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Ireland: Crossroads of Art and Design, 1690-1840 by Christopher Monkhouse
RRP: £30.00£26.45A sweeping survey of the arts of Ireland spanning 150 years and an astonishing range of artists and media This groundbreaking book captures a period in Ireland's history when countless foreign architects, artisans, and artists worked side by side with... -
Illuminating Women in the Medieval World by Christine Sciacca
RRP: £21.99£18.95When one thinks of women in the Middle Ages, the images that often come to mind are those of damsels in distress, mystics in convents, female labourers in the field, and even women of ill repute. In reality, however, medieval conceptions of womanhood... -
Works of Geoffrey Chaucer: The William Morris Kelmscott Chaucer With Illustrations by Edward Burne-Jones by Geoffrey Chaucer 9781606601044
RRP: £62.99£42.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606601044Author Geoffrey ChaucerFormat HardbackPage Count 576Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Jeanne Mammen: Art Between Resistance and Conformity in Modern Germany, 1916-1950 by Camilla Smith
£98.86Jeanne Mammen's watercolour images of the gender-bending 'new woman' and her candid portrayals of Berlin's thriving nightlife appeared in some of the most influential magazines of the Weimar Republic and are still considered characteristic of much of the... -
Modern Scottish Women: Painters and Sculptures 1885-1965 by Alice Strang 9781906270896
RRP: £19.99£19.22This revelatory book concentrates on Scottish women painters and sculptors from 1885, when Fra Newbery became Director of the Glasgow School of Art, until 1965, the year of Anne Redpath's death. It explores the experience and context of the artists and... -
Artemisia Gentileschi by Sheila Barker
RRP: £35.00£26.68Examined through the lens of cutting-edge scholarship, Artemisia Gentileschi clears a pathway for non-specialist audiences to appreciate the artist's pictorial intelligence, as well as her achievement of a remarkably lucrative and high-profile career... -
Max Beckmann: The Formative Years, 1915-25 Olaf Peters 9783791379944
RRP: £45.00£32.21This generously illustrated and comprehensive book focuses on a decisive decade in Max Beckmann's career as one of the leading figurative painters of the twentieth century. This publication will provide insight into a critical period in the artist's... -
Auguste Rodin Rainer Maria Rilke 9781843680314
RRP: £9.99£6.80Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) was already an old man when the young poet Rainer Maria Rilke went to interview him for the first time. Rilke stayed on to work as Rodin's secretary. Intensely sensitive to art, and in particular to the irreducible power of... -
Juan Munoz: Seven Rooms Juan Munoz 9781644230893
RRP: £55.00£35.45"Walking between these figures feels like an interruption; being a spectator is itself a performance. They seem to know more than we do, about the status of being an artwork and the place of the viewer. The joke, if there is one, is on us." - The... -
William Turnbull: International Modern Artist by Jon Wood
RRP: £55.00£41.32William Turnbull (1922-2012) stands as one of Britain's foremost artists in the second half of the twentieth century. Both a sculptor and a painter, he explored the changing contemporary world and its ancient past, actively engaging with the shifting... -
The Writings Of Marcel Duchamp by Marcel Duchamp 9780306803413
£18.09In the twenties, Surrealists proclaimed that words had stopped playing around and had begun to make love. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the writings of Marcel Duchamp, who fashioned some of the more joyous and ingenious couplings and uncouplings... -
Kandinsky by Hajo Duchting
RRP: £15.00£11.36Over the course of his artistic career, Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) transformed not only his own style, but the course of art history. From early figurative and landscape painting, he went on to pioneer a spiritual, emotive, rhythmic use of color and... -
Graphic Passion: Matisse and the Book Arts by John Bidwell
RRP: £55.95£50.65The great painter Henri Matisse was also a great book illustrator. A pioneering member of the Fauves, a supreme colorist, a remarkable draftsman, and a creative genius: this is the Matisse known and admired by everyone with even a passing interest in... -
The Prints of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham: A Complete Catalogue by Ms. Ann V. Gunn
RRP: £49.95£38.63The Prints of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham: A Complete Catalogue is the first book to provide a complete account of the printmaking career of British artist Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (1912-2004), with particular reference to the technical innovations that she... -
Tales Things Tell: Material Histories of Early Globalisms by Finbarr Barry Flood 9780691215150
RRP: £45.00£35.32New perspectives on early globalisms from objects and imagesTales Things Tell offers new perspectives on histories of connectivity between Africa, Asia, and Europe in the period before the Mongol conquests of the thirteenth century. Reflected in objects... -
Dadaism by Dietmar Elger
RRP: £15.00£11.36Emerging amid the brutality of World War I, the revolutionary Dada movement took disgust with the establishment as its starting point. From 1916 until the mid-1920s, artists in Zurich, Cologne, Hanover, Paris, and New York launched a radical assault on... -
Mannerism in Italian Museums by Alessandra Bigi Iotti
RRP: £55.00£38.71Alessandra Bigi Iotti and Giulio Zavatta are noted art historians, authors, and professors who have organised exhibitions, events, and conferences in Italy and abroad. In this book, they take the reader on a journey through art galleries, museums, and... -
The Louvre: The Many Lives of the World's Most Famous Museum by James Gardner
RRP: £12.99£8.56Almost nine million people from all over the world flock to the Louvre in Paris every year to see its incomparable art collection. Yet few, if any, are aware of the remarkable history of that location and of the buildings themselves, and how they... -
Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: Highlights from the Philadelphia Museum of Art Jennifer A. Thompson 9780876332894
RRP: £27.50£23.89An engaging and beautifully illustrated overview of one of the finest Impressionist and Post-Impressionist collections in the United States Featuring 90 highlights from the Philadelphia Museum of Art's stellar collection of Impressionist and... -
The Mineral and the Visual: Precious Stones in Medieval Secular Culture by Brigitte Buettner
RRP: £83.95£74.13Opulent jeweled objects ranked among the most highly valued works of art in the European Middle Ages. At the same time, precious stones prompted sophisticated reflections on the power of nature and the experience of mineralized beings. Beyond a visual... -
Reliquary Tabernacles in Fourteenth-Century Ital - Image, Relic and Material Culture by Beth Williamson
RRP: £55.00£52.91Ground-breaking study of the enigmatic and unique tabernacles from fourteenth-century Italy, which for the first time combined relics and images. Images and relics were central tools in the process of devotional practice in medieval Europe. The... -
Roubiliac and the Eighteenth-Century Monument: Sculpture as Theatre by Malcolm Baker 9780300063332
RRP: £50.00£43.25Louis Francois Roubiliac, the most compelling sculptor in eighteenth-century Britain, was responsible for many complex and dramatic monuments that can be seen in Westminster Abbey and churches throughout the country. This book is not only the first... -
Kirchner Norbert Wolf 9783836535045
RRP: £15.00£9.76Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938) is regarded as one of the key figures in 20th-century European art. A Modernist to his bones, he sent seismic waves through the art world with his hard-edged, intensely colored paintings and disseminated his ideas... -
Savage Messiah: A biography of the sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska by H.S. Ede 9781904561804
RRP: £12.50£9.31Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (1891-1915) was one of the leading figures of European avant-garde sculpture. Gaudier played an important role in the development of modern sculpture in Britain, working alongside Ezra Pound, Jacob Epstein, Roger Fry, Wyndham Lewis... -
People, Places & Piazzas: The Life & Art of Charles Hodge Mackie by Pat Clark 9781908326911
RRP: £25.00£16.13Biography of Scottish ArtistBook InformationISBN 9781908326911Author Pat ClarkFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Sansom & CoPublisher Sansom & CoDimensions(mm) 270mm * 210mm * 8mm -
The Marble Index: Roubiliac and Sculptural Portraiture in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Malcolm Baker
RRP: £50.00£44.05Providing the first thorough study of sculptural portraiture in 18th-century Britain, this important book challenges both the idea that portrait necessarily implies painting and the assumption that Enlightenment thought is manifest chiefly in French art... -
Fuseli and the Modern Woman: Fashion, Fantasy, Fetishism by David Solkin
RRP: £30.00£20.95This catalogue accompanies the first exhibition devoted to a fascinating group of drawings by the Anglo-Swiss Henry Fuseli (1741-1825), one of eighteenth-century Europe's most idiosyncratic, original and controversial artists.Best known for his... -
The Thefts of the Mona Lisa: The Complete Story of the World's Most Famous Artwork by Noah Charney 9781538181362
RRP: £25.00£18.54If you read one book on the Mona Lisa, let this be it. From the artwork to its theft and role in popular culture, The Thefts of the Mona Lisa provides the complete story, as written by a best-selling, Pulitzer finalist.Leonardo da Vinci's portrait,... -
Music in Art by Alberto Ausoni 9780892369652
RRP: £21.99£18.95This is a superbly illustrated exploration of the history of music in Western art, from ancient sculptures to modern art. "The Guide to Imagery" series introduces readers to the important visual vocabulary of Western art. As an integral part of human... -
Patronage, Power, and Agency in Medieval Art by Colum Hourihane 9780983753742
RRP: £30.95£28.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983753742Author Colum HourihaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Index of Christian Art, Dept. of Art and Archaeology, Princeton UniversityPublisher... -
Jean Dubuffet: Anticultural Positions by Mark Rosenthal 9780847858514
RRP: £45.00£34.21The catalogue to a groundbreaking exhibition of Dubuffet's seminal Art Brut and including historic essays by the artist published for the first time. This is the first book to be published on Dubuffet's early work in painting and sculpture in more than... -
Sonia Boyce: Feeling Her Way by Emma Ridgway
RRP: £25.00£20.92The first major publication to explore the work of Sonia Boyce, one of Britain's most exciting contemporary artists, including her newest and most ambitious work to date The British artist Sonia Boyce (b. 1962) is celebrated for depicting intimate social... -
At Memory's Edge: After-Images of the Holocaust in Contemporary Art and Architecture by James E. Young 9780300094138
RRP: £27.50£27.33How should Germany commemorate the mass murder of Jews once committed in its name? In 1997, James E. Young was invited to join a German commission appointed to find an appropriate design for a national memorial in Berlin to the European Jews killed in... -
Art Nouveau Jewelry Designs by Rene Beauclair 9780486810065
RRP: £12.49£7.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486810065Author Rene BeauclairFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
De Stijl and Dutch Modernism by Michael White
RRP: £19.99£17.82De Stijl was the title of a magazine founded in the Netherlands in 1917 and is now used to identify the abstract art and functional architecture of its major contributors: Mondrian, Van Doesburg, Van der Leck, Oud, Wils and Rietveld. This book is the... -
The Surviving Image: Phantoms of Time and Time of Phantoms: Aby Warburg's History of Art by Georges Didi-Huberman 9780271072098
RRP: £34.95£31.59The Surviving Image, originally published in French in 2002, is the result of Georges Didi-Huberman's extensive research into the life and work of foundational art historian Aby Warburg. Warburg envisioned an art history that engaged with anthropology,... -
The Louvre: The Many Lives of the World's Most Famous Museum by James Gardner 9781611856347
RRP: £20.00£13.86Almost nine million people from all over the world flock to the Louvre in Paris every year to see its incomparable art collection. Yet few, if any, are aware of the remarkable history of that location and of the buildings themselves, and how they... -
Artrage!: The Story of the BritArt Revolution by Elizabeth Fullerton
RRP: £12.99£8.13The Young British Artists (YBAs) stormed on to the contemporary art scene in 1988 with their attention-grabbing, ironic art, exploding art-world conventions with brazen disdain. Dismissed as trivial gimmickry and praised for its witty energy, their art... -
The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War by Lynn H Nicholas
RRP: £21.00£12.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Legion of Honor 1999 and National Book Critics Circle Awards 1994.Book InformationISBN 9780679756866Author Lynn H. NicholasFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint... -
Certain Welsh Artists by Iwan Bala 9781854112514
RRP: £19.95£14.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854112514Format HardbackPage Count 200Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressWeight(grams) 760g