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Robert Desnos, Surrealism, and the Marvelous in Everyday Life by Katharine Conley
RRP: £19.99£17.54In this critical biography of Robert Desnos (1900-1945), Katharine Conley reevaluates the surrealist movement through the life and works of one of its founders. Desnos was as famous among the surrealists for his independence of mind as for his elaborate... -
Michelangelo and the Viewer in His Time by Bernadine Barnes 9781780237404
RRP: £17.95£12.92Today Michelangelo's painting and sculpture is seen most often in museums, while his archi-tectural designs have been left incomplete or modified by others so that some are barely recognizable. But his art was made to be viewed in churches, homes and... -
Tapestries by Rosita Sheen
RRP: £7.99£6.91Tapestries have been an enigmatic form of artwork for hundreds of years, with the intricate symbolism of their woven narratives still fascinating viewers today. Unicorns and fantastic beasts rub shoulders with well-heeled aristocrats; famous biblical and... -
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... -
Locating Renaissance Art by Carol M. Richardson 9780300121889
RRP: £25.00£21.92Renaissance art history is traditionally identified with Italian centers of production, and Florence in particular. Instead, this book explores the dynamic interchange between European artistic centers and artists and the trade in works of art. It also... -
Piet Mondrian Masterpieces of Art by Susie Hodge 9781783613557
£9.32Part of a new series of beautiful gift art books this book focuses on Dutch artist Piet Mondrian. Renowned especially for his style of painting that featured grids of black lines with blocks of primary colour, Mondrian was regarded as a true pioneer of... -
Pattern: & the secrets of lasting design by Emma Bridgewater
RRP: £12.99£9.00This is the black and white paperback edition of Pattern, published in hardback in 2016 by Saltyard Books.If you would like the original colour illustrated version of Pattern it is available in hardback ISBN 9781444734942. Creativity, collaboration,... -
The Houses of Roman Italy, 100 B.C.- A.D. 250: Ritual, Space, and Decoration by John R. Clarke
RRP: £49.00£39.35In this richly illustrated book, art historian John R. Clarke helps us see the ancient Roman house 'with Roman eyes'. Clarke presents a range of houses, from tenements to villas, and shows us how enduring patterns of Roman wall decoration tellingly bear... -
Chanel by Amy de la Haye 9781838510381
RRP: £30.00£22.13For over a century, the name of Chanel has been inextricably linked to elegance, modernity and fashion innovation. It was Chanel who single-handedly made striped jerseys and loose trousers chic, costume jewellery desirable, the little black dress the... -
The Life and the Work - Art and Biography . Salas 9780892368235
RRP: £40.00£33.99It is often assumed that reading about the lives of artists enhances our understanding of their work - and that their work will reveal to us something about them - but the relationship between biography and art is rarely that simple. "The Life and the... -
Leonardo's Notebooks: Writing and Art of the Great Master by H. Anna Suh
RRP: £17.99£15.69Leonardo's Notebooks is a biography of the genius in his own words, connecting moments of his life to artistic accomplishments through his writings, drawings, and intimate thoughts.Leonardo da Vinci -- artist, inventor, and prototypical Renaissance man... -
Wonder Beyond Belief: On Christianity by Navid Kermani 9781509514847
RRP: £25.00£16.78What happens when one of Germany's most important writers, himself a Muslim, immerses himself in the world of Christian art? In this book, Navid Kermani is awestruck by a religion full of sacrifice and lamentation, love and wonder, the irrational and the... -
Sofonisba's Lesson: A Renaissance Artist and Her Work by Michael Cole 9780691198323
RRP: £60.00£47.70The formation and career of the first major woman artist of the RenaissanceSofonisba Anguissola (ca. 1535-1625) was the daughter of minor Lombard aristocrats who made the unprecedented decision to have her trained as a painter outside the family house... -
Prehistoric Rock Art in the Northern Dales by Paul Brown
RRP: £27.50£20.68This book presents a wealth of information on the rock art of the dales that straddle the ridge of the Northern Pennines and Cumbria fells, the authors present details of their new discoveries together with an up to date account of the known archaeology... -
Art in Time: A World History of Styles and Movements by Gauvin Alexander Bailey
RRP: £45.00£35.79An up-to-date and comprehensive guide to 150 of the most significant styles and movements that have shaped art history through time. All art is of its time, and this book is the first survey that explicitly embeds styles, schools and movements within the... -
Geometric Patterns and Designs for Artists and Craftspeople by Wil Stegenga 9780486423081
RRP: £11.49£10.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486423081Author Wil StegengaFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc. -
Kempe: The Life, Art and Legacy of Charles Eamer Kempe by Adrian Barlow 9780718894634
RRP: £28.50£22.43Kempe offers a radical revaluation of the life, work and reputation of Charles Eamer Kempe (1837-1907), one of the most remarkable and influential figures in late Victorian and Edwardian church art. Kempe's name became synonymous with a distinctive style... -
Holy Hoaxes: A Beautiful Deception by William Voelke 9782956702474
RRP: £30.00£20.14This fascinating book tells the story of the building of William M. Voelkle's collection of fakes and forgeries of manuscript illumination. With thorough essays and beautiful illustrations, Voekle tells the story of nearly seventy fakes and forgeries.The... -
The Beatles in India Paul Saltzman 9781683831457
RRP: £30.00£20.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683831457Author Paul SaltzmanFormat HardbackPage Count 104Imprint Insight EditionsPublisher Insight Editions -
Everything, All the Time, Everywhere: How We Became Postmodern by Stuart Jeffries 9781788738231
RRP: £11.99£9.70But where do these ideas come from and how have they impacted on the world? In his brilliant history of a dangerous idea, Stuart Jeffries tells a narrative that starts in the early 1970s and continue to today. He tells this history through a riotous... -
Artemisia Gentileschi by Sheila Barker
RRP: £35.00£26.68Examined through the lens of cutting-edge scholarship, Artemisia Gentileschi clears a pathway for non-specialist audiences to appreciate the artist's pictorial intelligence, as well as her achievement of a remarkably lucrative and high-profile career... -
Picasso, Friends and Family: Photographs by Edward Quinn Wolfgang Frei. 9783775755016
RRP: £38.00£25.84An intimate portrait of Picasso in never-before-seen photographs by Edward Quinn, published 50 year's after the artist's passing. "He doesn't bother me," Picasso commented of the photographer Edward Quinn, after the latter had first photographed him at... -
Seven Keys to Modern Art by Simon Morley
RRP: £19.95£14.65As artists push further and further beyond their, and our, comfort zones, this book aims to help decipher the bizarre and often intimidating aspects of modern and contemporary art by exploring twenty works of art in terms of seven 'keys'. History,... -
Vorticism: New Perspectives by Mark Antliff 9780199937660
£99.84The London-based avant-garde movement Vorticism, like its continental counterparts Cubism and Futurism and its English rival Bloomsbury was created by artists, poets, writers, and artist-writers, as a project that defied disciplinary boundaries... -
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... -
The Art of Describing: Dutch Art in the Seventeenth Century by Svetlana Alpers
RRP: £36.00£35.23"The art historian after Erwin Panofsky and Ernst Gombrich is not only participating in an activity of great intellectual excitement; he is raising and exploring issues which lie very much at the centre of psychology, of the sciences and of history... -
Harry Clarke: The Life and Work by Nicola Gordon Bowe 9781845887421
RRP: £40.00£31.40"Nicola Gordon Bowe has undoubtedly produced the definitive study of Harry Clarke, in a lively and lucid style, with profound insight." - Irish Arts ReviewHarry Clarke was Ireland's greatest stained glass artist and arguably the finest of his time in any... -
Creativity and Perversion by Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel 9780946960088
£29.79What is the relationship between creativity and perversion? The boundary between the world of art and 'the artful universe of the pervert' is carefully explored in this study. Beyond the banal or picturesque variations in sexual behaviour, there lies... -
Paul Feiler: 1918-2013 by Michael Raeburn 9781848220287
RRP: £55.00£42.92The paintings of Paul Feiler (1918-2013), the focus of this first survey of the artist's life and career, were inspired by the English landscape, particularly the cliffs and inlets of the coast of south-west Cornwall. For his friend Peter Lanyon,... -
Astrology, Magic, and Alchemy in Art by Matilde Battistini 9780892369072
RRP: £21.99£18.95From antiquity to the Enlightenment, astrology, magic, and alchemy have always been considered important tools in unravelling the mysteries of nature and human destiny. As a result of the West's exposure to the astrological beliefs of Arab philosophers... -
A Time of One's Own: Histories of Feminism in Contemporary Art by Catherine Grant 9781478018841
RRP: £19.99£17.54In A Time of One's Own Catherine Grant examines how contemporary feminist artists are turning to broad histories of feminism ranging from political organizing and artworks from the 1970s to queer art and activism in the 1990s. Exploring artworks from... -
Many Voices: Feminism by Bernardine Evaristo 9781849767163
RRP: £10.00£7.12Tate Britain: Look Again: the National Collection of British Art reimagined for today. Feminism is a powerful new interpretation of British art from an intersectional feminist perspective, from one of Britain's greatest writers. 'Art museums have long... -
An Introduction to the Making of Western Art: Materiality, Preservation and Change by Susan L. Green 9781032408170
RRP: £35.99£31.69This book is the first introduction to Western art that not only considers how choice of materials can impact form, but also how objects in different media can alter in appearance over time, and the role of conservators in the preservation of our... -
Belonging and Betrayal: How Jews Made the Art World Modern by Charles Dellheim
RRP: £32.00£28.15The story of dealers of Old Masters, champions of modern art, and victims of Nazi plunder. Since the late-1990s, the fate of Nazi stolen art has become a cause celebre. In Belonging and Betrayal, Charles Dellheim turns this story on its head by... -
Hildegard Von Bingen: In the Heart of God Sara Salvadori 9788857246598
RRP: £28.00£18.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857246598Author Sara SalvadoriFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 1280g -
Principles of Art History: The Problem of the Development of Style in Later Art Heinrich Wolfflin 9780486202761
RRP: £12.49£7.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486202761Author Heinrich WolfflinFormat PaperbackPage Count 253Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Designing the V&A: The Museum as a Work of Art (1857-1909): 2017 by Julius Bryant
RRP: £39.95£31.31The building of the Victoria and Albert Museum, begun in 1857, is the most elaborately designed and decorated museum in Britain. This book is the first to consider the V&A as a work of art in itself, presenting drawings, watercolours and historic... -
The Wonders of Florence by Dario Cestaro 9788831719216
RRP: £20.00£13.58The first pop-up book on Florence. Dario Cestaro's spectacular drawings and paper architecture reveal Florence and its treasures in a pop-up book telling the city's history with straightforward texts and interesting facts. This fascinating journey in... -
The Arts of Intimacy: Christians, Jews, and Muslims in the Making of Castilian Culture by Jerrilynn D. Dodds 9780300142143
£22.68A dynamic vision of medieval Castilian culture and the Arabic, Hebrew, and Latin strands that are woven into its fabric Named a Book of the Year by the Times Literary Supplement, this lavishly illustrated work explores the vibrant interaction among... -
Vertigo of Color: Matisse, Derain, and the Origins of Fauvism by Dita Amory 9781588397652
RRP: £40.00£29.51In the summer of 1905, the French painters Henri Matisse and Andre Derain changed the course of art history with their radical color experiments During the summer of 1905, Henri Matisse and Andre Derain went on holiday in Collioure, a modest French...