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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 -
Kehinde Wiley at the National Gallery by Christine Riding
RRP: £25.00£20.92Presenting 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... -
Of Dogs and Other People: The Art of Roy De Forest by Susan Landauer 9780520292208
RRP: £42.00£33.43Roy De Forest's brightly hued, crazy-quilted paintings and sculptures are dotted with nipples of color and inhabited by a cast of characters uniquely his own, a perennial favorite being his instantly recognizable, wild-eyed and pointy-eared dogs... -
Getting the Picture: The Visual Culture of the News by Jason Hill
RRP: £35.99£32.09Powerful 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... -
One Place after Another: Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity by Miwon Kwon 9780262612029
RRP: £27.00£18.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262612029Author Miwon KwonFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 11mm -
With Pleasure: Pattern and Decoration in American Art 1972-1985 by Anna Katz
RRP: £55.00£47.29A timely and expansive survey of a groundbreaking American art movement that overturned aesthetic hierarchies in a riot of color and ornamentation The Pattern and Decoration movement emerged in the 1970s as an embrace of long-dismissed art forms... -
Truth Bomb: Inspiration from the Mouths and Minds of Women Artists by Abigail Crompton 9781760761271
RRP: £34.95£26.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781760761271Author Abigail CromptonFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Thames & HudsonPublisher Thames & HudsonWeight(grams) 1247gDimensions(mm) 277mm *... -
Eric Rohmer: A Biography by Antoine de Baecque
RRP: £22.00£19.30The director of twenty-five films, including My Night at Maud's (1969), which was nominated for a Best Picture Academy Award, and the editor in chief of Cahiers du cinema from 1957 to 1963, Eric Rohmer set the terms by which people watched, made, and... -
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... -
Famous Monster Movie Art of Basil Gogos by Kerry Gammill
RRP: £28.99£21.18Basil Gogos changed the face of classic horror with his film monster portrait art. Like a bizarro-world Norman Rockwell, he created magazine covers of Frankenstein, the Creature from the Black Lagoon. the Phantom of the Opera, and countless others in... -
Make It Modern: A History of Art in the 20th Century by Brandon Taylor
RRP: £35.00£29.57A fascinating journey through Western art from the 1910s to the 1960s, charting how artists wrestled with the headlong changes of a turbulent and conflict-ridden world From the chaos of the First World War to the ravages of the Second, from the Great... -
Gerhard Richter: A Life in Painting by Dietmar Elger
RRP: £40.00£39.55Gerhard Richter is one of the most important and popular artists of the postwar era. For decades he has sought innovative ways to make painting more relevant, often through a multifaceted dialogue with photography. Today Richter is most widely recognized... -
After the End of Art: Contemporary Art and the Pale of History - Updated Edition by Arthur C. Danto 9780691163895
RRP: £16.99£12.75Originally 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,... -
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 -
Photography and Collaboration: From Conceptual Art to Crowdsourcing by Daniel Palmer
RRP: £28.99£25.09Photography and Collaboration offers a fresh perspective on existing debates in art photography and on the act of photography in general. Unlike conventional accounts that celebrate individual photographers and their personal visions, this book... -
Daisy Chain: a novel of The Glasgow Girls by Maggie Ritchie
RRP: £16.99£11.54'A wholly delightful novel' Allan Massie, Scotsman'An excellent homage to The Glasgow Girls... both heart-breaking and hopeful' - Amy Jefferies, Scots MagazineLily Crawford and Jeanie Taylor, from very different backgrounds, are firm friends from their... -
Midnight Fishermen: Gekiga of the 1970's by Yoshihiro Tatsumi
RRP: £11.99£8.43From the mangaka who told his life story in A Drifting Life, and gave you Abandon the Old in Tokyo and The Push Man and Other Stories, comes this collection of gekiga of the 1970s which have never before been translated into English. Personally selected... -
1000 Vases (Bilingual edition) by Meet My Project
RRP: £42.00£27.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857246734Author Meet My ProjectFormat HardbackPage Count 928Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 2460g -
Joseph Beuys by Claudia Mesch 9781780237350
RRP: £16.95£12.26Joseph Beuys is arguably the most important and most controversial German artist of the late twentieth century, not least because his persona is interwoven with Germany's fascist past. This book illuminates two defining threads in Beuys's life and art:... -
Cy Twombly by Jonas Storsve 9783944874616
£46.87The complex oeuvre of the American artist Cy Twombly (1928-2011) comprises a time period of around six decades, during which it never lost any of its expressive power. Twombly was one of the most productive artists in the history of more recent art... -
Oceans Rising - A Companion to "Territorial Agency: Oceans in Transformation" by Daniela Zyman
£23.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783956796098Author Daniela ZymanFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Sternberg PressPublisher Sternberg PressWeight(grams) 785gDimensions(mm) 298mm * 232mm... -
3D Warhol: Andy Warhol and Sculpture by Thomas Morgan Evans
£20.97Rain machines; alarmed kosher pickle jars filled with gemstones; replica corn flakes boxes; 'disco decor'; time capsules; art bombs; birthday presents; perfume bottles and floating silver pillows that are clouds; paintings that are also films; museum... -
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... -
Nicole Eisenman by Dan Cameron
RRP: £45.00£33.64With a body of work that explores a broad spectrum of subjects - from lesbianism and feminism to contemporary politics and the natural world - Nicole Eisenman (b.1965) challenges convention and encourages viewers to construe meanings from images that... -
Toward the Not-Yet: Art as Public Practice by Jeanne van Heeswijk
RRP: £17.99£11.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262542500Author Jeanne Van HeeswijkFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Modern Sculpture: Artists in Their Own Words by Douglas Dreishpoon
RRP: £30.00£23.29This tapestry of primary sources is an essential primer on sculpture and its makers. Modern Sculpture presents a selection of manifestos, documents, statements, articles, and interviews from more than ninety sculptors, including a diverse selection of... -
Agostino Bonalumi: 1958-2013 by Marco Meneguzzo
£49.89Bonalumi has overcome the two-dimensionality of painting through the technique of 'extroflexion', which transformed the canvas into a sculpture. The volume accompanies the first great anthological exhibition dedicated to Agostino Bonalumi (1935-2013)... -
Bill Brandt Henry Moore by Martina Droth
RRP: £50.00£44.05A 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... -
Return to the Postcolony - Specters of Colonialism in Contemporary Art by T. J. Demos
£18.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783943365429Author T. J. DemosFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Sternberg PressPublisher Sternberg PressWeight(grams) 323gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 141mm *... -
Up Against the Real: Black Mask from Art to Action by Nadja Millner-Larsen
RRP: £28.00£27.39A history of 1960s activist art group Black Mask. With Up Against the Real, Nadja Millner-Larsen offers the first comprehensive study of the group Black Mask and its acrimonious relationship to the New York art world of the 1960s. Cited as pioneers of... -
The Art of Contemporary China (World of Art) by Jiang Jiehong
RRP: £14.99£9.80Fulfilling a need for an accessible, affordable introduction to a subject of sustained and growing significance in contemporary culture, this volume in the World of Art series redefines contemporary Chinese art in the last forty years since the end of... -
Conversations about Sculpture by Richard Serra
RRP: £25.00£24.94"The rhythm of the body moving through space has been the motivating source of most of my work."-Richard Serra Drawn from talks between celebrated artist Richard Serra and acclaimed art historian Hal Foster held over a fifteen-year period, this volume... -
See Yourself Sensing: Redefining Human Perception by Madeline Schwartzman
RRP: £24.95£21.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907317293Author Madeline SchwartzmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Black Dog Publishing London UKPublisher Black Dog Press -
Diana Al-Hadid: Phantom Limb by Maya Allison
RRP: £30.00£19.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857232003Author Maya AllisonFormat HardbackPage Count 152Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 800g -
Global Activism: Art and Conflict in the 21st Century by Peter Weibel
RRP: £50.00£41.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262526890Author Peter WeibelFormat PaperbackPage Count 600Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Pierre Huyghe: Untitled (Human Mask) by Mark Lewis
RRP: £17.99£12.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846382130Author Mark LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Afterall PublishingPublisher Afterall Publishing -
Dorothy Morland: Making ICA History by Anne Massey 9781789621280
RRP: £49.99£44.74This is the first full-length biography of Dorothy Morland (1906-99), to date the only female director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London. Based on unpublished letters and other archival sources, as well as interviews and personal... -
The Making of Modern Art: Selected Writings by Michael Peppiatt
RRP: £27.50£22.89Selected writings from a leading critic of modern art, "the best art writer of his generation" (Art Newspaper) Michael Peppiatt, guest curator of the Royal Academy of Arts' 2021 exhibition 'Francis Bacon: Man and Beast', has for more than 50 years... -
Banksy Locations And Tours Vol.1: A Collection of Graffiti Locations and Photographs in London, England by Martin Bull 9781604863208
RRP: £18.99£12.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604863208Author Martin BullFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 250g -
Burst! Abstract Painting After 1945 by Daniel Zamani 9788284620053
RRP: £27.50£18.89Burst! Abstract Painting After 1945 looks at the close, but previously unexplored relationship between Abstract Expressionism and Art Informel. Through texts and close to 100 illustrations, the book describes a vital creative exchange across the Atlantic...