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The Colouring Book of Glasgow by Eilidh Muldoon
RRP: $15.42$10.43Iconic views of Glasgow in the latest of Birlinn's series of colouring books, all featuring Eilidh Muldoon's inimitable artwork. Includes: Glasgow Cathedral * Kelvingrove Museum * Riverside Museum * Gallery of Modern Art * Pollok House * People's... -
Ancient Egyptian Jewelry: 50 Masterpieces of Art and Design by Nigel Fletcher-Jones 9789774169656
RRP: $34.29$28.17Jewelry was worn by ancient Egyptians at every level of society and, like their modern descendants, they prized it for its aesthetic value, as a way to adorn and beautify the body. It was also a conspicuous signifier of wealth, status, and power. But... -
Think Like an Artist: . . . and Lead a More Creative, Productive Life by Will Gompertz
RRP: $18.85$13.33Think Like an Artist by BBC Arts editor Will Gompertz - wisdom and smart thinking from Da Vinci to Ai WeiweiWhy do some people seem to find it easy to come up with fresh, brilliant ideas? And how do they turn them into something worthwhile?After spending... -
Paul Nash: Designer and Illustrator by James King
RRP: $77.19$58.32Exploring the ways in which painting, applied design and illustration intertwined over the course of the accomplished career of Paul Nash (1889-1946), this book provides a new perspective on one of the most gifted and celebrated English artists of the... -
Girl on Girl: Art and Photography in the Age of the Female Gaze by Charlotte Jansen
RRP: $29.14$20.48A new generation of women is taking the art world - online and offline - by storm. In an image-obsessed culture saturated with social media, these 40 artists are using photography and the female gaze to redefine the fields of fashion, art, advertising... -
Isokon and the Bauhaus in Britain by Leyla Daybelge
RRP: $42.88$30.48In the mid-1930s, three giants of the international Modern movement, Bauhaus professors Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, fled Nazi Germany and sought refuge in Hampstead in the most exciting new apartment block in Britain. The Lawn... -
Eric Ravilious: Artist and Designer by Alan Powers
RRP: $51.44$38.37More popular than ever, the work of Eric Ravilious (1903-42) is rooted in the landscape of pre-war and early wartime England. This best-selling book by Alan Powers, the established authority on Ravilious, provides the most comprehensive overview to date... -
William Blake Masterpieces of Art by Michael Kerrigan 9781804177075
RRP: $22.28$15.44Rich and delicate, ethereal and muscular, the art of William Blake is as fascinating as the philosophies threading through his poetry and prophetic works. Presented here in this magnificent new collection, his vivid paintings and gently weaving... -
Lorca, Bunuel, Dali: Forbidden Pleasures and Connected Lives by Gwynne Edwards 9781848850071
$92.45Lorca, Bunuel and Dali were, in their respective fields of poetry and theatre, cinema, and painting, three of the most imaginative creative artists of the twentieth century; their impact was felt far beyond the boundaries of their native Spain. But if... -
Bauhaus Effects in Art, Architecture, and Design by Kathleen James-Chakraborty 9781032214689
RRP: $68.59$60.14Bringing together an international team of scholars, this book offers new perspectives on the impact that the Bauhaus and its teaching had on a wide range of artistic practices. Three of the fields in which the Bauhaus generated immediately... -
Early Mondrian: Painting 1900-1905 by Hans Janssen
RRP: $34.31$22.90This publication spotlights the celebrated modern artist Piet Mondrian's early career, a prolific period that saw the artist focus on figurative landscape painting. Primarily made during the artist's time in Amsterdam at the turn of the twentieth... -
The Pachinko Parlour by Elisa Shua Dusapin 9781914198168
RRP: $17.14$11.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914198168Author Elisa Shua DusapinFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Daunt BooksPublisher Daunt Books -
Pieter Bruegel and the Idea of Human Nature by Elizabeth Alice Honig
RRP: $25.64$18.7316th-century Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder redefined how people perceived human nature. Bruegel turned his critical eye to mankind's labours and pleasures, its foibles and rituals of daily life. Portraying landscapes, peasant life and biblical... -
The Fantastic Gustave Doré by Alix Paré
RRP: $85.77$64.53If you were a consumer of literature in the nineteenth century, chances are the volumes in your library featured the illustrations of Gustave Dore. From the Bible to Shakespeare, Balzac to Milton, Cervantes to Poe, Dore's intricate, romantic, and... -
Contemporary Art by Natalie Rudd
RRP: $22.28$14.75A plain speaking, jargon-free account of contemporary art that identifies key themes and approaches, providing the reader with a clear understanding of the contexts in which art is being made today. Since the 1960s contemporary art has overturned the... -
Meet the Ancient Romans by James Davies
RRP: $15.42$9.98There's so much to digest when it comes to History - how do you know where to begin? These incredible short introductions are just the thing for readers who are beginning to explore ancient history. Get to know the basics on Ancient Rome from gladiators... -
Total War: Warhammer - The Art of the Games by Paul Davies
RRP: $60.02$44.37Explore the world of all three Total War: WARHAMMER games in this stunning compendium, packed with concept art, final designs, storyboards, and artist commentary. Total War: WARHAMMER is the award-winning PC strategy game trilogy from Creative... -
Bernini: His Life and His Rome by Franco Mormando
RRP: $30.88$27.10Sculptor, architect, painter, playwright, and scenographer, Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) was the last of the great universal artistic geniuses of early modern Italy, placed by both contemporaries and posterity in the same exalted company as Leonardo,... -
On Painting by Leon Battista Alberti
RRP: $15.42$11.06Artist, architect, poet and philosopher, Leon Battista Alberti revolutionized the history of art with his theories of perspective in On Painting (1435). Inspired by the order and beauty inherent in nature, his groundbreaking work sets out the principles... -
The Master Painters of the Dutch Golden Age: Their lives and works in 500 images by Susie Hodge
RRP: $29.14$22.78Named retrospectively, the Golden Age was a period when the new Dutch Republic had become the most prosperous nation in Europe, leading in trade, science and art. From 1600 for almost a century, more than four million paintings were produced there, and... -
The Art of Print: From Hogarth to Hockney by Elizabeth Jacklin
RRP: $42.88$32.97Prints have played a unique and vital role in the history of art and image. Yet printmaking remains a mysterious discipline, often considered in terms of reproduction instead of as an innovative and highly considered creative process. Among the... -
The Renaissance Complete by Margaret Aston
RRP: $51.46$36.02No period has been more discussed, dissected and argued over than the Renaissance, and every age has reconstructed it in its own image. Today's emphasis is on its complexity - the way ideas, politics, religion, society, art and science depended upon and... -
Barbara Rae: Arctic Sketchbooks by Barbara Rae 9781912520114
RRP: $29.07$19.74These sketchbooks, the work of the acclaimed Scottish artist Barbara Rae CBE RA during her three journeys towards the Northwest Passage in the depths of the Arctic Circle in 2015, 2016 and 2017, record in colourful and assured brush strokes the icebergs,... -
A Victim of Anonymity: The Master of the Saint Bartholomew Altarpiece by Neil MacGregor
RRP: $15.35$10.60Are 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... -
Living as Form: Socially Engaged Art from 1991-2011 by Nato Thompson
RRP: $42.88$28.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262534390Author Nato ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 254mm * 187mm * 25mm -
Art of Jazz: A Visual History by Alyn Shipton
RRP: $54.89$38.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623545048Author Alyn ShiptonFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Imagine Publishing, IncPublisher Charlesbridge Publishing,U.S. -
Baroque Naples and the Industry of Painting: The World in the Workbench by Christopher R. Marshall
RRP: $98.63$84.56The second largest city in 17th-century Europe, Naples constituted a vital Mediterranean center in which the Spanish Habsburgs, the clergy, and Neapolitan aristocracy, together with the resident merchants, and other members of the growing professional... -
The Other Side: A Journey into Women, Art and the Spirit World by Jennifer Higgie
RRP: $37.74$24.97'In effervescent and atmospheric prose, Jennifer Higgie explores some of history's most innovative artists and their spiritual investigations into this realm and the next. I was entranced from start to finish, as she takes us on both a personal and... -
Florence: The Paintings & Frescoes, 1250-1743 by Ross King
RRP: $111.49$76.42Every painted work that is on display in the Uffizi Gallery, The Pitti Palace, the Accademia, and the Duomo is included in the book, plus many or most of the works from 28 of the city's other magnificent museums and churches. The research and text are by... -
George Grosz in Berlin - The Relentless Eye by Sabine Rewald
RRP: $60.04$51.41A penetrating reevaluation of the period in which the German Expressionist George Grosz created his best-known, most searing satirical works This overdue investigation of George Grosz's (1893-1959) most compelling paintings, drawings, prints, and... -
A New Program for Graphic Design by David Reinfurt
RRP: $37.74$25.46A *New* Program for Graphic Design is the first Communication Design textbook expressly of and for the 21st century. Synthesizing the pragmatic with the experimental, this volume builds upon mid- to late-20th-century pedagogical models to convey advanced... -
Degas: His Life and Works in 500 Images by Jon Kear 9780754823889
RRP: $29.14$22.78A comprehensive reference book on the life and works of Edgar Degas, acknowledged as one of the greatest masters of all time. It offers a fascinating account of the artist's life, education, artistic influences and legacy, set in context of the turbulent... -
Chroma: A Book of Colour - June '93 by Derek Jarman
RRP: $17.14$12.20A poetic, passionate and intensely personal exploration of colour written during the final year of Derek Jarman's life -- with a new introduction by Ali Smith.In Chroma, his most poetic and lyrical book, Derek Jarman explores the uses of colour. Shifting... -
Wabi Sabi: The Japanese Art of Impermanence by Andrew Juniper
RRP: $18.85$12.69Developed out of the aesthetic philosophy of cha-no-yu (the tea ceremony) in fifteenth-century Japan, wabi sabi is an aesthetic that finds beauty in things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete.Taken from the Japanese words wabi, which translates to... -
The Ancestors of Christ Windows at Canterbury Cathedral by Jeffrey Weaver 9781606061466
$42.02This is an illuminating look at some of the oldest stained glass - and most famous medieval paintings - in all of England. Eighty-six near life-size figures of the male ancestors of Christ once looked down on the choir and eastern extension of the... -
Forged: Why Fakes are the Great Art of Our Age by Jonathon Keats 9780199928354
RRP: $25.71$22.86According to Vasari, the young Michelangelo often borrowed drawings of past masters, which he copied, returning his imitations to the owners and keeping originals. Half a millennium later, Andy Warhol made a game of "forging" the Mona Lisa, questioning... -
Trekking the Coast to Coast Path: Two-way trekking guide by Andrew McCluggage 9781912933143
RRP: $29.14$23.67The definitive two-way guide to the Coast to Coast Path: both eastbound and westbound routes are described in full. Real Maps: Full Ordnance Survey mapping inside (1:25,000). All accommodation is numbered and marked on the maps. 19 different itineraries:... -
A Day with Claude Monet in Giverny by Adrien Goetz
RRP: $38.59$26.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782080203069Author Adrien GoetzFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint FlammarionPublisher Editions FlammarionWeight(grams) 900g -
Geometry and Art: In the Modern Middle East by Roxane Zand
RRP: $68.61$46.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857240169Author Roxane ZandFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 1190g -
Albert and the Whale by Philip Hoare
RRP: $18.85$12.44A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR AN OBSERVER BEST ART BOOK OF 2021 SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2022 'This is a wonderful book. A...