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Cubism and the Trompe l'Oeil Tradition Emily Braun 9781588396761
RRP: £40.00£35.19A pioneering study of how Picasso, Braque, and Gris engaged with the pictorial tradition of illusion and deception in their influential Cubist works The age-old tradition of pictorial illusionism, known as trompe l'oeil ("deceive the eye"), employs... -
The Great Image Has No Form, or on the Nonobject Through Painting by Francois Jullien
RRP: £36.00£34.83In premodern China, elite painters used imagery not to mirror the world around them, but to evoke unfathomable experience. Considering their art alongside the philosophical traditions that inform it, "The Great Image Has No Form" explores the "nonobject"... -
Artrage!: The Story of the BritArt Revolution by Elizabeth Fullerton 9780500239445
£14.04The Young British Artists (YBAs) stormed on to the contemporary art scene in 1988 with their attention-grabbing, ironic art. They exploded art-world conventions with brazen disdain. Dismissed as trivial gimmickry and praised for its witty energy, their... -
The History of Western Art by Janetta Rebold Benton
RRP: £10.99£7.40A concise, reader-friendly illustrated survey of Western art and architecture from prehistory to the present day. Acknowledging how architecture, painting, sculpture and the decorative arts reflect the culture and society of their time, this latest... -
Bernini: His Life and His Rome by Franco Mormando 9780226538525
RRP: £26.50£22.49Sculptor, architect, painter, playwright, and scenographer, Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) was the last of the universal artistic geniuses of early modern Italy, placed by both contemporaries and posterity in the same exalted company as Leonardo,... -
Comics: A Global History, 1968 to the Present by Dan Mazur
RRP: £19.95£14.33The first global history of comics from 1968 through to the present day, arranged chronologically and richly illustrated with prime examples of the artists, styles and movements being discussed. The authors contextualize the crucial modern period within... -
Understanding Early Christian Art Robin M. Jensen (University of Notre Dame, USA) 9781032105482
RRP: £35.99£31.69Surveying the content and character of early Christian iconography from the third to the sixth century CE, this substantially revised and updated new edition of Understanding Early Christian Art makes the critical tools of art historians accessible to... -
Women Art Workers and the Arts and Crafts Movement by Zoe Thomas
RRP: £19.99£17.82This book constitutes the first comprehensive history of the network of women who worked at the heart of the English Arts and Crafts movement from the 1870s to the 1930s. Challenging the long-standing assumption that the Arts and Crafts simply revolved... -
Lost Art: Missing Artworks of the Twentieth Century by Jennifer Mundy
£9.87In a world where we can find information, images, documentation, opinions on almost anything, we assume that modern works of art are easily preserved; that their whereabouts can be readily established thanks to sophisticated documentation systems; and... -
It's True, It's True, It's True Breach Theatre (Author) 9781350321984
RRP: £10.99£9.66Winner of the Untapped Award 2018. Fringe First and Total Theatre Award-winning Breach (Tank, The Beanfield) restage the 1612 trial of Agostino Tassi for the rape of baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi. Based on surviving court transcripts, this... -
Van Eyck in Detail by Maximiliaan P. J. Martens 9789461300591
RRP: £34.95£24.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789461300591Author Annick BornFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Ludion Editions NVPublisher Ludion Editions NVWeight(grams) 1940g -
Lowry's Lamps by Richard Mayson
RRP: £20.00£14.69Laurence Stephen Lowry RBA RA is mostly thought about in terms of his people and their industrial setting but there is a great deal more to be read from the detail of his paintings. Throughout his artistic career, Lowry used street furniture to brilliant... -
Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists' Writings (Second Edition, Revised and Expanded by Kristine Stiles) by Kristine Stiles 9780520257184
RRP: £30.00£24.89First published in 1996, this irreplaceable resource has now been updated, revised, and expanded by Kristine Stiles to represent thirty countries and more than one hundred new artists. Stiles has added forty images and a diverse roster of artists,... -
50 Contemporary Artists You Should Know by Christiane Weidemann
RRP: £14.99£11.35From painters and photographers to sculptors and performance artists, fifty of the most influential contemporary artists are profiled in this colorful and engaging book that traces the various artistic movements and radical changes of the second half of... -
Nineteenth-Century Art: A Beginner's Guide by Laurie Schneider Adams
RRP: £9.99£7.55Munch's The Scream. Van Gogh's Starry Night. Rodin's The Thinker. Monet's water lilies. Constable's landscapes. The nineteenth-century gave us a wealth of artistic riches so memorable in their genius that we can picture many of them at an instant. ... -
1997: The Future that Never Happened by Richard Power Sayeed 9781786991997
RRP: £12.99£9.79'Beautifully written, brilliantly insightful' Owen Jones Tony Blair and Noel Gallagher shaking hands at No. 10. Saatchi's YBAs setting the international art world aflame. Geri Halliwell in a Union Jack dress. A time of vibrancy and optimism: when the... -
Contemporary Art: 1989 to the Present by Alexander Dumbadze
RRP: £43.00£38.82An engaging account of today's contemporary art world that features original articles by leading international art historians, critics, curators, and artists, introducing varied perspectives on the most important debates and discussions happening around... -
Yinka Shonibare MBE: Revised and Expanded by Rachel Kent 9783791348728
RRP: £35.00£25.89Born in London and raised in Nigeria, Shonibare employs a diverse range of media - from sculpture, painting and installation to photography and film - to probe matters of race, class, cultural identity and history. He is perhaps best known for his... -
Disrupted Realism: Paintings for a Distracted World by ,John Seed 9780764358012
RRP: £45.99£35.06The first book to survey the works of 38 contemporary painters who are "disrupting" figurative painting with technology- and memory-inspired alterations. Disrupted Realism takes an in-depth look at the works of contemporary painters who are challenging... -
The Art of Contemporary China (World of Art) by Jiang Jiehong
RRP: £14.99£9.80Fulfilling a need for an accessible, affordable introduction to a subject of sustained and growing significance in contemporary culture, this volume in the World of Art series redefines contemporary Chinese art in the last forty years since the end of... -
With and Against: the Situationist International in the Age of Automation by Dominique Routhier
RRP: £17.99£14.87No other art movement has so profoundly influenced radical politics as the Situationist International. But beyond the cliches about its purported leader Guy Debord, the "society of the spectacle," detournement and derive, lies a more complex story about... -
Frida Kahlo Hettie Judah 9781786277114
RRP: £12.99£8.60Step into the world of Frida Kahlo: behind the portraits and the surrealist art discover the fascinating woman who has transfixed the world.Fridamania has made Frida Kahlo's image ubiquitous: she has been reborn as a Halloween costume, Barbie doll,... -
The New Art History: A Critical Introduction by Jonathan Harris
RRP: £35.99£31.69The New Art History provides a comprehensive introduction to the fundamental changes which have occurred in both the institutions and practice of art history over the last thirty years. Jonathan Harris examines and accounts for the new approaches to the... -
The Artist Helen Coombe (1864–1937): The Tragedy of Roger Fry's Wife by Martin Ferguson Smith 9781913645533
RRP: £45.00£31.81This fascinating book presents the first biography of Helen Coombe, a woman admired not only for her artistic skill, but also for her intellect, personality and wit. It reveals her family background and education, her place in the Arts and Crafts... -
Medieval Money, Merchants, and Morality by Diane Wolfthal 9781913875374
RRP: £34.95£26.19Medieval Money explores the ways art reflected and reinforced the complex ethical discussions that developed from the widespread role of money in everyday life in the Middle Ages. It traces the origins of global money, and surveys economic history,... -
The London Art Schools by Nigel Llewellyn
RRP: £24.99£7.94Since 1960, progressive forces within art education have stoked, and continued to fire, new impulses in the field of artistic production. As society at large embraced youth and popular culture, art school students with international aspirations exploded... -
The Italian Renaissance: Culture and Society in Italy Peter Burke (Emmanuel College, Cambridge) 9780745648262
RRP: £17.99£16.04In this brilliant and widely acclaimed work, Peter Burke presents a social and cultural history of the Italian Renaissance. He discusses the social and political institutions which existed in Italy during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and... -
Unaustralian Art: Ten Essays on Transnational Art History Rex Butler 9780909952105
RRP: £22.00£14.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780909952105Author Rex ButlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 275Imprint Power PublicationsPublisher Power Publications -
Art Deco Collectibles: Fashionable Objets from the Jazz Age by Rodney Capstick-Dale
RRP: £34.95£24.00In the 1920s and '30s Art Deco influenced everything from art and architecture, interiors and furnishings, automobiles and boats, to the small personal objects that are part of everyday life. The items in this thematically structured book demonstrate... -
Kirsty Bell - the Artist's House: From Workplace to Artwork by Kristy Bell
£28.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783943365306Author Kirsty BellFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Sternberg PressPublisher Sternberg PressWeight(grams) 947gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 177mm *... -
A Chronology of Photography: A Cultural Timeline from Camera Obscura to Instagram by Paul Lowe
RRP: £19.95£13.60A Chronology of Photography presents a fresh perspective on the medium by taking a purely chronological approach to its history, tracing the complex links between technological innovations, social changes, and artistic interventions. Structured around a... -
1950s Fashion Print by Marnie Fogg
RRP: £14.99£10.02An essential sourcebook of prints from a key fashion decade. The 1950s was the decade when an analytical approach to design, with a lightness and freshness, combined with whimsical imagery and idiosyncratic subject matter. Showcasing hundreds of print... -
Principles of Art History Heinrich Wolfflin 9781606064528
RRP: £30.00£25.85This book features a crystalline new translation of one of art history's most influential works-published on its one-hundredth anniversary. Principles of Art History by Heinrich Wolfflin (1864-1945), a revolutionary attempt to construct a science of art... -
Strolling Through Rome by Mario Erasmo
RRP: £16.99£14.10A rich cultural history of Rome that brings its epic past alive, illuminating the extraordinary sights and fascinating secrets of one of Europe's most beguiling cities. Rome, the Eternal City - birthplace of western civilisation and soul of the... -
Southwold (2nd edition): An Earthly Paradise Geoffrey Munn 9781851498550
RRP: £29.95£20.98The inspiration behind William Morris's Earthly Paradise, the muse for J.M.W. Turner's superlative seascapes, a home to hardy fishermen and the top holidaying spot for wealthy Victorians, as well as the scene for relentless witch-hunts and mob justice in... -
The Way of the Shovel: On the Archaeological Imaginary in Art by Dieter Roelstraete
RRP: £34.00£33.37Contemporary art is often obsessed with the new, but it has recently begun to turn to projects centering on research and delving into archives, all in the name of seeking and questioning historical truth. From filmmakers to sculptors to conceptualists,... -
Mabel Dodge Luhan & Company: American Moderns & the West by Lois Palken Rudnick 9780890136140
RRP: £45.99£38.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780890136140Author Lois Palken RudnickFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint Museum of New Mexico PressPublisher Museum of New Mexico PressWeight(grams) 1482g -
Gauguin Ingo F. Walther 9783836532235
RRP: £15.00£11.36Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) was not cut out for finance. Nor did he last particularly long in the French Navy, or as a tarpaulin salesman in Copenhagen who did not speak Danish. He began painting in his spare time in 1873 and in 1876 took part in the Paris... -
Inside the invisible: Memorialising Slavery and Freedom in the Life and Works of Lubaina Himid by Celeste-Marie Bernier 9781789620948
RRP: £27.49£24.93Inside the Invisible provides the first examination of the work of Turner Prize-winning Black British artist and curator Professor Lubaina Himid CBE. This comprehensive volume breaks new ground by theorizing her development of an alternative visual and... -
Turner's Sketchbooks by Ian Warrell
RRP: £30.00£22.37The first book to survey the full range of J.M.W. Turner's extraordinary sketchbooks, beginning with his teenage explorations and culminating in the masterful colour studies of his later years. J.M.W. Turner's sketchbooks provide us with a rare...