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Art As Medicine: Creating a Therapy of the Imagination by Shaun McNiff
RRP: £23.00£15.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780877736585Author Shaun McNiffFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
The Life of Forms in Art by Henri Focillon
RRP: £20.00£14.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780942299571Author Henri FocillonFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 152mm * 15mm -
The Free World: A Cultural History of the Cold War by Louis Menand
RRP: £30.00£27.68Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2022 Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Nonfiction The Cold War was not just a contest of power. It was also about ideas,... -
Write Now: The Getty-Dubay Program for Handwriting Success by Barbara Getty 9780964921511
RRP: £13.95£9.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780964921511Author Barbara GettyFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Handwriting Success, LLCPublisher Handwriting Success, LLCWeight(grams) 259g -
Marie Laurencin: Sapphic Paris by Simonetta Fraquelli 9780300273632
RRP: £40.00£33.59Revealing the vital influence of the French artist Marie Laurencin, her visual idiom, and her sexual expression on the modernism of twentieth-century Paris This book offers a long-overdue reassessment of the career of the Parisian-born artist Marie... -
Anglo-Saxon Inspirations: patterns and designs to colour and create by Claudia Myatt 9781899262496
RRP: £4.99£4.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781899262496Author Claudia MyattFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint Golden Duck (UK) LtdPublisher Golden Duck (UK) Ltd -
How We Might Live: At Home with Jane and William Morris by Suzanne Fagence Cooper 9781529409482
RRP: £30.00£19.80William Morris - poet, designer, campaigner, hero of the Arts & Crafts movement - was a giant of the Victorian age, and his beautiful creations and provocative philosophies are still with us today: but his wife Jane is too often relegated to a footnote,... -
The Lives of Lucian Freud by William Feaver
RRP: £35.00£25.29SELECTED AS BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN, SUNDAY TIMES, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT AND SPECTATOR SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2019 'This exceptional book is far from... -
Miriam Cahn - I As Human Marta Dziewanska 9788364177552
RRP: £27.00£26.47A rebel and feminist, the Switzerland-born Miriam Cahn is one of the major artists of her generation. Widely known for her drawings and paintings, she also experiments with photography, moving images, sculptures, and performance art. Cahn's diverse body... -
Visions of War: Art of the Imperial War Museums by Claire Brenard 9781912423644
RRP: £30.00£20.55IWM holds one of the most significant collections of British art anywhere in the world - a collection whose artists and artworks have uniquely shaped our understanding of war. Visions of War charts the manifold engagement between artists, art... -
What is Paleolithic Art?: Cave Paintings and the Dawn of Human Creativity by Jean Clottes
RRP: £18.00£15.40Was it a trick of the light that drew our Stone Age ancestors into caves to paint in charcoal and red hematite, to watch the heads of lions, likenesses of bison, horses, and aurochs in the reliefs of the walls, as they flickered by firelight? Or was it... -
Sculptors and Design Reform in France, 1848 to 1895: Sculpture and the Decorative Arts Claire Jones 9781138548909
RRP: £43.99£38.44Challenging distinctions between fine and decorative art, this book begins with a critique of the Rodin scholarship, to establish how the selective study of his oeuvre has limited our understanding of French nineteenth-century sculpture. The book's... -
A Brief History of Black British Art by Rianna Jade Parker
RRP: £15.00£10.96Black artists in Britain have long been making major contributions to art history. While some of these artists have been embraced at times by the art world, for the most part they have not received the recognition they deserve. Taking as its starting... -
Grinling Gibbons: Master Carver by Paul Rabbitts
RRP: £8.99£6.96Master Carver Grinling Gibbons (1648-1721) is famous for his breathtakingly delicate, intricate and realistic carvings, both in wood and stone. Tantalising cascades of fruit and flowers, puffy-cheeked cherubs, crowds of figures and flourishes of... -
Visions of the Occult: An Untold Story of Art & Magic Victoria Jenkins (Archivist Curator) 9781849767620
RRP: £25.00£17.62The first major survey of the occult collection of artworks, letters, objects and ephemera in the Tate Archive and collection. Revealing over 150 esoteric and mystical pieces, some never before seen, this book gives a new understanding to the artists in... -
A Book Of Surrealist Games by Mel Gooding
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570620843Author Alistair BrotchieFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
Duchamp's Telegram: From Beaux-Arts to Art-in-General by Thierry de Duve
RRP: £30.00£29.09In 1917, Marcel Duchamp sent out a 'telegram' in the guise of a urinal signed R. Mutt. When it arrived at its destination a good forty years later it was both celebrated and vilified as proclaiming that anything could be art; from that point on, the... -
Chronorama: Photographic Treasures of the 20th Century by The Pinault Collection
RRP: £60.00£43.60An unprecedented volume of photography from the Conde Nast Archive, illustrating the history, art, and fashion of their famous magazine brands Chronorama: Photographic Treasures of the 20th Century is an impressive photography volume curated by Conde... -
The Longing for Less: Living with Minimalism by Kyle Chayka 9781635572100
RRP: £18.99£15.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635572100Author Kyle ChaykaFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 412g -
Japanese Design: An Illustrated Guide to Art, Architecture and Aesthetics in Japan by Patricia J. Graham
RRP: £16.99£10.20"Graham has crafted a compact, jewel-like resource for all who seek to understand the sources, evolution, impact, and value of Japanese aesthetics and design principles in our modern world." -Dr. Jane Schall, Sanders Sosland Curator of Modern and... -
Art Nouveau: The World's Most Beautiful Buildings from Guimard to Gaudi by Arnold Schwartzman 9781786750631
RRP: £30.00£19.91The third volume of Arnold Schwartzman's photographic trilogy explores the world's most sensuous architecture of the 1890s and 1900s. The author has selected from his vast archive of photographs that he has captured during the past fifty years, to... -
Insiders/Outsiders: Refugees from Nazi Europe and their Contribution to British Visual Culture by Monica Bohm-Duchen 9781848223462
RRP: £45.00£35.60Insiders/Outsiders, published to accompany a UK-wide arts festival of the same name in 2019, examines the extraordinarily rich and pervasive contribution of refugees from Nazi-dominated Europe to the visual culture, art education and art-world structures... -
Rembrandt: Substance and Shadow by Pascal Bonafoux
RRP: £7.95£5.58Supremely successful at the beginning of his life; lonely, bankrupt and virtually ignored at its end, Rembrandt produced some of the most powerful and psychologically penetrating works in the whole of world art.Poverty, illness, the deaths of his wife,... -
Australian Abstract by Amber Creswell Bell
RRP: £40.00£27.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Australian Book Industry Awards 2024 (UK).Book InformationISBN 9781760762858Author Amber Creswell BellFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Thames and... -
The Short Story of Art: A Pocket Guide to Key Movements, Works, Themes & Techniques by Susie Hodge
RRP: £14.99£14.83The Short Story of Art is a new and innovative introduction to the subject of art. Simply constructed, the book explores 50 key works, from the wall paintings of Lascaux to contemporary installations, and then links these to sections on art movements,... -
Rembrandt by Rosalind Ormiston 9780754823780
RRP: £16.99£13.28An illustrated exploration of the artist, Rembrandt van Rijn, his life and context, with a gallery of 300 of his finest works. This is a fascinating biography that explores his early years, his personal life and the historical context of the early 17th... -
Chatsworth, Arcadia, Now: Seven Scenes from the Life of a House by The Duke of Devonshire
RRP: £50.00£37.62A stunningly original portrait of one of England's grandest country housesNo house embodies the spirit of one dynasty better than Chatsworth. Set in an unspoilt Derbyshire valley, surrounded by wild moorland, and home to the Cavendish family for sixteen... -
Today Is Always Yesterday: Contemporary Brazilian Art by Michael Asbury 9781789148008
RRP: £35.00£33.75Today Is Always Yesterday explores the historical constructs underlying contemporary art in Brazil. Michael Asbury, through his study of the South American nation's colonial and post-colonial condition, argues that art can not only illustrate history but... -
Diane Arbus by Arthur Lubow
RRP: £35.00£25.29Diane Arbus was one of the greatest photographers of the last century. Her portraiture of freaks, circus performers, twins, nudists and others on the social margins connected with a wide public at a deep psychological level. Her suicide in New York in... -
The Art of Mesoamerica: From Olmec to Aztec by Mary Ellen Miller
RRP: £14.99£9.66Expanded and revised in its sixth edition, The Art of Mesoamerica surveys the artistic achievements of the high prehispanic civilizations of Central America - Olmec, Maya, Teotihuacan, Toltec and Aztec - as well as those of their lesser-known... -
Baroque Naples and the Industry of Painting: The World in the Workbench by Christopher R. Marshall
RRP: £57.50£49.30The second largest city in 17th-century Europe, Naples constituted a vital Mediterranean center in which the Spanish Habsburgs, the clergy, and Neapolitan aristocracy, together with the resident merchants, and other members of the growing professional... -
Theories of Modern Art: A Source Book by Artists and Critics by Herschel B. Chipp
RRP: £30.00£23.69Herschel B. Chipp's Theories of Modern Art: A Source Book By Artists and Critics is a collection of texts from letters, manifestos, notes and interviews. Sources include, as the title says, artists and critics-some expected, like van Gogh, Gauguin,... -
Experience Design: A Participatory Manifesto by Abraham Burickson 9780300269475
RRP: £25.00£23.94An engaging introduction to the cutting-edge discipline of experience design for students and practitioners in creative fields, including architecture, product design, gaming, exhibition design, and performance What does it mean to design experiences?... -
Burning with Desire: The Conception of Photography by Geoffrey Batchen
RRP: £41.00£30.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262522595Author Geoffrey BatchenFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 191mm *... -
Brilliant Isles: Art That Made Us James Hawes 9781913083045
RRP: £8.99£6.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913083045Author James HawesFormat HardbackImprint Old Street PublishingPublisher Old Street Publishing -
Shadow-Makers: A Cultural History of Shadows in Architecture by Stephen Kite
£33.77The making of shadows is an act as old as architecture itself. From the gloom of the medieval hearth through to the masterworks of modernism, shadows have been an essential yet neglected presence in architectural history. Shadow-Makers tells for the... -
Yayoi Kusama Robert Shore 9781786277862
RRP: £12.99£8.60'I, Kusama, am the modern Alice in Wonderland' Yayoi KusamaNonagenarian Japanese artist is simultaneously one of the most famous and most mysterious artists on the planet. A wild child of the 1950s and 1960s, she emerged out of the international Fluxus... -
Gustav Klimt. Complete Paintings by Tobias G. Natter 9783836566612
£67.83Over a century after his death, Viennese artist Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) still startles with his unabashed eroticism, dazzling surfaces, and artistic experimentation. This monograph gathers all of Klimt's major works alongside authoritative art... -
The Art of Fantasy: A visual sourcebook of all that is unreal by S. Elizabeth 9780711279957
RRP: £22.00£14.96This beautiful, fully illustrated book presents a compendium of artworks throughout history which have been inspired by myth, fantasy and the unreal. Artists have explored imaginary worlds and fantastical creatures for centuries, expressing the unreal... -
The Sight of Death: An Experiment in Art Writing by T. J. Clark 9780300137583
RRP: £28.50£24.07A renowned art historian confronts the specific powers of painting, and the hold of the visual image on the viewer's imagination Why do we find ourselves returning to certain pictures time and again? What is it we are looking for? How does our...