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Explorer: Futuristic Vehicles for Uncharted Lands by Christian Grajewski
RRP: $58.48$38.61Apologies 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: $107.25$93.78From 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... -
Florine Stettheimer Karin Althaus 9783777436326
RRP: $23.40$15.60"I was thrilled", was Andy Warhol's enthusiastic reaction to the pictures of Florine Stettheimer (1871-1944). Many of the elements of her work inspired his Pop Art. During Stettheimer's life her sensuous and ironic paintings with their numerous figures... -
The Seventh BMW Art Guide by Independent Collectors BMW Group, Independent Collectors 9783775753135
RRP: $35.10$22.41The revised and extended BMW Art Guide by Independent Collectors presents more than 270 private collections of contemporary art accessible to the public-featuring large and small, famous and the relatively unknown. Succinct portraits of the collections... -
Pinball Wizards and Blacklight Destroyers: The Art of Dirty Donny Gillies by Donny Gillies
RRP: $62.38$42.84Pop-art connoisseurs are treated to a mind-bending journey through the blistering paintings of San Francisco artist Dirty Donny Gillies. Take a visual tour of his vibrant, hand-drawn and screen-printed poster art series "Blacklight Rebellion" and... -
The Paris Letters of Thomas Eakins by Thomas Eakins 9780691138084
RRP: $58.50$45.42The most revealing and interesting writings of American artist Thomas Eakins are the letters he sent to family and friends while he was a student in Paris between 1866 and 1870. This book presents all these letters in their entirety for the first time;... -
African Modernism in America Perrin Lathrop 9781885444110
RRP: $68.25$57.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781885444110Author Perrin LathropFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint American Federation of Arts,U.S.Publisher American Federation of Arts,U.S. -
Big Art / Small Art by Tristan Manco
RRP: $33.13$25.10Scale is being taken to new extremes in art: big and bold on the one hand, intricate and intimate on the other. This book is divided into two sections - big art and small art - and includes profiles of forty-five contemporary artists who are... -
Breaking Resemblance: The Role of Religious Motifs in Contemporary Art by Alena Alexandrova
RRP: $124.80$108.50In recent decades curators and artists have shown a distinct interest in religion, its different traditions, manifestations in public life, gestures and images. Breaking Resemblance explores the complex relationship between contemporary art and religion... -
Painting out of the Ordinary: Modernity and the Art of Everday Life in Early Nineteenth-Century England by David H. Solkin 9780300140613
RRP: $87.75$78.06At the height of the Napoleonic Wars, a new generation of painters led by the precociously talented David Wilkie took London's art world by storm. Their novel approach to the depiction of everyday life marked the beginning a trajectory that links the art... -
Imagining Identity in New Spain: Race, Lineage, and the Colonial Body in Portraiture and Casta Paintings by Magali Marie Carrera 9780292744172
RRP: $38.98$34.20Using an interdisciplinary approach that also considers legal, literary, and religious documents of the period, Magali Carrera focuses on eighteenth-century portraiture and casta paintings to understand how the people and spaces of New Spain were... -
The Lego Zoo by Jody Padulano
RRP: $37.03$24.86The LEGO Zoo book shows kids of any age how to build 50 simple animal models using only standard LEGO parts that are already likely to be in their collection. Readers learn how to build models of animals like crocodiles, zebras, wolves, lions, flamingos,... -
Nature and Culture: American Landscape and Painting, 1825-1875 by Barbara Novak 9780195305869
$97.83In this richly illustrated volume, featuring more than fifty black-and-white illustrations and a beautiful eight-page color insert, Barbara Novak describes how for fifty extraordinary years, American society drew from the idea of Nature its most... -
Sound Design for Low & No Budget Films Patrick Winters 9781138839441
RRP: $77.98$71.04Don't let your indie film be sabotaged by bad sound! One of the weakest technical aspects of a low or no budget short or feature film is usually the sound, and in Sound Design for Low and No Budget Films, author Patrick Winters explains what filmmakers... -
Color Scheme: An Irreverent History of Art and Pop Culture in Color Palettes by Edith Young
RRP: $35.08$23.19Color Scheme explores an alternative way of seeing through gridded systems of colors, or palettes," to take readers on a visual journey through art history and pop culture. From the various shades of pink used by artists to describe the blush of Madame... -
Lives of Tintoretto by Carlo Corsato 9781843681724
RRP: $21.43$14.43The most exhilarating painter of the Renaissance and arguably of the whole of western art, Tintoretto was known as 'Il Furioso' because of the attack and energy of his style. His vaunting ambition is recorded in the inscription he placed in his studio: l... -
The Business of Television by Ken Basin
RRP: $74.08$67.67In this book, esteemed television executive and Harvard lecturer Ken Basin offers a comprehensive overview of the business, financial, and legal structure of the U.S. television industry, as well as its dealmaking norms. Written for working or aspiring... -
Three Icelandic Outlaw Sagas: "The Saga of Gisli", "The Saga of Grettir", "The Saga of Hord" by Anthony Faulkes
RRP: $23.40$19.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780903521666Author Anthony FaulkesFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Viking Society for Northern ResearchPublisher Viking Society for Northern... -
Baroque Seville: Sacred Art in a Century of Crisis by Amanda Wunder 9780271076645
RRP: $173.45$154.95Baroque art flourished in seventeenth-century Seville during a tumultuous period of economic decline, social conflict, and natural disasters. This volume explores the patronage that fueled this frenzy of religious artistic and architectural activity and... -
Mediums and Magical Things: Statues, Paintings, and Masks in Asian Places by Laurel Kendall
RRP: $58.50$45.42Statues, paintings, and masks-like the bodies of shamans and spirit mediums-give material form and presence to otherwise invisible entities, and sometimes these objects are understood to be enlivened, agentive on their own terms. This book explores how... -
Vermeer and the Art of Love by Aneta Georgievska-Shine
RRP: $77.98$59.14Vermeer and the Art of Love is about the emotions evoked in those elegant interiors in which a young woman may be writing a letter to her absent beloved or playing a virginal in the presence of an admirer. But it is also about the love we sense in the... -
Man Ray: Other Objects by Yuval Etgar 9783753305349
$59.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783753305349Author Yuval EtgarFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther KonigPublisher Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther... -
Masaccio and Masolino: A Complete Catalogue by Paul Joannides 9780714823980
RRP: $243.75$184.35The names of Masaccio (1401-28) and Masolino (1383-1440) are inseparable, and their collaboration is an essential starting point for the study of either artist. Masaccio's Holy Trinity and the recently cleaned collaborative frescos in the Brancacci... -
The Snake and the Lightning: Aby Warburg's American Journey by Uwe Fleckner 9783775751605
RRP: $74.10$47.27Aby Warburg in America: An Album When Aby Warburg left for the United States in September 1895, it was not foreseeable that his search for the symbolic foundations of art would become one of the most fascinating events in the history of his field... -
Tree of Pearls: The Extraordinary Architectural Patronage of the 13th-Century Egyptian Slave-Queen Shajar al-Durr by D. Fairchild Ruggles
RRP: $60.43$44.56Shajar al-Durr--known as "Tree of Pearls"--began her remarkable career as a child slave, given as property to the Ayyubid Sultan Salih of Egypt. She became his favorite concubine, was manumitted, became the sultan's wife, served as governing regent, and... -
Death Wins a Goldfish: Reflections from a Grim Reaper's Yearlong Sabbatical by Brian Rea 9781452172552
RRP: $21.43$16.24Even Death cares about his work-life balance...Death never takes a day off. Until he gets a letter from the HR department insisting he use up his accrued vacation time, that is. In this humorous and heartfelt book from beloved illustrator Brian Rea,... -
This is my New York: Do-It-Yourself City Journal by Petra de Hamer
RRP: $25.33$22.43This is the fourth of a DIY city guide series on the market, now with the most popular city in the USA: New York City. These guides are colouring and creative activity books, travel notebooks, and city guides all in one. Each book contains beautiful... -
Women Artists, Feminism and the Moving Image: Contexts and Practices by Lucy Reynolds
$73.92A diverse range of leading scholars, activists, archivists and artists explore the histories, practices and concerns of women making film and video across the world, from the pioneering German animator Lotte Reiniger, to the influential African American... -
The Collected Essays and Criticism: v. 3: Affirmations and Refusals, 1950-56 by Clement Greenberg 9780226306230
RRP: $58.50$57.04Clement Greenberg is widely recognized as the most influential and articulate champion of modernism during its American ascendency after World War II, the period largely covered by these highly acclaimed volumes of _The Collected Essays and Criticism_... -
Leonora Carrington and the International Avant-Garde by Catriona McAra
RRP: $58.50$42.33Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) was an English surrealist artist and writer who emigrated to Mexico after the Second World War. This volume approaches Carrington as a major international figure in modern and contemporary art, literature and thought. It... -
Word And Image: The Art Of The Early Middle Ages, 600-1050 William J. Diebold 9780813338798
RRP: $97.48$84.83This book provides an introduction to early medieval art, both the images themselves and the methods used to study them, focusing on the relationship of word and image, a relationship that was central in northern Europe and the Mediterranean from about... -
Draw and Color the Baylee Jae Way: Characters, Clothing and Settings Step by Step by Jae Baylee
RRP: $38.98$26.03Learn how to draw and color the Baylee Jae way! YouTube superstar cartoonist and illustrator Baylee Jae presents her first-ever art instruction book! It's an easy-to-follow complete cartoon-style course covering everything from basic materials and... -
Bernard Frize by David Rhodes 9781848223479
RRP: $97.48$50.21This is the first full-length monograph on the paintings of Bernard Frize (b.1949), an artist whose work straddles movements and styles from Colour Field to Minimalism, Fluxus, and Conceptual Art. Frize's works utilise a carefully constructed range of... -
The Making of Modern Art: Selected Writings by Michael Peppiatt
RRP: $53.63$44.64Selected writings from a leading critic of modern art, "the best art writer of his generation" (Art Newspaper) Michael Peppiatt, guest curator of the Royal Academy of Arts' 2021 exhibition 'Francis Bacon: Man and Beast', has for more than 50 years... -
What's Next?: Eco Materialism and Contemporary Art by Linda Weintraub
RRP: $60.35$54.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783209408Author Linda WeintraubFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Intellect BooksPublisher Intellect Books -
Face to Face with Hugo van der Goes: Old Master, New Interpretation Marijn Everaarts 9789464366716
RRP: $68.25$43.74An 'atypical' Flemish primitive unravelled: Hugo van der Goes In this fascinating introduction to the work and life of Flemish Primitive Hugo van der Goes (c. 1440-1482/1483), several experts and researchers shed light on the virtuosity of the master... -
The Hiscox Collection 1970-2020: Gary Hume and Sol Calero Explore the Hiscox Collection Whitney Hintz 9780854882878
RRP: $68.25$45.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780854882878Author Whitney HintzFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Whitechapel GalleryPublisher Whitechapel Gallery -
After Criticism: New Responses to Art and Performance by Gavin Butt 9780631232841
RRP: $79.85$69.99It has recently become apparent that criticism has fallen on hard times. Either commodification is deemed to have killed it off, or it has become institutionally routine. This book explores contemporary approaches which have sought to renew criticism's... -
Nam June Paik: Art in Process by John Hanhardt
RRP: $150.15$109.28Nam June Paik (1932-2006) broke new ground in late-twentieth-century art, working on a global stage to transform video into an art medium. This book reflects on Paik s working method as well as the ideas and materials that inspired his art practice. It... -
On Art and War and Terror by Alex Danchev 9780748642595
RRP: $48.73$44.28This book, a collection of Alex Danchev's essays on the theme of art, war and terror, newly available in paperback, offers a sustained demonstration of the way in which works of art can help us to explore the most difficult ethical and political issues...