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The Experimenters: Chance and Design at Black Mountain College by Eva Diaz
RRP: £35.00£29.97Practically every major artistic figure of the mid-twentieth century spent some time at Black Mountain College: Harry Callahan, Merce Cunningham, Walter Gropius, Willem and Elaine de Kooning, Robert Motherwell, Robert Rauschenberg, Aaron Siskind, Cy... -
Lord Elgin and the Marbles by William St. Clair 9780192880536
£66.50`The British say they have saved the Marbles. Well, thank you very much. Now give them back.' Melina Mercouri, actress and politician Ever since the sculptures from the Parthenon arrived in England at the beginning of the last century, they have... -
Late Gothic: Threshold to Modernity by Staatliche Museen Berlin
£36.26Hardly any other epoch in art history has been marked by as many profound changes as the Late Gothic was in the fifteenth century. Inspired by Netherlandish role models, depictions of light and shadow, body and space, became increasingly more realistic... -
Bauhaus: Weimar, Dessau, Berlin, Chicago Hans M. Wingler (Anton-Tax-Gasse 9) 9780262730471
RRP: £68.00£49.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262730471Author Hans M. WinglerFormat PaperbackPage Count 658Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 2064gDimensions(mm) 356mm * 254mm *... -
The Garima Gospels: Early Illuminated Gospel Books from Ethiopia by Judith S. McKenzie
RRP: £49.95£47.76The three Garima Gospels are the earliest surviving Ethiopian gospel books. They provide glimpses of lost late antique luxury gospel books and art of the fifth to seventh centuries, from the Aksumite kingdom of Ethiopia. This book reproduces all of the... -
History of Art: A Student's Handbook by Marcia Pointon 9780415639248
RRP: £35.99£31.69This fully revised edition of the History of Art: A Student's Handbook introduces students to the kinds of practices, challenges, questions and writings they will encounter in studying the history of art. Marcia Pointon conveys the excitement of Art... -
Book of Circles by Manuel Lima
RRP: £26.99£19.43In The Book of Circles, his companion volume to the popular Book of Trees, Manuel Lima takes us on a lively tour through millenia of information design. Three hundred detailed and colourful illustrations cover an encyclopedic array of subjects, drawing... -
The Trouble with Women Artists: Reframing the History of Art by Laure Adler
RRP: £24.95£22.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782080203700Author Laure AdlerFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint FlammarionPublisher Editions FlammarionWeight(grams) 1000g -
Europe Divided: Huguenot Refugee Art and Culture by Tessa Murdoch
RRP: £40.00£32.20This richly illustrated book focuses on the extraordinary international networks resulting from the diaspora of more than 200,000 refugees who left France in the late 17th century to join communities already in exile spread far and wide. ... -
The Book of Trees: Visualizing Branches of Knowledge by Manuel Lima 9781616892180
RRP: £18.99£14.28Trees are in nature but also in our minds. Their shape have influenced how we communicate via diagrams, link ideas together and illustrate deeper human thoughts in art throughout history. Trees have been a recurrent metaphor for mapping information in... -
Pilgrimage and Politics in Colonial Bengal: The Myth of the Goddess Sati by Imma Ramos 9781032476933
RRP: £37.99£33.38From the late nineteenth century onwards the concept of Mother India assumed political significance in colonial Bengal. Reacting against British rule, Bengali writers and artists gendered the nation in literature and visual culture in order to inspire... -
Black Art: A Cultural History by Richard J. Powell
RRP: £16.99£11.94The African diaspora - a direct result of the transatlantic slave trade and Western colonialism - has generated a wide array of artistic achievements, from blues and reggae, to the paintings of the pioneering African American artist Henry Ossawa Tanner... -
Engravings William Hogarth 9780486224794
RRP: £24.99£16.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486224794Author William HogarthFormat PaperbackPage Count 205Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Blue: The History of a Color by Michel Pastoureau 9780691181363
RRP: £35.00£28.74A beautifully illustrated visual and cultural history of the color blue throughout the agesBlue has had a long and topsy-turvy history in the Western world. The ancient Greeks scorned it as ugly and barbaric, but most Americans and Europeans now cite it... -
Greek Homosexuality: with Forewords by Stephen Halliwell, Mark Masterson and James Robson by Sir Kenneth J. Dover
RRP: £34.99£30.94Hailed as magisterial when it first appeared, Greek Homosexuality remains an academic milestone and continues to be of major importance for students and scholars of gender studies. Kenneth Dover explores the understanding of homosexuality in ancient... -
Where the Heart Beats: John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the Inner Life of Artists by Kay Larson 9780143123477
RRP: £19.75£12.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143123477Author Kay LarsonPage Count 512Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Natural Light: The Art of Adam Elsheimer and the Dawn of Modern Science by Julian Bell
RRP: £25.00£15.87A brand-new perspective on early modern art and its relationship with nature as reflected in this moving account of overlooked artistic genius Adam Elsheimer, by an outstanding writer and critic. Seventeenth-century Europe swirled with conjectures and... -
Christopher Wood by Katy Norris 9781848221864
RRP: £39.99£31.33The first fully illustrated account of the life and work of English painter Christopher Wood (1901-30), this authoritative work, which includes over 150 images, provides extensive visual analysis of individual paintings, set designs and drawings created... -
Tarr by Wyndham Lewis
RRP: £10.99£7.77'The nearest the general run get to art is Action: sex is their form of art: the battle for existence is their picture.' Tarr tells the blackly comic story of the lives and loves of two artists, played out against the backdrop of Paris before the... -
The Future Is Present: Art, Technology, and the Work of Mobile Image Philip Glahn 9780262548076
RRP: £41.00£28.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262548076Author Philip GlahnFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life (new edition) by Roxana Robinson
RRP: £25.00£18.62This is without question the best book ever written on O'Keeffe' New Yorker Born on a wheat farm in Wisconsin in 1887, the second of seven children, Georgia O'Keeffe had her eyes wide open to the beauty of nature from the very beginning, and by her... -
Titian's Touch: Art, Magic and Philosophy by Maria Loh 9781789140828
RRP: £17.95£13.32At the end of his long, prolific life, Titian was rumored to paint directly on the canvas with his bare hands. He would slide his fingers across bright ridges of oil paint, loosening the colors, blending, blurring, and then bringing them together again... -
Thrust: A Spasmodic Pictorial History of the Codpiece by Michael Glover 9781644230244
RRP: £8.95£7.91A laugh-out-loud visual history of the strangest piece of men's clothing ever created: the codpiece.The codpiece was fashioned in the Middle Ages to close a revealing gap between two separate pieces of men's tights. By the sixteenth century, it had... -
Global Art and the Cold War John J. Curley 9781786272294
RRP: £29.99£20.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781786272294Author John J. CurleyFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Laurence King PublishingPublisher Laurence King Publishing -
Gustav Klimt: The Interiors by Tobias G. Natter 9783791379784
RRP: £39.99£28.78Interior design was supremely important to Gustav Klimt, and many of his paintings were created for specific settings or spaces. This aspect of Klimt's practice comes beautifully to life in this book that illustrates how some of the artist's most... -
Short Life in a Strange World: Birth to Death in 42 Panels by Toby Ferris
RRP: £20.00£13.74Sure to be hailed alongside H is for Hawk and The Hare with Amber Eyes, an exceptional work that is at once an astonishing journey across countries and continents, an immersive examination of a great artist's work, and a moving and intimate... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Aegean Bronze Age by Cynthia W. Shelmerdine
RRP: £34.99£28.78This book is a comprehensive up-to-date survey of the Aegean Bronze Age, from its beginnings to the period following the collapse of the Mycenaean palace system. In essays by leading authorities commissioned especially for this volume, it covers the... -
Paul Nash: Designer and Illustrator by James King
RRP: £45.00£34.00Exploring the ways in which painting, applied design and illustration intertwined over the course of the accomplished career of Paul Nash (1889-1946), this book provides a new perspective on one of the most gifted and celebrated English artists of the... -
Dumbarton Oaks Papers, 76 by Colin M. Whiting
RRP: £104.95£83.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884024927Author Colin M. WhitingFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & CollectionPublisher Dumbarton Oaks Research... -
Notelets of Filth: A Companion Reader to MLM's Emilia by Laura Kressly
RRP: £34.99£30.85This collection of short, accessible essays serves as a supplementary text to Morgan Lloyd Malcolm's play, Emilia. Critically acclaimed and beloved by audiences, this innovative and ground-breaking show is a speculative history, an imaginative... -
The Colossal Statue of Ramesses II Anna Garnett 9780714151090
RRP: £6.00£4.40One of the largest pieces of Egyptian sculpture in the British Museum, the upper part of the colossal statue of Ramesses II, also known as the 'Younger Memnon', was perhaps the first piece of Egyptian sculpture to be recognized as a work of art by... -
Art =: Discovering Infinite Connections in Art History by The Metropolitan Museum of Art 9780714879420
RRP: £59.95£46.99A fresh and unconventional approach to exploring 6,000 years of art history through 800 masterpieces from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Featuring more than 800 artworks from the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, this groundbreaking... -
Red: The History of a Color by Michel Pastoureau 9780691172774
RRP: £35.00£28.74A beautifully illustrated visual and cultural history of the color red throughout the ages The color red has represented many things, from the life force and the divine to love, lust, and anger. Up through the Middle Ages, red held a place of privilege... -
Mathematics and Art: A Cultural History by Lynn Gamwell 9780691165288
RRP: £52.00£43.53This is a cultural history of mathematics and art, from antiquity to the present. Mathematicians and artists have long been on a quest to understand the physical world they see before them and the abstract objects they know by thought alone. Taking... -
Renaissance Art in Venice: From Tradition to Individualism by Tom Nichols
£23.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780678511Author Tom NicholsFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Laurence King PublishingPublisher Laurence King PublishingWeight(grams) 830g -
Strolling through Florence: The Definitive Walking Guide to the Renaissance City by Mario Erasmo 9781780762142
RRP: £14.99£12.85To walk through Florence is to step into one of the most remarkable histories of any European city. From its establishment by Julius Caesar in the first century BC, through its Golden Age at the epicentre of the Italian Renaissance, to its position as an... -
The Future of the Image by Jacques Ranciere
£12.30In The Future of the Image, Jacques Ranciere develops a fascinating new concept of the image in contemporary art, showing how art and politics have always been intrinsically intertwined. He argues that there is a stark political choice in art: it can... -
Michelangelo and Beyond by Eva Michel 9783791377162
RRP: £45.00£31.75Michelangelo's nude drawings are celebrated for their depiction of the heroic figure. Emanating exceptional strength, monumentality, and vigorous emotions, his nudes became the standard bearers for centuries of figure drawing. This book examines the... -
Surrealism by Amy Dempsey
RRP: £10.95£7.38Surrealism was launched as a literary and artistic movement by French poet Andre Breton in 1924, and by the time of his death in 1966 had become one of the most popular art movements of the 20th century. Its very name has entered everyday usage as a... -
Goya by Nordine Haddad
RRP: £17.95£14.00Sarah Symmons' fascinating account locates Goya in the context of his Spanish heritage, traces the immense influence of his work throughout Europe and considers the continued relevance of his art in the twentieth century. Drawings, oil paintings,...