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Making Art in Terrible Times by Ben Davis
RRP: £14.99£9.88"This kaleidoscopic collection will help you see and comprehend the world anew-which is, in my book, what good art should do." -Astra Taylor It is a scary and disorienting time for art, as it is a scary and disorienting time in general. Aesthetic... -
National Treasures: Saving The Nation's Art in World War II by Caroline Shenton 9781529387438
RRP: £16.99£12.28LONGLISTED FOR THE HISTORICAL WRITERS' ASSOCIATION NON-FICTION CROWN 2022'Vigorously researched and highly entertaining' - Daily Telegraph'Geeks triumph over the forces of darkness: nothing could have given me greater pleasure. Combining an exciting... -
140 Artists' Ideas for Planet Earth by Hans Ulrich Obrist
RRP: £9.99£7.11Through 140 drawings, thought experiments, recipes, activist instructions, gardening ideas, insurgences and personal revolutions, artists who spend their lives thinking outside the box guide you to a new worldview; where you and the planet are one... -
Kurt Jackson's Botanical Landscape by Kurt Jackson
RRP: £39.99£31.33Kurt Jackson's Botanical Landscape is a new collection of poems, paintings, drawings, sculptures and printmaking by the artist and staunch environmentalist: responses to his engagement with and rich experience within the natural world of flora. From... -
Sisters Gonna Stitch: A Feminist Embroidery Guide by Cotton Clara
RRP: £10.99£7.89A fabulous collection of funny, sassy, uplifting embroidery patterns for the modern-day stitcher. Be inspired to kickstart your crafting journey with 50 gorgeous designs, as well as hints and tips from the experts at... -
Hotel Chelsea: Living in the Last Bohemian Haven by Colin Miller
RRP: £34.95£29.93An immersive photographic tour of the legendary Chelsea Hotel, whose residents share their stories and reveal the delirious history of this landmark. Jackson Pollock, Robert Mapplethorpe, Patti Smith, Dylan Thomas, Arthur Miller, Bob Dylan, Arthur C... -
Start to Paint with Pastels: The Techniques You Need to Create Beautiful Paintings by Jenny Keal
RRP: £9.99£6.81'With pastel books being thin on the ground, any new edition is welcome and this is a rather excellent look at what the medium can do as well as a well-thought out manual on how to do it.' Review of the previous edition by Artbookreview.net The new... -
You Must Change Your Life: The Story of Rainer Maria Rilke and Auguste Rodin by Rachel Corbett 9780393354928
RRP: £13.99£12.25In Paris in 1902, Auguste Rodin had just completed The Thinker; visiting from Prague was Rainer Maria Rilke, broke and with writer's block. When Rilke was commissioned to write a book about Rodin, everything changed. You Must Change Your Life tells one... -
Cave Temples of Mogao at Dunhuang by Roderick Whitfield 9781606064450
RRP: £26.00£22.10This book offers a revised and expanded look at a world-renowned artistic treasure and its conversation. The Mogao grottoes in China, situated near the town of Dunhuang on the fabled Silk Road, constitute one of the world's most significant sites of... -
Culture: A new world history by Martin Puchner
RRP: £25.00£16.79'A writer of genius' - William DalrympleCan anyone really own a culture? This magnificent account argues that the story of global civilisations is one of mixing, sharing, and borrowing.It shows how art forms have crisscrossed continents over centuries to... -
The Greek Body by Ian Jenkins 9780714122687
RRP: £19.99£14.35The ancient Greeks perceived the human body as an object of sensory delight and its depiction as the expression of an intelligent mind. This sumptuous photographic book explores ancient Greek sculptures of the body from every angle. With an introduction... -
Edward Seago by James Russell 9781848221475
RRP: £45.00£35.00This is the definitive account of the life and work of Edward Seago (1910-1974), the highly popular, versatile and talented British painter whose work was inspired by John Sell Cotman, John Constable and Alfred Munnings.Over 200 colour reproductions are... -
Rhododendron Dissected: Flora in Close-up by David Purvis
RRP: £16.99£14.52Rhododendrons are seen from a very different perspective in this beautiful new book from the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Rhododendron Dissected features photographs that capture the macro and micro floral and leaf characteristics of rhododendrons,... -
Beginner's Guide to Digital Painting in Photoshop by Publishing 3dtotal 9781909414945
RRP: £31.99£23.14Photoshop is the tool of the modern artist and provides everything you need to succeed as a designer in the popular and growing video games and movie industries. Featuring thorough guidance from the point of installing Photoshop to the creation of your... -
Edward Gorey His Book Cover Art & Design by Steven Heller 9780764971471
£32.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780764971471Author Steven HellerFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Pomegranate Communications Inc,USPublisher Pomegranate Communications... -
Basquiat by Leonhard Emmerling 9783836559799
RRP: £15.00£11.96An icon of 1980s New York, Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) first made his name under the graffiti tag "SAMO", before establishing his studio practice and catapulting to fast fame at the age of 20. Although his career lasted barely a decade, he remains a... -
Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom by Bell Hooks
RRP: £35.99£33.77"After reading Teaching to Transgress I am once again struck by bell hooks's never-ending, unquiet intellectual energy, an energy that makes her radical and loving." -- Paulo FreireIn Teaching to Transgress,bell hooks--writer, teacher, and insurgent... -
Beyond the Page: South Asian Miniatures and Britain, 1600 to now by Fay Blanchard 9781781301258
RRP: £30.00£22.44A richly illustrated exploration of the impact of South Asian Miniature painting on contemporary art. This book tells the dynamic story of contemporary art's engagement with the miniature painting traditions of South Asia from the sixteenth century... -
Japanese Cooking: A Simple Art by Shizuo Tsuji
RRP: £45.00£30.85When it was first published, Japanese Cooking: A Simple Art changed the way the culinary world viewed Japanese cooking, moving it from obscure ethnic food to haute cuisine. Twenty-five years later, much has changed. Japanese food is a favorite of... -
Vermeer's Camera: Uncovering the Truth Behind the Masterpieces by Philip Steadman
RRP: £16.99£12.28Over 100 years of speculation and controversy surround claims that the great seventeenth-century Dutch artist, Johannes Vermeer, used the camera obscura to create some of the most famous images in Western art. This intellectual detective story starts... -
Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting by Sianne Ngai 9780674088122
RRP: £20.95£17.28The zany, the cute, and the interesting saturate postmodern culture. They dominate the look of its art and commodities as well as our discourse about the ambivalent feelings these objects often inspire. In this radiant study, Sianne Ngai offers a theory... -
Myths, History, and Art: Twelve Essays on Art as Deception by Basil Markesinis 9781528936729
RRP: £14.99£10.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528936729Author Basil MarkesinisFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers -
Groovy Abstract Coloring Book by Thaneeya McArdle 9781574219623
£6.61Groovy Abstract is a colouring book for adults that contains 30 amazing art activities involving patterning, shading and colouring. Each vibrantly detailed illustration offers an easy way to de-stress, while allowing you to unleash the artist within... -
Pieter Bruegel. The Complete Works by Jurgen Muller
RRP: £60.00£55.20The life and times of Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1526/30-1569) were marked by stark cultural conflict. He witnessed religious wars, the Duke of Alba's brutal rule as governor of the Netherlands, and the palpable effects of the Inquisition. To this day,... -
7 Reece Mews: Francis Bacon's Studio by John Edwards 9780500510346
RRP: £20.00£13.757 Reece Mews, South Kensington, was Francis Bacon's home and studio for over thirty years. After he died in 1992, access was granted to award-winning photographer Perry Ogden to work undisturbed for days on end to produce this riveting record of the... -
Daily Doodle Journal: 365 Days of Creative Prompts - Discover Your Inner Whimsy and Find Moments of Mindfulness by Spike Maguire 9781638070849
RRP: £16.99£11.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781638070849Author Rockridge PressFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Rockridge PressPublisher Rockridge PressWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 231mm *... -
William Blake. Dante's 'Divine Comedy'. The Complete Drawings by Sebastian Schutze
£30.33Celebrated around the world as a literary monument, The Divine Comedy, completed in 1321 and written by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), is widely considered the greatest work ever composed in the Italian language. The epic poem describes Dante's journey... -
Draw 200 Animals: The Step-By-Step Way to Draw Horses, Cats, Dogs, Birds, Fish, and Many More Creatures by Lee J Ames
RRP: £17.99£12.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399580215Author Lee J. AmesFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Watson-Guptill Publications Inc.,U.S.Publisher Watson-Guptill Publications -
The Seagull by Anton Chekhov 9781849434256
£13.37"We need the theatre, couldn't, couldn't do without it. Could we?" A successful actress visits her brother's isolated estate far from the city, throwing the frustrated residents unfulfilled ambitions into sharp relief. As her son attempts to impress... -
Why Are We 'Artists'?: 100 World Art Manifestos by Jessica Lack
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Art is not a luxury. Art is a basic social need to which everyone has a right'.This extraordinary collection of 100 artists' manifestos from across the globe over the last 100 years brings together activists, post-colonialists, surrealists, socialists,... -
James Gillray - A Revolution in Satire by Tim Clayton
RRP: £50.00£44.05A lavishly illustrated biography of James Gillray, inventor of the art of political caricature James Gillray (1756-1815) was late Georgian Britain's funniest, most inventive, and most celebrated graphic satirist and continues to influence cartoonists... -
The Art of Elizabeth Blackadder by Duncan Macmillan 9781848226586
RRP: £25.00£18.81Exploring the development of Elizabeth Blackadder's art in all its richness, this revised edition of Duncan Macmillan's 1999 book expands the account of an important artist and her significant body of work. With her oeuvre ranging through still life,... -
Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present by RoseLee Goldberg 9780500204047
£20.85First published in 1979, the latest edition of this pioneering study in the World of Art series surveys a full century of performance, from the Futurist manifesto of 1909 to the second decade of the new millennium. Art historian and gallery curator Rose... -
Dungeons and Dragons Art and Arcana: A Visual History: Special Edition, Boxed Book and Ephemera Set by Michael Witwer
RRP: £105.00£70.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399582752Author Michael WitwerFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Ten Speed Press -
Fox: Accordion Book No 1 by Jackie Morris
RRP: £12.99£8.13An Accordion Book doesn't open, it unfolds. One side is filled with beautiful watercolour images of an animal: sometimes in motion, sometimes at rest. The other is filled with text - poems, descriptions, invocations - inspired by the same animal.Together... -
Rodger McPhail - An Artist by Nature by Rodger McPhail
RRP: £35.00£23.39This is leading British sporting and wildlife artist Rodger McPhail's retrospective collection of his most accomplished paintings and portraits of the last 20 years. As a keen naturalist who has spent countless hours tracking and observing his wildlife... -
Black Art: A Cultural History by Richard J. Powell 9780500203620
RRP: £29.95£22.11This groundbreaking book explores the visual representations of black culture throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. From blues to rap, from the paintings of Henry Ossawa Tanner to the video pieces of Keith Piper and Steve McQueen,... -
Cute & Cuddly Crochet: Learn to make huggable amigurumi animals: Volume 8 by Lauren Bergstrom 9780760382905
RRP: £14.99£9.80Learn all about the super-popular Japanese trend of crocheting cute creatures with Cute & Cuddly Crochet, and then make your own adorable stuffed animals! Author and artist Lauren Bergstrom provides 12 step-by-step projects for crocheting popular,... -
Japanese Woodblock Print Workshop by April Vollmer
RRP: £25.99£17.98An increasingly popular yet age-old art form, Japanese woodblock printing (mokuhanga) is embraced for its non-toxic character, use of handmade materials, and easy integration with other printmaking techniques. In this comprehensive guide, artist and... -
Henri Matisse: Drawing with Scissors by Jane O'Connor 9780448425191
£7.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780448425191Author Jane O'ConnorFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Penguin Putnam IncPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 96gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...