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Frida Kahlo. 40th Ed. by Luis-Martín Lozano 9783836594851
RRP: $48.75$33.99Among the women artists who have transcended art history, none had a meteoric rise quite like Mexican painter Frida Kahlo (1907–1954). Her unmistakable face, depicted in over fifty extraordinary self-portraits, has been admired by generations; along with... -
Kahlo by Andrea Kettenmann
RRP: $29.25$22.15The arresting pictures of Frida Kahlo (1907-54) were in many ways expressions of trauma. Through a near-fatal road accident at the age of 18, failing health, a turbulent marriage, miscarriage and childlessness, she transformed the afflictions into... -
The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait by Carlos Fuentes
RRP: $48.75$33.31Published in its entirety, Frida Kahlo's amazing illustrated journal documents the last ten years of her turbulent life. These passionate, often surprising, intimate records, kept under lock and key for some 40 years in Mexico, reveal many new dimensions... -
Ronald Moody: Sculpting Life by Ego Ahaiwe Sowinski 9780500027035
RRP: $58.50$38.61The first major monograph on sculptor Ronald Moody, exploring his legacy and impact through his key artistic relationships, networks and influences, and his relationship with nature, humanity and spirituality. Jamaican-born sculptor Ronald Moody is one... -
Rivera by Andrea Kettenmann
RRP: $29.25$28.02Diego Rivera (1886-1957) is a loud presence on the art historical stage. With devout political principles and a turbulent romantic history, he was at once husband and paladin of Frida Kahlo, advocate and adversary of Stalin's Soviet Union, and liberator... -
Frida Kahlo Masterpieces of Art Dr Julian Beecroft 9781786644824
RRP: $29.23$19.89The painful, exquisite art of Mexico's favourite artist was a product of immense physical pain, and an emotional tumultuous life. The new book features the range and power of her heavily autobiographical work, from the early, disturbing explorations of... -
Cinthia Marcelle: By Means of Doubt by Cinthia Marcelle
RRP: $83.85$56.94Performative interventions in everyday life This is the first major monograph for Brazilian conceptual artist Cinthia Marcelle (born 1974), accompanying her solo show at MASP. Through photographs, videos, installations and interventions that make use... -
Tavares Strachan: The Awakening by Tavares Strachan 9780944219539
RRP: $111.15$73.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780944219539Author Tavares StrachanFormat HardbackPage Count 133Imprint Goodman (Marian) Gallery,U.S.Publisher Goodman (Marian) Gallery,U.S. -
Frida Kahlo: The Masterworks by Roxana Velasquez
RRP: $68.25$66.87An ideal introduction to the painter s work, this volume features over 100 of Kahlo s most beloved paintings illustrating all aspects of her diverse oeuvre including works from both private and public collections many rarely seen in public. The best and... -
Milhazes by Hans Werner Holzwarth 9783836584630
RRP: $156.00$114.31In her vibrant works, the Brazilian painter Beatriz Milhazes fuses two very different worldviews. Her abstract compositions, which can be seen in a line with modernist masters from Henri Matisse to Bridget Riley, are saturated with the colors and light... -
Remedios Varo: The Mexican Years by Remedios Varo 9788415118220
RRP: $87.75$54.72This much-anticipated publication will have an introductory text by well-known writer Masayo Nonaka, curator of the exhibition "Women Surrealists in Mexico" and author of numerous books on Mexican surrealism. Masayo's text will offer a unique insight... -
Today Is Always Yesterday: Contemporary Brazilian Art by Michael Asbury 9781789148008
RRP: $68.25$65.81Today Is Always Yesterday explores the historical constructs underlying contemporary art in Brazil. Michael Asbury, through his study of the South American nation's colonial and post-colonial condition, argues that art can not only illustrate history but... -
Tavares Strachan: In Total Darkness by Tavares Strachan 9780944219546
RRP: $111.15$74.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780944219546Author Tavares StrachanFormat HardbackPage Count 193Imprint Goodman (Marian) Gallery,U.S.Publisher Goodman (Marian) Gallery,U.S. -
Black Art: A Cultural History by Richard J. Powell 9780500203620
RRP: $58.40$43.11This groundbreaking book explores the visual representations of black culture throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. From blues to rap, from the paintings of Henry Ossawa Tanner to the video pieces of Keith Piper and Steve McQueen,... -
Remedios Varo: Science Fictions by Caitlin Haskell
RRP: $58.50$49.90An exploration of the captivating work and mystical outlook of the modern artist Remedios Varo, focusing on her years in Mexico City This publication offers a definitive look at the artistic practice of Remedios Varo (1908-1963) following her... -
The Political Body: Stories on Art, Feminism, and Emancipation in Latin America by Andrea Giunta 9780520344327
RRP: $76.05$59.98How a constellation of Latin American artists explored the body, power, and emancipation-and expanded the meanings of feminist art. In The Political Body, art historian Andrea Giunta explores gender and power in the work of Latin American artists from... -
Rubem Valentim: The Brazilian Trace by Rubem Valentim 9788867495665
RRP: $78.00$47.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788867495665Author Rubem ValentimFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Mousse PublishingPublisher Mousse PublishingWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 241mm *... -
Decolonising the Museum: The Curation of Indigenous Contemporary Art in Brazil Professor Thea Pitman (Person) 9781855663480
RRP: $107.25$102.39Explores the scope that there is for Indigenous curatorial agency in the relationship of Indigenous contemporary art with the 'art world'. This monograph focuses on the current boom in Indigenous contemporary art in Brazil, exploring in particular the... -
The Invisible Painting: My Memoir of Leonora Carrington by Gabriel Weisz Carrington 9781526169648
RRP: $25.33$18.02Since her death in 2011, the legendary Surrealist Leonora Carrington has been reconstructed and reinvented many times over. In this book, Gabriel Weisz Carrington draws on remembered conversations and events to demythologise his mother, revealing the... -
The Portable Universe/El Universo En Tus Manos by Julia Burtenshaw
RRP: $101.40$87.46A landmark book reframing ancient Colombian art-including goldwork, ceramics, textiles and more-as vehicles of cultural knowledge across space and time Spanning all major pre-Columbian cultures of Colombia, and featuring some of the most remarkable... -
Gego: Measuring Infinity by Gertrud Goldschmidt
RRP: $109.20$74.63Gego infused her art with architecture and engineering to create unique works of delicate suspense Accompanying the first major museum retrospective exhibition of Gego's work in the US in more than 15 years, this expansive, definitive catalog charts... -
By Land, Air, Home, and Sea: The World of Frank Walter by Hilton Als 9781644231012
RRP: $107.25$69.91Explore Frank Walter's relationship to Antigua through a range of works and writings that express his intimate connection to Caribbean nature, landscape, and place. "Nothing seems to be reworked-it is as if each piece drew or painted itself without... -
OCEANS APART:: ART FROM BRITAIN & THE CARIBBEAN by Alex, David Farcquharson, Bailey 9781849767651
RRP: $78.00$70.61Life Between Islands: Caribbean-British Art 50s - Now explores the relationship between the Caribbean and Britain in art from the 1950s to the present day; a social and cultural history more often told through literature or popular music. It is a... -
Futurism by Sylvia Martin
RRP: $29.25$22.15With motion and machines as its most treasured tropes, Futurism was founded in 1909 by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, along with painters Giacomo Balla, Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carra, and Gino Severini. With affiliate painters, sculptors, designers,... -
The Invisible Painting: My Memoir of Leonora Carrington by Gabriel Weisz Carrington
RRP: $35.08$25.66Since her death in 2011, the legendary Surrealist Leonora Carrington has been reconstructed and reinvented many times over. In this book, Gabriel Weisz Carrington draws on remembered conversations and events to demythologise his mother, revealing the... -
Art and Architecture in Mexico by James Oles
RRP: $29.15$19.85This new interpretive history of Mexican art and architecture from the Spanish Conquest to the early decades of the 21st century is the most comprehensive introduction to the subject in fifty years. James Oles ranges widely across media and genres,... -
Indigenous Histories by Guilherme Giufrida 9786557770399
RRP: $87.75$64.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786557770399Author Guilherme GiufridaFormat HardbackPage Count 340Imprint Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo / KMEC BooksPublisher MASP -
Patchwork: Essays & Interviews on Caribbean Visual Culture by Jacqueline Bishop
RRP: $38.90$32.90The patchwork is an apt metaphor for the region not only because of its colourfulness and the making of something whole out of fragments but as an attempt to make coherence out of disorder. The seeking of coherence was the exact process of putting... -
Mexico: The Land of Charm Jose Luis Lugo 9788417975517
RRP: $58.50$41.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788417975517Author Jose Luis LugoFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint RM Verlag SLPublisher RM Verlag SL -
The Arts of the Ancient Americas at the Dallas Museum of Art by Michelle Rich
RRP: $97.50$93.31An illustrated compendium of artworks from the ancient Americas Including Indigenous works from the southwestern United States, Mesoamerica, the Isthmo-Colombian Area, and the Andes of South America, this book showcases more than 100 masterpieces of art... -
Lina Bo Bardi, Drawings by Zeuler Lima 9780691191195
RRP: $81.90$59.14The first authoritative collection of drawings by legendary modern architect Lina Bo BardiLina Bo Bardi (1914-1992) was one of the most prolific and visionary architects of the twentieth century. Raised in Italy under Mussolini's Fascist regime and... -
Caribbean Art by Veerle Poupeye
RRP: $33.13$23.28A new, updated and expanded edition of this classic survey on the history of Caribbean art, featuring the work of over 100 artists from the period of colonialism to the present day. Caribbean Art presents and discusses the diverse, fascinating and... -
Doris Salcedo: The Materiality of Mourning by Mary Schneider Enriquez 9780300222517
RRP: $68.25$59.61A compelling look at Doris Salcedo's works from the past fifteen years, exploring how the artist challenges not only the limits of the materials she uses but also the traditions of sculpture itself Colombian sculptor and installation artist Doris Salcedo... -
Teotihuacan - The World Beyond the City by David M. Carballo
RRP: $122.75$100.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884024675Author Kenneth G. HirthFormat HardbackPage Count 540Imprint Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & CollectionPublisher Dumbarton Oaks Research... -
Cecilia Vicuna: About to Happen by Cecilia Vicuna
RRP: $52.65$35.08A new edition of artist-poet Cecilia Vicuna's artist's book on the politics of the sea Beginning and ending at the edge of the ocean at the sacred mouth of the Aconcagua River, About to Happen serves as a lament as well as love letter to the sea. In... -
Frida by Benjamin Lacombe
RRP: $62.38$61.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584236641Author Benjamin LacombeFormat HardbackPage Count 76Imprint Gingko Press, IncPublisher Gingko Press, Inc -
Nuances of Latin American Art: Matices del arte en America latina by Andrea Hinteregger De Mayo
$41.61Is there such a thing as Latin American Art? Does it need this label in a global art world? It is, of course, clear that there is no such thing, just as there is no African nor European art. It would be interesting though to include Caribbean art... -
Lives of the Gods - Divinity in Maya Art by Joanne Pillsbury
RRP: $78.00$65.50This engaging exploration of the Maya pantheon introduces readers to the complex stories of Mesoamerican divinity through the stunning carvings, ceramics, and metalwork of the Classic period Focusing on the period between A.D. 250 and 900, Lives of the... -
Diego Rivera: Murals for The Museum of Modern Art Leah Dickerman 9780870708176
RRP: $48.65$33.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870708176Author Leah DickermanFormat HardbackPage Count 148Imprint Museum of Modern ArtPublisher Museum of Modern ArtWeight(grams) 960g -
Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925-1945 by Barbara Haskell
RRP: $107.25$92.22An in-depth look at the transformative influence of Mexican artists on their U.S. counterparts during a period of social change The first half of the 20th century saw prolific cultural exchange between the United States and Mexico, as artists and...