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Saul Steinberg: Between the Lines by Saul Steinberg
RRP: $62.98$46.03Romanian-born Saul Steinberg (1914-1999) had one of the most remarkable careers in American art. While renowned for the covers and drawings that appeared in The New Yorker for nearly six decades, he was equally acclaimed for the drawings, paintings,... -
On Art and Mindfulness by Enrique Martinez Celaya 9780979975295
RRP: $41.98$36.83In On Art and Mindfulness, world-renowned artist and celebrated teacher Enrique Martinez Celaya shares his views and advice on the art-making process, the development of a practice, the management of obstacles, and the day-to-day choices we must make in... -
John Salminen - Master of the Urban Landscape: From realism to abstractions in watercolor John Salminen 9781440348228
RRP: $84.00$58.28John Salminen is one of the most accomplished watercolor artists working today, earning awards and recognition all over the world. Whether depicting the trees of Central Park, the architecture of San Francisco or the busy streets of Beijing, John... -
Transfigurations by Alex Grey
RRP: $71.40$46.60Every once in a great while an artist emerges who does more than simply reflect the social trends of the time. These artists are able to transcend established thinking and help us redefine ourselves and our world. Today a growing number of art critics... -
America's Cool Modernism: O'Keeffe to Hopper by Katherine Bourgignon
RRP: $52.50$35.24As some American artists began to eliminate people and remove extraneous details from their compositions, they often employed neat, orderly brushwork or close-up, unemotional photography. Artists as diverse as Patrick Henry Bruce, John Covert, Georgia... -
Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas by Rebecca Solnit 9780520262508
RRP: $52.50$41.98What makes a place? "Infinite City", Rebecca Solnit's brilliant reinvention of the traditional atlas, searches out the answer by examining the many layers of meaning in one place, the San Francisco Bay Area. Aided by artists, writers, cartographers, and... -
Reading Cy Twombly: Poetry in Paint by Mary Jacobus 9780691170725
RRP: $88.20$71.48Many of Cy Twombly's paintings and drawings include handwritten words and phrases--naming or quoting poets ranging from Sappho, Homer, and Virgil to Mallarme, Rilke, and Cavafy. Enigmatic and sometimes hard to decipher, these inscriptions are a... -
Spray Nation: 1980s NYC Graffiti Photos by Martha Cooper
RRP: $73.50$56.55If you were a graffiti writer in 1980s New York City, you wanted Martha Cooper to document your work-and she probably did. Cooper has spent decades immortalizing art that is often overlooked, and usually illegal. Her first book, 1984's Subway Art (a... -
In the Flow by Boris Groys
$36.67In the early 20th century, art and its institutions came under critique from a new democratic and egalitarian spirit. In an age of secularism and materialism, artworks would be understood as merely things among other things. This meant an attack on the... -
David Park: A Retrospective by Janet Bishop 9780520304376
RRP: $71.40$60.00This generously illustrated volume is the first comprehensive publication devoted to the powerfully expressive work of David Park (1911-60). Best known as the founder of Bay Area Figurative art, Park moved from Boston to California at the age of... -
Norman Rockwell: Drawings, 1911-1976 Stephanie Haboush Plunkett 9780789214102
RRP: $60.88$41.58Before Norman Rockwell put paintbrush to canvas, he had a precise idea of what he wanted to create. A perfectionist and analytical thinker, Rockwell completed numerous preparatory drawings in the process of developing his paintings, much like the Old... -
Winslow Homer - Crosscurrents by Stephanie L. Herdrich
RRP: $84.00$71.38This timely study of Winslow Homer highlights his imagery of the Atlantic world and reveals themes of racial, political, and natural conflict across his career Long celebrated as the quintessential New England regionalist, Winslow Homer (1836-1910) in... -
American Magus Harry Smith: A Modern Alchemist by Paola Igliori
RRP: $37.78$25.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635901641Author Paola IglioriFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher Semiotext (E) -
The Dream Colony: A Life in Art by Walter Hopps
RRP: $63.00$50.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632865298Author Walter HoppsFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Bloomsbury USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PlcWeight(grams) 663g -
Warner Bros.: 100 Years of Storytelling by Mark Vieira
RRP: $73.50$62.56In this official centennial history of the greatest studio in Hollywood, unforgettable stars, untold stories, and rare images from the Warner Bros. vault bring a century of entertainment to vivid life.The history of Warner Bros. is not just the tale of a... -
Kristine Potter: Dark Waters by Kristine Potter 9781597115568
RRP: $105.00$70.12Dark Waters, Kristine Potter's second monograph, continues her engagement with the American landscape as a palimpsest for cultural ideologies. In this dark and brooding series, Potter reflects on the Southern Gothic landscape as evoked in the popular... -
Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life by Allan Kaprow
RRP: $58.80$45.78Allan Kaprow's 'happenings' and 'environments' were the precursors to contemporary performance art, and his essays are some of the most thoughtful, provocative, and influential of his generation. His sustained inquiry into the paradoxical relationship of... -
Drawn Craig Frazier 9781957183916
RRP: $83.90$55.50Drawn is a compendium of Craig Frazier's illustrations for the most prominent publications and businesses in America and abroad. The book presents over 250 illustrations and sketches curated from a career spanning over 40 years. Respected by design peers... -
The Gibson Girl and Her America: The Best Drawings of Charles Dana Gibson by Charles Dana Gibson 9780486473338
RRP: $38.83$27.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486473338Author Charles Dana GibsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Winslow Homer and His Cullercoats Paintings: An American Artist in England's North East by David Tatham 9780815611301
$51.41When Winslow Homer sailed to England in March of 1881, he was already well established as a leading member of his generation of American artists. Critics often referred to him as the "most American of American artists", combining praise with the... -
Noah Davis: In Detail Helen Molesworth 9781644230763
RRP: $136.50$87.47Designed as a companion to the hugely successful monograph Noah Davis, this volume offers further insight into the impact and legacy of the revolutionary Los Angeles artist and activist. ---------- "Embedding his dreams on canvas and in the community,... -
American Art Deco: Modernistic Architecture and Regionalism by Carla Breeze 9780393019704
RRP: $100.78$87.40Art deco architecture flourished in large cities and small towns throughout America in the 1920s and 1930s. Many of the best examples office buildings, movie theaters, hotels, and churches are still in use. Deco architects, artists, and designers drew on... -
Beguiled by the Wild the Art of Charley Harper Charley Harper 9780764972294
RRP: $63.00$47.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780764972294Author Charley HarperFormat HardbackPage Count 132Imprint Pomegranate Communications Inc,USPublisher Pomegranate Communications... -
Women Artists in Midcentury America: A History in Ten Exhibitions by Daniel Belasco 9781789148435
RRP: $60.90$50.30In Women Artists in Midcentury America, readers embark on a journey spanning two decades, delving into the evolving social and artistic landscapes through the lens of all-women exhibitions. These groundbreaking projects courageously confronted issues of... -
Lenore Tawney: Mirror of the Universe by Karen Patterson
RRP: $81.90$73.90Recent years have seen an enormous surge of interest in fiber arts, with works made of thread on display in art museums around the world. But this art form only began to transcend its origins as a humble craft in the late nineteenth and early twentieth... -
The Experimenters: Chance and Design at Black Mountain College by Eva Diaz
RRP: $73.50$62.94Practically every major artistic figure of the mid-twentieth century spent some time at Black Mountain College: Harry Callahan, Merce Cunningham, Walter Gropius, Willem and Elaine de Kooning, Robert Motherwell, Robert Rauschenberg, Aaron Siskind, Cy... -
An American Experiment: George Bellows and the Ashcan Painters David Peters Corbett 9781857095272
RRP: $20.98$18.04In the first decades of the 20th century, George Bellows and other painters of the Ashcan School, a loosely connected group of gritty, urban realists, created images of the city from street level. Following older artist Robert Henri's insistence that... -
John Waters: Indecent Exposure by Kristen Hileman 9780520300477
RRP: $88.20$72.74It has been more than fifty years since John Waters filmed his first short on the roof of his parents' Baltimore home. Over the following decades, Waters has developed a reputation as an uncompromising cultural force not only in cinema, but also in... -
Corita Kent: Gentle Revolutionary of the Heart by Rose Pacatte
$21.13Corita Kent, an American nun and pop artist, led a life of creativity and love that took her in unexpected directions. In this engaging portrait, Sr. Rose Pacatte, FSP, offers an in-depth look at Corita Kent, gentle revolutionary of the heart, letting... -
American Modern: Hopper to O'Keefe Kathy Curry 9780870708527
RRP: $63.00$42.84American Modern presents a fresh look at The Museum of Modern Art's holdings of American art made between 1915 and 1950, and considers the cultural preoccupations of a rapidly changing American society in the first half of the 20th century. Organized... -
Cruising the Dead River: David Wojnarowicz and New York's Ruined Waterfront by Fiona Anderson
RRP: $58.80$57.52In the 1970s, Manhattan's west side waterfront was a forgotten zone of abandoned warehouses and piers. Though many saw only blight, the derelict neighborhood was alive with queer people forging new intimacies through cruising. Alongside the piers' sexual... -
The Obama Portraits by Taina Caragol 9780691203287
RRP: $46.20$31.84A richly illustrated celebration of the paintings of President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama From the moment of their unveiling at the National Portrait Gallery in early 2018, the portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama have become two of the... -
Conversation Pieces: Community and Communication in Modern Art by Grant H. Kester 9780520275942
RRP: $63.00$48.91Some of the most innovative art of the past decade has been created far outside conventional galleries and museums. In a parking garage in Oakland, California; on a pleasure boat on the Lake of Zurich in Switzerland; at a public market in Chiang Mai,... -
Landscape into Eco Art: Articulations of Nature Since the '60s by Mark Cheetham
RRP: $73.40$66.34Dedicated to an articulation of the earth from broadly ecological perspectives, eco art is a vibrant subset of contemporary art that addresses the widespread public concern with rapid climate change and related environmental issues. In Landscape into Eco... -
Making The Met, 1870-2020 Andrea Bayer 9781588397096
RRP: $84.00$73.90The Metropolitan Museum of Art celebrates 150 years by presenting its evolution into one of the world's greatest museums and its vision for the future Published to celebrate the Museum's 150th anniversary, Making The Met examines the institution's... -
Art as Art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt by Barbara Rose
RRP: $56.70$47.90Ad Reinhardt is probably best known for his black paintings, which aroused as much controversy as admiration in the American art world when they were first exhibited in the 1950s. Although his ideas about art and life were often at odds with those of his... -
A Generous Vision: The Creative Life of Elaine de Kooning by Cathy Curtis 9780190498474
RRP: $73.48$68.75The first biography of Elaine de Kooning, A Generous Vision portrays a woman whose intelligence, droll sense of humor, and generosity of spirit endeared her to friends and gave her a starring role in the close-knit world of New York artists. Her zest for... -
Edward Hopper: Graphic Novel by Sergio Rossi
RRP: $41.98$31.50This groundbreaking graphic novel delves into the life of the acclaimed artist Edward Hooper, whose iconic works depict quintessentially American scenes and experiences. While many of Hopper's most acclaimed works have been embraced by American culture,... -
Hans Hofmann: The Nature of Abstraction by Lucinda Barnes 9780520294479
RRP: $96.60$75.77Hans Hofmann: The Nature of Abstraction offers a fresh and revealing assessment of the artist's prolific and innovative painterly career. The comprehensive exhibition and accompanying catalogue will feature approximately seventy paintings and works on... -
Norman Rockwell's Models: In and Out of the Studio by S.T. Haggerty 9781538170359
RRP: $73.50$65.00In 1940, America's favorite illustrator Norman Rockwell, his wife Mary and their three sons moved to the picturesque rural village of West Arlington, Vermont. The artist discovered a treasure trove of models. Norman Rockwell's Models: In and out of the...