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White: The History of a Color by Michel Pastoureau 9780691243498
RRP: £35.00£22.87From the acclaimed author of Blue, a beautifully illustrated history of the color white in visual culture, from antiquity to todayAs a pigment, white is often thought to represent an absence of color, but it is without doubt an important color in its own... -
Library of Light: Encounters With Artists And Designers: 2018 by Jo Joelson 9781848222533
RRP: £55.00£42.32Library of Light brings together established and emerging practitioners who work with light, as material or subject, from theatre, music, performance, fine art, photography, film, public art, holography, digital media, architecture, and the built... -
Black Artists in British Art: A History since the 1950s by Eddie Chambers
RRP: £22.99£22.47Black artists have been making major contributions to the British art scene for decades, since at least the mid-twentieth century. Sometimes these artists were regarded and embraced as practitioners of note. At other times they faced challenges of... -
Lines of Thought: Branching Diagrams and the Medieval Mind by Ayelet Even-Ezra
RRP: £40.00£33.99We think with objects-we conduct our lives surrounded by external devices that help us recall information, calculate, plan, design, make decisions, articulate ideas, and organize the chaos that fills our heads. Medieval scholars learned to think with... -
Hannah Wilke: Art for Life's Sake by Tamara Schenkenberg
RRP: £50.00£40.45A richly illustrated exploration of Hannah Wilke's provocative art and trailblazing feminismOne of the most groundbreaking artists to emerge in American art in the 1960s, Hannah Wilke consistently challenged the prevailing narratives of women's bodies... -
Modern Painters, Old Masters: The Art of Imitation from the Pre-Raphaelites to the First World War by Elizabeth Prettejohn
RRP: £45.00£38.63With the rise of museums in the 19th century, including the formation in 1824 of the National Gallery in London, as well as the proliferation of widely available published reproductions, the art of the past became visible and accessible in Victorian... -
Art in Wales 2000 BC-AD 1850: An Illustrated History by Eric Rowan 9780708306741
RRP: £4.99£4.16Part one of a two-volume study of the visual art heritage of Wales, spanning a period of more than 3800 years. The volume provides stimulating reading to the general reader and provides valuable further insights to those with a specialist interest... -
Chinoiserie: Commerce and Critical Ornament in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Stacey Sloboda 9780719089459
RRP: £100.00£87.82In a critical reassessment of chinoiserie, a style both praised and derided for its triviality, prettiness and ornamental excesses, Stacey Sloboda argues that chinoiserie was no mute participant in eighteenth-century global consumer culture, but was... -
Jewel Art Animals by Connie Isaacs 9781801056403
RRP: £8.99£6.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781801056403Author Connie IsaacsFormat HardbackPage Count 46Imprint Imagine That Publishing LtdPublisher Imagine That Publishing Ltd -
Weaving at Black Mountain College: Anni Albers, Trude Guermonprez, and Their Students by Michael Beggs 9780300273564
RRP: £30.00£25.85A detailed study of the role and legacy of weaving at the legendary Black Mountain College In the mid-twentieth century, Black Mountain College attracted a remarkable roster of artists, architects, and musicians. Yet the weaving classes taught by Anni... -
Style Legends, Rebels, and Visionaries by Bijou Karman
RRP: £18.99£12.46Style Legends, Rebels, and Visionaries is an inclusive and eclectic collection of 50 illustrated portraits by the immensely talented artist Bijou Karman. This curated collection of portraits features vintage and contemporary style legends such as Cher,... -
Absorption and Theatricality: Painting and Beholder in the Age of Diderot by Michael Fried
RRP: £28.00£27.39With this widely acclaimed work, Fried revised the way in which eighteenth-century French painting and criticism were viewed and understood."A reinterpretation supported by immense learning and by a series of brilliantly perceptive readings of paintings... -
The Material Renaissance by Michelle O'Malley 9780719081255
RRP: £19.99£17.61Despite the recent interests of economic and art historians in the workings of the market, we still know remarkably little about the everyday context for the exchange of objects and the meaning of demand in the lives of individuals in the Renaissance... -
Lee Krasner Robert Carleton Hobbs 9781558592834
RRP: £17.99£12.54Many of Krasner's male colleagues - including her husband, Jackson Pollock - developed a unique "signature" style that identified them throughout their careers. Krasner, however, experimented with one style after another, from her early geometric... -
Western Art of the Twenty-First Century: Cowboys by E. Ashley Rooney 9780764356193
RRP: £31.99£20.40The first in a two-volume survey, readers are invited to reexamine the history of the West and its art through a multifaceted modern lens. More than 40 artists are included who reflect the tremendous diversity, depth, and breadth of a field steeped in... -
The New Urban Aesthetic: Digital Experiences of Urban Change by Dr Mónica Montserrat Degen 9781350283510
£24.11Shortlisted for the Jane Jacobs Urban Communication Book Award 2023 Cities are key sites for the reproduction of global capitalism, and urban branding is central to this transformative dynamic. In the 21st century, cities are also being profoundly... -
The Loft Generation: From the de Koonings to Twombly: Portraits and Sketches, 1942-2011 by Edith Schloss
RRP: £16.99£11.54The Loft Generation: From the de Koonings to Twombly; Portraits and Sketches, 1942-2011 is an invaluable account by an artist at the center of a landmark era in American art. Edith Schloss writes about the painters, poets, and musicians who were part of... -
Play and the Artist's Creative Process: The Work of Philip Guston and Eduardo Paolozzi Elly Thomas 9781032178370
RRP: £39.99£35.06Play and the Artist's Creative Process explores a continuity between childhood play and adult creativity. The volume examines how an understanding of play can shed new light on processes that recur in the work of Philip Guston and Eduardo Paolozzi. Both... -
Social History of Art, Volume 1: From Prehistoric Times to the Middle Ages by Arnold Hauser
RRP: £35.99£32.09First 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... -
Sanctuaries and the Sacred in the Ancient Greek World by John Pedley 9780521006354
RRP: £37.99£34.43The first chapters outline important themes and issues, including locations and their meanings, defining features of sanctuaries, the relationship between structure and ritual, political as well as religious functions, transformations over time, and the... -
The Age of Reptiles: The Art and Science of Rudolph Zallinger's Great Dinosaur Mural at Yale Rosemary Volpe 9780912532769
RRP: £14.99£13.03Rudolph Zallinger's 110-foot (33.5-meter) fresca secco painting of The Age of Reptiles is one of the largest natural history murals in the world. Completed in 1947, it is an overview of prehistoric life told through the principal features and concepts... -
Masterpieces of Classical Art by Dyfri Williams
RRP: £19.99£8.54The British Museum has one of the finest collection of antiquities from ancient Greece and Rome outside of those countries. This beautiful book investigates 180 of the most important works, including the most famous (such as the Parthenon sculptures) and... -
The Writings of Robert Motherwell by Robert Motherwell 9780520250482
RRP: £33.00£26.61Robert Motherwell (1915-1991), one of the leading American Abstract Expressionist painters, was also a theorist and exponent of the movement. His writing articulated the intent of the New York school - Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Adolph Gottlieb,... -
Art + Paris: Impressionists & Post-impressionists by Guides Museyon 9780982232095
RRP: £16.99£14.12Step inside the revolutionary lives of the Impressionists, a book that combines the best elements of art books and travel guides for a totally new take on Impressionist Paris. This comprehensive guide combines an introduction to late19th-century art... -
When Home Won't Let You Stay: Migration through Contemporary Art by Eva Respini
RRP: £42.50£37.21Insightful and interdisciplinary, this book considers the movement of people around the world and how contemporary artists contribute to our understanding of it In this timely volume, artists and thinkers join in conversation around the topic of global... -
The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion by Leo Steinberg 9780226771878
RRP: £37.00£36.17Steinberg argues in this work that the artists regarded the deliberate exposure of Christ's genitalia as an affirmation of kinship with the human condition. Christ's lifelong virginity, understood as potency under check, and the first offer of blood in... -
Keith Haring: 31 Subway Drawings by Jeffrey Deitch
RRP: £35.00£29.86A fascinating look at Keith Haring's New York City subway artwork from the 1980sCelebrated artist Keith Haring (1958-1990) has been embraced by popular culture for his signature bold graphic line drawings of figures and forms. Like other graffiti artists... -
Gawkers: Art and Audience in Late Nineteenth-Century France by Bridget Alsdorf
RRP: £55.00£42.91How the urban spectator became the archetypal modern viewer and a central subject in late nineteenth-century French artGawkers explores how artists and writers in late nineteenth-century Paris represented the seductions, horrors, and banalities of street... -
Experiencing Medieval Art by Herbert L. Kessler 9781442600713
RRP: £34.00£29.89Across the nine thematic chapters of Experiencing Medieval Art, renowned art historian Herbert L. Kessler considers functional objects as well as paintings and sculptures; the circumstances, processes, and materials of production; the conflictual... -
Origins of Modern Art: Masterworks of Modernism from Monet to Kandinsky, Delaunay, Turner & Klee. by Rosalind Ormiston 9781783616107
£15.24The tender roots of Modern Art can be seen in the wild sea paintings of Turner, as early as the mid 19th Century, but it took the Impressionists and the Pre-Raphaelites to break the elite classical mode, until the final blows were dealt in the early... -
All Things Move: Learning to Look in the Sistine Chapel by Jeannie Marshall
RRP: £13.99£9.26A deeply personal search for meaning in Michelangelo's frescoes-and an impassioned defence of the role of art in a fractured age.What do we hope to get out of seeing a famous piece of art? Jeannie Marshall asked that question of herself when she started... -
Sean Scully: Land Sea Danilo Eccher 9788857227580
RRP: £28.00£19.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857227580Author Danilo EccherFormat HardbackPage Count 168Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 1090g -
Symbionts: Contemporary Artists and the Biosphere by Caroline A. Jones
RRP: £41.00£27.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262544481Author Caroline A. JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Art Is Not What You Think It Is Donald Preziosi (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) 9781405192392
RRP: £22.95£20.14Art Is Not What You Think It Is utilizes original research to present a series of critical incursions into the current state of debate on the idea of art, making manifest what has been largely missing or unsaid in those discussions. * Links museology,... -
Eileen Hogan: Personal Geographies by Elisabeth R. Fairman
RRP: £55.00£47.29This visually stunning survey provides an in-depth look at Eileen Hogan's (b. 1946) working methods. Covering her entire career, it focuses particularly on two dominant themes in the artist's oeuvre-enclosed gardens and portraiture. Her depictions of... -
Introducing Modernism: A Graphic Guide by Chris Rodrigues
RRP: £8.99£6.70Modernism is usually thought of as a shock wave of innovations hitting art, architecture, music, cinema and literature - the work of Picasso, Joyce, Schoenberg, movements like Futurism and Dada, the architecture of Le Corbusier, T.S. Eliot's The... -
Eye for Detail: Images of Plants and Animals in Art and Science, 1500-1630 by Florike Egmond 9781780236407
RRP: £45.00£44.05Image-transforming techniques such as close-up, time lapse, and layering are generally associated with the age of photography, but as Florike Egmond shows in this book, they were already being used half a millennium ago. Exploring the world of natural... -
The Wanderers and Critical Realism in Nineteenth Century Russian Painting: Critical Realism in Nineteenth-Century Russia by David Jackson 9780719064357
RRP: £35.00£24.70The rise of critical realism in nineteenth-century Russia culminated in 1870 with the formation of the Wanderers, Russia's first independent artistic society. Through depictions of the harsh lives of the peasantry, the fate of political activists,... -
An American Odyssey: The Life and Work of Romare Bearden by Mary Schmidt Campbell
RRP: £27.99£26.22One of the most important and underappreciated visual artists of the twentieth century, Romare Bearden started as a cartoonist during his college years and emerged as a painter during the 1930s, at the tail end of the Harlem Renaissance and in time to be... -
Enchantments: Joseph Cornell and American Modernism by Marci Kwon 9780691181400
RRP: £55.00£37.17The first major work to examine Joseph Cornell's relationship to American modernismJoseph Cornell (1903-1972) is best known for his exquisite and alluring box constructions, in which he transformed found objects-such as celestial charts, glass ice cubes,...