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Vermeer and the Art of Love by Aneta Georgievska-Shine
RRP: £39.99£30.33Vermeer and the Art of Love is about the emotions evoked in those elegant interiors in which a young woman may be writing a letter to her absent beloved or playing a virginal in the presence of an admirer. But it is also about the love we sense in the... -
The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume II: From the Early Christian Era to the "Age of Discovery", Part 1: From the Demonic Threat to the Incarnation of Sainthood: New Edition by David Bindman
RRP: £88.95£73.16In the 1960s, art patron Dominique de Menil founded an image archive showing the ways that people of African descent have been represented in Western art. Highlights from her collection appeared in three large-format volumes that quickly became... -
Feminism and Art History Now: Radical Critiques of Theory and Practice by Victoria Horne
£29.07To what extent have developments in global politics, artworld institutions and local cultures reshaped the critical directions of feminist art historians? The significant research gathered in Feminism and Art History Now engages with the rich inheritance... -
Artemisia Gentileschi: The Language of Painting by Jesse M. Locker
RRP: £35.00£29.57Hailed as one of the most influential and expressive painters of the seventeenth century, Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-ca. 1656) has figured prominently in the art historical discourse of the past two decades. This attention to Artemisia, after many years... -
American Modernism: Highlights from the Philadelphia Museum of Art by Jessica Smith
RRP: £27.50£23.89With an emphasis on painting and sculpture made in the United States between 1910 and 1950, this gorgeously illustrated volume offers a rich introduction to American modernism through the world-class collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The... -
The History of Asian Art: A Global View by De-nin D. Lee 9780500094167
RRP: £70.00£48.78A highly illustrated history of the diverse visual art produced across East Asia, South Asia and Southeast Asia, written by two specialist art historians. Asia is home to more than half the world’s population, and learning about the art of its many... -
Unravelled: Contemporary Knit Art by Charlotte Vannier
RRP: £29.95£20.98Knitting and crochet have long been considered forms of folk art, but in the 21st century, these time-honoured crafts are breaking away from the outdated stereotype of cosy domesticity. Whether miniature or oversized, multi-coloured or monochrome,... -
Art and Violence in Early Renaissance Florence by Scott Nethersole
RRP: £65.00£63.41This study is the first to examine the relationship between art and violence in 15th-century Florence, exposing the underbelly of a period more often celebrated for enlightened and progressive ideas. Renaissance Florentines were constantly subjected to... -
Art Hiding in New York: An Illustrated Guide to the City's Secret Masterpieces by Lori Zimmer
RRP: £20.00£16.57There's so much to love about New York, and so much to see. The city is full of art, and architecture, and history -- and not just in museums. Hidden in plain sight, in office building lobbies, on street corners, and tucked into Soho lofts, there's a... -
Forties Fashion: From Siren Suits to the New Look by Jonathan Walford
RRP: £19.95£14.33This is the definitive book on fashion in the 1940s, covering everything from French style under the Occupation and the 'make do and mend' mentality, through issues of dress, patriotism and propaganda and the development of faux fabrics and rationing, to... -
Video Green: Los Angeles Art and the Triumph of Nothingness by Chris Kraus
RRP: £15.99£14.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584350224Author Chris KrausFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher AutonomediaWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 16mm -
Plundering Beauty: A History of Art Crime during War by Arthur Tompkins 9781848222199
RRP: £35.00£26.68The roll-call of wars down the centuries is paralleled by an equally extensive narrative of the theft, destruction, plundering, displacement and concealing of some of the greatest works of art during those conflicts - a story that is expertly told in... -
Modern Art and St Ives: International Exchanges 1915-65 by Paul Denison
£21.19Modern Art and St. Ives explores the art and artists associated with this seaside Cornwall town from 1915 to 1965. The authors investigate how the art of St. Ives drew upon two key strands of modern art: the utopian ideal of constructivism that began in... -
The Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition of 1857: Entrepreneurs, Connoisseurs and the Public Elizabeth A. Pergam 9781138272828
RRP: £49.99£43.90An overdue study of a groundbreaking event, this is the first book-length examination of the Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition of 1857. Intended to rehabilitate Manchester's image at a heady time of economic prosperity, the Exhibition became a... -
After Criticism: New Responses to Art and Performance Gavin Butt 9780631232841
RRP: £40.95£35.89It has recently become apparent that criticism has fallen on hard times. Either commodification is deemed to have killed it off, or it has become institutionally routine. This book explores contemporary approaches which have sought to renew criticism's... -
Notes Towards a Conditional Art Robert Irwin 9781606065501
RRP: £26.00£22.10Robert Irwin began his career in the 1950s as an abstract painter. As a pioneer of the Light and Space movement in Los Angeles in the 1970s and early '80s, Irwin focused on exploring aesthetic perception as the fundamental feature of art, culminating in... -
Katharina Grosse by Gregory Volk 9781848223233
RRP: £49.99£12.18This is the most comprehensive monograph to-date on the innovative abstract site-related installations of German artist Katharina Grosse (b.1961). Grosse's daring move from the canvas into both architectural space and the landscape, with her signature... -
Leonora Carrington and the International Avant-Garde by Catriona McAra
RRP: £30.00£21.71Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) was an English surrealist artist and writer who emigrated to Mexico after the Second World War. This volume approaches Carrington as a major international figure in modern and contemporary art, literature and thought. It... -
The Moment of Self-Portraiture in German Renaissance Art Joseph Leo Koerner 9780226449999
RRP: £52.00£51.31In this groundbreaking and elegantly written study, Joseph Koerner establishes the character of Renaissance art in Germany. Opening up new modes of inquiry for historians of art and early modern Europe, Koerner examines how artists such as Albrecht Durer... -
Nick Hornby by Nick Hornby
RRP: £35.00£24.29Nick Hornby (b. 1980, London) is one of the leading sculptors of his generation in Britain today, creating works on both intimate and monumental scales, and at the intersection of art history and contemporary technology. Hornby's practice uses software... -
Museums, Society, Inequality by Richard Sandell
RRP: £37.99£33.38Museums, Society, Inequality explores the wide-ranging social roles and responsibilities of the museum. It brings together international perspectives to stimulate critical debate, inform the work of practitioners and policy makers, and to advance... -
Duchamp by Janis Mink
RRP: £15.00£14.22When is a urinal no longer a urinal? When Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) declared it to be art. The uproar that greeted the French artist's Fountain (1917), a porcelain urinal installed in a gallery, sent shock waves through the art world establishment that... -
The Black Art Renaissance: African Sculpture and Modernism across Continents by Joshua I. Cohen
RRP: £55.00£43.91Reading African art's impact on modernism as an international phenomenon, The "Black Art" Renaissance tracks a series of twentieth-century engagements with canonical African sculpture by European, African American, and sub-Saharan African artists and... -
Look Again: Death by Sean Burns 9781849768658
RRP: £10.00£7.12Death haunts art. It lurks in the shadows of Edward Collier's Still Life as a reminder of our fragile mortality. It conquers all in Francis Bacon's Triptych and Anna Lea Merritt's Love Locked Out. But how has death emerged as such a persistent theme in... -
Myth and Environmentalism: Arts of Resilience for a Damaged Planet by Esther Sánchez-Pardo 9781032391342
RRP: £36.99£32.53This volume traces the interconnections between myth, environmentalism, narrative, poetry, comics, and innovative artistic practice, using this as a framework through which to examine strategies for repairing our unhealthy relationship with the planet... -
In Search of Ramsden and Carr by Helen Ashton 9781911604150
RRP: £25.00£17.30Sheffield born silversmiths and designers working in the Arts and Crafts movement The Art and Crafts period is perennially fashionable A fascinating history of history of one of the most successful silversmithing collaborations of the 20th Century Major... -
Between Art and Anthropology: Contemporary Ethnographic Practice Arnd Schneider 9781847885005
RRP: £35.99£31.69Between Art and Anthropology provides new and challenging arguments for considering contemporary art and anthropology in terms of fieldwork practice. Artists and anthropologists share a set of common practices that raise similar ethical issues, which the... -
The Art of Cloth in Mughal India by Sylvia Houghteling
RRP: £60.00£50.10A richly illustrated history of textiles in the Mughal EmpireIn the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, a vast array of textiles circulated throughout the Mughal Empire. Made from rare fibers and crafted using virtuosic techniques, these exquisite... -
A History of Armenia by Vahan M Kurkjian 9781604447712
£17.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604447712Author Vahan M KurkjianFormat PaperbackPage Count 412Imprint Indoeuropeanpublishing.comPublisher Indoeuropeanpublishing.comWeight(grams)... -
Avant-Garde Art in Ukraine, 1910-1930: Contested Memory by Myroslav Shkandrij 9781644696279
RRP: £24.99£24.95Many of the greatest avant-garde artists of the early twentieth century were Ukrainians or came from Ukraine. Whether living in Paris, St. Petersburg or Kyiv, they made major contributions to painting, sculpture, theatre, and film-making. Because their... -
Francisco de Goya and the Art of Critique by Anthony J. Cascardi
RRP: £35.00£28.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942130697Author Anthony J. CascardiFormat HardbackPage Count 376Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 982gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 167mm *... -
Ottoman Baroque: The Architectural Refashioning of Eighteenth-Century Istanbul by Unver Rustem 9780691181875
RRP: £60.00£46.70A new approach to late Ottoman visual culture and its place in the worldWith its idiosyncratic yet unmistakable adaptation of European Baroque models, the eighteenth-century architecture of Istanbul has frequently been dismissed by modern observers as... -
Western Art of the Twenty-First Century: Native Americans by E. Ashley Rooney 9780764356209
RRP: £27.99£18.02The second book in this two-volume survey, readers are invited to reexamine the history of the West and its art through a multifaceted modern lens. More than 30 artists are included who reflect the tremendous diversity, depth, and breadth of a field... -
Artists Under Hitler: Collaboration and Survival in Nazi Germany by Jonathan Petropoulos
RRP: £32.50£27.95A penetrating inquiry into the motives, moral dilemmas, and compromises of Walter Gropius, Emil Nolde, and other celebrated artists who chose to remain in Nazi Germany "What are we to make of those cultural figures, many with significant... -
Modern Art in Egypt: Identity and Independence, 1850-1936 by Fatenn Mostafa
RRP: £70.00£53.88Following a spectacular surge in interest for Egyptian masters, Modern Art in Egypt fills the void in Egyptian art history, chronicling the lives and legacies of six pioneering artists working under the British occupation. Using Western-style academic... -
Claes Oldenburg by Nadja Rottner 9780262516938
£26.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262516938Author Nadja RottnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 431g -
The Haight by Joel Selvin
RRP: £25.00£21.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647220525Author Joel SelvinFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Insight EditionsPublisher Insight Editions -
The Architecture of Roman Temples: The Republic to the Middle Empire by John W. Stamper 9780521723718
RRP: £39.99£33.26This book examines the development of Roman temple architecture from its earliest history in the sixth century BC to the reigns of Hadrian and the Antonines in the second century AD. Although archaeologists, architects, and historians have studied the... -
Opening Up Middle English Manuscripts: Literary and Visual Approaches by Kathryn Kerby-Fulton
RRP: £44.00£39.94This deeply informed and lavishly illustrated book is a comprehensive introduction to the modern study of Middle English manuscripts. It is intended for students and scholars who are familiar with some of the major Middle English literary works, such as... -
Women Photographers and Feminist Aesthetics Claire Raymond 9781138644281
RRP: £36.99£32.53Women Photographers and Feminist Aesthetics makes the case for a feminist aesthetics in photography by analysing key works of twenty-two women photographers, including cis- and trans-woman photographers.Claire Raymond provides close readings of key...