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Hughie O'Donoghue by Jo Baring 9781848226265
RRP: $87.75$66.30Hughie O'Donoghue (b. 1953) explores themes of universal human experience, ideas of truth and the relationship between memory and identity. Often standing apart from his contemporaries in the scale and ambition of his paintings, O'Donoghue's work... -
Lois Dodd by Faye Hirsch
RRP: $97.48$70.73This book is the first monograph on the paintings of Lois Dodd. It provides invaluable analysis and contextualisation of her work alongside such New York City contemporaries as Alex Katz, Philip Pearlstein and other denizens of the Tenth Street milieu of... -
Brice Marden: Phaidon Focus by Eileen Costello
RRP: $29.15$23.21The 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... -
All About Process: The Theory and Discourse of Modern Artistic Labor by Kim Grant
RRP: $58.40$52.47In recent years, many prominent and successful artists have claimed that their primary concern is not the artwork they produce but the artistic process itself. In this volume, Kim Grant analyzes this idea and traces its historical roots, showing how... -
100 Years, 100 Artworks: A History of Modern and Contemporary Art by Agnes Berecz
RRP: $53.63$39.57This dazzling book showcases the history of modern and contemporary art using one hundred of the most significant art works--one per year--of the past 100 years. Starting with Marcel Duchamp's 1919 whimsical, brilliant L.H.O.O.Q., this compendium offers... -
Art + Archive: Understanding the Archival Turn in Contemporary Art by Sara Callahan
RRP: $58.50$42.33Art + Archive provides an in-depth analysis of the connection between art and the archive at the turn of the twenty-first century. The book examines how the archive emerged in art writing in the mid-1990s and how its subsequent ubiquity can be understood... -
Gilbert & George by Jan Debbaut 9781854376664
$40.54Accompanying the retrospective exhibition of their work at Tate Modern opening February 2007, the largest ever staged at the museum, "Gilbert & George" provides a highly affordable introduction to the career of these extraordinary artists. Featuring... -
David Hockney by James Cahill
RRP: $25.33$15.85The 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... -
Affinities by Brian Dillon
RRP: $27.28$17.88What do we mean when we claim affinity with an object or picture, or say affinities exist between such things? Affinities is a critical and personal study of a sensation that is not exactly taste, desire, or allyship, but has aspects of all. Approaching... -
The Idea of the Avant Garde: And What it Means Today by Marc James Leger
RRP: $38.98$29.09This book is premised on the view that the idea of the avant garde has an increased importance in these times of global political crisis. Much cultural production today is shaped by a biopolitics that construes all creative and knowledge production in... -
Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming by Anthony Dunne 9780262548687
RRP: $62.40$40.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262548687Author Anthony DunneFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Mark Rothko by Christopher Rothko 9780847872121
RRP: $224.25$179.81Deluxe 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... -
Conceptual Art in Britain, 1964-1979 by Andrew Wilson
RRP: $38.98$15.48"All the work of the 1970s involved a kind of doubling; there was the world of the everyday and there was the world of the represented ...a sense of our experiential worlds becoming bifurcated between image and reality." John Stezaker This is the first... -
Finding Dora Maar by Brigitte Benkemoun
RRP: $42.88$36.17Merging biography, memoir, and cultural history, this compelling book, a bestseller in France, traces the life of Dora Maar (1907-1997) through a serendipitous encounter with the artist's address book In search of a replacement for his lost Hermes... -
Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Volume II by Danzig Baldaev
RRP: $48.65$31.88'A unique social document recording a now disappearing sub-culture. The criminals inhabit as desperate a nether world as you are likely to come across. A hipnotic aspect of art and words. ' - Index This second volume of the Russian Criminal Tattoo... -
Keith Haring by Jeffrey Deitch
RRP: $81.90$75.68Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the artist's birth, this book is the intended to be a faithful posthumous execution of the project. Containing a wealth of unpublished materials, and representing a decade of work and research, it promises to be the... -
Sunday Sketching by Christoph Niemann
RRP: $56.53$41.55From award-winning artist and author Cristoph Niemann comes a collection of witty illustrations and whimsical views on working creatively. This survey of Niemann's work will be done in his signature style, combining photography and illustration in... -
Bacon by Luigi Ficacci
RRP: $29.25$22.15Largely self-taught as an artist, Francis Bacon (1909-1992) developed a unique ability to transform interior and unconscious impulses into figurative forms and intensely claustrophobic compositions. Emerging into notoriety in the period following World... -
Diane Arbus by Patricia Bosworth
RRP: $25.33$17.73Diane Arbus's startling photographic images of dwarfs, twins, transvestites, and freaks seemed from the first to redefine both the normal and the abnormal in our lives; they were already becoming part of the iconography of the age when Arbus committed... -
Rhythm and Geometry: Constructivist Art in Britain Since 1951 by Tania Moore
RRP: $50.70$35.67Rhythm and Geometry: Constructivist art in Britain since 1951 celebrates the dynamic abstract and constructed art made and exhibited in Britain over a seventy-year period. Including constructed reliefs and sculpture, kinetic and participatory art,... -
Milhazes by Hans Werner Holzwarth 9783836584630
RRP: $156.00$114.31In her vibrant works, the Brazilian painter Beatriz Milhazes fuses two very different worldviews. Her abstract compositions, which can be seen in a line with modernist masters from Henri Matisse to Bridget Riley, are saturated with the colors and light... -
Anti-Shows: Aptart 1982-84 - Exhibition Histories: Volume 8 by Alexandra Danilova 9783960980230
$43.15Apologies 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... -
Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972 by Lucy R. Lippard
RRP: $56.55$43.95In Six Years Lucy R. Lippard documents the chaotic network of ideas that has been labeled conceptual art. The book is arranged as an annotated chronology into which is woven a rich collection of original documents--including texts by and taped... -
Cultural Capital: The Rise and Fall of Creative Britain Robert Hewison 9781781685914
RRP: $29.23$24.47Britain began the twenty-first century convinced of its creativity. Throughout the New Labour era, the visual and performing arts, museums and galleries, were ceaselessly promoted as a stimulus to national economic revival, a post-industrial... -
Jeff Koons: A Retrospective by Scott Rothkopf
RRP: $87.75$78.06A fresh and engaging look at the controversial work of Jeff Koons, with insightful analyses and illustrations of all of his iconic pieces alongside preparatory works and historical photographs Examining the breadth and depth of thirty-five years of... -
For Creative Geographies: Geography, Visual Arts and the Making of Worlds Harriet Hawkins 9781138952928
RRP: $85.78$74.96This book provides the first sustained critical exploration, and celebration, of the relationship between Geography and the contemporary Visual Arts. With the growth of research in the Geohumanities and the Spatial Humanities, there is an imperative to... -
John Craxton: A Life of Gifts by Ian Collins
RRP: $33.13$29.27Born into a large, musical, and bohemian family in London, the British artist John Craxton (1922-2009) has been described as a Neo-Romantic, but he called himself a "kind of Arcadian". His early art was influenced by Blake, Palmer, Miro, and Picasso... -
Basquiat by Marc Mayer
RRP: $36.95$30.48Jean-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... -
Island Zombie: Iceland Writings by Roni Horn 9780691208145
RRP: $58.50$45.42An 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... -
The Lives of Lucian Freud: YOUTH 1922 - 1968 William Feaver 9781408850954
RRP: $29.23$23.30SHORTLISTED 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... -
140 Artists' Ideas for Planet Earth by Hans Ulrich Obrist
RRP: $21.43$15.15Through 140 drawings, thought experiments, recipes, activist instructions, gardening ideas, insurgences and personal revolutions, artists who spend their lives thinking outside the box guide you to a new worldview; where you and the planet are one... -
The Political Aesthetics of the Armenian Avant-Garde: The Journey of the 'Painterly Real', 1987-2004 by Angela Harutyunyan
RRP: $68.25$48.95This book addresses late-Soviet and post-Soviet art in Armenia in the context of turbulent transformations from the late 1980s to 2004. It explores the emergence of 'contemporary art' in Armenia from within and in opposition to the practices, aesthetics... -
R. Crumb: The Complete Record Cover Collection by Robert R. Crumb 9780393082784
RRP: $42.88$37.36Robert Crumb first began drawing record covers in 1968 when Janis Joplin, a fellow Haight Ashbury denizen, asked him to provide a cover for her album Cheap Thrills. It was an invitation the budding artist couldn't resist, especially since he had been... -
Frank Auerbach - Drawings of People by Mark Hallett
RRP: $78.00$65.50The first extended study of Frank Auerbach's remarkable portrait drawings reveals their complexity and ambition as works of graphic art This book offers an original approach to one of Britain's leading artists: Frank Auerbach (b. 1931). It looks in... -
The Story of Contemporary Art by Tony Godfrey 9780500297605
RRP: $58.50$39.78A lively introduction to and history of international contemporary art from 1960 to the present. What does it mean? Is it really art? Why does it cost so much? While these questions are perpetually asked about contemporary art, they are not the... -
Biennials, Triennials, and Documenta: The Exhibitions that Created Contemporary Art Anthony Gardner (University of Oxford, UK) 9781444336658
RRP: $40.85$36.08This 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... -
100 Figures: The Unseen Art of Quentin Blake by Quentin Blake
RRP: $37.03$21.14Quentin 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... -
Postwar Modern: New Art in Britain 1945-65 by Jane Alison
RRP: $87.75$66.71This landmark volume offers a major re-assessment of the art that emerged in Britain in the twenty years following the end of the Second World War: a period of anxiety, profound social change and explosive creativity. Published to coincide with the... -
Oceans by Pandora Syperek
RRP: $36.95$24.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780854883042Author Pandora SyperekFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Whitechapel GalleryPublisher Whitechapel Gallery -
Banksy You Are an Acceptable Level of Threat and if You Were Not You Would Know About It by Patrick Potter
RRP: $58.40$49.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908211781Author Patrick PotterFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Carpet Bombing CulturePublisher Carpet Bombing Culture