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Dubuffet and the City - People, Place, and Urban Space by Sophie Berrebi 9783906915111
RRP: £30.00£19.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783906915111Author Sophie BerrebiFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Hauser & WirthPublisher Hauser & Wirth -
Translating Nature into Art: Holbein, the Reformation, and Renaissance Rhetoric by Jeanne Nuechterlein 9780271036922
RRP: £98.95£88.12Hans Holbein the Younger is best known for his work in Henry VIII's England, where he painted portraits and designed decorative objects for courtly circles. England, however, only accounts for half of Holbein's working life. He developed his artistic... -
Somewhere Something is Burning by Alice Frecknall 9781838021191
RRP: £10.00£7.00An examination of solitude and absence, the poems within this collection grapple with the reality and taboo of loneliness pitted against an anxiety of connecting. Exploring human relationships, breakdown in communication, and silence - self-inflicted or... -
A Companion to Roman Art by Barbara E. Borg 9781119077893
£51.61A Companion to Roman Art encompasses various artistic genres, ancient contexts, and modern approaches for a comprehensive guide to Roman art. Offers comprehensive and original essays on the study of Roman artContributions from distinguished scholars with... -
Reconciling Art and Mothering Rachel Epp Buller 9781138274440
RRP: £53.99£47.27Reconciling Art and Mothering contributes a chorus of new voices to the burgeoning body of scholarship on art and the maternal and, for the first time, focuses exclusively on maternal representations and experiences within visual art throughout the world... -
The Ancient View of Greek Art: Criticism, History, and Terminology by Jerome Jordan Pollitt 9780300015973
£40.99What did the ancient Greeks think about their own art? J.J. Pollitt attempts to answer this question by studying the critical terminology of the ancient Greeks-the terms they used to describe and evaluate sculpture, painting, and architecture. Although... -
The American Art Tapes:: Voices of Twentieth-Century Art by John Jones
RRP: £25.00£22.86In 1965, British artist and university lecturer John Jones left the UK with his wife and daughters to live in the US for a year and interview some 100 artists. There the family lived in Greenwich Village, and spent three months on a road trip west to... -
Art of the Renaissance Bronze, 1500-1650: The Robert H. Smith Collection by Anthony Radcliffe 9780856675904
RRP: £95.00£72.96The fruits of sixteen years of discriminating acquisition on the international art market, Robert Smith's is one of the most important collections of European bronzes in private hands today. The collection embraces the Renaissance in Italy and northern... -
The Controversy of Renaissance Art by Alexander Nagel
RRP: £65.00£63.41Many studies have shown that images - their presence in the daily lives of the faithful, the means used to control them, and their adaptation to secular uses - were at the heart of the Reformation crisis in northern Europe. But the question as it affects... -
The Serpent and the Lamb: Cranach, Luther, and the Making of the Reformation by Steven E. Ozment
RRP: £27.50£26.93Together, Cranach's paintings and Luther's powerful oratory created a force field that transformed Germany, Europe, and ultimately the Western world This compelling book retells and revises the story of the German Renaissance and Reformation through... -
Landscape and Religion from Van Eyck to Rembrandt Boudewijn Bakker 9781138247840
RRP: £53.99£47.27Offering a corrective to the common scholarly characterization of seventeenth-century Dutch landscape painting as modern, realistic and secularized, Boudewijn Bakker here explores the long history and purpose of landscape in Netherlandish painting. In... -
Animating Empire: Automata, the Holy Roman Empire, and the Early Modern World by Jessica Keating
RRP: £73.95£66.48In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, German clockwork automata were collected, displayed, and given as gifts throughout the Holy Roman, Ottoman, and Mughal Empires. In Animating Empire, Jessica Keating recounts the lost history of six such objects... -
The Pantheon: From Antiquity to the Present by Tod A. Marder 9780521809320
RRP: £120.00£82.03The Pantheon is one of the most important architectural monuments of all time. Thought to have been built by Emperor Hadrian in approximately AD 125 on the site of an earlier, Agrippan-era monument, it brilliantly displays the spatial pyrotechnics... -
Medici Women: Portraits of Power, Love, and Betrayal in the Court of Duke Cosimo I by Gabrielle Langdon 9780802095268
RRP: £37.00£32.82The ducal court of Cosimo I de' Medici in sixteenth-century Florence was one of absolutist, rule-bound order. Portraiture especially served the dynastic pretensions of the absolutist ruler, Duke Cosimo and his consort, Eleonora di Toledo, and was part of... -
The Many Faces of Art Forgery: From the Dark Side to Shades of Gray by William Casement 9781538158005
RRP: £30.00£26.68The Many Faces of Art Forgery: From the Dark Side to Shades of Gray provides a broad treatment that delves into historical highlights, philosophical insights, psychological profiles, economic theories, and legal statutes and cases. About the... -
Destruction Was My Beatrice: Dada and the Unmaking of the Twentieth Century by Jed Rasula
RRP: £25.00£20.37In 1916, as World War I raged around them, a group of bohemians gathered at a small cabaret in Zurich, Switzerland. After decorating the walls with art by Picasso and other avant-garde artists, they embarked on a series of extravagant performances. Three... -
Able Minds and Practiced Hands: Scotland's Early Medieval Sculpture in the 21st Century by SallyM. Foster
RRP: £39.99£35.46This book presents essays that exemplify key themes including the interdependence of conservation, research and access; the need for a 21st-century inventory of the medieval sculpture; the breadth and value of the wide range of the research tools; and... -
Sex & Violence, Death & Silence: Encounters with recent art by Gordon Burn
RRP: £20.00£14.55'The Pop artists were among the first to understand the desire of consumers to change their lives through the purchase of clean, manufactured commodities. YBA, on the other hand, was more interested in the dirt that accrues beneath the laminate surface... -
Rethinking Art History: Meditations on a Coy Science by Donald Preziosi 9780300049831
£22.38A general overview of the theoretical and institutional history of the discipline of art history. Refuting the image of art history as a discipline in crisis, Preziosi asserts that many of the dilemmas and contradictions of art history today are not new... -
The Viola d’Amore: Its History and Development by Rachael Durkin
RRP: £115.00£99.36This book provides the first scholarly history of the viola d'amore, a popular bowed string instrument of the Baroque era, with a unique tone produced by a set of metal sympathetic strings. Composers like Bach made use of the viola d'amore for its... -
Pirro Ligorio: The Renaissance Artist, Architect, and Antiquarian by David R. Coffin 9780271022932
RRP: £86.95£77.74Pirro Ligorio (1510-1583), an Italian architect and antiquarian who designed the Casino of Pius IV and large portions of the gardens of the Villa d'Este, has long been a notoriously elusive subject because of his daunting erudition and because his... -
Painted Palaces: The Rise of Secular Art in Early Renaissance Italy by Anne Dunlop 9780271034089
RRP: £91.95£82.66The emergence of the modern Western artwork is sometimes cast as a slow process of secularization, with the devotional charge of images giving way in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries to a focus on the beauty and innovation of the artwork itself. Our... -
Elegy Landscapes: Constable and Turner and the Intimate Sublime by Stanley Plumly
RRP: £23.99£18.78Stanley Plumly explores immortality in art through the work of two impressive landscape artists: John Constable and J.M.W. Turner. Seeking the transcendent aesthetic awe of the sublime and reeling from personal tragedy, these painters portrayed the... -
The Look of the Book: Manuscript Production in Shiraz, 1303-1452 by Elaine Wright 9780295991917
RRP: £62.00£55.16The Look of the Book assesses the role of the city of Shiraz in Iranian book production between the early fourteenth and mid-fifteenth centuries. It is the first detailed analysis of all aspects of the book--illumination, codicology, illustration,... -
The New Atlatl and Dart Workbook by Wyatt R Knapp 9780983110903
£14.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983110903Author Wyatt R KnappFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Onagocag PublishingPublisher Onagocag PublishingWeight(grams) 280g -
The Aesthetics of Uncertainty by Janet Wolff 9780231140973
RRP: £28.00£24.96Feminism, poststructuralism, postcolonialism, and Marxism, among other critical approaches, have undermined traditional notions of aesthetics in recent decades. But questions of aesthetic judgment and pleasure persist, and many critics now seek a "return... -
Outsider Art and Psychoanalytic Psychiatry: The “Nativity of Fools” at the Cogoleto Psychiatric Hospital by Cosimo Schinaia 9781032464503
RRP: £31.99£28.33Outsider Art and Psychoanalytic Psychiatry is a study of psychiatric institutes and psychiatric violence as seen through art created by the inhabitants of a psychiatric hospital.Cosimo Schinaia explores the history of the Cogoleto Psychiatric Hospital,... -
Animals and Early Modern Identity Pia F. Cuneo 9781138310339
RRP: £45.99£40.53Animals were everywhere in the early modern period and they impacted, at least in some way, the lives of every kind of early modern person, from the humblest peasant to the greatest prince. Artists made careers based on depicting them. English gentry... -
Creole: Portraits of France's Foreign Relations During the Long Nineteenth Century by Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby
RRP: £83.95£74.13This book addresses the unique and profound indeterminacy of "Creole," a label applied to white, black, and mixed-race persons born in French colonies during the nineteenth century. "Creole" implies that the geography of one's birth determines identity... -
Bauhaus Diaspora And Beyond: Transforming Education through Art, Design and Architecture by Ann Stephen 9780522875621
RRP: £35.99£24.03Bauhaus Diaspora and Beyond presents an extraordinary new Australasian cultural history. It is a migrant and refugee story: from 1930, the arrival of so many emigre, internee and refugee educators helped to transform art, architecture and design in... -
Homer and the Artists: Text and Picture in Early Greek Art by Anthony Snodgrass 9780521629812
RRP: £39.99£33.26This is a book about Homer, myth and art. The Iliad and Odyssey so dominate our view of ancient Greece that our natural reaction on viewing certain works of early Greek art is to identify them as 'scenes from Homer'. However, Anthony Snodgrass argues... -
Serial Drawing: Space, Time and the Art Object by Joe Graham 9781350464117
RRP: £27.99£24.67Serial Drawing offers a timely and rigorous exploration of a relatively little-researched art form. Serial drawings – artworks that are presented as singular works but are made up of distributed parts – are studied in fresh, contemporary terms with a... -
Ford Madox Brown, the Manchester Murals and the Matter of History by Colin Trodd
RRP: £85.00£39.89This book argues that Ford Madox Brown's murals in the Great Hall of Manchester Town Hall (1878-93) were the most important public art works of their day. Brown's twelve designs on the history of Manchester, remarkable exercises in the making of... -
Da Vinci's Ghost: Genius, Obsession, and How Leonardo Created the World in His Own Image by Toby Lester 9781439189245
RRP: £18.00£11.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439189245Author Toby LesterFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 140mm... -
An Australian artist in London: The untold story of Hewitt Henry Rayner (1902-1957) and his friendship with Walter Sickert by Roger Staton 9780955816017
RRP: £30.00£21.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955816017Author Roger StatonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Pegasus Press LtdPublisher Pegasus Press LtdWeight(grams) 513g -
Pygmalion's Power: Romanesque Sculpture, the Senses, and Religious Experience by Thomas E. A. Dale
RRP: £88.95£80.06Pushed to the height of its illusionistic powers during the first centuries of the Roman Empire, sculpture was largely abandoned with the ascendancy of Christianity, as the apparent animation of the material image and practices associated with sculpture... -
Guillermo Kuitca by Guillermo Kuitca
RRP: £40.00£27.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783906915432Author Guillermo KuitcaFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Hauser & WirthPublisher Hauser & WirthWeight(grams) 1247gDimensions(mm) 297mm *... -
How Folklore Shaped Modern Art: A Post-Critical History of Aesthetics Wes Hill 9780815386551
RRP: £44.99£39.28Since the 1990s, artists and art writers around the world have increasingly undermined the essentialism associated with notions of "critical practice." We can see this manifesting in the renewed relevance of what were previously considered "outsider" art... -
Architecture as Icon: Perception and Representation of Architecture in Byzantine Art by Slobodan Curcic 9780300122114
£69.58Presenting the first formulation of the central subject, this volume challenges major assumptions long held by Western art historians and provides new ways of thinking about, looking at, and understanding Byzantine art in its broadest geographic and... -
Studies in Late Antique, Byzantine and Medieval Western Art, Volume 2: Studies in Medieval Western Art and the Art of Norman Sicily by Ernst Kitzinger 9781904597087
RRP: £30.00£29.51Over the past sixty-five years Ernst Kitzinger has been one of the foremost interpreters of the art of Late Antiquity, Byzantium and the medieval West. Beginning with his "influential doctoral dissertation, reprinted here, on early medieval painting in...