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Donald Judd Writings by Flavin Judd
RRP: £28.00£18.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941701355Author Flavin JuddFormat PaperbackPage Count 1056Imprint David ZwirnerPublisher David ZwirnerWeight(grams) 820g -
Speculation as a Mode of Production: Forms of Value Subjectivity in Art and Capital by Marina Vishmidt 9781642590517
RRP: £30.00£22.38In Speculation as a Mode of Production: Forms of Value Subjectivity in Art and Capital, Marina Vishmidt offers a new perspective on one of the main categories of capitalist life in the historical present. Writing not under the shadow but in the spirit of... -
Is It My Body? - Selected Texts Kim Gordon 9783956790386
£14.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783956790386Author Kim GordonFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Sternberg PressPublisher Sternberg PressWeight(grams) 666gDimensions(mm) 191mm * 121mm *... -
The Language of Things by Deyan Sudjic
RRP: £12.99£9.09In The Language of Things Deyan Sudjic, Director of the Design Museum, decodes the things around us: their hidden meanings, our relationship with them, how they shape our lives and why we desire them. Design is everywhere. It seduces, pleases and... -
Colour in Art by John Gage 9780500297339
RRP: £16.99£11.54A wide-ranging and engaging introduction to the place and power of colour in life and art by John Gage, author of the award-winning Colour and Culture. The complex phenomenon of colour has received detailed attention from the perspectives of physics,... -
The Short Story of Modern Art: A Pocket Guide to Key Movements, Works, Themes and Techniques by Susie Hodge
RRP: £14.99£10.95The Short Story of Modern Art explains the how, why and when of modern art - who introduced certain things, what they were, where they were produced, and why they matter. Simply constructed, the book explores 50 key works - from the realist painting... -
Instructional Photography: Learning How To Live Now by Carmen Winant 9781916041240
£12.73Instructional Photographs: Learning How to Live Now is a timely and explosive book by Carmen Winant. An investigation of a genre of photographs Winant calls "instructional", it asks: can photographs teach, in and of themselves? If so, how might we look... -
The Russian Experiment in Art 1863-1922 by Camilla Gray
RRP: £12.95£9.47When the original edition of this book was published, John Russell hailed it as a 'massive contribution to our knowledge of one of the most fascinating and mysterious episodes in the history of modern art.' It still remains the most compact, accurate and... -
And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos by John Berger 9780747576914
RRP: £9.99£7.11'Those who read or listen to our stories see everything as though through a lens. This lens is the secret of narration, and it is ground anew in every story, ground between the temporal and the timeless ...In our brief mortal lives, we are grinders of... -
Art and Cosmotechnics by Yuk Hui 9781517909543
RRP: £21.99£19.19In light of current discourses on AI and robotics, what do the various experiences of art contribute to the rethinking of technology today?Art and Cosmotechnics addresses the challenge of technology to the existence of art and traditional thought,... -
12 Rules of Creativity by Michael Atavar 9780953107322
RRP: £11.99£8.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780953107322Author Michael AtavarFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Kiosk PublishingPublisher Kiosk PublishingWeight(grams) 250gDimensions(mm) 180mm *... -
Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, 1: 1913-1926 by Walter Benjamin 9780674013551
RRP: £28.95£23.30Walter Benjamin was one of the most original and important critical voices of the twentieth century, but until now only a few of his writings have been available in English. Harvard University Press has now undertaken to publish a significant portion of... -
Ways of Curating by Hans-Ulrich Obrist
RRP: £10.99£8.43Drawing on his own experiences and inspirations - from staging his first exhibition in his tiny Zurich kitchen in 1986 to encounters with artists, exhibition makers and thinkers - Hans Ulrich Obrist looks to inspire all those engaged in the creation of... -
The Pre-Raphaelites and Orientalism: Language and Cognition in Remediations of the East by Eleonora Sasso
RRP: £23.99£21.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474454865Author Eleonora SassoFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press -
Conceptual Odysseys: Passages to Cultural Analysis by Griselda Pollock
£29.07The 'theoretical turn' within the arts and humanities in the 1970s and 1980s has, for many, had its day, with work produced under its rubric all too often feeling tired or even downright lazy. In its place - whilst hazarding against an outright rejection... -
See What You're Missing: 31 Ways Artists Notice the World – and How You Can Too by Will Gompertz
RRP: £20.00£14.29The internationally bestselling author on how art can help us appreciate life in all its strange and exhilarating beautyArtists have learnt to pay attention. The rest of us spend most of our time on autopilot, rushing from place to place, our... -
The Exceptionally Simple Theory of Sketching (Extended Edition) by George Hlavacs
RRP: £15.99£10.93When 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 ... -
Inside the White Cube: The Ideology of the Gallery Space, Expanded Edition by Brian O'Doherty
RRP: £27.00£20.63When these essays first appeared in Artforum in 1976, their impact was immediate. They were discussed, annotated, cited, collected, and translated-the three issues of Artforum in which they appeared have become nearly impossible to obtain. Having Brian... -
Creative Theories of (Just About) Everything: A Journey Into Origins and Imaginations by Jeroen Lutters 9789492095749
RRP: £25.00£18.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789492095749Author Jeroen LuttersFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint ValizPublisher ValizWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 163mm * 18mm -
How to Understand Art by Janetta Rebold Benton
RRP: £12.99£8.60The 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... -
Kandinsky: Incarnating Beauty Alexandre Kojeve 9781644230817
RRP: £10.95£7.38A teacher to Jacques Lacan, Andre Breton, and Albert Camus, Kojeve defined art as the act of extracting the beautiful from objective reality. His poetic text, "The Concrete Paintings of Kandinsky," endorses nonrepresentational art as uniquely manifesting... -
Art in Theory 1900 - 2000: An Anthology of Changing Ideas Charles Harrison (Open University) 9780631227083
RRP: £30.95£29.05This popular anthology of twentieth-century art theoretical texts has now been expanded to take account of new research, and to include significant contributions to art theory from the 1990s. New edition of this popular anthology of twentieth-century... -
Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation by Leonie Gombrich 9780714842080 [USED COPY]
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Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation by Leonie Gombrich
RRP: £19.95£16.00Described by Kenneth Clark as 'one of the most brilliant books of art criticism that I have ever read', Art and Illusion is a classic study of image-making. It seeks to answer a simple question: why is there such a thing as style? The question may be... -
Theatre of the Oppressed by Augusto Boal
RRP: £16.99£11.54Augusto Boal saw theatre as a mirror to the world, one that we can reach into to change our reality. This book, The Theatre of the Oppressed, is the foundation to 'Forum Theatre', a popular radical form practised across the world. Boal's techniques... -
The Politics of Aesthetics by Gabriel Rockhill
RRP: £19.99£18.80The Politics of Aesthetics rethinks the relationship between art and politics, reclaiming "aesthetics" from the narrow confines it is often reduced to. Jacques Ranciere reveals its intrinsic link to politics by analysing what they both have in common:... -
Thinking Contemporary Curating by Dr Terry Smith 9780916365868
RRP: £17.50£12.01What is contemporary curatorial thought? Current discourse on the topic is heating up with a new cocktail of bold ideas and ethical imperatives. These include: cooperative curating, especially with artists; the reimagination of museums; curating as... -
Utamaro and the Spectacle of Beauty: Revised and Expanded Second Edition by Julie Nelson Davis
RRP: £30.00£29.09Japanese artist Kitagawa Utamaro (1753-1806) was one of the most influential artists working in the genre of ukiyo-e, `pictures of the floating world', in late eighteenth-century Japan, and was widely appreciated for his prints of beautiful women. In... -
Botticelli by Frank Zollner
RRP: £35.00£26.69Botticelli is one of the most admired artists of the Renaissance period and his seductive Venus and graceful Primavera are among the world's most recognisable works of art. This catalogue raisonne of Botticelli's paintings offers more than two hundred... -
How to Enjoy Art: A Guide for Everyone by Ben Street
RRP: £9.99£8.59An entertaining and lively guide to rediscovering the pleasure in art"Ben Street is one of the greatest communicators and writers on art. [This is] an expert guide to looking at and understanding art. Beautifully put together and brilliantly written... -
Experience or Interpretation: The Dilemma of Museums of Modern Art by Nicholas Serota
RRP: £7.95£5.58How do we see art? How is it displayed? One hundred years ago, art was shown in a way intended to educate. Galleries reflected the curator's view of history at the expense of differing opinions. Today, not only do museums and galleries celebrate these... -
What Art Is by Arthur C. Danto
RRP: £11.99£10.15A lively meditation on the nature of art by one of America's most celebrated art critics What is it to be a work of art? Renowned author and critic Arthur C. Danto addresses this fundamental, complex question. Part philosophical monograph and part... -
Art + Archive: Understanding the Archival Turn in Contemporary Art by Sara Callahan
RRP: £30.00£21.71Art + Archive provides an in-depth analysis of the connection between art and the archive at the turn of the twenty-first century. The book examines how the archive emerged in art writing in the mid-1990s and how its subsequent ubiquity can be understood... -
Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing, and Criticism by Lauren Fournier
RRP: £31.00£21.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262544887Author Lauren FournierFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Aesthetics and the Sciences of Mind by Greg Currie 9780199669646
RRP: £41.99£41.74Through much of the twentieth century, philosophical thinking about works of art, design, and other aesthetic products has emphasized intuitive and reflective methods, often tied to the idea that philosophy's business is primarily to analyze concepts... -
The Science of Art: Optical Themes in Western Art from Brunelleschi to Seurat by Mr Martin Kemp 9780300052411
RRP: £48.50£48.06In this pathbreaking and richly illustrated book, Martin Kemp examines the major optically oriented examples of artistic theory and practice from Brunelleschi's invention of perspective and its exploitation by Leonardo and Durer to the beginnings of... -
Reading the Pre-Raphaelites by Tim Barringer
RRP: £22.50£18.95Noted for its vivid colors, elaborate use of symbols, and dedication to close observation of the natural world, the work of Pre-Raphaelite artists combines a deep engagement with the past and a modern realism that exemplifies the concerns of the age of... -
Bio Art: Altered Realities by William Myers
RRP: £30.00£20.40In 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 Arts and the Creation of Mind by Elliot W. Eisner 9780300105117
RRP: £14.99£14.85Although the arts are often thought to be closer to the rim of education than to its core, they are, surprisingly, critically important means for developing complex and subtle aspects of the mind, argues Elliot Eisner in this engrossing book. In it he... -
Giorgio Armani: Empire of the Senses by John Potvin
RRP: £45.99£40.53Exploring 35 years of creative output, this richly illustrated book offers an unprecedented look into Giorgio Armani's unique aesthetic, corporate and cultural strategies. More than any other designer, Armani best represents the global success of the...