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Speculation by Marina Vishmidt
RRP: $39.80$27.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780854882991Author Marina VishmidtFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Whitechapel GalleryPublisher Whitechapel GalleryWeight(grams) 600g -
Climate Change and the New Polar Aesthetics: Artists Reimagine the Arctic and Antarctic by Lisa E. Bloom 9781478015994
RRP: $197.40$169.05In Climate Change and the New Polar Aesthetics, Lisa E. Bloom considers the ways artists, filmmakers, and activists engaged with the Arctic and Antarctic to represent our current environmental crises and reconstruct public understandings of them. Bloom... -
See What You're Missing: 31 Ways Artists Notice the World – and How You Can Too by Will Gompertz 9780241315484
RRP: $23.08$17.70How might we see ourselves more clearly? Consult Rembrandt.Who can encourage us to see more intimately? Tracey Emin is the expert.What about helping us see through pain? Look no further than Frida Kahlo.Too often we move through life on autopilot, blind... -
Phenomenal Difference: A Philosophy of Black British Art by Leon Wainwright 9781781384176
RRP: $46.18$41.73Phenomenal Difference grants new attention to contemporary black British art, exploring its critical and social significance through attention to embodied experience, affectivity, the senses and perception.Featuring attention to works by the following ... -
Etel Adnan by Kaelen Wilson-Goldie 9781848222663
RRP: $104.98$80.62Etel Adnan (1925-2021) was a Lebanese-American poet, essayist and visual artist. This is the first book to present a full account of Adnan's fascinating life and work, using the drama of her biography, the complexity of her identity, and the cosmopolitan... -
Louise Nevelson: Art is Life by Laurie Wilson
RRP: $52.40$36.44Louise Nevelson (1899-1988) was, with Calder, Noguchi and David Smith, one of the great American sculptors of the 20th century. She created extraordinary work, from room-size installations composed of boxes to gnarled and majestic steel structures. Her... -
Brutalist London Map: Guide to Brutalist architecture in London - 2nd edition by Henrietta Billings
RRP: $18.90$14.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912018833Author Henrietta BillingsPage Count 2Imprint Blue Crow MediaPublisher Blue Crow MediaWeight(grams) 40gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 151mm * 5mm -
Boom: Mad Money, Mega Dealers, and the Rise of Contemporary Art by Michael Shnayerson 9781541758728
RRP: $39.88$24.72Before Damien Hirst stuffed a shark, before Basquiat picked up a spray can, before Andy Warhol started The Factory, a pile of unwanted Jackson Pollocks changed everything. From them emerged the first major modern art dealer. It was 1947, and the art... -
John Craxton: A Life of Gifts by Ian Collins 9780300255294
RRP: $63.00$44.73Uplifting and engaging, this story recounts the life and career of a rebellious 20th-century British artist Born into a large, musical, and bohemian family in London, the British artist John Craxton (1922-2009) has been described as a Neo-Romantic, but... -
Abstract Art by Dietmar Elger
RRP: $31.50$23.86Abstraction shook Western art to its core. In the early part of the 20th century, it refuted the reign of clear, indisputable forms and confronted audiences instead with vivid visual poems devoid of conventional representational imagery and characterized... -
Talk Art The Interviews by Russell Tovey
RRP: $52.50$35.85'Insights from the zeitgeist are preserved with conviction and clarity, offering an inclusive way to access contemporary art in all its forms. If Talk Art is the fun podcast, then this book is the educational supplement to be prescribed alongside it.' -... -
The Cambridge Art Book: The City Through the Eyes of its Artists by Emma Bennett
RRP: $35.68$27.01The Cambridge Art Book contains a unique collection of contemporary images of this most beautiful city, from the grand architecture of its historic university to its more intimate corners. Cambridge is a unique place with a very special atmosphere... -
Frida Kahlo Masterpieces of Art by Flame Tree Studio
RRP: $31.48$21.42The painful, exquisite art of Mexico's favourite artist was a product of immense physical pain, and an emotional tumultuous life. The new book features the range and power of her heavily autobiographical work, from the early, disturbing explorations of... -
How Folklore Shaped Modern Art: A Post-Critical History of Aesthetics by Wes Hill
RRP: $94.48$82.49Since the 1990s, artists and art writers around the world have increasingly undermined the essentialism associated with notions of "critical practice." We can see this manifesting in the renewed relevance of what were previously considered "outsider" art... -
Boom: The Megadealers Behind the Irresistible Rise of the Contemporary Art Market by Michael Shnayerson
RRP: $52.50$35.24Before Damien Hirst stuffed a shark, before Basquiat picked up a spray can, before Andy Warhol started The Factory, a pile of unwanted Jackson Pollocks changed everything. From them emerged the first major modern art dealer. It was 1947, and the art... -
Face to Face: Interviews With Artists by Richard Cork 9781849768085
RRP: $35.68$25.79A fascinating insight into the lives and work of a remarkable range of contemporary artists Conducted by Richard Cork, one of the UK's most distinguished art writers, these intimate and revealing interviews provide a wealth of fascinating insights into... -
The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever by Prudence Peiffer 9780063097209
RRP: $81.88$50.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063097209Author Prudence PeifferFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint HarperPublisher HarperWeight(grams) 454g -
Picturing People: The New State of the Art by Charlotte Mullins
RRP: $52.40$39.04Figurative art is currently riding high. Contemporary works depicting the human form grace the walls of public institutions and commercial galleries alike. Champions of paint, such as Katherine Bernhardt and Adrian Ghenie; photographic artists, such as... -
Zen in Japanese Culture by Gavin Blair
RRP: $73.50$54.77A visual journey through Zen's influence on Japanese life, from calligraphy to the martial arts Formed by a convergence of the Buddha's teachings with Taoism and local tradition, Zen has had a profound impact on the art and culture of Japan. As a... -
Luna Luna: The Art Amusement Park by Andre Heller
RRP: $73.40$58.99A landmark book documenting the first-ever art amusement park - launched in 1987 in Hamburg, Germany - in anticipation of its global reintroduction In the late 1980s, more than 30 of the era's most acclaimed artists - including Jean-Michel Basquiat,... -
We Go To The Gallery: A Dung Beetle Learning Guide by Miriam Elia 9780992834913
RRP: $20.98$14.41Have you taken children to a gallery recently? Did you struggle to explain the work to them in plain , simple English? With this new Dung Beetle book, both parents and young children can learn about contemporary art, and understand many of its key themes... -
Bloodborne Official Artworks by Sony 9781772940367
RRP: $83.98$68.73In the terrifying video game Bloodborne, deranged mobs and nightmarish creatures lurk around every corner of a horror-filled gothic city. Bloodborne: Official Artworks collects the hair-raising artwork behind this modern action role-playing classic... -
Bob Law: Field Works 1959-1999 by Douglas Fogle
RRP: $31.50$20.58During Law's stay at St Ives in the late 1950s, the artist developed a series of Field drawings that reduced elements observed in the surrounding landscape - the sun, trees and clouds - into a set of abstract signs held within a rhomboid frame. The... -
Shetland Notebook by Norman Ackroyd 9781907533891
RRP: $39.80$26.71Norman 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... -
Robert Gober: The Heart is not a Metaphor by Ann Temkin
RRP: $58.80$40.30Robert Gober rose to prominence in the mid-1980s and was quickly acknowledged as one of the most significant artists of his generation. In the years since, his reputation has continued to grow, commensurate with the rich and complex body of work he has... -
Out of Breath: Vulnerability of Air in Contemporary Art by Caterina Albano
RRP: $18.90$16.30Explores the intrinsic relation of life to air, and breathing, through contemporary art In Out of Breath, Caterina Albano examines the cultural significance of breath and air to a wide array of forces in our midst, including economy, politics, infection,... -
Killing Men & Dying Women: Imagining Difference in 1950s New York Painting by Griselda Pollock 9781526164186
RRP: $52.50$37.84What did it mean for painter Lee Krasner to be an artist and a woman if, in the culture of 1950s New York, to be an artist was to be Jackson Pollock and to be a woman was to be Marilyn Monroe? With this question, Griselda Pollock begins a... -
Multiple Realities: Experimental Art in the Eastern Bloc 1960s–1980s by Pavel Pys 9781935963288
RRP: $113.40$75.56A massive panorama of Eastern Europe's postwar avant-gardes, featuring both canonical and lesser-known artists Multiple Realities offers a sweeping survey of experimental art made in six Central Eastern European nations-GDR, Poland, Czechoslovakia,... -
Jean-Michel Basquiat by Dieter Burchhart
RRP: $94.50$64.79American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) quickly became one of art history's most luminescent personalities; his friendships with Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, and Madonna, as well as his tragic death at the age of twenty-seven, are the stuff of... -
Read This if You Want to be Great at Drawing People by Selwyn Leamy
RRP: $27.28$18.06Learn to draw figures and faces with this clear and easy to follow guide, the latest in the bestselling 'Read This' series. Revealing the techniques and ideas behind inspirational works, the book will set you on the path to making your own great... -
Pop Art and Beyond: Gender, Race, and Class in the Global Sixties by Mona Hadler 9781350286559
$60.40Highlighting intersections of gender, race, and class and their explosive encounters with Pop Art during the Long Sixties, this book offers a new critical reading of Pop for the 21st century. 'a brilliant and important corrective to much writing on... -
Abloh-isms by Virgil Abloh
RRP: $27.28$19.36A collection of essential quotations from the renowned fashion designer, DJ, and stylistAbloh-isms is a collection of essential quotations from American fashion designer, DJ, and stylist Virgil Abloh, who was a major creative figure in the worlds of pop... -
1950s Fashion Print by Marnie Fogg
RRP: $31.48$20.43An essential sourcebook of prints from a key fashion decade. The 1950s was the decade when an analytical approach to design, with a lightness and freshness, combined with whimsical imagery and idiosyncratic subject matter. Showcasing hundreds of print... -
Joan Mitchell by Sarah Roberts
RRP: $105.00$92.51A sweeping retrospective exploring the oeuvre of an incandescent artist, revealing the ways that Mitchell expanded painting beyond Abstract Expressionism as well as the transatlantic contexts that shaped her Joan Mitchell (1925-1992) was fearless in her... -
The Monster Leviathan: Anarchitecture by Aaron Betsky 9780262546331
RRP: $86.10$56.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262546331Author Aaron BetskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 964gDimensions(mm) 241mm * 160mm * 33mm -
Contemporary Chinese Art: A History: 1970s-2000s by Wu Hung
RRP: $126.00$86.00In this first systematic introduction to contemporary Chinese art, Wu Hung provides an accessible, focused and much-needed narrative of the development of Chinese art across all media from the 1970s to the 2000s. From its underground genesis during the... -
A Bigger Message: Conversations with David Hockney by Martin Gayford
RRP: $35.60$25.01David Hockney is possibly the world's most popular living painter, but he is also something else: an incisive and original thinker on art. Here are the fruits of his lifelong meditations on the problems and paradoxes of representing a three-dimensional... -
Mary Kelly: Volume 20 by Mignon Nixon
RRP: $48.30$34.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262529327Author Mignon NixonFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 11mm -
Tate British Artists: Ben Nicholson by Virginia Button
RRP: $31.48$20.01Ben Nicholson (1894-1982) was one of the greatest British artists of the twentieth century, first coming to international prominence with his famous 'white reliefs' of the 1930s. A pioneer of abstract art in Britain, he played a significant role in the... -
Sex And Horror: The Art Of Alessandro Biffignandi by Alessandro Biffignandi 9780993337406
RRP: $48.28$32.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993337406Author Alessandro BiffignandiFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Korero PressPublisher Korero PressWeight(grams) 726g