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Make It Modern: A History of Art in the 20th Century by Brandon Taylor
RRP: £35.00£29.57A fascinating journey through Western art from the 1910s to the 1960s, charting how artists wrestled with the headlong changes of a turbulent and conflict-ridden world From the chaos of the First World War to the ravages of the Second, from the Great... -
The Greatest Music Stories Never Told: 100 Tales from Music History to Astonish, Bewilder, and Stupefy by Rick Beyer 9780061626982
RRP: £12.99£8.48Rick Beyer plums the vast archives of the History Channel to deliver a treasure trove of obscure and fascinating stories to delight and entertain. "The Greatest Music Stories Never Told" continues the series tradition with short, fascinating tales... -
Concepts of Value in European Material Culture, 1500-1900 Bert De Munck 9781472451965
RRP: £135.00£117.68In contemporary society it would seem self-evident that people allow the market to determine the values of products and services. For everything from a loaf of bread to a work of art to a simple haircut, value is expressed in monetary terms and seen as... -
Introduction to Precious Metal Clay Mary Ann Devos 9780919985360
RRP: £24.99£17.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780919985360Author Mary Ann DevosFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Wardell PublicationsPublisher Wardell PublicationsWeight(grams) 405g -
Van Gogh and the Artists He Loved by Steven Naifeh
RRP: £33.00£22.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593356678Author Steven NaifehFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Carnivals and Dreams: Pieter Breugel and the History of the Imagination: Monochrome Edition by Louise S. Milne 9780955523083
£28.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955523083Author Louise S. MilneFormat PaperbackPage Count 650Imprint Mutus LiberPublisher Mutus LiberWeight(grams) 857g -
The Johnstone Twins: An Appreciation of Janet Johnstone (1928-1979) & Anne Grahame Johnstone (1928-1998) by Philip Kelleway 9781906690496
RRP: £29.99£24.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906690496Author Philip KellewayFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint HalstarPublisher Halsgrove -
William Turnbull: International Modern Artist by Jon Wood
RRP: £55.00£41.32William Turnbull (1922-2012) stands as one of Britain's foremost artists in the second half of the twentieth century. Both a sculptor and a painter, he explored the changing contemporary world and its ancient past, actively engaging with the shifting... -
Art of Renaissance Venice, 1400 1600 by Loren Partridge
RRP: £34.00£27.97Chronicling the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and journeying from the Piazza San Marco to the villas of the Veneto, this vivid and authoritative survey of architecture, sculpture, and painting offers a rich perspective on the history and artistic... -
Picturing War in France, 1792-1856 Katie Hornstein 9780300228267
RRP: £65.00£54.75From the walls of the Salon to the pages of weekly newspapers, war imagery was immensely popular in postrevolutionary France. This fascinating book studies representations of contemporary conflict in the first half of the 19th century and explores how... -
Pictures and Tears: A History of People Who Have Cried in Front of Paintings by James Elkins 9780415970532
RRP: £36.99£32.53Art Does art leave you cold? And is that what it's supposed to do? Or is a painting meant to move you to tears? Hemingway was reduced to tears in the midst of a drinking bout when a painting by James Thurber caught his eye. And what's bad about that?... -
Gesture and line: four post-war German and Austrian artists from the Duerckheim Collection Michael Semff 9780714126975
RRP: £25.00£16.78From the 1960s drawing assumed a prominent position in the practice of a rising generation of post-war artists in Germany and Austria. This publication examines works on paper by four artists still comparatively little known in the UK. While Georg... -
The Italian Paintings Before 1400 Dillian Gordon 9781857094824
RRP: £75.00£64.21The National Gallery in London houses one of the most important collections of early Italian paintings outside Italy, including works by Cimabue, Duccio, Giotto and the di Cione brothers. This completely updated catalogue of the collection is the first... -
Memory Art in the Contemporary World: Confronting Violence in the Global South by Andreas Huyssen
RRP: £29.99£22.37Memory Art in the Contemporary World deals with the ever-expanding field of transnational memory art, which has emerged from a political need to come to terms with traumatic historical pasts, from the Holocaust to apartheid, colonialism, state terror and... -
Remembering and Learning from Financial Crises by Youssef Cassis 9780198870906
£85.30The chapters in this book reflect on people's relationships with past financial crises - from public opinion to business leaders and policy makers. In connection with financial crises, Remembering and Learning from Financial Crises addresses three... -
Adrian Berg by Marco Livingstone
£63.27Exploring the full breadth of work by British artist Adrian Berg RA (1929-2011), and drawing heavily on the artist's personal archive, this book discusses Berg's meticulous engagement with the landscape which resulted in an impressive oeuvre created over... -
Morris by Charlotte & Peter Fiell
RRP: £15.00£14.31William Morris (1834-1896) was one of the greatest creative figures of the 19th century. As a visionary designer, as well as a manufacturer, writer, artist, and socialist activist, he pioneered the Arts and Crafts movement of the Victorian era, and left... -
Ships and Seascapes: Introduction to Maritime Prints, Drawings and Watercolours by David Cordingly 9780856674846
RRP: £75.00£56.93Maritime prints, drawings and watercolours a re discussed, and a historical survey of the development of marine art is given, by a former Head of Painting at the Nat ional Maritime Museum in Greenwich. 'Book InformationISBN 9780856674846Author David... -
Possession: The Curious History of Private Collectors from Antiquity to the Present by Erin Thompson
RRP: £27.50£22.89A riveting account of private art collectors' passion from Roman times to the present Whether it's the discovery of $1.6 billion in Nazi-looted art or the news that Syrian rebels are looting UNESCO archaeological sites to buy arms, art crime commands... -
Fifty Key Texts in Art History by Diana Newall
RRP: £27.99£24.28Fifty Key Texts in Art History is an anthology of critical commentaries selected from the classical period to the late modern. It explores some of the central and emerging themes, issues and debates within Art History as an increasingly expansive and... -
The Art of Walking: A History in 100 Images by William Chapman Sharpe
RRP: £25.00£20.92A lively and thought-provoking tour of the intertwined histories of art and walking "A broad-ranging book [that] has something for every rambler."-Benjamin Riley, New Criterion What does a walk look like? In the first book to trace the history of... -
The Early Life of James McBey: An Autobiography by James McBey
RRP: £10.00£6.71This book is an autobiographical account of the early years of James McBey, the self-taught boy from a humble north-east village who became one of Scotland's most successful and celebrated artists. Writing with charismatic frankness and realism, McBey... -
The Book of Looms: A History of the Handloom from Ancient Times to the Present by Eric Broudy
RRP: £28.00£23.27A heavily illustrated classic on the evolution of the handloom. The handloom-often no more than a bundle of sticks and a few lengths of cordage-has been known to almost all cultures for thousands of years. Eric Broudy places the wide variety of... -
True to Life: Twenty-Five Years of Conversations with David Hockney by Lawrence Weschler 9780520258792
RRP: £27.00£21.46Soon after the book's publication in 1982, artist David Hockney read Lawrence Weschler's "Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist" Robert Irwin and invited Weschler to his studio to discuss it, initiating a... -
Art Power by Boris Groys
£27.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Winner of the 2009 Frank Jewett Mather Award given by the College Art Association (CAA). 2009.Book InformationISBN 9780262518680Author Boris GroysFormat... -
Plastic Capitalism: Contemporary Art and the Drive to Waste by Amanda Boetzkes
RRP: £32.00£21.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262039338Author Amanda BoetzkesFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 21mm -
Van Gogh and the Avant-Garde: Along the Seine by Bregje Gerritse
RRP: £35.00£30.57An examination of the innovative portrayals of industry and leisure created by five avant-garde artists working at Asnieres in the late nineteenth century From 1881 to 1890, Vincent van Gogh, Georges Seurat, Paul Signac, Emile Bernard, and Charles... -
Star Wars: The Poster Collection (Mini Book) by Insight Editions
RRP: £12.99£7.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683839590Author Insight EditionsFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Insight EditionsPublisher Insight EditionsWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 91mm *... -
Enlightenment in a Smart City: Edinburgh'S Civic Development, 1660-1750 by Murray Pittock
RRP: £23.99£21.85This is a study of Enlightenment in Edinburgh like no other. Using data and models provided by urban studies theory, it pinpoints the distinctive features that made Enlightenment in the Scottish capital possible.Book InformationISBN 9781474416603Author... -
Introducing Romanticism: A Graphic Guide by Duncan Heath
RRP: £8.99£6.70Philosophy, art, literature, music, and politics were all transformed in the turbulent period between the French Revolution of 1789 and the Communist Manifesto of 1848.This was the age of the 'Romantic revolution', when modern attitudes to political and... -
Rose Wylie by Clarrie Wallis
RRP: £45.00£35.00Rose Wylie RA (b.1934) trained as an artist in the 1950s, but it was her re-engagement with painting in the early 1980s, after a period spent raising a family, that marked the beginning of a remarkable career that continues to evolve and impress. This... -
Joana Vasconcelos: Maximal by Achim Sommer
RRP: £32.00£21.61The Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos (*1971) is famous internation-ally for her three- dimensional works, in which she explores the boundaries between tradi tion and modernism, high and everyday culture, craftsmanship and industrial production in a... -
Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity Barry Bergdoll 9780870707582
RRP: £56.00£38.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for IndieFab awards (Art Book) 2009.Book InformationISBN 9780870707582Author Barry BergdollFormat HardbackPage Count 344Imprint Museum of Modern ArtPublisher... -
The Monster Leviathan: Anarchitecture by Aaron Betsky 9780262546331
RRP: £41.00£24.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262546331Author Aaron BetskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 964gDimensions(mm) 241mm * 160mm * 33mm -
The Arts of Living: Europe 1600-1815 by Elizabeth Miller 9781851778072
RRP: £25.00£19.54The Arts of Living explores the range, depth and beauty of the V&A's European collections from 1600-1815, the period that laid the foundations for the world we know today. At the heart of the book is in investigation into the objects of everyday life,... -
Everything You Know About Art is Wrong by Matt Brown
RRP: £9.99£7.00A highly entertaining read for anyone with even a passing interest in art and art history. This myth-busting book takes you on a great ride through the lives of starving (and not so starving) artists, unusual exhibitions and painting blunders throughout... -
Renaissance and Baroque Art: Selected Essays by Leo Steinberg
RRP: £56.00£48.09Leo Steinberg was one of the most original art historians of the twentieth century, known for taking interpretive risks that challenged the profession by overturning reigning orthodoxies. In essays and lectures ranging from old masters to contemporary... -
Botticelli Past and Present by Ana Debenedetti 9781787354609
RRP: £27.99£24.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787354609Author Ana DebenedettiFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 670g -
Botticelli's Secret: The Lost Drawings and the Discovery of the Renaissance by Joseph Luzzi
RRP: £22.99£18.33Some 500 years ago, Sandro Botticelli, a painter of humble origin, created work of unearthly beauty. An intimate associate of Florence's unofficial rulers, the Medici, he was commissioned by a member of their family to execute a near-impossible project:... -
How They Decorated by P. Gaye Tapp 9780847847419
RRP: £42.00£37.03Gloria Vanderbilt cleverly noted, Decorating is autobiography. Reflecting that truism, the interiors in this book capture the individual approaches of these icons of style: Bunny Mellon s spare all-American elegance; Helene Rochas s refined...