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Greetings From The Barricades: Revolutionary Postcards in Imperial Russia by Tobie Mathew 9781909829121
£21.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909829121Author Tobie MathewFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint Four Corners BooksPublisher Four Corners Books -
Jewish Dimensions in Modern Visual Culture Rose-Carol Washton Long 9781584657958
RRP: £44.00£37.21In modern western history, the cultural and social developments of modernism have long been associated with Jews. For conservative groups this has been a negative association: the perceived breakdown of traditional norms was blamed on Jewish influence in... -
The Optical Unconscious by Rosalind E. Krauss
£53.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262611053Author Rosalind E. KraussFormat PaperbackPage Count 366Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm *... -
Classical Drawing Atelier by Juliette Aristides
RRP: £19.99£13.75Ateliers have produced the greatest artists of all time - and now that educational model is experiencing a renaissance. These studios, a return to classical art training, are based on the nineteenth-century model of teaching artists by pairing them with... -
Depicting the Dead: Self-Representation and Commemoration on Roman Sarcophagi with Portraits by Stine Birk 9788771240184
£48.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788771240184Author Stine BirkFormat HardbackPage Count 333Imprint Aalborg UniversitetsforlagPublisher Aarhus University PressWeight(grams) 1370g -
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... -
Bauhaus Effects in Art, Architecture, and Design by Kathleen James-Chakraborty 9781032214689
RRP: £39.99£35.06Bringing together an international team of scholars, this book offers new perspectives on the impact that the Bauhaus and its teaching had on a wide range of artistic practices. Three of the fields in which the Bauhaus generated immediately... -
Impressionism by Ralph Skea
RRP: £10.95£7.38It is often forgotten just how provocative Impressionist canvases seemed when they were first exhibited in 1874. The advocates of the new style rejected the established principles of art prevalent at that time in France. This book traces Impressionism's... -
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... -
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... -
Rome as a Guide to the Good Life: A Philosophical Grand Tour by Scott Samuelson
RRP: £14.99£13.03A unique, portable guidebook that sketches Rome's great philosophical tradition while also providing an engaging travel companion to the city. This is a guidebook to Rome for those interested in both la dolce vita and what the ancient Romans called the... -
Memory, Metaphor, and Aby Warburg's Atlas of Images by Christopher D. Johnson
RRP: £33.00£29.05The work of German cultural theorist and art historian Aby Warburg (1866-1929) has had a lasting effect on how we think about images. This book is the first in English to focus on his last project, the encyclopedic Atlas of Images: Mnemosyne. Begun in... -
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,... -
Frame Work: Honour and Ornament in Italian Renaissance Art by Alison Wright
RRP: £57.50£49.30"My husband Jan finished me on 17 June 1439. . . . My age was 33 years." So speaks Margaret van Eyck from the frame of her portrait. This painted inscription honors its maker Jan van Eyck, even as it blurs the distinction between living subject and... -
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... -
Women Artists Together: Art in the Age of Women's Liberation by Amy Tobin 9780300270044
RRP: £35.00£33.91A fresh perspective on collaboration, collectivity, and conflict in the women's art movement of the 1970s Women Artists Together is a thought-provoking study of how the women's liberation movement galvanized a generation of women artists. It offers a... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
Introduction to Manuscript Studies by Raymond Clemens
£48.02Providing a comprehensive and accessible orientation to the field of medieval manuscript studies, this lavishly illustrated book by Raymond Clemens and Timothy Graham is unique among handbooks on paleography, codicology, and manuscript illumination in... -
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... -
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...