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Sorolla and the Paris Years by Veronique Gerard-Powell
€44.52A native of Valencia, Spanish Impressionist Joaquin Sorolla (1863-1923) first went to Paris in 1885 as a young artist at the age of twenty-three. He exhibited at the international salons, winning the Grand Prix at the Exposition Universelle in 1900, and... -
Durer Giulia Bartrum 9780714126920
RRP: €11.89€8.09Albrecht Durer (1471-1528) is arguably the first truly international artist, a celebrity both during his own lifetime and since. A major artist of the northern Renaissance, he was praised by his contemporaries and described shortly after his death as... -
Bosch and Bruegel: From Enemy Painting to Everyday Life - Bollingen Series XXXV: 57 by Joseph Leo Koerner 9780691172286
RRP: €71.40€55.54In this visually stunning and much anticipated book, acclaimed art historian Joseph Koerner casts the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Bruegel in a completely new light, revealing how the painting of everyday life was born from what seems its... -
Painting by Numbers: Data-Driven Histories of Nineteenth-Century Art by Diana Seave Greenwald
RRP: €38.08€29.46A pathbreaking history of art that uses digital research and economic tools to reveal enduring inequities in the formation of the art historical canonPainting by Numbers presents a groundbreaking blend of art historical and social scientific methods to... -
Isabella and Leonardo: The Artistic Relationship between Isabella d'Este and Leonardo da Vinci, 1500-1506 by Francis Ames-Lewis 9780300121247
RRP: €56.53€47.65Isabella d'Este, the marchioness of Mantua, was a collector of antiquities, a patron of art, and one of the most vivid personalities of the Italian Renaissance. Her artistic relationship with Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) is charted through the letters... -
Good News Bible: The Deadline Strips of Shaky Kane by Shaky Kane 9780957438149
RRP: €29.74€20.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957438149Author Shaky KaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Breakdown Press LtdPublisher Breakdown Press Ltd -
Viking and Slavic Ornamental Design by Igor Gorewicz 9781945430770
RRP: €22.61€13.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945430770Author Igor GorewiczFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Triglav PublishingPublisher Triglav PublishingWeight(grams) 286gDimensions(mm) 254mm *... -
Art Nouveau: Objects and Artifacts by Anton Seder 9780486797335
RRP: €14.86€11.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486797335Author Anton SederFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 197gDimensions(mm)... -
The Painted Book in Renaissance Italy: 1450-1600 by Jonathan J. G. Alexander
RRP: €65.45€57.23A comprehensive survey examining the vibrant and sumptuous art of illumination during a period of profound intellectual and cultural transformation Hand-painted illumination enlivened the burgeoning culture of the book in the Italian Renaissance,... -
Modern Women Artists in the Nordic Countries, 1900–1960 by Kerry Greaves 9780367753801
RRP: €47.59€41.72This transnational volume examines innovative women artists who were from, or worked in, Denmark, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Sapmi, and Sweden from the emergence of modernism until the feminist movement took shape in the 1960s.The book... -
The Pilgrim`s Bowl - (Giorgio Morandi) by Philippe Jaccottet
RRP: €9.51€8.35A meditation on the work of Italian artist Giorgio Morandi and its power to evoke a complexity of emotions and astonishment. In The Pilgrim's Bowl, Swiss poet Philippe Jaccottet examines Giorgio Morandi's ascetic still lifes, contrasting his artistic... -
Albrecht Altdorfer and the Origins of Landscape by Christopher S. Wood
RRP: €29.75€28.77In the early sixteenth century, Albrecht Altdorfer promoted landscape from its traditional role as background to its new place as the focal point of a picture. His paintings, drawings, and etchings appeared almost without warning and mysteriously... -
BLK ART: The Audacious Legacy of Black Artists and Models in Western Art by Zaria Ware
RRP: €35.70€22.51A fun and fact-filled introduction to the dismissed Black art masters and models who shook up the world.Elegant. Refined. Exclusionary. Interrupted. The foundations of the fine art world are shaking. Beyonce and Jay-Z break the internet by blending... -
Art in Britain 1660-1815 by David H. Solkin
RRP: €71.40€62.01Art in Britain 1660-1815 presents the first social history of British art from the period known as the long 18th century, and offers a fresh and challenging look at the major developments in painting, drawing, and printmaking that took place during this... -
Neo-Impressionism and Anarchism in Fin-de-Siecle France: Painting, Politics and Landscape Robyn Roslak 9781138248397
RRP: €59.49€51.77In Neo-Impressionism and Anarchism in Fin-de-Siecle France, Robyn Roslak examines for the first time the close relationship between neo-impressionist landscapes and cityscapes and the anarchist sympathies of the movement's artists. She focuses in... -
Art + Paris: Impressionists & Post-impressionists by Guides Museyon 9780982232095
RRP: €20.22€16.80Step inside the revolutionary lives of the Impressionists, a book that combines the best elements of art books and travel guides for a totally new take on Impressionist Paris. This comprehensive guide combines an introduction to late19th-century art... -
The Crafts in Britain in the Twentieth Century by Tanya Harrod 9780300077803
RRP: €65.45€57.82From ceramics to silversmithing, calligraphy to textiles, hot glass to bookbinding, crafts have played a rich and complex role in the social, cultural, and artistic history of twentieth-century Britain. This all-encompassing book is the first to survey... -
Nicholas Hilliard by Karen Hearn 9780906290828
€8.97Nicholas Hilliard's portrait miniatures opens a remarkable window on to the highest levels of English society in the later years of the sixteenth and the early years of the seventeenth centuries. Hilliard's images show us the features of many... -
Danish Golden Age Painting by David Jackson
RRP: €47.60€39.97A vibrant survey of visual culture in Golden Age Denmark (1801-1864) Following the disastrous outcome of the Napoleonic Wars and national bankruptcy, Denmark affected a remarkable cultural renaissance, spawning such major talents as Hans Christian... -
Bernhard Heisig and the Fight for Modern Art in East Germany by April A. Eisman
RRP: €53.55€51.90One of the first books to extend the currently burgeoning scholarship on East Germany to the visual arts, revealing that painting, like literature and film, was a space of contestation. East German studies today is thriving. Scholars have shown... -
Mimmo Paladino: Sculpture 1980-2008 by Enzo Di Martino
RRP: €117.81€78.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857204192Author Enzo Di MartinoFormat HardbackPage Count 488Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 3860g -
The Theophilus Legend in Medieval Text and Image by Jerry Root
RRP: €113.05€108.39An investigation of the depiction of the story of Theophilus in both its original texts, and images. The legend of Theophilus stages an iconic medieval story, its widespread popularity attesting to its grip on the imagination. A pious clerk refuses a... -
Mina Loy: Strangeness Is Inevitable by Jennifer R. Gross
RRP: €49.98€40.92A richly illustrated exploration of Mina Loy's art and writingsMina Loy (1882-1966) was one of the most iconoclastic figures in modernism. A groundbreaking poet, she also left an indelible mark in painting, drawing, prose, art criticism, and fashion... -
Modern Painters, Old Masters: The Art of Imitation from the Pre-Raphaelites to the First World War by Elizabeth Prettejohn
RRP: €53.55€45.97With the rise of museums in the 19th century, including the formation in 1824 of the National Gallery in London, as well as the proliferation of widely available published reproductions, the art of the past became visible and accessible in Victorian... -
Enlightened Princesses: Caroline, Augusta, Charlotte, and the Shaping of the Modern World by Joanna Marschner
RRP: €65.45€57.82Caroline of Ansbach (1683-1737), Augusta of Saxe-Gotha (1719-1772), and Charlotte of Mecklenberg-Strelitz (1744-1818) were three German princesses who became Queens Consort-or, in the case of Augusta, Queen in Waiting, Regent, and Princess Dowager-of... -
Paul Graham by Paul Graham
RRP: €33.26€26.98The ecstatic face of a disco dancer in Berlin; a rural panorama in Derry, where a country road has been made into a Pollock-like canvas of red, white and blue; an ashtray, framed by a lacy spray of blood in a Barcelona toilet. Paul Graham uses and abuses... -
Collecting and Displaying China's "Summer Palace" in the West: The Yuanmingyuan in Britain and France by Louise Tythacott 9780367432782
RRP: €52.35€45.74In October 1860, at the culmination of the Second Opium War, British and French troops looted and destroyed one of the most important palace complexes in imperial China-the Yuanmingyuan. Known in the West as the "Summer Palace," this site... -
Goering's Man in Paris: The Story of a Nazi Art Plunderer and His World by Jonathan Petropoulos 9780300274264
RRP: €15.46€13.64A 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... -
Glittering Images: A Journey Through Art from Egypt to Star Wars by Camille Paglia
RRP: €35.70€20.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307278029Author Camille PagliaFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 607gDimensions(mm) 236mm *... -
Cross and Culture in Anglo-Norman England: Theology, Imagery, Devotion John Munns 9781783276509
RRP: €34.50€33.68An examination of the passion and crucifixion of Christ as depicted in the visual and religious culture of Anglo-Norman England. The twelfth century has long been recognised as a period of unusual vibrancy and importance, witnessing seminal changes in... -
Murillo: From Heaven to Earth by Guillaume Kientz
RRP: €53.55€51.42A revealing exploration of Bartolome Esteban Murillo's genre paintings and the cultural significance of his depictions of ordinary people Bartolome Esteban Murillo (1617-1682) is best known for his religious subject matter, yet some of his most iconic... -
Painting in France in the 15th Century by Frederic Elsig 9788874391202
RRP: €17.79€12.11The study of fifteenth-century painting in France was inaugurated a century ago by the exhibition Primitifs francais (1904) and has developed considerably over the past few decades, especially thanks to the work of Charles Sterling, Michel Laclotte,... -
The Struggle for Utopia: Rodchenko, Lissitzky, Moholy-Nagy, 1917-46 by Victor Margolin
RRP: €35.70€34.81Following 1917, a new artistic-social avant-garde emerged aiming to engage the artist in the building of social life. Through close readings of the works of Alexander Rodchenko, El Lissitzky and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, this book examines the way in which... -
Great Woodcuts of Albrecht Dürer by Albrecht Durer 9780486434018
€9.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486434018Author Albrecht DurerPage Count 96Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc. -
The Nazarenes: Romantic Avant-Garde and the Art of the Concept by Cordula Grewe 9780271064147
RRP: €111.80€101.39In The Nazarenes, Cordula Grewe presents a timely revisionist account of the Nazarenes, a group of early nineteenth-century German artists who have been occasionally reviled, but more often ignored, in the history of modern art. Viewing critically the... -
Cubism by Anne Ganteführer-Trier
RRP: €17.85€16.95Pioneered by Picasso and Braque, Cubism has been described as the first avant-garde art movement of the 20th century. With inspiration from African and Native American art and sculpture, its practitioners deconstructed European conventions of viewpoint,... -
Schizogenesis: The Art of Rosemarie Trockel by Katherine Guinness 9781517905583
RRP: €28.55€24.80A deep analysis of an enigmatic artist whose oeuvre opens new spaces for understanding feminism, the body, and identity Popular and pioneering as a conceptual artist, Rosemarie Trockel has never before been examined at length in a dedicated book. This... -
Stafford Paintings of a County Town by Joan Anslow
RRP: €15.46€3.46This delightful collection of pictures is a valuable record of many of the historically important buildings of the town of Stafford, a town which boasts a history of over 1000 years. William the Conqueror thought so highly of it he put his Standard... -
European Art of the Sixteenth Century by Stefano Zuffi 9780892368464
RRP: €26.17€22.55In the sixteenth century, the humanist values and admiration for classical antiquity that marked the early Renaissance spread from Italy throughout the rest of the continent, resulting in the development of a number of local artistic styles in other... -
Art in Hungary, 1956-1980: Doublespeak and Beyond by Edit Sasvari
RRP: €59.50€40.40The international significance of the art produced in Hungary in the 1960s and 1970s has come to the fore in recent years. Nevertheless, studies of modern and contemporary art in Eastern Europe during the Soviet era tend to focus on their relationship to...