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Japanese Design Motifs by Matsuya Piece-goods Store 9780486228747
RRP: £24.99£17.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486228747Author Matsuya CompanyFormat PaperbackPage Count 213Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
American Modern: Hopper to O'Keefe Kathy Curry 9780870708527
RRP: £30.00£20.40American Modern presents a fresh look at The Museum of Modern Art's holdings of American art made between 1915 and 1950, and considers the cultural preoccupations of a rapidly changing American society in the first half of the 20th century. Organized... -
William Blake by Martin Myrone 9780691198316
£47.04An authoritative look at William Blake's life and enduring relevance as a prophetic artist, poet, and printmakerWilliam Blake (1757-1827) created some of the most iconic images in the history of art. He was a countercultural prophet whose personal... -
Matisse: In Search of True Painting by Rebecca A. Rabinow 9780300188578
RRP: £40.00£35.19More than most artists, Henri Matisse conducted an ongoing dialogue with his earlier works, continually questioning himself and his methods in order to, as he put it, "push further and deeper into true painting". In a fresh approach to this giant of... -
Raphael and the Antique by Claudia La Malfa
RRP: £17.95£13.32The Renaissance artist Raphael is known for his extraordinary frescoes, his sublime Madonnas, devotional altarpieces, architectural designs, and his inventive prints and tapestries. It was his use of ancient Roman models - classical sculptures, reliefs... -
Hannah Höch: Assembled Worlds by Stella Rollig 9783039421725
RRP: £32.00£20.61Hannah Hoech (1889-1978) moved between differing worlds: as an editorial assistant with a major Berlin-based magazine publisher, and as the only woman who could hold her own in the German capital's vibrant Dada scene of the 1920s. Hoech broke with the... -
The Great Exhibition, 1851: A Sourcebook by Jonathon Shears
RRP: £19.99£17.82The Great Exhibition, 1851 is the first anthology of its kind. It presents a comprehensive array of carefully selected primary documents, sourced from the period before, during and after the Exhibition in Hyde Park in 1851. Drawing on contemporary... -
Modern Scottish Women: Painters and Sculptures 1885-1965 by Alice Strang 9781906270896
RRP: £19.99£19.22This revelatory book concentrates on Scottish women painters and sculptors from 1885, when Fra Newbery became Director of the Glasgow School of Art, until 1965, the year of Anne Redpath's death. It explores the experience and context of the artists and... -
Theory in Contemporary Art since 1985 Zoya Kocur (New York University, USA) 9781444338577
RRP: £47.95£42.78Updated and reorganized to offer the best collection of state-of-the-art readings on the role of critical theory in contemporary art, this second edition of Theory in Contemporary Art since 1985 brings together scholarly essays, artists' statements, and... -
Max Beckmann: The Formative Years, 1915-25 Olaf Peters 9783791379944
RRP: £45.00£32.21This generously illustrated and comprehensive book focuses on a decisive decade in Max Beckmann's career as one of the leading figurative painters of the twentieth century. This publication will provide insight into a critical period in the artist's... -
The Diver and The Lover: A novel of love and the unbreakable bond between sisters by Jeremy Vine
RRP: £8.99£2.91'The lives of the characters get entangled in this powerful read' WOMAN'S OWN'A pacy, gripping tale... written with skill and colour. It gave me enormous pleasure to read such a satisfying novel.' SANTA MONTEFIORE 'If you're in desperate need of a... -
Cruising the Dead River: David Wojnarowicz and New York's Ruined Waterfront by Fiona Anderson
RRP: £28.00£27.39In the 1970s, Manhattan's west side waterfront was a forgotten zone of abandoned warehouses and piers. Though many saw only blight, the derelict neighborhood was alive with queer people forging new intimacies through cruising. Alongside the piers' sexual... -
Rubens: Painter of Sketches by Friso Lammertse 9788484804710
RRP: £34.00£21.82Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) is the most important painter of sketches in the history of European art. His Italian and Flemish predecessors had for the most part prepared their paintings by using drawings. Rubens transformed this process by... -
Vitruvius: 'Ten Books on Architecture' by Vitruvius 9780521002929
RRP: £30.99£24.88The only full treatise on architecture and its related arts to survive from classical antiquity, the De Architectura libri decem (Ten Books on Architecture) is the single most important work of architectural history in the Western world, having shaped... -
The Culture of Fashion: A New History of Fashionable Dress Christopher Breward 9780719041259
RRP: £19.99£14.92This illustrated survey of 600 years of fashion investigates its cultural and social meanings from medieval Europe to 20th-century America. It provides a guide to the changes in style and taste, and challenges existing fashion histories, showing that... -
Above the Battlefield: Modernism and the Peace Movement in Britain, 1900-1918 by Grace Brockington 9780300151954
RRP: £35.00£30.57The early twentieth century is usually remembered as an era of rising nationalism and military hostility, culminating in the disaster of the First World War. Yet it was marked also by a vigorous campaign against war, a movement that called into question... -
Poster Child: The Psychedelic Art & Technicolor Life of David Edward Byrd by David Edward Byrd 9781949480405
RRP: £35.00£26.30A stunning retrospective on the art and stories behind one of rock 'n' roll's most influential cover artistsBeginning in the late 1960s, graphic artist David Edward Byrd pioneered the iconic visual styles that have come to define rock 'n' roll. Byrd... -
Who Was Pablo Picasso? by True Kelley
£4.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780448449876Author True KelleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 103Imprint Grosset & Dunlap Inc.,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 122g -
The Good Bohemian: The Letters of Ida John by Michael Holroyd
RRP: £14.99£10.95'It is right that, after more than one hundred years, she should have her say' John Carey, Sunday Times Twelve days before her twenty-fourth birthday, on the foggy morning of Saturday 12 January 1901, Ida Nettleship married Augustus John in a private... -
The Invention of Craft by Glenn Adamson
RRP: £90.00£83.60Glenn Adamson's last book, Thinking Through Craft, offered an influential account of craft's position within modern and contemporary art. Now, in his engaging sequel, The Invention of Craft, his theoretical discussion of skilled work is extended back in... -
Bulgari | Serpenti: The Power of Metamorphosis Alba Cappellieri 9788836649471
RRP: £35.00£22.43Metamorphosis is a central theme of contemporary creativity, investigated by artists, stylists, designers, philosophers and craftsmen who have crossed the exclusive fences of their respective disciplines in search of the changing inclusiveness of... -
Pop Art: A Critical History by Steven Henry Madoff
RRP: £35.00£28.14Pop Art: A Critical History chronicles one of the most controversial art movements of the century. The anthology draws from a great range of sources, from the leading art magazines and art historical journals to newspapers and news magazines such as the... -
The East India Company at Home, 1757-1857 by Margot Finn 9781787350298
RRP: £30.00£27.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787350298Author Margot FinnFormat PaperbackPage Count 538Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 1080g -
Verrocchio: Sculptor and Painter of Renaissance Florence by Andrew Butterfield 9780691233086
RRP: £70.00£54.30A comprehensive survey of the work of this most influential Florentine artist and teacherAndrea del Verrocchio (c. 1435-1488) was one of the most versatile and inventive artists of the Italian Renaissance. He created art across media, from his... -
Medieval Arms and Armour: A Sourcebook. Volume II: 1400-1450 Ralph Moffat (Contributor) 9781837651481
RRP: £60.00£57.15Authoritative reference guide, using the documents in which arms and armour first appeared to explain and define them. Medieval arms and armour are intrinsically fascinating. From the smoke and noise of the armourer's forge to the bloody violence of... -
Art of Renaissance Rome: Artists and Patrons in the Eternal City by John Marciari
£23.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781786270559Author John MarciariFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Laurence King PublishingPublisher Laurence King PublishingWeight(grams) 820g -
Picasso Ingres: Face to Face Christopher Riopelle 9781857096828
RRP: £14.95£13.01An exploration of the fascinating parallels and differences between Picasso's Woman with a Book and Ingres's Madame Moitessier This publication examines, in detail, two extraordinary interrelated works: Picasso's Woman with a Book (1932) and Ingres's... -
The Collector of Lives: Giorgio Vasari and the Invention of Art by Noah Charney 9780393356366
RRP: £14.99£13.03An accomplished painter, architect and diplomat, Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) is best known for Lives of the Artists, his classic account of the great masters-an extraordinary book that invented the genre of artistic biography, single-handedly established... -
This Young Monster by Charlie Fox
£14.38This Young Monster is a hallucinatory celebration of artists who raise hell, transform their bodies, anger their elders and show their audience dark, disturbing things. What does it mean to be a freak? Why might we be wise to think of the present as a... -
Egypt. People, Gods, Pharaohs by Rainer & Rose-Marie Hagen
RRP: £30.00£26.62How much do we really know about Ancient Egypt? The pharaohs and pyramids are familiar history fodder, but what about the farmers, the soldiers, the laborers, and the families that made up the vast majority of this much mythologized civilization? With a... -
Conversation Pieces: Community and Communication in Modern Art by Grant H. Kester 9780520275942
RRP: £30.00£23.29Some of the most innovative art of the past decade has been created far outside conventional galleries and museums. In a parking garage in Oakland, California; on a pleasure boat on the Lake of Zurich in Switzerland; at a public market in Chiang Mai,... -
Mannerism in Italian Museums by Alessandra Bigi Iotti
RRP: £55.00£38.71Alessandra Bigi Iotti and Giulio Zavatta are noted art historians, authors, and professors who have organised exhibitions, events, and conferences in Italy and abroad. In this book, they take the reader on a journey through art galleries, museums, and... -
The Holy Thorn Reliquary John Cherry 9780714128207
RRP: £6.00£4.40Made in gold and enamel and decorated with precious stones, the Holy Thorn Reliquary depicts the salvation of mankind through the sacrifice of Christ. It was commissioned around 1400-10 by Jean duc de Berry, a member of the French royal family, to house... -
Albert and the Whale: Albrecht Durer and How Art Imagines Our World by Philip Hoare
RRP: £16.95£10.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643139470Author Philip HoareFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm *... -
Digital Handmade: Craftsmanship in the New Industrial Revolution by Lucy Johnston
RRP: £22.50£16.96Speed, regulation and mass production defined the first Industrial Revolution, but we have entered a new era. Today's revolution has been driven by digital technologies and tools, giving rise to entirely new working methods, skill sets and consumer... -
Marxism and the History of Art: From William Morris to the New Left by Andrew Hemingway 9780745323299
£30.33This book is the first comprehensive introduction to Marxist approaches to art history. Although the aesthetic was a crucial part of Marx and Engels's thought, they left no full statement on the arts. Although there is an abundant scholarship on Marxist... -
The Ancient World-Wide System: Star Myths of the World, Volume One (Second Edition) by David Warner Mathisen 9780996059077
RRP: £27.00£24.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996059077Author David Warner MathisenFormat PaperbackPage Count 912Imprint Beowulf BooksPublisher Beowulf BooksWeight(grams) 152g -
International Departures: Art in India After Independence by Devika Singh 9781789147988
RRP: £30.00£29.09In this captivating and richly illustrated account, Devika Singh presents together for the first time the work of Indian and foreign artists active in India after independence in 1947. The book engages with the many creators, critics and patrons of the... -
Saving Mona Lisa: The Battle to Protect the Louvre and its Treasures from the Nazis Gerri Chanel 9781785785498
RRP: £10.99£7.32In August 1939, curators at the Louvre nestled the world's most famous painting into a special red velvet-lined case and spirited her away to the Loire Valley as part of the biggest museum evacuation in history. As the Germans neared Paris in 1940, the... -
Landscape into Eco Art: Articulations of Nature Since the '60s by Mark Cheetham
RRP: £34.95£31.59Dedicated to an articulation of the earth from broadly ecological perspectives, eco art is a vibrant subset of contemporary art that addresses the widespread public concern with rapid climate change and related environmental issues. In Landscape into Eco...