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The Miracle of Analogy: or The History of Photography, Part 1 by Kaja Silverman
RRP: £24.99£21.67The Miracle of Analogy is the first of a two-volume reconceptualization of photography. It argues that photography originates in what is seen, rather than in the human eye or the camera lens, and that it is the world's primary way of revealing itself to... -
The Picasso Connection: The Artist and his Gallerist by Kunsthalle Bremen
RRP: £44.00£29.63Without a doubt, Picasso is one of the most important and versatile artistic personalities of the twentieth century. But how does a body of work become so successful, and how does it wind up in major collections, museums, and exhibitions? Not... -
Video/Art: The First Fifty Years by Barbara London
RRP: £17.95£14.76A personal and expert account of the artists and events that defined the medium's first 50 years, written a true expert in the field'London's book excites because it brings new artists into a lineage worthy of greater stuff. Her passion for lesser-known... -
Jesus Now!: Art + Pop Culture by Laetitia Barbier
RRP: £25.00£18.14A fascinating panorama of the faces of Jesus today Jesus Now presents, for the first time, a showcase of the figure of Christ in contemporary art, graphic design, advertising, and pop culture. Featuring the work of more than 80 artists from around... -
Otherwise: Imagining Queer Feminist Art Histories by Marsha Meskimmon 9780719096426
RRP: £19.99£18.22Otherwise: Imagining queer feminist art histories is the first book to address queer feminist politics, methods and theories in relation to the visual arts, including new media, installation and performance art. Despite the crucial contribution of... -
Rituals of Rented Island: Object Theater, Loft Performance, and the New Psychodrama-Manhattan, 1970-1980 by Jay Sanders
RRP: £20.00£16.98In this important volume, Jay Sanders and J. Hoberman explore the vibrant underground performance art scene of 1970s New York. Focusing on little-known and long-forgotten works, which were often performed in live/work lofts, storefronts, and alternative... -
Movers and Shakers, The Monster Makers by Tariq Anwar 9781788780339
RRP: £20.99£14.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788780339Author Tariq AnwarFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers -
Gladiator: Fighting for Life, Glory and Freedom by Ben Hubbard
RRP: £19.99£14.65"When everyone had had plenty to eat and drink they called for the gladiators. The moment anyone's throat was cut, they clapped their hands in pleasure. And it sometimes even turned out that someone had specified in their will that the most... -
Ken White: Muralist and Painter by Angela Atkinson
RRP: £15.99£10.85Ken White's career spans an impressive six decades. He is perhaps best known for his murals, sited in a wide variety of locations. To date, he has painted over one hundred murals. For over twenty years Ken was the personal artist to Virgin boss... -
The Idler: Graham Coxon on the disappointments of fame, plus joyful frugality, swanky hankies and Stewart Lee by Tom Hodgkinson
RRP: £9.00£6.46Here is issue 87 of Tom Hodgkinson's essential magazine for good living. Meet Blur guitarist Graham Coxon, discover why Socrates was cynical about politics, and learn about the idling academies of 17th century Naples.Book InformationISBN... -
Cinema Symbolism: A Guide to Esoteric Imagery in Popular Movies, Second Edition by Robert W Sullivan IV 9780692836118
RRP: £18.95£14.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692836118Author Robert W Sullivan IVFormat PaperbackPage Count 462Imprint Deadwood Publishing, LLCPublisher Deadwood Publishing, LLCWeight(grams)... -
The Villa Farnesina: Palace of Venus in Renaissance Rome by James Grantham Turner
£97.19The frescoes of Peruzzi, Raphael and Sodoma still dazzle visitors to the Villa Farnesina, but they survive in a stripped-down environment bereft of its landscape, sealed so it cannot breathe. Turner takes you outside that box, restoring these canonical... -
Andrew Wyeth: Life and Death by Andrew Wyeth
RRP: £32.00£21.14Presenting recently rediscovered drawings, Life and Death explores what it means for an artist to picture their own death, in both the context of Wyeth's late career and contemporary American art This volume presents for the first time a recently... -
No More Masterpieces: Modern Art After Artaud by Lucy Bradnock
RRP: £55.00£52.51This groundbreaking account of postwar American art traces the profound influence of Antonin Artaud Proposing an original reassessment of art from the 1950s to the 1970s, No More Masterpieces reveals how artistic practice in postwar America was... -
Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain Workbook: The Definitive, Updated 2nd Edition by Betty Edwards
RRP: £25.00£15.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585429226Author Betty EdwardsPage Count 176Imprint Jeremy P TarcherPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 556gDimensions(mm) 276mm * 230mm * 18mm -
Symbionts: Contemporary Artists and the Biosphere by Caroline A. Jones
RRP: £41.00£27.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262544481Author Caroline A. JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Georgia O'Keeffe by Lisa Mintz Messinger
RRP: £14.99£9.80A revised edition of this classic survey that presents a thorough overview of Georgia O'Keeffe's life and work. Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) was a major figure in American art for seven decades. Throughout that long and prolific career she remained... -
Teresa Margolles by Florian Steininger
RRP: £28.00£18.19Teresa Margollesabstracts the subject of terror: she extracts the body into abstract forms which are manifest in fired bricks or in mud, water and blood-soaked cloths. They form a memorial to the victims of the Mexican drug wars and the waves of... -
Wolfgang Laib: The Beginning of Something Else by Kunstmuseum Stuttgart
RRP: £35.00£22.43An extraordinary collection of texts and images compiled by Wolfgang Laib. Wolfgang Laib: The Beginning of Something Else combines texts that are particularly important for the artist’s creative work, together with a variety of selected images. Included... -
Mary Alice Treworgy: A Maine Painter by Carl Little
RRP: £35.00£23.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983967071Author Carl LittleFormat HardbackPage Count 108Imprint Marshall WilkesPublisher Marshall WilkesWeight(grams) 918gDimensions(mm) 264mm * 264mm *... -
The Lego Christmas Ornaments Book by Chris McVeigh
RRP: £17.99£12.54This Christmas, LEGO is moving from under the tree to on the tree! With The LEGO Christmas Ornaments Book as your guide, you ll make classic globe and barrel ornaments, all out of LEGO, as well as original gingerbread houses, a charming wreath, arcade... -
Acoustic Territories, Second Edition: Sound Culture and Everyday Life by Brandon LaBelle
RRP: £27.99£24.27The revised edition of Acoustic Territories: Sound Culture and Everyday Life offers an expansive reading of auditory life. It provides a careful consideration of the performative dynamics inherent to sounding and listening, and discusses how sound... -
Nymphs by Giorgio Agamben
RRP: £15.00£13.05In 1900, Dutch art historians Andre Jolles and Aby Warburg constructed an experimental dialogue in which Jolles supposed he had fallen in love with the figure of a young woman in a painting: "A fantastic figure - shall I call her a servant girl, or... -
Katsuya Terada 10 Ten: 10 Year Retrospective by PIE Books
RRP: £29.99£19.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784756243768Author PIE BooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint PIE BooksPublisher PIE Books -
Drawing the Draped Figure by George B. Bridgman 9780486418025
RRP: £5.99£4.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486418025Author George B. BridgmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Make Your Own Manga: Create Your Own Anime Comics with Action-Packed Story Fill-Ins and Blank Comic Panels by Elaine Tipping
RRP: £10.99£7.64Draw, narrate, and create your own manga adventure with this interactive workbook featuring blank fill-in panels so you can set up your very own comic.What's behind those big, bright eyes? Why is the student attacking the master? What's inside that box?... -
Edvard Munch Pop-Ups by Courtney Watson McCarthy
RRP: £19.99£13.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788293560357Author Courtney Watson McCarthyFormat HardbackPage Count 6Imprint Munch MuseumPublisher Munch MuseumWeight(grams) 760g -
Posters for a Green New Deal: 50 Removable Posters to Inspire Change by Demond Creative Action Network
RRP: £18.99£15.52"The Green New Deal is the most exciting idea in American politics for decades--and as theses powerful posters make clear, it's grabbed the attention not just of policy wonks but of artists who can translate these ideas into images that move us."--Bill... -
Imperial Illusions: Crossing Pictorial Boundaries in the Qing Palaces by Kristina Kleutghen
RRP: £58.00£51.77In the Forbidden City and other palaces around Beijing, Emperor Qianlong (r. 1736-1795) surrounded himself with monumental paintings of architecture, gardens, people, and faraway places. The best artists of the imperial painting academy, including a... -
Chunghi Choo and Her Students: Contemporary Art and New Forms in Metal by Jane Milosch
RRP: £54.00£37.23Chunghi Choo (b. 1938 in South Korea) is a world-renowned metalsmith and jewellery artist who is best known for her works that incorporate such techniques as electroforming and electro-applique. Choo's artwork is represented in major museums around the... -
Monarch of the Glen by Christopher Baker 9781911054177
RRP: £9.95£6.78The Monarch of the Glen by Sir Edwin Landseer (1802 1873) is one of the most celebrated paintings of the nineteenth century. It was acquired by the National Galleries of Scotland in 2017. In this new book, the first to focus in detail on this iconic... -
Christo and Jeanne-Claude. Barrels and The Mastaba 1958-2018 by Paul Goldberger
RRP: £40.00£25.60In 2018, London's Hyde Park was home to Christo and Jeanne-Claude's latest installation: The Mastaba (Project for London, Hyde Park, Serpentine Lake). The temporary sculpture took cues from mastabas of the first urban civilizations of Mesopotamia, which... -
French Paintings 1500–1900 by Michael Clarke 9781911054641
RRP: £169.00£109.64The Scottish National Gallery’s outstanding collection of French paintings is described fully in this two-volume illustrated catalogue. Underpinned by extensive scholarly research, this comprehensive work includes many of the great names, including... -
Decoded Messages: The Symbolic Language of Chinese Animal Painting by Hou-Mei Sung 9780300141528
RRP: £55.00£48.09During the Ming Dynasty numerous new animal themes were created to convey political and ethical messages current at court. As the result a sophisticated language of Chinese animal painting was developed, employing both the animals' symbolic associations... -
A Closer Look: Pictorial Space by Nicholas Penny 9781857096163
RRP: £9.99£8.59For more than six centuries, European painters have been ambitious to depict objects as if they possessed volume, placing them in a space that seems equivalent to the real space of our world. This "fiction" was central to the artist's purpose... -
Christopher Williams: Kölnische Dramaturgie by Christopher Williams 9783753304571
RRP: £30.00£29.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783753304571Author Christopher WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther KonigPublisher Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther... -
Robin Rhode: The Geometry of Colour by Robin Rhode
RRP: £32.00£21.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857236537Author Ashraf JamalFormat HardbackPage Count 168Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 1270g -
The Museum of the Senses: Experiencing Art and Collections by Constance Classen
£27.40Traditionally sight has been the only sense with a ticket to enter the museum. The same is true of histories of art, in which artworks are often presented as purely visual objects. In The Museum of the Senses Constance Classen offers a new way of... -
Household Servants and Slaves: A Visual History, 1300-1700 by Diane Wolfthal
RRP: £35.00£29.57The first book-length study of household servants and slaves, exploring a visual history over 400 years and four continents The first book-length study of both images of ordinary household workers and their material culture, Household Servants and... -
Start Your Engines by Scott Robertson 9781848566873
RRP: £24.99£18.92"Start Your Engines" compiles works from Scott Robertson's, vast archives of ground vehicle drawings and renderings, and features the following chapters: Cars, Bicycles, Snowcraft Mechanimals and selected work from the conceptual design of...