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Locating Sol LeWitt by David S. Areford
RRP: €50.58€43.57A revelatory consideration of the wide-ranging practice of one of the most influential American artists of the 20th century A pioneer of minimalism and conceptual art, Sol LeWitt (1928-2007) is best known for his monumental wall drawings. LeWitt's broad... -
Euan Uglow: The Complete Paintings by Catherine Lampert 9780300123494
RRP: €113.05€96.63British 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... -
After-Affects After-Images: Trauma and Aesthetic Transformation in the Virtual Feminist Museum by Griselda Pollock
RRP: €28.56€20.99Do artists travel away from or towards trauma? Is trauma encrypted or inscribed in art? Or can aesthetic practices (after-images) bring about transformation of trauma, personal trauma or historical traumas? Can they do this in a way that does not imply... -
Jade Fadojutimi: Jesture by Jade Fadojutimi 9781910221297
RRP: €35.70€25.41Jade Fadojutimi: Jesture is a publication produced by Pippy Houldsworth Gallery to accompany the second solo exhibition at the gallery of new paintings by London-based artist Jade Fadojutimi, presented in autumn 2020.The word "Jesture" in the title of... -
Rain Later, Good: Painting the Shipping Forecast by Peter Collyer
RRP: €28.55€22.09Rain Later, Good is the award winning story of Peter Collyer's extraordinary journey around the Shipping Forecast areas. The Shipping Forecast is a national institution, relied upon by mariners but also strangely comforting and poetic to landlubbers... -
Peter Doig by Peter Doig
€67.47In every generation of artists, there are a few who propose a new set of ques- tions and alter the way we understand art. Peter Doig is such an artist. This handsome monograph considers the painter's entire career, beginning with the early work ... -
Dorothea Tanning: Art and Life by Victoria Carruthers 9781848221741
RRP: €53.55€42.36This 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... -
The Twenty First Century Art Book by David Trigg
RRP: €29.69€23.91An accessible A-Z guide to best contemporary art made since 2000About the AuthorConceived and edited by Phaidon EditorsReviews"A very significant A-Z of 21st century artists from big names like Grayson Perry and Banksy to rising stars like Lucy Mackenzie... -
Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing, and Criticism by Lauren Fournier
RRP: €36.89€25.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262544887Author Lauren FournierFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Six Drawing Lessons by William Kentridge 9780674365803
RRP: €38.02€29.95Over the last three decades, the visual artist William Kentridge has garnered international acclaim for his work across media including drawing, film, sculpture, printmaking, and theater. Rendered in stark contrasts of black and white, his images reflect... -
Amy Sillman by Valerie Smith
RRP: €59.49€46.34A prolifically creative artistic polymath, American artist Amy Sillman (b.1955) works in drawing, zines, iPhone videos, installation, collaboration, teaching and curating, but painting has remained always at the very heart of her practice. This... -
The Young and Evil: Queer Modernism in New York 1930-1955 Jarrett Earnest 9781644230268
RRP: €59.50€39.69Lauded by Jerry Saltz as "one of the most reactionary yet radical visions of art," The Young and Evil tells the story of a group of artists and writers active during the first half of the twentieth century, when homosexuality was as problematic for... -
See What You're Missing: 31 Ways Artists Notice the World – and How You Can Too by Will Gompertz 9780241315484
RRP: €13.08€10.03How 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... -
Award-winning British Design: 1957-1988 by Lily Crowther 9781851776733
RRP: €17.84€13.74In 1957 the UK Design Centre launched the first annual Designs of the Year Awards to identify and promote the very best of British design. For the next 30 years, the awards celebrated designed objects in all forms, from the domestic - cutlery,... -
Artists Making Landscapes in Post-war Britain Margaret Garlake 9781916347403
RRP: €53.55€44.78An unconventional and illuminating new history of British landscape art in the post-war period In this trailblazing study, Margaret Garlake complicates traditional histories of British landscape art in the post-war period. Drawing together work from... -
Gerhard Richter: Panorama - revised by Nicholas Serota
RRP: €41.65€30.81Gerhard Richter is widely regarded as one of the most important painters at work today. He is as well known for his figurative works as he is for his abstract paintings, often combining elements of both in ground-breaking ways. Gerhard Richter: Panorama... -
Sculpture Since 1945 by Andrew Causey
RRP: €27.95€20.24Since 1945 the modern revolution in sculpture has gathered pace, and sculpture has now ceased to be the fixed category it once was. In recent decades the modernist idea of sculpture across the UK, America, and Europe, has been challenged, and issues such... -
Matisse: In 50 works by John Cauman
RRP: €23.80€16.49This enthralling and comprehensive new book on Henri Matisse is an eye-opener for all students and art lovers interested in early twentieth-century art. Taking fifty of Matisse's most iconic works of art, John Cauman provides an accessible narrative... -
The Great British Seaside: Photography from the 1960s to the Present by Tony Ray-Jones
RRP: €29.75€22.16Featuring works by some of Britain's best-loved photographers - Tony Ray-Jones, David Hurn, Martin Parr, and Simon Roberts - this book explores our changing relationship with the seaside over the last six decades and holds up a critical and affectionate... -
Jenny Saville by Richard Calvocoressi
RRP: €136.85€133.55Thirteen years after her first Rizzoli monograph, British artist Jenny Saville releases this much-anticipated volume--her most comprehensive to date--including many never-before-published paintings. One of the most renowned living figurative painters of... -
The Future Is Present: Art, Technology, and the Work of Mobile Image Philip Glahn 9780262548076
RRP: €48.79€34.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262548076Author Philip GlahnFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Global Art and the Cold War John J. Curley 9781786272294
RRP: €35.69€24.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781786272294Author John J. CurleyFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Laurence King PublishingPublisher Laurence King Publishing -
Helnwein: Sleep of Reason by Beate Reifenscheid 9788836648092
€36.94Gottfried Helnwein is known for his hyper-realistic images and his photo portraits of celebrities such as Mick Jagger, Michael Jackson, Andy Warhol, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Marilyn Manson and the band Rammstein. In his provocative images, he articulates... -
Andy Warhol by Gregor, Yilmaz Muir, Dziewior
RRP: €29.75€14.52As an underground art star, Andy Warhol (1928-1987) was the antidote to the prevalent abstract expressionist style of 1950s America. He introduced popular everyday subjects into his practice and openly acknowledged the wide-ranging influences on his... -
Artists Remake the World: A Contemporary Art Manifesto by Vid Simoniti 9780300266290
RRP: €22.60€18.62An original and provocative exploration of the relationship between contemporary art, politics, and activism Artists Remake the World introduces readers to the political ambitions of contemporary art in the early twenty-first century and puts forward a... -
Abstract Art by Stephanie Straine
RRP: €13.03€8.31This lively introduction tells the ever-evolving story of abstract art, tracing its history from the early 1900s right up to the present day. Emerging out of western movements such as Cubism and Expressionism, abstract art quickly became a global... -
Surrealists in New York: Atelier 17 and the Birth of Abstract Expressionism by Charles Darwent
RRP: €29.75€18.89An absorbing group biography revealing how exiles from war-torn France brought Surrealism to America, helping to shift the centre of the art world from Paris to New York and spark the movement that became Abstract Expressionism. In 1957 the American... -
Ruth Asawa Through Line by Kim Conaty 9780300273281
RRP: €47.60€41.88A groundbreaking examination of how the act of drawing was a vital component of Ruth Asawa's multifaceted art "A revelatory exhibition. . . . [A] fine exhibition catalog."-Nancy Princenthal, New York Times, "Critic's Pick" Ruth Asawa (1926-2013),... -
David Hammons: Bliz-aard Ball Sale Elena Filipovic (Director, Kunsthalle Basel) 9781846381867
RRP: €21.41€14.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846381867Author Elena FilipovicFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Afterall PublishingPublisher Afterall Publishing -
Best of Norman Rockwell by Tom Rockwell
RRP: €29.75€29.65Norman Rockwell's son, Tom, has put together the absolute finest collection of his father's bounteous body of work, illustrations that bespeak the golden glow of pre- and post-WWII Americana. Rockwell senior, who said he depicted life "as I would like it... -
Encounters with Artists by Richard Cork 9780500025109
RRP: €29.75€18.89Leading art critic and writer Richard Cork tells the stories of his personal encounters with some of the world's most influential modern and contemporary artists. Richard Cork draws on his impeccable skills as a critic and writer to tell the story of... -
The lady in Gold by Anne-Marie O'Connor
RRP: €19.03€13.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101873120Author Anne-Marie O'ConnorFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 289gDimensions(mm)... -
A Mary Newcomb: Drawing from Observation: 2018 by Tessa Newcomb 9781848222953
RRP: €47.59€37.28On New Year's Day 1986, encouraged by her dealer Andras Kalman, artist Mary Newcomb, then aged 64, began to keep a diary. She wrote in its opening pages: 'I wanted ... to remind ourselves that - in our haste - in this century - we may not give time to... -
Encounters in the Virtual Feminist Museum: Time, Space and the Archive by Griselda Pollock
RRP: €55.92€48.75Continuing her feminist reconceptualisation of the ways we can experience and study the visual arts, world renowned art historian and cultural analyst, Griselda Pollock proposes a series of new encounters through virtual exhibitions with art made by... -
Calder: The Conquest of Space: The Later Years: 1940-1976 by Jed Perl 9780451494115
RRP: €59.50€18.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451494115Author Jed PerlFormat HardbackPage Count 688Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. Knopf -
Recording Britain Gill Saunders 9781851776610
RRP: €35.70€29.95Recording Britain was an artistic documentary project compiled as the country was facing the potentially devastating impact of the Second World War. The resulting collection of more than 1500 watercolours and drawings, by artists such as John Piper,... -
Understanding Modern Art Sam Phillips (Royal Academy of Arts, UK) 9781912217205
RRP: €11.89€8.46An updated edition of the pocket-sized guide to the 'isms' of modern art. This is a handy guide to the art 'isms' of the modern day. From Impressionism and the birth of modern art to street art and Internationalism of the 21st century, it gives you a... -
Jenny Saville: Oxyrhynchus by John Elderfield
RRP: €71.40€51.94Oxyrhynchus is a city in upper Egypt that was established in 332 BC and is considered one of the most important archaeological sites ever discovered. Saville references the layer upon layer of discoveries at Oxyrhynchus in her new body of work, the... -
Jean Dubuffet: Brutal Beauty by Eleanor Nairne
RRP: €47.59€33.77In 1940s occupied Paris, Jean Dubuffet began to champion a progressive vision for art; one that rejected classical notions of beauty in favor of a more visceral aesthetic. Taking a pioneering approach to materiality and technique, the artist variously... -
Pop Art: 50 Works of Art You Should Know by Gary Van Wyk 9783791348452 [USED COPY]
RRP: €17.84€3.02When it emerged in the 1950s, the Pop Art movement presented a challenge to fine art with its incorporation of images from television, newspapers, and advertising. Artists used humor, provocation, and garish gestures to help dissolve the barriers between...