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Biennials, Triennials, and Documenta: The Exhibitions that Created Contemporary Art Anthony Gardner (University of Oxford, UK) 9781444336658
RRP: $40.85$36.08This innovative new history examines in-depth how the growing popularity of large-scale international survey exhibitions, or 'biennials', has influenced global contemporary art since the 1950s. Provides a comprehensive global history of biennialization... -
100 Figures: The Unseen Art of Quentin Blake by Quentin Blake
RRP: $37.03$21.14Quentin Blake's illustrations are instantly recognisable to millions of people around the world. A new exhibition to be held at London's House of Illustration will explore an unusual aspect of Blake's work, however, exhibiting for the first time 100... -
Lucie Rie by Isabella Smith 9781916041691
RRP: $25.33$17.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916041691Author Isabella SmithFormat HardbackImprint Eiderdown BooksPublisher Eiderdown Books -
Van Gogh's Ear: The True Story by Bernadette Murphy
RRP: $29.23$21.35In December 1888, Vincent van Gogh cut off his ear. It is the most famous story about any artist in history. But what really happened on that dark winter night?In Van Gogh's Ear, Bernadette Murphy reveals the truth. She takes us on an extraordinary... -
Sleuth: The Amazing Quest for Lost Art Treasures by Philip Mould
RRP: $29.23$18.92CSI meets Who Do You Think You Are? meets Time Team meets The Antiques Roadshow. Two-dimensional works of art become three-dimensional thrillers. Philip Mould is an international art dealer who has lived the high stakes game of art sleuthing... -
100 Paintings from the Collections of the National Trust John Chu 9780707804606
RRP: $19.50$14.04Presented in a beautiful gift format, this engaging book aims to introduce to a general audience the National Trust's vast collection of paintings through a selection of 100 important examples from the 14th to the 20th centuries. Paintings displayed in... -
Oceans by Pandora Syperek
RRP: $36.95$24.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780854883042Author Pandora SyperekFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Whitechapel GalleryPublisher Whitechapel Gallery -
To Life!: Eco Art in Pursuit of a Sustainable Planet by Linda Weintraub 9780520273627
RRP: $58.50$46.20"To Life! Eco Art in Pursuit of a Sustainable Planet" documents the burgeoning eco art movement from A to Z, presenting a panorama of artistic responses to environmental concerns, from Ant Farm's anti-consumer antics in the 1970s to Marina Zurkow's 2007... -
Banksy You Are an Acceptable Level of Threat and if You Were Not You Would Know About It by Patrick Potter
RRP: $58.40$49.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908211781Author Patrick PotterFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Carpet Bombing CulturePublisher Carpet Bombing Culture -
How to Read Chinese Paintings by Maxwell K. Hearn 9780300141870
RRP: $38.90$34.98The Chinese often use the expression du hua, "to read a painting," in connection with their study and appreciation of such works. This volume closely "reads" thirty-six masterpieces of Chinese painting from the encyclopedic collection of The Metropolitan... -
Place by Tacita Dean
RRP: $29.15$22.07Everyone wants to find their own place in the world. But where is it and what is it? How do we recognize place as being significant and not just merely space? And what is it that makes one place special and another not? These are questions that have... -
Centuries Of Childhood by Philippe Aries
RRP: $33.13$23.95In this pioneering and important book, Philippe Aries surveys children and their place in family life from the Middle Ages to the end of the eighteenth century. The first section of the book explores the gradual change from the medieval attitude to... -
The Lives of the Surrealists by Desmond Morris 9780500021361
$61.07No other art movement in history has contained two artists as different as Magritte and Miro. This is because Surrealism was not in origin an art movement, but a philosophical strategy. It was a way of life - a rebellion against the establishment that... -
Greetings from Retro Design: Vintage Graphics Decade by Decade by Tony Seddon
RRP: $36.95$26.75What is a true 1950s look, as opposed to a 1930s or 1940s look? This book aims to address that question by thoroughly surveying the development of graphic design over the course of the 20th century. Timelines for each decade highlight key moments, styles... -
De Kooning: American Master by Mark Stevens
RRP: $58.50$41.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Ambassador Book Award 2005 and L.A. Times book Prize (Biography) 2004 and National Book Critics Circle Awards 2005 and Pulitzer Prize 2005.Book InformationISBN... -
Record, Map and Capture in Textile Art: Data Visualisation in Cloth and Stitch by Jordan Cunliffe
RRP: $44.75$31.63A guide to the increasingly popular trend of transforming data into beautiful textile art. This stylish and fascinating book from up-and-coming textile art star Jordan Cunliffe shows how raw data, maps and personal experience can be distilled into... -
50 Bauhaus Icons You Should Know by Josef Strasser
RRP: $29.23$22.13Founded by Walter Gropius in 1919, the Bauhaus School had an enormous impact on the arts and everyday life. Fifty of the most representative pieces of Bauhaus art and design are presented here in illuminating and engrossing two-page spreads. This book... -
Barbara Hepworth: Writings and Conversations by Ms. Sophie Bowness
RRP: $38.98$25.53Barbara Hepworth's work and ideas are illuminated in her own lucid and eloquent words in this first collection of her writings and conversations. The book makes available much that is out of print and inaccessible, and includes a significant number of... -
Elysium: A Visual History of Angelology by Ed Simon 9781419767579
RRP: $68.25$45.96A gloriously illustrated overview of angels across art, religion, and literatureIneffable, invisible, inscrutable-angels are enduring creatures across Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and human experiences of the divine as mediated by spiritual... -
The Materiality of Exhibition Photography in the Modernist Era: Form, Content, Consequence by Laurie Taylor 9780367682798
RRP: $77.98$68.37This book challenges the status quo of the materiality of exhibited photographs, by considering examples from the early to mid-twentieth century, when photography's place in the museum was not only continually questioned but also continually redefined.By... -
Mark Rothko: Toward the Light in the Chapel by Annie Cohen-Solal
RRP: $23.38$19.79A fascinating exploration of the life and work of one of America's most famous and enigmatic postwar visual artists Mark Rothko, one of the greatest painters of the twentieth century, was born in the Jewish Pale of Settlement in 1903. He immigrated to... -
Art History For Dummies Jesse Bryant Wilder 9781119868668
RRP: $48.73$33.89Ready to discover the fascinating world of art history? Let's (Van) Gogh! Fine art might seem intimidating at first. But with the right guide, anyone can learn to appreciate and understand the stimulating and beautiful work of history's greatest... -
Art from the First World War by Richard Slocombe 9781904897897
RRP: $19.48$13.86Showcasing IWM's extensive collection, this book includes works from the major artists of the time such as John and Paul Nash, Orpen, Spencer and Singer Sargent as well as other artists who are less familiar to us today. With an introductory essay by the... -
The Graphic Works of Odilon Redon Isabel Hapgood 9780486446592
RRP: $38.01$25.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486446592Author Isabel HapgoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Milton Glaser, POP by Steven Heller
RRP: $87.65$69.71'Milton Glaser's designs changed the way we see the world.' - Gloria Steinem An overview of the work of illustrator and designer Milton Glaser during the 1960s and 70s From 1954, when he co-founded the legendary Push Pin Studios, to the late '70s,... -
Renaissance Architecture by Christy Anderson
RRP: $45.81$33.17The Renaissance was a diverse phenomenon, marked by innovation and economic expansion, the rise of powerful rulers, religious reforms, and social change. Encompassing the entire continent, Renaissance Architecture examines the rich variety of buildings... -
Breaking the Rules: Paul Wonner and Theophilus Brown by Scott A. Shields
RRP: $107.25$76.03In reaction to the widespread pursuit of Abstract Expressionism in the late 1940s and early 1950s, Paul Wonner and William "Theophilus" Brown were among the artists in the San Francisco Bay Area who began to re-engage with the visible world, applying the... -
Dürer by Norbert Wolf
RRP: $29.25$22.15A polymath of the German Renaissance, Albrecht Durer (1471-1528) was a prolific artist, theorist, and writer whose works explored everything from religion to art theory to philosophy. His vast body of work includes altarpieces, portraits, self-portraits,... -
The Book in the Cathedral: The Last Relic of Thomas Becket by Christopher de Hamel
RRP: $19.48$13.86From the bestselling author of Meetings With Remarkable Manuscripts, a captivating account of the last surviving relic of Thomas Becket The assassination of Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral on 29 December 1170 is one of the most famous events in... -
Too Brave to Dream R. S. Thomas 9781780373072
RRP: $23.40$15.60When R.S. Thomas died in 2000, two seminal studies of modern art were found on his bookshelves - Herbert Read's Art Now (1933) and Surrealism (1936), edited by Read and containing essays by key figures in the Surrealist movement. Some three dozen... -
Night Life of Trees,The - Handmade by Durga Bai a Bhajju Shyam
RRP: $87.75$59.55The Night Life of Trees is an exquisite hand-bound and screen-printed book of paintings by three of the finest artists of the Gond tribal art tradition. The Gonds, a tribe of central India, are traditionally forest dwellers. They believe that trees are... -
William Blake's Printed Paintings: Methods, Origins, Meanings Joseph Viscomi 9781913107208
RRP: $78.00$65.50An in-depth examination of William Blake's glorious and acclaimed series of twelve monoprints Among William Blake's (1757-1827) most widely recognized and highly regarded works as an artist are twelve color printed drawings, or monoprints, conceived and... -
Shadows: The Depiction of Cast Shadows in Western Art by E. H. Gombrich
RRP: $29.23$26.19In 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... -
Imray Chart B32: Carriacou to Grenada: 2022 by Imray 9781786794161
RRP: $46.70$38.01Imray-Iolaire charts for Caribbean are widely acknowledged as the best available for the cruising sailor. They combine the latest official survey data with first-hand information gathered over 60 years of research by Don Street Jr and his wide network... -
Civilisations: First Contact / The Cult of Progress: As seen on TV by David Olusoga
RRP: $29.23$22.13Oscar Wilde said, 'Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life.' Was he right? In Cult of Progress, David Olusoga travels the world to piece together the shared histories that link nations. We discover what happened to art in the great Age of... -
Trailblazing Women Printmakers: Virginia Lee Burton Demetrios and the Folly Cove Designers by Elena M. Sarni 9781797224282
RRP: $50.70$33.85The history of the Folly Cove Designers (1941-1969) - one of America's longest-running artist collectives - is explored through their work. Folly Cove Designers (officially 1941-1969) was a mostly all-women block printing collective. The group was... -
The Other Renaissance: From Copernicus to Shakespeare by Paul Strathern 9781838955182
RRP: $25.33$16.69'Enlightening and fascinating' John Banville, Wall Street JournalThrough the lives of major figures from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries, including Copernicus, Gutenberg, Luther, Catherine de Medici, Rabelais, van Eyck and Shakespeare, Paul... -
Chaos, Territory, Art: Deleuze and the Framing of the Earth by Elizabeth Grosz 9780231145190
RRP: $29.23$23.69Instead of treating art as a unique creation that requires reason and refined taste to appreciate, Elizabeth Grosz argues that art-especially architecture, music, and painting-is born from the disruptive forces of sexual selection. She approaches art as... -
Abstract Art by Anna Moszynska
RRP: $29.23$19.89Since the early years of the 20th century, Western abstract art has fascinated, outraged and bewildered audiences. Its path to acceptance within the artistic mainstream was slow. Anna Moszynska traces the origins and evolution of abstract art, placing it... -
The Avant-Gardists: Artists in Revolt in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union 1917–1935 by Sjeng Scheijen 9780500024553
RRP: $68.25$43.74A fascinating, narrative biography of the art movement that transformed the modern world, tracing the lives and activities of the key protagonists as they set about a revolution in art. October 1917. The Russian Revolution wipes the old tsarist empire...