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Ivon Hitchens by Peter Khoroche 9781848221499
RRP: €35.69€28.52Ivon Hitchens (1893-1979) is widely regarded as the outstanding English landscape painter of the 20th century. Immediately recognisable by its daring yet subtle use of colour and brushmark to evoke the spirit of place, his work is to be found in public... -
German Expressionism: Paintings at the Saint Louis Art Museum by Melissa Venator 9783777442563
RRP: €65.45€42.61The Saint Louis Art Museum has assembled one of North America's largest and most comprehensive collections of German Expressionist paintings. Rediscover a defining movement of modern art through this original study of works by 25 artists who span its... -
Medieval Art by Veronica Sekules
RRP: €27.95€20.24This refreshing new look at Medieval art conveys a very real sense of the impact of art on everyday life in Europe from 1000 to 1500. It examines the importance of art in the expression and spread of knowledge and ideas, including notions of the heroism... -
Picasso: Masters of Art by Rosalind Ormiston
RRP: €13.08€9.25Picasso was arguably the most influential artist of the 20th century. Over the course of a career that spanned seven decades-and included thousands of paintings, sculptures, ceramics, drawings, prints, and tapestries-his work continued to evolve in... -
Albert Oehlen by John Corbett 9783836508971
RRP: €71.40€69.76The paintings of Albert Oehlen live by audacious strategies, by questioning the image and the rules of abstraction, and by an openness and beauty often reached through the unlikeliest of means. In this expansive monograph, we meet the full range of... -
Rome: A Sketchbook by Matthew Rice
RRP: €23.80€17.01A guide to the glories of Rome, conveyed by means of an artist's sketchbookMatthew Rice is a long-time observer and illustrator of cities, buildings and all those who inhabit them, with an uncanny ability to express the energy of a place through a few... -
Liberty: The History – Luxury Edition: Treasure from the archives of the London department store by Marie-Therese Rieber 9781802796070
RRP: €59.50€36.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781802796070Author Marie-Therese RieberPage Count 170Imprint WelbeckPublisher Welbeck Publishing Group -
Between Renaissance and Baroque: Jesuit Art in Rome, 1565-1610 by Gauvin Alexander Bailey 9781442610309
€66.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781442610309Author Gauvin Alexander BaileyFormat PaperbackImprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams)... -
A Superb Baroque: Art in Genoa, 1600-1750 by Jonathan Bober 9780691206516
RRP: €77.35€62.96The legendary splendor of Genoese baroque artGenoa completed its transformation from a faded maritime power into a thriving banking center for Europe in the seventeenth century. The wealth accumulated by its leading families spurred investment in the... -
Strange Beauty: Issues in the Making and Meaning of Reliquaries, 400–circa 1204 by Cynthia Hahn
RRP: €59.44€53.65Reliquaries, one of the central art forms of the Middle Ages, have recently been the object of much interest among historians and artists. Until now, however, they have had no treatment in English that considers their history, origins, and place within... -
Egon Schiele: Drawings & Watercolours by Jane Kallir
RRP: €29.69€21.36Austrian Expressionist Egon Schiele produced a prolific body of work before his early death at the age of twenty-eight in the flu epidemic of 1918. As well as a few hundred oil paintings, he created nearly 3,000 drawings and watercolours. Limited access... -
Hidden Patrons: Women and Architectural Patronage in Georgian Britain Amy Boyington (English Heritage) 9781350358607
RRP: €23.79€19.68An enduring myth of Georgian architecture is that it was purely the pursuit of male architects and their wealthy male patrons. History states that it was men who owned grand estates and houses, who commissioned famous architects, and who embarked upon... -
Phenomenal Difference: A Philosophy of Black British Art Leon Wainwright (Department of Art History, The Open University (United Kingdom)) 9781781384176
RRP: €26.17€23.65Phenomenal Difference grants new attention to contemporary black British art, exploring its critical and social significance through attention to embodied experience, affectivity, the senses and perception.Featuring attention to works by the following ... -
Piotr Ulanski: Fatal Attraction by Rosetta Brooks
RRP: €47.60€42.72A luxurious, richly illustrated monograph, Piotr Uklanski Fatal Attraction consists of images of works made by Piotr Ukla?ski, as well as groupings of images of artworks selected by Ukla?ski from the Met's collections for an accompanying exhibition. Both... -
The Power of Art by Simon Schama
RRP: €35.70€26.83* 'Great art has dreadful manners...' Simon Schama observes at the start of his epic exploration of the power, and whole point, of art. 'The hushed reverence of the gallery can fool you into believing masterpieces are polite things, visions that soothe,... -
Island Zombie: Iceland Writings by Roni Horn 9780691208145
RRP: €35.70€27.72An evocative chronicle of the power of solitude in the natural worldI'm often asked, but have no idea why I chose Iceland, why I first started going, why I still go. In truth I believe Iceland chose me.-from the introductionContemporary artist Roni Horn... -
Edward Bawden by James Russell
RRP: €29.75€23.66This comprehensive survey of the career of Edward Bawden (1903-89) accompanies a major exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery and brings together his most significant work in watercolour, printmaking, design and illustration. Bawden began his career in... -
Glasgow Girls by Jude Burkhauser
RRP: €53.55€36.76At the turn of the 20th century, Glasgow was the centre for an avant-garde movement of art and design innovation in Europe, which we now refer to as The Glasgow Style. While the "Glasgow Boys" group of painters has been widely written about, their female... -
Changing Images of Pictorial Space: A History of Spatial Illusion in Painting by Sandra J. Dunning 9780815625087
€21.53This is a history of one of the central organizing principles in all schools and periods of art. It traces the evolution of the conception and the depiction of space in European and American painting and the ways in which this evolution reflects... -
Life of Picasso: v. 4 by John Richardson
RRP: €41.65€30.10'A masterpiece' Sunday Times'Magisterial... thrilling' Guardian'Terrifically enjoyable' Daily TelegraphThe beautifully illustrated, long-awaited final volume of John Richardson's magisterial Life of Picasso, drawing on original research from interviews... -
Mucha by Tomoko Sato
RRP: €17.85€13.52With his instantly recognizable decorative style, Czech artist and Art Nouveau master Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939) defined the look of the fin-de-siecle. In evocative shades of peach, gold, ochre, and olive, his seductive compositions of patterns, flowers,... -
Knitting From the North Hilary Grant 9780857833297
RRP: €22.60€15.65Wrap up in style, the Northern way.In Knitting from the North, Hilary Grant - who lives in Orkney, at the very north of Scotland, closer to Norway than London - has translated her most popular patterns from her luxury Scottish knitwear range into 30... -
Renoir Peter H. Feist 9783836531092
RRP: €17.85€11.61One of the leading lights of the Impressionist movement, Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) remains a towering figure in art history with enduring public appeal. Sun-kissed, charming, and sensual, his work shows painting at its most lighthearted and... -
Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style by Michael Baxandall 9780192821447
RRP: €20.22€14.61This book is both an introduction to fifteenth-century Italian painting, and a primer in how to read social history out of the style of pictures. It examines the commercial practice of the early Renaissance picture, trade in contracts, letters, and... -
Stanley Spencer: Journey to Burghclere by Paul Gough 9781904537465
RRP: €29.69€22.12Stanley Spencer was one of Britain's greatest twentieth-century artists. He became famous for two things: his celebration and immortalisation of his home town of Cookham in Berkshire - his 'heaven on earth' as he lovingly called it - and the fusion in... -
Cutting Edge: Modernist British Printmaking by Gordon Samuel
RRP: €29.75€23.66A vividly illustrated catalogue of linocuts by the Modern British printmakers of the Grosvenor School of Art. The Grosvenor School of Modern Art was founded by the influential teacher, painter and wood-engraver Iain McNab in 1925. Situated in London's... -
The Louvre: All The Paintings by Anja Grebe 9780762470648
€51.34The Louvre Museum houses many of the world's most celebrated and important art of all time -- from da Vinci's Mona Lisa to Vermeer's The Lacemaker -- making it also the most visited art museum in the world. The Louvre: All the Paintings allows you to... -
Barbara Hepworth: The Sculptor in the Studio by Ms. Sophie Bowness
RRP: €20.22€13.89Barbara Hepworth: The Sculptor in the Studio is the first study devoted to Hepworth's St Ives studio in which the centrality of Trewyn Studio and garden to her art and life is brought to the fore. 'It affects my whole life & work most profoundly', she... -
Hitler's Northern Utopia: Building the New Order in Occupied Norway by Despina Stratigakos 9780691198217
RRP: €29.75€23.79The fascinating untold story of how Nazi architects and planners envisioned and began to build a model "Aryan" society in Norway during World War IIBetween 1940 and 1945, German occupiers transformed Norway into a vast construction zone. This remarkable... -
The Holland Park Circle: Artists and Victorian Society by Caroline Dakers 9780300081640
RRP: €56.53€55.37A major study of the Holland Park Circle, this is both a narrative of the lives, works and influence of the artists, architects and their patrons and a perceptive analysis of the subtle relationships between high Victorian taste and mercantile values... -
Threads: The Delicate Life of John Craske by Julia Blackburn 9780099582199
RRP: €35.70€25.41Winner of the East Anglian Book of the Year 2015 Winner of the New Angle Book Prize 2017John Craske, a Norfok fisherman, was born in 1881 and in 1917, when he had just turned thirty-six, he fell seriously ill. For the rest of his life he kept moving in... -
Impressionism by Ingo F. Walther
RRP: €23.80€18.20It was a dappled and daubed harbor scene that gave Impressionism its name. When Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet was exhibited in April 1874, critics seized upon the work's title and its loose stylistic rendering of light and motion upon water to... -
Shadows: The Depiction of Cast Shadows in Western Art by E. H. Gombrich
RRP: €17.84€15.98In this intriguing book, E.H. Gombrich, who was one of the world's foremost art historians, traces how cast shadows have been depicted in Western art through the centuries. Gombrich discusses the way shadows were represented-or ignored-by artists from... -
The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction by Jerry Brotton
RRP: €10.70€7.68More than ever before, the Renaissance stands as one of the defining moments in world history. Between 1400 and 1600, European perceptions of society, culture, politics and even humanity itself emerged in ways that continue to affect not only Europe but... -
Van Dyck and the Making of English Portraiture Adam Eaker 9781913107345
RRP: €41.65€35.19A new account of painting in early modern England centered on the art and legacy of Anthony van Dyck As a courtier, figure of fashion, and object of erotic fascination, Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641) transformed the professional identities available to... -
Vermeer by Norbert Schneider
RRP: €17.85€13.52Though numbering just 35 known works, the oeuvre of Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675) is hailed as one of the most important and inspiring portfolios in art history. His paintings have prompted a New York Times best seller, a film starring Scarlett Johansson,... -
Manet/Degas by Stephan Wolohojian 9781588397638
RRP: €59.50€43.72The first publication on the personal and professional relationship between Manet and Degas, two giants of nineteenth-century French art Friends, rivals, and at times antagonists, Edouard Manet and Edgar Degas maintained a pictorial dialogue throughout... -
Alps: In Panoramic Paintings by ,Tom Dauer
RRP: €41.65€30.10As downhill skiing became popular in 20th-century Europe, resorts in the Austrian, German, French, and Swiss Alps commissioned paintings of their ski runs to turn into maps. The best of these paintings are now featured in this book showing the artists'... -
The World of Mucha: A Journey to Two Fairylands: Paris and Czech Hiroshi Unno 9784756247896
RRP: €35.69€24.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784756247896Author Hiroshi UnnoFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint PIE BooksPublisher PIE Books -
Black Atlantic: Power, People, Resistance by Jake Subryan Richards 9781781301234
RRP: €29.75€22.47An important illustrated history of the relationship between Cambridge and the Black Atlantic. Between 1400 and 1900, European powers, not least Britain, colonised the Americas and transported over 12.5 million people from sub-Saharan Africa as...