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The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece by Jonathan Harr
RRP: £20.00£12.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375759864Author Jonathan HarrFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 244gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Claude Cahun: The Soldier with No Name by Gavin James Bower 9781780990446
RRP: £7.99£7.02Claude Cahun is the most important artist you've never heard of - until now. Writer, photographer, lesbian; revolutionary activist, surrealist, resistance fighter - Cahun witnessed the birth of the Paris avant-garde, lived through two World Wars and, as... -
A Guide to Christian Art by Diane Apostolos-Cappadona
RRP: £23.99£20.94A one-volume introduction to and overview of Christian art, from its earliest history to the present day. Diane Apostolos-Cappadona begins by examining how art and Christianity have intersected throughout history, and charts this tumultuous relationship... -
Fantastic Geometry by David Wade 9781906069100
RRP: £12.99£8.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906069100Author David WadeFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint The Squeeze PressPublisher The Squeeze Press -
The Handbook of Interior Architecture and Design by Graeme Brooker 9781350087392
£45.71The Handbook of Interior Architecture and Design offers a compelling collection of original essays that seek to examine the shifting role of interior architecture and interior design, and their importance and meaning within the contemporary world. ... -
The British Mandate in Palestine: A Centenary Volume, 1920-2020 Michael J Cohen 9781032174860
RRP: £39.99£35.06The British Mandate over Palestine began just 100 years ago, in July 1920, when Sir Herbert Samuel, the first British High Commissioner to Palestine, took his seat at Government House, Jerusalem. The chapters here analyse a wide cross-section of the... -
Art in the Hellenistic Age by Jerome Jordan Pollitt 9780521276726
RRP: £55.99£47.92'The best reason to study Hellenistic art is for its own sake' writes Professor Pollitt in the Preface to Art in the Hellenistic Age. 'But', he continues, 'I would suggest that there is an additional quality that should make the art of the Hellenistic... -
Exploring the Invisible: Art, Science, and the Spiritual - Revised and Expanded Edition by Lynn Gamwell 9780691191058
RRP: £58.00£48.08How science changed the way artists understand realityExploring the Invisible shows how modern art expresses the first secular, scientific worldview in human history. Now fully revised and expanded, this richly illustrated book describes two hundred... -
Panofsky and the Foundations of Art History by Michael Ann Holly
RRP: £24.99£21.67No one has been more influential in the contemporary practice of art history than Erwin Panofsky, yet many of his early seminal papers remain virtually unknown to art historians. As a result, Michael Ann Holly maintains, art historians today do not have... -
Social History of Art, Volume 3: Rococo, Classicism and Romanticism by Arnold Hauser
RRP: £35.99£31.69First published in 1951 Arnold Hausers commanding work presents an account of the development and meaning of art from its origins in the Stone Age through to the Film Age. Exploring the interaction between art and society, Hauser effectively details... -
Museum Studies: An Anthology of Contexts Bettina Messias Carbonell (City University of New York, USA) 9781405173810
RRP: £39.95£36.04Updated to reflect the latest developments in twenty-first century museum scholarship, the new Second Edition of Museum Studies: An Anthology of Contexts presents a comprehensive collection of approaches to museums and their relation to history, culture... -
The Origins of Baroque Art in Rome . Reigl 9781606060414
RRP: £45.00£38.03Delivered three times between 1898 and 1902 and subsequently revised with an eye towards publication, Alois Riegl's lectures on the origins of Baroque art in Rome broke new ground in its field. This first English translation brings Riegl's compelling... -
Modern Worlds: Austrian and German Art, 1890-1940 by Olaf Peters
RRP: £55.00£38.64Illustrated throughout with exquisite reproductions of the museum's holdings, this book considers the influence of Friedrich Nietzsche and his writings on the fine arts and examines the founding of the Secessionist artists' organisations in Germany and... -
The Sistine Chapel - Paradise in Rome Ulrich Pfisterer 9781606065532
RRP: £21.99£18.95The art of the Sistine Chapel, decorated by artists who competed with one another and commissioned by popes who were equally competitive, is a complex fabric of thematic, chronological, and artistic references. Four main campaigns were undertaken to... -
Influences: Art, Optics, and Astrology in the Italian Renaissance by Mary Quinlan-McGrath 9780226421667
RRP: £21.00£20.31Today few would think of astronomy and astrology as fields related to theology. Fewer still would know that physically absorbing planetary rays was once considered to have medical and psychological effects. But this was the understanding of light... -
Art in the Age of Machine Learning by Sofian Audry
RRP: £43.00£31.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262046183Author Sofian AudryFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
A Closer Look: Allegory Erika Langmuir 9781857094855
RRP: £9.99£8.59Painters in the past and commercial artists in our own day have relied on allegory to create "message pictures." Once thought to rival literary works or political oratory in influence and prestige, such paintings, with their references to ancient myth,... -
A Picture of Devon by Ray Balkwill 9781841147345
RRP: £34.99£29.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781841147345Author Ray BalkwillFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint HalsgrovePublisher Halsgrove -
Living with Leonardo: Fifty Years of Sanity and Insanity in the Art World and Beyond by Martin Kemp 9780500239568
RRP: £34.95£23.64Living with Leonardo is a set of highly focused memoirs, a personal journey interwoven with historical research that encapsulates the author's relationship with Leonardo da Vinci over more than half a century. We learn of his encounters with the vast... -
Edwardian Opulence: British Art at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century by Angus Trumble
RRP: £55.00£48.09The Edwardian age was as brief as the Victorian era that preceded it was long. It has been depicted as an indolent summer afternoon of imperial and elite complacency, but also as a period of rapid political, economic, and artistic change, culminating in... -
Almost Nothing: Observations on Precarious Practices in Contemporary Art by Anna Dezeuze
RRP: £25.00£22.43What does an assemblage made out of crumpled newspaper have in common with an empty room in which the lights go on and off every five seconds? This book argues that they are both examples of a 'precarious' art that flourished from the late 1950s to the... -
Pop Art by Lucy R. Lippard 9780500200520
RRP: £27.95£19.39Pop Art embodied the spirit of the 1960s. Despite its carnival aspects, its orgiastic colour and giant scale, it was based on a tough, no-nonsense, no-refinement standard appropriate to its time. Here several critics, each involved in Pop Art, but with... -
Encountering the Spiritual in Contemporary Art by Leesa Fanning
RRP: £55.00£48.09An in-depth and current investigation of how the spiritual is manifestly present in contemporary art The spiritual is everywhere evident in contemporary art, and this publication fulfills a long-awaited need. Encountering the Spiritual in Contemporary... -
Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet for Kids: 3 Short Melodramatic Plays for 3 Group Sizes by Brendan P Kelso 9780998137643
£8.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998137643Author Brendan P KelsoFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Playing with PlaysPublisher Playing with PlaysWeight(grams) 113g -
Making Marvels: Science and Splendor at the Courts of Europe Wolfram Koeppe 9781588396778
RRP: £50.00£44.05Innovation, technology, and spectacle combine in wondrous works of decorative art and furniture that embody the splendor and luxury of the royal courts of Europe At once beautiful works of art and technological wonders, the objects featured in Making... -
Cezanne and the End of Impressionism: A Study of the Theory, Technique and Critical Evaluation of Modern Art by Richard Shiff
RRP: £40.00£38.95Drawing on a broad foundation in the history of nineteenth-century French art, Richard Shiff offers an innovative interpretation of Cezanne's painting. He shows how Cezanne's style met the emerging criteria of a "technique of originality" and how it... -
Bauhaus Weaving Theory: From Feminine Craft to Mode of Design by T'ai Smith
RRP: £23.99£20.84The Bauhaus school in Germany has long been understood through the writings of its founding director, Walter Gropius, and well-known artists who taught there such as Wassily Kandinsky and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. Far less recognized are texts by women in the... -
Bauhaus Goes West: Modern Art and Design in Britain and America by Alan Powers
£26.95Bauhaus Goes West is a story of cultural exchange - between the Bauhaus emigres in the years following the school's closure in 1933 and the countries to which they moved, focusing in particular on Britain. Taking as its starting point the cultural... -
The Culture of Bronze: Making and Meaning in Renaissance Sculpture by Peta Motture
RRP: £35.00£27.82The Italian Renaissance was a golden age for bronze sculpture, both on a grand scale-such as Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise, or Cellini's Perseus-and more intimate statuettes and small-scale functional objects. Bronze, being both costly and luxurious,... -
The Modern Art Cookbook by Mary Ann Caws 9781780239132
RRP: £20.00£14.29Food has always been a favourite subject of the world's artists, from still-lifes by Matisse and Picasso to the works of Claes Oldenberg and Andy Warhol. But how do artists eat? The Modern Art Cookbook provides a window into how both great and... -
Treatise Concerning the Arte of Limning: Together with A More Compendious Discourse Concerning Ye Art of Limning by Edward Norgate 9780856359712
RRP: £11.99£8.29'To proceed & beginne wth ye Coullers, Whitt ffor its Virgin puritie is the most Excellent To proceed and begin with the colours: white for its virgin purity is the most excellent, viz. ceruse and white lead; both are subject to inconveniences, and are... -
Minor Histories: Statements, Conversations, Proposals by Mike Kelley 9780262611985
£38.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262611985Author Mike KelleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 458Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 998g -
Sol LeWitt: 100 Views by Susan Cross 9780300152821
RRP: £40.00£34.59Published to accompany MASS MoCA's landmark installation of LeWitt's innovative wall drawings, this book celebrates the artist and his illustrious 50-year career.Published in association with Mass MoCAExhibition Schedule:Mass MoCA, North Adams,... -
European Art: A Neuroarthistory by John Onians
RRP: £47.50£41.24A bold revision of the history of European art, told through the lens of neuroscience Ambitious and much anticipated, this book celebrates the value of recent neuroscientific discoveries as tools for art-historical analysis. Case studies ranging across... -
The Social History of Roman Art by Peter Stewart 9780521016599
RRP: £26.99£22.80The character of Roman art history has changed in recent years. More than ever before, it is concerned with the role of art in ancient society, including the functions that it served and the values and assumptions that it reflects. At the same time,... -
Georg Baselitz:The Heroes by Max Hollein
RRP: £32.00£21.61In 1965/66 Georg Baselitz created the monumental series "The Heroes" and "New Types", which he presented in wild colour and with defiant style. By turning his attention towards the tradition of representational painting his work formed a striking... -
Graphic Passion: Matisse and the Book Arts by John Bidwell
RRP: £55.95£50.65The great painter Henri Matisse was also a great book illustrator. A pioneering member of the Fauves, a supreme colorist, a remarkable draftsman, and a creative genius: this is the Matisse known and admired by everyone with even a passing interest in... -
Splendid Life by Scott Campbell 9781785657382
RRP: £19.99£9.93Celebrated pop artist Scott C. continues to captivate audiences around the world with his deceptively simple watercolor paintings and illustrations. Now fans can once again submerge themselves in his fanciful world of dancing skeletons, smiling... -
European Art of the Fifteenth Century by Stefano Zuffi 9780892368310
RRP: £21.99£18.95Influenced by a revival of interest in Greco-Roman ideals and sponsored by a newly prosperous merchant class, fifteenth-century artists produced works of astonishingly innovative content and technique. The International Gothic style of painting, still... -
Paintings and the Past: Philosophy, History, Art by Ivan Gaskell
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book is an exploration of how art-specifically paintings in the European manner-can be mobilized to make knowledge claims about the past. No type of human-made tangible thing makes more complex and bewildering demands in this respect than paintings...