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Alice Neel - People Come First by Kelly Baum
RRP: £35.00£30.57Positioning Alice Neel as a champion of civil rights, this book explores how her paintings convey her humanist politics and capture the humanity, strength, and vulnerability of her subjects "One of the most ambitious and thorough collections of Neel's... -
An Anecdoted Topography Of Chance by Daniel Spoerri 9781900565738
RRP: £18.99£17.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781900565738Author Daniel SpoerriFormat HardbackPage Count 274Imprint Atlas PressPublisher Atlas PressWeight(grams) 683g -
Gilbert Spencer: The Life and Work of a Very English Artist by Paul Gough 9780300269819
RRP: £30.00£25.85The first biography of Gilbert Spencer, recounting the life and career of a long-overlooked twentieth-century British artist Gilbert Spencer (1892–1979) was a British painter, muralist, illustrator, teacher, and writer whose career spanned more than... -
The Jean-Michel Basquiat Reader: Writings, Interviews, and Critical Responses by Jordana Moore Saggese 9780520305168
RRP: £30.00£23.69The first comprehensive collection of the words and works of a movement-defining artist. Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) burst onto the art scene in the summer of 1980 as one of approximately one hundred artists exhibiting at the 1980 Times Square... -
The Doodle Revolution by Sunni Brown 9781591847038
RRP: £18.99£12.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781591847038Author Sunni BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint PortfolioPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 457gDimensions(mm) 205mm * 205mm * 9mm -
An Illustrated Coastal Year: The seashore uncovered season by season by Celia Lewis
RRP: £20.00£15.72A beautifully illustrated and informative anthology of coastal wildlife throughout the year. They say that no one in the British Isles lives more than an hour or two from the coast, a coastline of contrasts with scenery that changes from estuaries,... -
Popular Pleasures: An Introduction to the Aesthetics of Popular Visual Culture by Professor Emeritus Paul Duncum
£30.16Today's many popular aesthetic pleasures have a very long history. Paul Duncum considers the historical critical discourses, and socio-political issues raised by aesthetic pleasures in fifteen thematic chapters. Using illustrative examples from the past,... -
Reportage Drawing: Vision and Experience by Louis Netter 9781350253087
RRP: £19.99£16.54How does drawing shape the truth and our understanding of the visual world? Why has the act of reportage drawing persisted and thrived in our ever-changing media landscape? This book offers a deep dive into the world of reportage drawing, a world... -
Read This if You Want to Be Great at Drawing by Selwyn Leamy
RRP: £14.99£9.80This book demystifies the art and practice of drawing. Through fifty drawings by great masters past and present, the techniques and ideas behind their master sketches will put you on the path to making your own great drawings. The entries... -
Claude Champy: Stardust / Poussières d’étoiles by Muriel Champy 9783897906969
RRP: £49.00£32.73The Frenchman Claude Champy (*1944) brings together man and the cosmos in his ceramics. In his studio, mechanical, geological, and chemical processes fuse to form a ceramic total work of art - guided by the barely visible yet influential human gesture... -
Experimental Drawing, 30th Anniversary Edition by Robert Kaupelis
RRP: £21.99£14.96Stimulating exercises to help beginner to advanced students push the boundaries of traditional drawing.As with most art forms, it's best to comprehend traditional drawing techniques before you break the rules. But once you've mastered the basics, you may... -
What Painting Is by James Elkins
RRP: £36.99£32.53In this classic text, James Elkins communicates the experience of painting beyond the traditional vocabulary of art history. Alchemy provides a strange language to explore what it is a painter really does in the studio-the smells, the mess, the struggle... -
Postures: Body Language in Art by Desmond Morris
RRP: £24.95£17.35Examining the body language displayed in works of art is a whole new way of looking at art. The gestures portrayed can reflect the mores of a particular period in history, the customs of a certain culture or a fashion in artistic styles. Exploring these... -
The World Of The Witcher by CD Projekt Red
RRP: £44.99£31.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616554828Author CD Projekt RedFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint Dark Horse ComicsPublisher Dark Horse ComicsWeight(grams) 1296g -
Art from the First World War by Richard Slocombe 9781904897897
RRP: £9.99£7.06Showcasing IWM's extensive collection, this book includes works from the major artists of the time such as John and Paul Nash, Orpen, Spencer and Singer Sargent as well as other artists who are less familiar to us today. With an introductory essay by the... -
Waymaking: An anthology of women's adventure writing, poetry and art by Melissa Harrison 9781910240755
RRP: £25.00£18.24Winner: Mountain Literature (Non Fiction) The Jon Whyte Award, Banff Mountain Book Competition 2019Waymaking is an anthology of prose, poetry and artwork by women who are inspired by wild places, adventure and landscape.Published in 1961, Gwen Moffat's... -
Coast: Where The Land Meets The Sea by David Ross
RRP: £19.99£14.65Beaches, marshes, mangroves; cliffs, deserts, forests; bays, deltas, estuaries - coastlines take many different forms and are put to very different uses. From deserted beaches to busy ports, from pretty fishing villages to a surfers' paradise, a salt... -
Productive Archiving: Artistic Strategies, Future Memories & Fluid Identities by Ernst Van Alphen
RRP: £25.00£23.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789493246164Author Ernst Van AlphenFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint ValizPublisher ValizWeight(grams) 422gDimensions(mm) 238mm * 168mm * 24mm -
Zentangle 10, Workbook Edition by CZT Suzanne McNeill 9781574213874
RRP: £5.99£4.15The design possibilities of Zentangle extend in many dimensions! Combine the art forms of paper crafts and tangling to create memorable 3D keepsakes and one-of-a-kind gifts for every season. Inside you'll discover wonderful paper projects for booklets,... -
The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination by Fiona MacCarthy
RRP: £25.00£17.59Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, this is the biography of celebrated nineteenth-century artist Edward Burne-Jones, who - with William Morris - connects Victorian and modern art.'A triumph of biographical art.' Independent'Magnificent.'... -
Journey of the Mind by Koi 9781910221358
RRP: £30.00£21.35Journey of the Mind is the first publication from Without Shape Without Form (WSWF), an arts organisation and arts space established in 2017 by volunteers from the Guru Maneyo Granth Gurdwara (GMGG) in Slough, England. WSWF is the UK's first, and... -
Draw Some Awesome: Drawing Tips & Ideas for Budding Artists by Donovan Bixley
RRP: £8.99£5.82International award-winning illustrator Donovan Bixley brings his unique style to teaching kids (and grown-ups!) to draw. In a book that spans all levels of skill, Donovan takes his readers through warm-up and imagination exercises, before moving onto... -
The Mammoth Book of Hollywood Scandals by Michelle Morgan 9781472100337
RRP: £9.99£6.29Murders, suicides, unexplained deaths, scandalous romances, illegitimate children, cover-ups, and more, from the 1920s to Hollywood's Golden Age in the 1960s and right up to the present day.It covers over 60 scandals including: The Roscoe 'Fatty'... -
I Strongly Believe in Incredible Things by Rob Auton
RRP: £14.99£10.84A selection of the world's most incredible things according to award-winning writer, comedian, artist and podcaster Rob Auton I Strongly Believe In Incredible Things is a book of poetic prose, musings, short stories... -
The Great British Dream Factory: The Strange History of Our National Imagination by Dominic Sandbrook
RRP: £16.99£12.92'Delightfully good ... an exuberant and learned celebration of British culture ... full of love for and fascination with everything from the origins of heavy metal in the metal-bashing industries of the West Midlands to John Lennon's and Damien Hirst's... -
The Bible, Genesis, Exodus by Mark Chagall 9780811860451
RRP: £14.99£9.62The celebrated artist Marc Chagall began illustrating the Bible in 1931, and it became his lifelong passion. This extraordinary volume includes more than 150 of his finest works, paired with three books from the Old Testament. When a portion of these... -
Twenty Years of MAKE Magazine: Back to the Future of Women's Art by Maria Walsh
£26.93During the 1970s, adding 'women's' to 'art' was a powerfully political act. Fuelled by the momentum of the women's liberation movement, artists, art historians, critics and curators began to explore the women's art practice, as distinct from men's, and... -
I, Mona Lisa by Natasha Solomons
RRP: £9.99£7.11FROM THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR'A beautifully written, literary tour-de-force' John Ironmonger, author of Not Forgetting the Whale'A wonderfully written story of art, but also of obsession, friendship and love - I absolutely adored this novel'... -
The Graphic Works of Odilon Redon by Odilon Redon 9780486446592
RRP: £19.49£12.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486446592Author Isabel HapgoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Milton Glaser, POP by Steven Heller
RRP: £44.95£35.75'Milton Glaser's designs changed the way we see the world.' - Gloria Steinem An overview of the work of illustrator and designer Milton Glaser during the 1960s and 70s From 1954, when he co-founded the legendary Push Pin Studios, to the late '70s,... -
Quentin Tarantino: A Graphic Biography by Michele Botton 9780711290761
RRP: £14.99£10.08Unofficial and unauthorised. 'When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, "No, I went to films"'. From the set of 1993's Pulp Fiction, to a bar room meeting with Robert Rodriguez and an inspirational lunch with Leonardo di Caprio, this... -
The Painted Word by Tom Wolfe 9780312427580
RRP: £16.00£8.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312427580Author Tom WolfeFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm) 209mm * 140mm... -
Philip Guston by Musa Mayer
RRP: £14.99£9.80Written by Musa Mayer - Philip Guston's daughter and President of The Guston Foundation - this book brings Guston's life and his hugely rich and diverse output together into one succinct volume. Split into three sections covering Guston's early career,... -
Drawing Somerset's Past: An Illustrated Journey through History by Time Team Artist Victor Ambrus and Steve Minnitt by Victor Ambrus 9780750967860
RRP: £17.99£14.04This book tells the story of Somerset's archaeology and history, from the earliest times up to the twentieth century. Generously illustrated with drawings by the internationally renowned artist Victor Ambrus, best known for his appearances on Channel 4's... -
Renaissance Art: A Very Short Introduction by Geraldine A. Johnson
RRP: £8.99£6.45Botticelli, Holbein, Leonardo, Durer, Michelangelo: the names are familiar, as are the works, such as the Last Supper fresco, or the monumental marble statue of David. But who were these artists, why did they produce such memorable images, and how would... -
Pokémon: Book of Joy by Pokemon 9780008614218
RRP: £12.99£9.16"Anytime I've been sad or happy or really mad about something, Pokemon have always been there by my side, through it all." ASH KETCHUM Like our heroes Ash and Pikachu, we are all on a road to personal mastery. But life isn't always sunshine... -
Drawing Dynamic Hands by Burne Hogarth
RRP: £20.99£13.96The most comprehensive book ever published on drawing hands uses a revolutionary system for visualizing the hand in an almost infinite number of positions.About the AuthorBURNE HOGARTH (1911-1996), hailed as the "Michaelangelo of the comic strip," was... -
A Beginner's Guide to Quilling Paper Flowers: Beautiful Japanese-style Paper Art by Motoko Maggie Nakatani
RRP: £14.99£9.80Create exquisite, long-lasting quilled paper flowers with this step-by-step detailed guide! With the help of Japanese quilling expert Motoko Maggie Nakatani, you can create breathtaking quilled flowers with just a few inexpensive tools and paper quilling... -
Breaking the Rules: Paul Wonner and Theophilus Brown by Scott A. Shields
RRP: £55.00£38.99In reaction to the widespread pursuit of Abstract Expressionism in the late 1940s and early 1950s, Paul Wonner and William "Theophilus" Brown were among the artists in the San Francisco Bay Area who began to re-engage with the visible world, applying the... -
Women Artists: The Linda Nochlin Reader by Maura Reilly
RRP: £28.00£18.17Linda Nochlin (1931-2017) was one of the most pioneering and provocative art historians of our time. In 1971 she published her groundbreaking article, 'Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?', an impassioned feminist rallying cry that called...