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Modernism: A Very Short Introduction by Christopher Butler
RRP: £8.99£6.45Is a tower block, your unmade bed, your lavatory basin, or the bicycle chained to the gate next door a work of art? Why should a novel have a beginning, a middle, and an end; or even a story? Whether we recognise it or not, virtually every aspect of our... -
The Second Anti-Coloring Book by Susan Striker 9780805068436
RRP: £18.99£12.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805068436Author Susan StrikerFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Owl Books,U.S.Publisher Henry Holt & Company IncWeight(grams) 295g -
In Montparnasse: The Emergence of Surrealism in Paris, from Duchamp to Dali by Sue Roe
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Supercharged. Highly colourful . . . they're all here, the big names of the time - behaving badly, and, at times, quite madly too' ObserverDuring the 1920s, in the Parisian neighbourhood of Montparnasse, a unique flowering of avant-garde artistic... -
The Alternative Augustan Age by Josiah Osgood 9780197673652
RRP: £24.99£22.52The princeps Augustus (63 BCE - 14 CE), recognized as the first of the Roman emperors, looms large in the teaching and writing of Roman history. Major political, literary, and artistic developments alike are attributed to him. This book deliberately and... -
Gustav Klimt: Art Nouveau and the Vienna Secessionists Michael Kerrigan 9781783616084
RRP: £20.00£14.95Gustav Klimt is renowned as a quintessential artist of the art nouveau movement, but he was one of a number of Viennese artists who strove to break free of the constraints of the late 19th Century academic art establishment. The Secessionists were... -
The One-Minute Gratitude Journal for Women: A Journal for Self-Care and Happiness by Brenda Nathan 9781952358012
RRP: £7.99£7.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952358012Author Brenda NathanFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint BrBB House PressPublisher BrBB House PressWeight(grams) 163gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Macke by Anna Meseure
RRP: £15.00£10.96A style of his own: The colorful work of a truly avant-garde painterIn the course of his short life, German painter August Macke (1887--1914) combined inspirations from extremely different sources into a unique and personal style. Macke was engaged with... -
David Hockney by James Cahill
RRP: £12.99£8.13The latest addition to the 'Lives of the Artists' series: highly readable short biographies of the world's greatest artistsDavid Hockney is the most famous living British artist. And he is arguably one of the more famous American artists as well... -
The Stuart Image: English Portraiture 1603 to 1649 Roy Strong 9781783277209
RRP: £30.00£24.85Based on a lifetime's work in the field, Sir Roy Strong offers an expert and engaging new look at portrait painting in Stuart England, studying the sitters as much as the artists. Sir Roy Strong has been writing for over half a century on the painters... -
The Pigment Trail: Inspiration from the Colors, Textures, and People of India by Debra Luker 9780764367564
RRP: £31.99£20.00A visual journey through the state of Rajasthan in India to explore and awaken your creativity in the arts and crafts.Artist Debra Luker, on her first trip to India, discovered it to be her personal artistic inspiration and instituted the popular Pigment... -
The Secret Language of the Renaissance: Decoding the Hidden Symbolism of Italian Art Richard Stemp 9781844839377
RRP: £19.99£13.75We may never know what the Mona Lisa is really smiling about, but we do know that there's much more to the masterpieces of Renaissance art than the beauty that meets the eye. There are layers of significance hidden below the surface of the works of... -
The Italian Renaissance Altarpiece: Between Icon and Narrative by David Ekserdjian
RRP: £65.00£53.75The comprehensive study of the Italian Renaissance altarpiece from the 13th to the early 17th century The altarpiece is one of the most distinctive and remarkable art forms of the Renaissance period. It is difficult to imagine an artist of the... -
Affinities by Brian Dillon
RRP: £13.99£9.17What do we mean when we claim affinity with an object or picture, or say affinities exist between such things? Affinities is a critical and personal study of a sensation that is not exactly taste, desire, or allyship, but has aspects of all. Approaching... -
The World of Late Antiquity: AD 150-750 by Peter Brown 9780500297483
RRP: £18.99£12.75A remarkable study in social and cultural change that explains how and why the Late Antique world, between c. 150 and c. 750 AD, came to differ from 'Classical civilization'. The first century AD was one of momentous events: the end of the Roman empire,... -
The Plantagenets: The Kings That Made Britain by Derek Wilson
RRP: £12.99£8.60England, 1154. As Henry II seizes the throne after years of turmoil, a new dynasty is poised to haul this hitherto turbulent nation out from the Dark Ages and transform it into the nation state we recognize today. Featuring some of England's greatest but... -
On Painting by Leon Battista Alberti
RRP: £8.99£6.45Artist, architect, poet and philosopher, Leon Battista Alberti revolutionized the history of art with his theories of perspective in On Painting (1435). Inspired by the order and beauty inherent in nature, his groundbreaking work sets out the principles... -
Differencing the Canon: Feminism and the Writing of Art's Histories by Griselda Pollock
RRP: £36.99£32.93In this major book, Griselda Pollock engages boldly in the culture wars over `what is the canon?` and `what difference can feminism make?` Do we simply reject the all-male line-up and satisfy our need for ideal egos with an all women litany of artistic... -
After Impressionism: Inventing Modern Art MaryAnne Stevens 9781857096958
RRP: £40.00£35.19Through the 1880s the very essence of representation, meaning and process in Western art were profoundly interrogated. Plausible representations of the external world were cast aside in favour of non-naturalism expressed in varying degrees, from modest... -
The Idea of the Avant Garde: And What it Means Today by Marc James Leger
RRP: £19.99£14.92This book is premised on the view that the idea of the avant garde has an increased importance in these times of global political crisis. Much cultural production today is shaped by a biopolitics that construes all creative and knowledge production in... -
Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming by Anthony Dunne 9780262548687
RRP: £32.00£20.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262548687Author Anthony DunneFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Conceptual Art in Britain, 1964-1979 by Andrew Wilson
RRP: £19.99£7.94"All the work of the 1970s involved a kind of doubling; there was the world of the everyday and there was the world of the represented ...a sense of our experiential worlds becoming bifurcated between image and reality." John Stezaker This is the first... -
Becoming an Artwork Boris Groys 9781509551972
RRP: £9.99£8.95Modern history is a history of aesthetizations - and every aesthetization raises a claim of protection. We aestheticize and want to protect almost everything, including Earth, oceans, the atmosphere, rare animal species and exotic plants. Humans are no... -
Finding Dora Maar by Brigitte Benkemoun
RRP: £21.99£18.55Merging biography, memoir, and cultural history, this compelling book, a bestseller in France, traces the life of Dora Maar (1907-1997) through a serendipitous encounter with the artist's address book In search of a replacement for his lost Hermes... -
Fin De Siecle Vienna: Politics And Culture by Carl E. Schorske
RRP: £22.50£17.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pulitzer Prize General Non-Fiction Category 1981.Book InformationISBN 9780394744780Author Carl E. SchorskeFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Random House USA... -
The Great Tapestry of Scotland by Alistair Moffat
RRP: £30.00£22.10The Great Tapestry of Scotland is an outstanding celebration of thousands of years of Scottish history and achievement, from the end of the last Ice Age to Dolly the Sheep and Andy Murry's Wimbledon victory of 2013. More than 1000 stitchers spent a total... -
The Sagrada Familia: Gaudi's Heaven on Earth by Gijs van Hensbergen
RRP: £12.99£9.09'Exquisite ... A wonderment of an essay about a wonderment of a building' Paul Preston Its scaffolding-cloaked spires reach up to the heavens, dominating the Barcelona skyline and drawing in millions of visitors every year. What seduces our attention... -
Modern Art 1851-1929: Capitalism and Representation by Richard Brettell
RRP: £23.49£17.44The period 1851 to 1929 witnessed the rise of the major European avant-garde groups: the Realists, Impressionists, Post-Impressionists, Symbolists, Cubists, and Surrealists. It was also a time of rapid social, economic, and political change, encompassing... -
The Forger's Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century by Edward Dolnick 9780060825423
RRP: £16.99£12.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060825423Author Edward DolnickFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Self-Portrait by Man Ray
RRP: £14.99£10.95In this remarkable autobiography, Man Ray - painter, photographer, sculptor, film maker and writer - relates the story of his life, from his childhood determination to be an artist and his technical drawing classes in a Brooklyn high school, to the... -
Walter Gropius: Visionary Founder of the Bauhaus by Fiona MacCarthy
RRP: £16.99£11.95* A Times and New Statesman Book of the Year ** BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week ** Illustrated with over 130 colour photographs and drawings *'A masterpiece.' Edmund de Waal'Commanding, intelligent, gripping.' The TimesFrom 1910 to 1930 Gropius was at the... -
50 Women Artists You Should Know by Christiane Weidemann
RRP: £14.99£11.35This beautifully produced, richly detailed, and comprehensive survey of fifty influential women artists from the Renaissance to the Post-Modern era details their vast contributions to the art world. From the Early Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi... -
The Illustrated Provence Letters of Van Gogh Martin Bailey 9781849946582
RRP: £16.99£10.79'I cannot help that my pictures do not sell. Nevertheless, the time will come when people will see that they are worth more than the price of the paint ...' Vincent van Gogh Discover the moving story of Vincent van Gogh, with his artistic genius and... -
The Restless Kings: Henry II, His Sons and the Wars for the Plantagenet Crown by Nick Barratt
RRP: £9.99£6.70Longlisted for the HWA Non-Fiction Prize 2019'A vivid and humane study of the Plantagenets' diabolical and devious first family - a real joy to read.' Dan Jones, author of The PlantagenetsIn The Restless Kings Nick Barratt presents the tumultuous... -
Monet: The Essential Paintings by Anne Sefrioui
RRP: £29.99£20.94This magnificent boxed-set features stunning, accordion-fold, color reproductions of Monet's essential works, accompanied by a separate booklet with background and descriptions of each painting. Fans of Impressionism will delight in seeing some of... -
Sacred Mirrors: The Visionary Art of Alexander Grey by Alexander Grey
RRP: £35.00£22.79This unique series of paintings takes the viewer on a graphic, visionary journey through the physical, metaphysical, and spiritual anatomy of the self. From anatomically correct rendering of the body systems, Grey moves to the spiritual/energetic systems... -
Diane Arbus by Patricia Bosworth
RRP: £12.99£9.09Diane Arbus's startling photographic images of dwarfs, twins, transvestites, and freaks seemed from the first to redefine both the normal and the abnormal in our lives; they were already becoming part of the iconography of the age when Arbus committed... -
The Gothic Cathedral: The Architecture of the Great Church 1130-1530 by Christopher Wilson 9780500276815
RRP: £19.95£13.73The Gothic Cathedral focuses on the interaction between design and the requirements of patrons, following the creative processes of architects by reconstructing the problems and opportunities which faced them. Christopher Wilson presents the essential... -
Gardens for Gloriana: Wealth, Splendour and Design in Elizabethan Gardens by Jane Whitaker
RRP: £40.00£30.78The formal gardens of Elizabethan England were among the glories of their age. Complementing the great houses of the day, they reflected the aspirations of their owners, whose greatest desire was to achieve success at Court and to delight the Queen. No... -
Rhythm and Geometry: Constructivist Art in Britain Since 1951 by Tania Moore
RRP: £26.00£18.29Rhythm and Geometry: Constructivist art in Britain since 1951 celebrates the dynamic abstract and constructed art made and exhibited in Britain over a seventy-year period. Including constructed reliefs and sculpture, kinetic and participatory art,... -
Lighted Window, The: Evening Walks Remembered by Peter Davidson
RRP: £25.00£19.47Homecoming, haunting, nostalgia, desire: these are some of the themes evoked by the beguiling motif of the lighted window in literature and art. In this innovative combination of place-writing, memoir and cultural study, Peter Davidson takes us on...