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A History of Roman Art Steven L. Tuck (Miami University, Ohio, USA) 9781119653288
RRP: £53.95£47.84A HISTORY OF ROMAN ART The new edition of the leading textbook on Roman art, updated with new images and expanded geographic and cultural scope A History of Roman Art is an expansive survey of the painting, mosaic, sculpture, decorative arts, and... -
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 -
Egon Schiele: The Egoist by Jean-Louis Gaillemin
RRP: £7.95£5.58Egon Schiele lived in Vienna during its last years as capital of the declining Habsburg Empire. Rejected by his family and hounded by society for his interest in young girls, he expressed through his art a deep and bewildering loneliness and an obsession... -
Modern Art and the Death of a Culture by H. R. Rookmaaker
RRP: £13.99£9.75This groundbreaking classic, now reissued, gives a brilliant perspective on the cultural turmoil of the radical sixties and its impact on today's world, as reflected in the art of the time. It describes the social, historical and philosophical context of... -
Book of Beasts - The Bestiary in the Medieval World Elizabeth Morrison 9781606065907
RRP: £50.00£44.05Brimming with lively animals both real and fantastic, the bestiary was one of the great illuminated manuscript traditions of the Middle Ages. Encompassing imaginary creatures, such as the unicorn, siren and griffin; exotic beasts, including the tiger,... -
Bernini and His World: Sculpture and Sculptors in Early Modern Rome by Livio Pestilli
RRP: £60.00£45.98Bernini and His World is a unique exploration of Gian Lorenzo Bernini the sculptor, offering new insights and including discussions of the artist's stylistic innovations and the ways in which he approached sculpture. Placing his life and work within a... -
The Culture: Hip Hop & Contemporary Art in the 21st Century by Asma Naeem 9781941366547
RRP: £49.00£34.35A sweeping survey of hip hop's resounding impact on contemporary art and culture across the past 20-plus years Accompanying a groundbreaking exhibition originating at the Baltimore Museum of Art, this book captures the extraordinary influence of hip... -
Castles: Their Construction and History by S. Toy 9780486248981
RRP: £12.49£9.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486248981Author S. ToyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 438gDimensions(mm)... -
Bauhaus by Frank Whitford
RRP: £14.95£9.78The aesthetic of our contemporary environment, including everything from housing developments to furniture and websites, is partly the result of a school of art and design founded in Germany in 1919, the Bauhaus. While in operation for only fourteen... -
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... -
Yuan: Chinese Architecture in a Mongol Empire by Nancy Steinhardt 9780691240169
RRP: £62.00£48.22A monumental illustrated survey of the architecture of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century ChinaThe Yuan dynasty endured for a century, leaving behind an architectural legacy without equal, from palaces, temples, and pagodas to pavilions, tombs, and... -
Goya: A Portrait of the Artist by Janis Tomlinson
RRP: £30.00£23.69The first major English-language biography of Francisco Goya y Lucientes, who ushered in the modern eraThe life of Francisco Goya (1746-1828) coincided with an age of transformation in Spanish history that brought upheavals in the country's politics and... -
Jan Gossart and the Invention of Netherlandish Antiquity by Marisa Anne Bass 9780691169996
RRP: £48.00£38.00This is the first in-depth historical study of Jan Gossart (ca. 1478-1532), one of the most important painters of the Renaissance in northern Europe. Providing a richly illustrated narrative of the Netherlandish artist's life and art, Marisa Anne Bass... -
Anish Kapoor: Past, Present, Future by Nicholas Baume
RRP: £8.99£7.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262026598Author Nicholas BaumeFormat HardbackPage Count 143Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 241mm * 165mm * 13mm -
Escape from the Gallery: An Entertaining Art-Based Escape Room Puzzle Experience by James Hamer-Morton
RRP: £12.99£8.60This is the perfect book for fans of Journal 29, and those who want to re-create an exciting escape-room experience in their own home!You are Adam Parkinson, an intrepid journalist who has recently been employed by the time-travelling Wexell Corporation... -
The Painted Word by Tom Wolfe 9780312427580
RRP: £16.00£8.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312427580Author Tom WolfeFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm) 209mm * 140mm... -
Black: The History of a Color by Michel Pastoureau
RRP: £30.00£24.29Black--favorite color of priests and penitents, artists and ascetics, fashion designers and fascists--has always stood for powerfully opposed ideas: authority and humility, sin and holiness, rebellion and conformity, wealth and poverty, good and bad. In... -
John Ruskin: Selected Prose by Richard Lansdown 9780192868022
RRP: £18.99£18.31This volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series offers students an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the work of John Ruskin (1819-1900). The edition represents Ruskin's extraordinary literary output, ranging from lectures, essays, and... -
Talking Prices: Symbolic Meanings of Prices on the Market for Contemporary Art by Olav Velthuis
RRP: £30.00£23.29How do dealers price contemporary art in a world where objective criteria seem absent? Talking Prices is the first book to examine this question from a sociological perspective. On the basis of a wide range of qualitative and quantitative data, including... -
Haring-isms by Keith Haring
RRP: £13.99£11.42Essential quotations from renowned artist and pop icon Keith Haring Keith Haring remains one of the most important and celebrated artists of his generation and beyond. Through his signature bold graphic line drawings of figures and forms dancing and... -
Roman Art . Zanker 9781606061015
RRP: £26.00£22.10Presented in very clear and accessible language, "Roman Art" offers new and fascinating insights into the evolution of the forms and meanings of Roman art. Traditional studies of Roman art have sought to identify an indigenous style distinct from Greek... -
European Architecture 1750-1890 by Barry Bergdoll
RRP: £23.49£17.01This comprehensive examination of eighteenth and nineteenth-century architecture explores its extreme diversity within the context of tremendous social, economic and political upheaval. Bergdolls offers a penetrating analysis of the very ways issues of... -
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World: Science, Engineering and Technology by Michael Denis Higgins 9780197648148
RRP: £22.99£19.56Michael Higgins broadens our understanding of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World by bringing science, engineering, and technology together with ancient documentation and archaeological findings. The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World (Pyramids of... -
Concepts of Modern Art: From Fauvism to Postmodernism by Nikos Stangos 9780500202685
RRP: £24.95£19.67In a series of essays by some of the most internationally acclaimed writers on art, the extraordinary artistic challenges of the twentieth century are introduced and discussed with unparalleled lucidity, intelligence and factual accuracy. No other book... -
Bold Ventures: Thirteen Tales of Architectural Tragedy Charlotte Van den Broeck 9781784743987
RRP: £16.99£12.28'Bold Ventures resembles a pop version of Iain Sinclair's psychogeography or Out of Sheer Rage, Geoff Dyer's anti-biography of DH Lawrence' Olivia Laing, GUARDIAN'A marvel: a monument to human beings continuing to reach for the skies, even after their... -
The Gardner Heist: The True Story of the World's Largest Unsolved Art Theft by Ulrich Boser 9780061451843
RRP: £10.99£7.25Shortly after midnight on March 18, 1990, two men broke into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston and committed the largest art heist in history. They stole a dozen masterpieces, including one Vermeer, three Rembrandts, and five Degas. But after... -
Rana Begum: Space Light Colour by Lisa le Feuvre
RRP: £49.99£38.65Rana Begum RA (b.1977) is an artist known for her wide ranging works, from the intimate to the monumental. Using a variety of materials and exploring the use of light, she blurs the boundaries between sculpture, architecture, design and painting to... -
Art, Passion & Power: The Story of the Royal Collection by Michael Hall
RRP: £30.00£22.55"Hall's consummate history is not just the story of the evolution of one of the world's great collections... The book is also a through-the-keyhole insight into the shifting tastes, good or bad, of 1,000 years of monarchs."- The TimesThe Royal Collection... -
In Other Words: Essays Towards a Reflexive Sociology by Pierre Bourdieu 9780745606590
RRP: £17.99£16.04Pierre Bourdieu has established himself as one of the leading social thinkers in the world today and his work is increasingly influential throughout the social sciences and humanities. This volume of interviews, lectures and informal talks provides an... -
Idols of Perversity: Fantasies of Feminine Evil in Fin-de-Siecle Culture by Bram Dijkstra 9780195056525
RRP: £35.49£29.75A provocative and absorbing analysis of the unprecedented eruption of misogyny at the turn of the century in the works of the key artists of the age. Illustrated throughout.Book InformationISBN 9780195056525Author Bram DijkstraFormat PaperbackPage Count... -
Fluxus Forms: Scores, Multiples, and the Eternal Network by Natilee Harren 9780226354927
RRP: £44.00£37.21"PURGE the world of dead art, imitation, artificial art. . . . Promote living art, anti-art, promote NON ART REALITY to be grasped by all peoples," writes artist George Maciunas in his Fluxus manifesto of 1963. Reacting against an elitist art world... -
Futurism by Sylvia Martin
RRP: £15.00£11.36With motion and machines as its most treasured tropes, Futurism was founded in 1909 by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, along with painters Giacomo Balla, Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carra, and Gino Severini. With affiliate painters, sculptors, designers,... -
The Moment of Caravaggio by Michael Fried 9780691147017
RRP: £62.00£49.82This is a groundbreaking examination of one of the most important artists in the Western tradition by one of the leading art historians and critics of the past half-century. In his first extended consideration of the Italian Baroque painter Michelangelo... -
Protest Art by Jessica Lack 9780500296684
RRP: £14.99£9.80An essential guide to how the power of art has been harnessed to effect political change across the modern world, from the struggle for universal suffrage to Black Lives Matter. Here is a well-researched, concise guide to protest art, exploring what... -
Art of the Byzantine Era by David Talbot Rice 9780500200049
RRP: £29.95£20.92For the people of Byzantium, their architectural works, frescoes, mosaics, ivories, chalices, bejewelled gospel covers and qlany other opulent works of art were the material proof of their greatness and power over the Mediterranean states. The vast range... -
Seeing Through Paintings: Physical Examination in Art Historical Studies by Andrea Kirsh 9780300094084
RRP: £37.50£37.23This prize-winning book offers the only comprehensive discussion available on materials, techniques, and condition issues in Western easel paintings from medieval times to the present."An essential handbook for the pro, and also a beautifully illustrated... -
Technical Art History: A Journey Through Active Learning by Jehane Ragai 9781786349392
RRP: £55.00£48.03'This book is a gem! Truly 'A Journey Through Active Learning'.Dudley HerschbachNobel Laureate in Chemistry'Incredible! Because it's credible. What is absolutely remarkable about Jehane Ragai and Tamer Shoeib's book is that a textbook (!) draws us in so... -
Neo Rauch by Michael Glover 9781848222939
RRP: £49.99£38.65This comprehensive monograph offers a detailed examination of the paintings of the acclaimed German painter Neo Rauch (b.1960). Rauch's paintings deftly blend the iconography of Socialist Realism from his upbringing and art-school training in GDR-era... -
Art in Minutes Susie Hodge 9781784293277
RRP: £12.99£8.60The perfect compact reference guide for all would-be art buffs. Art historian Susie Hodge takes you on a whistle-stop international tour of all the major artistic cultures, movements, phases, developments, artists and themes, from Prehistoric art to... -
The Genesis of a Painting: Picasso's <i>Guernica</i> by Rudolf Arnheim 9780520250079
RRP: £30.00£23.29Rudolf Arnheim explores the creative process through the sketches executed by Picasso for his mural Guernica. The drawings and paintings shown herein, as well as the photographs of the stages of the final painting, represent the complete visual record of...