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After the Crisis - Contemporary States of Photography by Donatien Grau
RRP: £20.00£19.40After the Crisis offers a platform for discussions between some of today's leading artists, writers, theorists, curators, and historians aimed at questioning the very status of photography today. Contributors come from the realms of critical theory,... -
Reuse Value: Spolia and Appropriation in Art and Architecture from Constantine to Sherrie Levine Richard Brilliant 9781138246768
RRP: £54.99£47.72This book offers a range of views on spolia and appropriation in art and architecture from fourth-century Rome to the late twentieth century. Using case studies from different historical moments and cultures, contributors test the limits of spolia as a... -
David Milne: Modern Painting by Sarah Milroy 9781781300619
RRP: £25.00£19.88This beautifully illustrated book documents the life and work of one of Canada's greatest modern painters. David Milne's (1882-1953), vast body of work shows him to be an artist of true originality and vision. Like the members of the Group of Seven,... -
Introducing Postmodernism: A Graphic Guide by Richard Appignanesi 9781840468496
RRP: £8.99£6.70What connects Marliyn Monroe, Disneyworld, "The Satanic Verses" and cyber space? Answer: Postmodernism. But what exactly is postmodernism? This Graphic Guide explains clearly the maddeningly enigmatic concept that has been used to define the world's... -
The Sculpture of Kenneth Armitage: With a Complete Inventory of Works by James Scott 9781848221789
RRP: £55.00£42.32The Sculpture of Kenneth Armitage, which is being published to coincide with the artist's centenary in 2016, is the first book to feature a fully illustrated inventory of all of Armitage's known sculptures. It will be the only available illustrated... -
Baroque Influencers: Jesuits, Rubens, and the Arts of Persuasion Pierre Delsaerdt 9789464666311
RRP: £50.00£34.75In what ways did the Jesuits deploy the Baroque visual language of the time to persuade the public of their vision on humankind, religion and society? In this beautifully illustrated book, which includes numerous artworks by Peter Paul Rubens and others,... -
Oui: The Paranoid Critical Revolution by Salvador Dali 9781878972224
RRP: £12.50£8.34Dali is the most famous artist associated with the Surrealist movement, but his official association with the movement was brief, following his expulsion by Andre Breton after five years.Oui was first published in French in 1971, and elicited a... -
Psychoanalysis and the Image: Transdisciplinary Perspectives Griselda Pollock (University of Leeds) 9781405134613
RRP: £39.95£35.04Psychoanalysis and the Image brings together an influential team of international scholars who demonstrate innovative ways to apply psychoanalytical resources in the study of international modern art and visual representation. Examines psychoanalytic... -
Tal R by Martin Herbert 9781848222311
RRP: £49.99£36.84This book is the first full-length assessment of the paintings of Tal R (b. 1967), an Israeli-born Danish artist whose enigmatic work offers intersections of personal experience and wider history through a visual jigsaw, finely balanced between... -
Mary Kelly: Volume 20 by Mignon Nixon
RRP: £23.00£16.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262529327Author Mignon NixonFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 11mm -
Painting by Numbers: Data-Driven Histories of Nineteenth-Century Art by Diana Seave Greenwald
RRP: £32.00£24.76A pathbreaking history of art that uses digital research and economic tools to reveal enduring inequities in the formation of the art historical canonPainting by Numbers presents a groundbreaking blend of art historical and social scientific methods to... -
Information: 50th Anniversary edition Kynaston McShine 9780870709760
RRP: £28.00£18.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870709760Author Kynaston McShineFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Museum of Modern ArtPublisher Museum of Modern ArtWeight(grams) 600g -
Body Art by Thomas Nicholas 9780500204207
RRP: £9.95£7.08Body art, practised across all world cultures and throughout history, is the most intimate art form, linking the self, the senses, and the social and political. In recent years, it has proliferated in an unprecedented way, borrowing motifs and practices... -
Brooches in Late Iron Age and Roman Britain by D. F. Mackreth
RRP: £75.00£74.88The result of forty years of study, this book offers an overview of the most common find, after coins, on sites in Roman Britain – the brooch. Used basically to hold outer clothing together, it was always on view and was usually decorative. This... -
Bruegel's Winter Scenes: Historians and Art Historians in Dialogue by Sabine van Sprang
RRP: £50.00£43.25This focused volume presents a deep exploration and new interpretations of the winter paintings of Pieter Bruegel the Elder (ca. 1525-1569). By applying new methodological approaches and interdisciplinary research to these masterpieces of Flemish... -
Goya and Munch: Modern Prophecies Trine Otte Bak Nielsen 9788284620244
RRP: £35.00£23.43Francisco de Goya and Edvard Munch revolutionised art through their groundbreaking pairing of raw realism and unique imaginative power. Exploring inner worlds and existential questions, they had a formative impact on art history and our understanding of... -
Godefridus Schalcken: A Late 17th-century Dutch Painter in Pursuit of Fame and Fortune by Wayne Franits
RRP: £65.00£48.64Godefridus Schalcken: A Late 17th-century Dutch Painter in Pursuit of Fame and Fortune is the first book in English dedicated to the entire artistic output of seventeenth-century Dutch artist Godefridus Schalcken (1643-1706). It examines the... -
Piranesi's Candelabra and the Presence of the Past: Excessive Objects and the Emergence of a Style in the Age of Neoclassicism by Caroline van Eck 9780192845665
RRP: £83.00£75.34Near the end of his life, Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-78) created three colossal candelabra mainly from fragments of sculpture excavated near the Villa Hadriana in Tivoli, two of which are now in the Ashmolean Museum, and one in the Louvre. Although... -
How New York Stole the Idea of Modern Art: Abstract Expressionism, Freedom and the Cold War by Serge Guilbaut
RRP: £28.00£27.39"A provocative interpretation of the political and cultural history of the early cold war years. . . . By insisting that art, even art of the avant-garde, is part of the general culture, not autonomous or above it, he forces us to think differently not... -
Feminist Visual Activism and the Body by Basia Sliwinska
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book examines contemporary feminist visual activism(s) through the lens of embodiment(s). The contributors explore how the arts articulate and engage with the current sense of crisis and political concerns (e.g. equality, decolonisation, social... -
The Devil in the Gallery: How Scandal, Shock, and Rivalry Shaped the Art World by Noah Charney
RRP: £35.00£24.69Scandal, Shock and Rivalry Can Be an Artist's Best FriendsScandal, shock and rivalry all have negative connotations, don't they? They can be catastrophic to businesses and individual careers. A whiff of scandal can turn a politician into a smoking ruin... -
Mist and Fog in British and European Painting: Fuseli, Friedrich, Turner, Monet and their Contemporaries by Evan R. Firestone
RRP: £60.00£44.98Mist and fog engender fascination and mystery, enticing with their wispy veils and vapourous moods, and they are the stuff of dreams and visions. 'The mists of time' and 'in a fog' are common expressions that substantiate the long association of mist and... -
Rudolph Ihlee: The Road to Collioure by James Trollope
RRP: £39.95£31.31Rudolph Ihlee (1883-1968) was a prize-winning student at the Slade where his contemporaries included Stanley Spencer, Mark Gertler, Maxwell Gordon Lightfoot, C.R.W. Nevinson and Edward Wadsworth. Turning his back on a flourishing career in London, he... -
Contemporary British Ceramics and the Influence of Sculpture: Monuments, Multiples, Destruction and Display Laura Gray 9781032476421
RRP: £37.99£33.38This book investigates how British contemporary artists who work with clay have managed, in the space of a single generation, to take ceramics from niche-interest craft to the pristine territories of the contemporary art gallery. This development has... -
Cubism by Anne Ganteführer-Trier
RRP: £15.00£12.32Pioneered by Picasso and Braque, Cubism has been described as the first avant-garde art movement of the 20th century. With inspiration from African and Native American art and sculpture, its practitioners deconstructed European conventions of viewpoint,... -
Postmodern Design Complete by Judith Gura 9780500519141
RRP: £65.00£44.55Postmodernism was the defining look of the 1980s. Originating as a rebellious movement in philosophy and literature, and spearheaded by Michael Graves, Robert Venturi, Ettore Sottsass and Alessandro Mendini, Postmodernism proclaimed the death of... -
Danger! Women Artists at Work by Debra N. Mancoff 9781858945644
RRP: £24.95£20.54The conventional history of art is one of great men making great paintings, and displaying their works to a predominantly male audience in male-run institutions. Women, however, have had a role, often working behind the scenes, out of sight or in... -
A Victim of Anonymity: The Master of the Saint Bartholomew Altarpiece by Neil MacGregor
RRP: £8.95£5.85Are there miscarriages of justice in art history? Neil MacGregor believes there are. However great an artist, if his name is lost he will not receive a fair verdict from posterity. No exhibition will be devoted to his work; no books will be written... -
Art Since 1980 (paperback) Peter R. Kalb 9781780672809
RRP: £55.00£37.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780672809Author Peter R. KalbFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Laurence King PublishingPublisher Laurence King PublishingWeight(grams) 10g -
Women Artists: An Illustrated History Nancy G. Heller 9780789207685
RRP: £28.99£20.40With its lavish colour illustrations - the paintings and sculptures are all reproduced in full colour - and numerous documentary pictures of the artists themselves, Women Artists: An Illustrated History provides an unprecedented wealth of visual material... -
The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Art, Visual Culture, and Climate Change by T. J. Demos
RRP: £41.99£36.75International in scope, this volume brings together leading and emerging voices working at the intersection of contemporary art, visual culture, activism, and climate change, and addresses key questions, such as: why and how do art and visual culture,... -
Buried by Vesuvius - The Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum Kenneth Lapatin 9781606065921
RRP: £55.00£47.29The Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum, the model for the Getty Villa in Malibu, is one of the world's earliest systematically investigated archaeological sites. Buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE, the Villa dei Papiri was discovered in 1750... -
Da Vinci: His Life and His Legacy by Catherine McGrew Jaime 9781453820964
RRP: £12.00£9.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781453820964Author Catherine McGrew JaimeFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint CreateSpacePublisher CreateSpaceWeight(grams) 213gDimensions(mm) 235mm *... -
Still Life Before Still Life by David Ekserdjian
RRP: £37.50£33.18A beautiful book that argues artists were fascinated by still life painting considerably earlier than previously thought This eloquent and generously illustrated book asserts that artists were fascinated by and extremely skilled at still life... -
Francis Bacon: The Violence of the Real by Armin Zweite
RRP: £35.00£24.03Francis Bacon (1909-1992) was renowned for his dramatic depictions of the human form; he portrayed the ordeal of the vulnerable, defencelessly exposed body like no other artist of his generation. At the centre of this volume are about sixty of Bacon's... -
The World between Empires: Art and Identity in the Ancient Middle East Blair Fowlkes-Childs 9781588396839
RRP: £45.00£39.23A timely and definitive exploration of the art and culture of the ancient civilizations situated between Rome and the Middle East that presents a new way of understanding the region's influential heritage This publication examines the art and... -
Monochrome: Painting in Black and White Lelia Packer 9781857096149
RRP: £35.00£31.17Painting "without color" has long held a fascination for artists. In this striking and original book, the authors explore how and why artists from the 15th century to the present have chosen to paint in black, white, and shades of gray. Sometimes artists... -
Formalism and Historicity: Models and Methods in Twentieth-Century Art by Benjamin H. D. Buchloh 9780262028523
RRP: £47.00£33.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262028523Author Benjamin H. D. BuchlohFormat HardbackPage Count 592Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 35mm -
The Rise of the Modern Art Market in London: 1850-1939 by Pamela M. Fletcher 9780719084614
RRP: £25.00£21.79Now available in paperback for the first time, this study of the modern London art market establishes the central importance of London for the development of the modern retail market in fine art. Leading experts track the emergence and development of... -
Anna Cassel: The Tale of the Rose by Anna Cassel
RRP: £45.00£30.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789189425828Author Anna CasselFormat HardbackPage Count 150Imprint Stolpe PublishingPublisher Stolpe PublishingWeight(grams) 1540g