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A Little History of Art by Charlotte Mullins
RRP: £16.99£15.01A thrilling journey through 100,000 years of art, from the first artworks ever made to art's central role in culture today "This lively volume is ideal for the precocious high-schooler, the lazy collegian . . . and any adult who wishes for greater... -
Unravelled: Contemporary Knit Art by Charlotte Vannier
RRP: £29.95£20.98Knitting and crochet have long been considered forms of folk art, but in the 21st century, these time-honoured crafts are breaking away from the outdated stereotype of cosy domesticity. Whether miniature or oversized, multi-coloured or monochrome,... -
Abstract Art: A Global History by Pepe Karmel
RRP: £65.00£44.05Taking a radically new approach to the history of abstract painting, Pepe Karmel applies a scholarly yet fresh vision to reconsider the history of abstraction from a global perspective and to demonstrate that abstraction is embedded in the real world... -
The Book of Durrow by Trinity College Library, Dublin
RRP: £14.95£9.78The Book of Durrow is among the earliest surviving decorated manuscripts in north-western Europe, dating to the late seventh century AD. A masterpiece of Celtic art, it is believed to be the oldest fully decorated Insular Gospel that survives, pre-dating... -
Vinyl . Album . Cover . Art: The Complete Hipgnosis Catalogue by Aubrey Powell
RRP: £30.00£21.00The complete, definitive and never-before-published catalogue of Hipgnosis, Vinyl * Album * Cover * Art finally does justice to the work of the most important design collective in music history, which, according to Roddy Bogawa, director of the... -
Treasury of Flower Designs for Artists, Embroiderers and Craftsmen by Susan Gaber 9780486240961
RRP: £7.49£4.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486240961Author Susan GaberFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 205gDimensions(mm)... -
Degas by Bernd Growe
RRP: £15.00£11.36Most commonly associated with the birth of the Impressionist movement in mid-19th-century Paris, Edgar Degas (1834-1917) in fact defied easy categorization and instead developed a unique style, strongly influenced by Old Masters, the body in motion, and... -
Why Surrealism Matters by Mark Polizzotti 9780300257090
RRP: £16.99£14.61An elegant consideration of the Surrealist movement as a global phenomenon and why it continues to resonate "Mr. Polizzotti carefully balances the movement's aspirations and attainments against its flaws and contradictions, hoping to recuperate... -
Klimt by Gilles Neret
RRP: £15.00£11.96The unfading popularity of Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) attests not only to the particular appeal of his luxuriant painting but also to the universal themes with which he worked: love, feminine beauty, aging, and death. The son of a goldsmith, Klimt created... -
Hawkeye Omnibus Vol. 2 by Matt Fraction 9781804910108
RRP: £18.99£13.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804910108Author Matt FractionFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Panini BooksPublisher Panini Publishing Ltd -
Helene Schjerfbeck by Anna-Maria von Bonsdorff
RRP: £30.00£20.40Though little known outside her native country, Helene Schjerfbeck (1862-1946) is one of Finland's best-loved artists. Her career, which stretched from the late 1870s to the end of the Second World War, encompassed both Impressionism and Modernism. This... -
Eric Ravilious Scrapbooks by Peyton Skipwith 9781848222595
RRP: £45.00£35.60To the interested observer the collected volumes of artist-designer Eric Ravilious's preparatory works and materials provide a veritable mine of information about his work and working methods, particularly regarding the masterful development of his... -
This Hollow Land: Aspects of Norfolk Folklore by Peter Tolhurst
RRP: £22.00£15.62First published in 2018 This Hollow Land was reprinted in 2021 due to popular demand. A third edition will be available shortly - please check website regularly for updates. For many the folklore of Norfolk consists of little more than the Swaffham... -
Unspeakable Acts: Women, Art, and Sexual Violence in the 1970s by Nancy Princenthal
RRP: £25.00£16.78The 1970s was a time of deep division and newfound freedoms. Galvanized by The Second Sex and The Feminine Mystique, the civil rights movement and the March on Washington, a new generation put their bodies on the line to protest injustice. Still, even in... -
The Shape of Time: Remarks on the History of Things by George Kubler
RRP: £16.99£15.01When it was first released in 1962, The Shape of Time presented a radically new approach to the study of art history. Drawing upon new insights in fields such as anthropology and linguistics, George Kubler replaced the notion of style as the basis for... -
The Art Book by Phaidon Editors
RRP: £29.95£23.94The latest, thoroughly revised edition of Phaidon's award-winning and globally-bestselling art survey, featuring works from more than 600 of the world's greatest artistsThe Art Book is beloved throughout the world and has been translated into 20... -
Kiki Man Ray: Art, Love and Rivalry in 1920s Paris by Mark Braude
RRP: £10.99£7.40'Exuberantly entertaining' NYT Book Review'Mark Braude's writing and subject make this book irresistible, as was Kiki herself.' Jim Jarmusch'A delightful, marvelously readable, meticulously-researched romp of a book, Kiki Man Ray brings to life not just... -
In the Eye of the Storm: Modernism in Ukraine, 1900-1930s by Konstantin Akinsha
RRP: £40.00£27.75A major study of Ukrainian art from 1900 to the mid-1930s - with loans from major museums in Ukraine, elsewhere in Europe, the United States (including MoMA) and Israel. How does artistic life flourish during revolution and conflict? Ukraine in the... -
Sister Wendy's 100 Best-loved Paintings by Wendy Beckett
RRP: £26.99£19.94'Sister Wendy's deep and insightful commentaries are utterly unique. You will want this splendid book for yourself but also to give to others.' Delia Smith Hailed by The New York Times in 1997 as 'the most unlikely and famous art critic in the history... -
The Vanishing Man: In Pursuit of Velazquez by Laura Cumming
RRP: £12.99£9.09WINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK BIOGRAPHY PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONSelected as a Book of the Year in the Herald In 1845, a Reading bookseller named John Snare came across the... -
The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects by John Berger
RRP: £9.99£7.11In a dazzling fusion of Quentin Fiore's bold and inventive graphic design and Marshall McLuhan's unique insight into technology, advertising and mass-media, The Medium is the Massage is a unique study of human communication in the twentieth century,... -
Image on the Edge: The Margins of Medieval Art by Michael Camille 9781789140064
RRP: £16.95£16.11What do they all mean - the lascivious ape, autophagic dragons, pot-bellied heads, harp-playing asses, arse-kissing priests and somersaulting jongleurs to be found protruding from the edges of medieval buildings and in the margins of illuminated... -
Crisis of Brilliance: Five Young British Artists and the Great War by David Boyd Haycock 9781906964320
RRP: £9.99£7.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906964320Author David HaycockFormat PaperbackImprint Old Street PublishingPublisher Old Street Publishing -
From Invention to Perfection: Masterpieces of Eighteenth Century Decorative Art by Sarah-Katharina Andres-Acevedo
RRP: £85.00£56.45One hundred masterpieces of European art and arts and crafts of the eighteenth century form a panorama of innovation, design and expert realisation. In their sumptuous design, the porcelain, furniture, bronzes and silver objects are all miracles of the... -
Ancient British Rock Art: A Guide to Indigenous Stone Carvings by Chris Mansell 9781904263562
RRP: £6.95£4.69Britain hides a remarkable native artistic tradition - mysterious rock carvings which date far back into the misty age of stone circles. In some parts of Scotland you can dig up the turf almost anywhere to find the ancient rocks beneath carpeted in these... -
Art Nouveau Masterpieces of Art by Flame Tree Studio
RRP: £12.99£9.08Founded in the 1880s as a response to the art world's elitist obsession with painted and sculptural arts, 'New Art' quickly found ethusiastic support. Art Nouveau combined a desire for the complete reflection of art through craft and design, with the... -
Encounters with Artists by Richard Cork 9780500025109
RRP: £25.00£16.78Leading art critic and writer Richard Cork tells the stories of his personal encounters with some of the world's most influential modern and contemporary artists. Richard Cork draws on his impeccable skills as a critic and writer to tell the story of... -
Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts by Christopher de Hamel
RRP: £14.99£10.95WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE AND THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION'Endlessly fascinating and enjoyable' Neil MacGregor'A marvellous book' David Attenborough'Full of delights' Tom StoppardAn extraordinary exploration of the medieval world - the... -
Vision and Difference: Feminism, Femininity and Histories of Art by Griselda Pollock
RRP: £16.99£15.22Griselda Pollock provides concrete historical analyses of key moments in the formation of modern culture to reveal the sexual politics at the heart of modernist art. Crucially, she not only explores a feminist re-reading of the works of canonical male... -
Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming by Anthony Dunne
RRP: £34.00£22.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262019842Author Anthony DunneFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 758gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 19mm -
The King's Painter: The Life and Times of Hans Holbein by Franny Moyle
RRP: £12.00£8.44A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 'A great, thrusting codpiece of a book. It is big, bombastic and richly brocaded... A jewel in its own right' The Times 'Evokes the painter and his world as vividly as a Holbein masterpiece. Beautifully written and... -
Michelangelo: His Epic Life by Martin Gayford
£32.54'An absorbing book, beautifully told and with the writer fully in command of a huge body of research' Philip Hensher, Mail on Sunday There was an epic sweep to Michelangelo's life. At 31 he was considered the finest artist in Italy, perhaps the world;... -
Colour Revolution: Victorian Art, Fashion & Design by Charlotte Ribeyrol 9781910807576
RRP: £25.00£22.38Contrary to the monochrome vision of Queen Victoria's mourning dresses and the coal-polluted streets of Charles Dickens' London, Victorian Britain was, in fact, a period of new and vivid colours. The Industrial Revolution had transformed the Victorians'... -
A Queer Little History of Art by Alex Pilcher
RRP: £15.00£10.96A celebration of over 100 years of queer creativity, featuring 70 outstanding works of drawing, painting, photography, sculpture and installation. Over the last century, many artists have made works that challenge dominant models of gender and... -
Art History for Everyone: Learn About Art in a Fun, Easy, No-Nonsense Way by Kristine T G Hardeberg 9781636801636
RRP: £23.99£18.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781636801636Author Kristine T G HardebergFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Ethos CollectivePublisher Ethos CollectiveWeight(grams) 327gDimensions(mm)... -
The Black Experience in Design by Anne H. Berry
RRP: £14.99£9.76The Black Experience in Design spotlights teaching practices, research, stories, and conversations from a Black/African diasporic lens. Excluded from traditional design history and educational canons that heavily favor European modernist influences, the... -
Art & Visual Culture 1850-2010: Modernity to Globalization by Steve Edwards
RRP: £19.99£14.09This is the third of three text books, published in association with the Open University, which offer an innovatory exploration of art and visual culture. Through carefully chosen themes and topics rather than through a general survey, the volumes... -
The Lindisfarne Gospels: Spirituality, Art and Identity - The British Library Guide by Eleanor Jackson 9780712354813
RRP: £12.99£8.60The Lindisfarne Gospels is an extraordinary book and one of the British Library's greatest treasures. It was hand-written and decorated over 1,300 years ago by a single supremely gifted scribe-artist. It inspires awe both as a pinnacle of book design and... -
Nineteenth-Century Art: A Critical History by Stephen F Eisenman
RRP: £40.00£38.47Written by a group of highly respected art historians, the fifth edition of this classic book now features full-colour artworks throughout, new chapter introductions, examinations of key ideas, and other helpful pedagogical support. Emphasizing the... -
Pedagogical Sketchbook: Introduction by Sibyl Moholy-Nagy by Paul Klee
RRP: £12.99£8.56'One of the most famous of modern art documents - a poetic primer, prepared by the artist for his Bauhaus pupils, which has deeply affected modern thinking about art . . . This little handbook leads us into the mysterious world where science and...