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Religion and Art in the Heart of Modern Manhattan: St. Peter's Church and the Louise Nevelson Chapel by Aaron Rosen 9781472424730
RRP: £135.00£117.68"When you're in New York" the sculptor Louise Nevelson once said, "you're in perpetual resurrection." She might have said the same thing about St. Peter's Lutheran Church, set in the heart of midtown Manhattan. In the 1970s the church made a radical... -
Italian and American Art: An Interaction 1930s-1980s by Renato Miracco 9791254600535
RRP: £30.00£19.80Italian and American Art focuses on the period between 1930 and 1980 in particular. By comparing artworks and examining exhibition and gallery policies, political meddling, and figures linking Italy to the United States, a common thread emerges which... -
The Grid by Alexander Streitberger 9782390252535
RRP: £27.50£17.89The Grid examines the multiple uses of the grid in contemporary art. Textile weaves, graphic grids, framework for materials, typological systems, spatio-temporal frameworks, computer matrix, narratives and documentary devices. The Grid presents works by... -
Dis…Miss Gender? by Anne Bray 9780262546447
RRP: £36.00£23.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262546447Author Anne BrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 862gDimensions(mm) 255mm * 205mm * 18mm -
Contemporary Art and Capitalist Modernization: A Transregional Perspective by Octavian Esanu 9780367550943
RRP: £39.99£35.46This book addresses the art historical category of "contemporary art" from a transregional perspective, but unlike other volumes of its kind, it focuses in on non-Western instantiations of "the contemporary." The book concerns itself with the historical... -
Visual Culture Approaches to the Selfie by Derek Conrad Murray 9781032132662
RRP: £39.99£35.06This collection explores the cultural fascination with social media forms of self-portraiture, "selfies," with a specific interest in online self-imaging strategies in a Western context.This book examines the selfie as a social and technological... -
Contemporary Artists Working Outside the City: Creative Retreat by Sarah Lowndes 9781138712607
RRP: £135.00£117.68This book reflects on the motivations of creative practitioners who have moved out of cities from the mid-1960s onwards to establish creative homesteads. The book focuses on desert exile painter Agnes Martin, radical filmmaker and gardener Derek Jarman,... -
Art in Consumer Culture: Mis-Design by Grace McQuilten 9781138261198
RRP: £39.99£35.06Written with beautiful clarity, Art in Consumer Culture: Mis-Design asks the contemporary art world to be honest about the pervasive effects of commodification and the difficulty of staging critique. The book examines the collusion of 'art' and 'design'... -
Eye hEar The Visual in Music by Simon Shaw-Miller 9781138245693
RRP: £49.99£43.50'Eye hEar The Visual in Music' employs the concept of the visual in proximate relation to music, producing a tension: 'is it not the case that there is a gulf between painting and music, between the visible and the audible? One is full of colour and... -
Migrations, Arts and Postcoloniality in the Mediterranean by Celeste Ianniciello 9781138479609
RRP: £54.99£47.72This book is focused on the transcultural memory of the Mediterranean region and the different ways it is articulated by contemporary art practices and museum projects linked to migrations, exile, diaspora and transnationality. The artistic and... -
Contemporary Sculpture and the Critique of Display Cultures: Tainted Goods by Dan Adler 9781138479623
RRP: £54.99£47.72In this book, Dan Adler addresses recent tendencies in contemporary art toward assemblage sculpture and how these works incorporate tainted materials - often things left on the side of the road, according to the logic and progress of the capitalist... -
My Parents are Not My Real Parents: 2017 by Rachel Karafistan 9780993395178
RRP: £15.00£9.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993395178Author Rachel KarafistanFormat HardbackPage Count 60Imprint Centrala LtdPublisher Centrala Ltd -
Alex Hartley - Nowhereisland by Tim Cresswell 9780993179839
£36.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993179839Author Tim CresswellFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Victoria Miro GalleryPublisher Victoria Miro Gallery -
David Korty: Blue Shelves by David Korty 9780992655624
RRP: £25.00£15.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992655624Author Suzanne HudsonFormat HardbackPage Count 92Imprint Sadie Coles HQPublisher Sadie Coles HQ -
Learning by Doing at the Farm: Craft, Science and Counterculture in Modern California by Robert Kett 9780982409077
RRP: £17.50£12.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982409077Author Robert KettFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Soberscove PressPublisher Soberscove PressWeight(grams) 318g -
Contemporary Art and Philanthropy: Private Foundations Asia-Pacific Focus by Nicholas Jose 9780957738232
RRP: £18.00£12.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957738232Author Nicholas JoseFormat HardbackPage Count 119Imprint Sherman Contemporary Art FoundationPublisher Sherman Contemporary Art... -
MATERIALpoetry by Simon Cutts 9780906630433
£12.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780906630433Author Simon CuttsFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Coracle PressPublisher Coracle Press -
Sharon Lockhart: Lunch Break: III by Sabine Eckmann 9780936316376
RRP: £22.50£21.68Sharon Lockhart: Lunch Break III is the third volume in a series examining the work of acclaimed video artist and photographer Sharon Lockhart. Known for collaborating with remote or marginal communities such as blue-collar workers of the twenty-first... -
From a Nation Torn: Decolonizing Art and Representation in France, 1945-1962 by Hannah Feldman 9780822353560
RRP: £89.00£77.62From a Nation Torn provides a powerful critique of art history's understanding of French modernism and the historical circumstances that shaped its production and reception. Within art history, the aesthetic practices and theories that emerged in France... -
ARTtitude by Frederic Claquin 9780764346286
RRP: £36.99£23.98Representing countries as far-reaching and distinct as Italy, the Netherlands, Japan, Austria, Guatemala, and the United States (to name a few), the 34 international artists featured in this collection reveal the richness and diversity of contemporary... -
Simulating the Marvellous: Psychology - Surrealism - Postmodernism by David Lomas 9780719088827
RRP: £85.00£61.17Simulating the marvellous presents important new research on Surrealism and the culture from which it arose. Offering fresh interpretations of Surrealist art and literature based around the theme of simulation, the book shows, in the late nineteenth and... -
Transcultural Encounters: Visualising France and the Maghreb in Contemporary Art by Siobhan Shilton 9780719087103
RRP: £85.00£60.17Art since the 1980s reveals a striking proliferation of works exploring the complex cross-cultural identities that have resulted from a long history of exchange between France and the Maghreb. This adventurous study examines distinctively visual means of... -
Gender, Artwork and the Global Imperative: A Materialist Feminist Critique by Angela Dimitrakaki 9780719083594
RRP: £85.00£60.17Is gender implicated in how art does its work in the world created by global capital? Is a global imperative exclusive to capital's planetary expansion or also witnessed in oppositional practices in art and curating? And what is new in the gendered... -
Uncanny Congruencies: Penn State School of Visual Arts Alumni by Micaela Amateau Amato 9780615512228
RRP: £21.95£19.00The power of art has always been found in those uncanny spaces between formal abstraction and the narratives of representation. Inseparable parts of a more complex whole, they are the collaborative symbiotic conditions that have created the most... -
The Housing Project: Discourses, Ideals, Models and Politics in 20th-Century Exhibitions by Gaia Caramellino 9789462701823
RRP: £53.00£43.49Throughout the twentieth century housing displays have proven to be a singular genre of architectural and design exhibitions. By crossing geographies and adopting multiple scales of observation - from domestic space to urban visions - this volume... -
Imagine: Italian Art 1959-1969 by Luca Massimo Barbero 9788831723787
RRP: £38.99£27.27A seminal experience on the Italian art scene of the 1960s. At the height of the economic miracle of the 1960s, artistic experiments in Italy kept following one another, mixed and merged with an extraordinary speed and intensity.The common aim was to... -
Dancing with Myself by Martin Bethenod 9788831729048
RRP: £44.99£30.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788831729048Author Martin BethenodFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint MarsilioPublisher Marsilio -
The Ordinary And The Odd by S. Swenson 9789187815362
RRP: £14.00£10.85"The Ordinary and The Odd" is the first book from artist and graphic designer, Swen Swenson. Swenson's use of simple and minimilst illustrations, evoking playful and sometimes odd encounters is a pleasure for any viewer of his work. His style is... -
Liv Blavarp: Jewellery. Structures in Wood by Cecilie Skeide 9783897904972
RRP: £39.00£24.85Maple, birch, walnut, lemonwood and palisander are just a few of the woods from which Liv Blavarp (b. 1956) creates exceptional one-off jewellery pieces. The rigidity or softness of the wood plays just as much of an important role in the selection... -
Samuel Beckett and Contemporary Art by David Houston Jones 9783838208497
RRP: £34.00£28.02This groundbreaking collection from scholars and artists on the legacy of Beckett in contemporary art provides readers with a unique view of this important writer for page, stage, and screen. The volume argues that Beckett is more than an influence on... -
The Flag Art Foundation: 2008a-2018 2008a-2018 by Glenn Furhman 9781941366219
RRP: £50.00£34.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941366219Author Glenn FurhmanFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Gregory Miller & CompanyPublisher Gregory Miller & CompanyWeight(grams) 216g -
The Berlin Masterpieces in America: Paintings, Politics and the Monuments Men by Peter J Bell 9781911282631
RRP: £39.95£29.78This new volume tells the story of some of the paintings rescued by the the Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives (MFAA) organization, the so-called "Monuments Men." In December 1945, 202 paintings, found in German salt mines 2,100 feet underground, where... -
Graphicstudio: Uncommon Practice and the Art of the Impossible by Jade Dellinger 9781907804359
RRP: £29.95£22.99Graphicstudio: Uncommon Practice at USF explores the incredible body of art from Graphicstudio, the print atelier at the University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida that has hosted artists including Louise Bourgeois, Jim Dine, Alex Katz, and Roy... -
Ding Yi by Tony Godfrey 9781848223790
RRP: £49.99£21.55This is the first monograph to give an overview of the entire career to date of artist Ding Yi (b. 1962), whose work, unlike most other well-known Chinese painters, is wholly abstract. Large in scale, and extraordinary in detail, Ding Yi's paintings... -
Jim Shaw by David Pagel 9781848223288
RRP: £49.99£36.39Blending the reflected cultural climate of his adopted home, Los Angeles, with the multi-layered world of American popular culture, Jim Shaw (b.1952) creates rich, dream-like worlds within distinct bodies of work. Addressing, for the first time, how the... -
The Inspirational Genius of Germany: British Art and Germanism, 1850-1939 by Matthew Potter 9781784993757
RRP: £25.00£18.32The inspirational genius of Germany explores the neglected issue of the cultural influence of Germany upon Britain between 1850 and 1939. While the impact on Britain of German Romanticism has been extensively mapped, the reception of the more... -
Above Sea: Contemporary Art, Urban Culture, and the Fashioning of Global Shanghai by Jenny Lin 9781526132604
RRP: £85.00£60.17Shanghai, long known as mainland China's most cosmopolitan city, is today a global cultural capital. This book offers the first in-depth examination of contemporary Shanghai-based art and design - from state-sponsored exhibitions to fashionable cultural... -
Transitional Moments: Marcel Breuer, W.C. Vaughan & Co. and the Bauhaus in America by Robert Wiesenberger 9780985995867
RRP: £40.00£27.93Architect Marcel Breuer's House in the Museum Garden, now considered one of the most influential architecture exhibitions of the 20th century, was commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art and built in their garden in 1949. Exhibited to record attendance,... -
The Art Book Tradition in Twentieth-Century Europe by Kathryn Brown 9781138548220
RRP: £47.99£41.81Investigating the complex history of visual art's engagement with literature, this collection demonstrates that the art of the book is a fully interdisciplinary and distinctly modern form. The essays in the collection develop new critical approaches to... -
The Age of the Avant-garde: 1956-1972 by Hilton Kramer 9781138534155
RRP: £135.00£118.28Hilton Kramer, well known as perhaps the most perceptive, courageous, and influential art critic in America, is also the founder and co-editor (with Roger Kimball) of The New Criterion. This comprehensive book collects a sizable selection of his early...