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John Salminen - Master of the Urban Landscape: From realism to abstractions in watercolor by John Salminen
RRP: $78.00$58.48John 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... -
The Gibson Girl and Her America: The Best Drawings of Charles Dana Gibson by Charles Dana Gibson 9780486473338
RRP: $36.06$23.22Apologies 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)... -
Inspiring Walt Disney: The Animation of the French Decorative Arts at the Wallace Collection by Helen Jacobsen
RRP: $31.18$24.73Accompanying an exhibition at the Wallace Collection, Inspiring Walt Disney explores the influences of the art and architecture of France on Walt Disney and his studio artists, highlighting in particular the Disney classics of hand-drawn animation,... -
Reading Cy Twombly: Poetry in Paint by Mary Jacobus 9780691170725
RRP: $78.00$65.19Many 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... -
Winslow Homer - Crosscurrents by Stephanie L. Herdrich
RRP: $78.00$66.28This 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: $35.08$23.67Apologies 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) -
Irrational Judgments: Eva Hesse, Sol LeWitt, and 1960s New York by Kirsten J. Swenson
RRP: $82.88$70.22An intimate study of the friendship and creative dialogue between two artists, offering an in-depth understanding of their work and the upheavals of 1960s New YorkIrrational Judgments examines the close friendship and significant exchange of ideas... -
Tate Introductions: Andy Warhol by Stephanie Straine
RRP: $17.53$12.03An indispensable introduction to one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. Part of the pioneering Tate Introductions series. Andy Warhol's work reflected and commented on contemporary themes in American society:... -
Store Front NYC: Photographs of the City's Independent Shops, Past and Present by James Murray 9783791389646
RRP: $68.25$47.13This collection of hugely popular and critically acclaimed photos celebrates New York City's unique history and culture-from long-disappeared icons to still-thriving favorite haunts. For decades, husband-and-wife photography duo James and Karla Murray... -
Isabella Stewart Gardner: A Life by Nathaniel Silver
RRP: $39.00$30.30A major new biography of legendary art collector and philanthropist Isabella Stewart GardnerIsabella Stewart Gardner (1840-1924) assembled an extraordinary collection of art from diverse cultures and eras-and built a Venetian-style palazzo in Boston to... -
Drawn by Craig Frazier 9781957183916
RRP: $77.90$51.54Drawn 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... -
Noah Davis: In Detail by Helen Molesworth 9781644230763
RRP: $126.75$81.22Designed 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,... -
Basquiat-isms by Jean-Michel Basquiat
RRP: $21.43$17.45A collection of essential quotations and other writings from artist and icon Jean-Michel BasquiatOne of the most important artists of the late twentieth century, Jean-Michel Basquiat explored the interplay of words and images throughout his career as a... -
Art History, After Sherrie Levine by Howard Singerman 9780520267220
RRP: $58.50$45.28This book examines the career of New York-based artist Sherrie Levine, whose 1981 series of photographs "after Walker Evans" - taken not from life but from Evans's famous depression-era documents of rural Alabama - became central examples in theorizing... -
Beyond Portraits: John Singleton Copley and Benjamin West in England 1775-1815 by Allen Staley 9781916237803
RRP: $68.25$42.49This beautifully and thoroughly illustrated book, which constitutes the first serious investigation of the relationship between Benjamin West and John Singleton Copley, will be of considerable interest to both British and American art historians, and... -
Women Artists in Midcentury America: A History in Ten Exhibitions by Daniel Belasco 9781789148435
RRP: $56.55$48.63In 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... -
Conversation Pieces: Community and Communication in Modern Art by Grant H. Kester 9780520275942
RRP: $58.50$44.50Some 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,... -
An American Experiment: George Bellows and the Ashcan Painters by Professor David Peters Corbett 9781857095272
RRP: $19.48$16.75In 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... -
Pulp Power: The Shadow, Doc Savage, and the Art of the Street & Smith Universe by Neil McGinness
RRP: $87.75$66.57A visual treasury of the iconic Street & Smith pulp novel covers of the 1930s and 1940sPulp Power: The Shadow, Doc Savage, and the Street & Smith Universe gives fans a rare glimpse into the pre-war pulp novel decade of the 1930s, a period of bold action... -
Tastemakers, Collectors, and Patrons: Collecting American Art in the Long Nineteenth Century by Linda S. Ferber 9780271095240
RRP: $146.15$131.04Tastemakers, Collectors, and Patrons explores the dynamic landscape of American art collecting in the United States from the late eighteenth through the early twentieth centuries. The geographic range of collecting histories presented in this publication... -
Nancy Spero by Jon Bird
RRP: $54.50$42.96American artist Nancy Spero (b.1929) concentrates on the depiction of women: mythological women, movie women, tortured women. Inspired by classical and modern sources, she collages and imprints her contemporary goddesses on to long, papyrus-like friezes... -
Supernatural America: The Paranormal in American Art by Robert Cozzolino
RRP: $85.80$76.46America is haunted. Ghosts from its violent history-the genocide of Indigenous peoples, slavery, the threat of nuclear annihilation, and traumatic wars-are an inescapable and unsettled part of the nation's heritage. Not merely in the realm of metaphor... -
No More Masterpieces: Modern Art After Artaud by Lucy Bradnock
RRP: $107.25$102.39This 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... -
American Modern: Hopper to O'Keefe by Kathy Curry
RRP: $58.50$39.78American 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... -
Pier Groups: Art and Sex Along the New York Waterfront by Jonathan Weinberg
RRP: $58.40$52.24In 1970s New York City, the abandoned piers of the Hudson River became a site for extraordinary works of art and a popular place for nude sunbathing and anonymous sex. Jonathan Weinberg's provocative book-part art history, part memoir-weaves interviews,... -
Live Art in LA: Performance in Southern California, 1970 - 1983 by Peggy Phelan
RRP: $72.13$63.43Live Art in LA: Performance Art in Southern California , 1970-1983 documents and critically examines one of the most fecund periods in the history of live art. The book forms part of the Getty Institute's Pacific Standard Time initiative - a series of... -
Norman Rockwell: Drawings, 1914-76 by Stephanie Haboush Plunkett
RRP: $56.53$38.61Before 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... -
Making The Met, 1870-2020 by Andrea Bayer 9781588397096
RRP: $78.00$68.62The 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... -
They Seek a City: Chicago and the Art of Migration, 1910-1950 by Sarah Kelly Oehler
RRP: $48.75$42.74In the first half of the 20th century, thousands of newcomers-Eastern European emigres, Mexican immigrants, and Southerners both black and white-flocked to Chicago. These new residents included artists who made significant contributions to the vibrant... -
Chryssa & New York by Sophia Larigakis
RRP: $78.00$65.50The first major publication in more than thirty years on contemporary artist Chryssa, an innovator of light art Chryssa & New York offers a timely reassessment of Greek-born artist Chryssa (Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali, 1933-2013). Chryssa was a leading... -
Source: Music of the Avant-garde, 1966 1973 by Larry Austin 9780520267459
RRP: $60.45$47.87This journal "Source: Music of the Avant-garde" was and remains a seminal source for materials on the heyday of experimental music and arts. Conceived in 1966 and published to 1973, it included some of the most important composers and artists of the... -
Of Dogs and Other People: The Art of Roy De Forest by Susan Landauer 9780520292208
RRP: $81.90$65.19Roy De Forest's brightly hued, crazy-quilted paintings and sculptures are dotted with nipples of color and inhabited by a cast of characters uniquely his own, a perennial favorite being his instantly recognizable, wild-eyed and pointy-eared dogs... -
Norman Rockwell's Models: In and Out of the Studio by S.T. Haggerty 9781538170359
RRP: $68.25$62.17In 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... -
L.A. Graffiti Black Book by David Brafman 9781606066980
RRP: $58.50$50.68Many graffiti artists carry sketchbooks, called black books, and they ask crew members and others whose work they admire to inscribe their books with lettering or drawings. A few years ago, the Getty Research Institute invited artists, including Angst,... -
Traditional American Tattoo Design: Where It Came From and Its Evolution by Jerry Swallow
RRP: $44.83$29.70The evolution of tattoo art in America is spread before you in 265 impressive original tattoo flash sheets and insightful text written by a tattoo artist who has designed on his own since 1960. Military, religious, figural, animal, and nature themes are... -
Helen Chadwick by Marina Warner
RRP: $35.08$23.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846382512Author Marina WarnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Afterall PublishingPublisher Afterall Publishing -
The Obama Portraits by Taina Caragol 9780691203287
RRP: $39.00$34.46A 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... -
Up Against the Real: Black Mask from Art to Action by Nadja Millner-Larsen
RRP: $54.60$53.41A history of 1960s activist art group Black Mask. With Up Against the Real, Nadja Millner-Larsen offers the first comprehensive study of the group Black Mask and its acrimonious relationship to the New York art world of the 1960s. Cited as pioneers of... -
Burst! Abstract Painting After 1945 by Daniel Zamani 9788284620053
RRP: $53.63$36.84Burst! Abstract Painting After 1945 looks at the close, but previously unexplored relationship between Abstract Expressionism and Art Informel. Through texts and close to 100 illustrations, the book describes a vital creative exchange across the Atlantic... -
American Art Deco: Modernistic Architecture and Regionalism by Carla Breeze 9780393019704
RRP: $93.58$81.16Art 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...