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Everything Is Connected - Art and Conspiracy by Douglas Eklund 9781588396594
RRP: $68.61$59.33A timely exploration of artists whose work addresses the subject of conspiracy and media manipulation in modern culture Shaped by events such as the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the Vietnam War, Watergate, the Iran-Contra affair, and 9/11,... -
Place by Tacita Dean
RRP: $25.64$19.42Everyone wants to find their own place in the world. But where is it and what is it? How do we recognize place as being significant and not just merely space? And what is it that makes one place special and another not? These are questions that have... -
Art and NFTs: The Essential Primer by Amy Whitaker
RRP: $42.88$31.37We are just completing a thirty- year arc of digitization. Now we are beginning a thirty-year arc of tokenization. ---Kevin McCoy, artist and Erst person to make an NFT Since the NFT craze began in the art world, the information one can find for the... -
Tracey Emin: Works 2007 - 2017 by Jonathan Jones
RRP: $102.92$76.25Compiled in close collaboration with the artist and unprecedented in its scope, this definitive book collects ten years of Tracey Emin s drawings, paintings, sculptures, appliques and embroideries, neons, video stills, and installations. A multimedia... -
Louise Nevelson's Sculpture: Drag, Color, Join, Face by Julia Bryan-Wilson
RRP: $77.19$75.25A daring reassessment of Louise Nevelson, an icon of twentieth-century art whose innovative procedures relate to gendered, classed, and racialized forms of making "Here is a book that is not only a transformative study of a single artist but also a... -
Eric White by Daniel Rounds 9780847846207
RRP: $60.04$52.18The first comprehensive and long-overdue monograph of visual artist Eric White, containing mostly previously unpublished work. Eric White generates a world of psychologically charged narratives in his masterfully executed and surreal figurative paintings... -
Gerhard Richter - Painting After All by Sheena Wagstaff 9781588396853
RRP: $60.04$53.47A lavishly illustrated monograph that spans the entire career of Gerhard Richter, one of the most celebrated contemporary artists "Spans the contemporary German artist's six-decade career. . . . [A] stirring exhibition in [its] own right."-New York... -
Grayson Perry: The Vanity of Small Differences by Caroline Douglas 9781853323157
RRP: $39.37$26.66An essential companion to one of the key contemporary art works of the last decade, Grayson Perry's series of tapestries, The Vanity of Small Differences. Telling a story of class and taste, aspiration and identity, tapestry series The Vanity of Small... -
Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat by Javaka Steptoe
RRP: $25.71$22.52Somewhere in Brooklyn, a little boy dreams of being a famous artist, not knowing that one day he would make himself a king.Jean-Michel Basquiat and his unique, collage-style paintings rocketed to fame in the 1980s as a cultural phenomenon unlike anything... -
Euan Uglow: The Complete Paintings by Catherine Lampert 9780300123494
RRP: $162.95$139.28British artist Euan Uglow (1932-2000) maintained a lower profile than others of his generation, yet his beautiful, intelligent, humane, and often witty landscapes, still lifes, and figure studies are today gaining the recognition they so clearly deserve... -
Freud by Sebastian Smee
RRP: $25.73$19.49Lucian Freud (1922-2011) was interested in the telling of truths. Always operating outside the main currents of 20th-century art, the esteemed portrait painter observed his subjects with the regimen and precision of a laboratory scientist. He recorded... -
Very Fantastically Arranged by Caragh Thuring 9780262048453
RRP: $94.34$63.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262048453Author Caragh ThuringFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Milton Glaser, POP by Steven Heller
RRP: $77.10$60.26'Milton Glaser's designs changed the way we see the world.' - Gloria Steinem An overview of the work of illustrator and designer Milton Glaser during the 1960s and 70s From 1954, when he co-founded the legendary Push Pin Studios, to the late '70s,... -
Italian Journey by Anne Desmet 9781910350546
RRP: $22.21$14.72This jewel-like book evokes unmistakable Italian landscapes and cityscapes. Anne Desmet's pen commits every detail to paper, and the small-scale format emphasises her distinctive flair for capturing the relationship between extreme foreground and... -
The Lives of Lucian Freud by William Feaver
RRP: $60.04$43.38SELECTED AS BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN, SUNDAY TIMES, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT AND SPECTATOR SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2019 'This exceptional book is far from... -
Alice Neel - People Come First by Kelly Baum
RRP: $60.04$52.44Positioning Alice Neel as a champion of civil rights, this book explores how her paintings convey her humanist politics and capture the humanity, strength, and vulnerability of her subjects "One of the most ambitious and thorough collections of Neel's... -
Breaking the Rules: Paul Wonner and Theophilus Brown by Scott A. Shields
RRP: $94.34$62.97In reaction to the widespread pursuit of Abstract Expressionism in the late 1940s and early 1950s, Paul Wonner and William "Theophilus" Brown were among the artists in the San Francisco Bay Area who began to re-engage with the visible world, applying the... -
Banksy: Completed by Carol Diehl
RRP: $58.32$38.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262046244Author Carol DiehlFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Raw + Material = Art: Found, Scavenged and Upcycled by Tristan Manco
RRP: $42.80$30.79Tristan Manco, perhaps the world's most influential commentator on street art, showcases the work of 38 truly innovative and inspirational artists who use low-cost, low-tech media and often totally original techniques to produce work that defies... -
Comics: A Global History, 1968 to the Present by Dan Mazur
RRP: $34.22$24.58The first global history of comics from 1968 through to the present day, arranged chronologically and richly illustrated with prime examples of the artists, styles and movements being discussed. The authors contextualize the crucial modern period within... -
Gerhard Richter by Klaus Honnef
RRP: $25.73$19.49An encounter with Gerhard Richter, the German artist who widened horizons in the relationship between painting and reality. From early photographic paintings, along with his famous RAF cycle, to late abstract paintings, experiencing Richter's work always... -
Disrupted Realism: Paintings for a Distracted World by ,John Seed 9780764358012
RRP: $78.89$52.69The first book to survey the works of 38 contemporary painters who are "disrupting" figurative painting with technology- and memory-inspired alterations. Disrupted Realism takes an in-depth look at the works of contemporary painters who are challenging... -
Dorothea Tanning: Art and Life by Victoria Carruthers 9781848221741
RRP: $77.19$61.06This is the definitive study of US artist Dorothea Tanning (1910-2012), positioning her as one of the most fascinating and significant creative forces to emerge during the 20th century. It provides a framework within which to consider the range and depth... -
A Brief History of Black British Art by Rianna Jade Parker
RRP: $25.73$18.80Black artists in Britain have long been making major contributions to art history. While some of these artists have been embraced at times by the art world, for the most part they have not received the recognition they deserve. Taking as its starting... -
Visions of the Occult: An Untold Story of Art & Magic by Victoria Jenkins
RRP: $42.88$30.22The first major survey of the occult collection of artworks, letters, objects and ephemera in the Tate Archive and collection. Revealing over 150 esoteric and mystical pieces, some never before seen, this book gives a new understanding to the artists in... -
Vintage Tattoo Flash: 100 Years of Traditional Tattoos from the Collection of Jonathan Shaw by Jonathan Shaw 9781576877692
RRP: $106.33$72.81Apologies 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 -
Today Is Always Yesterday: Contemporary Brazilian Art by Michael Asbury 9781789148008
RRP: $60.04$56.81Today Is Always Yesterday explores the historical constructs underlying contemporary art in Brazil. Michael Asbury, through his study of the South American nation's colonial and post-colonial condition, argues that art can not only illustrate history but... -
Australian Abstract by Amber Creswell Bell
RRP: $68.61$47.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Australian Book Industry Awards 2024 (UK).Book InformationISBN 9781760762858Author Amber Creswell BellFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Thames and... -
Creating the Countryside: The Rural Idyll by Verity Elson 9781911300106
RRP: $34.31$22.06The rural idyll is a powerful force in the British national imagination. This highly original and vibrant study will examine how key moments in art history have shaped the concept of the idyll and how contemporary artists continue to access and often... -
Energies in the Arts by Douglas Kahn
RRP: $77.19$56.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262039383Author Douglas KahnFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 241mm * 171mm * 30mm -
Art School: (Propositions for the 21st Century) by Steven Henry Madoff
RRP: $70.33$52.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Winner, Trade Typographic Category, 2010 AAUP Book, Jacket, and Journal Show. 2010.Book InformationISBN 9780262134934Author Steven Henry MadoffFormat... -
Abstract Art by Anna Moszynska
RRP: $25.71$16.81Since the early years of the 20th century, Western abstract art has fascinated, outraged and bewildered audiences. Its path to acceptance within the artistic mainstream was slow. Anna Moszynska traces the origins and evolution of abstract art, placing it... -
Albert Oehlen by John Corbett 9783836508971
RRP: $102.92$100.55The paintings of Albert Oehlen live by audacious strategies, by questioning the image and the rules of abstraction, and by an openness and beauty often reached through the unlikeliest of means. In this expansive monograph, we meet the full range of... -
John Wonnacott: A Biographical Study by Charles Saumarez Smith
RRP: $51.44$38.37In this first major study of the work of the painter John Wonnacott (b.1940), Charles Saumarez Smith has surveyed a body of work produced at a tangent to the orthodoxies of modernism. Exploring the artist's formative experiences at the Slade, which... -
Yayoi Kusama by Robert Shore
RRP: $22.28$14.75'I, Kusama, am the modern Alice in Wonderland' Yayoi KusamaNonagenarian Japanese artist is simultaneously one of the most famous and most mysterious artists on the planet. A wild child of the 1950s and 1960s, she emerged out of the international Fluxus... -
Reductionism in Art and Brain Science: Bridging the Two Cultures by Eric Kandel 9780231179638
RRP: $32.57$25.37Are art and science separated by an unbridgeable divide? Can they find common ground? In this new book, neuroscientist Eric R. Kandel, whose remarkable scientific career and deep interest in art give him a unique perspective, demonstrates how science can... -
Hans Hofmann: The Nature of Abstraction by Lucinda Barnes 9780520294479
RRP: $78.90$67.27Hans Hofmann: The Nature of Abstraction offers a fresh and revealing assessment of the artist's prolific and innovative painterly career. The comprehensive exhibition and accompanying catalogue will feature approximately seventy paintings and works on... -
Humankind: Ruskin Spear, class, culture and art in 20th century Britain by Tanya Harrod
RRP: $60.04$40.19Humankind: 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... -
Henry Darger by Klaus Biesenbach
RRP: $64.32$48.51Self-taught and working in isolation until his death in 1973, Henry Darger realized an elaborate fantasy world of remarkable beauty and strangeness through hundreds of paintings and an epic written narrative. Angel-like Blengins with butterfly wings,... -
Asemic: The Art of Writing by Peter Schwenger
RRP: $37.72$32.23The first critical study of writing without language In recent years, asemic writing-writing without language-has exploded in popularity, with anthologies, a large-scale art exhibition, and flourishing interest on sites like tumblr, YouTube, Pinterest,...