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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... -
140 Artists' Ideas for Planet Earth by Hans Ulrich Obrist
RRP: £10.99£7.11Through 140 drawings, thought experiments, recipes, activist instructions, gardening ideas, insurgences and personal revolutions, artists who spend their lives thinking outside the box guide you to a new worldview; where you and the planet are one... -
To Life!: Eco Art in Pursuit of a Sustainable Planet by Linda Weintraub 9780520273627
RRP: £30.00£23.69"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... -
The Lives of the Surrealists by Desmond Morris
RRP: £18.99£13.15No 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... -
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... -
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... -
The History of Greek Vases: Potters, Painters and Pictures by John Boardman
RRP: £24.95£17.35This book, newly available in paperback, is the definitive survey of Greek vases by the outstanding world authority on classical archaeology and art. In it, John Boardman sketches the stylistic history of Greek vases and goes on to explore the many other... -
125 Treasures from the Collections of the National Trust Tarnya Cooper 9780707804538
RRP: £10.00£7.20Presented in a beautiful gift format and filled with a wealth of new photography, this engaging book aims to introduce to a general audience the National Trust's vast collections - a treasure chest of history. Arranged chronologically, starting with... -
Peter Kennard: Visual Dissent by Peter Kennard
RRP: £29.99£19.80This fully illustrated anthology showcases key images from Peter Kennard's work as Britain's foremost political artist over the last fifty years. The book centres around Kennard's images, photomontages and illustrations from protests, year by year,... -
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
£75.48Over 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... -
Robert Lenkiewicz: Paintings and Projects by Francis Mallett 9780953137091
£27.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780953137091Author Francis MallettFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint White Lane PressPublisher White Lane Press -
R. Crumb: The Complete Record Cover Collection by Robert R. Crumb 9780393082784
RRP: £21.99£19.28Robert Crumb first began drawing record covers in 1968 when Janis Joplin, a fellow Haight Ashbury denizen, asked him to provide a cover for her album Cheap Thrills. It was an invitation the budding artist couldn't resist, especially since he had been... -
Just Above Midtown: 1974 to the Present Thomas J. Lax 9781633451377
RRP: £40.00£26.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633451377Author Thomas J. LaxFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Museum of Modern ArtPublisher Museum of Modern ArtWeight(grams) 920g -
Hilma af Klint: A Biography by Julia Voss
RRP: £28.00£23.67A highly anticipated biography of the enigmatic and popular Swedish painter. The Swedish painter Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) was 44 years old when she broke with the academic tradition in which she had been trained. While her naturalistic... -
Greek Sculpture by Nigel Spivey
RRP: £32.99£29.63Ancient Greek sculpture seems to have a timeless quality - provoking reactions that may range from awe to alienation. Yet it was a particular product of its age: and to know how and why it was once created is to embark upon an understanding of its... -
Women of Abstract Expressionism Joan Marter 9780300208429
RRP: £55.00£47.29A long-awaited survey of female Abstract Expressionist artists revealing the richness and lasting influence of their work The artists Jay DeFeo, Helen Frankenthaler, Grace Hartigan, Elaine de Kooning, Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchell, and many other women... -
Studio Voices: Art and Life in 20th-Century Britain by Michael Bird 9781848222304
RRP: £35.00£27.08Studio Voices explores the multi-layered experiences of modern and contemporary British artists in their own words, drawing on the author's original research in the Artists' Lives audio archive at the British Library. Michael Bird's fascinating oral... -
Renaissance Theories of Vision John Shannon Hendrix 9781138245488
RRP: £53.99£46.87How are processes of vision, perception, and sensation conceived in the Renaissance? How are those conceptions made manifest in the arts? The essays in this volume address these and similar questions to establish important theoretical and philosophical... -
We See the Sights by Miriam Elia 9781739144203
RRP: £9.99£6.80We see the sights follows Mummy, Susan and John on a jolly sightseeing trip of post covid London. As our family re-emerge from two years of lockdown into the heart of their city, things have subtly changed. St Paul's cathedral is now St Primark, The... -
Filippino Lippi: An Abundance of Invention by Jonathan K. Nelson 9781789146011
RRP: £17.95£12.92The first monograph in a generation, and the first study in English in over eighty years, this book presents a new understanding of the Renaissance master-artist Filippino Lippi. Celebrated as 'ingenious' by Vasariin 1550, Filippino was highly praised... -
Asemic: The Art of Writing by Peter Schwenger
RRP: £19.99£17.54The first critical study of writing without language In recent years, asemic writing-writing without language-has exploded in popularity, with anthologies, a large-scale art exhibition, and flourishing interest on sites like tumblr, YouTube, Pinterest,... -
The Formation of Islamic Art: Revised and Enlarged Edition by Oleg Grabar 9780300040463
£38.79This classic work on the nature of early Islamic art has now been brought up to date in order to take into consideration material that has recently come to light. In a new chapter, Oleg Grabar develops alternate models for the formation of Islamic art,... -
Art in Renaissance Italy, 4th edition by John T. Paoletti
RRP: £45.00£31.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781856697972Author John T PaolettiFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Laurence King PublishingPublisher Laurence King PublishingWeight(grams) 10g -
The Roots Of Romanticism by Isaiah Berlin
RRP: £18.99£13.61The Roots of Romanticism is the long-awaited text of Isaiah Berlin's most celebrated set of lectures, the Mellon Lectures, delivered in Washington in 1965 and heard since by a much wider audience on BBC radio. For Berli, the Romantics set in train a... -
Twelve Views of Manet's Bar by Bradford R. Collins
RRP: £50.00£39.52Bradford Collins has assembled here a collection of twelve essays that demonstrates, through the interpretation of a single work of art, the abundance and complexity of methodological approaches now available to art historians. Focusing on Manet's A Bar... -
305 Authentic Art Nouveau Jewelry Designs by Maurice Dufrene 9780486249049
RRP: £9.99£6.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486249049Author Maurice DufreNeFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Frozen in Time: The Fagel Collection in the Library of Trinity College Dublin by Tim Jackson
RRP: £45.00£40.22'Hendrik Fagel the Younger (1765-1838), Greffier or Chief Minister of Holland, had the misfortune to have his property seized by invading French forces in the winter of 1794-5, but managed to secure the release of his family art collection and library,... -
The Last Leonardo: The Secret Lives of the World's Most Expensive Painting by Ben Lewis
RRP: £9.99£6.64In 2017 the Salvator Mundi was sold at auction for $450m. But is it a real da Vinci? In a thrilling narrative built on formidable research, Ben Lewis tracks the extraordinary journey of a masterpiece lost and found, lied and fought over... -
Art History For Dummies Jesse Bryant Wilder 9781119868668
RRP: £24.99£17.38Ready 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... -
Delacroix: New and Expanded Edition by Barthelemy Jobert 9780691182360
RRP: £55.00£44.51A newly expanded edition of the defining book on one of French Romanticism's most influential and elusive paintersEugene Delacroix (1798-1863) was a solitary genius who produced stormy Romantic works like The Death of Sardanapalus as well as more... -
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... -
Eileen Gray: The Private Painter by Andrew Lambirth
RRP: £40.00£30.74Irish-born designer Eileen Gray (1878-1976) is widely known today as a pioneer of both Art Deco and Modernism. In a career spanning nearly 80 years she produced innovative designs for furniture, lighting, carpets, interiors and architecture. Much less... -
Artists at Home Susie Hodge 9780711269439
RRP: £30.00£19.40Take a look inside the homes of some of your favourite artists and explore how each one reflected their spirit and creativity. From William Morris and Pablo Picasso to Georgia O'Keeffe and Frida Kahlo, Artists at Home showcases the quiet retreats,... -
Capacity: The History, the World, and the Self in Contemporary Art and Criticism Thomas McEvilley 9789057010415
RRP: £36.99£32.53G. Roger Denson brings singular insight to Thomas McEvilley's writings. As an art writer he has explored similar territory, but from the point of view of a nomadic ideologist. His approach matches that of his subject. He addresses the issues of... -
Fantastic Ornament, Series Two: 118 Designs and Motifs by A. Hauser 9780486491219
RRP: £6.49£4.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486491219Author A. HauserFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 205gDimensions(mm)... -
The First Artists: In Search of the World's Oldest Art by Michel Lorblanchet
RRP: £19.95£13.00Where do we find the world's very first art? When, and why, did people begin experimenting with different materials, forms and colours? Were our once-cousins, the Neanderthals, also capable of creating art? Prehistorians have been asking these questions... -
Mesopotamia: Ancient Art and Architecture by Zainab Bahrani
RRP: £50.00£46.35This book is the first in ten years to present a comprehensive survey of art and architecture in Mesopotamia (modern Iraq, northeast Syria and southeast Turkey), from 8000 BCE to the arrival of Islam in 636 CE. The book is richly illustrated with c. 400...