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Just Above Midtown: 1974 to the Present by Thomas J. Lax
RRP: $84.00$54.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633451377Author Thomas J. LaxFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Museum of Modern ArtPublisher Museum of Modern ArtWeight(grams) 920g -
Women of Abstract Expressionism by Joan M. Marter
RRP: $115.50$99.31A long-awaited survey of female Abstract Expressionist artists revealing the richness and lasting influence of their work The artists Jay DeFeo, Helen Frankenthaler, Grace Hartigan, Elaine de Kooning, Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchell, and many other women... -
Caroline Walker - Janet by Caroline Walker
RRP: $58.80$37.00Scotland-born, London-based artist Caroline Walker is celebrated for her paintings exploring the lives of women, from those living luxury lifestyles to those fleeing oppression. In this publication, which was produced to accompany Walker's first... -
Paula Rego by Elena Crippa 9781849767538
RRP: $84.00$61.72Since the 1950s, Paula Rego has played a key role in redefining figurative art in the UK and internationally. An uncompromising artist of extraordinary imaginative power, she has revolutionised the way in which women are represented. This stunning... -
Contemporary Art: A Very Short Introduction by Julian Stallabrass
RRP: $18.88$13.55Contemporary art has never been so popular - but the art world is changing. In a landscape of increasing globalization there is growing interest in questions over the nature of contemporary art today, and the identity of who is controlling its future. In... -
Internet_Art: From the Birth of the Web to the Rise of NFTs by Omar Kholeif
RRP: $62.90$48.20A leading figure in the world of networked culture explores the artists and events that defined the mass medium of our time Since 1989, the year the World Wide Web was born, the art world has grappled with the rise of networked culture. This... -
Art and its Global Histories: A Reader by Diana Newall
RRP: $41.98$30.49The reader Art and its global histories represents an invaluable teaching tool, offering content ranging from academic essays and excerpts, new translations, interviews with curators and artists, to art criticism. The introduction sets out the state of... -
David Hockney by Marco Livingstone
RRP: $31.48$21.42One 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... -
The Lives of Lucian Freud: YOUTH 1922 - 1968 by William Feaver
RRP: $31.48$25.10SHORTLISTED 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... -
World Art Studies: Exploring Concepts and Approaches by Kitty Zijlmans 9789078088226
RRP: $58.80$56.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789078088226Author Kitty ZijlmansFormat PaperbackPage Count 462Imprint ValizPublisher ValizWeight(grams) 862gDimensions(mm) 240mm * 170mm * 28mm -
Hurvin Anderson by Michael J. Prokopow
RRP: $94.50$73.50This is the first comprehensive overview of the career to date of British artist Hurvin Anderson (b.1965). Anderson is known for painting loosely rendered 'observations' of scenes and spaces loaded with personal or communal meaning.Anderson's painting... -
Fendry Ekel: Entries by Astrid Honold
RRP: $61.95$56.55Apologies 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 *... -
Christopher Pratt: Six Decades by Tom Smart 9781770851283
RRP: $84.00$56.83Painter Christopher Pratt is one of Canada's most prominent painters and printmakers, a reputation that has solidified since the celebrated retrospective of his work at the National Gallery of Canada in 2005. The intense realism of his work is, at first... -
Fray: Art and Textile Politics, 1970s-1990s by Julia Bryan-Wilson
RRP: $107.10$91.25In 1974, women in a feminist consciousness-raising group in Eugene, Oregon, formed a mock organization called the Ladies Sewing Circle and Terrorist Society. Emblazoning its logo onto t-shirts, the group wryly envisioned female collective textile making... -
Carolee Schneemann: Body Politics by Lotte Johnson
RRP: $73.50$62.10Traces 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... -
Studio Voices: Art and Life in 20th-Century Britain by Michael Bird 9781848222304
RRP: $73.50$56.87Studio Voices explores the multi-layered experiences of modern and contemporary British artists in their own words, drawing on the author's original research in the Artists' Lives audio archive at the British Library. Michael Bird's fascinating oral... -
The Political Body: Stories on Art, Feminism, and Emancipation in Latin America by Andrea Giunta 9780520344327
RRP: $81.90$63.38How 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 Art Museum by Phaidon Editors
RRP: $83.90$67.45Visit 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... -
Trimpin: Contraptions for Art and Sound by Anne Focke
RRP: $75.60$63.42Trimpin, the sound sculptor and composer, has received MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships; been the subject of a full-length documentary film and a profile in The New Yorker magazine; been included in hundreds of shows, performances, and new music... -
London`s New Scene - Art and Culture in the 1960s by Lisa Tickner
RRP: $73.50$65.46A 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... -
A Little History of Protest Art by Aindrea Emelife 9781849767828
RRP: $31.50$23.02Art 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... -
Lucian Freud: Herbarium by Giovanni Aloi
RRP: $83.98$62.96Lucian 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... -
Richard Hambleton : Godfather of Street Art by Vladimir Restoin Roitfeld
RRP: $94.50$75.08Richard Hambleton (1954 2017) was a Canadian artist known for his pioneering street art. He was a surviving member of a group that emerged from the New York City art scene during the booming art market of the 1980s, which also included his close friends... -
Gareth Nyandoro by Gareth Nyandoro 9781910221228
RRP: $50.40$32.00Gareth Nyandoro is noted for his large works on paper, which often spill out of their two-dimensional format and into installations that include paper scraps and objects found in the street markets of Harare, where he lives and works. The artist's... -
Kettle's Yard House Guide by Jennifer Powell 9781904561750
RRP: $16.80$11.76Kettle'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... -
140 Artists' Ideas for Planet Earth by Hans Ulrich Obrist
RRP: $20.98$14.93Through 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... -
Paul McCarthy - Revised and Expanded Edition by Ralph Rugoff
RRP: $83.90$64.72Definitive monograph on America's most challenging and influential artist Los-Angeles-based artist Paul McCarthy (b.1945) creates Disneyesque installations, sculptures of animal/vegetable/human hybrids and slapstick performances in a purge of a national... -
Whitney Biennial 2017 by Christopher Y. Lew
RRP: $78.75$67.16Always highly anticipated and beautifully packaged, this book is an essential record of the current trends in contemporary art in America Since its introduction by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney in 1932, the Whitney Biennial has charted new developments in... -
On Being, Quietly by Garrett Bradley 9780262048798
RRP: $56.70$36.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262048798Author Garrett BradleyFormat HardbackPage Count 196Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
A New Way of Seeing: The History of Art in 57 Works by Kelly Grovier 9780500239636
$80.83What makes great art great? Why do some works pulse in the imagination generation after generation, century after century? From Botticelli's Birth of Venus to Picasso's Guernica, some paintings and sculptures have become so famous, so much a part of who... -
Painting beyond Itself - The Medium in the Post-Medium Condition by Isabelle Graw
$30.70Apologies 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... -
R. Crumb: The Complete Record Cover Collection by Robert R. Crumb 9780393082784
RRP: $46.18$38.03Robert 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... -
Joe Tilson by Marco Livingstone
RRP: $94.50$74.76Joe 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... -
Art Record Covers by Francesco Spampinato 9783836540292
RRP: $105.00$80.05Since 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... -
Social Sculpture: The Rise of the Glasgow Art Scene by Sarah Lowndes 9781906817596
RRP: $31.48$23.65Sarah 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... -
Jonathan Wateridge – Uncertain Swimmer by Jonathan Wateridge 9781910221518
RRP: $105.00$66.28Uncertain 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... -
Yoko Ono: One Woman Show 1960 -1971 by Klaus Biesenbach
RRP: $79.80$53.00Yoko Ono: One Woman Show, 1960-1971 examines the beginnings of Ono's extensive career, demonstrating her pioneering role in visual art, performance and music during the 1960s and early 1970s. The exhibition begins in New York in December 1960, where Ono... -
Cecily Brown: Death and the Maid by Ian Alteveer
RRP: $73.50$62.10An 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,... -
Weight of the Earth: The Tape Journals of David Wojnarowicz by David Wojnarowicz
RRP: $33.58$23.79Apologies 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 -
Hiroshi Fujiwara by Hiroshi Fujiwara
RRP: $84.00$66.26Known internationally and variously described as the Godfather of Streetwear and one of the founding fathers of Tokyo's Harajuku scene, Hiroshi Fujiwara exerts a disproportionate influence over contemporary design culture. Fujiwara, who had collaborated...