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Matisse - Metamorphoses Kunsthaus Zurich 9783858818362
RRP: £45.00£30.25Henri Matisse (1869-1954) is adored worldwide as a revolutionary painter and loved for his collages, or papiers decoupes, the icons of his late work. His paintings and drawings for a long time overshadowed his achievements as a sculptor. Yet his Back... -
Wartime Kiss: Visions of the Moment in the 1940s by Alexander Nemerov 9780691145785
RRP: £28.00£21.80Wartime Kiss is a personal meditation on the haunting power of American photographs and films from World War II and the later 1940s. Starting with a stunning reinterpretation of one of the most famous photos of all time, Alfred Eisenstaedt's image of a... -
Cai Guo-Qiang: A Clan of Boats by Cai Guo-Qiang 9788791706004
RRP: £49.95£33.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788791706004Author Cai Guo-QiangFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Faurschou FoundationPublisher Faurschou FoundationWeight(grams) 975gDimensions(mm)... -
The Virilio Dictionary by John Armitage
RRP: £26.99£24.44This is the first dictionary dedicated to the pioneering work of French art and technology critic Paul Virilio. In Virilio's writings, meanings and interpretations are often difficult and ambiguous. This dictionary guides you through his concepts with... -
Art in Athens during the Peloponnesian War by Olga Palagia 9781107656543
RRP: £41.99£38.34This book examines the effects of the Peloponnesian War on the arts of Athens and the historical and artistic contexts in which this art was produced. During this period, battle scenes dominated much of the monumental art, while large numbers of... -
Ray LaMontagne by Ray Lamontagne
RRP: £11.99£8.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781480395992Author Ray LamontagnePage Count 55Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation -
Lorenzo Ghiberti: Volume I by Richard Krautheimer
RRP: £58.00£52.09Volume 1 of 2. Lorenzo Ghiberti, sculptor and towering figure of the Renaissance, was the creator of the celebrated Bronze Doors of the Baptistery at Florence, a work that occupied him for twenty years and became known (at Michelangelo's suggestion,... -
Thai Art: Currencies of the Contemporary by David Teh
RRP: £27.00£19.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262035958Author David TehFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 22mm -
ZERO Dirk Poerschmann 9783863356972
RRP: £49.95£34.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783863356972Author Dirk PoerschmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther KonigPublisher Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther... -
Mister Sam Shearon's Creepy Christmas by Sam Shearon
RRP: £11.95£10.02The happiest time of the year is also the creepiest.Winter has an even darker and richer lore than Halloween. For centuries, people have feared creatures from ancient legends born of this time of year. Tales such as giant hairy monsters who live in the... -
Ghada Amer Susan Thompson 9782370741493
RRP: £35.00£22.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782370741493Author Susan ThompsonFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Editions Skira ParisPublisher Editions Skira ParisWeight(grams) 1440g -
Visiting the Visitor: An Enquiry Into the Visitor Business in Museums by Ann Davis
RRP: £44.99£36.74The study of the museum visitor has undergone radical transformation. Each author here has asked unfamiliar questions and responded with fresh answers. Some of these questions involve the visitor's identity, what she brings to her museum experience. Can... -
Field Essays - "Eloj Kreyol" (Creole Praise) by Lucy Cotter 9789493148055
RRP: £20.00£12.86In this fourth edition of Field Essays we explore the specific decolonial and tactile research approach in the work of Paris-based design-duo dach&zephir. Convinced of the symbolic act of transmission and the gestures objects convey they zoom into the... -
Old Women and Art in the Early Modern Italian Domestic Interior Erin J. Campbell 9781138548176
RRP: £43.99£38.44Though portraits of old women mediate cultural preoccupations just as effectively as those of younger women, the scant published research on images of older women belies their significance within early modern Italy. This study examines the remarkable... -
A Step-by-step Course in Watercolour: A Practical Guide to Techniques, with Inspirational Projects for Landscapes, Fruits, Flowers and Still Lives, Shown in 175 Photographs by Angela Gair 9781844762323
£9.73This is a project-based book on the techniques of watercolour painting for the beginner. It includes 12 projects for you to try, such as flowers in a blue jar, tropical fruit, sunset over the lagoon, and a canal in Amsterdam. You can learn how to use all... -
Data Dating: Love, Technology, Desire by Anna Malinowska
RRP: £67.00£58.28What does it mean to love with technology? Does data improve our emotional interactions? The collection approaches the query with critical essays and works of new media art to look into the construction of love and its practices in the time of digitally... -
Hung Liu: Portraits of Promised Lands by Dorothy Moss
RRP: £42.50£35.61A major survey of contemporary artist Hung Liu, whose layered portraits explore history and memory through the stories of marginalized figuresHung Liu: Portraits of Promised Lands presents the stunning work of this contemporary Chinese American artist... -
Amber and the Ancient World - And Getty Apocalypse Manuscript . Causey 9781606060827
RRP: £21.99£18.55This title offers a fascinating look at the one of the ancient world's most prized substances. Amber has fascinated mankind since the Palaeolithic era. Through exquisite visual examples and vivid classical texts, this book examines the myths and legends... -
Rembrandt: The Painter at Work by Ernst van de Wetering 9780520258846
RRP: £49.95£39.04Rembrandt's intriguing painting technique stirred the imaginations of art lovers during his lifetime and has done so ever since. In this book, now revised, updated, and with a new foreword by the author, Rembrandt's pictorial intentions and the variety... -
No New Kind of Duck by Jan Verwoert 9783037349465
RRP: £22.50£18.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783037349465Author Jan VerwoertFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Diaphanes AGPublisher Diaphanes AGWeight(grams) 414gDimensions(mm) 196mm * 134mm * 28mm -
Expanded View by Damian Ortega 9788418934476
RRP: £37.00£25.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788418934476Author Damian OrtegaFormat HardbackPage Count 186Imprint La FabricaPublisher La Fabrica -
Genius, Power and Magic: A Cultural History of Germany from Goethe to Wagner by Roderick Cavaliero
£55.27Before unification, Germany was a loose collection of variously sovereign principalities, nurtured on deep thought, fine music and hard rye bread. It was known across Europe for the plentiful supply of consorts to be found among its abundant royalty, but... -
Seed Art: the Package Made Me Buy It by Irwin Richman
RRP: £27.99£18.02Artwork created to sell flower and vegetable seeds to the public is bright, eye-catching, and tempting. It reflects the fantasy that any novice gardener can grow beautiful plants just by buying the seeds. This is not a new phenomenon. Over 475 boldly... -
Lord Elgin and Ancient Greek Architecture: The Elgin Drawings at the British Museum by Luciana Gallo
RRP: £105.00£83.01This book analyses the rich and remarkable collection of archaeological drawings, now housed in The British Museum, drawn in Greece by a team of architects and artists in the service of Lord Elgin during his ambassadorial expedition to the Levant... -
International Realism: 13th International ARC Salon by Kara Lysandra Ross
RRP: £49.95£40.45With determination to restore the universal language of realism in the visual arts, a group of fine artists and experts banded together to celebrate and propagate Contemporary Realism. They founded the Art Renewal Center in 1999. Since their genesis,... -
Living While Black: Portraits of Everyday Resistance by Ajuan Mance
RRP: £17.99£12.64Laughing. Grieving. Being a kid. Even the purest expression of pleasure, the most human display of sorrow, or the simplest delight of childhood is an act of resistance if you happen to be Black. This immersive hardcover book features forty defiantly... -
Michael Rakowitz: Nimrud by Michael Rakowitz
RRP: £35.00£23.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781636810256Author Michael RakowitzFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Delmonico BooksPublisher Delmonico BooksWeight(grams) 254g -
Russian and Soviet Views of Modern Western Art, 1890s to Mid-1930s by Ilia Dorontchenkov 9780520253728
RRP: £30.00£23.69From the first Modernist exhibitions in the late 1890s to the Soviet rupture with the West in the mid-1930s, Russian artists and writers came into wide contact with modern European art and ideas. Introducing a wealth of little-known material set in an... -
Graffiti Murals: Exploring the Impacts of Street Art Patrick Verel 9780764348990
RRP: £27.99£18.88Six case studies, conducted in New York City, Trenton, and Jersey City, explore how graffiti murals are created and what role they play in cities where buffing illegal graffiti is a lucrative business. The author interviewed people affected on a daily... -
Dialectical Passions: Negation in Postwar Art Theory by Gail Day 9780231149389
RRP: £62.00£48.22Representing a new generation of theorists reaffirming the radical dimensions of art, Gail Day launches a bold critique of late twentieth-century art theory and its often reductive analysis of cultural objects. Exploring core debates in discourses on... -
Turner as Draughtsman Andrew Wilton 9780754600268
RRP: £91.99£79.80Turner as Draughtsman looks at the artist's practice of drawing in various media (pen, pencil and chalk as well as watercolour and oil paint), an aspect of Turner's work which has hitherto received very little attention. Andrew Wilton shows that, while... -
Marc Chagall on Art and Culture by Benjamin Harshav
RRP: £20.99£18.37Marc Chagall (1887-1985) traversed a long route from a boy in the Jewish Pale of Settlement, to a commissar of art in revolutionary Russia, to the position of a world-famous French artist. This book presents for the first time a comprehensive collection... -
Realism and Role-Play: The Human Figure in French Art from Callot to the Brothers Le Nain by Marika Knowles 9781644532058
RRP: £35.00£30.74After the heroic nudes of the Renaissance and depictions of the tortured bodies of Christian saints, early seventeenth-century French artists turned their attention to their fellow humans, to nobles and beggars seen on the streets of Paris, to courtesans... -
Ebbe Weiss-Weingart: 70 Years of Jewellery Christianne Weber-Stober 9783897905092
RRP: £49.00£31.73Ebbe Weiss-Weingart (b. 1923) is one of the pioneers of international studio jewellery. For over seventy years she has enriched the contemporary jewellery scene with her diverse works. Her inception in the 1950s and 1960s with structured surfaces and... -
Sound Writing: Experimental Modernism and the Poetics of Articulation Tobias Wilke 9780226817774
RRP: £28.00£27.39Considers the avant-garde rethinking of poetic language in terms of physical speech production. Avant-garde writers and artists of the twentieth century radically reconceived poetic language, appropriating scientific theories and techniques as they... -
Seurat Re-viewed by Paul Smith 9780271035451
RRP: £83.95£75.13Georges Seurat is best known as the painter of A Sunday on the Grande Jatte-1884, one of the most recognizable and reproduced works of art in the world. In recent years the painting has been the subject of a highly successful exhibition, the inspiration... -
Simone Carneiro: Wasteland by Roland Schoeny
RRP: £17.00£16.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783903172883Author Roland SchoenyFormat HardbackPage Count 165Imprint Schlebrugge.EditorPublisher Schlebrugge.Editor -
Pop Beckett: Intersections with Popular Culture by Paul Stewart
RRP: £41.00£35.35When Samuel Becketts work first appeared, it was routinely described, by Adorno amongst others, as a clear example of European high culture. However, this judgement ignored an aspect of Becketts work and its reception that is, arguably, not yet fully... -
Ancestors, Goddesses, and Heroes: Sculptures from Asia, Africa, and Europe by Stiftung Humboldt Forum
RRP: £19.00£17.35Protecting, healing, or punishing-people of various eras and origins have attributed such powers to the sculptures that are being presented together here for the first time: be it the sculpture of the Mangaaka from what is today the Republic of Congo,... -
new exhibition design 03 Uwe J. Reinhardt 9783899863208
RRP: £65.00£41.65The new volume in the successful series New Exhibition Design presents and documents in images, text and information the museum and its exhibitions - a fantastic success story. A broad overview of current concepts and trends in exhibition design and...