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Zao Wou-KI: Watercolors and Ceramics by Gilles Chazal
RRP: £39.95£26.65Zao Wou-Ki (1920-2013) was the first artist of the Chinese diaspora to achieve international recognition and was one of France's most important painters of the postwar era and beyond. His large abstract canvases were in step with those of New York School... -
William Turnbull: International Modern Artist by Jon Wood
RRP: £55.00£41.32William Turnbull (1922-2012) stands as one of Britain's foremost artists in the second half of the twentieth century. Both a sculptor and a painter, he explored the changing contemporary world and its ancient past, actively engaging with the shifting... -
Gesture and line: four post-war German and Austrian artists from the Duerckheim Collection Michael Semff 9780714126975
RRP: £25.00£16.78From the 1960s drawing assumed a prominent position in the practice of a rising generation of post-war artists in Germany and Austria. This publication examines works on paper by four artists still comparatively little known in the UK. While Georg... -
Memory Art in the Contemporary World: Confronting Violence in the Global South by Andreas Huyssen
RRP: £29.99£22.37Memory Art in the Contemporary World deals with the ever-expanding field of transnational memory art, which has emerged from a political need to come to terms with traumatic historical pasts, from the Holocaust to apartheid, colonialism, state terror and... -
Adrian Berg by Marco Livingstone
£63.27Exploring the full breadth of work by British artist Adrian Berg RA (1929-2011), and drawing heavily on the artist's personal archive, this book discusses Berg's meticulous engagement with the landscape which resulted in an impressive oeuvre created over... -
Art Power by Boris Groys
£27.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Winner of the 2009 Frank Jewett Mather Award given by the College Art Association (CAA). 2009.Book InformationISBN 9780262518680Author Boris GroysFormat... -
Plastic Capitalism: Contemporary Art and the Drive to Waste by Amanda Boetzkes
RRP: £32.00£21.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262039338Author Amanda BoetzkesFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 21mm -
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... -
Joana Vasconcelos: Maximal by Achim Sommer
RRP: £32.00£21.61The Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos (*1971) is famous internation-ally for her three- dimensional works, in which she explores the boundaries between tradi tion and modernism, high and everyday culture, craftsmanship and industrial production in a... -
The Monster Leviathan: Anarchitecture by Aaron Betsky 9780262546331
RRP: £41.00£24.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262546331Author Aaron BetskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 964gDimensions(mm) 241mm * 160mm * 33mm -
Roar!: A Collection of Mighty Women by Ashley Longshore
RRP: £35.00£31.95Ashley 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,... -
The Shape of Content by Ben Shahn 9780674805705
RRP: £23.95£19.14In his 1956-57 Charles Eliot Norton Lectures, the Russian-born American painter Ben Shahn sets down his personal views of the relationship of the artist-painter, writer, composer-to his material, his craft, and his society. He talks of the creation of... -
Mirror, Black Mirror: The Art of Camille Rose Garcia by Camille Rose Garcia 9780867198133
RRP: £49.95£33.33Apologies 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 -
Pulcinellopaedia Seraphiniana by Luigi Serafini
£30.40This delightful homage to Pulcinella (or Punch as he is referred to in English) contains over one hundred extraordinary pencil illustrations, some of which are depicted in comic-strip style. Divided into several scenes, it features the oddly... -
Phenomenal: California Light, Space, Surface by Robin Clark
RRP: £38.00£31.01During the 1960s and 1970s, a loosely affiliated group of Los Angeles artists--including Larry Bell, Mary Corse, Robert Irwin, James Turrell, and Doug Wheeler--more intrigued by questions of perception than by the crafting of discrete objects, embraced... -
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... -
Jonny Hannah: Greetings from Darktown by Jonny Hannah
£34.66The illustrator Jonny Hannah was born and bred in Scotland, and now lives by the sea in Southampton, but he also resides in Darktown - a mysterious coastal town, not found on any map, peopled by pin-up girls, jazz artists and tattooed sailors. Darktown... -
The Notebooks by Jean-Michel Basquiat 9780691167893
RRP: £30.00£24.86Brooklyn-born Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-88) was one of the most important artists of the 1980s. A key figure in the New York art scene, he inventively explored the interplay between words and images throughout his career, first as a member of SAMO, a... -
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 -
Pier Groups: Art and Sex Along the New York Waterfront by Jonathan Weinberg
RRP: £29.95£27.31In 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,... -
Sound Art: Sound as a Medium of Art by Peter Weibel 9780262029667
RRP: £59.00£40.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262029667Author Peter WeibelFormat HardbackPage Count 500Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Wilhelm Sasnal Brian Dillon 9780847868650
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... -
Donald Rodney: Autoicon by Richard Birkett
RRP: £17.99£12.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846382574Author Richard BirkettFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Afterall PublishingPublisher Afterall Publishing -
After the End of Art: Contemporary Art and the Pale of History - Updated Edition by Arthur C. Danto 9780691163895
RRP: £16.99£12.02Originally delivered as the prestigious Mellon Lectures on the Fine Arts in 1995, After the End of Art remains a classic of art criticism and philosophy, and continues to generate heated debate for contending that art ended in the 1960s. Arthur Danto,... -
Alan Davie and David Hockney: Early Works by Eleanor Clayton 9781848223752
RRP: £24.99£19.20Encountering the work of Alan Davie (1920-2014) at Wakefield Art Gallery in 1958, a young David Hockney (b.1937) was struck by Davie's landmark Abstract Expressionist paintings, which mirrored and stimulated his own fledgling experimentation with... -
Good News Bible: The Deadline Strips of Shaky Kane by Shaky Kane 9780957438149
RRP: £24.99£17.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957438149Author Shaky KaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Breakdown Press LtdPublisher Breakdown Press Ltd -
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... -
Killing Men & Dying Women: Imagining Difference in 1950s New York Painting by Griselda Pollock 9781526164186
RRP: £25.00£18.02What did it mean for painter Lee Krasner to be an artist and a woman if, in the culture of 1950s New York, to be an artist was to be Jackson Pollock and to be a woman was to be Marilyn Monroe? With this question, Griselda Pollock begins a... -
Tom Hammick: Wall, Window, World by Julian Bell 9781848221659
RRP: £45.00£35.00This is the first book to survey the work of painter and printmaker Tom Hammick (b.1963). It sets Hammick's art within the context of contemporary debates about painting while relating it to the two-centuries-old Romantic tradition. Julian Bell explores... -
Alastair Gordon – Quodlibet by Alastair Gordon 9781910221488
RRP: £30.00£20.95Alastair Gordon (b.1978, Edinburgh), is an artist based in London. This, the first major monograph of the artist's career, includes over 160 paintings, drawings and documentational photographs, along with notes by Gordon himself. The book introduces this... -
Doris Salcedo: The Materiality of Mourning by Mary Schneider Enriquez 9780300222517
RRP: £35.00£30.57A compelling look at Doris Salcedo's works from the past fifteen years, exploring how the artist challenges not only the limits of the materials she uses but also the traditions of sculpture itself Colombian sculptor and installation artist Doris Salcedo... -
Brutal Aesthetics: Dubuffet, Bataille, Jorn, Paolozzi, Oldenburg by Hal Foster
RRP: £40.00£32.53How artists created an aesthetic of "positive barbarism" in a world devastated by World War II, the Holocaust, and the atomic bombIn Brutal Aesthetics, leading art historian Hal Foster explores how postwar artists and writers searched for a new... -
Bedtime Tales for Sleepless Nights Jake Chapman 9780955862090
RRP: £19.95£13.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955862090Author Jake ChapmanFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint FUEL PublishingPublisher FUEL PublishingWeight(grams) 520g -
Savage Messiah by Laura Grace Ford
£31.51Savage Messiah collects the entire set of Laura Grace Ford's fanzine to date. Part graphic novel, part artwork, the book is both an angry polemic against the marginalization of the city's working class and an exploration of the cracks that open up in... -
Richard Wilson (Modern Artist) by Simon Morrissey 9781854375704
RRP: £14.99£6.85Richard Wilson was born in London in 1953. Descended on one side from a line of builders and on the other of artists, his work often comes closer to engineering or even architecture than it does to traditional sculpture. Typically he transforms the... -
The Art of Not Making: The New Artist / Artisan Relationship by Michael Petry 9780500290262 [USED COPY]
RRP: £19.95£3.49Can an artist claim that an object is a work of art if it has been made for him or her by someone else? If so, who is the 'author' of such a work? And just what is the difference between a work of art and a work of craft? New in paperback, the first... -
The Art of Not Making: The New Artist / Artisan Relationship by Michael Petry 9780500290262
RRP: £19.95£14.33Can an artist claim that an object is a work of art if it has been made for him or her by someone else? If so, who is the 'author' of such a work? And just what is the difference between a work of art and a work of craft? New in paperback, the first... -
On Weaving: New Expanded Edition by Anni Albers 9780691177854
RRP: £50.00£42.84The classic book on the art and history of weaving--now expanded and in full color Written by one of the twentieth century's leading textile artists, this splendidly illustrated book is a luminous meditation on the art of weaving, its history, its tools... -
Tricks of the Light – Essays on Art and Spectacle by Jonathan Crary 9781942130857
RRP: £28.00£21.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942130857Author Jonathan CraryFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 666gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 152mm * 15mm -
Ileana Sonnabend: Ambassador for the New Ann Temkin 9780870708961
RRP: £19.95£14.33During a career spanning half a century, Ileana Sonnabend helped shape the course of postwar art in Europe and America. Both a gallerist and a noted collector, Sonnabend promoted some of the most significant art movements of her time. Artists as varied...