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Others: Polimoda by Marco Bartolucci
RRP: £25.00£16.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857245379Author Marco BartolucciFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 490g -
What We Do Is Secret: Contemporary Art and the Antinomies of Conspiracy by Larne Abse Gogarty
£19.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783956795626Author Larne Abse GogartyFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Sternberg PressPublisher Sternberg PressWeight(grams) 269gDimensions(mm) 211mm *... -
Painting in the 1980s: Reimagining the Medium by Rosemary Cohane Erpf
RRP: £29.50£24.49This book is the first to explore, in depth, major painters of the period and the factors that shaped their art. Accessible to both art novice and specialist, it is written in jargon-free, readable language, blending vignettes about the soaring art... -
Twentieth-Century Boy: Notebooks of the Seventies by Duncan Hannah
RRP: £16.00£11.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524711221Author Duncan HannahFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint VintagePublisher VintageWeight(grams) 510gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm * 26mm -
Eric Gill: Lust for Letter & Line by Ruth Cribb
RRP: £9.99£6.80Eric Gill (1882-1940) is one of the twentieth century's most controversial artists. This illustrated introduction focuses on the clarity of Gill's drawn and cut line. It explores his genius as a letter cutter, wood engraver, sculptor and typographer in... -
Writings on Art by Mark Rothko
RRP: £28.50£23.67The first collection of Mark Rothko's writings, which range the entire span of his career While the collected writings of many major 20th-century artists, including Barnett Newman, Robert Motherwell, and Ad Reinhardt, have been published, Mark Rothko's... -
Hundertwasser: Complete Graphic Work 1951-1976 by Walter Koschatzky
RRP: £16.99£12.28Explore the graphic work of Hundertwasser with this lavishly produced introduction to the artist.Friedensreich Hundertwasser was a painter. He created original graphic works--lithographs, silkscreens, mixed media, etchings, and aquatint as well as... -
The British Mandate in Palestine: A Centenary Volume, 1920-2020 by Michael J Cohen
RRP: £39.99£35.06The British Mandate over Palestine began just 100 years ago, in July 1920, when Sir Herbert Samuel, the first British High Commissioner to Palestine, took his seat at Government House, Jerusalem. The chapters here analyse a wide cross-section of the... -
On Jewellery by Liesbeth den Besten 9783897903494
RRP: £32.00£21.01Reprint of this bestselling title on contemporary jewelry. An introduction into art jewelry in light of current trends in contemporary fine art and society On Jewellery offers a comprehensive overview of the trends and role of contemporary international... -
Sketchbook by Daniel Arsham
RRP: £30.00£25.48Featuring never-before-seen drawings by the renowned contemporary artist, a beautiful facsimile edition that reveals the working process of an extraordinary creative mindSketchbook reproduces original working drawings and sketches by the contemporary... -
The Hidden Mod in Modern Art: London, 1957-1969 by Thomas Crow
RRP: £25.00£21.32An investigation of the outsized influence of the Mod subculture on key figures of the 1960s London art scene Bonding over matters of taste and style, the 'Mods' of late 1950s London recognised in one another shared affinities for Italian-style suits,... -
Katsuya Terada 10 Ten: 10 Year Retrospective by PIE Books
RRP: £29.99£19.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784756243768Author PIE BooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint PIE BooksPublisher PIE Books -
Up Your Ass: Or from the Cradle to the Boat or the Big Suck or Up from the Slime by Valerie Solanas 9783956796050
£12.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783956796050Author Valerie SolanasFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Sternberg PressPublisher Sternberg PressWeight(grams) 85gDimensions(mm) 180mm *... -
Abstract Art by Stephanie Straine
RRP: £10.95£7.38This lively introduction tells the ever-evolving story of abstract art, tracing its history from the early 1900s right up to the present day. Emerging out of western movements such as Cubism and Expressionism, abstract art quickly became a global... -
Gillian Carnegie by Barry Schwabsky 9781848222694
RRP: £49.99£17.76The singular paintings of British artist Gillian Carnegie (b.1971) have been exhibited and discussed extensively for nearly two decades but this is the first substantial publication on her work.Carnegie's work is explicitly analytical, systematic yet... -
Frank Auerbach - Drawings of People by Mark Hallett
RRP: £40.00£33.59The first extended study of Frank Auerbach's remarkable portrait drawings reveals their complexity and ambition as works of graphic art This book offers an original approach to one of Britain's leading artists: Frank Auerbach (b. 1931). It looks in... -
Visual Activism in the 21st Century: Art, Protest and Resistance in an Uncertain World by Stephanie Hartle 9781350265110
£31.70The world is in crisis, bringing activists and protesters onto the streets and into the public eye. More than ever, activism relies on spectacle and visibility in order to be noticed in the era of globalized capitalism and networked media. At the same... -
John Bellany by Keith Hartley 9781906270520
RRP: £14.95£10.18First retrospective of this artist's work in many years. John Bellany accompanies an exhibition at the Scottish National Gallery in Edinburgh from 17 November 2012 - 27 January 2013. John Bellany, born 1942, helped change the course of painting in... -
A History of Arab Graphic Design by Bahia Shehab
RRP: £39.99£35.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789774168918Author Bahia ShehabFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint The American University in Cairo PressPublisher The American University in Cairo... -
The Secret Art of Dr Seuss by T. Geisel 9780679434481
RRP: £32.00£21.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679434481Author Audrey GeiselFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 607gDimensions(mm) 283mm... -
Rituals of Rented Island: Object Theater, Loft Performance, and the New Psychodrama-Manhattan, 1970-1980 by Jay Sanders
RRP: £20.00£16.98In this important volume, Jay Sanders and J. Hoberman explore the vibrant underground performance art scene of 1970s New York. Focusing on little-known and long-forgotten works, which were often performed in live/work lofts, storefronts, and alternative... -
Paul Feiler: 1918-2013 by Michael Raeburn 9781848220287
RRP: £55.00£42.92The paintings of Paul Feiler (1918-2013), the focus of this first survey of the artist's life and career, were inspired by the English landscape, particularly the cliffs and inlets of the coast of south-west Cornwall. For his friend Peter Lanyon,... -
Who's Afraid of Contemporary Art? by Kyung An
RRP: £9.95£6.78What is contemporary art? What makes it 'contemporary'? What is it for? And why is it so expensive? The contemporary art world can be a baffling place, but Kyung An and Jessica Cerasi are on hand to bring you up to speed. From museums and the art market... -
Calder: The Conquest of Space: The Later Years: 1940-1976 by Jed Perl 9780451494115
RRP: £50.00£41.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451494115Author Jed PerlFormat HardbackPage Count 688Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. Knopf -
The Visitors' Book: In Francis Bacon's Shadow: The Lives of Richard Chopping and Denis Wirth-Miller by Jon Lys-Turner
RRP: £12.99£8.60Denis Wirth-Miller and Dicky Chopping were a couple at the heart of the mid-twentieth century art world, with the visitors' book of the Essex townhouse they shared from 1945 until 2008 painting them as Zeligs of British society. The names recorded inside... -
Anywhere or Not at All: The Philosophy of Contemporary Art by Peter Osborne 9781781680940
£18.09Winner of the 2014 Annual Book Prize of the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (USA).Contemporary art is the object of inflated and widely divergent claims. But what kind of discourse can open it up effectively to critical analysis?... -
VARIOUS SMALL BOOKS: Referencing Various Small Books by Ed Ruscha by Jeff Brouws
RRP: £17.99£12.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262018777Author Jeff BrouwsFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 930g -
Co-Art: Artists on Creative Collaboration by Ellen Mara De Wachter
RRP: £24.95£18.89Twenty-five leading artist duos and collectives give insight into how and why to work collaboratively Art history is traditionally presented as the individual's struggle for self-expression, yet over the past fifty years, the number of artists working... -
Takashi Murakami by Madeleine Grynsztejn
RRP: £50.00£37.62Takashi Murakami (b. 1962), one of contemporary art s most widely recognized exponents, receives a long-awaited critical consideration in this important volume. Accompanying the first retrospective exhibition devoted solely to Murakami s paintings, this... -
Spirituality In Contemporary Art: The Idea of the Numinous by Jungu Yoon 9780956267832
RRP: £8.99£6.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956267832Author Jungu YoonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Zidane PressPublisher Zidane PressWeight(grams) 284g -
Black Bodies, White Gold: Art, Cotton, and Commerce in the Atlantic World by Anna Arabindan-Kesson
RRP: £24.99£22.81In Black Bodies, White Gold Anna Arabindan-Kesson uses cotton, a commodity central to the slave trade and colonialism, as a focus for new interpretations of the way art, commerce, and colonialism were intertwined in the nineteenth-century Atlantic world... -
Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat by Javaka Steptoe
RRP: £14.99£9.80Somewhere in Brooklyn, a little boy dreams of being a famous artist, not knowing that one day he would make himself a king.Jean-Michel Basquiat and his unique, collage-style paintings rocketed to fame in the 1980s as a cultural phenomenon unlike anything... -
Perceptual Drift: Black Art and an Ethics of Looking by Key Jo Lee 9780300263923
RRP: £35.00£33.91A powerful reframing of the study of Black art and the historical and contemporary status of Black livesPerceptual Drift offers a new interpretive model drawing on four key works of Black art in the Cleveland Museum of Art's collection. In its chapters,... -
Art Writing in Crisis by Brad Haylock
£19.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783956795855Author Brad HaylockFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Sternberg PressPublisher Sternberg PressWeight(grams) 354gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 132mm... -
Psychedelic: Optical and Visionary Art since the 1960s by David Rubin
RRP: £34.00£22.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262014045Author David RubinFormat HardbackPage Count 138Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 998gDimensions(mm) 305mm * 191mm * 19mm -
Beatrice von Bismarck - The Curatorial Condition by Beatrice von Bismarck
£21.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783956795343Author Beatrice Von BismarckFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Sternberg PressPublisher Sternberg PressWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 232mm... -
Fluxus Forms: Scores, Multiples, and the Eternal Network by Natilee Harren 9780226354927
RRP: £44.00£37.21"PURGE the world of dead art, imitation, artificial art. . . . Promote living art, anti-art, promote NON ART REALITY to be grasped by all peoples," writes artist George Maciunas in his Fluxus manifesto of 1963. Reacting against an elitist art world... -
A Guide to Watts Gallery - Artists Village by Nicholas Tromans 9780993390203 [USED COPY]
RRP: £4.99£2.78Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Wayne Thiebaud: Updated Edition by Kenneth Baker
RRP: £45.00£31.81As he turns 100, the definitive monograph of Wayne Thiebaud's work is now available in a reformatted, accessibly priced edition, and including his most recent paintings. This is the most comprehensive monograph to date on Wayne Thiebaud, with new works... -
Rose Wylie by Clarrie Wallis
RRP: £45.00£35.00Rose Wylie RA (b.1934) trained as an artist in the 1950s, but it was her re-engagement with painting in the early 1980s, after a period spent raising a family, that marked the beginning of a remarkable career that continues to evolve and impress. This...