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The Edinburgh Companion to Robert Louis Stevenson by Penny Fielding
RRP: $50.38$45.89This wide-ranging collection is the first to set Robert Louis Stevenson in detailed social, political and literary contexts. The book takes account of both Stevenson's extraordinary thematic and generic diversity and his geographical range. The chapters... -
Conversations about Sculpture by Richard Serra
RRP: $52.50$52.37"The rhythm of the body moving through space has been the motivating source of most of my work."-Richard Serra Drawn from talks between celebrated artist Richard Serra and acclaimed art historian Hal Foster held over a fifteen-year period, this volume... -
Theory of Colours by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
RRP: $75.60$48.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262570213Author Johann Wolfgang von GoetheFormat PaperbackPage Count 468Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
A Guide to Speech Production and Perception by Mark Tatham
RRP: $65.10$60.25What roles do the speaker and the listener play in communication processes? Providing an overall system view, this innovative textbook explains how those working in the area think about speech. Emphasising contextual and environmental perspectives,... -
After Modern Art: 1945-2017 by David Hopkins
$70.67Contemporary art can be baffling and beautiful, provocative and disturbing. This pioneering book presents a new look at the controversial period between 1945 and 2015, when art and its traditional forms were called into question. It focuses on the... -
The Life and Art of Albrecht Durer by Erwin Panofsky 9780691122762
RRP: $105.00$82.99This classic text presents the life, times, and works of Albrecht Durer. Through the skill and immense knowledge of Erwin Panofsky, the reader is dazzled not only by Durer the artist but also Durer in a wide array of other roles, including mathematician... -
Perspectives on Contemporary Printmaking: Critical Writing Since 1986 by Ruth Pelzer-Montada
RRP: $63.00$45.59This anthology, the first of its kind, presents thirty-two texts on contemporary prints and printmaking written from the mid-1980s to the present by authors from across the world. The texts range from history and criticism to creative writing. More than... -
Ibn Khaldun: Life and Times by Allen James Fromherz 9780748644834
RRP: $50.38$45.89The first complete, scholarly English-language biography of Ibn Khaldun. Ibn Khaldun (d. 1406) is one of the most influential and important Muslim thinkers in history, inspiring at least as much interest among modern scholars as his immediate... -
Painting by Design: Getting to the Essence of Good Picture-Making (Master Class) by General Charles Reid 9781626543218
RRP: $46.10$45.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626543218Author General Charles ReidFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Echo Point Books & MediaPublisher Echo Point Books & MediaWeight(grams)... -
Art Education and Human Development by Howard Gardner 9780892361793
RRP: $35.68$30.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892361793Author . GardnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Getty Education Institute for the Arts,U.S.Publisher Getty Trust PublicationsWeight(grams)... -
Hegel's Aesthetics: Volume 1 by G. W. F. Hegel 9780198244981
RRP: $67.18$60.80This is the second of two volumes of the only English edition of Hegel's Aesthetics, the work in which he gives full expression to his seminal theory of art. The substantial Introduction is his best exposition of his general philosophy of art. In Part I... -
EP3: Post-Craft Alex Coles 9783956793950
$43.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783956793950Author Alex ColesFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Sternberg PressPublisher Sternberg PressWeight(grams) 261gDimensions(mm) 200mm * 125mm *... -
Warped Space: Art, Architecture, and Anxiety in Modern Culture by Anthony Vidler 9780262720410
$75.68How psychological ideas of space have profoundly affected architectural and artistic expression in the twentieth century. Beginning with agoraphobia and claustrophobia in the late nineteenth century, followed by shell shock and panic fear after World War... -
The Studio Reader: On the Space of Artists by Mary Jane Jacob
RRP: $65.10$56.13The image of a tortured genius working in near isolation has long dominated our conceptions of the artist's studio. Examples are abound: think Jackson Pollock dripping resin on a cicada carcass in his shed in the Hamptons. But times have changed; ever... -
Venice and Drawing 1500-1800: Theory, Practice and Collecting by Catherine Whistler
RRP: $89.25$79.82An impressive overview of drawing in Venice, from the time of Titian and Tintoretto to that of Canaletto and Tiepolo From the time of Titian and Tintoretto to that of Canaletto and Tiepolo, drawing was an important part of artistic practice and was... -
Medieval Modern: Art Out of Time by Alexander Nagel
RRP: $62.90$42.80This groundbreaking study explores the deep connections between modern and premodern art, offering a radical reading that reveals the underlying patterns and ideas traversing centuries of artistic practice. Nagel reconsiders from an innovative double... -
The Story of Looking by Mark Cousins 9781782119111
RRP: $52.50$38.70SHORTLISTED FOR THE SALTIRE SOCIETY NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDLooking can be an act of empathy or aggression. It can provoke desire or express it. And from the blurry, edgeless world we inhabit as infants to the landscape of screens we grow into,... -
Transparent Drawing by ,Kurt Ofer
RRP: $52.40$35.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911339342Author ,Kurt OferFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Black Dog PressPublisher Black Dog Press -
After the End of Art: Contemporary Art and the Pale of History - Updated Edition by Arthur C. Danto 9780691163895
RRP: $35.68$25.24Originally delivered as the prestigious Mellon Lectures on the Fine Arts in 1995, After the End of Art remains a classic of art criticism and philosophy, and continues to generate heated debate for contending that art ended in the 1960s. Arthur Danto,... -
Scale and the Incas by Andrew James Hamilton 9780691172736
RRP: $126.00$98.07A groundbreaking work on how the topic of scale provides an entirely new understanding of Inca material cultureAlthough questions of form and style are fundamental to art history, the issue of scale has been surprisingly neglected. Yet, scale and scaled... -
Failed Images: Photography and Its Counter-Practices by Ernst Van Alphen
RRP: $47.25$45.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789492095459Author Ernst Van AlphenFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint ValizPublisher ValizWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 165mm * 23mm -
What is Money?: A Discussion Featuring Joseph Beuys by Joseph Beuys 9781905570256
RRP: $27.28$19.09'If we want to achieve a different society where the principle of money operates equitably, if we want to abolish the power money has developed over people historically, and position money in relationship to freedom, equality and fraternity ...then we... -
Aesthetics: Volume 1 by G. W. F. Hegel 9780198238164
RRP: $113.40$89.52In his Aesthetics Hegel gives full expression to his seminal theory of art. He surveys the history of art from ancient India, Egypt, and Greece through to the Romantic movement of his own time, criticizes major works, and probes their meaning and... -
Leonardo on Painting: An Anthology of Writings by Leonardo da Vinci; With a Selection of Documents Relating to his Career as an Artist by Leonardo da Vinci 9780300090956
RRP: $39.88$33.98Leonardo's writings on painting-among the most remarkable from any era-were never edited by Leonardo himself into a single coherent book. In this anthology the authors have edited material not only from his so-called Treatise on Painting but also from... -
Suspensions of Perception: Attention, Spectacle, and Modern Culture by Jonathan Crary 9780262531993
$112.01Suspensions of Perception decisively relocates the problem of aesthetic contemplation within a broader collective encounter with the unstable nature of perception-in psychology, philosophy, neurology, early cinema, and photography. Suspensions of... -
Usable Pasts: Social Practice and State Formation in American Art by Larne Abse Gogarty 9781642599008
RRP: $62.98$41.73Usable Pasts zeros in on two periods in the United States that saw the state increase its financial support for socially engaged works of culture. In the 1990s the political artworks by Suzanne lacy, Rick Lowe, and Martha Rosler helped usher in an era of... -
The Ends of Art Criticism by Patricia Bickers
RRP: $41.98$31.98At a time where there are repeated claims of the impending demise of art criticism, The Ends of Art Criticism seeks to dispel these myths by arguing that the lack of a single dominant voice in criticism is not, as some believe, a weakness, but a... -
Irrational Judgments: Eva Hesse, Sol LeWitt, and 1960s New York by Kirsten J. Swenson
RRP: $89.25$75.62An 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... -
Art in Action: Toward a Christian Aesthetic by Nicholas Wolterstorff 9780802818164
RRP: $44.08$35.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802818164Author Nicholas WolterstorffFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing... -
Modernism and Still Life: Artists, Writers, Dancers by Claudia Tobin
RRP: $54.58$44.23The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries have been characterised as the 'age of speed' but they also witnessed a reanimation of still life across different art forms. This book takes an original approach to still life in modern literature and... -
The Analysis of Beauty by William Hogarth
RRP: $26.23$18.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486795256Author William HogarthFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
The Political Aesthetics of the Armenian Avant-Garde: The Journey of the 'Painterly Real', 1987-2004 by Angela Harutyunyan
RRP: $73.50$52.71This book addresses late-Soviet and post-Soviet art in Armenia in the context of turbulent transformations from the late 1980s to 2004. It explores the emergence of 'contemporary art' in Armenia from within and in opposition to the practices, aesthetics... -
European Art: A Neuroarthistory by John Onians
RRP: $99.75$86.60A bold revision of the history of European art, told through the lens of neuroscience Ambitious and much anticipated, this book celebrates the value of recent neuroscientific discoveries as tools for art-historical analysis. Case studies ranging across... -
Bergson and the Art of Immanence: Painting, Photography, Film by John Mullarkey
RRP: $60.88$56.51This title takes an immanent turn in art history. Immanence is a theory of divine presence, in which the divine is found in the material world, not outside of it. This new collection brings the major 20th century French philosopher Henri Bergson's work... -
Charles Batteux: The Fine Arts Reduced to a Single Principle by James O. Young 9780198747116
$158.72The Fine Arts Reduced to a Single Principle (1746) by Charles Batteux was arguably the most influential work on aesthetics published in the eighteenth century. It influenced every major aesthetician in the second half of the century: Diderot, Herder,... -
Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 2: Part 2: 1931-1934 by Walter Benjamin
RRP: $60.80$48.93In the frenzied final years of the Weimar Republic, amid economic collapse and mounting political catastrophe, Walter Benjamin emerged as the most original practicing literary critic and public intellectual in the German-speaking world. Volume 2 of the... -
Culture Class by Martha Rosler
$24.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934105818Author Martha RoslerFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Sternberg PressPublisher Sternberg PressWeight(grams) 666gDimensions(mm) 178mm * 108mm... -
Pollock and After: The Critical Debate by Francis Frascina
RRP: $75.58$67.39Pollock and After: The Critical Debate brings together key writings on debates about Abstract Expressionism and Modernist art history. It is an essential resource for understanding post-war American art and culture. The second edition has been fully... -
Aesthetic Justice: Intersecting Artistic and Moral Perspectives by Mark Fisher 9789078088868
RRP: $42.00$38.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789078088868Author Mark FisherFormat PaperbackPage Count 354Imprint ValizPublisher ValizWeight(grams) 458gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 135mm * 25mm -
The Mission of Art: 20th Anniversary Edition by Alex Grey
RRP: $37.78$25.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611806755Author Alex GreyFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc