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Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: Expanded Edition by Lawrence Weschler 9780520256095
RRP: $36.12$28.64When this book first appeared in 1982, it introduced readers to Robert Irwin, the Los Angeles artist 'who one day got hooked on his own curiosity and decided to live it'. Now expanded to include six additional chapters and twenty-four pages of color... -
When We See Us: A Century of Black Figuration in Painting by Koyo Kouoh
RRP: $58.05$39.80A Sunday Times Art Book of the Year: a major study of Black figurative art from Africa and the African diaspora, covering 100 years from the early 20th century to now. Published to accompany a major exhibition at Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town, this book... -
Basquiat by Leonhard Emmerling 9783836559799
RRP: $19.35$15.43An icon of 1980s New York, Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) first made his name under the graffiti tag "SAMO", before establishing his studio practice and catapulting to fast fame at the age of 20. Although his career lasted barely a decade, he remains a... -
One Place after Another: Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity by Miwon Kwon 9780262612029
RRP: $34.83$22.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262612029Author Miwon KwonFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 11mm -
Tantra Song - Tantric Painting from Rajasthan by Franck Andre Jamme
RRP: $45.15$30.69A revelatory volume on an occluded genre of Indian art, Tantra Song is a convergence of East and West, the spiritual and the aesthetic, the ancient and the modern This collection of rare, abstract Tantra drawings was conceived when the French poet... -
Joe Tilson by Marco Livingstone
RRP: $58.05$45.92Joe Tilson RA (b.1928) is one of the great figures in post-war British art and a pivotal artist of the British Pop Art movement during the 1960s. Still working, and still evolving, he has continued to explore many new directions and a great variety of... -
Fendry Ekel: Entries by Astrid Honold
RRP: $38.06$32.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789460224485Author Astrid HonoldFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint KIT PublishersPublisher KIT PublishersWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 249mm * 178mm *... -
Carolee Schneemann: Body Politics Lotte Johnson 9780300260649
RRP: $45.15$38.15Traces the feminist icon Carolee Schneemann's prolific six-decade output, spanning her remarkably diverse, transgressive, and interdisciplinary expression Carolee Schneemann (1939-2019) was one of the most experimental artists of the twentieth and early... -
David Hockney by Marco Livingstone
RRP: $19.34$13.16One of the most popular and influential British artists of our times, David Hockney has never ceased to change his style and ways of working, always re-energizing his art with new solutions, fresh ideas and technical mastery. Now excitedly embracing his... -
Contemporary Art by Natalie Rudd
RRP: $16.76$10.49A 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... -
The Art of Jim Burns: Hyperluminal by Jim Burns
RRP: $32.24$25.14This is a new collection of art from one of the UK's most acclaimed sci-fi artists featuring everything from his initial sketches to his final works and published book covers. It includes covers from the SF greats - Greg Bear, Neil Gaiman and Terry... -
London's New Scene: Art and Culture in the 1960s Lisa Tickner 9781913107109
RRP: $45.15$40.21A groundbreaking and extensively researched account of the 1960s London art scene In the 1960s, London became a vibrant hub of artistic production. Postwar reconstruction, jet air travel, television arts programs, new color supplements, a generation of... -
Arte Povera (Abridged Edition) by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev
RRP: $19.29$16.13The definitive overview and anthology of the artworks and writings associated with Arte Povera, the influential art movement that explored the relation between art and life, made manifest through natural materials and human artifacts, and experienced... -
The Cambridge Art Book: The City Through the Eyes of its Artists by Emma Bennett
RRP: $21.92$14.80The 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... -
A Little History of Protest Art by Aindrea Emelife 9781849767828
RRP: $19.35$14.14Art has always declared its dissatisfaction against the status quo. Throughout history artists have used their art to criticise and protest against a range of injustices and inequalities. Their art is an act of defiance, but more importantly it has given... -
Kettle's Yard House Guide by Jennifer Powell 9781904561750
RRP: $10.32$7.22Kettle's Yard is widely recognised as a highly influential master class in curating; a flawless arrangement of art and objects that is still radical in its philosophy of seeking to fuse art with life. For many it is a place that has that rare power of... -
The Art Museum by Phaidon Editors
RRP: $51.54$42.16Visit the world's most comprehensive and compelling museum in a single book - the ultimate gallery in your own home Housing the finest art collection ever assembled, this classic format of Phaidon's bestselling The Art Museum offers the ultimate museum... -
Lucian Freud: Herbarium by Giovanni Aloi
RRP: $51.59$38.67Lucian Freud's portraits are known for their spectacular detail and unflinching gaze. Although Freud brought the same qualities to his paintings and drawings of plants, flowers, and landscapes, these are largely unknown. This elegant book shows how... -
Humankind: Ruskin Spear, class, culture and art in 20th century Britain by Tanya Harrod
RRP: $45.15$30.22Humankind: Ruskin Spear is the first book on the painter Ruskin Spear RA (1911-1990) since a brief monograph in 1985. It uses Spear's career to unlock the coded standards of the 20th-century art world and to look at class and culture in Britain and at... -
50 Art Movements You Should Know: From Impressionism to Performance Art by Rosalind Ormiston
RRP: $19.34$17.45The story of modern art begins with a revolution-when the realists started rejecting romanticism in favor of depicting life as it really was. Since that movement began in the mid-19th- century, painters have been rebelling, rethinking, deconstructing,... -
Vintage Tattoo Flash: 100 Years of Traditional Tattoos from the Collection of Jonathan Shaw by Jonathan Shaw 9781576877692
RRP: $79.97$54.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781576877692Author Jonathan ShawFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint powerHouse Books,U.S.Publisher powerHouse Books,U.S.Weight(grams) 2018g -
The Political Body: Stories on Art, Feminism, and Emancipation in Latin America by Andrea Giunta 9780520344327
RRP: $50.31$39.68How a constellation of Latin American artists explored the body, power, and emancipation-and expanded the meanings of feminist art. In The Political Body, art historian Andrea Giunta explores gender and power in the work of Latin American artists from... -
The Geometries of Afro Asia: Art beyond Solidarity by Joan Kee
RRP: $38.70$30.56A groundbreaking method for writing art history, using the language of geometry. How do we embark on a history of art from the assumption of a global majority, outside of essentializing categories like race or hollow proclamations of solidarity? With... -
Painting beyond Itself - The Medium in the Post-Medium Condition by Isabelle Graw
$18.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783956790072Author Isabelle GrawFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Sternberg PressPublisher Sternberg PressWeight(grams) 666gDimensions(mm) 191mm * 121mm... -
Zen in Japanese Culture: A Visual Journey through Art, Design, and Life Gavin Blair 9780789213457
RRP: $32.24$22.42A 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... -
John Armstrong: The Complete Paintings by Andrew Lambirth
RRP: $64.50$50.67A superb classical painter and draughtsman, Armstrong also undertook much work in film, theatre, and ballet, as well as being a successful designer of ceramics and murals. As a painter he has often been associated with the surrealists, especially after... -
Peter Kennard: Visual Dissent by Peter Kennard
RRP: $38.69$25.54This fully illustrated anthology showcases key images from Peter Kennard's work as Britain's foremost political artist over the last fifty years. The book centres around Kennard's images, photomontages and illustrations from protests, year by year,... -
Art Record Covers by Francesco Spampinato 9783836540292
RRP: $64.50$49.17Since the dawn of modernism, visual and music production have had a particularly intimate relationship. From Luigi Russolo's 1913 Futurist manifesto L'Arte dei Rumori (The Art of Noise) to Marcel Duchamp's 1925 double-sided discs Rotoreliefs, the 20th... -
Cecily Brown: Death and the Maid by Ian Alteveer
RRP: $45.15$39.44An intimate survey of Cecily Brown's paintings, drawings, and prints, providing a meditation on the intertwined themes of still life, memento mori, and vanitas in her work Cecily Brown (b. 1969) transfixes viewers with sumptuous color, bravura brushwork,... -
Alma W. Thomas: Everything Is Beautiful by Jonathan Frederick Walz
RRP: $70.95$62.04A sweeping retrospective of Alma W. Thomas's wide-reaching artistic practice that sheds new light on her singular search for beauty Achieving fame in 1972 as the first Black woman to mount a solo show at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Alma W. Thomas... -
Jonathan Wateridge – Uncertain Swimmer by Jonathan Wateridge 9781910221518
RRP: $64.50$45.43Uncertain Swimmer is the second monograph on the work of British artist Jonathan Wateridge (b. 1972, Lusaka, Zambia), presenting around eighty paintings and works on paper made between 2019 and 2022. Following on from the bodies of work Enclave and... -
The One and the Many: Contemporary Collaborative Art in a Global Context by Grant H. Kester
RRP: $29.66$25.81Collaborative and collective art practices have proliferated around the world over the past fifteen years. In The One and the Many, Grant H. Kester provides an overview of the broader continuum of collaborative art, ranging from the work of artists and... -
The Art of Elizabeth Blackadder by Duncan Macmillan 9781848226586
RRP: $32.25$24.26Exploring the development of Elizabeth Blackadder's art in all its richness, this revised edition of Duncan Macmillan's 1999 book expands the account of an important artist and her significant body of work. With her oeuvre ranging through still life,... -
Social Sculpture: The Rise of the Glasgow Art Scene by Sarah Lowndes 9781906817596
RRP: $19.34$14.87Sarah Lowndes looks back at the rise of the Glasgow art scene through the decades, from community art to Thatcher, New Wave to Teenage Fanclub. Charting the emergence of performance and conceptual-related art, she looks at the background from which the... -
Weight of the Earth: The Tape Journals of David Wojnarowicz by David Wojnarowicz
RRP: $20.63$14.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635900170Author David WojnarowiczFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher Semiotext (E)Dimensions(mm) 203mm * 137mm * 13mm -
Richard Estes: Phaidon Focus by Linda Chase
RRP: $19.29$15.35The perfect introduction to the life and work of Richard EstesAbout the AuthorLinda Chase is a noted author and curator, whose writings on Photorealism have helped define the movement. Her first interview with Richard Estes was published in 1972 in Art... -
Out of the Bloodlands: A Century of Polish Artists in Britain - From Axentowich to Zulawski by Rachel Dickson
RRP: $25.80$17.74A new survey of the contribution of Polish-born artists to British visual culture based on Ben Uri's 2017 exhibition of the same title. The publication celebrates Poland as the homeland of the second largest migrant group in Britain, with over one... -
Scottish Skies by Scott Naismith 9781911148005
$45.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911148005Author Scott NaismithFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint D & M Heritage PressPublisher D & M Heritage Press -
Where's Warhol? by Catherine Ingram
RRP: $16.76$11.61Andy Warhol-Top of the Pops, devout Catholic, silver-wig wearer and now the star of Where's Warhol? Spot Warhol in the corridors of the Bauhaus or the Sistine Chapel as he and his famous friends pop up in 12 spectacles of art history. Expand your art... -
Birdsong by Madeleine Floyd
RRP: $12.89$8.57Beautiful bird illustrations by Madeleine FloydDetails of the wonderful songs and sounds of our birdsA celebration of our feathered creatures and their songs for all bird lovers A celebration of British birds and their songs, from the sought-after...