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Gee Vaucher: Beyond Punk, Feminism and the Avant-Garde by Dr Rebecca Binns
RRP: $34.31$25.92As one of the people who defined punk's protest art in the 1970s and 1980s, Gee Vaucher (b. 1945) deserves to be much better-known. She produced confrontational album covers for the legendary anarchist band Crass and later went on to do the same for... -
Ileana Sonnabend: Ambassador for the New by Ann Temkin
RRP: $34.22$24.58During a career spanning half a century, Ileana Sonnabend helped shape the course of postwar art in Europe and America. Both a gallerist and a noted collector, Sonnabend promoted some of the most significant art movements of her time. Artists as varied... -
Dead Children Playing: A Picture Book (Radiohead) by Stanley Donwood
RRP: $37.72$37.55Stanley Donwood and the enigmatic Dr Tchock are the elusive duo responsible for Radiohead's artwork. Containing paintings they have produced in the last decade, this book alsocontains a cornucopia of never-before-seen artwork. Featuring the... -
Gesture and line: four post-war German and Austrian artists from the Duerckheim Collection by Michael Semff 9780714126975
RRP: $42.88$28.78From the 1960s drawing assumed a prominent position in the practice of a rising generation of post-war artists in Germany and Austria. This publication examines works on paper by four artists still comparatively little known in the UK. While Georg... -
Global Activism: Art and Conflict in the 21st Century by Peter Weibel
RRP: $85.77$71.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262526890Author Peter WeibelFormat PaperbackPage Count 600Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War by Louis Menand 9780007126880
RRP: $25.71$16.64Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2022 Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Nonfiction The Cold War was not just a contest of power. It was also about ideas,... -
Ithell Colquhoun: Pioneer Surrealist Artist, Occultist, Writer, & Poet by Eric Ratcliffe
RRP: $51.46$32.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781869928988Author Eric RatcliffeFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Mandrake of OxfordPublisher Mandrake of OxfordWeight(grams) 776g -
David Hammons: Bliz-aard Ball Sale by Elena Filipovic
RRP: $30.86$20.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846381867Author Elena FilipovicFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Afterall PublishingPublisher Afterall Publishing -
Pareidolia: A Retrospective of Both Beloved and New Works by James Jean by PIE Books
RRP: $77.19$54.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784756247131Author PIE BooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint PIE BooksPublisher PIE Books -
The lady in Gold by Anne-Marie O'Connor
RRP: $27.43$18.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101873120Author Anne-Marie O'ConnorFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 289gDimensions(mm)... -
Adrian Berg by Marco Livingstone
RRP: $85.75$77.79Exploring the full breadth of work by British artist Adrian Berg RA (1929-2011), and drawing heavily on the artist's personal archive, this book discusses Berg's meticulous engagement with the landscape which resulted in an impressive oeuvre created over... -
Understanding Modern Art New Edition by Sam Phillips
RRP: $17.14$12.20An updated edition of the pocket-sized guide to the 'isms' of modern art. This is a handy guide to the art 'isms' of the modern day. From Impressionism and the birth of modern art to street art and Internationalism of the 21st century, it gives you a... -
Warhol: The Textiles by Geoffrey Rayner
RRP: $51.46$44.34The first publication devoted to the textile designs of one of the twentieth century's greatest artists, showcasing a rarely discussed aspect of the Pop Art superstar's career Andy Warhol (1928-1987), a giant of twentieth century art, is known to most... -
Elizabeth Peyton: Dark Incandescence by Kirsty Bell 9780847858552
RRP: $68.61$52.81Elizabeth Peyton s work has been acclaimed since the early 1990s, when she began exhibiting her intimate portraits of artists, musicians, historical figures, and friends. This new volume, prepared by the artist in collaboration with designer Brendan... -
Recording Britain by Gill Saunders
RRP: $51.46$43.17Recording Britain was an artistic documentary project compiled as the country was facing the potentially devastating impact of the Second World War. The resulting collection of more than 1500 watercolours and drawings, by artists such as John Piper,... -
The Loft Generation: From the de Koonings to Twombly: Portraits and Sketches, 1942-2011 by Edith Schloss
RRP: $29.14$20.84The 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... -
Jean Dubuffet: Brutal Beauty by Eleanor Nairne
RRP: $68.59$48.68In 1940s occupied Paris, Jean Dubuffet began to champion a progressive vision for art; one that rejected classical notions of beauty in favor of a more visceral aesthetic. Taking a pioneering approach to materiality and technique, the artist variously... -
Pulcinellopaedia Seraphiniana by Luigi Serafini
RRP: $51.37$37.60This delightful homage to Pulcinella (or Punch as he is referred to in English) contains over one hundred extraordinary pencil illustrations, some of which are depicted in comic-strip style. Divided into several scenes, it features the oddly... -
The Gardner Heist: The True Story of the World's Largest Unsolved Art Theft by Ulrich Boser 9780061451843
RRP: $18.85$12.44Shortly after midnight on March 18, 1990, two men broke into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston and committed the largest art heist in history. They stole a dozen masterpieces, including one Vermeer, three Rembrandts, and five Degas. But after... -
Jonny Hannah: Greetings from Darktown by Jonny Hannah
RRP: $51.46$40.10The illustrator Jonny Hannah was born and bred in Scotland, and now lives by the sea in Southampton, but he also resides in Darktown - a mysterious coastal town, not found on any map, peopled by pin-up girls, jazz artists and tattooed sailors. Darktown... -
50 Contemporary Artists You Should Know by Christiane Weidemann
RRP: $25.71$19.47From painters and photographers to sculptors and performance artists, fifty of the most influential contemporary artists are profiled in this colorful and engaging book that traces the various artistic movements and radical changes of the second half of... -
David Lynch: The Unified Field by Robert Cozzolino 9780520283961
RRP: $58.32$48.11David Lynch is internationally renowned as a filmmaker, but it is less known that he began his creative life as a visual artist and has maintained a devoted studio practice, developing an extensive body of painting, prints, photography, and drawing... -
Ruth Asawa Through Line by Kim Conaty 9780300273281
RRP: $68.61$60.36A groundbreaking examination of how the act of drawing was a vital component of Ruth Asawa's multifaceted art "A revelatory exhibition. . . . [A] fine exhibition catalog."-Nancy Princenthal, New York Times, "Critic's Pick" Ruth Asawa (1926-2013),... -
Clyfford Still: The Late Works by David Anfam
RRP: $60.04$43.38Clyfford Still (1904-1980) is a pioneer of Abstract Expressionism, along with Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, and Willem de Kooning. This revelatory book, accompanying a groundbreaking exhibition, investigates Clyfford Still s late work, both... -
Critical Landscapes: Art, Space, Politics by Emily Eliza Scott 9780520285484
RRP: $101.20$78.08From Francis Alys and Ursula Biemann to Vivan Sundaram, Allora & Calzadilla, and the Center for Urban Pedagogy, some of the most compelling artists today are engaging with the politics of land use, including the growth of the global economy, climate... -
Art, History, and Anachronic Interventions Since 1990 by Eva Kernbauer 9780367763268
RRP: $68.59$60.14This book examines contemporary artistic practices since 1990 that engage with, depict, and conceptualize history. Examining artworks by Kader Attia, Yael Bartana, Zarina Bhimji, Michael Blum, Matthew Buckingham, Tacita Dean, Harun Farocki and Andrei... -
Edmund de Waal: Ten Thousand Things by Joan Simon
RRP: $111.49$79.71Edmund de Waal's art speaks to his enduring fascination with the nature of objects and the attendant history of their collection and display. Confronting European and Asian traditions of intimate craftsmanship with the scale and sequence of minimalist... -
Incurable Disorder: The Art of Elizabeth McGrath by Elizabeth McGrath 9780867197761
RRP: $68.53$48.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780867197761Author Elizabeth McGrathFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Last Gasp,U.S.Publisher Last Gasp,U.S.Weight(grams) 1324g -
With and Against: the Situationist International in the Age of Automation by Dominique Routhier
RRP: $30.86$26.24No other art movement has so profoundly influenced radical politics as the Situationist International. But beyond the cliches about its purported leader Guy Debord, the "society of the spectacle," detournement and derive, lies a more complex story about... -
Donald Rodney: Autoicon by Richard Birkett
RRP: $30.86$22.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846382574Author Richard BirkettFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Afterall PublishingPublisher Afterall Publishing -
Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972 by Lucy R. Lippard
RRP: $49.74$37.87In Six Years Lucy R. Lippard documents the chaotic network of ideas that has been labeled conceptual art. The book is arranged as an annotated chronology into which is woven a rich collection of original documents--including texts by and taped... -
The London Art Schools by Nigel Llewellyn
RRP: $42.87$13.24Since 1960, progressive forces within art education have stoked, and continued to fire, new impulses in the field of artistic production. As society at large embraced youth and popular culture, art school students with international aspirations exploded... -
Listening to Clay: Conversations with Contemporary Japanese Ceramic Artists by Alice North
RRP: $77.10$58.89The first book to tell the stories of the most revered living Japanese ceramists of the century in their own words, tracing the evolution of modern and contemporary craft and art in Japan, and the artists' considerable influence, which far transcends... -
The Rainbow's Gravity: Colour, Materiality and British Modernity by Kirsty Sinclair Dootson
RRP: $77.19$64.55From Victorian breakthroughs in synthesising pigments to the BBC's conversion to chromatic broadcasting, the story of colour's technological development is inseparable from wider processes of modernisation that transformed Britain. This revolutionary... -
Haring-isms by Keith Haring
RRP: $24.00$19.13Essential quotations from renowned artist and pop icon Keith Haring Keith Haring remains one of the most important and celebrated artists of his generation and beyond. Through his signature bold graphic line drawings of figures and forms dancing and... -
Night Sketches by Gerhard Richter 9780956404152
RRP: $42.88$28.18This artist s book presents 84 reproductions of sketches taken from a notebook made by Gerhard Richter between 2004 and 2009. Some sketches feature figurative motifs, human forms and faces, while others appear as purely abstract shapes, configurations... -
Kirsty Bell - the Artist's House: From Workplace to Artwork by Kristy Bell
$48.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783943365306Author Kirsty BellFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Sternberg PressPublisher Sternberg PressWeight(grams) 947gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 177mm *... -
Sea Star: Sean Scully at the National Gallery by Daniel Herrmann 9781857096453
RRP: $34.31$30.84Sean Scully (b.1945) is an Irish-born, American-based painter and printmaker, best known for his monumental oil paintings which draw on the traditions of Abstract Expressionism. This catalogue showcases a recent body of work inspired by the National... -
Warhol: A Life as Art by Blake Gopnik
RRP: $29.14$22.81"Superb...Gopnik persuasively assembles his case over the course of this mesmerising book, which is as much art history and philosophy as it is biography" Kathryn Hughes, The GuardianWhen critics attacked Andy Warhol's Marilyn paintings as shallow, the ... -
A New History of Western Art: From Antiquity to the Present Day by Koenraad Jonckheere
RRP: $94.34$78.37A radical re-examination of 2,500 years of European art, deconstructing and demystifying its long history from ancient to present How has art evolved from the pursuit of the 'ideal' human form to a black square on a white canvas? Why is a banana...