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Pharrell-isms by Pharrell Williams
RRP: £12.99£11.32An essential, inspiring collection of quotations about creativity, social justice, and more from musician, producer, artist, and designer Pharrell WilliamsRising to global fame with his hit single "Happy," Pharrell Williams has influenced every corner of... -
Mirror of the Marvelous: The Surrealist Reimagining of Myth by Pierre Mabille 9781620557334
RRP: £16.99£11.08A surrealist exploration of the marvelous in ancient, classic, and modern works from around the world * Reveals the "marvelous" in works from William Blake, Edgar Allen Poe, William Shakespeare, Chretien de Troyes, and Arthur Rimbaud; legends and... -
Probing Arts and Emergent Forms of Life by Michael M. J. Fischer
RRP: £21.99£19.19In Probing Arts and Emergent Forms of Life Michael M. J. Fischer calls for a new anthropology of the arts that attends to the materialities and technologies of the world as it exists today. Fischer examines the work of key Southeast and East Asian... -
Edward Burne-Jones by Penelope Fitzgerald 9780007588220
RRP: £12.99£9.70Penelope Fitzgerald, the Booker Prize-winning author of 'Offshore' and 'The Blue Flower', turns her attention to the remarkable life of the Pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones. 'I mean by a picture a beautiful, romantic dream of something... -
Cartier: Creative Writing Francois Chaille 9782080136831
RRP: £30.00£20.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782080136831Author Francois ChailleFormat HardbackPage Count 168Imprint FlammarionPublisher Editions FlammarionWeight(grams) 1380g -
Arts and Crafts Pioneers: The Hobby Horse Men and their Century Guild by Stuart Evans
RRP: £40.00£30.34Surveying for the first time the Century Guild of Artists and its influential periodical, the Century Guild Hobby Horse, this original publication asserts the significance of the Guild in the development of the Arts and Crafts movement and its... -
Keith Grant by Judith LeGrove 9781848226272
RRP: £45.00£34.00Having travelled extensively throughout his life, Grant has drawn inspiration from landscapes from Antarctica to the tropics, While attracted to northerly territories (he has lived in Norway since 1996), the subject matter of Grant's bold images varies... -
Don McCullin: Journeys across Roman Asia Minor by Don McCullin 9780995756670
£101.89'Photography for me is not looking, it's feeling. If you can't feel what you're looking at, then you're never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures' - Don McCullin Journeys Across Roman Asia Minor is driven by an eye... -
Fifth Quarter: Derek Jarman, Keith Collins & Dungeness by Alexander Tucker
RRP: £33.00£20.60Fifth Quarter: Derek Jarman, Keith Collins & Dungeness brings together collaborators, friends, contemporary artists, writers, musicians, and curators to respond to the influence and legacy of Jarman and his late partner Collins. Drawing inspiration... -
Preaching, Building, and Burying: Friars in the Medieval City by Caroline Bruzelius
RRP: £47.50£40.64Friars transformed the relationship of the church to laymen by taking religion outside to public and domestic spaces. Mendicant commitment to apostolic poverty bound friars to donors in an exchange of donations in return for intercessory prayers and... -
Renaissance And Renascences In Western Art by Erwin Panofsky 9780064300261
RRP: £52.99£51.48Renaissance and Renascences in Western Art spans the period from the 10th to the 15th century, including discussion of the Carolingian renaissance and the 12th century proto-renaissance. Erwin Panofsky posits that there were "reanscences" prior to the... -
William Morris: Master of Modern Design PIE Books 9784756243362
RRP: £29.99£19.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784756243362Author PIE BooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint PIE BooksPublisher PIE Books -
Surrealist Women: An International Anthology by Penelope Rosemont
RRP: £35.00£31.74Beginning in Paris in the 1920s, women poets, essayists, painters, and artists in other media have actively collaborated in defining and refining surrealism's basic project-achieving a higher, open, and dynamic consciousness, from which no aspect of the... -
The Life and Art of Albrecht Durer by Erwin Panofsky 9780691122762
RRP: £50.00£39.52This classic text presents the life, times, and works of Albrecht Durer. Through the skill and immense knowledge of Erwin Panofsky, the reader is dazzled not only by Durer the artist but also Durer in a wide array of other roles, including mathematician... -
Look Again: Strangers Ismail Einashe 9781849768092
RRP: £10.00£7.12Embarking on dangerous journeys to flee violence and persecution, migrants and refugees arrive on the shores of Britain to seek help and hope. And yet, they become scapegoats, vilified by anti-immigrant rhetoric. Examining the work of artists like Tania... -
Yellow: The History of a Color by Michel Pastoureau 9780691198255
RRP: £35.00£26.88From the acclaimed author of Blue, a beautifully illustrated history of yellow from antiquity to the presentIn this richly illustrated book, Michel Pastoureau-a renowned authority on the history of color and the author of celebrated volumes on blue,... -
Global Objects: Toward a Connected Art History by Edward S. Cooke, Jr.
RRP: £30.00£23.69A bold reorientation of art history that bridges the divide between fine art and material culture through an examination of objects and their usesArt history is often viewed through cultural or national lenses that define some works as fine art while... -
Viking and Slavic Ornamental Designs by Igor Dominik Gorewicz 9781945430794
RRP: £19.00£11.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945430794Author Igor Dominik GorewiczFormat PaperbackPage Count 123Imprint Triglav PublishingPublisher Triglav PublishingWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm)... -
Becoming Leonardo by Mike Lankford
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612197159Author Mike LankfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing -
A Catalogue of the Pictures and Drawings at Wilton House by Francis Russell
£80.04The collection of pictures at Wilton has been celebrated since the seventeenth century; and its historic arrangement is uniquely well documented in a series of catalogues of which the first, issued in 1731, was the earliest such publication about any... -
Radical Art and the Formation of the Avant-Garde by David Cottington
RRP: £35.00£29.57An authoritative re-definition of the social, cultural and visual history of the emergence of the "avant-garde" in Paris and London Over the past fifty years, the term "avant-garde" has come to shape discussions of European culture and modernity,... -
The East India Company at Home, 1757-1857 by Margot Finn 9781787350281
RRP: £50.00£44.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787350281Author Margot FinnFormat HardbackPage Count 538Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 1180g -
Return to the Postcolony - Specters of Colonialism in Contemporary Art by T. J. Demos
£18.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783943365429Author T. J. DemosFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Sternberg PressPublisher Sternberg PressWeight(grams) 323gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 141mm *... -
Rembrandt. The Painter at Work Ernst van de Wetering 9789089640338
RRP: £62.95£61.49Rembrandt's paintings have been admired throughout centuries because of their artistic freedom. But Rembrandt was also a craftsman whose painting technique was rooted the tradition. This sweeping examination of Rembrandt's oeuvre is the result of a... -
Johann Christoph Volkamer. Citrus Fruits by Iris Lauterbach
RRP: £125.00£111.85Have you ever thought of citrus fruits as celestial bodies, angelically suspended in the sky? Perhaps not, but J. C. Volkamer (1644-1720) did-commissioning an extravagant and breathtaking series of large-sized copperplates representing citrons, lemons,... -
The Story of Looking by Mark Cousins 9781782119111
RRP: £25.00£18.43SHORTLISTED FOR THE SALTIRE SOCIETY NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDLooking can be an act of empathy or aggression. It can provoke desire or express it. And from the blurry, edgeless world we inhabit as infants to the landscape of screens we grow into,... -
Malcolm Root's Pageant of Transport by Malcolm Root 9781841145365
RRP: £19.99£17.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781841145365Author Malcolm RootFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint HalsgrovePublisher HalsgroveDimensions(mm) 258mm * 238mm * 19mm -
930 Matchbook Advertising Cuts of the Twenties and Thirties by Trina Robbins 9780486295640
RRP: £7.99£7.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486295640Author Trina RobbinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc. -
An Intimate Distance: Women, Artists and the Body by Rosemary Betterton 9780415110853
RRP: £36.99£32.53An Intimate Distance considers a wide range of visual images of women in the context of current debates which centre around the body, including reproductive science, questions of ageing and death and the concept of 'body horror' in relation to food,... -
London: Prints & Drawings before 1800 Bernard Nurse 9781851244126
RRP: £30.00£25.85By the end of the eighteenth century London was the second largest city in the world, its relentless growth fuelled by Britain's expanding empire. Before the age of photography, the most widely used means of creating a visual record of the changing... -
China Rediscovered: The Benaki Museum Collection of Chinese Ceramics by George Manginis
RRP: £25.00£17.71This richly illustrated book showcases a previously unseen and virtually unknown historical collection of Chinese ceramics, formed in the early twentieth century by George Eumorfopoulos, a pivotal figure in the appreciate of Asian art. Taken together,... -
Rebecca Louise Law: Life in Death by Rebecca Louise Law 9781842466469
RRP: £40.00£28.39Life in Death is the most comprehensive collection to date of work by artist Rebecca Louise Law. The book documents the evolution of Law's unique artistic practice, the use of flowers as preserved sculptural material. A journey through the earliest... -
Aesthetics: Volume 1 by G. W. F. Hegel 9780198238164
RRP: £54.00£42.63In his Aesthetics Hegel gives full expression to his seminal theory of art. He surveys the history of art from ancient India, Egypt, and Greece through to the Romantic movement of his own time, criticizes major works, and probes their meaning and... -
Max Bill: No Beginning, No End by Friederke Fast
RRP: £40.00£27.15Swiss artist, architect, designer, typographer, and theorist Max Bill (1908-94) was one of the most important exponents of concrete and constructive art and a key figure in the history of 20th-century European applied arts and design. Educated by such... -
Pop Art by Bradford R. Collins
RRP: £17.95£14.00This new title in the renowned Art & Ideas series is a thorough introduction to, and significant appraisal of, the art of Pop. Bradford Collins explains the essence of Pop art and examines its full history in contemporary cultural and political context -... -
One and Other by Antony Gormley 9780224090780
RRP: £35.00£26.69Over a period of 100 days from July to October 2009, 2,400 people stood on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square for one hour. They were free to do as they chose during this period in the spotlight. Nobody could predict what would happen or the scale of... -
Dorothy Morland: Making ICA History Anne Massey 9781789621280
RRP: £49.99£44.74This is the first full-length biography of Dorothy Morland (1906-99), to date the only female director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London. Based on unpublished letters and other archival sources, as well as interviews and personal... -
Medieval Obscenities Nicola F McDonald 9781903153505
RRP: £25.00£23.94Obscenity is central to an understanding of medieval culture, and it is here examined in a number of different media. Obscenity is, if nothing else, controversial. Its definition, consumption and regulation fire debate about the very meaning of art... -
Burst!: Abstract Painting After 1945 Mary Gabriel 9788284620053
RRP: £27.50£18.89Burst! Abstract Painting After 1945 looks at the close, but previously unexplored relationship between Abstract Expressionism and Art Informel. Through texts and close to 100 illustrations, the book describes a vital creative exchange across the Atlantic... -
The Writings of Austin Osman Spare: Anathema of Zos, the Book of Pleasure, and the Focus of Life by Austin Osman Spare 9781617430312
RRP: £10.99£8.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781617430312Author Austin Osman SpareFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Greenbook Publications, LLCPublisher Greenbook Publications, LLCWeight(grams)...