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Juan de Pareja: Afro-Hispanic Painter in the Age of Velazquez by David Pullins
RRP: $51.60$44.62A provocative study of a freedman painter that recognizes the labor of enslaved artists and artisans in seventeenth-century Spain Diego Velazquez's portrait of Juan de Pareja (ca. 1608-1670) has long been a landmark of European art, but this provocative... -
The London Art Schools by Nigel Llewellyn
RRP: $32.24$10.24Since 1960, progressive forces within art education have stoked, and continued to fire, new impulses in the field of artistic production. As society at large embraced youth and popular culture, art school students with international aspirations exploded... -
The Rainbow's Gravity: Colour, Materiality and British Modernity Kirsty Sinclair Dootson 9781913107369
RRP: $58.05$48.54From Victorian breakthroughs in synthesising pigments to the BBC's conversion to chromatic broadcasting, the story of colour's technological development is inseparable from wider processes of modernisation that transformed Britain. This revolutionary... -
Devotion by Design: Italian Altarpieces before 1500 by Scott Nethersole 9781857095258
RRP: $25.79$25.30Museum visitors today usually see pre-16th-century Italian painted altarpieces exhibited alone, as single paintings. Yet this beautiful catalogue shows that these works were once part of decorative, integrated schemes, and the original experience for... -
Looking at Pictures Robert Walser 9780811224246
RRP: $25.79$22.41A beautiful and elegant collection, with gorgeous full-color art reproductions, Looking at Pictures presents a little-known side of the eccentric Swiss genius: his great writings on art. His essays consider Van Gogh, Cezanne, Rembrandt, Cranach, Watteau,... -
The Hundred Headless Woman by Max Ernst 9780486819112
RRP: $32.24$20.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486819112Author Max ErnstFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 705gDimensions(mm)... -
I Never Saw Another Butterfly by Hana Volavkova
RRP: $24.50$17.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805210156Author Hana VolavkovaFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 420gDimensions(mm) 266mm... -
Corfu Sketches: A Thirty-year Journey by John Waller 9780954788742
RRP: $25.74$21.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954788742Author John WallerFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Yiannis BooksPublisher Yiannis Books -
Gauguin Ingo F. Walther 9783836532235
RRP: $19.35$14.65Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) was not cut out for finance. Nor did he last particularly long in the French Navy, or as a tarpaulin salesman in Copenhagen who did not speak Danish. He began painting in his spare time in 1873 and in 1876 took part in the Paris... -
Turner's Sketchbooks by Ian Warrell
RRP: $38.70$28.86The first book to survey the full range of J.M.W. Turner's extraordinary sketchbooks, beginning with his teenage explorations and culminating in the masterful colour studies of his later years. J.M.W. Turner's sketchbooks provide us with a rare... -
Borrowed Landscapes: China and Japan in the Historic Houses and Gardens of Britain and Ireland by Emile de Bruijn 9781781300985
RRP: $45.15$32.93A beautifully illustrated exploration of the impact of Chinese and Japanese material culture on the historic houses and gardens of Britain and Ireland. The art and ornament of China and Japan have had a deep impact in the British Isles. From the... -
European Art of the Seventeenth Century by Rosa Giorgi
RRP: $28.37$25.22The seventeenth century was an era of absolute monarchs, the Habsburgs of Spain and Louis XIV of France, whose patronage of the arts helped furnish their opulent palaces. But it was also the beginning of a new era of commercialism, in which artists... -
Gerhard Richter: Life and Work by Armin Zweite 9783791386515
RRP: $127.71$93.41One of the world's most revered visual artists, Gerhard Richter embraces many concepts in his work and continually thwarts categorisation. In this expansive and authoritative overview, Armin Zweite leads readers through every phase of Richter's... -
True to Life: British Realist Painting in the 1920s and 1930s Patrick Elliott 9781911054054
RRP: $29.66$20.09British realist art of the 1920s and 1930s is visually stunning - strong, seductive and demonstrating extraordinary technical skill. Despite this, it is often overshadowed by abstract art. This book presents the very first overview of British realist... -
Dict of British Art Volume Iv Victorian Painters - the Plates by Christopher Wood
RRP: $45.15$38.62The Dictionary of Victorian Painters, first published in 1971, and since reprinted and revised many times, has for so long been the undisputed standard reference on a period of painting that continues to excite and interest the art world, that it was... -
The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918 by Paul Klee 9780520006539
RRP: $36.06$28.59Paul Klee was endowed with a rich and many-sided personality that was continually spilling over into forms of expression other than his painting and that made him one of the most extraordinary phenomena of modern European art. These abilities have left... -
La Passione: How Italy Seduced the World by Dianne Hales
RRP: $28.38$20.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451499165Author Dianne HalesFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Crown PublicationsPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Barbara Hepworth by Abraham Marie Hammacher 9780500202180
RRP: $14.13$9.52Born in Yorkshire in 1903, of the heroic generation in twentieth-century British Art which included Henry Moore (with whom she studied in Leeds) and Ben Nicholson (whom she married), she explored in her sculpture the forms of life - especially human life... -
Looking at Manet by Emile Zola 9781843681588
RRP: $12.89$8.77"I recall the long hours I sat for him... From time to time, as I posed, half-asleep, I looked at the artist standing at his easel, with features drawn, clear-eyed, engrossed in his work. He had forgotten me, he no longer knew I was there, he simply... -
Claude Monet Masterpieces of Art by Gordon Kerr
RRP: $16.76$12.24Part of a new series of beautiful gift art books, Claude Monet Masterpieces of Art features all of the popular works of this insightful and experimental artist, from his first inklings as an Impressionist to his later flirtations with Abstract... -
The Art of Describing: Dutch Art in the Seventeenth Century by Svetlana Alpers
RRP: $46.44$45.45"The art historian after Erwin Panofsky and Ernst Gombrich is not only participating in an activity of great intellectual excitement; he is raising and exploring issues which lie very much at the centre of psychology, of the sciences and of history... -
Modern Cambridge Map: Guide to modern architecture in Cambridge Harriet Thorpe 9781912018185
RRP: $12.26$9.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912018185Author Harriet ThorpeImprint Blue Crow MediaPublisher Blue Crow MediaDimensions(mm) 148mm * 210mm * 5mm -
The Natural History of Edward Lear, New Edition by Robert McCracken Peck
RRP: $32.25$25.79A beautifully illustrated exploration of Edward Lear's little-known career as a natural-history artist-now in a new expanded paperback editionEdward Lear (1812-1888) is best known today for his witty limericks and endearing nonsense verse. But the... -
Asger Jorn Ruth Baumeister 9783858817358
RRP: $38.70$25.54This colourfully illustrated book gives a broad introduction to the life and work of Asger Jorn, one of the most significant Scandinavian artists. Educated in Paris, he collaborated with Fernand Leger and Le Corbusier, as well as creating a vast oeuvre... -
Van Gogh: in 50 works by John Cauman
RRP: $25.80$18.50A captivating and highly illustrated introduction to Vincent Van Gogh, told through 50 major works. This new book presents all you need to know about Vincent Van Gogh's turbulent and prolific creative life, featuring... -
The East German Handbook by Justinian Jampol 9783836565202
RRP: $51.60$48.03For 40 years, the Cold War dominated the world stage. East and West Germany stood at the frontlines of the global confrontation, symbolized by the infamous Berlin Wall, which separated lovers, friends, families, coworkers, and compatriots. The Wende... -
The Golden Age of Dutch and Flemish Painting Norbert Wolf 9783791384061
RRP: $127.71$93.41The Golden Age in Holland and Flanders roughly spanned the 17th century and was a period of enormous advances in the fields of commerce, science-and art. Still lifes, landscape paintings, and romantic depictions of everyday life became valued by the... -
Traces of Vermeer by Jane Jelley 9780198789734
RRP: $19.34$14.13Johannes Vermeer's luminous paintings are loved and admired around the world, yet we do not understand how they were made. We see sunlit spaces; the glimmer of satin, silver, and linen; we see the softness of a hand on a lute string or letter. We... -
Art & Nature in the Outer Hebrides by Bruce Kendrick 9781849955669
RRP: $24.50$20.19Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Life, Letters, and Poetry by Michelangelo 9780199537365
RRP: $14.18$10.02The poems have been rendered into vigorous contemporary English. A selection of Michelangelo's letters, many of the to important contemporaries such as Vasari and Duke Cosimo, is accompanied by the `Life' of the great artist written by his pupil Ascanio... -
Piero della Francesca by Anna Maria Maetzke
RRP: $32.25$23.19A guide to one of the greatest artists of all time; compact and up to date. These pages are intended as a compact up-to-date guide for readers wishing to find out more about one of the greatest artistic geniuses of all times, an artist epitomising the... -
Book of Beasts - The Bestiary in the Medieval World Elizabeth Morrison 9781606065907
RRP: $64.50$56.82Brimming with lively animals both real and fantastic, the bestiary was one of the great illuminated manuscript traditions of the Middle Ages. Encompassing imaginary creatures, such as the unicorn, siren and griffin; exotic beasts, including the tiger,... -
Unposted Letters: Correspondence, Diaries, Drawings, Documents 1940-1942 Franciszka Themerson 9789076168760
RRP: $38.70$33.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789076168760Author Franciszka ThemersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint Harmonie, Uitgeverij DePublisher Harmonie, Uitgeverij DeWeight(grams) 1g -
The Lost Pre-Raphaelite: The Secret Life & Loves of Robert Bateman by Nigel Daly 9781908524386
RRP: $32.25$21.65When the author bought a falling down fortified house on the Staffordshire moorlands, he had no reason to anticipate the astonishing tale that would unfold as it was restored. An increasingly mysterious, set of relationships emerged amongst its former... -
Vienna 1900 Complete by Christian Brandstatter 9780500519301
RRP: $109.65$73.47At the turn of the 20th century, Vienna became an epicentre for new thought. A multi-disciplinary environment emerged where music, writing and intellectual thought all flourished, often brought together in the capital's famous coffee houses. This was the... -
Goya: A Portrait of the Artist by Janis Tomlinson
RRP: $38.70$30.56The first major English-language biography of Francisco Goya y Lucientes, who ushered in the modern eraThe life of Francisco Goya (1746-1828) coincided with an age of transformation in Spanish history that brought upheavals in the country's politics and... -
The Munich Art Hoard: Hitler's Dealer and His Secret Legacy by Catherine Hickley
RRP: $16.76$10.49In February 2012, in a Munich flat belonging to an elderly recluse, German customs authorities seized an astonishing hoard of more than 1,400 paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures. When Cornelius Gurlitt's trove became public in November 2013, it ... -
Benign Icons by Patrick Woodroffe 9788799214709
RRP: $38.64$25.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788799214709Author Patrick WoodroffeFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Fantasmus ArtPublisher Fantasmus ArtWeight(grams) 1725g -
Turner by Michael Bockemuhl
RRP: $19.35$14.65In the work of Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) lies an impact akin to a sudden acquisition of sight. His landscapes and seascapes scorch the eye with such ravishing light and color, with such elemental force, it is as if the sun itself were... -
William Hogarth: A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings by Elizabeth Einberg
RRP: $122.55$105.39William Hogarth (1697-1764) was among the first British-born artists to rise to international recognition and acclaim and to this day he is considered one of the country's most celebrated and innovative masters. His output encompassed engravings,...