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Klimt: Masters of Art by Angela Wenzel
RRP: £9.99£7.11The story of Klimt's astonishing artistic career is told in this beautifully produced collection of reproductions, photographs and drawings with an accompanying text that places the artist in a unique historical moment and reflects his fierce appetite... -
Culture Class by Martha Rosler
£11.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934105818Author Martha RoslerFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Sternberg PressPublisher Sternberg PressWeight(grams) 666gDimensions(mm) 178mm * 108mm... -
Artrage!: The Story of the BritArt Revolution by Elizabeth Fullerton
RRP: £12.99£8.13The Young British Artists (YBAs) stormed on to the contemporary art scene in 1988 with their attention-grabbing, ironic art, exploding art-world conventions with brazen disdain. Dismissed as trivial gimmickry and praised for its witty energy, their art... -
The African Lookbook: A Visual History of 100 Years of African Womanhood by Catherine E McKinley
RRP: £30.00£18.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781620403532Author Catherine E. McKinleyFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 730g -
Art and Knowledge After 1900: Interactions Between Modern Art and Thought by James Fox 9781526164278
RRP: £30.00£21.71This ground-breaking new history of modern art explores the relationship between art and knowledge from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day. Each chapter examines artistic responses to a particular discipline of knowledge, from... -
Lines of Thought: Branching Diagrams and the Medieval Mind by Ayelet Even-Ezra
RRP: £40.00£33.99We think with objects-we conduct our lives surrounded by external devices that help us recall information, calculate, plan, design, make decisions, articulate ideas, and organize the chaos that fills our heads. Medieval scholars learned to think with... -
Easy Creative Lettering: A Step-By-Step Guide to Lettering, Flourishing, and More by Missy Briggs 9781646115051
RRP: £14.99£11.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646115051Author Missy BriggsFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Rockridge PressPublisher Rockridge PressWeight(grams) 485gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm... -
Drawn to the Edge by Anthony Barber 9781912147632
RRP: £7.99£5.94Featuring over 100 sketches, Drawn to the Edge gives a visual tour of the Outer Hebrides, one of the most remote parts of Scotland. Lewis and Harris are known for their harsh and stunning landscapes, and Barber has captured these simply and beautifully... -
The Royal Academy of Arts: History and Collections by Robin Simon 9780300232073
RRP: £70.00£60.67Published in association with the Royal Academy of Arts, London Animated by an unprecedented study of its collections, this book tells the story of the Royal Academy of Arts, London, and illuminates the history of art in Britain over the past two and a... -
Being and Belonging: Contemporary Women Artists from the Islamic World and Beyond by Fahmida Suleman 9780300275094
RRP: £40.00£33.59Interviews with women artists connected with the Islamic world and their compelling works that are shaping contemporary art today. Showcasing artworks that offer political and poetic commentary on many of today’s major global issues, Being and Belonging... -
The Johnstone Twins: An Appreciation of Janet Johnstone (1928-1979) & Anne Grahame Johnstone (1928-1998) by Philip Kelleway 9781906690496
RRP: £29.99£24.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906690496Author Philip KellewayFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint HalstarPublisher Halsgrove -
The Reign of the Phallus: Sexual Politics in Ancient Athens by Eva C. Keuls 9780520079298
RRP: £35.00£28.14At once daring and authoritative, this book offers a profusely illustrated history of sexual politics in ancient Athens. The phallus was pictured everywhere in ancient Athens: painted on vases, sculpted in marble, held aloft in gigantic form in public... -
The Shape of Freedom: International Abstraction after 1945 by Michael Philipp
RRP: £39.99£28.38Following World War II, Western painting went in completely new directions. A young generation of artists turned their backs on the dominant styles of the interwar period: Instead of figurative representation or geometric abstraction, painters in the... -
Picturing War in France, 1792-1856 by Katie Hornstein
RRP: £65.00£54.75From the walls of the Salon to the pages of weekly newspapers, war imagery was immensely popular in postrevolutionary France. This fascinating book studies representations of contemporary conflict in the first half of the 19th century and explores how... -
Marked in Ink: A Tattoo Coloring Book by Megan Massacre
RRP: £14.99£9.80Megan Massacre brings her wildly popular art style to a colouring book. Her artwork combines dark imagery with bold vibrant colour to create a unique, whimsical style. Megan translates fan favourites such as sugar skulls, fairies, mandalas and tattoo... -
Hand-Lettering for Self-Care: 52 Calligraphy Projects to Inspire Creativity, Practice Mindfulness, and Promote Self-Love by Lauren Fitzmaurice
RRP: £17.99£12.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646042432Author Lauren FitzmauriceFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Ulysses PressPublisher Ulysses Press -
The Italian Paintings Before 1400 by Dillian Gordon 9781857094824
RRP: £75.00£64.21The National Gallery in London houses one of the most important collections of early Italian paintings outside Italy, including works by Cimabue, Duccio, Giotto and the di Cione brothers. This completely updated catalogue of the collection is the first... -
How to Draw: Cute Kawaii in Simple Steps by Yishan Li
RRP: £12.99£8.86Kawaii is a Japanese word meaning 'super-cute', and it's a trend that's sweeping the globe. Anything can be drawn in the kawaii style, from animals, people, vegetables and flowers to food, vehicles and household items. Expert comic book and manga... -
Nicolas Party by Stephane Aquin
RRP: £35.00£27.22The first and highly-anticipated monograph on one of the most successful, collected, and exciting painters today Swiss-born Nicolas Party, one of the most successful and critically acclaimed artists working today, is known for his color-saturated... -
Chris Orr: The Making of Things by Robert Hewison 9781907533372
RRP: £35.00£24.03Chris Orr MBE RA is one of Britain's foremost printmakers. In this definitive book he and Robert Hewison explore his remarkable printmaking career, from his early experiments as a student in the 1960s, when he first discovered how etching could enhance... -
Remembering and Learning from Financial Crises by Youssef Cassis 9780198870906
£85.30The chapters in this book reflect on people's relationships with past financial crises - from public opinion to business leaders and policy makers. In connection with financial crises, Remembering and Learning from Financial Crises addresses three... -
Adrian Berg by Marco Livingstone
£58.72Exploring the full breadth of work by British artist Adrian Berg RA (1929-2011), and drawing heavily on the artist's personal archive, this book discusses Berg's meticulous engagement with the landscape which resulted in an impressive oeuvre created over... -
Transpacific Engagements: Trade, Translation, and Visual Culture of Entangled Empires (1565-1898) by Florina H Capistrano-Baker
RRP: £48.00£40.03This wide-ranging collection of scholarly essays explores the hybrid cultures, intellectual clashes, and dynamic exchanges of the transpacific region in the age of imperialism. Between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, competing European empires... -
Ask the Experts by Uy
RRP: £36.99£33.78From the end of the Second World War through the U.S. Bicentennial, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Ford Foundation granted close to $300 million (approximately $2.3 billion in 2017 dollars) in the field of music... -
Yokai: Ghosts, Demons & Monsters of Japan: Ghosts, Demons & Monsters of Japan by Felicia Katz-Harris 9780890136522
RRP: £40.99£35.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780890136522Author Felicia Katz-HarrisFormat HardbackPage Count 255Imprint Museum of New Mexico PressPublisher Museum of New Mexico PressWeight(grams) 1684g -
Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta - A Sixteenth-Century Calligraphic Manuscript Inscribed by Georg Bocskay and Illuminated by Joris Joefnagel by Lee Hendrix 9781606066584
RRP: £75.00£48.86Now back in print, "the ultimate book-lover's gift book" (Los Angeles Times) In 1561-62 the master calligrapher Georg Bocskay (died 1575), imperial secretary to the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I, created Mira calligraphiae monumenta (Model Book of... -
Ten-Step Drawing: Nature: Learn to Draw 60 Plants & Animals in Ten Easy Steps! by Mary Woodin 9781633228825
RRP: £16.99£11.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633228825Author Mary WoodinFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Walter Foster PublishingPublisher Walter Foster PublishingWeight(grams)... -
Star Wars Art: Illustration by Steven Heller
RRP: £35.00£26.30The instant and massive success of Star Wars took Lucasfilm by surprise, but in 1978, an industry unto itself was born, consisting of books, trading cards, magazines, video games, and merchandise. The art created for these projects continues to expand... -
Private Pictures: Soldiers' Inside View of War by Janina Struk
RRP: £21.99£19.34Snapshots taken by American soldiers of Iraqi prisoners stripped naked, humiliated and tortured shocked the world in 2004 and more have followed from the conflict in Afghanistan, but whether the public have been horrified by the soldiers' conduct or the... -
Don't Look Back In Anger: The rise and fall of Cool Britannia, told by those who were there by Daniel Rachel 9781409180722
RRP: £10.99£7.78The nineties was the decade when British culture reclaimed its position at the artistic centre of the world. Not since the 'Swinging Sixties' had art, comedy, fashion, film, football, literature and music interwoven into a blooming of national... -
The Art of Armenia: An Introduction by Christina Maranci
RRP: £38.99£33.80Though immediately recognizable in public discourse as a modern state in a political "hot zone," Armenia has a material history and visual culture that reaches back to the Paleolithic era. This book presents a timely and much-needed survey of the arts of... -
Supergods: Our World in the Age of the Superhero by Grant Morrison
RRP: £14.99£11.54In 1938 Action Comics #1 introduced the world to Superman. In a matter of years, the skies of our imaginations were filled with mutants, aliens and vigilantes. Batman, Wonder Woman and the X-Men - in less than a century they've gone from not existing at... -
The Natural Enemies of Books: A Messy History of Women in Printing and Typography by Maryam Fanni 9780995473034
RRP: £12.50£12.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995473034Author Maryam FanniFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Occasional PapersPublisher Occasional Papers -
India: A Story Through 100 Objects by Vidya Dehejia
RRP: £29.95£21.45We are constantly surrounded by objects, by 'things' that channel and dictate our everyday life, 'things' that we take for granted. But these objects speak to us, and speak about us. They have a story to tell that reflects our values and aspirations, our... -
Read Write Inc. Phonics: Blue Set 6A Storybooks Pack of 10 by Gill Munton 9781382013413
£58.94These new Set 6A (Blue) Storybooks are designed to give children extra practice, and to develop their fluency and vocabulary further before moving on from the Read Write Inc. Phonics programme. The books are matched to the phonic progression of the... -
Landscape and the Moving Image by Catherine Elwes
RRP: £28.00£25.22Elwes takes a journey through the twin histories of landscape art and experimental moving image and discovers how they coalesce in the work of artists from the 1970s to the present day. Drawing on a wide geographical sampling, Elwes considers issues... -
Turn Your Life Into Art: Lessons in Psychomagic from the San Francisco Underground by Caveat Magister 9781734965926
RRP: £21.99£15.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781734965926Author Caveat MagisterFormat PaperbackPage Count 388Imprint Burning Man ProjectPublisher Burning Man ProjectWeight(grams) 517gDimensions(mm)... -
Appreciation Post: Towards an Art History of Instagram by Tara Ward 9780520398771
RRP: £25.00£21.19What does an art history of Instagram look like? Appreciation Post reveals how Instagram shifts long-established ways of interacting with images. Tara Ward argues Instagram is a structure of the visual, which includes not just the process of looking, but... -
Aesthetic Justice: Intersecting Artistic and Moral Perspectives by Mark Fisher 9789078088868
RRP: £20.00£18.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789078088868Author Mark FisherFormat PaperbackPage Count 354Imprint ValizPublisher ValizWeight(grams) 458gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 135mm * 25mm -
Beyond the Frame: Feminism and Visual Culture, Britain 1850 -1900 by Deborah Cherry 9780415107273
RRP: £36.99£32.53Beyond the Frame rewrites the history of Victorian art to explore the relationships between feminism and visual culture in a period of heady excitement and political struggle. Artists were caught up in campaigns for women's enfranchisement, education and...