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Matisse: In 50 works by John Cauman
RRP: £20.00£13.86This enthralling and comprehensive new book on Henri Matisse is an eye-opener for all students and art lovers interested in early twentieth-century art. Taking fifty of Matisse's most iconic works of art, John Cauman provides an accessible narrative... -
The Great British Seaside: Photography from the 1960s to the Present by Tony Ray-Jones
RRP: £25.00£18.62Featuring works by some of Britain's best-loved photographers - Tony Ray-Jones, David Hurn, Martin Parr, and Simon Roberts - this book explores our changing relationship with the seaside over the last six decades and holds up a critical and affectionate... -
Conversations from Calais: Sharing Refugee Stories by Mathilda Della Torre
RRP: £14.99£10.64'A beautiful, deeply affecting and powerful marriage between art and activism' - KHALED HOSSEINI, bestselling author of The Kite Runner'These are vital conversations. Everyone should eavesdrop on them'- KAMILA SHAMSIE, author of award-winning bestseller... -
Ateliers of Europe: An Atlas of Decorative Arts Workshops by John Whelan
RRP: £45.00£33.41This visually stunning love letter to the art of craft takes readers inside Europe's most illustrious-and in many cases endangered-decorative arts workshops to profile how artisans continue to maintain the highest centuries-old standards of workmanship... -
Gustav Klimt: The Interiors by Tobias G. Natter 9783791379784
RRP: £39.99£28.78Interior design was supremely important to Gustav Klimt, and many of his paintings were created for specific settings or spaces. This aspect of Klimt's practice comes beautifully to life in this book that illustrates how some of the artist's most... -
Starry Night: Van Gogh at the Asylum by Martin Bailey
RRP: £19.99£13.75Starry Night is a fascinating, fully illustrated account of Van Gogh's time at the asylum in Saint-Remy, during which he created some of his most iconic pieces of art. Despite the challenges of ill health and asylum life, Van Gogh continued to produce a... -
Renaissance Art in Venice: From Tradition to Individualism by Tom Nichols
£23.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780678511Author Tom NicholsFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Laurence King PublishingPublisher Laurence King PublishingWeight(grams) 830g -
Goya by Nordine Haddad
RRP: £17.95£14.00Sarah Symmons' fascinating account locates Goya in the context of his Spanish heritage, traces the immense influence of his work throughout Europe and considers the continued relevance of his art in the twentieth century. Drawings, oil paintings,... -
Canaletto: Painting Venice: The Woburn Series Charles Beddington 9781843682066
RRP: £35.00£22.43In Venice, on the Grand Tour in 1731, the future fourth Duke of Bedford met with the great art agent, Consul Joseph Smith. The commission he placed resulted in 24 of the greatest and most typical works of Canaletto. First installed in Bedford House... -
Jazz by Henri Matisse
RRP: £16.99£11.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807600184Author Henri MatisseFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint George Braziller IncPublisher George Braziller IncWeight(grams) 307gDimensions(mm)... -
Five Centuries of British Painting: From Holbein to Hodgkin by Andrew Wilton
RRP: £12.99£4.76Britain has played a key part in the history of the last five centuries, and its art reflects this in absorbing and complex ways. The distinguished art historian Andrew Wilton traces the story of British painting from its hesitant beginnings under the... -
Goering's Man in Paris: The Story of a Nazi Art Plunderer and His World by Jonathan Petropoulos
RRP: £27.50£23.29A charged biography of a notorious Nazi art plunderer and his career in the postwar art world "[Petropoulos] brings Lohse into sharper focus, as a personality and axis point from which to explore a network of art dealers, collectors and museum curators... -
Kurt Schwitters: Merzkunst by Isabel Schulz
RRP: £15.00£9.80Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948) is one of the most influential protagonists of the avant-garde, both as an artist and an author. With his utopia of the "total Merz vision of the world" he aimed at the "unification of art and non-art". The art of assemblage... -
Hieronymus Bosch: Time and Transformation in The Garden of Earthly Delights by Margaret D. Carroll
RRP: £25.00£21.92A new and exciting interpretation of Bosch's masterpiece, repositioning the triptych as a history of humanity and the natural world Hieronymus Bosch's (c. 1450-1516) Garden of Earthly Delights has elicited a sense of wonder for centuries. Over ten feet... -
Ancient Mythological Images and their Interpretation: An Introduction to Iconology, Semiotics and Image Studies in Classical Art History by Katharina Lorenz
RRP: £23.99£20.77When we try to make sense of pictures, what do we gain when we use a particular method - and what might we be missing or even losing? Empirical experimentation on three types of mythological imagery - a Classical Greek pot, a frieze from Hellenistic... -
Gustav Klimt: Landscapes by Stephan Koja
RRP: £17.99£13.35Now available again, this visually stunning collection of Gustav Klimt's landscape paintings brings to light a lesser-known aspect of the Viennese painter's oeuvre. While Gustav Klimt is largely revered for his opulent, symbolladen portraits of the... -
English Wood-Engraving 1900-1950 by Thomas Balston
RRP: £18.49£11.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486798783Author Thomas BalstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Impressionists Masterpieces of Art Michael Robinson 9781786641755
RRP: £12.99£9.00Bringing to life the gorgeous, inspiring art of Monet, Manet, Renoir, Pissarro and their group, Impressionists takes the reader back to Nineteenth Century Paris to explore one of the most influential, and popular art movements in the history of painting... -
Landscape into Eco Art: Articulations of Nature Since the '60s by Mark Cheetham
RRP: £34.95£31.59Dedicated to an articulation of the earth from broadly ecological perspectives, eco art is a vibrant subset of contemporary art that addresses the widespread public concern with rapid climate change and related environmental issues. In Landscape into Eco... -
Central and Eastern European Art Since 1950 by Maja Fowkes
RRP: £16.99£10.39In this path-breaking new history, Maja and Reuben Fowkes introduce outstanding artworks and major figures from across central and eastern Europe to reveal the movements, theories and styles that have shaped artistic practice since 1950. They emphasize... -
Recording Britain Gill Saunders 9781851776610
RRP: £30.00£25.17Recording Britain was an artistic documentary project compiled as the country was facing the potentially devastating impact of the Second World War. The resulting collection of more than 1500 watercolours and drawings, by artists such as John Piper,... -
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: 150th Anniversary Edition by Lewis Carroll
RRP: £22.00£18.68Commemorating the 150th anniversary of one of the most beloved classics of children's literature, this illustrated edition presents Alice like you've never seen her before. In 1865, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, an Oxford mathematician and Anglican deacon,... -
The Art Of Drawing: British Masters and Methods since 16 by Susan Owens 9781851777587
RRP: £30.00£23.03The Art of Drawing is the first book in sixty years to cover the wider history of drawing in Britain exploring the crucial role drawing has played in British art. Featuring works by foremost British artists from the early seventeenth century right up to... -
The Arts of Intimacy: Christians, Jews, and Muslims in the Making of Castilian Culture by Jerrilynn D. Dodds 9780300142143
£22.68A dynamic vision of medieval Castilian culture and the Arabic, Hebrew, and Latin strands that are woven into its fabric Named a Book of the Year by the Times Literary Supplement, this lavishly illustrated work explores the vibrant interaction among... -
Arte Povera (Abridged Edition) by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev
RRP: £14.95£12.50The definitive overview and anthology of the artworks and writings associated with Arte Povera, the influential art movement that explored the relation between art and life, made manifest through natural materials and human artifacts, and experienced... -
Klimowski Poster Book by Andrzej Klimowski
RRP: £14.99£10.28"He leads the field by a very long furlong, out on his own, making his own weather. He is Klimowski, unafraid."-Harold Pinter, Nobel Prize-winning playwright In the mid-1970s, Andrzej Klimowski's fearlessly original artwork caught the eye of leading... -
Rubens - Picturing Antiquity Davide Gasparotto 9781606066706
RRP: £35.00£30.57The first study devoted to classical art's vital creative impact on the work of the Flemish master Peter Paul Rubens. For the great Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), the classical past afforded lifelong creative stimulus and the camaraderie of humanist... -
David Hockney: 82 Portraits and 1 Still Life by Tim Barringer 9781910350287
£42.42This summer 2016 publication brings together the recent body of work by David Hockney, perhaps the most popular and versatile British artist of the last century. Following his sweeping exploration of landscape in the Royal Academy's galleries in 2012,... -
Jean Dubuffet: Brutal Beauty by Eleanor Nairne
RRP: £39.99£28.38In 1940s occupied Paris, Jean Dubuffet began to champion a progressive vision for art; one that rejected classical notions of beauty in favor of a more visceral aesthetic. Taking a pioneering approach to materiality and technique, the artist variously... -
Futurism & Europe: The Aesthetics of a New World by Fabio Benzi 9780300272406
RRP: £50.00£41.65A new, expansive study on Futurism which explores for the first time its relationships with other European avant-gardes during 1912 to 1939Futurism & Europe: The Aesthetics of a New World examines for the first time the many interconnections between... -
London and the Emergence of a European Art Market, 1780-1820 Susanna Avery-Quash 9781606065952
RRP: £50.00£42.05In the late 1700s, as the events of the French Revolution roiled France, London displaced Paris as the primary hub of international art sales. Within a few decades, a robust and sophisticated art market flourished in London. 'London and the Emergence... -
Keith Grant by Judith LeGrove 9781848226272
RRP: £45.00£34.00Having travelled extensively throughout his life, Grant has drawn inspiration from landscapes from Antarctica to the tropics, While attracted to northerly territories (he has lived in Norway since 1996), the subject matter of Grant's bold images varies... -
OCEANS APART:: ART FROM BRITAIN & THE CARIBBEAN by Alex, David Farcquharson, Bailey 9781849767651
RRP: £40.00£36.21Life 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... -
Hammershoi: Painter of Northern Light by Jean-Loup Champion
RRP: £42.50£37.13The paintings of Vilhelm Hammershoi (1864 1916) have become increasingly popular due their almost contemporary aesthetic. Admired and celebrated during his lifetime, Hammershoi gradually fell into oblivion before being rediscovered in the 1990s. He is... -
Lowry's Lamps by Richard Mayson
RRP: £20.00£14.69Laurence Stephen Lowry RBA RA is mostly thought about in terms of his people and their industrial setting but there is a great deal more to be read from the detail of his paintings. Throughout his artistic career, Lowry used street furniture to brilliant... -
Charles I: King and Collector by Desmond Shawe-Taylor 9781910350676
RRP: £40.00£27.75During his reign, King Charles I (1600-1649) assembled one of Europe's most extraordinary art collections. Indeed, by the time of his death, it contained some 2,000 paintings and sculptures. Charles I: King and Collector explores the origins of the ... -
Artemisia Gentileschi: The Image of the Female Hero in Italian Baroque Art by Mary D. Garrard
RRP: £55.00£45.31Artemisia Gentileschi, widely regarded as the most important woman artist before the modern period, was a major Italian Baroque painter of the seventeenth century and the only female follower of Caravaggio. This first full-length study of her life and... -
Yinka Shonibare MBE: Revised and Expanded by Rachel Kent 9783791348728
RRP: £35.00£25.89Born in London and raised in Nigeria, Shonibare employs a diverse range of media - from sculpture, painting and installation to photography and film - to probe matters of race, class, cultural identity and history. He is perhaps best known for his... -
Drawn From Nature: The Flowering of Irish Botanical Art Patricia Butler 9781788842365
RRP: £35.00£23.43"Generous colour illustrations throughout the book, often full-page, complement her elegant text. As an exhaustive guide to the genre's evolution in Ireland, it merits warm welcome." - Apollo Magazine "...a meticulously researched and... -
Tate Introductions: Robert Rauschenberg by Ed Krcma
RRP: £7.99£5.79A lively and accessible introduction to the life and work of Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008), one of the most inventive and influential artists of the post-war period. An important influence on Pop artists in the 1960s, Rauschenberg worked across a...