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Nonconformers: A New History of Self-Taught Artists by Lisa Slominski
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €40.57A global history of self-taught artists advocating for a nuanced understanding of modern and contemporary art often challenged by the establishment "An essential addition to any discerning art lover's collection. . . . An informative and important... -
Art as Information Ecology: Artworks, Artworlds, and Complex Systems Aesthetics by Jason A. Hoelscher
RRP: €26.17Booksplease Price: €23.59In Art as Information Ecology, Jason A. Hoelscher offers not only an information theory of art but an aesthetic theory of information. Applying close readings of the information theories of Claude Shannon and Gilbert Simondon to 1960s American art,... -
Seeing with Another Eye: ceramics – sculpture – painting: The Anthony Shaw Collection by David Whiting 9783897907119
RRP: €49.98Booksplease Price: €34.01With a passion for art in all its forms, Anthony Shaw has created an extraordinary art collection which focuses in particular on British sculptural ceramics. The collection features among its major artists Gordon Baldwin, Ewen Henderson, Gillian Lowndes,... -
Kim Lim: Space, Rhythm & Light by Abi Shapiro 9781848226661
RRP: €47.54Booksplease Price: €35.50Sculptor and printmaker Kim Lim (1936-1997) had a lifelong fascination with space and its relationship with two- and three-dimensions. This important new publication explores her outstanding body of work. In a series of fascinating chapters, leading... -
Art in Saudi Arabia: A New Creative Economy? by Rebecca Anne Proctor 9781848226395
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €18.33Art in Saudi Arabia spotlights the role that contemporary art will play in the country's new push for sweeping internal reform and cultural diplomacy. As the Kingdom mobilizes its vast resources behind the economic and social priorities of its Vision... -
Site-Writing: The Architecture of Art Criticism by Professor Jane Rendell 9781845119997
Booksplease Price: €31.48The prominent cultural critic Mieke Bal defines the new discipline of 'art writing' as a fresh mode of criticism, which aims to 'put the art first'. Following this definition, "Site-Writing: The Architecture of Art Criticism" puts the sites of... -
50 Contemporary Artists You Should Know by Christiane Weidemann
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €13.54From painters and photographers to sculptors and performance artists, fifty of the most influential contemporary artists are profiled in this colorful and engaging book that traces the various artistic movements and radical changes of the second half of... -
Saul Leiter: 3rd Revised Edition by Saul Leiter
RRP: €53.55Booksplease Price: €37.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783868282580Author Saul LeiterFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint Kehrer VerlagPublisher Kehrer Verlag -
50 Art Movements You Should Know: From Impressionism to Performance Art by Rosalind Ormiston
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.97The 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,... -
Worlds Beyond Time: Sci-Fi Art of the 1970s by Adam Rowe 9781419748691
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €24.79A visual history of the spaceships, alien landscapes, cryptozoology, and imagined industrial machinery of 1970s paperback sci-fi artIn the 1970s, mass-produced, cheaply printed science fiction novels were thriving. The paper was rough, the titles... -
Murakami: Unfamiliar People—Swelling of Monsterized Human Ego by Laura W. Allen
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €35.27This fresh look at artist Takashi Murakami takes on the "monstrous" themes of rampant consumerism, human fallibility, and the perils of life in the digital fast lane, in works from the past decade One of Japan's leading contemporary artists, Takashi... -
One Place after Another: Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity by Miwon Kwon 9780262612029
RRP: €42.84Booksplease Price: €26.18Apologies 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 -
Abstraction and Calligraphy (English): Towards a Universal Language by Didier Ottinger
RRP: €52.36Booksplease Price: €33.88The Louvre Abu Dhabi's exciting exhibition programme explores the enduring dialogue between Eastern and Western artistic expression. Abstraction and Calligraphy brings together a rich array of works, from 10th-century ceramics from Samarkand to paintings... -
Feminist Subjectivities in Fiber Art and Craft: Shadows of Affect by John Corso Esquivel
RRP: €47.59Booksplease Price: €41.64This book interprets the fiber art and craft-inspired sculpture by eight US and Latin American women artists whose works incite embodied affective experience. Grounded in the work of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, John Corso-Esquivel posits craft as... -
The Pottery of John Ward by Emma Crichton-Miller
RRP: €47.59Booksplease Price: €31.73John Ward (b.1938) has a longstanding reputation as one of Britain's foremost potters, and yet very little has been written about his manifold achievements. Authoritative and enlightening, this will be the first account of Ward's life and work, tracing... -
The Lives of Lucian Freud: YOUTH 1922 - 1968 William Feaver 9781408850954
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €14.14SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2019 SELECTED AS BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN, SUNDAY TIMES, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT AND SPECTATOR 'A compendium of high-grade gossip about... -
Emily Young: Stone Carvings and Paintings by Jon Wood 9781848224964
RRP: €53.55Booksplease Price: €39.90Exploring Emily Young's carved works from the 1980s to the present, Jon Wood's thoughtful survey places her sculpture within its resonant contexts, both art historical and more broadly cultural. In doing so, it draws attention to the richness of her... -
Spirituality In Contemporary Art: The Idea of the Numinous by Jungu Yoon 9780956267832
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €7.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956267832Author Jungu YoonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Zidane PressPublisher Zidane PressWeight(grams) 284g -
Art of Jazz: A Visual History by Alyn Shipton
RRP: €38.08Booksplease Price: €27.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623545048Author Alyn ShiptonFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Imagine Publishing, IncPublisher Charlesbridge Publishing,U.S. -
100 Figures: The Unseen Art of Quentin Blake by Quentin Blake
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €13.05Quentin Blake's illustrations are instantly recognisable to millions of people around the world. A new exhibition to be held at London's House of Illustration will explore an unusual aspect of Blake's work, however, exhibiting for the first time 100... -
Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration David Wojnarowicz 9781786890276
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.47I am glad I am alive to witness these things; giving words to this life of sensations is a relief. Smell the flowers while you can.Close to the Knives is the artist, writer and activist David Wojnarowicz's extraordinary memoir. Filthy, beautiful, and... -
Girl on Girl: Art and Photography in the Age of the Female Gaze Charlotte Jansen 9781786275554
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €13.70A new generation of women is taking the art world - online and offline - by storm. In an image-obsessed culture saturated with social media, these 40 artists are using photography and the female gaze to redefine the fields of fashion, art, advertising... -
A-Z Great Modern Artists Andy Tuohy 9781844037803
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €16.18A most striking, design-led reference book, A to Z Great Modern Artists features artist and graphic designer Andy Tuohy's portraits of 52 key modern artists, rendered in each artist's own characteristic style - including Aleksandr Rodchenko in his... -
Shetland Notebook by Norman Ackroyd 9781907533891
RRP: €22.55Booksplease Price: €14.88Norman Ackroyd CBE RA has spent over four decades recording the coastal landscapes of the British archipelago. All his watercolours and many of his etchings are executed en plein air, mainly from chartered boats chosen for their skippers' local knowledge... -
Cats Galore: A Compendium of Cultured Cats by Susan Herbert
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.63Susan Herbert's delightful feline reimaginings of famous scenes from art, theatre, opera, ballet and film have won her a devoted following. This unprecedented new compilation of her best paintings provides an irresistible introduction to her feline world... -
Cuteness by Sianne Ngai
RRP: €20.17Booksplease Price: €13.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780854882984Author Sianne NgaiFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Whitechapel GalleryPublisher Whitechapel GalleryWeight(grams) 560g -
Hannah Wilke: Art for Life's Sake by Tamara Schenkenberg
RRP: €59.50Booksplease Price: €49.27A richly illustrated exploration of Hannah Wilke's provocative art and trailblazing feminismOne of the most groundbreaking artists to emerge in American art in the 1960s, Hannah Wilke consistently challenged the prevailing narratives of women's bodies... -
The Whole Picture: The colonial story of the art in our museums & why we need to talk about it Alice Procter 9781788402453
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.46"Probing, jargon-free and written with the pace of a detective story... [Procter] dissects western museum culture with such forensic fury that it might be difficult for the reader ever to view those institutions in the same way again. " Financial Times ... -
Playing to the Gallery: Helping Contemporary Art in its Struggle to Be Understood by Perry Grayson
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.22'I have never read such a stimulating short guide to art' Lynn Barber, Sunday Times Now Grayson Perry is a fully paid-up member of the art establishment, he wants to show that any of us can appreciate art (after all, there is a reason he's called this... -
Contemporary Art: A Very Short Introduction by Julian Stallabrass
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.15Contemporary art has never been so popular - but the art world is changing. In a landscape of increasing globalization there is growing interest in questions over the nature of contemporary art today, and the identity of who is controlling its future. In... -
Rothko Jacob Baal-Teshuva 9783836504263
RRP: €14.28Booksplease Price: €13.21Resisting interpretation or classification, Mark Rothko (1903-1970) was a prominent advocate for the artist's consummate freedom of expression. Although identified as a key protagonist of the Abstract Expressionist movement, first formed in New York... -
Craxton's Cats Andrew Lambirth 9780500028049
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €11.88An appealing picture book of cats depicted by John Craxton, one of the major figures of modern British painting, with an introduction and commentary by Andrew Lambirth, who knew Craxton well. By concentrating on a single subject very dear to John... -
Warhol & Mapplethorpe: Guise & Dolls by Patricia Hickson
Booksplease Price: €38.77A landmark examination of iconic and provocative portraits by Warhol and Mapplethorpe, presented side by side and in depth for the first time Andy Warhol (1928-1987) and Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989) are well known for significant work in portraiture... -
Giger by HR Giger
RRP: €17.85Booksplease Price: €13.59Swiss artist HR Giger (1940-2014) is most famous for his creation of the space monster in Ridley Scott's 1979 horror sci-fi film Alien, which earned him an Oscar. In retrospect, this was just one of the most popular expressions of Giger's biomechanical... -
Between the Material and the Possible: Infrastructural Re-Examination and Speculation in Art by Bassam El Baroni
RRP: €25.59Booksplease Price: €23.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783956796005Author Bassam El BaroniFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Sternberg PressPublisher Sternberg PressWeight(grams) 652gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Andy Warhol: Velvet Rage and Beauty by Klaua Biesenbach 9783791377650
RRP: €53.55Booksplease Price: €36.60Andy Warhol's continuous pursuit of ideal beauty-visible in a body of his work that is brought here together for the first time. Andy Warhol is arguably one of the most widely known and discussed artists of the twentieth century. While his depictions... -
Why Your Five Year Old Could Not Have Done That: Modern Art Explained by Susie Hodge
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €10.82Why Your 5 Year Old Could Not Have Done That is Susie Hodge's passionate and persuasive argument against the most common disparaging remark levelled at modern art. In this enjoyable and thought-provoking book, she examines 100 works of modern art that... -
Ruth Asawa Through Line by Kim Conaty 9780300273281
Booksplease Price: €48.73A groundbreaking examination of how the act of drawing was a vital component of Ruth Asawa's multifaceted art "A revelatory exhibition. . . . [A] fine exhibition catalog."-Nancy Princenthal, New York Times, "Critic's Pick" Ruth Asawa (1926-2013),... -
David Hockney by James Cahill
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.46The latest addition to the 'Lives of the Artists' series: highly readable short biographies of the world's greatest artistsDavid Hockney is the most famous living British artist. And he is arguably one of the more famous American artists as well... -
The Photograph as Contemporary Art by Charlotte Cotton
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.23In the 21st century photography has come of age as a contemporary art form. Almost two centuries after photographic technology was first invented, the art world has fully embraced it as a legitimate medium, equal in status to painting and sculpture. This...