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Matheus Rocha Pitta: For the Winners the Potatoes by Bethanien Kunstlerhaus 9783862066605
RRP: £20.00£13.35The 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 by George Shaw 9781857096033
RRP: £20.00£17.38In 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... -
Postcolonial Modernism: Art and Decolonization in Twentieth-Century Nigeria by Chika Okeke-Agulu
RRP: £26.99£23.85Written by one of the foremost scholars of African art and featuring 129 color images, Postcolonial Modernism chronicles the emergence of artistic modernism in Nigeria in the heady years surrounding political independence in 1960, before the outbreak of... -
Behold!!! The Protong by Stanislav Szukalski 9780867198768
RRP: £39.95£27.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780867198768Author Stanislav SzukalskiFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Last Gasp,U.S.Publisher Last Gasp,U.S. -
Renegotiating the Body: Feminist Art in 1970s London by Kathy Battista
£27.46What 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... -
A Black Gaze: Artists Changing How We See by Tina M. Campt
RRP: £23.00£15.17Apologies 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 -
Carrie Mae Weems by Sarah Lewis
RRP: £23.00£15.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262538596Author Sarah LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Ruth Asawa: Life's Work by Tamara Schenkenberg
RRP: £35.00£30.57"Doing is living. That is all that matters."-Ruth Asawa Throughout her long and prolific career American artist Ruth Asawa (1926-2013) developed innovative sculptures in wire, a medium she explored through increasingly complex forms using craft-based... -
Concrete Cuba: Cuban Geometric Abstraction from the 1950s by Abigail McEwen
RRP: £40.00£27.75Apologies 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 -
After-Affects After-Images: Trauma and Aesthetic Transformation in the Virtual Feminist Museum by Griselda Pollock
RRP: £24.00£17.64Do artists travel away from or towards trauma? Is trauma encrypted or inscribed in art? Or can aesthetic practices (after-images) bring about transformation of trauma, personal trauma or historical traumas? Can they do this in a way that does not imply... -
Bas Jan Ader: In Search of the Miraculous: Discovery File 143/76 by Bas Jan Ader 9781927354100
RRP: £35.00£33.52Apologies 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)... -
Genieve Figgis - Something for Lovers by Genieve Figgis 9781942607564
RRP: £27.00£19.35From 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: £24.99£7.40Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Railway Paintings of Wrenford J. Thatcher: Caught on Canvas by Wrenford J. Thatcher 9781906690601
RRP: £24.99£21.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906690601Author Wrenford J. ThatcherFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint HalstarPublisher Halsgrove -
How Photography Became Contemporary Art: Inside an Artistic Revolution from Pop to the Digital Age by Andy Grundberg
£35.22A leading critic's inside story of "the photo boom" during the crucial decades of the 1970s and '80s "Grundberg . . . is a vibrant, opinionated, authoritative guide to the medium's past and present."-Jackie Wullschlager, Financial Times, "Best Books of... -
Matisse: Chapel at Vence by Marie-Therese Pulvenis de Seligny 9781907533600
RRP: £35.00£24.83Considered 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... -
Knowledge Beside Itself: Contemporary Art's Epistemic Politics by Tom Holert 9783943365979
£18.16Apologies 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 *... -
Keith Haring: 31 Subway Drawings by Jeffrey Deitch
RRP: £35.00£29.86A fascinating look at Keith Haring's New York City subway artwork from the 1980sCelebrated artist Keith Haring (1958-1990) has been embraced by popular culture for his signature bold graphic line drawings of figures and forms. Like other graffiti artists... -
Basquiat-isms by Jean-Michel Basquiat
RRP: £10.99£9.16A collection of essential quotations and other writings from artist and icon Jean-Michel BasquiatOne of the most important artists of the late twentieth century, Jean-Michel Basquiat explored the interplay of words and images throughout his career as a... -
The Situationists and the City: A Reader by Tom McDonough 9781844673643
£20.93The 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... -
Yasuhisa Kohyama: The Art of Ceramics by Susan Jefferies
RRP: £32.00£21.01The 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... -
Art History, After Sherrie Levine by Howard Singerman 9780520267220
RRP: £30.00£23.22This book examines the career of New York-based artist Sherrie Levine, whose 1981 series of photographs "after Walker Evans" - taken not from life but from Evans's famous depression-era documents of rural Alabama - became central examples in theorizing... -
Anish Kapoor: Past, Present, Future by Nicholas Baume
RRP: £8.99£7.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262026598Author Nicholas BaumeFormat HardbackPage Count 143Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 241mm * 165mm * 13mm -
Women Artists in Midcentury America: A History in Ten Exhibitions by Daniel Belasco 9781789148435
RRP: £29.00£25.02In 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... -
Typorama: The Graphic Work of Philippe Apeloig by Alice Morgaine
RRP: £48.00£33.51Philippe Apeloig's design career began in 1985 at the Musee d'Orsay when he designed the poster for the Museum's first exhibition, 'Chicago, Birth of a Metropolis'. He is noted for his posters, many of which are in the collection of MoMA, and his... -
Women Can't Paint: Gender, the Glass Ceiling and Values in Contemporary Art by Helen Gorrill
RRP: £26.99£23.84In 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: £33.00£31.65Apologies 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 -
When Home Won't Let You Stay: Migration through Contemporary Art by Eva Respini
RRP: £42.50£37.21Insightful and interdisciplinary, this book considers the movement of people around the world and how contemporary artists contribute to our understanding of it In this timely volume, artists and thinkers join in conversation around the topic of global... -
Don't Look Away: Art, Nonviolence, and Preventive Publics in Contemporary Europe by Brianne Cohen
RRP: £22.99£20.01In 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... -
Artists' Sessions at Studio 35 (1950) by Robert Goodnough
RRP: £9.00£6.74In April of 1950, about two dozen of the artists who came to be known as the Abstract Expressionists met for a series of discussions about their own work as well as about the modern scene. Nearly 60 years after the actual meetings took place, the... -
No Machos or Pop Stars: When the Leeds Art Experiment Went Punk by Gavin Butt
RRP: £23.99£19.32After 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... -
Rana Begum: Space Light Colour by Lisa le Feuvre
RRP: £49.99£38.65Rana Begum RA (b.1977) is an artist known for her wide ranging works, from the intimate to the monumental. Using a variety of materials and exploring the use of light, she blurs the boundaries between sculpture, architecture, design and painting to... -
50 Art Movements You Should Know: From Impressionism to Performance Art by Rosalind Ormiston
RRP: £14.99£14.30The story of modern art begins with a revolution-when the realists started rejecting romanticism in favor of depicting life as it really was. Since that movement began in the mid-19th- century, painters have been rebelling, rethinking, deconstructing,... -
Lucian Freud: The Copper Paintings by Martin Gayford
RRP: £30.00£25.25Brings together, for the first time, Lucian Freud's oil on copper paintings, including his lost portrait of Francis Bacon and two works that have never been reproduced before In the early 1950s, Lucian Freud produced several works in oil paint on copper,... -
Vertigo: Op Art and a History of Deception 1520 to 1970 by Eva Badura-Triska
RRP: £28.00£19.19Apologies 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... -
Beyond the Face: New Perspectives on Portraiture by Wendy Wick Reaves 9781911282204
RRP: £29.95£23.94Is there more to portraiture than eyes meeting eyes? Beyond the Face: New Perspectives on Portraiture presents sixteen essays by leading scholars who explore the subtle means by which artists--and subjects--convey a sense of identity and reveal... -
Pop Art: A Critical History by Steven Henry Madoff
RRP: £35.00£27.61Pop 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... -
Supernatural America: The Paranormal in American Art by Robert Cozzolino
RRP: £44.00£39.21America is haunted. Ghosts from its violent history-the genocide of Indigenous peoples, slavery, the threat of nuclear annihilation, and traumatic wars-are an inescapable and unsettled part of the nation's heritage. Not merely in the realm of metaphor... -
Louise Bourgeois - Paintings by Clare Davies
RRP: £35.00£30.57An unprecedented look at the little-known paintings from Louise Bourgeois's early years in New York that laid the groundwork for her sculptural practice "The catalog Louise Bourgeois: Paintings, and the revelatory exhibition, . . . were overseen by... -
No More Masterpieces: Modern Art After Artaud by Lucy Bradnock
RRP: £55.00£52.51This groundbreaking account of postwar American art traces the profound influence of Antonin Artaud Proposing an original reassessment of art from the 1950s to the 1970s, No More Masterpieces reveals how artistic practice in postwar America was...