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Everything Keeps Dissolving: Conversations with Coil by Nick Soulsby
RRP: £27.00£19.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913689438Author Nick SoulsbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Strange Attractor PressPublisher Strange Attractor Press -
Brave Soul by Kayil York 9780578712185
£12.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578712185Author Kayil YorkFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint Jack Wild PublishingPublisher Jack Wild PublishingWeight(grams) 152g -
Healing Madonnas: With the sequence of Madonna images for healing and meditation by Rudolf Steiner and Felix Peipers by Christopher Bamford 9781584209898
RRP: £14.99£10.95In 1908, an idea arose during a conversation between Dr Felix Peipers and Rudolf Steiner. Steiner had been lecturing on the healing nature of the Egyptian Goddess Isis, and drew a parallel to the Christian Madonna, Mary. From that, Steiner and Peipers... -
Japan: Courts and Culture by Rachel Peat
RRP: £49.95£33.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909741683Author Rachel PeatFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Royal Collection TrustPublisher Royal Collection TrustWeight(grams) 1880g -
Rudolf Polanszky by Hans-Ulrich Obrist
RRP: £55.00£42.50Rudolf Polanszky s cerebral and uniquely multidisciplinary work embraces the chance occurrences that arise throughout the creative process. The recent works presented in this volume exemplify the canvas-mounted and floor-based assemblages that he has... -
The Little Book of Lettering & Word Design: More than 50 tips and techniques for mastering a variety of stylish, elegant, and contemporary hand-written alphabets by Cari Ferraro
RRP: £9.99£9.85In The Little Book of Lettering & Word Design, aspiring artists will discover how to create a range of classic and contemporary calligraphy and hand-lettered fonts. Internationally acclaimed calligrapher John Stevens and other renowned hand-lettering... -
Glass: A Short History by David Whitehouse
RRP: £9.99£6.80The fragile beauty of glass has ensured its popularity through the ages in forms ranging from simple beakers to ornate decorative masterpieces. This beautifully illustrated book traces the story of glass from its origins in Mesopotamia some 5000 years... -
Art On Deck: An Exploration of Supreme Skateboards from 1994-2018 by Byron Hawes 9781576879382
RRP: £61.99£42.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781576879382Author Byron HawesFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint powerHouse Books,U.S.Publisher powerHouse Books,U.S. -
Modigliani: Masters of Art by Olaf Mextorf
RRP: £9.99£7.11Amedeo Modigliani experimented with sculpture and drawing, but is primarily known for his paintings of nudes and portraits characterized by elongated figures, faces, and necks. He began painting in his youth in Italy before moving to Paris in 1906,... -
The Creative Process: Reflections on the Invention in the Arts and Sciences by Brewster Ghiselin
RRP: £25.00£21.19This unique anthology brings together material from 38 well-known writers, artists, and scientists who attempt to describe the process by which original ideas come to them. Contributors include Albert Einstein, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Amy Lowell,... -
The Musicians of Bremen: A Grimm's Fairy Tale by Gerda Muller 9781782507925
RRP: £12.99£9.80Four unlikely companions -- a donkey, a dog, a cat and a rooster -- set off on an adventure to become musicians in the town of Bremen. When night falls and they're cold and hungry, the friends find a cabin in the forest where they could rest and eat --... -
William Burges's Great Bookcase and The Victorian Colour Revolution by Charlotte Ribeyrol
RRP: £40.00£38.55Charlotte Ribeyrol presents a fascinating (book)case study exploring the story of an extraordinary object, William Burges's (1827-1881) Great Bookcase. No fewer than 13 major artists, including Edward Burne-Jones, Edward Poynter, and Albert Moore, took... -
White Sight: Visual Politics and Practices of Whiteness by Nicholas Mirzoeff
RRP: £27.00£17.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262047678Author Nicholas MirzoeffFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
The Spitz Master - A Parisian Book of Hours by Gregory T. Clark 9780892367122
RRP: £16.99£14.61The Spitz book of hours is one of the finest French manuscripts in the collections of the Getty Museum. It is also one of the most original and inventive manuscripts painted in the International style. The Spitz Master, its primary illuminator, allows... -
Vorticism: New Perspectives by Mark Antliff 9780199937660
£99.84The London-based avant-garde movement Vorticism, like its continental counterparts Cubism and Futurism and its English rival Bloomsbury was created by artists, poets, writers, and artist-writers, as a project that defied disciplinary boundaries... -
Blade of the Immortal Deluxe Volume 4 by Hiroaki Samura
RRP: £49.99£38.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506726557Author Hiroaki SamuraFormat HardbackPage Count 656Imprint Dark Horse Comics,U.S.Publisher Dark Horse Comics,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
The Art Spirit by Robert Henri 9781420961959
£11.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420961959Author Robert HenriFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 222gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *... -
Drawing Autism by Jill Mullin 9781617751981
RRP: £24.95£16.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781617751981Author Jill MullinFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Akashic Books,U.S.Publisher Akashic Books,U.S.Weight(grams) 771g -
Sturtevant: Warhol Marilyn by Patricia Lee
RRP: £17.99£12.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846381638Author Patricia LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Afterall PublishingPublisher Afterall Publishing -
Poetry and Painting in Song China: The Subtle Art of Dissent by Alfreda Murck
RRP: £29.95£24.66Throughout the history of imperial China, the educated elite used various means to criticize government policies and actions. During the Song dynasty (960-1278), some members of this elite found an elegant and subtle means of dissent: landscape painting... -
Frida Kahlo: Her Universe by Frida Kahlo
RRP: £50.00£36.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788417975531Author Frida KahloFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint RM Verlag SLPublisher RM Verlag SL -
Christina Rossetti: Poetry in Art by Susan Owens
RRP: £32.50£28.55The first art book to explore Rossetti's art and poetry together, including her own artworks, illustrations to her writing, and art inspired by her Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) is among the greatest of English Victorian poets. The intensity of her... -
F.C.B. Cadell by Alice Strang 9781906270407
RRP: £16.95£11.51F.C.B. Cadell was born in Edinburgh, where he lived for most of his life, and studied in Paris and Munich. This book illustrates many of the works for which Cadell is celebrated, including stylish portrayals of Edinburgh New Town interiors, vibrantly... -
Landscape Painting with Watercolours and Other Techniques: Exploring the Use of Lines and Colours by Juliette Plisson 9788419220547
RRP: £19.99£14.28This hands-on guide to landscape watercolour and other drawing and painting techniques takes readers on a series of excursions from the sea to the city, mastering the use of line and colour along the way. A useful manual for drawing on the spot, it... -
Heritage and Sport: An Introduction by Gregory Ramshaw 9781845417017
RRP: £29.95£26.91This book provides a holistic view of the relationship between heritage and sport. It examines four types of sport heritage: tangible immovable sport heritage (sports venues, monuments and memorials, landscapes); tangible movable sport heritage (museums... -
The Story of Contemporary Art by Tony Godfrey 9780500297605
RRP: £30.00£20.40A lively introduction to and history of international contemporary art from 1960 to the present. What does it mean? Is it really art? Why does it cost so much? While these questions are perpetually asked about contemporary art, they are not the... -
Artist's Guide to Human Anatomy by Giovanni Civardi
RRP: £17.99£12.67This invaluable addition to Civardi's highly regarded collection of instructional art books illustrates and describes the importance of understanding the inner workings of the human body, to the theory of composing accurate life drawings with pencil and... -
Confronting Images: Questioning the Ends of a Certain History of Art by Georges Didi-Huberman 9780271024721
RRP: £35.95£32.05When the French edition of Confronting Images appeared in 1990, it won immediate acclaim because of its far-reaching arguments about the structure of images and the histories ascribed to them by scholars and critics working in the tradition of Vasari and... -
Harry Clarke: The Life and Work by Nicola Gordon Bowe 9781845887421
RRP: £40.00£31.40"Nicola Gordon Bowe has undoubtedly produced the definitive study of Harry Clarke, in a lively and lucid style, with profound insight." - Irish Arts ReviewHarry Clarke was Ireland's greatest stained glass artist and arguably the finest of his time in any... -
Killing Men & Dying Women: Imagining Difference in 1950s New York Painting by Griselda Pollock 9781526164186
RRP: £25.00£18.02What did it mean for painter Lee Krasner to be an artist and a woman if, in the culture of 1950s New York, to be an artist was to be Jackson Pollock and to be a woman was to be Marilyn Monroe? With this question, Griselda Pollock begins a... -
Creative Photography Lab: 52 Fun Exercises for Developing Self-Expression with Your Camera. Includes 6 Mixed-Media Projects by Steve Sonheim 9781592538324
RRP: £16.99£15.65Go ahead, have fun with your photography. Creative Photography Lab is a collection of fun and silly photography exercises designed to teach you something about your camera (and yourself!). Whether you're rockin' a digital SLR, a point and shoot, or even... -
Vincent's Books: Van Gogh and the Writers Who Inspired Him by Mariella Guzzoni
RRP: £19.95£13.73'I have a more or less irresistible passion for books' Vincent van Gogh Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) was famously driven by his passion for God, for art - and for books. Vincent's life with books is examined here chapter by chapter, from his early... -
Humanity by Weiwei Ai 9780691181523
RRP: £10.99£8.68Writings on human life and the refugee crisis by the most important political artist of our timeAi Weiwei (b. 1957) is widely known as an artist across media: sculpture, installation, photography, performance, and architecture. He is also one of the... -
Patchwork: Essays & Interviews on Caribbean Visual Culture by Jacqueline Bishop
RRP: £19.95£16.87The patchwork is an apt metaphor for the region not only because of its colourfulness and the making of something whole out of fragments but as an attempt to make coherence out of disorder. The seeking of coherence was the exact process of putting... -
Museums and Design for Creative Lives by Suzanne MacLeod
RRP: £32.99£30.16Museums and Design for Creative Lives questions what we sacrifice when we allow economic imperatives to shape public museums, whilst also considering the implications of these new museum realities. It also asks: how might we instead design for creative... -
Viewing Velocities: Time in Contemporary Art by Marcus Verhagen
RRP: £16.99£14.10How have artists responded to our market-driven, tech-enabled culture of speed? Viewing Velocities explores a contemporary art scene caught in the gears of 24/7 capitalism. It looks at artists who embrace the high-octane experience economy and others who... -
Art as a Social System by Niklas Luhmann 9780804739078
RRP: £29.99£26.90This is the definitive analysis of art as a social and perceptual system by Germany's leading social theorist of the late twentieth century. It not only represents an important intellectual step in discussions of art-in its rigor and in its having... -
Art and Industry: Seven Artists in search of an Industrial Revolution in Britain (1780-1830) by David Stacey
RRP: £25.00£18.02In seven linked essays, the author discusses paintings of industrial scenes by seven artists working in the period 1780-1830. Their unique and distinct responses to the subject matter reveal a surprisingly coherent message.About the AuthorDavid Stacey is... -
Paul Feiler: 1918-2013 by Michael Raeburn 9781848220287
RRP: £55.00£42.92The paintings of Paul Feiler (1918-2013), the focus of this first survey of the artist's life and career, were inspired by the English landscape, particularly the cliffs and inlets of the coast of south-west Cornwall. For his friend Peter Lanyon,... -
Kallitype, Vandyke Brown, and Argyrotype: A Step-by-Step Manual of Iron-Silver Processes Highlighting Contemporary Artists by Donald Nelson 9781032318714
RRP: £46.99£39.28Focusing on three iron-silver processes-kallitype, Vandyke Brown, and argyrotype-this book will guide readers through how to create prints using these accessible and historic processes in the digital age.Often termed the Brownprint processes, author...