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Passages in Modern Sculpture by Rosalind E. Krauss
RRP: £36.00£23.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262610339Author Rosalind E. KraussFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 156mm *... -
Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat by Javaka Steptoe
RRP: £14.99£12.32Somewhere in Brooklyn, a little boy dreams of being a famous artist, not knowing that one day he would make himself a king.Jean-Michel Basquiat and his unique, collage-style paintings rocketed to fame in the 1980s as a cultural phenomenon unlike anything... -
Artrage!: The Story of the BritArt Revolution by Elizabeth Fullerton
RRP: £12.99£8.13The Young British Artists (YBAs) stormed on to the contemporary art scene in 1988 with their attention-grabbing, ironic art, exploding art-world conventions with brazen disdain. Dismissed as trivial gimmickry and praised for its witty energy, their art... -
Industry and Ingenuity: The Partnership of William Ince and John Mayhew by Hugh Roberts
RRP: £75.00£52.90The first comprehensive study of William Ince and John Mayhew's famous eighteenth-century cabinetmaking partnership, complemented by high-quality photographs of their work. The partnership of William Ince (1737-1804) and John Mayhew (1736-1811) ran... -
Supercade: A Visual History of the Videogame Age 1985-2001 by Van Burnham
RRP: £39.99£28.55The long-awaited sequel to Supercade: A Visual History of the Videogame Age 1971-1984, the first book to illustrate the videogame phenomenon... In the years since the original Supercade was first published, the next generation of gamers have come... -
Color Theory: A Critical Introduction Aaron Fine 9781350027305
RRP: £34.99£29.02Giving an overview of the history of color theory from ancient and classical cultures to contemporary contexts, this book explores important critical principles and provides practical guidance on the use of color in art and design. Going beyond a... -
'Black but Human': Slavery and Visual Art in Hapsburg Spain by Prof Carmen Fracchia 9780198881063
RRP: £32.49£29.81'Black but Human' is the first study to focus on the visual representations of African slaves and ex-slaves in Spain during the Hapsburg dynasty. The Afro-Hispanic proverb 'Black but Human' is the main thread of the six chapters and serves as a lens... -
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... -
Pow! Right in the Eye!: Thirty Years behind the Scenes of Modern French Painting by Berthe Weill
RRP: £18.00£15.80Memoir of a provocative Parisian art dealer at the heart of the 20th-century art world, available in English for the first time. Berthe Weill, a formidable Parisian dealer, was born into a Jewish family of very modest means. One of the first female... -
Henry Scott Tuke Paintings from Cornwall by Catherine Wallace
RRP: £34.99£22.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781841147055Author Catherine WallaceFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint HalsgrovePublisher Halsgrove -
Artist's Mind: The Creative Lives and Mental Health of Famous Artists by Kathryn Vercillo
RRP: £22.99£15.05How does art reflect and affect mental wellness? What's behind the idea that "madness" is linked to creativity? Does having an artistic temperament mean that creative people operate in a mental state different from the "norm"? And why is art often used... -
Fashion in the Middle Ages by Margaret Scott
RRP: £15.99£14.22From the costly velvets and furs worn by kings to the undyed wools and rough linens of the peasantry, the clothing worn by the various classes in the Middle Ages played an integral role in medieval society. In addition to providing clues to status,... -
Matheus Rocha Pitta: For the Winners the Potatoes Bethanien Kunstlerhaus 9783862066605
RRP: £20.00£13.35The KfW Foundation and the cultural centre Kunstlerhaus Bethanien are collaborating on a studio programme offering a twelve month residency in Berlin to young artists from Africa, Latin America and the Middle East. Verlag Kettler presents the artistic... -
M to M of M/M (Paris) by Emily King
RRP: £50.00£34.75A 528-page monograph -- conceived as a reschuffled alphabetical dictionary that starts with the letter 'M' on page 311 -- that presents for the first time twenty years of works by M/M (Paris), one of the most emblematic and influential design practices... -
A Little History of the Royal Academy by Peter Sawbridge
RRP: £8.95£6.18From the eighteenth century to the twenty-first, the Royal Academy of Arts in London has occupied a prominent, occasionally controversial and always individual position in the art world. Its Annual Exhibitions, now known as the Summer Exhibitions, have... -
Memories of a Pre-Raphaelite Youth Ford Madox Ford 9781843680857
RRP: £7.99£5.60" ... The author's personal, beautiful, and discursive style will appeal to enthusiasts of art and English literature." Library Journal One of the greatest literary artists in history, Ford Madox Ford's childhood is brought to life in this collection... -
Art in Crisis: The Lost Center Hans Sedlmayr 9781412806077
RRP: £45.99£40.13The history of art from the early nineteenth century on- ward is commonly viewed as a succession of conflicts between innovatory and established styles that culminated in the formalism and aesthetic autonomy of high modernism. In Art and Crisis, first... -
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... -
Portrait of a Muse: Frances Graham, Edward Burne-Jones and the Pre-Raphaelite Dream by Andrew Gailey
RRP: £25.00£16.78'You haunt me everywhere.' So wrote Edward Burne-Jones to Frances Graham, his muse for the last 25 triumphant years of his life: 'I haven't a corner of my life or my thoughts where you are not'. He drew her obsessively, included her in some of his most... -
The Pantheon: From Antiquity to the Present by Tod A. Marder
RRP: £30.99£25.07The Pantheon is one of the most important architectural monuments of all time. Thought to have been built by Emperor Hadrian in approximately AD 125 on the site of an earlier, Agrippan-era monument, it brilliantly displays the spatial pyrotechnics... -
The British Paintings Judy Egerton 9781857091700
RRP: £75.00£74.33The National Gallery's collection of British paintings is small, but contains some of the most famous and best-loved paintings in the country. This readable catalogue includes the results of fresh examination of each work by the Gallery's Conservation... -
The Reign of the Phallus: Sexual Politics in Ancient Athens by Eva C. Keuls 9780520079298
RRP: £35.00£28.14At once daring and authoritative, this book offers a profusely illustrated history of sexual politics in ancient Athens. The phallus was pictured everywhere in ancient Athens: painted on vases, sculpted in marble, held aloft in gigantic form in public... -
Inigo Jones by John Summerson 9780300082449
£19.17Inigo Jones, the first English classical architect, was famous in his own time and was the posthumous sponsor of the Palladian movement of the eighteenth century. This authoritative and elegantly written book, first published in 1966, reassessed Jones's... -
Fonthill Recovered: A Cultural History by Caroline Dakers 9781787350465
RRP: £60.00£53.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787350465Author Caroline DakersFormat HardbackPage Count 428Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 1130g -
Icons of Modern Art: The Shchukin Collection Anne Baldassari 9782072760778
RRP: £27.50£17.89The Fondation Louis Vuitton's unprecedented 2016 exhibition brought together 130 masterpieces, among the most iconic of the collection created in Moscow by the great Russian art patron, Sergei Shchukin. From Le Dejeuner sur l'herbe (1866) by Claude... -
Renaissance Art Reconsidered: An Anthology of Primary Sources Carol M. Richardson (Open University) 9781405146418
RRP: £37.95£33.76Renaissance Art Reconsidered showcases the aesthetic principles and the workaday practices guiding daily life through these years of extraordinary human achievement. A major new anthology, bringing to life the places, works, media, and issues that... -
Glasgow Boys in Your Pocket by William R. Hardie 9781849340267
RRP: £9.99£8.17The Glasgow Boys revolutionized Scottish painting from 1880 until around 1895, although their influence lasted until just before World War 1. Painters such as Sir John Lavery, Sir James Guthrie, George Henry, Edward Atkinson Hornel, Joseph Crawhall,... -
Ravilious & Co: The Pattern of Friendship by Andy Friend
RRP: £20.00£13.35The acclaimed biography detailing the lives of the British inter-war artists and designers centred on Ravilious - an enthralling narrative of creative achievement, joy and tragedy. In recent years Eric Ravilious has become recognized as one of the... -
Reading Fashion in Art by Ingrid E. Mida
RRP: £26.99£23.07Shortlisted for the CSA Millia Davenport Publication Award, 2021 Listed as one of The Five Most Essential Books about Art and Fashion, ArtNews, 2023 Dress and fashion are central to our understanding of art. From the stylization of the body to... -
The Story of Post-Modernism: Five Decades of the Ironic, Iconic and Critical in Architecture by Charles Jencks
RRP: £30.95£27.85In The Story of Post-Modernism, Charles Jencks, the authority on Post-Modern architecture and culture, provides the defining account of Post-Modern architecture from its earliest roots in the early 60s to the present day. By breaking the narrative into... -
Mounton House: The Birth and Rebirth of an Edwardian Country Home by Helena Gerrish
RRP: £45.00£34.00The most ambitious project of Henry Avray Tipping, the influential architectural editor of Country Life, Mounton was a new country house and garden, designed without limitations of expense to be the perfect expression of his immense knowledge of history,... -
Falling Rocket: James Whistler, John Ruskin, and the Battle for Modern Art by Paul Thomas Murphy
RRP: £22.00£19.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639364916Author Paul Thomas MurphyFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 558gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 152mm... -
Accidental Alchemy: Oliver Simon, Signature Magazine, and the rise of British Neo-Romantic Art by Neil Wells
RRP: £30.00£20.55The significant influence of the periodical Signature on fine art has long been overlooked. While few people nowadays will have read it, no journal has greater claim to have stimulated the taste that became British neo-romanticism in the mid-20th century... -
Social Forms: A Short History of Political Art Christian Viveros-Faune 9781941701904
RRP: £25.00£16.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941701904Author Christian Viveros-FauneFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint David ZwirnerPublisher David ZwirnerWeight(grams) 230g -
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... -
The Oxford Handbook of Roman Studies by Alessandro Barchiesi 9780198856009
£49.72The Oxford Handbook of Roman Studies is an indispensable guide to the latest scholarship in this area. Over fifty distinguished scholars elucidate the contribution of material as well as literary culture to our understanding of the Roman world. The... -
Bill Brandt Henry Moore by Martina Droth
RRP: £50.00£44.05A close look at the work, relationship, and shared influences of two masterful 20th-century artists "The camera," said Orson Welles, "is a medium via which messages reach us from another world." It was the camera and the circumstances of the Second World... -
Apostle: Travels Among the Tombs of the Twelve by Tom Bissell
RRP: £12.99£8.56Peter, Matthew, Thomas, John: who were these men and their fellow Apostles? What was their relationship to Jesus? Tom Bissell gives us rich answers to these ancient and surprisingly enigmatic questions in an unusual, erudite and fascinating book. By... -
Winslow Homer and His Cullercoats Paintings: An American Artist in England's North East by David Tatham 9780815611301
£24.48When Winslow Homer sailed to England in March of 1881, he was already well established as a leading member of his generation of American artists. Critics often referred to him as the "most American of American artists", combining praise with the... -
Bas Jan Ader: In Search of the Miraculous: Discovery File 143/76 by Bas Jan Ader 9781927354100
RRP: £35.00£34.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781927354100Author Bas Jan AderFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Projectile Publishing SocietyPublisher Projectile Publishing SocietyWeight(grams)...