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Art Work: Invisible Labour and the Legacy of Yugoslav Socialism by Katja Praznik
RRP: £55.00£51.39In Art Work, Katja Praznik counters the Western understanding of art - as an activity done out of love, a passion for self-expression, and without any concern for financial aspects - and instead builds a case for understanding art as a form of invisible... -
Sculptural Parallels (Norwegian Edition): Gustav Vigeland and his Contemporaries Rodin, Meunier, Bourdelle, Maillol by Guri Skuggen
RRP: £42.00£28.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857240381Author Guri SkuggenFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 1420g -
Anna Conway: Purpose by Mario Diacono
RRP: £24.95£16.75Published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition, the book presents the evolution of the pictorial work of Anna Conway (Durango, Colorado, 1973) from her debut up to the last works of 2016. It is the first monograph dedicated to the American painter... -
Object Lessons - Zofia Rydet's Sociological Record by Krzysztof Pijarski
RRP: £26.50£25.71In 1978, Zofia Rydet (1911 97) began work on a monumental project that would come to be known as her "Sociological Record": photographing the people of Poland at their homes, she produced an extraordinary archive of around twenty thousand negatives. The... -
Almost Nothing: 100 Artists Comment on the Work of Mies Van Der Rohe by Christian Bjone
RRP: £45.00£29.25Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969) is undoubtedly one of the most significant and influential architects ever. To the present day, his designs and realised buildings, as well as his thinking and writings, continue to initiate many controversial debates... -
Seeing Differently: The Phillips Collects for a New Century by David C Driskell
RRP: £39.95£29.78An expansive collection catalogue that offers a multiplicity of fresh perspectives on recent modern and contemporary art acquisitions in The Phillips Collection. Planned to coincide with The Phillips Collection's centennial and exhibition, this... -
Fluxus Means Change - Jean Brown's Avant-Garde Archive by Marcia Reed
RRP: £45.00£44.21An exploration of the radical artists who transformed the ways art is conceived, exhibited, and collected, through the Dada, Surrealist, and Fluxus collections of Jean and Leonard Brown. Throughout the 1960s, Jean and Leonard Brown used their radical... -
Donna Dennis: Poet in Three Dimensions by Helaine Posner
RRP: £44.95£33.35The first monograph on the architectural sculptor and installation artist and long-time collaborator with the New York School poets Best known for creating large-scale installation work inspired by American vernacular architecture, Dennis finds beauty in... -
Fragment, Image, and Absence in 1960s Japan by Ignacio A. Adriasola Munoz
RRP: £87.95£77.60This groundbreaking book examines how the notion of "the object" was transformed in Japanese experimental art during a time of rapid social, economic, and environmental change.Reviving the legacies of the historical avant-garde, Japanese artists and... -
Participation in Art and Architecture: Spaces of Interaction and Occupation by Martino Stierli
£33.37If participation has been an ideal in politics since ancient democracy, in art it became central only with the avant-gardes emerging from WWI and the Russian Revolution. Politics and aesthetics are still catching up with each other. In the 21st century,... -
Cold War/Cold World: Knowledge, Representation, and the Outside in Cold War Culture and Contemporary Art by Robin Mackay
RRP: £11.99£8.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995455085Author Robin MackayFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Urbanomic Media LtdPublisher Urbanomic Media Ltd -
Intersecting Art and Technology in Practice: Techne/Technique/Technology by Camille C. Baker
RRP: £38.99£35.58This book focuses on the artistic process, creativity and collaboration, and personal approaches to creation and ideation, in making digital and electronic technology-based art. Less interested in the outcome itself - the artefact, artwork or performance... -
Cartographic Abstraction in Contemporary Art: Seeing with Maps by Claire Reddleman
RRP: £39.99£35.06In this book, Claire Reddleman introduces her theoretical innovation "cartographic abstraction" - a material modality of thought and experience that is produced through cartographic techniques of depiction. Reddleman closely engages with selected... -
Material Meanings: Selections from the Constance R. Caplan Collection by Matthew S. Witkovsky
RRP: £30.00£29.65A fascinating gathering of modern and contemporary art that considers artworks from different media as material objects This book features 31 objects from Constance R. Caplan's noted collection of 20th- and 21st-century art, including works in a... -
Since 1950: Art and Its Criticism by Charles Harrison
RRP: £27.50£23.29This is an original and incisive contribution to the discussion of modern and postmodern art and of the theories by which it has been influenced and explained, from someone who has been closely involved in the art of this period as practitioner, teacher,... -
The Jean Freeman Gallery Does Not Exist by Christopher Howard
RRP: £26.00£18.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Winner of the 2019 AUPresses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show in the Trade Illustrated category. 2019.Book InformationISBN 9780262038461Author Christopher... -
Gyorgy Kepes: Undreaming the Bauhaus by John R. Blakinger
RRP: £50.00£31.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262039864Author John R. BlakingerFormat HardbackPage Count 504Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 32mm -
Bachelor Japanists: Japanese Aesthetics and Western Masculinities by Christopher Reed
RRP: £30.00£23.29Challenging cliches of Japanism as a feminine taste, Bachelor Japanists argues that Japanese aesthetics were central to contests over the meanings of masculinity in the West. Christopher Reed draws attention to the queerness of Japanist communities of... -
Aspects: Fred Sandback's Sculpture by Edward A. Vazquez
RRP: £44.00£43.27Stretching lengths of yarn across interior spaces, American artist Fred Sandback (1943 2003) created expansive works that underscore the physical presence of the viewer. This book, the first major study of Sandback, explores the full range of his art,... -
The Age of the Avant-garde: 1956-1972 by Hilton Kramer
RRP: £43.99£38.84Hilton 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... -
A Fact Has No Appearance by Russell Storer
RRP: £15.00£11.55The exhibition A Fact Has No Appearance explores the impact of new ideas on art in Southeast Asia during the 1970s through the case studies of three artists: Johnny Manahan, Redza Piyadasa, and Tan Teng-Kee, all of whom have been recognised for breaking... -
Thailand Eye: Contemporary Thailand Art by Serenella Ciclitira
RRP: £34.95£24.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857229829Author Serenella CiclitiraFormat PaperbackPage Count 476Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 1960g -
Romanian Contemporary Art 2010-2020: Rethinking the Image of the World: Projects and Sketches by Adrian Bojenoiu
£45.69Contemporary art is more than just simple contemporaneity. It is a new way of seeing and making things seen. The radical change that helped to reinvent Romanian art in the past decade is committed to this idea. This is not only thanks to established... -
Bridget Riley: Paintings and Gouaches 1979-80 & 2011 by Robert Kudielka
RRP: £15.00£9.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905464487Author Robert KudielkaFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint RidinghousePublisher Ridinghouse -
Hot Metal: Material Culture and Tangible Labour by Jesse Adams Stein
RRP: £85.00£60.17The world of work is tightly entwined with the world of things. Hot metal illuminates connections between design, material culture and labour between the 1960s and the 1980s, when the traditional crafts of hot-metal typesetting and letterpress were... -
Sustainable Art Communities: Contemporary Creativity and Policy in the Transnational Caribbean by Leon Wainwright
RRP: £85.00£60.17This collection sets out a range of perspectives on the challenges that the Caribbean is facing today, showing how the arts hold a crucial role in forging a more sustainable Caribbean community. It forcefully attests to the view that visual art in... -
Keith Haring's Line: Race and the Performance of Desire by Ricardo Montez
RRP: £19.99£17.54In the thirty years since his death, Keith Haring-a central presence on the New York downtown scene of the 1980s-has remained one of the most popular figures in contemporary American art. In one of the first book-length treatments of Haring's artistry,... -
Return Engagements: Contemporary Art's Traumas of Modernity and History in Sai Gon and Phnom Penh by Viet Le
RRP: £89.00£77.62In Return Engagements artist and critic Viet Le examines contemporary art in Cambodia and Viet Nam to rethink the entwinement of militarization, trauma, diaspora, and modernity in Southeast Asian art. Highlighting artists tied to Phnom Penh and Sai Gon... -
Concerning Stephen Willats and the Social Function of Art: Experiments in Cybernetics and Society by Sharon Lee Irish
£110.08This book on Stephen Willats pulls together key strands of his practice and threads them through histories of British cybernetics, experimental art, and urban design. For Willats, a cluster of concepts about control and feedback within living and machine... -
Street Artists The Complete Guide by Xavier Tapies
RRP: £12.99£9.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909051706Author Xavier TapiesFormat PaperbackImprint Graffito Books LtdPublisher Graffito Books Ltd -
W.G. Sebald's Artistic Legacies: Memory, Word and Image by Leonida Kovac
RRP: £113.00£107.55When the mind turns more than one would wish towards questions of – as W.G. Sebald puts it – the “natural history of destruction”, comparative consideration by artists and interdisciplinary scholars is directed to the interstices between images, novel,... -
Future Bodies from a Recent Past: Sculpture, Technology, and the Body since the 1950s by Patrizia Dander
RRP: £42.50£39.69Future Bodies from a Recent Past brings to life a hitherto little-noticed phenomenon in art and sculpture in particular: the reciprocal interpenetration of bodies and technology. With 120 works by 59 artists-primarily from Europe, the USA and Japan-the... -
New Skin: Selections from the Tony and Elham Salame Collection- Aishti Collection by David Adjaye
RRP: £42.00£29.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857229843Author David AdjayeFormat HardbackPage Count 412Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 2500g -
Contemporary Sculpture and the Critique of Display Cultures: Tainted Goods by Dan Adler
RRP: £19.99£17.69In 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... -
Kill for Peace: American Artists Against the Vietnam War by Matthew Israel
RRP: £23.99£20.84The Vietnam War (1964-1975) divided American society like no other war of the twentieth century, and some of the most memorable American art and art-related activism of the last fifty years protested U.S. involvement. At a time when Pop Art, Minimalism,... -
Contemporary Collecting: The Donna and Howard Stone Collection by James Rondeau
RRP: £40.00£34.59Donna and Howard Stone, two of Chicago's premier art patrons, have collected works of art in all media for more than 30 years, building one of the most distinguished private collections of contemporary art in the country. Much of what they have acquired... -
Sailing the Inland Sea: On Writing, Literature, and Land by Susan S. Neville
RRP: £15.99£14.24Calling on the image of the Midwest's vanished inland sea, Susan Neville has written a compelling collection of essays that ponder writing and the "landlocked imagination." The essays range from interviews with Indiana writers Kurt Vonnegut,... -
Kour Pour by Marta Gnyp
RRP: £28.00£18.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857240633Author Alex BaconFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 900g -
Hello Leonora, Soy Anne Walsh by Anne Walsh
RRP: £36.00£23.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949484038Author Anne WalshFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint No Place PressPublisher No Place Press -
Atomic Postcards: Radioactive Messages from the Cold War by John O'Brian
RRP: £40.95£36.44Atomic postcards played an important role in creating and disseminating a public image of nuclear power. Presenting small-scale images of test explosions, power plants, fallout shelters, and long-range missiles, the cards were produced for mass...