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Grandma Moses: American Modern by Thomas Denenberg
Booksplease Price: £31.92One of the best-known artists of her time, and a true American legend, Anna Mary Robertson Grandma Moses (1860-1961) was often marginalized as a latter-day folk painter or a phenomenon of popular media. Accompanying a traveling exhibition, this new book... -
Art in Vienna 1898-1918: Klimt, Kokoschka, Schiele and their contemporaries by Peter Vergo
RRP: £39.95Booksplease Price: £32.51The artistic stagnation of Vienna at the end of the 19th century was rudely shaken by the artists of the Vienna Secession. Their work shocked a conservative public, but their successive exhibitions, their magazine Ver Sacrum, and their application to the... -
Picasso & Abstraction Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium 9782390252290
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £28.45This catalogue for a show at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Brussels, brings Picasso's relationship to abstraction into focus. With more than 120 exceptional works of art in dialogue with some of the great works of the early 20th century abstraction... -
Concrete Cuba: Cuban Geometric Abstraction from the 1950s by Abigail McEwen
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £25.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941701331Author Abigail McEwenFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint David ZwirnerPublisher David ZwirnerWeight(grams) 1510g -
Lucie Rie by Isabella Smith 9781916041691
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916041691Author Isabella SmithFormat HardbackImprint Eiderdown BooksPublisher Eiderdown Books -
Eileen Agar: Dreaming Oneself Awake by Michel Remy
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £34.92Born in Buenos Aires in 1899, and reborn in Paris in 1928, Eileen Agar was an artist whose work throughout her long career synthesized elements of the two main art movements of the twentieth century: Cubism and Surrealism. This monograph, the first full... -
Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists' Writings (Second Edition, Revised and Expanded by Kristine Stiles) by Kristine Stiles 9780520257184
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.69First published in 1996, this irreplaceable resource has now been updated, revised, and expanded by Kristine Stiles to represent thirty countries and more than one hundred new artists. Stiles has added forty images and a diverse roster of artists,... -
Icons of Modern Art: The Morozov collection Anne Baldassari 9782072904592
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £32.90"This year, the Fondation Vuitton strikes again with an exhibition of the Morozov Collection, about 200 French and Russian works bought by two other textile magnates, the brothers Mikhail and Ivan Morozov, who also made multiple Paris shopping trips" -... -
Surrealism at Play by Susan Laxton
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.88In Surrealism at Play Susan Laxton writes a new history of surrealism in which she traces the centrality of play to the movement and its ongoing legacy. For surrealist artists, play took a consistent role in their aesthetic as they worked in, with, and... -
Nina Hamnett by Alicia Foster
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916041660Author Alicia FosterFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Eiderdown BooksPublisher Eiderdown BooksWeight(grams) 135g -
A New Era Alice Strang 9781911054160
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £17.34Revealing an alternative story of modern Scottish art, A New Era examines the most experimental work of Scottish artists during the first half of the 20th century. It challenges the accepted view of the dominance of the Scottish Colourists and uncovers... -
In and out of Bloomsbury: Biographical Essays on Twentieth-Century Writers and Artists by Martin Ferguson Smith 9781526171931
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.50These highly original essays illuminate Virginia Woolf and a selection of other twentieth-century writers and artists. Based on detailed research and presenting previously unpublished texts, pictures, and photographs, they are notable feats of scholarly... -
Cezanne: The Rock and Quarry Paintings by John Elderfield
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.65A rich vein of the artist's mature work, depicting the foundations of landscape and place From the mid-1860s until shortly before his death, Paul Cezanne (1839-1906) created 27 canvases that take rock formations as their principal subjects. This is the... -
Gustav Klimt: Landscapes by Stephan Koja
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.16Now available again, this visually stunning collection of Gustav Klimt's landscape paintings brings to light a lesser-known aspect of the Viennese painter's oeuvre. While Gustav Klimt is largely revered for his opulent, symbolladen portraits of the... -
The Vanished Collection: Stolen masterpieces, family secrets and one woman's quest for the truth Pauline Baer de Perignon 9781803280912
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.45A charming and heartfelt story about war, art, and the lengths a woman will go to find the truth about her family. 'As devourable as a thriller... Incredibly moving' Elle 'Pauline Baer de Perignon is a natural storyteller - refreshingly honest,... -
Up Your Ass: Or From the Cradle to the Boat Or The Big Suck Or Up from the Slime Valerie Solanas 9783956796050
Booksplease Price: £12.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783956796050Author Valerie SolanasFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Sternberg PressPublisher Sternberg PressWeight(grams) 85gDimensions(mm) 180mm *... -
Expressionism by Ashley Bassie
Booksplease Price: £16.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683259220Author Ashley BassieFormat HardbackPage Count 72Imprint Parkstone Press USA, LimitedPublisher Parkstone Press USA, Limited -
Miss Cranston: Patron of Charles Rennie Mackintosh by Perilla Kinchin
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.10Miss Kate Cranston opened four Glasgow Tea Rooms at the end of the 19th century/beginning of the 20th, including the famous Willow Tea Rooms. Ahead of her time, Miss Cranston ensured that her Rea Rooms were designed and furnished by talented young... -
James Duncan: An Enlightened Victorian by Andrew McDonald Watson
RRP: £8.00Booksplease Price: £7.37The first Scottish collector to purchase an Impressionist painting, Duncan had an extraordinary eye as a collector at a time when Victorian sensibilities frowned upon many modern works. At his estate, Benmore in Argyllshire, Duncan amassed an... -
Allen W. Seaby: Art and Nature by Robert Gillmor 9781909747050
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.27Allen W. Seaby's life has been described as "a classic tale of Victorian self-improvement." But there is more to the tale than just upward mobility. A. W. Seaby was a pioneering, innovative and inspirational man who rose to become a prominent... -
The Vanished Collection: Stolen masterpieces, family secrets and one woman's quest for the truth Pauline Baer de Perignon 9781803280905
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.29A charming and heartfelt story about war, art, and the lengths a woman will go to find the truth about her family. 'As devourable as a thriller... Incredibly moving' Elle 'Pauline Baer de Perignon is a natural storyteller - refreshingly honest,... -
Agnes Martin HC by Briony Fer
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £22.50Canadian-born Agnes Martin was one of the pre-eminent painters of the second half of the twentieth century, whose work has had a significant influence both on artists of her own time and for subsequent generations. A contemporary of the abstract... -
Cezanne by Achim Borchardt-Hume 9780300263886
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £37.30Cezanne presents a new examination of the work of Paul Cezanne (1839-1906) across media and genres, surveying his career from the varied perspectives of art historians, conservation scientists, and a roster of renowned contemporary painters, including... -
Duchamp's Telegram: From Beaux-Arts to Art-in-General by Thierry de Duve
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £29.41In 1917, Marcel Duchamp sent out a 'telegram' in the guise of a urinal signed R. Mutt. When it arrived at its destination a good forty years later it was both celebrated and vilified as proclaiming that anything could be art; from that point on, the... -
Magnum Artists: When Great Photographers Meet Great Artists Magnum Photos Ltd 9781786275059
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £29.25Matisse and Picasso by Robert Capa, Takashi Murakami by Olivia Arthur, Warhol and de Kooning by Thomas Hoepker, Bonnard by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Sonia Delaunay by Herbert List, Kiki Smith by Susan Meiselas, and many more. For the first time, Magnum... -
Gauguin: Portraits by Cornelia Homburg
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £28.08The first in-depth investigation of Gauguin's portraits, revealing how the artist expanded the possibilities of the genre in new and exciting ways Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) broke with accepted conventions and challenged audiences to expand their... -
All About Process: The Theory and Discourse of Modern Artistic Labor by Kim Grant
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £27.22In recent years, many prominent and successful artists have claimed that their primary concern is not the artwork they produce but the artistic process itself. In this volume, Kim Grant analyzes this idea and traces its historical roots, showing how... -
An Introduction to Nineteenth-Century Art Michelle Facos 9780415780728
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £42.19Using the tools of the "new" art history (feminism, Marxism, social context, etc.) An Introduction to Nineteenth-Century Art offers a richly textured, yet clear and logical, introduction to nineteenth-century art and culture. This textbook will provide... -
Guernica: Painting the End of the World by James Attlee
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.81A brilliant, concise account of the painting often described as the most important work of art produced in the twentieth century, as part of the stunning Landmark Library series. Pablo Picasso had already accepted a commission to create a work for the... -
Between Worlds: The Art of Bill Traylor by Leslie Umberger 9780691182674
RRP: £70.00Booksplease Price: £57.23A major new look at the work of one of America's foremost self-taught artistsBill Traylor (ca. 1853-1949) came to art-making on his own and found his creative voice without guidance; today he is remembered as a renowned American artist. Traylor was born... -
The Hundred Headless Woman by Max Ernst 9780486819112
Booksplease Price: £25.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486819112Author Max ErnstFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 705gDimensions(mm)... -
Dimensionism: Modern Art in the Age of Einstein by Vanja V. Malloy
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £24.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262038478Author Vanja V. MalloyFormat HardbackPage Count 344Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Arts and Crafts: From William Morris to Frank Lloyd Wright by Arnold Schwartzman
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £18.98A return to Camelot This is the second volume of Arnold Schwartzman's trilogy on the architecture of the late 19th and early 20th Century, in which he focuses on a group of British craftsmen who decided to turn their backs on the mass production of... -
The Icon and the Square: Russian Modernism and the Russo-Byzantine Revival by Maria Taroutina
RRP: £93.95Booksplease Price: £85.30In The Icon and the Square, Maria Taroutina examines how the traditional interests of institutions such as the crown, the church, and the Imperial Academy of Arts temporarily aligned with the radical, leftist, and revolutionary avant-garde at the turn of... -
Paul Nash Masterpieces of Art by Michael Kerrigan
Booksplease Price: £15.17Paul Nash, the British landscape and Surrealist painter, lived through both the First and Second World Wars. His depictions of these human catastrophes, with their damaged landscapes and broken machinery are much remembered today. His painting life moved... -
Chinati: The Vision of Donald Judd by Marianne Stockebrand
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £56.67A beautiful book on the famed Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas The Chinati Foundation, a world-famous destination for large-scale contemporary art, was founded by Donald Judd (1928-1994) to preserve and present a select number of permanent... -
Pablo Picasso by Markus Muller
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £10.72"Ambiguous work. Where can we start?", wrote the art historian Oscar Schurer in the historic series Junge Kunst about Pablo Picasso's multi - faceted oeuvre back in 1927. Picasso, who was investigating Surrealism at the time, was regarded as a... -
The Nature of Gothic John Ruskin 9781843681014
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.53'One of the very few necessary and inevitable utterances of the century.' William Morris, in the Preface. The Nature of Gothic started life as a chapter in Ruskin's masterwork, The Stones of Venice. Ruskin came to lament the 'Frankenstein monsters' of... -
Visions of War: Art of the Imperial War Museums by Claire Brenard 9781912423644
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.29IWM holds one of the most significant collections of British art anywhere in the world - a collection whose artists and artworks have uniquely shaped our understanding of war. Visions of War charts the manifold engagement between artists, art... -
Claude Monet: The Truth of Nature Angelica Daneo 9783791379258
RRP: £27.50Booksplease Price: £20.00Capturing fleeting natural impressions played a central role in the art of Claude Monet. He deeply engaged with the landscape and light of different places, from the metropolis of Paris to the Seine villages of Argenteuil and Giverny. This lavishly...