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Gerhard Richter: A Life in Painting by Dietmar Elger
RRP: €47.60€47.06Gerhard 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... -
Keith Haring: 31 Subway Drawings by Jeffrey Deitch
RRP: €41.65€35.53A 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... -
New Games: Postmodernism After Contemporary Art Pamela M. Lee (Stanford University, USA) 9780415988803
RRP: €47.59€41.72Pamela M. Lee's New Games revisits postmodernism in light of art history's more recent embrace of "the contemporary." What can the theories and practices associated with postmodernism tell us about the obsession with the contemporary in both the academy... -
A Band with Built-In Hate: The Who from Pop Art to Punk by Peter Stanfield
RRP: €29.75€21.98'Ours is music with built-in hatred.' Pete Townshend A Band with Built-In Hate pictures The Who through the prism of pop art and the levelling of high and low culture it brought about. Peter Stanfield guides us through the British pop revolution as it... -
Sean Scully: Land Sea Danilo Eccher 9788857227580
RRP: €33.32€22.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857227580Author Danilo EccherFormat HardbackPage Count 168Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 1090g -
Symbionts: Contemporary Artists and the Biosphere by Caroline A. Jones
RRP: €48.79€32.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262544481Author Caroline A. JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Eileen Hogan: Personal Geographies by Elisabeth R. Fairman
RRP: €65.45€56.28This visually stunning survey provides an in-depth look at Eileen Hogan's (b. 1946) working methods. Covering her entire career, it focuses particularly on two dominant themes in the artist's oeuvre-enclosed gardens and portraiture. Her depictions of... -
An American Odyssey: The Life and Work of Romare Bearden by Mary Schmidt Campbell
RRP: €33.31€31.20One of the most important and underappreciated visual artists of the twentieth century, Romare Bearden started as a cartoonist during his college years and emerged as a painter during the 1930s, at the tail end of the Harlem Renaissance and in time to be... -
Mary Wykeham: Surrealist out of the Shadows by Silvano Levy 9781848225572
RRP: €53.55€40.46Original and idealistic, Mary Wykeham (1909-1996), to date neglected in the histories of surrealism, is brought centre stage in this first study of her remarkable pursuit of art - a creative impulse that witnessed her crossing Europe and finding success... -
September: A History Painting by Gerhard Richter by Robert Storr
RRP: €17.84€13.03Gerhard Richter is one of the most influential artists of modern times. His painting "September" is a response to the bombing of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, made some four years after the event. The eminent American critic and curator... -
Selling Contemporary Art: How to Navigate the Evolving Market by Edward Winkleman
RRP: €17.84€15.21A sophisticated examination of today's contemporary art market from an art dealer's point of view, this new book focuses on recent changes in the quickly evolving market. With an emphasis on how the market responded to the global recession that began in... -
Pop by Hal Foster
RRP: €17.79€14.88From the late 1950s to the late 1960s the word Pop described art, film, photography and architectural design which engaged with the new realities of mass production and the mass media. Unlike books which present Pop art in isolation, this is a... -
Contemporary Art by Edward Saywell 9780878468164
RRP: €17.85€12.25Contemporary art is a vast and complex field representing artists, ideas, and trends from every imaginable cultural and geographical background. This book introduces the art of our times by taking the reader through a tour of some seventy examples from... -
OSGEMEOS: Endless Story by Marina Isgro 9780847866397
RRP: €68.96€54.41The first major book on OSGEMEOS (Gustavo and Otavio Pandolfo) follows the twins from their origins in 1970s Sao Paulo to the height of world graffiti fame. Combining folkloric and contemporary elements of Brazilian society with graffiti, hip-hop, and... -
Otherwise: Imagining Queer Feminist Art Histories by Marsha Meskimmon 9780719096426
RRP: €23.79€21.68Otherwise: Imagining queer feminist art histories is the first book to address queer feminist politics, methods and theories in relation to the visual arts, including new media, installation and performance art. Despite the crucial contribution of... -
Katsuya Terada 10 Ten: 10 Year Retrospective by PIE Books
RRP: €35.69€23.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784756243768Author PIE BooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint PIE BooksPublisher PIE Books -
Christo and Jeanne-Claude. Barrels and The Mastaba 1958-2018 Paul Goldberger 9783836573450
RRP: €47.60€30.46In 2018, London's Hyde Park was home to Christo and Jeanne-Claude's latest installation: The Mastaba (Project for London, Hyde Park, Serpentine Lake). The temporary sculpture took cues from mastabas of the first urban civilizations of Mesopotamia, which... -
Typorama: The Graphic Work of Philippe Apeloig by Alice Morgaine
RRP: €57.12€39.88Philippe 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... -
Dragging Away: Queer Abstraction in Contemporary Art by Lex Morgan Lancaster
RRP: €23.79€20.87In Dragging Away Lex Morgan Lancaster traces the formal and material innovations of contemporary queer and feminist artists, showing how they use abstraction as a queering tactic for social and political ends. Through a process Lancaster theorizes as a... -
Art School: (Propositions for the 21st Century) by Steven Henry Madoff
RRP: €48.79€34.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Winner, Trade Typographic Category, 2010 AAUP Book, Jacket, and Journal Show. 2010.Book InformationISBN 9780262134934Author Steven Henry MadoffFormat... -
A History of Arab Graphic Design by Bahia Shehab
RRP: €47.59€42.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789774168918Author Bahia ShehabFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint The American University in Cairo PressPublisher The American University in Cairo... -
Yin Xiuzhen by Hou Hanru
RRP: €35.64€27.36A leading female sculptor and figure in Chinese contemporary art, Yin Xiuzhen (b. 1963, Beijing, China) began her career in the early 1990s following her graduation from Capital Normal University in Beijing where she received a B.A. from the Fine Arts... -
In My View: Personal Reflections on Art by Today's Leading Artists by Simon Grant
RRP: €23.74€17.05In 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,... -
London Burning: Portraits from a Creative City by Hossein Amirsadeghi 9780500970713
RRP: €69.02€47.85A 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... -
Fiona Rae by Martin Herbert 9780992930929
€24.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992930929Author Martin HerbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Timothy Taylor GalleryPublisher Timothy TaylorWeight(grams) 665g -
German For Artists by Stine Marie Jacobsen 9783943196313
RRP: €11.90€8.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783943196313Author Stine Marie JacobsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Broken Dimanche PressPublisher Broken Dimanche PressWeight(grams) 138g -
Grace Pailthorpe's Writings on Psychoanalysis and Surrealism Alberto Stefana 9781032366470
RRP: €35.69€31.70This book gathers the published and unpublished writings of Dr Grace Pailthorpe (1883-1971), English surgeon, specialist in psychological medicine and surrealist artist to provide an in-depth study of her work and legacy.Pailthorpe's theoretical... -
Flashback, Eclipse: The Political Imaginary of Italian Art in the 1960s by Romy Golan
RRP: €38.08€28.49Apologies 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 -
The Infamy That Is War - 1914-19: World War I and Its Enduring Legacy by Anthony Jones 9780228848769
RRP: €28.55€19.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780228848769Author Anthony JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 768Imprint Tellwell TalentPublisher Tellwell TalentWeight(grams) 871g -
Art and the Politics of Visibility: Contesting the Global, Local and the In-Between Zeena Feldman 9781350437982
€34.93How does cultural context affect the interpretation of art? What makes artists' work transnational or national in character, and how will their visibility be impacted by either label? Art and the Politics of Visibility questions these dynamics, asking... -
Beatriz da Costa: (Un)disciplinary Tactics Daniela Lieja Quintanar 9780262549486
RRP: €42.84€27.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262549486Author Daniela Lieja QuintanarFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Cecily Brown: Themes and Variations Anna Katherine Brodbeck 9780300278866
RRP: €47.60€39.97Surveying three decades of the British painter Cecily Brown’s career, with its vibrant mixture of gestural expression, canonical and pop references, and subversive themes This stunning volume surveys the pioneering career of Cecily Brown (b. 1969), one... -
Heavyweight: Black Boxers and the Fight for Representation Jordana Moore Saggese 9781478030638
RRP: €27.36€24.66In Heavyweight, Jordana Moore Saggese examines images of Black heavyweight boxers to map the visual terrain of racist ideology in the United States, paying particular attention to the intersecting discourses of Blackness, masculinity, and sport. Looking... -
Un alphabet de l'ordre et du désordre - An alphabet of order and disorder Marc Donnadieu 9788855211802
RRP: €27.37€18.05Curator Marc Donnadieu turns his critical gaze on Tornabuoni Art gallery’s post-war masterpieces and proposes a project based around the notion of creative destruction; a way of making that led to a total renewal of art in the aftermath of the Second... -
Gerhard Richter and the Technological Condition of Painting Aline Guillermet 9781399525213
RRP: €107.10€97.54Aline Guillermet uncovers Gerhard Richter's appropriation of science and technology from 1960 to the present and shows how this has shaped the artist's well-documented engagement with the canon of Western painting. Through a study of Richter's portraits,... -
Rethinking Displays of Chinese Contemporary Art: Cultural Diversity and Tradition Paul Gladston 9789819729050
RRP: €130.89€129.36This is the first edited collection to critically address in its entirety questions related to the displaying of Chinese contemporary art. It includes chapters by scholars and cultural workers from diverse backgrounds involved in the interpretation of... -
Heavyweight: Black Boxers and the Fight for Representation Jordana Moore Saggese 9781478026402
€108.30In Heavyweight, Jordana Moore Saggese examines images of Black heavyweight boxers to map the visual terrain of racist ideology in the United States, paying particular attention to the intersecting discourses of Blackness, masculinity, and sport. Looking... -
Parkett: Number 69 by Francis Alys 9783907582190
RRP: €29.75€26.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783907582190Author Francis AlysFormat PaperbackPage Count 209Imprint Parkett VerlagPublisher Parkett VerlagWeight(grams) 857gDimensions(mm) 260mm * 207mm *... -
Contemporary Voices: Works from The UBS Art Collection by Ann Temkin 9780870700897
€39.64This visually exciting book presents a selection of signature works by European and American artists of the postwar generations, drawn from the UBS Art Collection, one of the richest and most varied holdings of international contemporary art in the... -
Under Fire: The Organization and Representation of Violence: v. 2 by Jordan Crandall 9789073362659
€13.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789073362659Author Jordan CrandallFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Witte de With Centre for Contemporary ArtPublisher Witte de With Centre for...