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Concentrationary Memories: Totalitarian Terror and Cultural Resistance by Griselda Pollock
RRP: £26.99£24.93Concentrationary Memories has, as its premise, the idea at the heart of Alain Resnais's film Night and Fog (1955) that the concentrationary plague unleashed on the world by the Nazis in the 1930s and 1940s is not simply confined to one place and one time... -
The Bauhaus and Public Relations: Communication in a Permanent State of Crisis Patrick Roessler (University of Erfurt, Germany) 9781138097834
RRP: £47.99£41.81This innovative study considers one of the most important art and design movements of the 20th century, the Bauhaus, in conjunction with current research in public relations and organizational communication, elaborating on the mechanisms of internal and... -
Fonthill Recovered by Caroline Dakers 9781013291036
RRP: £43.95£38.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013291036Author Caroline DakersFormat HardbackPage Count 428Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g -
Western Art, Western History: Collected Essays by Ron Tyler
£71.52For nearly half a century, celebrated historian Ron Tyler has researched, interpreted, and exhibited western American art. This splendid volume, gleaned from Tyler's extensive career of connoisseurship, brings together eight of the author's most notable... -
A Royal Renaissance Treasure and its Afterlives: The Royal Clock Salt by Timothy Schroder 9780861592272
£60.90At centre stage in this volume is the Royal Clock Salt, an exceptional national treasure from the courtly culture of the Renaissance. Most probably made in Paris around 1530 by Pierre Mangot, the royal goldsmith to Francis I, the Clock Salt is somewhere... -
The Coptic Tapestry Albums and the Archaeologist of Antinoe, Albert Gayet by Nancy Arthur Hoskins 9780295983745
RRP: £45.00£41.70Vibrant tapestries of beribboned birds, cantering centaurs, and Dionysian dancers, woven in Coptic Egypt more than a thousand years ago, were artfully arranged in a handsome pair of albums in 1913. Some of the fabrics are shown in unique collage... -
Dimensionism: Modern Art in the Age of Einstein by Vanja V. Malloy
RRP: £32.00£23.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262038478Author Vanja V. MalloyFormat HardbackPage Count 344Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
New Tendencies: Art at the Threshold of the Information Revolution (1961 - 1978) by Armin Medosch 9780262546638
£44.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262546638Author Armin MedoschFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 178g -
Mary Berenson: A Self-Portrait from Her Diaries and Letters by Barbara Strachey 9780393333824
RRP: £20.00£18.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393333824Author Barbara StracheyFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint WW Norton & CoPublisher WW Norton & Co -
Writing the Lives of Painters: Biography and Artistic Identity in Britain 1760-1810 by Karen Junod 9780199597000
RRP: £117.50£109.81Writing the Lives of Painters explores the development of artists' biographies in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain. During this period artists gradually distanced themselves from artisans and began to be recognised for their imaginative... -
Art and Merchandise in Keith Haring's Pop Shop by Amy Raffel
RRP: £37.99£33.38As one of the first academic monographs on Keith Haring, this book uses the Pop Shop, a previously overlooked enterprise, and artist merchandising as tools to reconsider the significance and legacy of Haring's career as a whole.Haring developed an... -
Swedish Ecstacy: Hilma af Klint, August Strindberg and Other Visionaries by Daniel Birnbaum 9780300273052
RRP: £45.00£37.63This book explores the works of one of Sweden's most esteemed artists, Hilma af Klint, alongside others in her artistic circle - and examines their inspirational influence on contemporary artists working today.Swedish Ecstasy tells the story of renowned... -
Primitivism in Modern Art by Robert Goldwater 9780674281875
RRP: £54.95£45.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674281875Author Robert GoldwaterFormat HardbackPage Count 364Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 689g -
Reframing Abstract Expressionism: Subjectivity and Painting in the 1940s by Michael Leja 9780300070828
£44.28In the wake of World War II, the paintings of Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Willem de Kooning, and other New York School artists participated in a culture-wide initiative to reimagine the self. At a time when widely held beliefs about... -
The True Face of Sir Isaac Brock by Guy St-Denis 9781773850207
RRP: £29.95£22.21Major General Sir Isaac Brock is remembered as the Hero of Upper Canada for his defence of what is now Ontario during the War of 1812, and also for his noble death at the Battle of Queenston Heights. In the more than two centuries since then, Brock's... -
Frozen Lives: Karl and Anna Kuerner, Andrew Wyeth's Iconic Couple by LuLynne Streeter 9780764354151
RRP: £18.99£12.27To their children, Karl and Anna were "ordinary" people. To the rest of the world they were the extraordinary faces immortalized by Andrew Wyeth. Their story shows they were also far more complicated. Reflecting unprecedented access granted to the author... -
I Almost Forgot: Unpublished Colin Rowe by Daniel Naegele
RRP: £36.00£21.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262047128Author Daniel NaegeleFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
History of the Surrealist Movement by Gerard Durozoi
RRP: £84.00£82.76"With its unprecedented depth and range, this massive new history of Surrealism from veteran French philosopher and art critic Durozoi will be the one-volume standard for years to come. . . . The book discusses expertly the main surrealist artists like... -
Fausto Melotti by Douglas Fogle 9783864421600
RRP: £23.50£20.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783864421600Author Hanneke SkerathFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Snoeck Verlagsgesellschaft mbHPublisher Snoeck Verlagsgesellschaft mbHWeight(grams)... -
A Stealth Game: The Kojima Code, Part II by Terry Wolfe 9780228828365
RRP: £38.50£35.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780228828365Author Terry WolfeFormat HardbackPage Count 378Imprint Tellwell TalentPublisher Tellwell TalentWeight(grams) 721g -
The Library of the Dukes of Burgundy by Bernard Bousmanne 9781912554249
£92.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912554249Author Bernard BousmanneFormat HardbackPage Count 205Imprint Harvey Miller PublishersPublisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 1139gDimensions(mm)... -
Cybernetic-Existentialism: Freedom, Systems, and Being-for-Others in Contemporary Arts and Performance by Steve Dixon
RRP: £38.99£35.58Cybernetic-Existentialism: Freedom, Systems, and Being-for-Others in Contemporary Arts and Performance offers a unique discourse and an original aesthetic theory. It argues that fusing perspectives from the philosophy of Existentialism with insights from... -
Chryssa & New York by Sophia Larigakis
RRP: £40.00£33.59The first major publication in more than thirty years on contemporary artist Chryssa, an innovator of light art Chryssa & New York offers a timely reassessment of Greek-born artist Chryssa (Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali, 1933-2013). Chryssa was a leading... -
Discovering Child Art: Essays on Childhood, Primitivism, and Modernism by Jonathan Fineberg 9780691086828
RRP: £70.00£62.51This book brings together thirteen distinguished critics and scholars to explore children's art and its profound but rarely documented influence on the evolution of modern art. It shows that children's art and childhood have inspired major works of art,... -
Images-within-Images in Italian Painting (1250-1350): Reality and Reflexivity Peter Bokody 9781138307445
RRP: £47.99£41.81The rebirth of realistic representation in Italy around 1300 led to the materialization of a pictorial language, which dominated Western art until 1900, and it dominates global visual culture even today. Paralleling the development of mimesis,... -
Pontius Pilate, Anti-Semitism, and the Passion in Medieval Art by Colum Hourihane
RRP: £75.00£60.49Pontius Pilate is one of the Bible's best-known villains--but up until the tenth century, artistic imagery appears to have consistently portrayed him as a benevolent Christian and holy symbol of baptism. For the first time, Pontius Pilate, Anti-Semitism,... -
The Acropolis (English language edition): Through its Museum by Panos Valavanis
RRP: £18.00£15.28This is not simply a guidebook to the Acropolis Museum: by presenting the works of art exhibited in the museum, it endeavours to resynthesize the history of the Sacred Rock as part of the cultural and the wider historical process of Athens. Following the... -
Art, Global Maoism and the Chinese Cultural Revolution by Jacopo Galimberti
RRP: £90.00£79.21This is the first book to explore the global influence of Maoism on modern and contemporary art. Featuring eighteen original essays written by established and emerging scholars from around the world, and illustrated with fascinating images not widely... -
Peter Halley: The Complete 1980s Paintings by Clement Dirie 9783037644812
£51.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783037644812Author Clement DirieFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint JRP RingierPublisher JRP Ringier -
Mannerism and Anti-Mannerism in Italian Painting by Walter Friedlaender 9780231083881
RRP: £28.00£24.96Focuses on IAFWA's status as a proponent of broadly applied conservation policies since its founding in 1902. The debate over state vs. federal jurisdiction in wildlife management is prominently discussed. Here are presented two essays by one of the... -
Deaths of Artists by Jim Moske 9780922233533
RRP: £28.99£19.24Starving Artist Knifed to Death in Village Room… Famous Artist Dies Penniless and All Alone… Deep in the archives of The Metropolitan Museum of Art are two strange scrapbooks packed with century-old newspaper obituaries of painters, illustrators,... -
Mirror of Reality: 19th-Century Painting in the Netherlands by Jenny Reynaerts
RRP: £45.00£40.03A beautifully designed and lavishly illustrated survey of 19th-century paintings in the Netherlands This comprehensive overview is the first book in more than 60 years on the underexplored history of painting in the Netherlands in the 19th century. Jenny... -
The Mental Life of Modernism: Why Poetry, Painting, and Music Changed at the Turn of the Twentieth Century by Samuel Jay Keyser
RRP: £27.00£17.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262043496Author Samuel Jay KeyserFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 21mm -
In Search of Julien Hudson: Free Artist of Color in Pre-Civil War New Orleans by William Keyse Rudolph 9780917860577
RRP: £24.99£17.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780917860577Author William Keyse RudolphFormat HardbackPage Count 114Imprint Historic New Orleans Collection,U.S.Publisher Historic New Orleans Collection,U... -
Robert Rauschenberg: An Oral History by Sara Sinclair
RRP: £22.00£17.36Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) was a breaker of boundaries and a consummate collaborator. He used silk-screen prints to reflect on American promise and failure, melded sculpture and painting in works called combines, and collaborated with engineers and... -
The Global Contemporary and the Rise of New Art Worlds by Hans Belting
RRP: £50.00£38.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262518345Author Hans BeltingFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 1860g -
Silver: Transformational Matter by Helen Hills 9780197267547
£90.28Silver transformed and convulsed the early modern world. Silver, even more than gold, occupied a deeply charged intersection of forces and dynamics - philosophical, religious, material, telluric, economic, colonialist, social, cultural, and courtly -... -
Art in England: The Saxons to the Tudors: 600-1600 by Sara N. James 9781785702235
£86.31Art in England fills a void in the scholarship of both English and medieval art by offering the first single volume overview of artistic movements in Medieval and Early Renaissance England. Grounded in history and using the chronology of the reign of... -
Hermann Goring and the Nazi Art Collection: The Looting of Europe's Art Treasures and Their Dispersal After World War II by Kenneth D. Alford 9780786468157
RRP: £28.99£23.38During World War II, the Nazis plundered from occupied countries millions of items of incalculable value estimated in the hundreds of millions of dollars. Spearheaded by Hermann Goring the looting program quickly created the largest private art... -
The Mosaics of Thessaloniki Revisited: English language edition by Antony Eastmond
RRP: £32.00£26.84Essays on the chronology and interpretation of the Byzantine mosaics of Thessaloniki. Thessaloniki contains the finest collection of surviving Byzantine mosaics in any one city. Made over the course of a millennium between the fourth and the fourteenth...