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A Black Gaze: Artists Changing How We See by Tina M. Campt
RRP: $48.30$31.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262546058Author Tina M. CamptFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Co-Art: Artists on Creative Collaboration by Ellen Mara De Wachter
RRP: $52.40$39.67Twenty-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... -
Matheus Rocha Pitta: For the Winners the Potatoes Bethanien Kunstlerhaus 9783862066605
RRP: $42.00$28.04The KfW Foundation and the cultural centre Kunstlerhaus Bethanien are collaborating on a studio programme offering a twelve month residency in Berlin to young artists from Africa, Latin America and the Middle East. Verlag Kettler presents the artistic... -
George Shaw: My Back to Nature George Shaw 9781857096033
RRP: $42.00$36.50In 2014, the contemporary painter George Shaw (b. 1966) began a two-year post as associate artist in the National Gallery, London. This book documents his experiences there, as well as the work he produced in response to the Gallery's collection. Shaw is... -
Sex And Horror: The Art Of Alessandro Biffignandi by Alessandro Biffignandi 9780993337406
RRP: $48.28$32.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993337406Author Alessandro BiffignandiFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Korero PressPublisher Korero PressWeight(grams) 726g -
Renegotiating the Body: Feminist Art in 1970s London by Kathy Battista
$58.78What makes art 'feminist art'? Although feminist artists do have a unique aesthetic, there can be no essential feminist aesthetic, argues Kathy Battista in this exciting new art history. Domesticity, the body, its traces and sexuality have become... -
The Story of Post-Modernism: Five Decades of the Ironic, Iconic and Critical in Architecture by Charles Jencks
RRP: $65.00$58.49In The Story of Post-Modernism, Charles Jencks, the authority on Post-Modern architecture and culture, provides the defining account of Post-Modern architecture from its earliest roots in the early 60s to the present day. By breaking the narrative into... -
Paul McCarthy - Revised and Expanded Edition by Ralph Rugoff
RRP: $83.90$65.90Definitive monograph on America's most challenging and influential artist Los-Angeles-based artist Paul McCarthy (b.1945) creates Disneyesque installations, sculptures of animal/vegetable/human hybrids and slapstick performances in a purge of a national... -
Concrete Cuba: Cuban Geometric Abstraction from the 1950s by Abigail McEwen
RRP: $84.00$53.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941701331Author Abigail McEwenFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint David ZwirnerPublisher David ZwirnerWeight(grams) 1510g -
Bill Brandt Henry Moore by Martina Droth
RRP: $105.00$92.51A close look at the work, relationship, and shared influences of two masterful 20th-century artists "The camera," said Orson Welles, "is a medium via which messages reach us from another world." It was the camera and the circumstances of the Second World... -
Genieve Figgis - Something for Lovers by Genieve Figgis 9781942607564
RRP: $56.70$38.68From Irish painter Genieve Figgis (born 1972) comes a book-object that is both exquisite and utilitarian, nostalgic and new. Wrapped in plush suede of deep violet, Something for Lovers compiles 34 of Figgis' paintings into a compact coloring book. The... -
The Railway Paintings of Wrenford J. Thatcher: Caught on Canvas by Wrenford J. Thatcher 9781906690601 [USED COPY]
RRP: $52.48$21.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906690601Author Wrenford J. ThatcherFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint HalstarPublisher Halsgrove -
Humanity by Weiwei Ai 9780691181523
RRP: $23.08$18.23Writings on human life and the refugee crisis by the most important political artist of our timeAi Weiwei (b. 1957) is widely known as an artist across media: sculpture, installation, photography, performance, and architecture. He is also one of the... -
Matisse: Chapel at Vence Marie-Therese Pulvenis de Seligny 9781907533600
RRP: $73.50$52.14Considered one of the most important religious structures of the twentieth century, the Chapel of the Rosary in Vince was regarded by Matisse himself as his great masterpiece. He dedicated four years to the creation of this convent chapel on the French... -
Bas Jan Ader: In Search of the Miraculous: Discovery File 143/76 by Bas Jan Ader 9781927354100
RRP: $73.50$71.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781927354100Author Bas Jan AderFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Projectile Publishing SocietyPublisher Projectile Publishing SocietyWeight(grams)... -
Banksy: Completed by Carol Diehl
RRP: $71.40$46.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262046244Author Carol DiehlFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Collecting the New: Museums and Contemporary Art by Bruce Altshuler
RRP: $58.80$45.78Collecting the New is the first book on the questions and challenges that museums face in acquiring and preserving contemporary art. Because such art has not yet withstood the test of time, it defies the traditional understanding of the art museum as an... -
Gee Vaucher: Beyond Punk, Feminism and the Avant-Garde by Dr Rebecca Binns
RRP: $42.00$32.03As 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... -
Knowledge Beside Itself: Contemporary Art's Epistemic Politics by Tom Holert 9783943365979
$38.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783943365979Author Tom HolertFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Sternberg PressPublisher Sternberg PressWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 142mm *... -
The Situationists and the City: A Reader by Tom McDonough 9781844673643
$41.94The Situationist International (SI), led by the revolutionary Guy Debord, were active throughout the 1950s and 60s. They published the journal Internationale Situationniste that included many incendiary texts on politics and art, and were a galvanizing... -
World Art Studies: Exploring Concepts and Approaches by Kitty Zijlmans 9789078088226
RRP: $58.80$56.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789078088226Author Kitty ZijlmansFormat PaperbackPage Count 462Imprint ValizPublisher ValizWeight(grams) 862gDimensions(mm) 240mm * 170mm * 28mm -
Yasuhisa Kohyama: The Art of Ceramics Susan Jefferies 9783897904460
RRP: $67.20$44.12The skilful works of Yasuhisa Kohyama are inspired by ancient Japanese Shigaraki, Jomon and Yayoi ceramics. Using special Shigaraki clay and the fire of an anagama wood kiln, in the fusion of traditional technique and a modern language of form he creates... -
Women Artists in Midcentury America: A History in Ten Exhibitions by Daniel Belasco 9781789148435
RRP: $60.90$51.11In Women Artists in Midcentury America, readers embark on a journey spanning two decades, delving into the evolving social and artistic landscapes through the lens of all-women exhibitions. These groundbreaking projects courageously confronted issues of... -
Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933-1957 by Helen Molesworth 9780300211917
RRP: $136.50$117.92A dynamic new look at the legendary college that was a major incubator of the arts in midcentury America In 1933, John Rice founded Black Mountain College in North Carolina as an experiment in making artistic experience central to learning. Though it... -
Banksy by Stefano Antonelli
RRP: $62.90$62.71This monograph gathers and presents the largest assemblage in one volume about the life, work, and ideas of Banksy - the world's most discussed artist of recent decades. Featuring hundreds of works - Girl with Balloon, Mickey Snake, Dismaland, Love is in... -
A New Way of Seeing: The History of Art in 57 Works by Kelly Grovier 9780500239636
$76.15What makes great art great? Why do some works pulse in the imagination generation after generation, century after century? From Botticelli's Birth of Venus to Picasso's Guernica, some paintings and sculptures have become so famous, so much a part of who... -
Women Can't Paint: Gender, the Glass Ceiling and Values in Contemporary Art by Helen Gorrill
RRP: $56.68$50.06In 2013 Georg Baselitz declared that 'women don't paint very well'. Whilst shocking, his comments reveal what Helen Gorrill argues is prolific discrimination in the artworld. In a groundbreaking study of gender and value, Gorrill proves that there are... -
Walking and Mapping: Artists as Cartographers by Karen O'Rourke
RRP: $69.30$66.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262528955Author Karen O'RourkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 21mm -
The Experimenters: Chance and Design at Black Mountain College by Eva Diaz
RRP: $73.50$62.94Practically every major artistic figure of the mid-twentieth century spent some time at Black Mountain College: Harry Callahan, Merce Cunningham, Walter Gropius, Willem and Elaine de Kooning, Robert Motherwell, Robert Rauschenberg, Aaron Siskind, Cy... -
EP – Design Fiction by Alex Coles 9783956790485
$44.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783956790485Author Alex ColesFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Sternberg PressPublisher Sternberg PressWeight(grams) 666g -
Don't Look Away: Art, Nonviolence, and Preventive Publics in Contemporary Europe by Brianne Cohen
RRP: $44.08$38.58In Don't Look Away Brianne Cohen considers the role of contemporary art in developing a public commitment to end structural violence in Europe. Cohen focuses on art activism of the early twenty-first century that confronts the slow violence perpetuated... -
Documentary Across Disciplines by Erika Balsom
RRP: $48.30$31.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262529068Author Erika BalsomFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Richard Hambleton : Godfather of Street Art by Vladimir Restoin Roitfeld
$99.44Richard Hambleton (1954 2017) was a Canadian artist known for his pioneering street art. He was a surviving member of a group that emerged from the New York City art scene during the booming art market of the 1980s, which also included his close friends... -
VARIOUS SMALL BOOKS: Referencing Various Small Books by Ed Ruscha by Jeff Brouws
RRP: $37.78$26.33Apologies 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 -
John Waters: Indecent Exposure by Kristen Hileman 9780520300477
RRP: $88.20$72.74It has been more than fifty years since John Waters filmed his first short on the roof of his parents' Baltimore home. Over the following decades, Waters has developed a reputation as an uncompromising cultural force not only in cinema, but also in... -
No Machos or Pop Stars: When the Leeds Art Experiment Went Punk by Gavin Butt
RRP: $46.18$38.24After punk's arrival in 1976, many art students in the northern English city of Leeds traded their paintbrushes for guitars and synthesizers. In bands ranging from Gang of Four, Soft Cell, and Delta 5 to the Mekons, Scritti Politti, and Fad Gadget, these... -
Vertigo: Op Art and a History of Deception 1520 to 1970 Eva Badura-Triska 9783960986089
RRP: $58.80$40.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783960986089Author Eva Badura-TriskaFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig,GermanyPublisher Verlag der Buchhandlung... -
The Tiger in the Smoke: Art and Culture in Post-War Britain by Lynda Nead
RRP: $73.50$65.46Taking an interdisciplinary approach that looks at film, television, and commercial advertisements as well as more traditional media such as painting, The Tiger in the Smoke provides an unprecedented analysis of the art and culture of post-war Britain... -
Ray Johnson c/o by Caitlin Haskell
RRP: $94.50$81.12A New York Times best art book of 2021 "[A] gold mine of a book . . . Funny, biting, morbid, it's a page-turner for sure."-Holland Cotter, New York Times Ray Johnson (1927-1995) was a renowned maker of meticulous collages whose works influenced... -
The Art of Return: The Sixties and Contemporary Culture by James Meyer
RRP: $88.20$76.04More than any other decade, the Sixties captures our collective cultural imagination. And while many Americans can immediately imagine the sound of Martin Luther King, Jr. declaring, "I Have A Dream," or envision hippies placing flowers in gun barrels...