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Bio Art: Altered Realities by William Myers
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.20In our age of fast-paced biotechnological progress and humans' increasing impact on the environment the autonomy of 'nature' has come into question. We can now engineer living things, blur the biological distinctions between humans and animals, and... -
The Curator's Egg: The evolution of the museum concept from the French Revolution to the present day Karsten Schubert 9781905464203
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £13.30From the opening of The Louvre to the launch of Tate Modern and beyond, this accessible and succinct publication traces the development of the museum concept - encompassing curatorial, scholarly, political and cultural spheres - and its evolving role... -
Playing to the Gallery: Helping Contemporary Art in its Struggle to Be Understood by Perry Grayson
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.75'I have never read such a stimulating short guide to art' Lynn Barber, Sunday Times Now Grayson Perry is a fully paid-up member of the art establishment, he wants to show that any of us can appreciate art (after all, there is a reason he's called this... -
Contemporary Art: A Very Short Introduction by Julian Stallabrass
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.19Contemporary art has never been so popular - but the art world is changing. In a landscape of increasing globalization there is growing interest in questions over the nature of contemporary art today, and the identity of who is controlling its future. In... -
Beyond Aesthetics: Use, Abuse, and Dissonance in African Art Traditions by Wole Soyinka
RRP: £22.50Booksplease Price: £17.50An intimate reflection on culture and tradition, creativity and power, that draws on a lifetime's commitment to aesthetic encounter The playwright, poet, essayist, novelist, and Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka is also a longtime art collector. This book of... -
The Exceptionally Simple Theory of Sketching (Extended Edition) by George Hlavacs
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £10.88When watching a masterful sketcher, it seems that they create elaborate sketches with ease, tracing their pencils on the page and bringing to life rich and detailed drawings. After sweating away hours trying to create a simple sketch, you may ... -
The Colour Bible: The definitive guide to the history, use and meaning of colours by Laura Perryman
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £17.23"The Colour Bible is one to return to again and again." - Elephant"This definitive guide...will no doubt inform many future colour choices." - House & Garden An essential source for graphic designers, artists, interior designers, fashion designers,... -
Between the Material and the Possible: Infrastructural Re-Examination and Speculation in Art by Bassam El Baroni
RRP: £21.50Booksplease Price: £19.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783956796005Author Bassam El BaroniFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Sternberg PressPublisher Sternberg PressWeight(grams) 652gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma by Claire Dederer
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £13.30***BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK***'Funny, lively and convivial... how rare and nourishing this sort of roaming thought is and what a joy to read' MEGAN NOLAN, SUNDAY TIMES'An exhilarating, shape-shifting exploration of the perilous boundaries between art... -
Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics by G. W. F. Hegel
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.96No philosopher has held a higher opinion of art than Hegel, yet nor was any so profoundly pessimistic about its prospects - despite living in the German golden age of Goethe, Mozart and Schiller. For if the artists of classical Greece could find the... -
The Upside-Down World: Meetings with the Dutch Masters by Benjamin Moser 9780241586457
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.84The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer turns his eye to the seventeenth-century Dutch Golden Age Twenty years ago, Benjamin Moser followed a love affair to an ancient Dutch town. In order to make sense of this new place, he threw himself into the Dutch... -
Landscapes: John Berger on Art by John Berger
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.96In this brilliant collection of diverse works-essays, short stories, poems, translations-which spans a lifetime's engagement with art, John Berger reveals how he came to his own unique way of seeing. He challenges readers to rethink their every... -
Feel Free: Essays by Zadie Smith
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.96WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR CRITICISM 2019From the MAN BOOKER PRIZE- and WOMEN'S PRIZE-SHORTLISTED author of Changing My Mind and Swing Time - discover a second unmissable collection of essays from Zadie Smith'Generous,... -
The Politics of Design: A (Not So) Global Design Manual for Visual Communication by Ruben Pater
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £10.88Many designs that appear in today's society will circulate and encounter audiences of many different cultures and languages. With communication comes responsibility; are designers aware of the meaning and impact of their work? An image or symbol that is... -
Living the Artist's Way: An Intuitive Path to Creativity by Julia Cameron 9781800817982
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £11.50'Without The Artist's Way, there would be no Eat, Pray, Love' - ELIZABETH GILBERT WATKINS TOP 100 MOST SPIRITUALLY INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE OF 2023 How can we tap into the wisdom inside ourselves? LIVING THE ARTIST'S WAY is a Six-Week Artist's Way... -
Art: A Visual History by Robert Cumming
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.63"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see." Edgar DegasCovering every era and over 650 artists, this comprehensive, illustrated guide offers an accessible yet expansive view of art history, featuring everything from iconic works and... -
Aesthetics: A Beginner's Guide Charles Taliaferro 9781851688203
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.61What is art? Why do we find some things beautiful but not others? Is it wrong to share MP3s? These are just some of the questions explored by aesthetics, the philosophy of art. In this sweeping introduction, Charles Taliaferro skilfully guides us through... -
Unflattening by Nick Sousanis
RRP: £21.95Booksplease Price: £18.67The primacy of words over images has deep roots in Western culture. But what if the two are inextricably linked, equal partners in meaning-making? Written and drawn entirely as comics, Unflattening is an experiment in visual thinking. Nick Sousanis... -
Diary Of A Genius: 5th Edition, Revised by Salvador Dali
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £9.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840686845Author Salvador DaliFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Creation BooksPublisher Creation Books -
Turner in his Time by Andrew Wilton
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £28.15Here is the ultimate, one-volume story of Turner's life and work. Superb colour plates illuminate Turner's range - dramatic views of the sea or mountains, sweeping landscapes, architecture, imaginary scenes from history and legend, panoramas of... -
The Life of Forms in Art by Henri Focillon
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780942299571Author Henri FocillonFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 152mm * 15mm -
The Story of Drawing: An Alternative History of Art Susan Owens 9780300260472
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.14Winner of the Apollo Book of the Year Award 2024 Drawing is at the heart of human creativity. The most democratic form of art-making, it requires nothing more than a plain surface and a stub of pencil, a piece of chalk or an inky brush. Our prehistoric... -
Postmodernism: A Very Short Introduction by Christopher Butler
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.19Postmodernism has been a buzzword in contemporary society for the last decade. But how can it be defined? In this Very Short Introduction Christopher Butler challenges and explores the key ideas of postmodernists, and their engagement with theory,... -
Artists' Master Series: Perspective and Depth Mike Hernandez 9781912843831
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £24.94This third title in the highly popular Artist Master Series from 3dtotal Publishing offers a comprehensive guide to using perspective and depth successfully in your art, with direction from world-class artists. As an established authority on art and... -
Tudor Liveliness: Vivid Art in Post-Reformation England Christina J Faraday 9781913107376
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £32.80A groundbreaking approach to the problem of realism in Tudor art In Tudor and Jacobean England, visual art was often termed "lively." This word was used to describe the full range of visual and material culture-from portraits to funeral monuments, book... -
The Secret Life: Volume One (1904-1924) by Salvador Dali 9781840686852
RRP: £13.95Booksplease Price: £9.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840686852Author Salvador DaliFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Creation BooksPublisher Creation Books -
Artists on Bruce Nauman by Bruce Nauman 9780944521878
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.51In the late 1960s, while still a recent graduate with scant means, artist Bruce Nauman (born 1941) explored a trio of interwoven subjects: the studio, the daily practice of making art and the role of the artist. He outlined the latter, for example, in a... -
Creative Authenticity: 16 Principles to Clarify and Deepen Your Artistic Vision by Ian Roberts
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £8.95Serious working artists are the intended audience of this collection of short essays that clarify common expressive and personal problems that many artists encounter, including the fear of being cliched, the desire to convey truth in art, and the... -
On Whiteness: The Racial Imaginary Institute by Claudia Rankine
RRP: £13.00Booksplease Price: £12.68Writers and thinkers from Lauren Berlant to Jeff Chang explore the power structures, the "neutrality" and the frailty of whiteness Cofounded in 2017 by authors Claudia Rankine and Beth Loffreda, the Racial Imaginary Institute (TRII) is an... -
Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? by Linda Nochlin
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.00Linda Nochlin's seminal essay on women artists is widely acknowledged as the first real attempt at a feminist history of art. Nochlin refused to handle the question of why there had been no 'great women artists' on its own, corrupted, terms. Instead, she... -
The Visual Culture Reader Nicholas Mirzoeff (New York University) 9780415782623
RRP: £66.99Booksplease Price: £60.38Ten years after the last edition, this thoroughly revised and updated third edition of The Visual Culture Reader highlights the transformed and expanded nature of globalized visual cultures. It assembles key new writings, visual essays and specially... -
How to Understand Art by Janetta Rebold Benton
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.98The visual arts enrich our lives in many ways: bringing innovative ideas and the pleasures of beauty and emotion, but they can also confound. How To Understand Art sets out to enhance the viewer's experience by breaking down the elements of art and... -
Information Sarah Cook 9780854882489
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £11.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780854882489Author Sarah CookFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Whitechapel GalleryPublisher Whitechapel GalleryWeight(grams) 540g -
Contemporary Color: Theory and Use Steven Bleicher 9781032151533
RRP: £68.99Booksplease Price: £60.47This fully revised and updated third edition offers students and artists valuable insights into traditional color theory and its practical application using today's cutting-edge technology.The text is lavishly illustrated, stressing issues of... -
Art in Theory 1815-1900: An Anthology of Changing Ideas Charles Harrison (Open University) 9780631200666
RRP: £32.95Booksplease Price: £30.32Art in Theory 1815-1900 provides the most wide-ranging and comprehensive collection of documents ever assembled on nineteenth-century theories of art.About the AuthorCharles Harrison is Professor of History and Theory of Art at the Open University. He is... -
The Object Reader by Fiona Candlin
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £45.25This unique collection frames the classic debates on objects and aims to generate new ones by reshaping the ways in which the object can be taught and studied, from a wide variety of disciplines and fields.The Object Reader elucidates objects in many of... -
Steps Towards a Small Theory of the Visible by John Berger
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.01'We live within a spectacle of empty clothes and unworn masks'In this series of remarkable pieces from across his career, John Berger celebrates and dissects the close links between art and society and the individual. Few writers give a more vivid and... -
The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition) by Walter Pater 9781962572118
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781962572118Author Walter PaterFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Warbler ClassicsPublisher Warbler ClassicsWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Things that Talk: Object Lessons from Art and Science by Lorraine J. Daston
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £17.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781890951443Author Lorraine J. DastonFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 726gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
Rackham's Fairy Tale Illustrations by Arthur Rackham 9780486421674
RRP: £12.49Booksplease Price: £8.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486421674Author Arthur RackhamFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...