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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... -
Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: Highlights from the Philadelphia Museum of Art Jennifer A. Thompson 9780876332894
RRP: £27.50£23.89An engaging and beautifully illustrated overview of one of the finest Impressionist and Post-Impressionist collections in the United States Featuring 90 highlights from the Philadelphia Museum of Art's stellar collection of Impressionist and... -
Bauhaus Imaginista: A School in the World by Marion von Osten
RRP: £39.95£27.83Bauhaus Imaginista is a major international project marking the centenary of this fascinating and popular school, which championed the idea of artists working together as a community. The Bauhaus reconnected art with everyday life, and was active in the... -
Jonny Hannah: Greetings from Darktown by Jonny Hannah
£34.66The illustrator Jonny Hannah was born and bred in Scotland, and now lives by the sea in Southampton, but he also resides in Darktown - a mysterious coastal town, not found on any map, peopled by pin-up girls, jazz artists and tattooed sailors. Darktown... -
English Medieval Embroidery: Opus Anglicanum by Clare Browne
RRP: £27.50£24.49An introduction to the design, production and use of luxury embroideries in medieval England (c. 1200-1530) In medieval Europe, embroidered textiles were indispensable symbols of wealth and power. Owing to their quality, complexity and magnificence,... -
A Rothschild Renaissance: Treasures from the Waddesdon Bequest Dora Thornton 9780714123455
RRP: £30.00£21.80This book presents and explores the Waddesdon Bequest, the name given to the Kunstkammer or cabinet collection of Renaissance treasures which was bequeathed to the British Museum by Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild, MP in 1898. The Bequest is named after... -
Chinese Architecture: A History by Nancy Steinhardt 9780691169989
RRP: £60.00£49.10An unprecedented survey of the origins and evolution of Chinese architecture, from the last millennia BCE to todayThroughout history, China has maintained one of the world's richest built civilizations. The nation's architectural achievements range from... -
Art, Culture and Nature: From Art History to World Art Studies by John Onians 9781899828951
RRP: £95.00£90.56For thirty years John Onians has been trying to expand and deepen the discipline of art history. His books, Art and Thought in the Hellenistic Age (1979), Bearers of Meaning. The Classical Orders in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (1988)... -
Art and Homosexuality: A History of Ideas by Christopher Reed
RRP: £70.00£49.89Lavishly illustrated with over 175 black-and-white and color images that range from high to popular culture and from Ancient Greece to contemporary America, Christopher Reed's arresting book reveals the deep linkages between art and homosexuality as we... -
Facing the Modern: The Portrait in Vienna 1900 Gemma Blackshaw 9781857095616
RRP: £35.00£30.57An engaging look at how the middle classes of fin-de-siecleVienna used innovative portraiture to define their identity During the great flourishing of modern art in fin-de-siecleVienna, artists of that city focused on images of individuals. Their... -
Silent Partners: Artist and Mannequin from Function to Fetish Jane Munro 9780300208221
RRP: £42.50£37.21The articulated human figure made of wax or wood has been a common tool in artistic practice since the 16th century. Its mobile limbs enable the artist to study anatomical proportion, fix a pose at will, and perfect the depiction of drapery and clothing... -
Venezia 500: The Gentle Revolution of Venetian Painting by Andreas Schumacher 9783777441764
RRP: £45.00£30.25Brushwork and poetry - the great awakening of Venetian painting around 1500. In the Venice of the Renaissance, master artists like Bellini, Giorgione, Palma Vecchio and Titian explored the essence of mankind and nature and their relationship to each... -
Giovanni Bellini: The Art of Contemplation Johannes Grave 9783791383972
RRP: £95.00£67.16Following the arc of Bellini's career, from his early devotional paintings to his later, occasionally secular works, this book offers an in-depth appreciation of the Venetian master who dominated the Early Renaissance. Featuring nearly every extant... -
Rick Steves' Europe 101: History and Art for the Traveler by Rick Steves
RRP: £16.99£16.74Now in full-colour comes a witty and engaging look at Europe's history and art, from America's European travel guru. Rick Steves' Europe 101 helps you make the most of your sightseeing. A fun but informative guide, this "professor in your pocket"... -
Gustav Klimt Masterpieces of Art Susie Hodge 9781783611393
RRP: £12.99£11.49Gustav Klimt, well known for his sensual, arresting depictions of women (The Kiss, Fulfillment, The Tree of Life), was a founder of the Viennese Secession movement at the turn of the 20th century, Vienna's own Art Nouveau. His extravagant work, was an... -
Pier Groups: Art and Sex Along the New York Waterfront by Jonathan Weinberg
RRP: £29.95£27.31In 1970s New York City, the abandoned piers of the Hudson River became a site for extraordinary works of art and a popular place for nude sunbathing and anonymous sex. Jonathan Weinberg's provocative book-part art history, part memoir-weaves interviews,... -
Sound Art: Sound as a Medium of Art by Peter Weibel 9780262029667
RRP: £59.00£40.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262029667Author Peter WeibelFormat HardbackPage Count 500Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
The Miracle of Analogy: or The History of Photography, Part 1 by Kaja Silverman
RRP: £24.99£21.67The Miracle of Analogy is the first of a two-volume reconceptualization of photography. It argues that photography originates in what is seen, rather than in the human eye or the camera lens, and that it is the world's primary way of revealing itself to... -
Donald Rodney: Autoicon by Richard Birkett
RRP: £17.99£12.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846382574Author Richard BirkettFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Afterall PublishingPublisher Afterall Publishing -
Bathing in the Roman World by Fikret K. Yegul 9780521840323
RRP: £90.99£78.47In Bathing in the Roman World, Fikret Yegul examines the social and cultural aspects of one of the key Roman institutions. Guiding the reader through the customs, rituals, and activities associated with public bathing, Yegul traces the origins and... -
Queen Anne: Patroness of Arts by James Anderson Winn 9780199372195
RRP: £42.99£32.03As the last Stuart monarch, Queen Anne (1665-1714) received the education thought proper for a princess, reading plays and poetry in English and French while learning dancing, singing, acting, drawing, and instrumental music. As an adult, she played the... -
After the End of Art: Contemporary Art and the Pale of History - Updated Edition by Arthur C. Danto 9780691163895
RRP: £16.99£12.02Originally delivered as the prestigious Mellon Lectures on the Fine Arts in 1995, After the End of Art remains a classic of art criticism and philosophy, and continues to generate heated debate for contending that art ended in the 1960s. Arthur Danto,... -
The Origins of Museums: The Cabinet of Curiosities in Sixteenth-and-Seventeenth-Century Europe Oliver Impey 9781910807194
RRP: £50.00£34.75History Today carried a feature in 2015, describing The Origin of Museums as "a cult book [that] spawned a new discipline in the history of collecting". Indeed, the first publication of this book in 1985 undoubtedly marked a propitious moment in the... -
Alan Davie and David Hockney: Early Works by Eleanor Clayton 9781848223752
RRP: £24.99£19.20Encountering the work of Alan Davie (1920-2014) at Wakefield Art Gallery in 1958, a young David Hockney (b.1937) was struck by Davie's landmark Abstract Expressionist paintings, which mirrored and stimulated his own fledgling experimentation with... -
Memory, Metaphor, and Aby Warburg's Atlas of Images by Christopher D. Johnson
RRP: £33.00£29.05The work of German cultural theorist and art historian Aby Warburg (1866-1929) has had a lasting effect on how we think about images. This book is the first in English to focus on his last project, the encyclopedic Atlas of Images: Mnemosyne. Begun in... -
Thomas Chippendale 1718-1779: A Celebration of British Craftsmanship and Design Adam Bowett 9781999922917
RRP: £65.00£43.25This is the catalogue of the 2018 Leeds exhibition celebrating the tercentenary of Thomas Chippendale's birth. It covers all 95 exhibits including furniture, drawings, engravings, textiles and wallpaper, together with other contemporary and later... -
Good News Bible: The Deadline Strips of Shaky Kane by Shaky Kane 9780957438149
RRP: £24.99£17.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957438149Author Shaky KaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Breakdown Press LtdPublisher Breakdown Press Ltd -
Light in Art: Perception and the Use of Light in the History of Art by Massimo Mariani 9788417656676
RRP: £25.00£18.02This richly illustrated book takes readers on a tour through the history of art to learn how artists have used light (and its lack of it as shadow) to make a statement about their subject matter or create a specific mood, with examples by masters such as... -
The Studio Reader: On the Space of Artists by Mary Jane Jacob
RRP: £31.00£26.73The image of a tortured genius working in near isolation has long dominated our conceptions of the artist's studio. Examples are abound: think Jackson Pollock dripping resin on a cicada carcass in his shed in the Hamptons. But times have changed; ever... -
Painted Glories: The Brancacci Chapel in Renaissance Florence by Nicholas A. Eckstein
RRP: £55.00£46.69In 1440, on the feast of Saints Peter and Paul, Florence unexpectedly defeated Milanese forces near the town of Anghiari in eastern Tuscany. Nicholas A. Eckstein reveals the impact of this celebrated victory on Florentine public life and how it could... -
The Medusa Reader by Marjorie Garber
RRP: £38.99£34.22Ranging from classical times to pop culture, this collection will appeal to art historians, feminists, classicists, cultural critics, and anyone interested in mythology.About the AuthorMarjorie Garber is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English at... -
Surreal Encounters by Various
£24.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906270971Author Dawn AdesFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint National Galleries of ScotlandPublisher National Galleries of Scotland -
Sansovino's Venice by Vaughan Hart
RRP: £27.50£23.29This is the first English translation of Francesco Sansovino's (1521-1586) celebrated guide to Venice, which was first published in 1561. One of the earliest books to describe the monuments of Venice for inquisitive travelers, Sansovino's guide was...