumer practices and the future directions of... -
Beyond Boundaries - Connecting Visual Cultures in the Provinces of Ancient Rome Susan Alcock 9781606064719
RRP: £60.00£50.71The Roman Empire had a rich and multifaceted visual culture, which was often variegated due to the sprawling geography of its provinces. In this remarkable work of scholarship, a group of international scholars has come together to find alternative ways... -
The Block Reader in Visual Culture by George Robertson 9780415139892
RRP: £36.99£34.25Block was a hugely influential journal in the developing fields of Visual and Cultural Studies. The journal's editors and contributors sought to further the critical tradition in art history, respond to the work of contemporary artists, and bring the... -
The Language of Color in the First Goetheanum: A Study of Rudolf Steiner's Art by Hilde Raske 9781855846609
RRP: £35.00£28.82Rudolf Steiner's architectural masterpiece, the double-domed building known as the first Goetheanum, featured decorated ceilings that were designed and partly painted by Steiner himself, utilizing vegetable colors and a new layering technique. Steiner... -
Polynesian Tattoos: 42 Modern Tribal Designs to Color and Explore by Roberto Gemori 9781611806304
RRP: £17.99£12.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611806304Author Roberto GemoriFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc -
Trashures: The Beauty of Useless Stuff by Tineke Meirink
RRP: £14.99£12.13Have you seen the Waste Land documentary? It's about the largest landfill in the world in Brazil where people make a living out of garbage in the dump. Until artist Vik Muniz comes and Art is born out of rubbish materials and ends up in Phillips, an... -
This Meager Nature: Landscape and National Identity in Imperial Russia by Christopher Ely 9780875803036
RRP: £42.00£37.05Boundless Russia, humble yet full of hidden grandeur-such visions of "the motherland" became crucial markers of Russian national identity. This Meager Nature is the first full-length study to trace the cultural construction of Russia's landscape during... -
White Trash: Race and Class in America Annalee Newitz 9780415916929
RRP: £38.99£35.58This collection is devoted to exploring stereotypes about the social conditions of poor whites in the United States and comparing these stereotypes with the social reality.About the AuthorMatt Wray, Annalee NewitzReviews"[T]he essays in Matt Wray and... -
Museum Educator's Handbook Graeme K. Talboys 9780815346852
RRP: £36.99£32.53Described by GEM* as 'a very informative and practical book ... worth having on any museum shelf', the Museum Educator's Handbook is a thorough and practical guide to setting up and running education services in all types of museum, even the smallest, in... -
Joe Brainard - The Nancy Book by Joe Brainard 9780979956201
RRP: £35.00£24.50Fifteen years of Joe Brainard's illustrated appropriation of classic comic strip character, Nancy From 1963 to 1978, Joe Brainard created more than 100 artworks that appropriated the classic comic strip character Nancy and sent her into a variety of... -
Contemporary Artists Working Outside the City: Creative Retreat by Sarah Lowndes
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book reflects on the motivations of creative practitioners who have moved out of cities from the mid-1960s onwards to establish creative homesteads. The book focuses on desert exile painter Agnes Martin, radical filmmaker and gardener Derek Jarman,... -
Korean Cinema in Global Contexts: Post-Colonial Phantom, Blockbuster and Trans-Cinema Soyoung Kim 9789463729147
£110.30Offering the most comprehensive analysis of Korean cinema from its early history to the present, and including the films of Park Chan-wook, Bong Joon-ho and Kim Ki-young, Korean Cinema in Global Contexts: Postcolonial Phantom, Blockbuster and... -
From Monet to Cezanne: Late 19th Century French Artists by Jane Turner 9780195169034
RRP: £44.99£34.37The late 19th century in France represents an extraordinary period of artistic achievement in the history of Western art. The successive artistic revolutions of Realism, Impressionism, and Post-Impressionism are here charted through more than 300... -
Albert Oelhen: Cows By the Water by Caroline Bourgeois 9788831729031
RRP: £53.00£35.33Albert Oehlen has established himself as one of the leading figures in contemporary painting thanks to a continually evolving practice that focuses more on overcoming formal limitations and on experimentation than on the subject of the work. Music has... -
Mondrian and Cubism: Paris, 1912-1914 Hans Janssen 9781909932142
RRP: £22.95£15.54Originally published in Dutch to accompany a 2014 exhibition at the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag (now Kunstmuseum Den Haag), this important survey of a pivotal period in the life of Piet Mondrian is now available in English. Drawn to the Cubist work of... -
Dialogues Between Artistic Research and Science and Technology Studies Henk Borgdorff (Leiden University/Royal Conservatory) 9781032465661
RRP: £36.99£32.53This edited volume maps dialogues between science and technology studies research on the arts and the emerging field of artistic research. The main themes in the book are an advanced understanding of discursivity and reasoning in arts-based research, the... -
Water, Islam and Art: Drop by Drop Life Falls from the Sky Alessandro Vanoli 9788836643479
RRP: £29.95£20.38Water belongs to our most profound dreams: it evokes motherhood, cleanliness, purity, sensuality, and death. Naturally, this is true for every civilisation, but in Islam this series of ideas found its most profound meaning, turning water into one of the... -
The Late Works of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Jens Ferdinand Willumsen: Staging Nature and Life by Anders Ehlers Dam
RRP: £44.00£29.63An exceptional talent, master of Expressionist art, co-founder of Die Brucke group. Where Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's work is concerned, superlatives are basic. It is all the more surprising, therefore, that there has been little critical appraisal of one of... -
More Art in the Public Eye by Micaela Martegani
RRP: £27.99£24.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733099301Author Micaela MarteganiFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint More Art PressPublisher More Art PressWeight(grams) 726g -
Can Art Aid in Resolving Conflicts?: 100 Perspectives Noam Lemelshtrich Latar 9789492311320
RRP: £30.00£21.00Throughout t he centuries, art has documented the atrocities of wars, participated in propaganda campaigns, and served as an advocate for peace and social justice around the world. The aim of this project is to explore how art can assist in creating... -
Johann Gottfried Schadow: Embracing Forms Yvette Deseyve 9783777440873
RRP: £55.00£35.45Johann Gottfried Schadow's Princess group has gone down in the annals of art history. As the first statue of two female historical personalities it testifies to the innovation, enormous artistry and productivity of sculpture workshops in the 19th century... -
Situation Aesthetics: The Work of Michael Asher by Kirsi Peltomaki
RRP: £23.00£22.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262526081Author Kirsi PeltomakiFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 535gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 11mm -
Transformations by Alex Gross 9783943330427
RRP: £22.99£15.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783943330427Author Alex GrossFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Gingko PressPublisher Gingko Press -
A Fiber Artist's Guide to Color & Design by Heather Thomas
RRP: £18.99£16.46A comprehensive guide to everything colorful, A Fiber Artist's Guide to Color & Design is a must-have for artists, quilters, students, and anyone fascinated by the languages of color and design. With over 200 pages filled with detailed explanations,... -
Wax Crayons by M.A. Comella 9780713644128
RRP: £7.99£6.25Part of a series containing simple ideas for painting and drawing techniques that use cheap and readily available materials, this book looks at wax crayons. It examines the different techniques, including scraping through layers of wax crayon, warming or... -
Art In Book Form by sendpoints
RRP: £34.95£23.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789887849421Author sendpointsFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint SendPoints Publishing Co., LtdPublisher SendPoints Publishing Co., Ltd -
The Renaissance in Italian Museums by Claudio Strinati 9788895847399
£51.50Masterpieces of the Italian Renaissance are in churches and museums throughout Italy. This book follows Leonado da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo and others from place to place - Milan, Florence, the Vatican, Urbino and elsewhere - noting the great works... -
Sargent Claude Johnson by Dennis Carr 9780300271997
RRP: £30.00£29.25A rich reappraisal of a key Black American modernist through a lens of cross-cultural engagement Sargent Claude Johnson (1888-1967) was the first Black modernist on the West Coast to gain national acclaim. His artistic practice, forged in California,... -
Fruit: Selections from the USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection Abbeville Press 9780789214270
RRP: £9.99£6.80Between 1886 and 1942, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Pomology Division - pomology being the study of fruit growing - commissioned an illustrated register of fruits. These watercolour illustrations were invaluable to growers, who used them as... -
The Animal Surreal: The Role of Darwin, Animals, and Evolution in Surrealism by Kirsten Strom
RRP: £45.99£40.13The Animal Surreal situates Surrealism within the burgeoning field of Animal Studies by examining Surrealist representations of nonhuman animals through the lens of Darwinian theory. Unlike Marx and Freud, Darwin was rarely cited by name as a source for... -
Ground: A Reprise of Photographs from the Farm Security Administration by Bill McDowell 9781942084129
RRP: £35.99£34.70In Ground, Bill McDowell has assembled a series of "killed" negatives from the FSA archives, many of which have never before been published. These include several photographs from 1936 that Walker Evans had made for Let Us Know Praise Famous Men, the... -
Modern Art and the Life of a Culture: The Religious Impulses of Modernism by Jonathan A. Anderson 9780830851355
RRP: £31.99£24.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830851355Author Jonathan A. AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint Inter-Varsity Press,USPublisher InterVarsity PressWeight(grams)... -
Part Object Part Sculpture by Helen Molesworth 9780271028552
RRP: £37.95£35.38How did you get the concept for Part Object Part Sculpture? I remain fascinated by the tricky nature of Duchamp's readymades-objects transformed into art, but not quite. They always retain their original identity or function. This is why many people... -
Mashup: The Birth of Modern Culture by Vancouver Art Gallery
RRP: £39.95£35.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910433393Author Vancouver Art GalleryFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Black Dog Publishing LtdPublisher Black Dog Press