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Locating Sol LeWitt by David S. Areford
RRP: £42.50£36.61A revelatory consideration of the wide-ranging practice of one of the most influential American artists of the 20th century A pioneer of minimalism and conceptual art, Sol LeWitt (1928-2007) is best known for his monumental wall drawings. LeWitt's broad... -
Ethics by Walead Beshty 9780854882359
RRP: £16.95£11.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780854882359Author Walead BeshtyFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Whitechapel GalleryPublisher Whitechapel GalleryWeight(grams) 550g -
Little Sparta: A Guide to the Garden of Ian Hamilton Finlay by Jessie Sheeler
RRP: £20.00£14.46Ian Hamilton Finlay's garden in the Pentland Hills near Edinburgh is widely regarded as one of the most significant gardens in Britain. In addition to being a spectacular example of garden design, it also features almost 300 artworks by Finlay and others... -
Courtly Mediators: Transcultural Objects between Renaissance Italy and the Islamic World by Leah R. Clark
RRP: £100.00£90.28In Courtly Mediators, Leah R. Clark investigates the exchange of a range of materials and objects, including metalware, ceramic drug jars, Chinese porcelain, and aromatics, across the early modern Italian, Mamluk, and Ottoman courts. She provides a new... -
The Fixer by Joe Sacco
RRP: £16.99£12.92In The Fixer Joe Sacco returns to Bosnia, the setting for his first masterpiece, Safe Area Gorazde. In 2001 he went back to Sarajevo to meet up with his old 'fixer', an army veteran called Neven who, for the right price, could arrange anything for the... -
Inigo Jones by John Summerson 9780300082449
£19.17Inigo Jones, the first English classical architect, was famous in his own time and was the posthumous sponsor of the Palladian movement of the eighteenth century. This authoritative and elegantly written book, first published in 1966, reassessed Jones's... -
Prints and the Landscape Garden by Michael Symes 9781739822965
RRP: £50.00£47.85This book considers what prints tell us about the development of the landscape garden in 18th- and early 19th- century Britain. They formed a significant part of the expanding machinery of mass communication and could thus influence taste and spread... -
Renegotiating the Body: Feminist Art in 1970s London by Kathy Battista
£27.99What makes art 'feminist art'? Although feminist artists do have a unique aesthetic, there can be no essential feminist aesthetic, argues Kathy Battista in this exciting new art history. Domesticity, the body, its traces and sexuality have become... -
Drawn by Craig Frazier 9781957183916
RRP: £39.95£26.43Drawn is a compendium of Craig Frazier's illustrations for the most prominent publications and businesses in America and abroad. The book presents over 250 illustrations and sketches curated from a career spanning over 40 years. Respected by design peers... -
Icons of Modern Art: The Shchukin Collection by Anne Baldassari 9782072760778
RRP: £27.50£17.89The Fondation Louis Vuitton's unprecedented 2016 exhibition brought together 130 masterpieces, among the most iconic of the collection created in Moscow by the great Russian art patron, Sergei Shchukin. From Le Dejeuner sur l'herbe (1866) by Claude... -
Executions: Explore 700 Years of Public Punishment in London by Jackie Keily
RRP: £16.99£11.81A fascinating record of how London and Londoners were shaped by nearly 700 years of public executions. More frequent in London than in any other city or town in Britain, these morbid spectacles often attracted tens of thousands of onlookers at... -
Karl Friedrich Schinkel. Guide to his buildings by Schinkel-Zentrum d. Technischen Universitat Berlin
RRP: £30.50£28.23This delightful book is the first comprehensive guide to all extant buildings of the great German architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel. With detailed descriptions and color illustrations, it takes the reader from Aachen through Potsdam and Berlin to St... -
Collective Body: Aleksandr Deineka at the Limit of Socialist Realism by Christina Kiaer 9780226827162
RRP: £44.00£36.81A study of the Socialist Realist aesthetic focusing on the artist Aleksandr Deineka. Dislodging the avant-garde from its central position in the narrative of Soviet art, Collective Body presents painter Aleksandr Deineka’s haptic and corporeal version... -
Light by Kerryn Greenberg 9781849768047
RRP: £30.00£21.95Light has been an enduring subject in art. In every conceivable media, artists have exploited the contrasts between light and dark, opposed cool and warm colours, drawn on science, and attempted to capture the transient effects of light and its emotional... -
Glasgow Boys in Your Pocket by William R. Hardie 9781849340267
RRP: £9.99£7.11The Glasgow Boys revolutionized Scottish painting from 1880 until around 1895, although their influence lasted until just before World War 1. Painters such as Sir John Lavery, Sir James Guthrie, George Henry, Edward Atkinson Hornel, Joseph Crawhall,... -
Wave and Ripple Design Book by Satoshi Nakamoto 9781945652035
£12.72A wonderful selection of wave and ripple designs curated by Satoshi Nakamoto, the renowned creator of the digital currency Bitcoin. These beautiful illustrations are based on work by the Japanese artist Mori Yuzan, which has been carefully restored and... -
Matisse: In Search of True Painting by Rebecca A. Rabinow 9780300188578
RRP: £40.00£35.19More than most artists, Henri Matisse conducted an ongoing dialogue with his earlier works, continually questioning himself and his methods in order to, as he put it, "push further and deeper into true painting". In a fresh approach to this giant of... -
The Logic of the Lure by John Paul Ricco
RRP: £28.00£27.39The attraction of a wink, a nod, a discarded snapshot - such feelings permeate our lives, yet we usually dismiss them as insubstantial or meaningless. With "The Logic of the Lure", John Paul Ricco argues that it is precisely such fleeting, erotic and... -
Augustus John: The New Biography by Michael Holroyd
RRP: £30.00£21.95This 1997 revised and updated biography of the celebrated artist, using the mass of new material which has come to light since Holroyd's two-volume first edition in the mid 1970s, reveals the complete story of John and his circle, from one of our great... -
Insects and Flowers - The Art of Maria Sibylla Merian by David Brafman 9780892369294
RRP: £8.99£7.81Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) was an intrepid artist and scientist who defied the conventions of her time to pursue her passion for documenting the natural world in all its glorious, and sometimes ferocious, detail.Between 1699-1701, she travelled to... -
Ancient Egyptian Statues: Their Many Lives and Deaths by Simon Connor 9781617971341
RRP: £39.99£33.17A fascinating, richly illustrated study of the role and significance of ancient statues in Egyptian history and beliefWhy do ancient Egyptian statues so often have their noses, hands, or genitals broken? Although the Late Antiquity period appears to have... -
Falling Rocket: James Whistler, John Ruskin, and the Battle for Modern Art by Paul Thomas Murphy
RRP: £22.00£19.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639364916Author Paul Thomas MurphyFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 558gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 152mm... -
Accidental Alchemy: Oliver Simon, Signature Magazine, and the rise of British Neo-Romantic Art by Neil Wells
RRP: £30.00£20.55The significant influence of the periodical Signature on fine art has long been overlooked. While few people nowadays will have read it, no journal has greater claim to have stimulated the taste that became British neo-romanticism in the mid-20th century... -
Masterpixels: Incredible Sea Life by Diego Jourdan Pereira
RRP: £10.99£7.40Take a break and escape from the world with 120 color-by-pixel projects. At first, readers have no clue what each completed picture might be. But follow the number guide, apply color, and watch each image emerge! A palette shows which color goes with... -
Social Forms: A Short History of Political Art by Christian Viveros-Faune
RRP: £25.00£16.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941701904Author Christian Viveros-FauneFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint David ZwirnerPublisher David ZwirnerWeight(grams) 230g -
The National Gallery Masters of Art Puzzle Book: Explore the World's Greatest Artists in 100 Stunning Puzzles by Tim Dedopulos
RRP: £14.99£7.54Featuring 150 iconic artworks, The National Gallery Masters of Art Puzzle Book is a visually spectacular puzzle challenge perfect for any art-enthusiast. This must-buy gift book contains 100 puzzles reproducing and inspired by the world's most famous... -
Velazquez. the Complete Works by Jose Lopez-Rey
RRP: £60.00£55.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783836581790Author Jose Lopez-ReyFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint TaschenPublisher TaschenWeight(grams) 3405g -
Isabella Stewart Gardner: A Life by Nathaniel Silver
RRP: £20.00£15.89A major new biography of legendary art collector and philanthropist Isabella Stewart GardnerIsabella Stewart Gardner (1840-1924) assembled an extraordinary collection of art from diverse cultures and eras-and built a Venetian-style palazzo in Boston to... -
Beyond Bullets: Creative Journaling Ideas to Customize Your Personal Productivity System by Megan Rutell
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612437576Author Megan RutellFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Ulysses PressPublisher Ulysses PressWeight(grams) 330g -
Unmaking the East India Company: British Art and Political Reform in Colonial India, c. 1813-1858 by Tom Young
RRP: £40.00£33.59Illuminates how new modes of artistic production in colonial India shaped the British state's nationalisation of the East India Company, transforming the relationship between nation and empire This pioneering book explores how art shaped the... -
Curationism: How Curating Took Over the Art World and Everything Else by David Balzer
RRP: £9.99£7.16*Winner of the ICA Book of the Year, 2015* Now that we 'curate' even lunch, what happens to the role of the connoisseur in contemporary culture? 'Curate' has become a buzzword, applied to everything from music festivals to artisanal cheese. Inside... -
Behind the Gloss: Disco, divas and dressing up. Welcome to the wild world of 1970s fashion by Tamara Sturtz-Filby 9781802794038
RRP: £25.00£17.38Dressing up. Partying all night. This is the world of 1970s fashion, and this book is your backstage pass.Featuring over 25 exclusive interviews with the movers and shakers of the 70s scene, including Grace Coddington, Zandra Rhodes, Willy van Rooy,... -
Zheng Bo: WANWU I by Zheng Bo 9783753303857
£44.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783753303857Author Zheng BoFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther KonigPublisher Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig -
Modernism: The Lure of Heresy - From Baudelaire to Beckett and Beyond by Peter Gay
RRP: £18.99£13.61In his most ambitious endeavour since Freud, acclaimed cultural historian Peter Gay traces and explores the rise of Modernism in the arts, the cultural movement that heralded and shaped the modern world, dominating western high culture for over a century... -
Speculative Taxidermy: Natural History, Animal Surfaces, and Art in the Anthropocene by Giovanni Aloi
RRP: £28.00£21.80Taxidermy, once the province of natural history and dedicated to the pursuit of lifelike realism, has recently resurfaced in the world of contemporary art,culture, and interior design. In Speculative Taxidermy, Giovanni Aloi offers a comprehensive... -
Via Dolorosa by David Hare
RRP: £9.99£9.40'My whole life, it's been assumed, Western civilisation is an old bitch gone in the teeth. And so people say, go to Israel. Because in Israel at least people are fighting. In Israel, they're fighting for something they believe in.' Via Dolorosa. In... -
Caravaggio by Howard Hibbard
RRP: £54.99£48.12Caravaggio was one of the most important Italian painters of the 17th century. He was, in fact, the wellspring of Baroque painting. In Hibbard's words, Caravaggio's paintings "speak to us more personally and more poignantly than any others of the time"... -
The Oxford Handbook of Roman Studies by Alessandro Barchiesi 9780198856009
£49.72The Oxford Handbook of Roman Studies is an indispensable guide to the latest scholarship in this area. Over fifty distinguished scholars elucidate the contribution of material as well as literary culture to our understanding of the Roman world. The... -
Concrete Cuba: Cuban Geometric Abstraction from the 1950s by Abigail McEwen
RRP: £40.00£25.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941701331Author Abigail McEwenFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint David ZwirnerPublisher David ZwirnerWeight(grams) 1510g -
Backwards & in Heels: The Past, Present and Future of Women Working in Film by Alicia Malone 9781633536173
RRP: £12.99£9.32Women in Filmmaking and Their Struggle Against Bias"After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels" -Ann Richards#1 Bestseller in Acting & Auditioning, Performing Arts, and Guides & Reviews...