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Imaging Disaster: Tokyo and the Visual Culture of Japan's Great Earthquake of 1923 by Gennifer Weisenfeld 9780520271951
RRP: £55.00£43.31Focusing on one landmark catastrophic event in the history of an emerging modern nation - the Great Kanto Earthquake that devastated Tokyo and surrounding areas in 1923 - this fascinating volume examines the history of the visual production of the... -
Translating Nature into Art: Holbein, the Reformation, and Renaissance Rhetoric by Jeanne Nuechterlein 9780271036922
RRP: £98.95£88.12Hans Holbein the Younger is best known for his work in Henry VIII's England, where he painted portraits and designed decorative objects for courtly circles. England, however, only accounts for half of Holbein's working life. He developed his artistic... -
Alien by H. R. Giger
RRP: £85.00£71.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783905929454Author H. R. GigerFormat HardbackPage Count 660Imprint Edition Patrick FreyPublisher Edition Patrick Frey -
Into Every Generation a Slayer Is Born: How Buffy Staked Our Hearts by Evan Ross Katz
RRP: £16.99£13.38Over the course of its seven-year run, Buffy the Vampire Slayer cultivated a loyal fandom and featured a strong, complex female lead, at a time when such a character was a rarity. Evan Ross Katz explores the show's cultural relevance through a book that... -
The Edwardian Sense: Art, Design, and Performance in Britain, 1901-1910 by Morna O'Neill
RRP: £45.00£38.63Although numerous studies have explored the Edwardian period (1901-1910) as one of political and social change, this innovative book is the first to explore how art, design, and performance not only registered those changes but helped to precipitate them... -
Naked City by Arthur Fellig Weegee
RRP: £16.99£11.50For Naked City, his first collection, Weegee cruised the streets of 1940s New York in the wee hours in search of the sensational. Lewd, louche, licentious but always brimming with life (except when brimming with death), Weegee's photographs have endured... -
Carving Facial Expressions by Ian Norbury 9780854420674
RRP: £14.00£9.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780854420674Author Ian NorburyFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Stobart Davies LtdPublisher Stobart Davies Ltd -
Splendors of Punjab Heritage: Art from the Khanuja Family Collection by Parvinderjit Singh Khanuja
RRP: £80.00£52.79Punjab, and especially Sikh art, has taken multiple forms ranging from scriptural manuscripts, floral adornments to illustrations and illuminations. This family collection showcases varied forms of jewellery, textiles, arms, coinage, along with... -
The Lowbrow Art of Robert Williams by Robert Williams
RRP: £25.00£16.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780867198973Author Robert WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Last Gasp,U.S.Publisher Last Gasp,U.S. -
Observation: Notation: Selected Writings of Andrew Forge, 1955–2002 by Andrew Forge
RRP: £14.99£13.23Andrew Forge was an English painter and a teacher of painting (Yale University 1975-1994), renowned and respected on both sides of the Atlantic. But he was also known for his writing on the arts, spanning almost fifty years, which was admired for the... -
Facing China: Truth and Memory in Portraiture by Richard Vinograd
RRP: £40.00£38.40Facing China is an exploration of the portrait arts in China from the dynastic to the modern and contemporary, in painting, sculpture, photography and video. The book focuses on truth and memory in the portraiture process, from encounters between... -
Wildly Into The Dark: Typewriter Poems And The Rattlings Of A Curious Mind by Tyler Knott Gregson
RRP: £14.99£9.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399176012Author Tyler Knott GregsonFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Tarcher/Putnam,USPublisher Tarcher/Putnam,USWeight(grams) 397gDimensions(mm)... -
Opening Up Middle English Manuscripts: Literary and Visual Approaches by Kathryn Kerby-Fulton
RRP: £44.00£39.94This deeply informed and lavishly illustrated book is a comprehensive introduction to the modern study of Middle English manuscripts. It is intended for students and scholars who are familiar with some of the major Middle English literary works, such as... -
Keith Haring Jean-Michel Basquiat: Crossing Lines by Dieter Buchhart
RRP: £45.00£39.36An exploration of the personal and artistic connections between two icons of twentieth-century art Keith Haring (1958-1990) and Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) changed the art world of the 1980s through their idiosyncratic imagery, radical ideas, and... -
Mother Stone: The Vitality of Modern British Sculpture by Anne Middleton Wagner 9780300106855
RRP: £30.00£25.85In Mother Stone Anne Middleton Wagner looks anew at the carvings of the first generation of British modernists, a group centered around Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, and Jacob Epstein. Wagner probes the work of these sculptors, discusses their shared... -
Strange Impressions Romaine Brooks 9781644230824
RRP: £10.95£7.38Most known for her bold and darkly painted portraits, Brooks was revolutionary in her feminist renderings of women in resistance. Openly queer, she challenged conceptions of gender and sexuality in her art, which also served as her refuge. While many of... -
Stan Lee's Master Class: Lessons in Drawing, World-Building, Storytelling, Manga, and Digital Comics from the Legendary Co-creator of Spider-Man, The Avengers, and The Incredible Hulk by Stan Lee
RRP: £21.99£14.56In this book, comics icon Lee provides aspiring comics artists with the modern tools they need to succeed in the world of comic-book creation. Focusing on topics like anatomy, perspective and character design, as well as brand-new topics like manga art... -
Persia Reframed: Iranian Visions of Modern and Contemporary Art by Fereshteh Daftari
RRP: £60.00£46.59The modern and contemporary art of Iran has often been understood, and positioned by commercial institutions, as decorative or ethnic - hence the focus on calligraphy and veiled women. While at a scholarly level it has been characterised as a comment on... -
Hilma af Klint: The Five's Sketchbooks, Nos. S2, S6 and S13: From 5 October 1896 to 10 January 1906 Hilma af Klint 9789189425415
RRP: £27.00£17.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789189425415Author Hilma af KlintFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Stolpe PublishingPublisher Stolpe PublishingWeight(grams) 1110g -
Alex Katz Catalogue Raisonné: Prints 1947-2022 by Gunhild Bauer
RRP: £148.00£90.96Before the rise of Pop Art proper, Alex Katz developed an iconic style of figurative painting in the early 1960s- influenced by film, television, and billboard advertising. Seemingly detached and incredibly stylish, he created portraits of the New York... -
Learn To Draw A Graffiti Master-Piece: Your Essential Guide To Tags, Bubble Letters, Wildstyle, Layout And Piecing by Graffiti Diplomacy 9780988777293
£16.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988777293Author Graffiti DiplomacyFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint Graffiti DiplomacyPublisher Graffiti DiplomacyWeight(grams) 658gDimensions(mm)... -
Remaking Brazil: Contested National Identities in Contemporary Brazilian Cinema by Tatiana Signorelli Heise 9780708325087
RRP: £15.00£13.21This volume examines Brazilian films released between 1995 and 2010, with special attention to issues of race, ethnicity and national identity.About the AuthorDr Tatiana Signorelli Heise is a Professor of Hispanic Studies at Manchester University... -
The Amazing Maurice: The Art of the Film by Ramin Zahed
RRP: £34.99£25.38The official art book for the animated movie The Amazing Maurice, based on the Carnegie Medal-winning Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett Maurice is a streetwise talking tomcat who comes up with a money-making scam by befriending a group of talking... -
Regeneration: Black Cinema, 1898-1971 by Doris Berger
RRP: £41.00£29.16The overlooked yet vibrant history of Black participation in American film, from the beginning of cinema through the civil rights movement From the dawn of the medium onward, Black filmmakers have helped define American cinema. Black performers,... -
Yummy!: The Good Girl Art of Matt Dixon by Matt Dixon
RRP: £12.99£8.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865622647Author Matt DixonFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint S Q Publications,USPublisher S Q Publications,USWeight(grams) 220g -
The Art of Cloth in Mughal India by Sylvia Houghteling
RRP: £60.00£50.10A richly illustrated history of textiles in the Mughal EmpireIn the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, a vast array of textiles circulated throughout the Mughal Empire. Made from rare fibers and crafted using virtuosic techniques, these exquisite... -
Out of Australia: Prints and Drawings from Sidney Nolan to Rover Thomas Stephen Coppel 9780714126722
RRP: £25.00£17.38This ground-breaking book follows the rise of a distinctive school of Australian art that first emerged in the 1940s. Beginning with the artists of the 'Angry Penguins' movement, Arthur Boyd, Albert Tucker, Joy Hester and Sidney Nolan, whose work... -
Ralli Quilts: Traditional Textiles from Pakistan and India by Patricia Ormsby Stoddard
RRP: £27.99£19.57This book tells the story of a fascinating quilting tradition found in southern Pakistan and neighboring western India. These quilts, called ralli, are stunning in their designs, brilliant in their colors, and intriguing in their history. The designs,... -
Retrospective Scences from a Sentimental World: Background Illustrations and Scenes by Up-and-Coming Artists by Pie International 9784756251497
RRP: £27.50£18.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784756251497Author PIE InternationalFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Pie International Co., Ltd.Publisher Pie International Co., Ltd. -
Practical Considerations for Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage by Michelle L. Stefano
RRP: £36.99£32.53Practical Considerations for Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage examines theoretical issues relating to intangible cultural heritage policy and practice, whilst also proposing practical ways to facilitate the safeguarding of such heritage... -
Goodbye, World! - Looking at Art in the Digital Age by Omar Kholeif
£20.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783956793097Author Omar KholeifFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Sternberg PressPublisher Sternberg PressWeight(grams) 666gDimensions(mm) 191mm * 127mm... -
What Does It Mean to Be Post-Soviet?: Decolonial Art from the Ruins of the Soviet Empire by Madina Tlostanova
RRP: £19.99£17.54In What Does It Mean to Be Post-Soviet? Madina Tlostanova traces how contemporary post-Soviet art mediates this human condition. Observing how the concept of the happy future-which was at the core of the project of Soviet modernity-has lapsed from the... -
The Witch as Muse: Art, Gender, and Power in Early Modern Europe by Linda C. Hults
RRP: £27.99£24.14Occult topics have long fascinated artists, and the subject of witches-their imagined bodies and fantastic rituals-was a popular one for painters and printmakers in early modern Europe. Focusing on several artists in depth, Linda C. Hults probes the... -
Rembrandt's Hundred Guilder Print: His Master Etching by Amy Golahny
RRP: £49.99£34.69Always recognised as a master print from the moment of its appearance around 1649, the Hundred Guilder Print is one of Rembrandt's most compositionally complex and visually beautiful works. This book gives a full overview of the... -
The Tarot Garden by Niki de St. Phalle
RRP: £24.95£17.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783716518342Author Niki de St. PhalleFormat HardbackPage Count 76Imprint Benteli VerlagPublisher Benteli VerlagWeight(grams) 500g -
The Synthetic Proposition: Conceptualism and the Political Referent in Contemporary Art Nizan Shaked 9781784992767
RRP: £30.00£21.71The synthetic proposition examines the impact of Civil Rights, Black Power, the student, feminist and sexual-liberty movements on conceptualism and its legacies in the United States between the late 1960s and the 1990s. It focuses on the turn to... -
Portfolio: Beginning Colored Pencil: Tips and techniques for learning to draw in colored pencil by Eileen Sorg
RRP: £12.99£9.09Beginning Colored Pencil lets you master the art of drawing with colored pencils. *Named One of the 54 Best Colored Pencil Drawing Books of All Time by BookAuthority* What medium is as immediately relatable as the colored pencil? Vibrant, versatile, and... -
Feast: Radical Hospitality in Contemporary Art by Stephanie Smith 9780935573527
£34.57The companion to a one-of-a-kind exhibition at the University of Chicago's Smart Museum of Art, "Feast: Radical Hospitality in Contemporary Art" explores the role of the meal in contemporary art. "Feast" offers the first survey of the artist-orchestrated... -
Explorer: Futuristic Vehicles for Uncharted Lands by Christian Grajewski
RRP: £29.99£19.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781624650529Author Christian GrajewskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Design Studio PressPublisher Design Studio Press -
Beyond the Nile - Egypt and the Classical World by Jeffrey Spier 9781606065518
RRP: £55.00£48.09From about 2000 BCE onward, Egypt served as an important nexus for cultural exchange in the eastern Mediterranean, importing and exporting not just wares but also new artistic techniques and styles. Egyptian, Greek, and Roman craftsmen imitated one...