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Art in California by Jenni Sorkin
RRP: £14.99£9.26An introduction to the rich and diverse art of California, this book highlights its distinctive role in the history of American art, from early-20th-century photography to Chicanx mural painting, the Fiber Art Movement and beyond. Shaped by a compelling... -
There's No Such Thing as Elves (PB) by Katy Halford 9780702302251
RRP: £6.99£5.21Ho, ho ho! Can YOU find the elves in this festively fun Christmas picture book? When a little boy is told there's no such thing as elves, he doesn't believe it for a second. Surely elves exist? After all, they're always in... -
Retro Watches: The Modern Collector's Guide by Josh Sims
£22.36Retro Watches is a popular, accessible collector's guide for those who want to make a statement with the watch they wear, but who want to choose a timepiece that is very different from the 'classic' and very mainstream watches by the major Swiss brands... -
Maps of the Disney Parks: Charting 60 Years from California to Shanghai by Vanessa Hunt
RRP: £37.99£28.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781484715475Author Vanessa HuntFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint HyperionPublisher HyperionWeight(grams) 1400g -
Woven Arch Bridge: Histories of Constructional Thoughts by Liu Yan 9780367624316
RRP: £39.99£38.54This book focuses on the woven arch bridge, an arch-shaped structure that is one of the most extraordinary timber building traditions of the world. The woven arch bridge exists widely in different cultures and its specific nature is conceptualized by the... -
Surreal Things by Ghislaine Wood 9781851775019
RRP: £24.99£20.92From the sensuality of Dali's Mae West Lips sofa to Schiaparelli's dramatic Tear dress, Surrealism produced some of the most extraordinary objects ever created. Now available in paperback, this book examines the movement's impact on the wider fields of... -
Into Every Generation a Slayer Is Born: How Buffy Staked Our Hearts by Evan Ross Katz 9780306826689
RRP: £22.00£17.89Over the course of its seven-year run, Buffy the Vampire Slayer cultivated a loyal fandom and featured a strong, complex female lead, at a time when such a character was a rarity. Evan Ross Katz explores the show's cultural relevance through a book that... -
Painting with Pastels: Easy Techniques to Master the Medium Maggie Price 9781581808193
RRP: £21.99£14.56Come enjoy the art of pastel painting with beloved workshop instructor Maggie Price. In this step-by-step guide, she teaches you everything you need to know to make the most of this accessible art form. From selecting the right materials to learning the... -
Why Art Cannot Be Taught: A Handbook for Art Students by James Elkins
RRP: £20.99£18.37In this smart survival guide for students and teachers--the only book of its kind--James Elkins examines the "curious endeavor to teach the unteachable" that is generally known as college-level art instruction. This singular project is organized around a... -
A Cabinet of Rarities: Antiquarian Obsessions and the Spell of Death by Erik Desmazieres 9780500516348
RRP: £35.00£22.83Erik Desmazieres is acknowledged as a contemporary master of the art of etching. With breathtaking virtuosity, he recreates interiors, cityscapes, landscapes and fantastical compositions from a Piranesian world. Any new work Desmazieres produces is a... -
The Animal Within: Creatures in (and outside) the mumok Collection (Vienna) by Manuela Ammer
RRP: £35.00£23.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783753303239Author Manuela AmmerFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig,GermanyPublisher Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther... -
A Victim of Anonymity: The Master of the Saint Bartholomew Altarpiece by Neil MacGregor
RRP: £8.95£5.85Are there miscarriages of justice in art history? Neil MacGregor believes there are. However great an artist, if his name is lost he will not receive a fair verdict from posterity. No exhibition will be devoted to his work; no books will be written... -
Groundswell: Women of Land Art by Leigh Arnold 9781636811109
RRP: £48.00£32.10A bold reappraisal of Land art through the pioneering work of 12 women sculptors Using materials such as earth, wind, water, fire, wood, salt, rocks, mirrors and explosives, American artists of the 1960s began to move beyond the white cube gallery... -
A Biographical Dictionary of English Architecture, 1540-1640 Mark Girouard 9781913107222
RRP: £40.00£33.59The first comprehensive dictionary of everyone of importance in the creation of English architecture during the Elizabethan and Jacobean ages This long-awaited work of scholarship provides a comprehensive dictionary of everyone of importance in the... -
Flight Out of Time: A Dada Diary by Hugo Ball
RRP: £27.00£21.06Hugo Ball--poet, philosopher, novelist, cabaret performer, journalist, mystic--was a man extremely sensitive to the currents of his time and carried in their wake. In February 1916 he founded the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich. The sound poems and... -
This Was Hollywood: Forgotten Stars and Stories by Carla Valderrama
RRP: £25.00£18.95In this one-of-a-kind Hollywood history, the creator of Instagram's celebrated @ThisWasHollywood reveals the forgotten past of the film world in a dazzling visual package modeled on the classic fan magazines of yesteryear.From former screen legends who... -
Mounton House: The Birth and Rebirth of an Edwardian Country Home by Helena Gerrish
RRP: £45.00£34.00The most ambitious project of Henry Avray Tipping, the influential architectural editor of Country Life, Mounton was a new country house and garden, designed without limitations of expense to be the perfect expression of his immense knowledge of history,... -
Life and Death Design: What Life-Saving Technology Can Teach Everyday UX Designers by Katie Swindler 9781933820842
RRP: £19.99£18.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933820842Author Katie SwindlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Rosenfeld MediaPublisher Rosenfeld Media -
Information Graphics by Sandra Rendgen
£46.49"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." -Albert Einstein Our everyday lives are filled with a massive flow of information that we must interpret in order to understand the world we live in. Considering the... -
Romeo and Juliet: Original Text by William Shakespeare 9781906332198
RRP: £11.99£8.96This is the full and unabridged play as a graphic novel! 'But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east and Juliet is the sun'! This title presents the tragic tale of doomed love, set in Verona, Italy, where the Montagues and the... -
Concrete Hong Kong: Build Your Own Modernist Metropolis by Zupagrafika 9788396326850
RRP: £29.99£19.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788396326850Author ZupagrafikaFormat HardbackPage Count 88Imprint ZupagrafikaPublisher Zupagrafika -
An Introduction to Nineteenth-Century Art Michelle Facos 9780415780728
RRP: £46.99£41.97Using the tools of the "new" art history (feminism, Marxism, social context, etc.) An Introduction to Nineteenth-Century Art offers a richly textured, yet clear and logical, introduction to nineteenth-century art and culture. This textbook will provide... -
Frank Lloyd Wright by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer 9783836555982
£72.33A building by Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) is at once unmistakably individual, and evocative of an entire era. Notable for their exceptional understanding of an organic environment, as well as for their use of steel and glass to revolutionize the... -
Acting and Performance for Animation by Derek Hayes
RRP: £42.99£37.38Unique, believable characters that think, feel, and captivate your audience are ones that involve emotion, personality, and story. Successful animators balance all of these elements within a single character and narrative. With Acting and Performance for... -
Beatrice von Bismarck - The Curatorial Condition by Beatrice von Bismarck
£21.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783956795343Author Beatrice Von BismarckFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Sternberg PressPublisher Sternberg PressWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 232mm... -
The Making of the Anglo-Irish Agreement of 1985: A Memoir by David Goodall by Frank Sheridan 9780901510877
£18.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780901510877Author Frank SheridanFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint National University of IrelandPublisher National University of IrelandWeight(grams)... -
Kristy's Winter Cutting Garden: A Watercoloring Book by Kristy Rice 9780764353802
RRP: £18.99£12.56The fourth in a series of seasonal watercoloring books based on artist Kristy Rice's cutting gardens, this book celebrates winter's blossoms such as amaryllis, hollyberry, hellebores, and snowdrops. Her easy-to-learn, joy-driven approach includes simple... -
Designers and Jewellery 1850-1940: Jewellery and Metalwork from the Fitzwilliam Museum by Helen Ritchie
RRP: £20.00£15.72A glittering display of the Fitzwilliam Museum's finest pieces of jewellery and metalwork. The Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge, holds stunning examples of jewellery and metalwork from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This... -
The Designs of Archibald Knox for Liberty & Co. by Adrian J. Tilbrook 9780903685375
RRP: £18.50£16.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780903685375Author Adrian J. TilbrookFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Richard DennisPublisher Richard DennisWeight(grams) 662gDimensions(mm) 216mm *... -
Atmospheric Architectures by Professor Gernot Boehme 9781350141827
£31.23There is fast-growing awareness of the role atmospheres play in architecture. Of equal interest to contemporary architectural practice as it is to aesthetic theory, this 'atmospheric turn' owes much to the work of the German philosopher Gernot Boehme. ... -
The Dynamic Landscape: Design, Ecology and Management of Naturalistic Urban Planting by Nigel Dunnett 9780415438100
RRP: £47.99£42.21The last quarter of the twentieth century witnessed a burgeoning interest in ecological or naturally inspired use of vegetation in the designed landscape. More recently a strong aesthetic element has been added to what was formerly a movement aimed at... -
Nay Rather: The Cahier Series 21 by Anne Carson 9781909631038
RRP: £14.00£9.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909631038Author Anne CarsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Sylph EditionsPublisher Sylph Editions -
Seven Keys to Modern Art by Simon Morley
RRP: £19.95£14.65As artists push further and further beyond their, and our, comfort zones, this book aims to help decipher the bizarre and often intimidating aspects of modern and contemporary art by exploring twenty works of art in terms of seven 'keys'. History,... -
A Companion to Renaissance and Baroque Art Babette Bohn (Texas Christian University, USA) 9781444337266
RRP: £48.95£43.63A Companion to Renaissance and Baroque Art provides a diverse, fresh collection of accessible, comprehensive essays addressing key issues for European art produced between 1300 and 1700, a period that might be termed the beginning of modern history... -
Beyond Klimt: New Horizons in Central Europe Stella Rollig 9783777430591
RRP: £39.95£27.031918 marked the end of a golden era: it was the year that Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Koloman Moser, and Otto Wagner died. Artistic activity, however, had already freed itself of their influence. Hardly affected by the political disruptions taking... -
Raphael by Paul Joannides
RRP: £16.99£11.94An authoritative introduction to one of the most influential painters in the history of art, written by the pre-eminent authority on the subject and informed by the latest research. More versatile and less idiosyncratic than Michelangelo, more... -
The Japanese Teahouse Wolfgang Fehrer 9783721209976
RRP: £49.95£33.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783721209976Author Wolfgang FehrerFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint Niggli VerlagPublisher Niggli VerlagWeight(grams) 1510g -
How to Draw Clothing for Manga: Learn to Draw Amazing Outfits and Creative Costumes for Manga and Anime - 35+ Outfits Side by Side with Modeled Photos by Naoto Date
RRP: £18.99£12.75Take your manga drawings to the next level with amazing outfits and creative costumes. It just takes two details-wrinkles and shadows.In How to Draw Clothing for Manga, you'll discover how adding a tuck here, a gather there, and hiding some areas in... -
Delicious Metropolis: The Desserts and Urban Scenes of Wayne Thiebaud by Wayne Thiebaud
RRP: £21.99£15.60Delicious Metropolis brings together two of Wayne Thiebaud's most celebrated bodies of work: desserts and cityscapes. Between the two, fascinating juxtapositions develop. The layers of a Neapolitan cake echo the shadows cast across a street in the late... -
Arts and Crafts Architecture - History and Heritage in New England by Maureen Meister
RRP: £28.00£23.67This book offers the first full-scale examination of the architecture associated with the Arts and Crafts movement that spread throughout New England at the turn of the twentieth century. Although interest in the Arts and Crafts movement has grown since...