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Brutalist London Map: Guide to Brutalist architecture in London - 2nd edition by Henrietta Billings
RRP: €10.71€8.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912018833Author Henrietta BillingsPage Count 2Imprint Blue Crow MediaPublisher Blue Crow MediaWeight(grams) 40gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 151mm * 5mm -
The Wars of the Roses: The Medieval Art of Graham Turner by Mr Graham Turner 9781472847287
RRP: €41.65€30.81A highly illustrated history of the Wars of the Roses based on the medieval art of Graham Turner. The period of civil strife in the second half of the 15th century now known as the Wars of the Roses was one of the most dramatic and tumultuous in... -
The Book of Wild Flowers: Reflections on Favourite Plants by Angie Lewin 9780500027066
RRP: €20.22€13.73'A beautiful little book in every way ... Lyrical and eye-catching on the one hand, informative on the other, their work encourages us to look more closely at the nature around us ... A treasure of a book' House & Garden The perfect countryside and... -
Songs of Innocence and of Experience by William Blake 9780192810892
RRP: €12.48€8.85Blake was one of the finest craftsmen of his time, an artist for whom art and poetry were inextricably linked. He was an indepedent and rebellious thinker, who abhorred pretention and falsity in others. His Songs of Innocence are products of this... -
Winifred Nicholson Music of Colour by Elizabeth Fisher
RRP: €14.28€9.52Winifred Nicholson (1893-1981) is one of the most important and best loved artists in the Kettle's Yard collection. Nicholson met Kettle's Yard founder Jim Ede in 1924, and they kept in regular contact over the following decades. Ede credited Winifred... -
Still Life by Sarah Winman 9780008666804
RRP: €11.89€8.18THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Over 500,000 copies sold internationally A BBC Between the Covers Book Club Pick A BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime ... -
Britain’s Landmarks and Legends: The Fascinating Stories Embedded in our Landscape (National Trust) by Jo Woolf 9780008567644
RRP: €15.46€10.09Discover the history, legends and folklore of Britain's most intriguing landmarks This beautifully illustrated book reveals the secrets and stories of fifty icons of Britain's landscape. Some are natural wonders, such as... -
Kettle's Yard House Guide by Jennifer Powell 9781904561750
RRP: €9.52€6.66Kettle's Yard is widely recognised as a highly influential master class in curating; a flawless arrangement of art and objects that is still radical in its philosophy of seeking to fuse art with life. For many it is a place that has that rare power of... -
Still Life by Sarah Winman
RRP: €11.89€7.76THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Over 500,000 copies sold internationally A BBC Between the Covers Book Club Pick A BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime ... -
William Blake's Universe by David Bindman 9781781301272
RRP: €41.65€33.00A beautifully illustrated book that explores William Blake's relationship with Europe against a backdrop of political turmoil. Responding to revolution and war in Europe, enslavement and exploitation in European colonies, and repression and reaction... -
Laura Knight by Anthony Spira
RRP: €29.75€20.38LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM MB BERGER PRIZE FOR BRITISH ART HISTORY 2022 A major survey of Dame Laura Knight, first female Royal Academician and popular British artist of the 20th century. Laura Knight (1877-1970) was one of the most famous and... -
Nerikomi: The Art of Colored Clay by Thomas Hoadley 9781789941692
RRP: €35.70€26.12A fully illustrated examination of the use of color in clay, outlining its history and exploring the styles and techniques of the leading modern makers. Mix two or more colors of clay as part of a piece's design, and you are creating nerikomi. There... -
The Marriage Portrait: the Instant Sunday Times Bestseller, Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2023 by Maggie O'Farrell
RRP: €11.89€8.09Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2023A Reese's Bookclub December Pick (2022)An Instant Sunday Times, New York Times and Irish Times Bestseller (August 2022)A Guardian and LitHub Book of the Year (December 2022)'Every bit as evocative and... -
Van Gogh. The Complete Paintings by Rainer Metzger
RRP: €23.80€21.57Vincent van Gogh's story is one of the most ironic in art history. Today, he is celebrated the world over as one of the most important painters of all time, recognized with sell-out shows, feted museums, and record prices of tens of millions of dollars... -
Gustav Klimt. Complete Paintings by Tobias G. Natter 9783836562904
RRP: €23.80€18.20A century after his death, Viennese artist Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) still startles with his unabashed eroticism, dazzling surfaces, and artistic experimentation. In this neat, dependable monograph, we gather all of Klimt's major works alongside... -
Monet. The Triumph of Impressionism by Daniel Wildenstein 9783836551014
RRP: €23.80€20.65No other artist, apart from J. M. W. Turner, tried as hard as Claude Monet (1840-1926) to capture light itself on canvas. Of all the Impressionists, it was the man Cezanne called "only an eye, but my God what an eye!" who stayed true to the principle of... -
M.C. Escher. The Graphic Work by TASCHEN
RRP: €17.85€13.52From impossible staircases to tessellated birds, Dutch artist M.C. Escher (1898-1972) crafted a unique graphic language of patterns, puzzles, and mathematics. Dense, complex, and structured by intricate principles, his work is at the same time decorative... -
Monet by Christoph Heinrich
RRP: €17.85€13.52Hailed the "Prince of the Impressionists", Claude Monet (1840-1926) transformed expectations for the purpose of paint on canvas. Defying the precedent of centuries, Monet did not seek to render only reality, but the act of perception itself. Working "en... -
Bauhaus by Magdalena Droste
RRP: €23.80€18.20In a fleeting 14-year period between two world wars, Germany's Bauhaus school of art and design changed the face of modernity. With utopian ideas for the future, the school developed a pioneering fusion of fine art, craftsmanship, and technology, which... -
Women Who Read Are Dangerous by Stefan Bollman
€19.49What is it about a woman reading that has captivated hundreds of artists over the centuries? Stefan Bollmann's Women Who Read Are Dangerous explores this popular subject in more than 70 artworks--drawings, paintings, photographs, and prints--by iconic... -
Self-Portrait by Celia Paul 9781529111552
RRP: €15.46€10.82'Painfully honest on what it means to be a woman who puts art first, no matter what' Olivia LaingI'm not a portrait painter. If I'm anything, I have always been an autobiographer.In Self-Portrait, Celia Paul reveals a life truly lived through art. She... -
Pre-Raphaelites by Heather Birchall
RRP: €17.85€13.52Founded in 1848 as a secret society, the Pre-Raphaelites rejected classical ideals and the dominant artistic genre painting of their era for what they saw as a more spiritual, sincere, and naturalistic approach. Founded by William Holman Hunt, John... -
St. Albans Psalter - Painting and Prayer in Medieval England . Collins 9781606061459
RRP: €26.17€22.07This is a fascinating look at one of the world's most important and renowned 12th-century manuscripts. The St. Albans Psalter is one of the most important, famous, and puzzling books produced in 12th-century England. It was probably created between 1120... -
Catland: Feline Enchantment and the Making of the Modern World by Kathryn Hughes 9780008365103
RRP: €26.18€17.35'Remarkable' Literary Review 'Startlingly original' Amanda Foreman Some called it a craze. To others it was a cult. Join prize-winning historian Kathryn Hughes to discover how Britain fell in love with cats and ushered in a new era. ‘He invented a... -
Théâtre de la Mode: Fashion Dolls: The Survival of Haute Couture by Edmond Charles-Roux
RRP: €32.07€24.23Harnessing the romance of the world of fashion and high art, this fascinating story of a collection of miniature mannequins describes the birth of Theatre de la Mode, the Theater of Fashion. Full of stars such as Robert Ricci (Nina Ricci's son),... -
Jo van Gogh-Bonger: The Woman who Made Vincent Famous by Hans Luijten
RRP: €29.75€22.47It is so good, after so many years of public indifference, even hostility towards Vincent and his work, to feel towards the end of my life that the battle is won.' JO VAN GOGH-BONGER TO GUSTAVE COQUIOT, 1922 'It is a sacrifice for the sake of... -
Van Gogh by Ingo F. Walther
RRP: €17.85€13.52Today, the works of Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) are among the most well known and celebrated in the world. In Sunflowers, The Starry Night, Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear, and many paintings and drawings beyond, we recognize an artist uniquely... -
The Marriage Portrait: THE NEW NOVEL FROM THE No. 1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF HAMNET by Maggie O'Farrell
RRP: €29.75€21.44Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2023A Reese's Bookclub December Pick (2022)An Instant Sunday Times, New York Times and Irish Times Bestseller (August 2022)A Guardian and LitHub Book of the Year (December 2022)'Every bit as evocative and... -
Michelangelo Gilles Neret 9783836530347
RRP: €17.85€11.61Italian-born Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475-1564) was a tormented, prodigiously talented, and God-fearing Renaissance man. His manifold achievements in painting, sculpture, architecture, poetry, and engineering combined body, spirit,... -
Van Gogh: His Life and Works in 500 Images by Michael Howard 9780754819547
RRP: €20.22€16.52The first half of this fascinating book contains a detailed exploration of Van Gogh's life, including his background, early career, influences and relationships. Beginning with his birth in 1853, it details his childhood, family life, education and... -
Cezanne Ulrike Becks-Malorny 9783836530170
RRP: €17.85€11.61In the latter half of the 19th century, in the verdant countryside near Aix-en-Provence, Paul Cezanne (1839-1906), busily plied his brush to landscapes and still lifes that would become anchors of modern art. With compact, intense dabs of paint and bold... -
David Hockney by Chris Stephens 9781849764438
RRP: €35.69€26.82David Hockney has been delighting and challenging audiences for almost sixty years. Working in an extraordinarily wide range of media with equal measures of wit and intelligence, his art has examined, probed and questioned how the perceived world... -
Impressionism Karin H. Grimme 9783836536974
RRP: €17.85€11.61Discover how scenes of daily life and delicate dabs of color shocked the art world establishment. In this TASCHEN Basic Art introduction to Impressionism, we explore the artists, subjects, and techniques that first brought the easel out of the studio... -
By My Hands: A Potter’s Apprenticeship by Florian Gadsby 9780241595817
RRP: €35.70€25.41'Every page made me wish I was a potter' Nigel SlaterFlorian Gadsby has devoted his life to pottery, refining his technique towards the point of perfection - and as his skill has grown, so has his social media following, which today numbers in the... -
The Essential Joseph Beuys Alain Borer 9780500092675
RRP: €47.60€33.02Subject to passionate controversy during his lifetime, the work of Joseph Beuys is now considered one of the most significant and influential contributions to twentieth-century fine arts. This book provides a survey of Beuys's oeuvre, which he viewed as... -
England on Fire: A Visual Journey through Albion's Psychic Landscape Stephen Ellcock 9781786784285
RRP: €29.75€19.97This is a book about English art like no other. Forget the tired rogues' gallery of lords and ladies, forget the tall ships and haywains. These images cut to the heart of England's psychic landscapes to portray an Albion unhinged, where magic and... -
Matisse by Volkmar Essers
RRP: €17.85€13.52The work of Henri Matisse (1869-1954) reflects an ongoing belief in the power of brilliant colors and simple forms. Though famed in particular for his paintings, Matisse also worked with drawing, sculpture, lithography, stained glass, and collage,... -
Treasures of the British Museum Marjorie Caygill 9780714150628
RRP: €29.75€21.40The British Museum is the most magnificent treasure-house in the world. The wealth and range of its collections is unequalled by any other national museum. The Rosetta Stone, the Parthenon sculptures, Egyptian mummies, drawings by Botticelli and... -
Dali by Gilles Neret
RRP: €17.85€13.52Painter, sculptor, writer, filmmaker, and all-round showman Salvador Dali (1904-1989) was one of the 20th century's greatest exhibitionists and eccentrics. One of the first artists to apply the insights of Freudian psychoanalysis to art, he is celebrated... -
The Upside-Down World: Meetings with the Dutch Masters by Benjamin Moser 9780241586457
RRP: €35.70€25.41The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer turns his eye to the seventeenth-century Dutch Golden Age Twenty years ago, Benjamin Moser followed a love affair to an ancient Dutch town. In order to make sense of this new place, he threw himself into the Dutch...