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Artemisia by Alexandra Lapierre
RRP: £12.99£9.09Artemisia Gentileschi is one of the most fascinating artists in history. Apprenticed at an early age to her father, the seventeenth-century painter Orazio Gentileschi, she rapidly became more famous than he was, for her rich, dramatic canvases. But her... -
Henry Moore: A European Impulse Hermann Arnhold 9783777426822
RRP: £38.00£25.84Henry Moore has influenced the history of twentieth - century sculpture more decisively than anyone else. He was one of the first contemporary sculptors to realise his ideas in the public space throughout the world. His oeuvre was a lasting source... -
Dada and Surrealism: A Very Short Introduction by David Hopkins
RRP: £8.99£6.45The avant-garde movements of Dada and Surrealism continue to have a huge influence on cultural practice, especially in contemporary art, with its obsession with sexuality, fetishism, and shock tactics. In this new treatment of the subject, Hopkins... -
Indian Art by Partha Mitter
RRP: £23.49£17.01This concise yet lively new survey guides the reader through 5000 years of Indian art and architecture. A rich artistic tradition is fully explored through the Hindu, Buddhist, Islamic, Colonial, and contemporary periods, incorporating discussion of... -
Caspar David Friedrich and the Subject of Landscape by Joseph Leo Koerner
RRP: £25.00£24.18Caspar David Friedrich (1774 1840), the greatest painter of the Romantic movement in Germany, was perhaps Europe's first truly modern artist. His melancholy landscapes, often peopled by lonely wanderers, represent experiments towards a radically... -
In Conversation with Klaus Dermutz by Anselm Kiefer 9781803090382
RRP: £12.99£12.55In the ten conversations with the writer and theologian Klaus Dermutz collected here, Kiefer returns to the essential elements of his art, his aesthetics, and his creative processes. The only visual artist to have won the Peace Prize of the German Book... -
The Art Book by Phaidon Editors
RRP: £29.95£24.39The latest, thoroughly revised edition of Phaidon's award-winning and globally-bestselling art survey, featuring works from more than 600 of the world's greatest artistsThe Art Book is beloved throughout the world and has been translated into 20... -
The Shock of the New: Art and the Century of Change by Robert Hughes
RRP: £35.00£24.03This legendary book has been universally hailed as the best, the most readable and the most provocative account of modern art ever written. Through each of the thematic chapters Hughes keeps his story grounded in the history of the 20th century,... -
The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles by Martin Gayford
RRP: £12.99£9.09The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles is art critic Martin Gayford's account of the tumultuous nine weeks in which the famous nineteenth century artists Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin shared a house in the small French... -
Unravelling Women's Art: Creators, Rebels, & Innovators in Textile Arts by P L Henderson
RRP: £19.99£18.22The author unpicks the threads that link female textile artists and the arts they produce, revealing a global and historic patchwork of assorted roles, identities and representations. Entertaining as well as informative, this book offers a unique... -
The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects Marshall McLuhan 9780141035826
RRP: £9.99£7.11In a dazzling fusion of Quentin Fiore's bold and inventive graphic design and Marshall McLuhan's unique insight into technology, advertising and mass-media, The Medium is the Massage is a unique study of human communication in the twentieth century,... -
Crisis of Brilliance: Five Young British Artists and the Great War by David Boyd Haycock 9781906964320
RRP: £9.99£7.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906964320Author David HaycockFormat PaperbackImprint Old Street PublishingPublisher Old Street Publishing -
The Arts and Crafts Garden by Sarah Rutherford 9780747812982
RRP: £8.99£6.96The Arts and Crafts Movement espoused values of simplicity, craftsmanship and beauty quite counter to Victorian and Edwardian industrialism. Though most famous for its architecture, furniture and ornamental work, between the 1890s and the 1930s the... -
Carl Larsson's Home, Family and Farm: Paintings from the Swedish Arts and Crafts Movement by Carl Larsson 9781782500476
RRP: £20.00£13.51-- Stunning watercolour paintings by one of Sweden's best-loved artists-- Fascinating insight into Swedish rural and artistic life in the late nineteenth century-- Accompanied by an explanatory text giving more detail about his life and techniquesCarl... -
Michelangelo: His Epic Life by Martin Gayford
RRP: £30.00£22.55'An absorbing book, beautifully told and with the writer fully in command of a huge body of research' Philip Hensher, Mail on Sunday There was an epic sweep to Michelangelo's life. At 31 he was considered the finest artist in Italy, perhaps the world;... -
A Queer Little History of Art by Alex Pilcher
RRP: £15.00£10.96A celebration of over 100 years of queer creativity, featuring 70 outstanding works of drawing, painting, photography, sculpture and installation. Over the last century, many artists have made works that challenge dominant models of gender and... -
Art: A Visual History by Robert Cumming
RRP: £25.00£19.22"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see." Edgar DegasCovering every era and over 650 artists, this comprehensive, illustrated guide offers an accessible yet expansive view of art history, featuring everything from iconic works and... -
The Black Experience in Design by Anne H. Berry
RRP: £14.99£9.76The Black Experience in Design spotlights teaching practices, research, stories, and conversations from a Black/African diasporic lens. Excluded from traditional design history and educational canons that heavily favor European modernist influences, the... -
Art & Visual Culture 1850-2010: Modernity to Globalization by Steve Edwards
RRP: £19.99£14.09This is the third of three text books, published in association with the Open University, which offer an innovatory exploration of art and visual culture. Through carefully chosen themes and topics rather than through a general survey, the volumes... -
Think Like an Artist: . . . and Lead a More Creative, Productive Life by Will Gompertz 9780241970805 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£1.92Think Like an Artist by BBC Arts editor Will Gompertz - wisdom and smart thinking from Da Vinci to Ai WeiweiWhy do some people seem to find it easy to come up with fresh, brilliant ideas? And how do they turn them into something worthwhile?After spending... -
Think Like an Artist: . . . and Lead a More Creative, Productive Life by Will Gompertz
RRP: £10.99£7.77Think Like an Artist by BBC Arts editor Will Gompertz - wisdom and smart thinking from Da Vinci to Ai WeiweiWhy do some people seem to find it easy to come up with fresh, brilliant ideas? And how do they turn them into something worthwhile?After spending... -
The Lives of the Artists by Giorgio Vasari 9780199537198
RRP: £10.99£7.77Packed with facts, attributions, and entertaining anecdotes about his contemporaries, Vasari's collection of biographical accounts also presents a highly influential theory of the development of Renaissance art. Beginning with Cimabue and Giotto, who... -
Civilisation by Kenneth Clark 9780719568442 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£2.80Kenneth Clark's sweeping narrative looks at how Western Europe evolved in the wake of the collapse of the Roman Empire, to produce the ideas, books, buildings, works of art and great individuals that make up our civilisation. The author takes us from... -
Civilisation by Kenneth Clark
RRP: £10.99£7.40Kenneth Clark's sweeping narrative looks at how Western Europe evolved in the wake of the collapse of the Roman Empire, to produce the ideas, books, buildings, works of art and great individuals that make up our civilisation. The author takes us from... -
The Value of Art: Money. Power. Beauty. (New, Expanded Edition) by Michael Findlay
RRP: £24.99£17.61Internationally renowned dealer and market expert Michael Findlay offers a lively and authoritative look at the financial and emotional value of art throughout history. In this newly revised, updated, and generously illustrated edition Findlay draws... -
Frida Kahlo: 'I Paint my Reality' by Christina Burrus
RRP: £8.99£6.20Born in Mexico in 1907, Frida Kahlo learned about suffering at an early age. She fell victim to polio at the age of six, and was then seriously hurt in a bus accident at eighteen, resulting in injuries that affected her for the rest of her life. The... -
Learning to Look at Paintings by Mary Acton
RRP: £26.99£23.46Learning to Look at Paintings is an accessible guide to the study and appraisal of paintings, drawings and prints. Mary Acton shows how you can develop visual, analytical and historical skills in learning to look at and understand an image by analysing... -
The Vanishing Man: In Pursuit of Velazquez by Laura Cumming
RRP: £12.99£9.09WINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK BIOGRAPHY PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONSelected as a Book of the Year in the Herald In 1845, a Reading bookseller named John Snare came across the... -
Hand-Drawn Maps: A Guide for Creatives by Helen Cann
RRP: £16.95£11.91Hand Drawn Maps is a fun 'how to' book about hand drawn cartography. It is introduced by a brief history of maps and map making, followed by five sections covering everything you need to know to make your own maps. Section 1 covers the practicalities, so... -
Early Mondrian: Painting 1900-1905 by Hans Janssen
RRP: £20.00£13.35This publication spotlights the celebrated modern artist Piet Mondrian's early career, a prolific period that saw the artist focus on figurative landscape painting. Primarily made during the artist's time in Amsterdam at the turn of the twentieth... -
Art Deco Britain: Buildings of the interwar years by Elain Harwood
RRP: £30.00£21.35The definitive guide to Art Deco buildings in Britain. The perennially popular style of Art Deco influenced architecture and design all over the world in the 1920s and 1930s - from elegant Parisian theatres to glamorous Manhattan skyscrapers. The style... -
Frederick Walker and the Idyllists: 2017 by Donato Esposito 9781848221628
RRP: £49.99£38.65This is the first book in over a century to examine the important work of the watercolour artist and illustrator Frederick Walker (1840-1875) and his closest artistic allies. He was greatly admired (and collected) by Vincent van Gogh and was described by... -
Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane by Andrew Graham-Dixon
RRP: £14.99£10.95Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio lived the darkest and most dangerous life of any of the great painters. The worlds of Milan, Rome and Naples through which Caravaggio moved and which Andrew Graham-Dixon describes brilliantly in this book, are those of... -
The Art Book by Phaidon 9780714836256 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.95£2.29The Art Book is the first ever fully-illustrated art dictionary. It presents an abundance of famous, varied and colourful images by 500 of the greatest artists from the Middle Ages to the present day. Arranged in alphabetical order by artist, it is... -
Edward Hopper's New York by Kim Conaty
RRP: £50.00£44.05A revealing exploration of Edward Hopper's inspired relationship to New York City through his paintings, drawings, prints, and never-before-published archival materials This engaging book delves into the iconic relationship between Edward Hopper... -
The Spiritual Adventure of Henri Matisse: Vence's Chapel of the Rosary by Charles Miller 9781911397588
RRP: £35.00£23.80Henri Matisse described the Chapel of the Rosary, the chief labour of his final years, as the 'gathering together' of his lifetime's work. Although widely known as 'Matisse's Chapel', the building's remarkable 'modern' design and decoration emerged from... -
Pieter Bruegel and the Idea of Human Nature by Elizabeth Alice Honig
RRP: £14.95£10.9216th-century Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder redefined how people perceived human nature. Bruegel turned his critical eye to mankind's labours and pleasures, its foibles and rituals of daily life. Portraying landscapes, peasant life and biblical... -
The Art of Print: From Hogarth to Hockney by Elizabeth Jacklin
RRP: £25.00£19.22Prints have played a unique and vital role in the history of art and image. Yet printmaking remains a mysterious discipline, often considered in terms of reproduction instead of as an innovative and highly considered creative process. Among the... -
The Queen's Castle at Windsor: Fortress, Palace, Home by Elizabeth Newbery
RRP: £6.95£5.05The official children's guide to Windsor Castle, containing fun activities to break up the commentary or enhance a visit -Combines historical accuracy with humor and a lightness of touch appropriate for the 7-11 age range -Illustrations by the... -
Great Women Artists by Phaidon Editors
RRP: £49.95£39.34"Real changes are upon us, and today one can reel off the names of a number of first-rate women artists. Nevertheless, women are just getting started."- The New Yorker Five centuries of fascinating female creativity presented in more than 400...