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Histories of Ornament: From Global to Local by Alina Payne 9780691167282
RRP: $107.25$88.35This lavishly illustrated volume is the first major global history of ornament from the Middle Ages to today. Crossing historical and geographical boundaries in unprecedented ways and considering the role of ornament in both art and architecture,... -
World Textiles: A Concise History by Mary Schoeser 9780500203699
RRP: $46.70$35.12Mary Schoeser's groundbreaking book presents a chronological survey of textiles around the world from prehistory to the present day, exploring how they are made, what they are made from, how they function in society, and the ways in which they are used... -
The Invisible FlaNeuse?: Gender, Public Space and Visual Culture in Nineteenth Century Paris by Aruna D'Souza 9780719079429
RRP: $38.98$34.34This collection of essays revisits gender and urban modernity in nineteenth-century Paris in the wake of changes to the fabric of the city and social life. In rethinking the figure of the flaneur, the contributors apply the most current thinking in... -
A Chasm in Time: Scottish War Art and Artists in the Twentieth Century Patricia R. Andrew 9781780271903
RRP: $58.50$14.51This is the first study of Scottish war art and artists of the twentieth century. A fascinating visual record of Scotland's experience of conflict, both on the home front and in theatres of war, it features over 200 works of art, many of which have never... -
Pots, Prints and Politics: Ceramics with an Agenda, from the 14th to the 20th Century by Patricia Ferguson 9780861592296
RRP: $78.00$72.33From the introduction of woodblock printing in China to the development of copper-plate engraving in Europe, the print medium has been used around the world to circulate knowledge. Ceramic artists across time and cultures have adapted these graphic... -
Manga Bible KJV by Siku 9780956973115
$15.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956973115Author SikuFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Edge GroupPublisher Edge GroupWeight(grams) 124g -
A Companion to Greek Art Tyler Jo Smith 9781119266815
RRP: $68.15$63.24A comprehensive, authoritative account of the development Greek Art through the 1st millennium BC. An invaluable resource for scholars dealing with the art, material culture and history of the post-classical worldIncludes voices from such diverse fields... -
Art and Nature in the Anthropocene: Planetary Aesthetics by Susan Ballard 9780367710941
RRP: $74.08$65.09This book examines how contemporary artists have engaged with histories of nature, geology, and extinction within the context of the changing planet. Susan Ballard describes how artists challenge the categories of animal, mineral, and vegetable-turning... -
Looking at Greek Vases by Tom Rasmussen 9780521376792
RRP: $58.48$49.63Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Abstract Painting: Contemporary Painters by Amber Creswell Bell 9781760763633
RRP: $97.50$70.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781760763633Author Amber Creswell BellFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Thames & HudsonPublisher Thames & HudsonWeight(grams) 1769gDimensions(mm) 305mm *... -
Richard Parkes Bonington: The Complete Paintings by Patrick Noon 9780300134216
RRP: $165.75$143.48Only twenty-five at the time of his death in 1828, young Richard Parkes Bonington nevertheless was a seminal figure in the development of modernism in nineteenth-century French painting. This catalogue raisonne of his oil and watercolor paintings... -
Simply Painting Around the World by Frank Clarke 9780954410209
$24.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954410209Author Frank ClarkeFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Simply Painting LimitedWeight(grams) 210g -
Leonardo da Vinci: Self Art and Nature by Francois Quiviger 9781789140705
RRP: $35.00$25.19Published to coincide with the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci's death, this incisive and illuminating biography follows the three themes that shaped the life of Leonardo and forever changed Western art and imagination: nature, art and... -
Pacita Abad by Pacita Abad
RRP: $109.20$77.36A comprehensive survey of Abad's visually dazzling and politically prescient works blending fabric and painting This volume surveys three decades of Pacita Abad's multifaceted practice. Published on the occasion of her first-ever retrospective, it... -
Francis Bacon - In the Mirror of Photography: Collecting, Preparatory Practice and Painting Katharina Gunther 9783110720624
RRP: $101.40$90.66The British painter Francis Bacon (1909-1992) is famed for his idiosyncratic mode of depicting the human figure. Thirty years after his death, his working methods remain underexplored. New research on the Francis Bacon Studio Archive at Hugh Lane... -
Women Artists, Their Patrons, and Their Publics in Early Modern Bologna by Babette Bohn
RRP: $122.75$109.69Winner of the 2022 Prose Award (Art History & Criticism) from the Association of American PublishersThis groundbreaking book seeks to explain why women artists were far more numerous, diverse, and successful in early modern Bologna than elsewhere in... -
The Philosopher, the Priest, and the Painter: A Portrait of Descartes by Steven Nadler 9780691157306
RRP: $42.90$33.85In the Louvre museum hangs a portrait that is considered the iconic image of Rene Descartes, the great seventeenth-century French philosopher. And the painter of the work? The Dutch master Frans Hals--or so it was long believed, until the work was... -
Look Again: Faith by Derek Owusu 9781849768641
RRP: $19.50$13.88Faith is a subject that has shaped the art world in Britain for as long as it has existed. The walls of Tate's galleries exhibit paintings like John Martin's The Last Judgement and The Great Day of His Wrath - both dramatic scenes that foretell... -
The Mongol Empire in Global History and Art History by Anne Dunlop 9780674279162
RRP: $74.00$59.49With the rise of projects to create global histories and art histories, the Mongol Empire is now widely taken as a fundamental watershed. In the later thirteenth century, the Mongol states reconfigured the basic zones of Eurasian trade and contact. For... -
Modern Art: A Critical Introduction by Pam Meecham 9780415281942
RRP: $70.18$62.58Modern Art: A Critical Introduction traces the historical and contemporary contexts for understanding modern art movements, and the theories that influenced and attempted to explain them. Its radical approach foregoes the chronological approach to art... -
Towards the Light: The Paintings of Ornulf Opdahl by William Varley 9780993522802
$53.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993522802Author William VarleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint MHW PublicationsPublisher MHW Publications -
Against the Avant-Garde: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Contemporary Art, and Neocapitalism by Ara H Merjian
RRP: $76.05$65.89Recognized in America chiefly for his films, Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) in fact reinvented interdisciplinarity in post-war Europe. Pasolini self-confessedly approached the cinematic image through painting, and the numerous allusions to early modern... -
Return Engagements: Contemporary Art's Traumas of Modernity and History in Sai Gon and Phnom Penh by Viet Le 9781478010791
RRP: $46.78$40.64In Return Engagements artist and critic Viet Le examines contemporary art in Cambodia and Viet Nam to rethink the entwinement of militarization, trauma, diaspora, and modernity in Southeast Asian art. Highlighting artists tied to Phnom Penh and Sai Gon... -
Eduardo Terrazas: Cosmos Eduardo Terrazas 9783777439181
RRP: $81.90$53.41Cosmos: Silence and Infinite offers new approaches on the stunning art works of Eduardo Terrazas's (1936) art works. Four well known authors present a multidisciplinary vision on the artists ongoing series Possibilities of a Structure. Which suggests at... -
Raphael, Painter in Rome: A Novel by Stephanie Storey
$29.21Another Fabulous Art History Thriller by the Bestselling Author of Oil and Marble, Featuring the Master of Renaissance Perfection: Raphael! Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling is one of the most iconic masterpieces of the Renaissance. Here, in Raphael,... -
On the Seven Deadly Sins by Lord Kenneth Baker
RRP: $58.50$45.77In this fascinating book Kenneth Baker explores how the Seven Deadly Sins - Pride, Anger, Sloth, Envy, Avarice, Gluttony and Lust - have shaped history from the Greek and Roman Civilisations, through their heyday in the Middle Ages, when sinners really... -
John Wonnacott: A Biographical Study by Charles Saumarez Smith
RRP: $58.48$43.62In this first major study of the work of the painter John Wonnacott (b.1940), Charles Saumarez Smith has surveyed a body of work produced at a tangent to the orthodoxies of modernism. Exploring the artist's formative experiences at the Slade, which... -
The Reading Figure in Irish Art in the Long Nineteenth Century by Tricia Cusack 9781839988707
RRP: $48.75$46.37The reading figure has been a recurrent theme in Western art but especially from the nineteenth century. This book examines Irish portraits during the long nineteenth century in which people are shown reading or holding a book. It explores different... -
The Dawn of Christian Art - In Panel Painings and Icons Thomas F. Mathews 9781606065099
RRP: $87.75$78.06Staking out new territory in the history of art, this book presents a compelling argument for a lost link between the panel-painting tradition of Greek antiquity and Christian paintings of Byzantium and the Renaissance. While art historians place the... -
The Nature of Gothic John Ruskin 9781843681014
RRP: $29.23$19.11'One of the very few necessary and inevitable utterances of the century.' William Morris, in the Preface. The Nature of Gothic started life as a chapter in Ruskin's masterwork, The Stones of Venice. Ruskin came to lament the 'Frankenstein monsters' of... -
Warhol: A Life as Art by Blake Gopnik
RRP: $33.13$25.99"Superb...Gopnik persuasively assembles his case over the course of this mesmerising book, which is as much art history and philosophy as it is biography" Kathryn Hughes, The GuardianWhen critics attacked Andy Warhol's Marilyn paintings as shallow, the ... -
Art for the Millions: American Culture and Politics in the 1930s Allison Rudnick 9781588397690
RRP: $78.00$65.50Reveals how American art in the 1930s-intertwined with the political, social, and economic tumult of an era not so unlike our own-engaged with the public amid global upheaval This publication examines the search for artistic identity in the United... -
Artists' Things: Rediscovering Lost Property from Eighteenth-Century France Katie Scott 9781606068632
RRP: $97.50$81.22Artists are makers of things. Yet it is a measure of the disembodied manner in which we generally think about artists that we rarely consider the everyday items they own. This innovative book looks at objects that once belonged to artists, revealing not... -
Man At Sea by Liam Bell 9781913211806
RRP: $19.48$13.63"requite (verb): to return love and affection or, on the other side of the coin, to retaliate for injuries inflicted. MALTA 1941. Eleven-year-old Joe Zarb's life is about to change. The war has created a rubble-strewn, dogfight-watching,... -
Out of Australia: Prints and Drawings from Sidney Nolan to Rover Thomas Stephen Coppel 9780714126722
RRP: $48.75$33.89This ground-breaking book follows the rise of a distinctive school of Australian art that first emerged in the 1940s. Beginning with the artists of the 'Angry Penguins' movement, Arthur Boyd, Albert Tucker, Joy Hester and Sidney Nolan, whose work... -
Lee Krasner: The Umber Paintings 1959-1962 by Lee Krasner 9781947232037
RRP: $111.15$77.06This book focuses on the iconic Umber Paintings of Lee Krasner (1908-84), which consist of only 24 paintings. Painted between 1959 and 1962, the Umber Paintings were realized during one of Krasner's most ambitious periods of cproduction following the... -
On the Strange Place of Religion in Contemporary Art by James Elkins
RRP: $72.13$63.43Can contemporary art say anything about spirituality? John Updike calls modern art "a religion assembled from the fragments of our daily life," but does that mean that contemporary art is spiritual? What might it mean to say that the art you make... -
The Renaissance of Etching Catherine Jenkins 9781588396495
RRP: $97.50$84.34The first comprehensive look at the origins and diffusion across Europe of the etched print during the late 15th and early 16th centuries The etching of images on metal, originally used as a method for decorating armor, was first employed as a... -
Global Design History by Glenn Adamson
RRP: $72.13$63.43Globalism is often discussed using abstract terms, such as 'networks' or 'flows' and usually in relation to recent history. Global Design History moves us past this limited view of globalism, broadening our sense of this key term in history and theory... -
Monuments Man: The Mission to Save Vermeers, Rembrandts, and Da Vincis from the Nazis' Grasp by James J. Rorimer
RRP: $63.38$61.02James J. Rorimer, former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, became a leading figure in the art recovery unit known as the Monuments Men, an elite group imbedded in the US Army, who risked their lives during World War II to save Europe s greatest...