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Harmony and Dissonance: Orphism in Paris, 1910-1930 by Vivien Greene 9780892075645
RRP: $101.40Booksplease Price: $71.39The first publication of its kind, connecting a constellation of artists working at the forefront of abstraction in the early 20th century Orphism emerged among a cosmopolitan group of artists active in Paris in the early 1910s, as the innovations of... -
Another World: The Transcendental Painting Group by Michael Duncan
RRP: $101.40Booksplease Price: $71.39Abstract painting meets theosophical spirituality in 1930s New Mexico: the first book on a radical, astonishingly prescient episode in American modernism Founded in Santa Fe and Taos, New Mexico, in 1938, at a time when social realism reigned in... -
Hammershoi and Europe Kasper Monrad 9783791353609
RRP: $58.48Booksplease Price: $54.25This generously illustrated volume examines Hammershoi's work as a whole and in relation to the artists of his generation. Hammershoi's enigmatic paintings, with their rich and muted palettes, have always enjoyed enormous popularity in Scandinavia, and... -
Women of Abstract Expressionism Joan Marter 9780300208429
RRP: $107.25Booksplease Price: $80.54A long-awaited survey of female Abstract Expressionist artists revealing the richness and lasting influence of their work The artists Jay DeFeo, Helen Frankenthaler, Grace Hartigan, Elaine de Kooning, Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchell, and many other women... -
Joan Didion: What She Means by Joan Didion
RRP: $78.00Booksplease Price: $57.08An exploration of the visual corollary to Didion's life and work and the feeling that each generates in her admirers, detractors and critics-including artists from Helen Lundeberg to Diane Arbus, Betye Saar to Maren Hassinger, Vija Celmins and Andy... -
The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art Don Thompson 9781845134075
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.31Why would a smart New York investment banker pay twelve million dollars for the decaying, stuffed carcass of a shark? By what alchemy does Jackson Pollock' s drip painting No.5 1948 sell for $140 million? The first book to look at the economics of the... -
Ashmolean NOW: Daniel Crews-Chubb x Flora Yukhnovich by Lena Fritsch 9781910807583
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $26.52The book will coincide with the first Ashmolean NOW exhibition in Gallery 8, opening in July 2023. The Ashmolean NOW Program features exciting works by prominent early to mid-career artists based in the UK, seeking to attract new audiences interested in... -
Making Modernism: Paula Modersohn-Becker, Kathe Kollwitz, Gabriele Munter and Marianne Werefkin Dorothy Price 9781912520909
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $33.40Ka the Kollwitz, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Gabriele Mu nter and Marianne Werefkin are among the exceptional artists associated with the emergence of Expressionism in Germany in the early decades of the 20th century. Each challenged prevailing ideals of... -
America's Cool Modernism: O'Keeffe to Hopper by Katherine Bourgignon
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $32.86As 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... -
Leonardo da Vinci and Anatomy: The Mechanics of Life Dominique Le Nen 9782370742148
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $33.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782370742148Author Dominique Le NenFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Editions Skira ParisPublisher Editions Skira ParisWeight(grams) 1040g -
Munch and Beyond by Klaus Albrecht Schroder
RRP: $87.75Booksplease Price: $59.98While Munch's pessimistic, melancholy world view crucially defines our understanding of his work, many important postwar and contemporary artists have drawn inspiration from several aspects of his oeuvre. This richly illustrated book explores how... -
Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art by Lotte Johnson 9783791377285
RRP: $87.75Booksplease Price: $72.56The transformative power of contemporary textiles is the subject of this exhibition catalog that examines how and why textile has been a fertile medium for artists to question regimes of power and hierarchies of value.Bringing together more than 100... -
Glasgow Boys in Your Pocket by William R. Hardie 9781849340267
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.55The Glasgow Boys revolutionized Scottish painting from 1880 until around 1895, although their influence lasted until just before World War 1. Painters such as Sir John Lavery, Sir James Guthrie, George Henry, Edward Atkinson Hornel, Joseph Crawhall,... -
Yinka Shonibare CBE: End of Empire by Thorsten Sadowsky
RRP: $77.90Booksplease Price: $47.76Since the 1990s, the British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare CBE (*1962, London) has developed opulently executed sculptures and installations, colourful collages and theatrically staged photographs and films. To do so he transforms episodes from art and... -
RHS Botanical Illustration: The Gold Medal Winners Charlotte Brooks 9781788840149
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $42.90"HIGHLY RECOMMENDED: For all botanical artists aspiring to enter the RHS Botanical Art Exhibition and win a Gold Medal - and for all botanical art lovers everywhere. This book makes a major contribution to both the recording of contemporary botanical art... -
Living Lines: Five Contemporary Artists on Edvard Munch's Drawings: Marlene Dumas, Terje Nicolaisen, Nalini Malani, Georg Baselitz, Tracey Emin Mieke Bal 9788293560715
RRP: $77.90Booksplease Price: $51.73In this book the five prominent contemporary artists Marlene Dumas, Terje Nicolaisen, Nalini Malani, Georg Baselitz and Tracey Emin have each compiled a personal selection of Edvard Munch's drawings. Munch drew more or less daily throughout his long life... -
After Impressionism: Inventing Modern Art MaryAnne Stevens 9781857096958
RRP: $78.00Booksplease Price: $69.28Through the 1880s the very essence of representation, meaning and process in Western art were profoundly interrogated. Plausible representations of the external world were cast aside in favour of non-naturalism expressed in varying degrees, from modest... -
Light, Space, Surface: Art from Southern California by Carol S Eliel
RRP: $77.98Booksplease Price: $54.80A definitive resource on California's Light and Space and Finish Fetish movements of the 1960s and '70s This volume explores the art of Light and Space and related "finish fetish" pieces with highly polished surfaces. In the 1960s and 1970s, various... -
Clay Pop by Alia Dahl 9780847899302
RRP: $97.50Booksplease Price: $65.46A medium that has often been characterized as more craft than art, clay is now an exciting platform for formal and conceptual innovation. Traditionally diverged from engagement with popular culture, clay is now adding a new dimension to Pop Art. ... -
Electrifying Design: A Century of Lighting by Sarah Schleuning
RRP: $73.13Booksplease Price: $62.85An unprecedented survey of modern lighting design foregrounding its materials, innovators, and far-reaching influence Offering the first comprehensive history of lighting design from the 20th and 21st centuries, Electrifying Design: A Century of Lighting... -
Signac and the Independants by Gilles Genty
RRP: $78.00Booksplease Price: $70.84A magnificently illustrated showcase of works by artists in Paris at the dawn of the 20th century In Paris at the turn of the 20th century, an artistic revolution was underway. The Salon des Independants was organized in 1884 by a group of artists and... -
Designing the New: Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Glasgow Style Alison Brown 9783791359182
RRP: $58.48Booksplease Price: $44.42In the final decades of the nineteenth century, the Glasgow Style introduced Art Nouveau in Britain and helped transform an industrial city into Scotland's premier cultural capital. The predominant force behind the Glasgow Style was Charles Rennie... -
Century of the Child: Growing by Design 1900-2000 Juliet Kinchin 9780870708268
RRP: $78.00Booksplease Price: $54.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870708268Author Juliet KinchinFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Museum of Modern ArtPublisher Museum of Modern ArtWeight(grams) 1880g -
For What It’s Worth: Value Systems in Art since 1960 by Thomas Feulmer 9781580936583
RRP: $87.75Booksplease Price: $50.19A collection of work by 80 artists who explore the contemporary art world’s fundamental concerns of value, markets, and the business of art Grounded in the global, conceptual art tendencies that began in the 1960s, For What It’s Worth looks at artists... -
When We See Us: A Century of Black Figuration in Painting by Koyo Kouoh
RRP: $87.75Booksplease Price: $60.90A Sunday Times Art Book of the Year: a major study of Black figurative art from Africa and the African diaspora, covering 100 years from the early 20th century to now. Published to accompany a major exhibition at Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town, this book... -
By Her Hand: Artemisia Gentileschi and Women Artists in Italy, 1500-1800 by Eve Straussman-Pflanzer
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $53.70A brand new look at the extraordinary accomplishments of early modern Italian women artists This generously illustrated volume surveys a sweeping range of early modern Italian women artists, exploring their practice and paths to success within the... -
Dear Earth: Art and Hope in a Time of Crisis Maja & Reuben Fowkes 9781853323768
RRP: $58.48Booksplease Price: $39.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781853323768Author Maja & Reuben FowkesFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Hayward Gallery PublishingPublisher Hayward Gallery PublishingWeight(grams) 728g -
O'Keeffe & Moore by Anita Feldman
RRP: $87.75Booksplease Price: $57.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780937108635Author Anita FeldmanFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint San Diego Museum of ArtPublisher San Diego Museum of ArtWeight(grams) 1705g -
Sporting Fashion: Outdoor Girls 1800 to 1960 by Kevin Jones
RRP: $87.75Booksplease Price: $62.69This book offers a stunning visual record of the evolution of women's sporting attire in Western fashion over nearly two centuries. With selections from Keds, Pendleton, and Spalding and garments by Coco Chanel, Claire McCardell, and Jean Patou, among... -
Louise Bourgeois & Pablo Picasso: Anatomies of Desire by Louise Bourgeois 9783906915371
RRP: $117.00Booksplease Price: $77.03An elegantly produced double portrait of the affinities and differences between two of the 20th century's greatest artists, Louise Bourgeois & Pablo Picasso Coupling the works of Louise Bourgeois and Pablo Picasso-at first glance, an unlikely... -
Surrealism Beyond Borders by Stephanie D`alessandro
RRP: $97.50Booksplease Price: $87.75A completely new way of looking at and understanding Surrealism, with a focus on the worldwide sweep of the movement"The variety of discoveries, detailed with exceptional scholarship in a ravishing keeper of a catalogue, defeat generalization."-Peter... -
Diagrams of Power: Visualizing, Mapping, and Performing Resistance by Patricio Davila 9789083350196
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $43.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789083350196Author Patricio DavilaFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Set Margins' publicationsPublisher Set Margins' publications -
The Courtauld Collection: A Vision for Impressionism by Karen Serres 9781911300588
RRP: $87.75Booksplease Price: $78.64The Courtauld Collection: A Vision for Impressionism accompanies a landmark exhibition at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris exploring Samuel Courtauld's role as one of the great collectors of the twentieth century. The catalogue and exhibition... -
Slow Painting Brian Cass 9781853323652
RRP: $48.73Booksplease Price: $33.40Slow Painting presents the work of 19 primarily British and UK-based artists whose work explores ideas around the concept of 'slowness' and what it might mean in relation to contemporary painting: how it might be present in the making of the work, how... -
The Rossettis by Carol Jacobi 9781849768412
RRP: $78.00Booksplease Price: $58.29A visually stunning book devoted to the radical Rossetti generation. The Rossettis' approach to art, love and lifestyles are considered revolutionary. This is explored by a range of short thematic essays containing fresh, and surprising research,... -
Revolution: Russian Art 1917-1932 ,Natalia Murray 9781910350430
RRP: $78.00Booksplease Price: $56.45Revolution: Russian Art, 1917-1932 encapsulates a momentous period in Russian history that is vividly expressed in the diversity of art produced between 1917, the year of the October Revolution, and 1932 when Stalin began to suppress the avant-garde and... -
Journey of the Mind by Koi 9781910221358
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $43.47Journey 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... -
Cloth that Changed the World: The Art and Fashion of Indian Chintz by Sarah Fee
Booksplease Price: $68.35The story of India's exuberantly colored textiles that made their mark on design, technology, and trade around the world Chintz, a type of multicolored printed or painted cotton cloth, originated in India yet exerted influence far beyond its home shores:... -
Gauguin and the Impressionists: The Ordrupgaard Collection by Anna Ferrari 9781912520503
RRP: $38.90Booksplease Price: $30.67Masterpieces of nineteenth-century French painting from the Ordrupgaard Collection in Copenhagen are travelling to the Royal Academy of Arts in the spring of 2020. Drawn from the remarkable collection of the Danish insurance magnate and art lover Wilhelm... -
Charleston: the Bloomsbury Muse by Philip Mould 9781913645182
Booksplease Price: $55.77Accompanying an exhibition at Philip Mould & Company, this lavish catalogue tells the story of Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant's enduring attachment to their home at Charleston Farmhouse, and showcases the work the artists produced between the two world...