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Steven Leiber: Catalogs by Steven Leiber
RRP: $97.50$67.06Steven Leiber was a pioneering San Francisco art dealer, collector and gallerist who specialized in the dematerialized art practices of the 1960s and 1970s and the ephemera and documentation spawned by conceptual art and other postwar movements. To sell... -
Resilient Stitch: Wellbeing and Connection in Textile Art by Claire Wellesley-Smith
RRP: $44.75$29.41Following on from her textile hit Slow Stitch, author Claire Wellesley-Smith considers the importance of connection and ideas around wellbeing when using textiles for individuals and communities, including practical ideas around... -
Faces by Pascal Roman 9791254600528
RRP: $48.75$32.72The volume accompanying an exhibition at Collection de l'Art Brut, Lausanne, from 8 December 2023 to 28 April 2024 invites us to reflect on the role a face can play in mediating communication through the gaze. We are all aware of how powerful it can be... -
Sea King by Sabine Moritz 9780993010385
$39.08Sea King was published in conjunction with the book launch of German artist Sabine Moritz s Helicopter at Serpentine Galleries and as a catalogue to a companion exhibition of the Sea King series. Originally derived from a simple black and white sketch,... -
How to be a Renaissance Woman: The Untold History of Beauty and Female Creativity by Jill Burke 9781788166669
RRP: $48.75$32.23*A Waterstones Best Book of 2023* *A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week* *A New York Times Editor's Pick* 'A total eye-opener, I loved it' Nuala McGovern 'You'll never look at Renaissance portraits in the same way' Maggie O'Farrell 'Terrific ..... -
Femina: The instant Sunday Times bestseller – A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It by Janina Ramirez
RRP: $25.33$15.07THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE'Revelatory' GUARDIAN'A firecracker somehow captured between two covers' LUCY WORSLEYAn instant bestseller and one of the most celebrated history books of the year, Femina reveals... -
Cuteness by Sianne Ngai
RRP: $33.05$22.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780854882984Author Sianne NgaiFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Whitechapel GalleryPublisher Whitechapel GalleryWeight(grams) 560g -
Worlds Beyond Time: Sci-Fi Art of the 1970s by Adam Rowe 9781419748691
RRP: $58.50$39.06A visual history of the spaceships, alien landscapes, cryptozoology, and imagined industrial machinery of 1970s paperback sci-fi artIn the 1970s, mass-produced, cheaply printed science fiction novels were thriving. The paper was rough, the titles... -
England's Gardens: A Modern History by Stephen Parker
RRP: $48.75$33.89We may all feel we know what an "English" garden is, but do we really? England's Gardens offers a holistic, modern-day tour and an update on the history of some of the most iconic, enduring, and influential gardens across the country.A fresh take on a... -
Art History: A Critical Introduction to its Methods by Michael Hatt
RRP: $31.18$23.01Art History: A critical introduction to its methods provides a lively and stimulating introduction to methodological debates within art history. Offering a lucid account of approaches from Hegel to post-colonialism, the book provides a sense of art... -
The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age by Simon Schama 9780006861362
RRP: $58.50$41.20This is the book that made Simon Schama's reputation when first published in 1987. A historical masterpiece, it is an epic account of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age of Rembrandt and van Diemen. In this brilliant work that moves far beyond the... -
Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See by Bianca Bosker 9781911630463
RRP: $39.00$27.03AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn Cork Dork, Bianca Bosker trained her insatiable curiosity, journalist's knack for infiltrating exclusive circles and eye for unforgettable characters on the wine world as she trained to become a sommelier. Now she... -
The Marriage Portrait: the Instant Sunday Times Bestseller, Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2023 by Maggie O'Farrell
RRP: $19.48$13.26Shortlisted 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... -
The Story of Art without Men by Katy Hessel
RRP: $58.50$39.33WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'A long overdue, revisionist history of art by the brilliant Katy Hessel . . . Never stuffy or supercilious, Hessel's book is a revelation and an important first step... -
Gustav Klimt. Complete Paintings by Tobias G. Natter
RRP: $39.00$29.82A 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... -
The Madman's Gallery by Edward Brooke-Hitching
RRP: $58.50$38.63Enter The Madman's Gallery - the perfect gift book for any art lover. Discover an eccentric exploration through the curious history of art, to find the strangest paintings, sculptures, drawings and other artistic oddities ever made. From the author of... -
Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life by Justine Picardie 9780008595739
RRP: $68.25$47.87SLEEK. CHIC. NOTORIOUSLY GUARDED. WELCOME TO THE SECRET WORLD OF COCO CHANEL. Justine Picardie's definitive biography explores the dark mysteries hidden beneath the shimmering surface of a fabled fashion icon. Unveiling remarkable details... -
Paintings that Revolutionized Art by Claudia Stauble
RRP: $35.08$27.20What makes the Book of Kells such an extraordinary example of illuminated manuscript? Why is Durer's self-portrait so iconic? How did Turner's Rain, Steam, Speed turn the art world on its head? What's so great about Jasper John's Flag? And who was... -
Life With Picasso by Francoise Gilot
RRP: $25.33$17.73Francoise Gilot was a young painter in Pasis when she first met Picasso - he was sixty-two and she was twenty-one. During the following ten years they were lovers, worked closely together and she became mother to two of his children, Claude and Paloma... -
Ancient Egyptian Statues: Their Many Lives and Deaths by Simon Connor 9781617971341
RRP: $77.98$64.68A fascinating, richly illustrated study of the role and significance of ancient statues in Egyptian history and beliefWhy do ancient Egyptian statues so often have their noses, hands, or genitals broken? Although the Late Antiquity period appears to have... -
Gabrielle Chanel by Oriole Cullen 9781838510398
RRP: $78.00$55.67As one of the most successful fashion houses in existence, Chanel owes much to the templates first laid down by its founder - Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel (1883-1971). Some of her most celebrated designs, such as the two-piece suit, the little black dress and... -
Hokusai by Rhiannon Paget
RRP: $29.25$22.15Meet the artist whose majestic breaking wave sent ripples across the world. Hokusai (1760-1849) is not only one of the giants of Japanese art and a legend of the Edo period, but also significantly influenced Western modernism, whose prolific gamut of... -
Kneelers: The Unsung Folk Art of England and Wales by Elizabeth Bingham
RRP: $39.00$29.27A charming and witty history of the quirky - but surprisingly widespread - craft of embroidering kneeler cushions. The perfect gift book this Christmas, for those who love kneelers and those who don't!'A lovely look at a not-quite-vanishing craft that... -
Walking by Tom Jeffreys 9780854883165
RRP: $39.00$26.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780854883165Author Tom JeffreysFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Whitechapel GalleryPublisher Whitechapel GalleryWeight(grams) 600g -
M.C. Escher. The Graphic Work by TASCHEN
RRP: $29.25$22.15From 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... -
Art: The Definitive Visual Guide by Andrew Graham Dixon 9780241629031
RRP: $78.00$56.65The ultimate introduction to global art, presenting 30,000 years of creativity in one lavishly illustrated book.Discover all you need to know about art history in this definite guide. Art: The Definitive Visual Guide brings a gallery of more than 2,500... -
Charleston: A Bloomsbury House & Garden by Quentin Bell
RRP: $38.98$26.03The newly revised and updated Charleston: A Bloomsbury House & Garden is the definitive publication on the Bloomsbury Group's rural outpost in the heart of the Sussex Downs. "It's absolutely perfect...", wrote the artist Vanessa Bell when she moved to... -
Bauhaus by Magdalena Droste
RRP: $39.00$29.82In 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... -
I Paint What I Want to See by Philip Guston
RRP: $19.48$13.86Illuminating reflections on painting and drawing from one of the most revered artists of the twentieth century'Thank God for yellow ochre, cadmium red medium, and permanent green light'How does a painter see the world? Philip Guston, one of the most... -
Modern Art. A History from Impressionism to Today by Hans Werner Holzwarth
RRP: $39.00$29.82Most art historians agree that the modern art adventure first developed in the 1860s in Paris. A circle of painters, whom we now know as Impressionists, began painting pictures with rapid, loose brushwork. They turned to everyday street life for... -
Impressionism: On the Seine by Marina Ferretti Bocquillon 9788836616206
RRP: $48.75$33.89A selection of around fifty paintings traces the evolution of Impressionism and takes us on a journey along the river, from Paris to Le Havre, passing through Argenteuil, Vetheuil and Giverny. hroughout the nineteenth century, artists painted the... -
Earthly Delights: A History of the Renaissance by Jonathan Jones 9780500023136
RRP: $58.50$39.78A Sunday Times Art Book of the Year: written by one of the UK's foremost art critics, this new narrative history of the Renaissance takes in the whole of Europe and its global context. What was the 'Renaissance'? In the nineteenth century this flowering... -
Spring by Ali Smith 9780241973356
RRP: $19.48$13.86SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER A once-in-a-generation series, Ali Smith's Seasonal Quartet is a tour-de-force about love, time, art, politics, and how we live now. 'Her best yet, a dazzling hymn to hope, uniting the past and present with a chorus of... -
The Beautiful Brain: The Drawings of Santiago Ramon y Cajal by Larry Swanson
RRP: $68.25$47.00Santiago Ramon y Cajal (1852-1934), the father of modern neuroscience and a Nobel laureate, was an exceptional artist. He devoted his life to the anatomy of the brain, the body's most complex and mysterious organ. His superhuman feats of visualisation,... -
The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Book of Going Forth by Day - The Complete Papyrus of Ani Featuring Integrated Text and Fill-Color Images by Ogden Goelet
RRP: $52.65$34.32For the first time in 3,300 years, The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Book of Going Forth by Day: The Papyrus of Ani is showcased in its entirety in seventy four magnificent, large-format, color pages. Maybe the most stunning presentation of this... -
Monet: The Restless Vision by Jackie Wullschläger 9780241188309
RRP: $68.25$48.15The Art Book of the Year, The TimesA Telegraph, Sunday Times, Financial Times, Economist, Tablet and Evening Standard Book of the YearA magnificent new biography of the founder of ImpressionismIn the course of a long and exceptionally creative life,... -
Black Water Lilies: A stunning, twisty murder mystery by Michel Bussi
RRP: $21.43$14.43THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'Ends with one of the most reverberating shocks in modern crime fiction' The Sunday Times 'A dazzling, unexpected and haunting masterpiece' Daily Mail 'A work of genius... Stunning' Daily Express Jerome Morval has... -
Creativity Through Nature: Foraged, Recycled and Natural Mixed-Media Art by Ann Blockley
RRP: $37.03$24.71A passionate and purposeful book on finding real creativity through nature. An essential book for our times and all artists at whatever level. In her most passionate and personal book to date, acclaimed watercolour artist Ann Blockley takes both budding... -
OCR Classical Civilisation GCSE Route 1: Myth and Religion by Ben Greenley
$56.67This textbook is endorsed by OCR and supports the specification for GCSE Classical Civilisation (first teaching September 2017). It covers the Thematic Study Component 11 and all three Literature and Culture options (Components 21-23): Thematic Study:... -
The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art by David J. Lewis-Williams
RRP: $38.98$26.81What does the breathtakingly beautiful art depicted on the walls of caves such as Lascaux, Chauvet and Altamira, tell us about the nature of the ancestral mind? How did these images spring, seemingly from nowhere into the human story? The Mind in the...