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National Treasures: Saving The Nation's Art in World War II by Caroline Shenton 9781529387438
RRP: £16.99£12.28LONGLISTED FOR THE HISTORICAL WRITERS' ASSOCIATION NON-FICTION CROWN 2022'Vigorously researched and highly entertaining' - Daily Telegraph'Geeks triumph over the forces of darkness: nothing could have given me greater pleasure. Combining an exciting... -
Culture: A new world history by Martin Puchner
RRP: £25.00£16.79'A writer of genius' - William DalrympleCan anyone really own a culture? This magnificent account argues that the story of global civilisations is one of mixing, sharing, and borrowing.It shows how art forms have crisscrossed continents over centuries to... -
Heritage: Management, Interpretation, Identity by Peter Howard 9780826458988
£40.09Throughout the world, heritage is now a major concern. It is a method by which to establish identities and attract visitors. Natural and cultural heritage is protected, conserved, managed and interpreted, by families, by cities, by nation states and at... -
What Painting Is James Elkins 9781138319882
RRP: £36.99£32.53In this classic text, James Elkins communicates the experience of painting beyond the traditional vocabulary of art history. Alchemy provides a strange language to explore what it is a painter really does in the studio-the smells, the mess, the struggle... -
Design: A Very Short Introduction by John Heskett
RRP: £8.99£6.45John Heskett wants to transform the way we think about design by showing how integral it is to our daily lives, from the spoon we use to eat our breakfast cereal, and the car we drive to work in, to the medical equipment used to save lives. Design... -
Myths, History, and Art: Twelve Essays on Art as Deception by Basil Markesinis 9781528936729
RRP: £14.99£10.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528936729Author Basil MarkesinisFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers -
William Blake. Dante's 'Divine Comedy'. The Complete Drawings by Sebastian Schutze
£30.33Celebrated around the world as a literary monument, The Divine Comedy, completed in 1321 and written by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), is widely considered the greatest work ever composed in the Italian language. The epic poem describes Dante's journey... -
Artemisia Gentileschi and the Business of Art by Christopher R. Marshall 9780691253886
RRP: £55.00£46.69A new account of the renowned Baroque painter, revealing how her astute professional decisions shaped her career, style, and legacyArt has long been viewed as a calling—a quasi-religious vocation that drives artists to seek answers to humanity’s deepest... -
Surrealists in New York: Atelier 17 and the Birth of Abstract Expressionism by Charles Darwent
RRP: £25.00£15.87An absorbing group biography revealing how exiles from war-torn France brought Surrealism to America, helping to shift the centre of the art world from Paris to New York and spark the movement that became Abstract Expressionism. In 1957 the American... -
How to Read Chinese Paintings by Maxwell K. Hearn 9780300141870
RRP: £19.95£17.94The 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... -
Humankind: Ruskin Spear, class, culture and art in 20th century Britain by Tanya Harrod
RRP: £35.00£23.43Humankind: Ruskin Spear is the first book on the painter Ruskin Spear RA (1911-1990) since a brief monograph in 1985. It uses Spear's career to unlock the coded standards of the 20th-century art world and to look at class and culture in Britain and at... -
Louise Nevelson: Art is Life by Laurie Wilson
RRP: £24.95£17.35Louise Nevelson (1899-1988) was, with Calder, Noguchi and David Smith, one of the great American sculptors of the 20th century. She created extraordinary work, from room-size installations composed of boxes to gnarled and majestic steel structures. Her... -
Towards the Sun: World Pictures by British Artist-Travelers at the Turn of the Twentieth Century by Kenneth McConkey 9781913645083
RRP: £50.00£35.22While there have been monographs on British artist-travellers in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, there has been no equivalent survey of what the writer, Henry Blackburn, described as 'artistic travel' a hundred years later. By 1900, the... -
The Nature and Aesthetics of Design by David Pye 9780713652864
£26.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorDavid Pye OBE (1914-1993) was an architect, industrial designer and craftsman. For many years he was also Professor of Furniture Design at the Royal College of... -
Modigliani: Modern Gazes by Christiane Lange 9783791377094
RRP: £39.99£28.38Among the most celebrated works of Modigliani's brief but brilliant career are his large-format nudes. Drenched in color and glowing with the artist's deep appreciation of women and the female form, these works ushered in a new era of nude ... -
Fauvism by Sarah Whitfield
RRP: £12.99£8.60Les Fauves (the wild beasts) was the nickname given in 1905 to a group of painters led by Henri Matisse. Today, their paintings are among the most popular of all twentieth-century art. Yet when Matisse and his friends - Derain, Vlaminck, Marquet, Dufy... -
The Emperors of Byzantium Kevin Lygo 9780500297995
RRP: £12.99£8.60A compelling and vivid narrative history of one of the founding civilizations of the modern world, the Byzantine empire, evocatively told through the lives of its 92 emperors. Based in the great city of Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul), the... -
An Introduction to Art Charles Harrison 9780300247138
RRP: £20.00£17.98At once engaging, personal, and analytical, this book provides the intellectual resources for the critical understanding of art Charles Harrison's landmark book offers an original, clear, and wide-ranging introduction to the arts of painting and... -
Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper by Alexandra Harris
RRP: £14.99£9.80An award-winning study of England's unique and peculiarly insular variant of modernism. While the battles for modern art and society were being fought in France and Spain, it has seemed a betrayal that John Betjeman and John Piper were in love with a... -
Lucky to be an Artist by Unity Spencer 9781910065600
£13.23In this autobiography Unity Spencer writes about her unconventional childhood, her unconventional father and her life as an artist in her own right.About the AuthorUnity Spencer has exhibited widely and still teaches printmaking to the many students who... -
Fendry Ekel: Entries by Astrid Honold
RRP: £29.50£25.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789460224485Author Astrid HonoldFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint KIT PublishersPublisher KIT PublishersWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 249mm * 178mm *... -
Eric Ravilious: Artist and Designer by Alan Powers
RRP: £29.99£22.37More popular than ever, the work of Eric Ravilious (1903-42) is rooted in the landscape of pre-war and early wartime England. This best-selling book by Alan Powers, the established authority on Ravilious, provides the most comprehensive overview to date... -
Cobra: A Pictorial and Poetic Revolution Piet Thomas 9789464366440
RRP: £58.00£39.71With French as its working language, Cobra was pretty much the last truly European movement within Modernism. The group's anarchic story is not just an important strand in art history - it remains as lively as ever and has inspired all sorts of artists... -
Art in Theory: The West in the World - An Anthology of Changing Ideas Paul Wood (Research Associate, Open University) 9781444336313
RRP: £34.95£32.43A ground-breaking new anthology in the Art in Theory series, offering an examination of the changing relationships between the West and the wider world in the field of art and material culture Art in Theory: The West in the World is a ground-breaking... -
Euan Uglow: The Complete Paintings by Catherine Lampert 9780300123494
RRP: £95.00£81.20British artist Euan Uglow (1932-2000) maintained a lower profile than others of his generation, yet his beautiful, intelligent, humane, and often witty landscapes, still lifes, and figure studies are today gaining the recognition they so clearly deserve... -
Unspeakable Acts: Women, Art, and Sexual Violence in the 1970s by Nancy Princenthal
RRP: £25.00£16.78The 1970s was a time of deep division and newfound freedoms. Galvanized by The Second Sex and The Feminine Mystique, the civil rights movement and the March on Washington, a new generation put their bodies on the line to protest injustice. Still, even in... -
Prehistoric Rock Art in the North York Moors by Paul Brown 9780752468778
RRP: £27.50£20.68This revised edition is an accumulation of two decades of research and fieldwork by the authors, and presents a comprehensive account of the little known prehistoric rock art within the North York Moors area. It covers Northern England's last major area... -
Remedios Varo: Science Fictions by Caitlin Haskell
RRP: £30.00£25.59An exploration of the captivating work and mystical outlook of the modern artist Remedios Varo, focusing on her years in Mexico City This publication offers a definitive look at the artistic practice of Remedios Varo (1908-1963) following her... -
Guide to Historic Artists' Homes & Studios: A Guide by Valerie A. Balint
RRP: £25.00£17.14From the desert vistas of Georgia O'Keeffe's New Mexico ranch to Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner's Hamptons cottage, step into the homes and studios of illustrious American artists and witness creativity in the making. Celebrating the twentieth... -
The Victorians Jeremy Paxman 9781846077449
RRP: £20.00£14.29Jeremy Paxman's unique portrait of the Victorian age takes readers on an exciting journey through the birth of modern Britain. Using the paintings of the era as a starting point, he tells us stories of urban life, family, faith, industry and empire that... -
Cezanne: A life by Alex Danchev
RRP: £25.00£18.02Today we view Cezanne as a monumental figure, but during his lifetime (1839-1906), many did not understand him or his work. With brilliant insight, drawing on a vast range of primary sources, Alex Danchev tells the story of an artist who was never... -
The Marriage Portrait: the instant Sunday Times bestseller, now a Reese's Bookclub December Pick by Maggie O'Farrell
RRP: £14.99£12.42'I thought I had made myself clear. I want something that conveys her majesty, her bloodline. Do you understand? She is no ordinary mortal. Treat her thus.'Florence, the 1560s. Lucrezia, third daughter of Cosimo de' Medici, is free to wander the palazzo... -
My Life by Marc Chagall
RRP: £9.99£7.11'As fresh, poignant and individual as his paintings' Lucy Beckett, TLS, Books of the Year 2018'Here is my soul. Look for me here; here I am, here are my pictures, my roots'Marc Chagall, one of the twentieth century's most popular artists, grew up in a... -
Donatello by Peta Motture
RRP: £45.00£34.21Arguably the greatest sculptor of all time, Donatello (c.1386-1466) was at the vanguard of a revolution in sculptural practice in the early Renaissance. Combining ideas from classical and medieval sculpture to create innovative sculptural forms,... -
101 Great Illustrators from the Golden Age, 1890-1925 by Jeff A. Menges 9780486430812
RRP: £33.49£21.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486430812Author Jeff MengesFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
ArtCurious: Stories of the Unexpected, Slightly Odd, and Strangely Wonderful in Art History by Jennifer Dasal
RRP: £17.00£13.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143134596Author Jennifer DasalFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 312gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 151mm... -
Art History: The Basics by Diana Newall
RRP: £18.99£16.87Now in its second edition, this volume is an accessible introduction to the history of art. Using an international range of examples, it provides the reader with a toolkit of concepts, ideas and methods relevant to understanding art history. This new... -
My Last Breath by Luis Bunuel
RRP: £15.99£11.61A master filmmaker, inimitable, and unrelenting in his assault on bourgeois values. Bunuel's method is free from all artifice, and his honesty and humour are to extreme to accept any compromise in exposing our deceit and our decadence. Like Pasolini,... -
Tamara De Lempicka by Laura Claridge
RRP: £16.99£12.28Born in 1899 to Russian Aristocrats, Tamara de Lempicka escaped the Bolsheviks by exchanging her body for freedom, dramatically beginning a sexual career that included most of the influential men and women she painted. Her paintings, like the artist... -
London's New Scene: Art and Culture in the 1960s Lisa Tickner 9781913107109
RRP: £35.00£31.17A groundbreaking and extensively researched account of the 1960s London art scene In the 1960s, London became a vibrant hub of artistic production. Postwar reconstruction, jet air travel, television arts programs, new color supplements, a generation of...