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American Modern: Hopper to O'Keefe by Kathy Curry
RRP: £30.00£20.40American 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... -
Pier Groups: Art and Sex Along the New York Waterfront by Jonathan Weinberg
RRP: £29.95£26.79In 1970s New York City, the abandoned piers of the Hudson River became a site for extraordinary works of art and a popular place for nude sunbathing and anonymous sex. Jonathan Weinberg's provocative book-part art history, part memoir-weaves interviews,... -
A New Way of Seeing: The History of Art in 57 Works by Kelly Grovier 9780500239636
£38.06What 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... -
Roar!: A Collection of Mighty Women by Ashley Longshore
RRP: £35.00£25.29Ashley Longshore now turns her eye toward badass women throughout history with Roar! A Collection of Mighty Women. Longshore s pop art paintings are never shy of daring; her art makes noise, and her singular portraits of legendary stateswomen, artists,... -
Art and Posthumanism: Essays, Encounters, Conversations by Cary Wolfe
RRP: £23.99£20.84A 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... -
Sophie Calle - Suite Venitienne by Sophie Calle 9781938221095
RRP: £30.00£19.88Apologies 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 -
Richard Serra Drawing: A Retrospective by Michelle White
RRP: £40.00£35.19As the focal point of numerous high-profile exhibitions, the sculpture of Richard Serra (b. 1939) has drawn international acclaim. Yet even those who have marveled at Serra's intellectually rigorous and large works of sculpture may not be familiar with... -
Jenny Saville: Oxyrhynchus by John Elderfield
RRP: £60.00£43.65Oxyrhynchus is a city in upper Egypt that was established in 332 BC and is considered one of the most important archaeological sites ever discovered. Saville references the layer upon layer of discoveries at Oxyrhynchus in her new body of work, the... -
Flashback, Eclipse: The Political Imaginary of Italian Art in the 1960s by Romy Golan
RRP: £32.00£25.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942130505Author Romy GolanFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 668gDimensions(mm) 232mm * 159mm * 27mm -
Marlene Dumas: The Image as Burden by Marlene Dumas
RRP: £45.00£30.88Apologies 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)... -
Pictures of Nothing: Abstract Art since Pollock by Kirk Varnedoe 9780691126784
RRP: £55.00£43.74"What is abstract art good for? What's the use--for us as individuals, or for any society--of pictures of nothing, of paintings and sculptures or prints or drawings that do not seem to show anything except themselves?" In this invigorating account of... -
Substrata: Open World Dark Fantasy by Paul Richards 9781927925133
RRP: £39.99£28.34What happens when over 80 creators from the world's top video game studios join forces without the constraint of committee design? You get Substrata, a hypothetical Triple-A title driven by artists, for artists. Herein lies their widely varied,... -
Reflection on Color by Carlos Cruz-Diez 9780300272123
RRP: £25.00£20.92The seminal writing of Carlos Cruz-Diez, best known for his experiential works exploring color and its properties Trained as a painter, Carlos Cruz-Diez (1923-2019) developed a conceptual platform for his work based on optical and chromatic phenomena,... -
The Studio Reader: On the Space of Artists by Mary Jane Jacob
RRP: £31.00£26.73The image of a tortured genius working in near isolation has long dominated our conceptions of the artist's studio. Examples are abound: think Jackson Pollock dripping resin on a cicada carcass in his shed in the Hamptons. But times have changed; ever... -
In My View: Personal Reflections on Art by Today's Leading Artists by Simon Grant
RRP: £19.95£14.33In My View is a collection of reflections by 78 contemporary artists in which each artist reveals the influence and inspiration he or she has found in a particular artwork or artist. Among the artists are John Baldessari, Daniel Buren, Chuck Close,... -
International Departures: Art in India After Independence by Devika Singh 9781789147988
RRP: £30.00£28.54In 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... -
Iggy Pop Life Class by Anne Pasternak
RRP: £19.99£14.05Twenty-one artists, from all walks of life, gathered at the New York Academy of Art on Sunday, February 21, 2016, for a special life drawing class with a guest model: American rock legend Iggy Pop. The class was organised by the Brooklyn Museum and... -
Video Art by Michael Rush
RRP: £19.95£14.33Abundantly illustrated with frames and sequences, Video Art offers a history of the medium seen through the perspectives of its early practitioners, through the vast array of conceptual, political, personal and lyrical installations of the 80s and 90s to... -
Sonia Boyce: Feeling Her Way by Emma Ridgway
RRP: £25.00£20.92The first major publication to explore the work of Sonia Boyce, one of Britain's most exciting contemporary artists, including her newest and most ambitious work to date The British artist Sonia Boyce (b. 1962) is celebrated for depicting intimate social... -
Giacometti: A Biography by James Lord
RRP: £14.99£10.20The 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... -
Reliquary Tabernacles in Fourteenth-Century Ital - Image, Relic and Material Culture by Beth Williamson
RRP: £85.00£81.70Ground-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 by Patrick Elliott
RRP: £17.99£12.14Raqib 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,... -
Art in Turmoil: The Chinese Cultural Revolution, 1966-76 by Richard King
RRP: £31.00£26.84Forty years after China's tumultuous Cultural Revolution, this book revisits the visual and performing arts of the period - the paintings, propaganda posters, political cartoons, sculpture, folk arts, private sketchbooks, opera, and ballet. Probing... -
Yoan Capote by Charmaine Picard
RRP: £50.00£34.75Apologies 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 -
Wilhelm Sasnal by Brian Dillon
RRP: £85.00£61.53Renowned for his powerful portrayals of our collective culture and history, Wilhelm Sasnal draws on found images from his surroundings, newspapers and magazines, billboards, and the Internet, creating works of art that act as an archive to the mass of... -
The Story of Contemporary Art by Tony Godfrey 9780500297605
RRP: £30.00£20.40A lively introduction to and history of international contemporary art from 1960 to the present. What does it mean? Is it really art? Why does it cost so much? While these questions are perpetually asked about contemporary art, they are not the... -
Mirror, Black Mirror: The Art of Camille Rose Garcia by Camille Rose Garcia 9780867198133
RRP: £49.95£33.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780867198133Author Camille Rose GarciaFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Last Gasp,U.S.Publisher Last Gasp,U.S.Weight(grams) 1454g -
Sam Herman by Marquess of Queensberry 9781848223257
RRP: £49.99£20.36Sam 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... -
Chryssa & New York by Sophia Larigakis
RRP: £40.00£33.59The first major publication in more than thirty years on contemporary artist Chryssa, an innovator of light art Chryssa & New York offers a timely reassessment of Greek-born artist Chryssa (Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali, 1933-2013). Chryssa was a leading... -
Locating Sol LeWitt by David S. Areford
RRP: £42.50£36.61A revelatory consideration of the wide-ranging practice of one of the most influential American artists of the 20th century A pioneer of minimalism and conceptual art, Sol LeWitt (1928-2007) is best known for his monumental wall drawings. LeWitt's broad... -
Drawing Now: Between the Lines of Contemporary Art by Jane Tormey
£26.41An 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... -
Lee Ufan: Art of Encounter (2018 revised edition) by Lee Ufan 9780947830656
RRP: £16.00£11.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780947830656Author Lee UfanFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Lisson GalleryPublisher Lisson GalleryWeight(grams) 500g -
His Name is Banksy by Francesco Matteuzzi 9783791388816
RRP: £18.99£14.17Told in classic comic-book form, this graphic biography invites a new audience to learn about Banksy-and uses a pitch-perfect medium to convey the artist's message that art is for the people. Banksy is arguably the most well-known street artist of all... -
Henri Matisse: The Vence Chapel by Sister Jacques-Marie 9782363061188
RRP: £25.00£16.78From 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... -
Art Beyond Borders: Artistic Exchange in Communist Europe (1945-1989) by Jerome Bazin
RRP: £98.00£88.72This 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: £25.00£18.021961, 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... -
Frida by Benjamin Lacombe
RRP: £31.99£24.17Apologies 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 -
London Burning: Portraits from a Creative City by Hossein Amirsadeghi 9780500970713
RRP: £58.00£40.21A new creative sizzle is in the air, establishing the backdrop for a major revival across all of London's creative sectors. Having invented the Swinging '60s, punk rock in the '70s and Cool Britannia in the '90s, London in the 2010s is firing up the... -
Bridget Riley: Learning from Seurat by Karen Serres
RRP: £15.00£9.80In 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... -
Isa Genzken: Volume 17 by Lisa Lee
RRP: £17.99£13.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262527118Author Lisa LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 11mm