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Rembrandt Seen Through Jewish Eyes: The Artist's Meaning to Jews from His Time to Ours Mirjam Knotter 9789463728188
RRP: £37.95£36.64The earliest painting by Rembrandt whose owner is documented depicts the prophet Balaam, on his way to blessing Israel. The man who bought it was a Sephardi Jew in the service of Cardinal Richelieu of France. The first known buyer of an etching plate by... -
The Education of the Eye: Painting, Landscape, and Architecture in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Peter De Bolla
RRP: £24.99£21.67The Education of the Eye examines the origins of visual culture in eighteenth-century Britain. It claims that at the moment when works of visual art were first displayed and contemplated as aesthetic objects two competing descriptions of the viewer or... -
Banksy: Completed by Carol Diehl
RRP: £34.00£22.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262046244Author Carol DiehlFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Leonardo's Salvator Mundi and the Collecting of Leonardo in the Stuart Courts by Martin Kemp
RRP: £46.99£35.62The Salvator Mundi is the first Leonardo painting to be discovered for over a century. Following its re-emergence, it played a leading role in the landmark Leonardo exhibition at the National Gallery in London in 2011, after which it was purchased by a... -
Precarious Objects: Activism and Design in Italy by Ilaria Vanni 9781526135537
RRP: £85.00£74.51Precarious objects explores the traffic between design and activism by telling stories drawn from contemporary counter-precarity cases in Italy. As a category of labour and of global social experience in general, precarity is a wicked problem that... -
Monuments and Myths: The America of Sculptors Augustus Saint-Gaudends and Daniel Chester French Andrew Eschelbacher 9783777440972
RRP: £42.00£27.39Monuments and Myths is the first publication to examine the intersecting careers of Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Daniel Chester French, the leading American sculptors of the Gilded Age. With rich new thinking and stunning photographs, the catalogue... -
Collecting the New: Museums and Contemporary Art by Bruce Altshuler
RRP: £28.00£21.80Collecting the New is the first book on the questions and challenges that museums face in acquiring and preserving contemporary art. Because such art has not yet withstood the test of time, it defies the traditional understanding of the art museum as an... -
Making the Modern Artist: Culture, Class and Art-Educational Opportunity in Romantic Britain Martin Myrone 9781913107154
RRP: £45.00£37.63Exploring the myths and realities of the origins of the "modern artist" in Britain The artist has been a privileged figure in the modern age, embodying ideals of personal and political freedom and self-fulfillment. Does it matter who gets to be an... -
American Art Deco: Modernistic Architecture and Regionalism by Carla Breeze 9780393019704
RRP: £47.99£41.62Art deco architecture flourished in large cities and small towns throughout America in the 1920s and 1930s. Many of the best examples office buildings, movie theaters, hotels, and churches are still in use. Deco architects, artists, and designers drew on... -
The Cradle of Humanity: Prehistoric Art and Culture by Georges Bataille
RRP: £22.00£16.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781890951566Author Georges BatailleFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 15mm -
Radical Women: Jessica Dismorr and her Contemporaries: 2019 by Alicia Foster 9781848223707
RRP: £49.99£38.65Radical Women tells an original story of British modernism from the perspective of Jessica Dismorr's career, along with the women artists - some famous, some lesserknown - she worked and exhibited with. The work of Jessica Dismorr (1885-1939) work has... -
Georgia O'Keeffe: Living Modern by Wanda M. Corn 9783791356013
RRP: £50.00£37.62Richly illustrated with images of her art and views of the two homes she designed and furnished in New Mexico, the book also includes never before published photographs of O'Keeffe's clothes. The author has attributed some of the most exquisite of these... -
Treasures of India: From Antiquity to Modernity by DK India 9780241608067
RRP: £30.00£21.95An exquisite collection of artefacts, sculptures, and historically significant treasures from across India. If the captivating bronze dancing girl of Harappa denoted sophisticated early civilisation, the stunning Sanchi Stupa symbolized the peak of... -
The Return of the Real: Art and Theory at the End of the Century by Hal Foster
£37.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262561075Author Hal FosterFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 635gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 14mm -
John Carr of York: Collected Essays by Ivan Hall 9781399959155
RRP: £50.00£42.45John Carr of York (1723 - 1807) was one of the most prolific and significant architects of the eighteenth century, with an output of over 400 designs, most of which were executed. His designs vary from simple gateways through to the grandest schemes,... -
The Situationists and the City: A Reader by Tom McDonough 9781844673643
£19.97The Situationist International (SI), led by the revolutionary Guy Debord, were active throughout the 1950s and 60s. They published the journal Internationale Situationniste that included many incendiary texts on politics and art, and were a galvanizing... -
World Art Studies: Exploring Concepts and Approaches by Kitty Zijlmans 9789078088226
RRP: £28.00£25.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789078088226Author Kitty ZijlmansFormat PaperbackPage Count 462Imprint ValizPublisher ValizWeight(grams) 862gDimensions(mm) 240mm * 170mm * 28mm -
The Vision of the Fool: and Other Writings by Cecil Collins 9780903880756
RRP: £25.00£21.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780903880756Author Cecil CollinsFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Golgonooza PressPublisher Golgonooza Press -
Inscriptions of the Medieval Islamic World by Bernard O'Kane
RRP: £125.00£113.30Showcases the best recent research on epigraphy across the medieval Islamic world Explores Islamic epigraphy from a wide range of perspectives and geographical areas, from the Maghreb to India and Central Asia and beyond Covers the period from the... -
Western Art and the Wider World by Paul J. Wood
RRP: £27.95£25.47Western Art and the Wider World explores the evolving relationship between the Western canon of art, as it has developed since the Renaissance, and the art and culture of the Islamic world, the Far East, Australasia, Africa and the Americas. Explores... -
The Surviving Image: Phantoms of Time and Time of Phantoms: Aby Warburg's History of Art by Georges Didi-Huberman 9780271072098
RRP: £34.95£31.59The Surviving Image, originally published in French in 2002, is the result of Georges Didi-Huberman's extensive research into the life and work of foundational art historian Aby Warburg. Warburg envisioned an art history that engaged with anthropology,... -
Glassworking in England from the 14th to the 20th Century David Dungworth 9781848022850
£77.61Glass plays an essential role in our lives and has done for centuries. Glass has not always been so ubiquitous and this book charts the development of the English glass industry from the medieval period to recent times. Medieval glass was a scarce,... -
Learning to Look at Sculpture by Mary Acton 9780415577380
RRP: £27.99£24.28Learning to Look at Sculpture is an accessible guide to the study and understanding of three dimensional art. Sculpture is all around us: in public parks, squares, gardens and railway stations, as part of the architecture of buildings, or when used in... -
Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933-1957 by Helen Molesworth 9780300211917
RRP: £65.00£56.15A dynamic new look at the legendary college that was a major incubator of the arts in midcentury America In 1933, John Rice founded Black Mountain College in North Carolina as an experiment in making artistic experience central to learning. Though it... -
Rome: An Urban History from Antiquity to the Present by Rabun Taylor 9781107601499
RRP: £34.99£28.78Spanning the entire history of the city of Rome from Iron Age village to modern metropolis, this is the first book to take the long view of the Eternal City as an urban organism. Three thousand years old and counting, Rome has thrived almost from the... -
Gainsborough in London Susan Sloman 9780956800787
RRP: £35.00£29.57A fuller, richer picture of an artist at the height of his powers Thomas Gainsborough's (1727-88) London years, from 1774 to 1788, were the pinnacle and conclusion of his career. They coincided with the establishment of the Royal Academy, of which... -
Herculaneum - Italy's Buried Treasure by Joseph Jay Deiss 9780892361649
RRP: £21.99£18.55A vivid portrayal of life in Pompeii's sister city, this book includes a detailed description of the ancient Villa dei Papiri, on which the present Getty Museum in Malibu is modeled.Book InformationISBN 9780892361649Author . DeissFormat PaperbackPage... -
Apocalypse Illuminated: The Visual Exegesis of Revelation in Medieval Illustrated Manuscripts by Richard K. Emmerson
RRP: £62.95£56.85With its rich symbolism, complex narrative, and stunning imagery, the Apocalypse, or Revelation of John, is arguably the most memorable book in the Christian Bible. In Apocalypse Illuminated, Richard Emmerson explores how this striking visionary text is... -
Stories of Art by James Elkins 9780415939430
RRP: £36.99£32.53Stories of Art is James Elkins's intimate history of art. Concise and original, this engaging book is an antidote to the behemoth art history textbooks from which we were all taught. As he demonstrates so persuasively, there can never be one story of art... -
Women Artists in Paris, 1850-1900 by Laurence Madeline
RRP: £65.00£55.35A celebration of the work and lives of women artists who shaped the art world of 19th-century Paris In the second half of the 19th century, Paris attracted an international gathering of women artists, drawn to the French capital by its academies and... -
The Medici Conspiracy: The Illicit Journey of Looted Antiquities-- From Italy's Tomb Raiders to the World's Greatest Museums by Peter Watson
RRP: £18.99£14.52The story begins, as stories do in all good thrillers, with a botched robbery and a police chase. Eight Apuleian vases of the fourth century B.C. are discovered in the swimming pool of a German-based art smuggler. More valuable than the recovery of the... -
Medieval Modern: Art Out of Time by Alexander Nagel
RRP: £29.95£20.38This groundbreaking study explores the deep connections between modern and premodern art, offering a radical reading that reveals the underlying patterns and ideas traversing centuries of artistic practice. Nagel reconsiders from an innovative double... -
Guernica: Painting the End of the World by James Attlee
RRP: £12.99£9.09A brilliant, concise account of the painting often described as the most important work of art produced in the twentieth century, as part of the stunning Landmark Library series. Pablo Picasso had already accepted a commission to create a work for the... -
Living with Shakespeare: Saint Helen's Parish, 1593-1598 by Geoffrey Marsh
RRP: £30.00£26.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474479721Author Geoffrey MarshFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press -
Time and Place: Notes on the art of calendars by Alexandra Harris 9781908213808
RRP: £12.00£8.44Dates are invented things. Nothing in nature decrees that today is today. But for millennia humans have divided time into portions, and given those portions names which are shared widely across cultures, creating a common agreement on the date. This... -
Bellotto and Canaletto: Wonder and Light Bosena Anna Kowalczyk 9788836635566
RRP: £29.95£20.69This book reveals the extraordinary artistic relationship between Canaletto (Venice 1697-1768) and Bernardo Bellotto (Venice 1722-Warsaw 1780). This book reveals the extraordinary artistic relationship between Canaletto (Venice 1697-1768) and Bernardo... -
A New Way of Seeing: The History of Art in 57 Works by Kelly Grovier 9780500239636
£36.26What makes great art great? Why do some works pulse in the imagination generation after generation, century after century? From Botticelli's Birth of Venus to Picasso's Guernica, some paintings and sculptures have become so famous, so much a part of who... -
Helen Saunders: Modernist Rebel: Modernist Rebel by Rachel Sloan
RRP: £17.50£12.62This welcome catalogue accompanies The Courtauld's display of the work of Helen Saunders (1885-1963), the first monographic exhibition devoted to the artist in over 25 years. After years of obscurity, Helen Saunders: Modernist Rebel reconsiders her work... -
Philosophers on Art from Kant to the Postmodernists: A Critical Reader by Christopher Kul-Want
RRP: £30.00£23.29Here, for the first time, Christopher Kul-Want brings together twenty-five texts on art written by twenty philosophers. Covering the Enlightenment to postmodernism, these essays draw on Continental philosophy and aesthetics, the Marxist intellectual... -
Carpaccio in Venice: A Guide by Patricia Fortini Brown
RRP: £17.50£12.01Tour the city of Venice through the panoramic paintings of one of its most celebrated chroniclers The lagoon city of Venice was home to some of the greatest painters of the Italian Renaissance. Among them was Vittore Carpaccio (c. 1465-1525), whose...