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American Modern: Hopper to O'Keefe Kathy Curry 9780870708527
RRP: €35.70€24.28American Modern presents a fresh look at The Museum of Modern Art's holdings of American art made between 1915 and 1950, and considers the cultural preoccupations of a rapidly changing American society in the first half of the 20th century. Organized... -
Matisse: In Search of True Painting by Rebecca A. Rabinow 9780300188578
RRP: €47.60€41.88More than most artists, Henri Matisse conducted an ongoing dialogue with his earlier works, continually questioning himself and his methods in order to, as he put it, "push further and deeper into true painting". In a fresh approach to this giant of... -
What is it that will last?: Land and tidal art of Julie Brook by Julie Brook
RRP: €47.54€36.07This publication offers a rich and expansive visual record of Julie Brook's artistic practice, and proposes a unique collaboration between Brook and distinct voices from the nature writing and craftsmanship traditions. Situating Brook's practice in the... -
Theory in Contemporary Art since 1985 Zoya Kocur (New York University, USA) 9781444338577
RRP: €57.06€50.91Updated and reorganized to offer the best collection of state-of-the-art readings on the role of critical theory in contemporary art, this second edition of Theory in Contemporary Art since 1985 brings together scholarly essays, artists' statements, and... -
The Diver and The Lover: A novel of love and the unbreakable bond between sisters by Jeremy Vine
RRP: €10.70€3.46'The lives of the characters get entangled in this powerful read' WOMAN'S OWN'A pacy, gripping tale... written with skill and colour. It gave me enormous pleasure to read such a satisfying novel.' SANTA MONTEFIORE 'If you're in desperate need of a... -
Cruising the Dead River: David Wojnarowicz and New York's Ruined Waterfront by Fiona Anderson
RRP: €33.32€32.59In the 1970s, Manhattan's west side waterfront was a forgotten zone of abandoned warehouses and piers. Though many saw only blight, the derelict neighborhood was alive with queer people forging new intimacies through cruising. Alongside the piers' sexual... -
Art and Posthumanism: Essays, Encounters, Conversations by Cary Wolfe
RRP: €26.17€22.84A sustained engagement between contemporary art and philosophy relating to our place in, and responsibility to, the nonhuman world How do contemporary art and theory contemplate the problem of the "bio" of biopolitics and bioart? How do they understand... -
Wolf Kahn: Painting and Pastels, 2010-2020 by William C. Agee
RRP: €50.58€47.12A celebration of the work of the beloved American artist Wolf Kahn (b. 1927), this volume focuses on the vivid colors of his luscious landscapes made in the past ten years. A refugee from Nazi Germany, Kahn immigrated to the U.S. in 1940, and after... -
Marlene Dumas: The Image as Burden by Marlene Dumas
RRP: €53.55€35.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938922541Author Marlene DumasFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Tate Publishing & EnterprisesPublisher Tate Publishing & EnterprisesWeight(grams)... -
Pop Art: A Critical History by Steven Henry Madoff
RRP: €41.65€33.49Pop Art: A Critical History chronicles one of the most controversial art movements of the century. The anthology draws from a great range of sources, from the leading art magazines and art historical journals to newspapers and news magazines such as the... -
Yoko Ono: One Woman Show 1960 -1971 Klaus Biesenbach 9780870709661
RRP: €45.22€30.04Yoko Ono: One Woman Show, 1960-1971 examines the beginnings of Ono's extensive career, demonstrating her pioneering role in visual art, performance and music during the 1960s and early 1970s. The exhibition begins in New York in December 1960, where Ono... -
Digital Handmade: Craftsmanship in the New Industrial Revolution by Lucy Johnston
RRP: €26.78€20.18Speed, regulation and mass production defined the first Industrial Revolution, but we have entered a new era. Today's revolution has been driven by digital technologies and tools, giving rise to entirely new working methods, skill sets and consumer... -
The Jean-Michel Basquiat Reader: Writings, Interviews, and Critical Responses by Jordana Moore Saggese 9780520305168
RRP: €35.70€28.19The first comprehensive collection of the words and works of a movement-defining artist. Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) burst onto the art scene in the summer of 1980 as one of approximately one hundred artists exhibiting at the 1980 Times Square... -
International Departures: Art in India After Independence by Devika Singh 9781789147988
RRP: €35.70€34.62In this captivating and richly illustrated account, Devika Singh presents together for the first time the work of Indian and foreign artists active in India after independence in 1947. The book engages with the many creators, critics and patrons of the... -
Landscape into Eco Art: Articulations of Nature Since the '60s by Mark Cheetham
RRP: €41.59€37.59Dedicated to an articulation of the earth from broadly ecological perspectives, eco art is a vibrant subset of contemporary art that addresses the widespread public concern with rapid climate change and related environmental issues. In Landscape into Eco... -
Jean-Michel Basquiat: A Biography by Eric Fretz 9780313380563
€45.68This work examines the fascinating life and art of the African American painter Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988). Jean-Michel Basquiat was barely out of his teens when he rocketed to the center of New York's art scene. He was 27 when he died of a heroin... -
Giacometti: A Biography James Lord 9781857995015
RRP: €17.84€12.14The definitive biography of a fascinating and enigmatic figure'Succeeds in every way as one of the most readable, fascinating and informative documents, not just on an artist, but on art and artists in general' WASHINGTON TIMES'The most moving biography... -
Artists Re:thinking the Blockchain Ruth Catlow 9780993248740
RRP: €26.18€24.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993248740Author Ruth CatlowFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Liverpool University PressPublisher Liverpool University Press -
Reliquary Tabernacles in Fourteenth-Century Ital - Image, Relic and Material Culture by Beth Williamson
RRP: €65.45€62.96Ground-breaking study of the enigmatic and unique tabernacles from fourteenth-century Italy, which for the first time combined relics and images. Images and relics were central tools in the process of devotional practice in medieval Europe. The... -
Raqib Shaw: Reinventing the Old Masters Patrick Elliott 9781911054207
RRP: €21.41€14.45Raqib Shaw is one of the most extraordinary and sought-after artists working in the world today. Born in Calcutta in 1974 and raised in Kashmir, he came to London to study in 1998 and has lived there ever since. Inspired by a broad range of influences,... -
Yoan Capote Charmaine Picard 9788857228877
RRP: €59.50€41.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857228877Author Charmaine PicardFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 2120g -
The Beauty of Kinbaku: (Or everything you ever wanted to know about Japanese erotic bondage when you suddenly realized you didn't speak Japanese.) Second Edition - Completely Revised and Updated by Master "k" 9780692344651
RRP: €47.59€37.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692344651Author Master KFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint King Cat InkPublisher King Cat InkWeight(grams) 467gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 11mm -
Sam Herman by Marquess of Queensberry 9781848223257
RRP: €59.49€24.70Sam Herman (1936-2020) stands at the very centre of the development of the international Studio Glass Movement. He was not only present for the birth of the Movement in the United States, but was its founding father in Great Britain and Australia. This... -
Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror by Carlos Basualdo
RRP: €59.50€49.56An innovative retrospective look at the work of one of America's most iconic artists, utilizing the concepts of mirroring and doubling, which have long preoccupied Johns Jasper Johns (b. 1930) is arguably the most influential artist living today. Over... -
International Realism: 16th International ARC Salon by Kara Lysandra Ross 9781788842204
RRP: €65.45€45.04The latest instalment of the International ARC Salon Competition, featuring over a thousand original works of art. Determined to restore the universal language of realism in the visual arts, a group of fine artists and experts formed the Art Renewal... -
Drawing Now: Between the Lines of Contemporary Art by Jane Tormey
€32.05An exhibition in book form, this showcase of the best of drawing now features one hundred works by almost fifty artists including Susan Hauptman, Paul Noble, Jeff Gabel, Tracey Emin, Jane Harris, Julia Fish, Cornelia Parker and Jerwood Drawing Prize... -
Picasso: My Grandfather by Marina Picasso
RRP: €15.46€10.82Marina Picasso remembers being six years old and standing awkwardly in front of the gates of Picasso's grand house near Cannes. She was there with her father and eight-year-old brother to collect from her grandfather the weekly allowance that Picasso... -
Vija Celmins: To Fix the Image in Memory by Gary Garrels
RRP: €68.43€59.62The beautiful catalogue that accompanies the critically-acclaimed exhibition currently on view at the Metropolitan Museum Best known for her striking drawings of ocean surfaces, begun in 1968 and revisited over many years both in drawings and paintings,... -
Eric Gill: Lust for Letter & Line by Ruth Cribb
RRP: €11.89€8.09Eric 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... -
Henri Matisse: The Vence Chapel Sister Jacques-Marie 9782363061188
RRP: €29.75€19.97From 1942 to 1954, Sister Jacques-Marie, initially Monique Bourgeois, retraces her encounter with Henri Matisse, which led to the creation of the Rosary Chapel in Vence (Provence, France). The last and final project of the artist, it corresponds to the... -
Frida by Benjamin Lacombe
RRP: €38.07€37.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584236641Author Benjamin LacombeFormat HardbackPage Count 76Imprint Gingko Press, IncPublisher Gingko Press, Inc -
Art Beyond Borders: Artistic Exchange in Communist Europe (1945-1989) by Jerome Bazin
RRP: €116.62€107.37This book presents and analyzes artistic interactions both within the Soviet bloc and between the Western bloc between 1945 and 1989. During the Cold War the exchange of artistic ideas and products united Europe's avant-garde in a most remarkable way. ... -
Christo and Jeanne-Claude. L'Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped by Lorenza Giovanelli
RRP: €29.75€21.441961, three years after meeting Jeanne-Claude in Paris, Christo made a study of a mammoth project that would wrap one of the city's most emblematic monuments. 60 years, 25,000 square meters of recyclable fabric, and 3,000 meters of rope later, the... -
Bridget Riley: Learning from Seurat Ernst Vegelin van Claerbergen 9781909932159
RRP: €17.85€11.66In 1959, Bridget Riley's copy of Georges Seurat's Bridge at Courbevoie (1886-87) offered the artist a new understanding of colour and tone, which led her to produce her first major works of pure abstraction during the early 1960s. In 2015-16, an... -
Kehinde Wiley at the National Gallery Christine Riding 9781857096774
RRP: €29.75€24.89Presenting new work by American artist Kehinde Wiley, as he explores the European landscape tradition through film and painting The American artist Kehinde Wiley (b. 1977) is best known for his spectacular portraits of African Americans with knowing... -
Sophie Calle - Suite Venitienne by Sophie Calle 9781938221095
RRP: €35.70€23.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938221095Author Sophie CalleFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Siglio PressPublisher Siglio Press -
Getting the Picture: The Visual Culture of the News Jason E. Hill 9781472526496
RRP: €42.83€38.19Powerful and often controversial, news pictures promise to make the world at once immediate and knowable. Yet while many great writers and thinkers have evaluated photographs of atrocity and crisis, few have sought to set these images in a broader... -
Very Fantastically Arranged by Caragh Thuring 9780262048453
RRP: €65.45€41.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262048453Author Caragh ThuringFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Internet_Art: From the Birth of the Web to the Rise of NFTs by Omar Kholeif
RRP: €35.64€26.64A leading figure in the world of networked culture explores the artists and events that defined the mass medium of our time Since 1989, the year the World Wide Web was born, the art world has grappled with the rise of networked culture. This... -
A Kurt Jackson Bestiary by Kurt Jackson 9781848221703
RRP: €47.60€37.29Natural history and art have been life-long preoccupations of the leading British painter Kurt Jackson (b.1961). For this book, Jackson has returned to zoology, the subject he studied at university, to create a beautiful bestiary: a body of work about...