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Vinyl . Album . Cover . Art: The Complete Hipgnosis Catalogue by Aubrey Powell
RRP: $51.46$36.02The complete, definitive and never-before-published catalogue of Hipgnosis, Vinyl * Album * Cover * Art finally does justice to the work of the most important design collective in music history, which, according to Roddy Bogawa, director of the... -
Klimt by Gilles Neret
RRP: $25.73$20.51The unfading popularity of Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) attests not only to the particular appeal of his luxuriant painting but also to the universal themes with which he worked: love, feminine beauty, aging, and death. The son of a goldsmith, Klimt created... -
Unspeakable Acts: Women, Art, and Sexual Violence in the 1970s by Nancy Princenthal
RRP: $42.88$28.78The 1970s was a time of deep division and newfound freedoms. Galvanized by The Second Sex and The Feminine Mystique, the civil rights movement and the March on Washington, a new generation put their bodies on the line to protest injustice. Still, even in... -
Hurvin Anderson by Catherine Lampert
RRP: $94.34$66.28The Birmingham-born, Turner Prize-nominated artist Hurvin Anderson is best known for his brightly painted, densely detailed landscapes and interior scenes, which are drawn from his own photographs, sketches and personal recollections particularly those... -
Encounters with Artists by Richard Cork 9780500025109
RRP: $42.88$28.78Leading art critic and writer Richard Cork tells the stories of his personal encounters with some of the world's most influential modern and contemporary artists. Richard Cork draws on his impeccable skills as a critic and writer to tell the story of... -
Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming by Anthony Dunne
RRP: $58.32$38.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262019842Author Anthony DunneFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 758gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 19mm -
A Queer Little History of Art by Alex Pilcher
RRP: $25.73$18.80A celebration of over 100 years of queer creativity, featuring 70 outstanding works of drawing, painting, photography, sculpture and installation. Over the last century, many artists have made works that challenge dominant models of gender and... -
Bright Stars: Great Artists Who Died Too Young by Kate Bryan
RRP: $29.14$21.75'Bryan's writing pops and zings like a Basquiat painting' - NOEL FIELDINGIn Bright Stars, Kate Bryan examines the lives and legacies of 30 great artists who died too young, celebrating their inspirational stories and extraordinary talent. Some of the... -
On Weaving: New Expanded Edition by Anni Albers 9780691177854
RRP: $82.33$71.82The 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... -
Art & Visual Culture 1850-2010: Modernity to Globalization by Steve Edwards
RRP: $34.29$24.17This is the third of three text books, published in association with the Open University, which offer an innovatory exploration of art and visual culture. Through carefully chosen themes and topics rather than through a general survey, the volumes... -
Girl on Girl: Art and Photography in the Age of the Female Gaze by Charlotte Jansen
RRP: $29.14$20.48A 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... -
Island Zombie: Iceland Writings by Roni Horn 9780691208145
RRP: $51.46$39.14An evocative chronicle of the power of solitude in the natural worldI'm often asked, but have no idea why I chose Iceland, why I first started going, why I still go. In truth I believe Iceland chose me.-from the introductionContemporary artist Roni Horn... -
Bauhaus Effects in Art, Architecture, and Design by Kathleen James-Chakraborty 9781032214689
RRP: $68.59$60.14Bringing together an international team of scholars, this book offers new perspectives on the impact that the Bauhaus and its teaching had on a wide range of artistic practices. Three of the fields in which the Bauhaus generated immediately... -
Brice Marden: Phaidon Focus by Eileen Costello
RRP: $25.64$19.95The perfect introduction to the life and work of Brice MardenAbout the AuthorEileen Costello has studied Marden's work closely over the past decade through numerous studio visits and discussions with the artist. She has contributed towards the production... -
Contemporary Art by Natalie Rudd
RRP: $22.28$14.75A plain speaking, jargon-free account of contemporary art that identifies key themes and approaches, providing the reader with a clear understanding of the contexts in which art is being made today. Since the 1960s contemporary art has overturned the... -
Modern Times: British Prints, 1913-1939 by Jennifer Farrell
RRP: $68.61$57.62A look at the artistic and technical innovation of British printmaking from World War I to the eve of World War II, as artists from the Grosvenor School and beyond harnessed an emerging modernist style Throughout the tumultuous decades of the early... -
Barbara Rae: Arctic Sketchbooks by Barbara Rae 9781912520114
RRP: $29.07$19.74These sketchbooks, the work of the acclaimed Scottish artist Barbara Rae CBE RA during her three journeys towards the Northwest Passage in the depths of the Arctic Circle in 2015, 2016 and 2017, record in colourful and assured brush strokes the icebergs,... -
Living as Form: Socially Engaged Art from 1991-2011 by Nato Thompson
RRP: $42.88$28.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262534390Author Nato ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 254mm * 187mm * 25mm -
Art of Jazz: A Visual History by Alyn Shipton
RRP: $54.89$38.10Apologies 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. -
Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing, and Criticism by Lauren Fournier
RRP: $53.17$36.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262544887Author Lauren FournierFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Geometry and Art: In the Modern Middle East by Roxane Zand
RRP: $68.61$46.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857240169Author Roxane ZandFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 1190g -
Biennials, Triennials, and Documenta: The Exhibitions that Created Contemporary Art by Anthony Gardner
RRP: $35.94$31.73This innovative new history examines in-depth how the growing popularity of large-scale international survey exhibitions, or 'biennials', has influenced global contemporary art since the 1950s. Provides a comprehensive global history of biennialization... -
Basquiat by Marc Mayer
RRP: $32.50$26.81Jean-Michel Basquiat was only twenty-seven when he died in 1988, his meteoric and often controversial career having lasted for just eight years. Despite his early death, Basquiat's powerful A uvre has ensured his continuing reputation as one of modern... -
Vitamin C+, Collage in Contemporary Art by Phaidon Editors
RRP: $85.68$64.94As seen in Forbes, Colossal, and The Art Newspaper Over 100 global artists working with collage, as chosen by a team of art experts - an indispensable who's who of the most exciting and innovative names working in the medium Collage is an artistic... -
Georgia O'Keeffe and Her Houses: Ghost Ranch and Abiquiu: Ghost Ranch and Abiquiu by Barbara Buhler Lynes
RRP: $68.61$49.04Georgia O'Keeffe spent almost 40 years of her life in the American Southwest. Her two houses in New Mexico; at Ghost Ranch and Abiquiu and the landscapes around them became essential elements in her paintings. The mountains and arroyos, the skulls and... -
Surrealism Beyond Borders by Stephanie D`alessandro
RRP: $85.77$75.56A completely new way of looking at and understanding Surrealism, with a focus on the worldwide sweep of the movement"The variety of discoveries, detailed with exceptional scholarship in a ravishing keeper of a catalogue, defeat generalization."-Peter... -
David Park: A Retrospective by Janet Bishop 9780520304376
RRP: $58.32$48.11This generously illustrated volume is the first comprehensive publication devoted to the powerfully expressive work of David Park (1911-60). Best known as the founder of Bay Area Figurative art, Park moved from Boston to California at the age of... -
Yves Klein by Hannah Weitemeier
RRP: $25.73$19.49In the mid-1950s, Yves Klein (1928-1962) declared that "a new world calls for a new man." With his idiosyncratic style and huge charisma, this bold artist would go on to pursue a brief but bountiful career, producing more than 1,000 paintings over seven... -
Modern Art. A History from Impressionism to Today by Hans Werner Holzwarth
RRP: $34.31$26.23Most art historians agree that the modern art adventure first developed in the 1860s in Paris. A circle of painters, whom we now know as Impressionists, began painting pictures with rapid, loose brushwork. They turned to everyday street life for... -
Planet Banksy: The man, his work and the movement he inspired by Alan Ket
RRP: $22.28$15.57Highlighting both the relevance of Banksy's street art and how his impact has continued to spread, Planet Banksy brings together some of the very best pieces of art from all corners of the world that have been inspired by Banksy, as well as featuring... -
The Experimenters: Chance and Design at Black Mountain College by Eva Diaz
RRP: $60.04$51.41Practically every major artistic figure of the mid-twentieth century spent some time at Black Mountain College: Harry Callahan, Merce Cunningham, Walter Gropius, Willem and Elaine de Kooning, Robert Motherwell, Robert Rauschenberg, Aaron Siskind, Cy... -
Mark Rothko by Christopher Rothko 9780847872121
RRP: $197.26$163.69Deluxe and comprehensive, this revelatory volume examines the brilliance of Mark Rothko (1903 1970), a pioneer artist of the New York School and major figure in the Abstract Expressionist movement. Illustrated with more than 275 images that explore his... -
The Short Story of Women Artists: A Pocket Guide to Key Breakthroughs, Movements, Works and Themes by Susie Hodge
RRP: $25.71$18.78The Short Story of Women Artists tells the full history - from the breakthroughs that women have made in pushing for parity with male artists, to the important contributions made to otherwise male-dominated artistic movements, and the forgotten and... -
Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration by David Wojnarowicz
RRP: $18.85$12.56I 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... -
Talk Art: Everything you wanted to know about contemporary art but were afraid to ask by Russell Tovey
RRP: $42.88$30.91***'An indispensable volume'Vogue'As rabid admirers and collectors of contemporary art and photography we wholeheartedly recommend this passionate and joyous book. Without art the human soul is unfulfilled. This collection by Russell and Robert fully... -
Diane Arbus by Arthur Lubow
RRP: $60.04$43.38Diane Arbus was one of the greatest photographers of the last century. Her portraiture of freaks, circus performers, twins, nudists and others on the social margins connected with a wide public at a deep psychological level. Her suicide in New York in... -
The Last Reunion: The thrilling and achingly romantic new historical novel from the international bestselling author by Kayte Nunn
RRP: $17.14$6.02*THE STUNNING NEW NOVEL FROM INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR KAYTE NUNN!*'Absolutely magnificent' NATASHA LESTER'Hugely engaging' DAILY MAILWar would bring them together.But would it ultimately tear them apart?Burma, 1945.Bea, Plum, Bubbles, Joy and... -
Haring by Alexandra Kolossa
RRP: $25.73$20.48One of the key figures in the New York art world of the 1980s, Keith Haring (1958-1990) created a signature style that blended street art, graffiti, a Pop sensibility, and cartoon elements to unique, memorable effect. With thick black outlines, bright... -
Cats Galore: A Compendium of Cultured Cats by Susan Herbert
RRP: $29.14$21.51Susan 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... -
Anti-Shows: Aptart 1982-84 - Exhibition Histories: Volume 8 by Alexandra Danilova 9783960980230
$39.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783960980230Author Alexandra DanilovaFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig,GermanyPublisher Verlag der Buchhandlung...