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Klip and Corb on the Road: Dual Diaries & Legacies of August Klipstein and Le Corbusier - Eastern Journey Ivan Zaknic 9783858818171
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £29.65In 1911, Le Corbusier (1887-1965) and his friend August Klipstein (1885-1951), a scholar of art history and later renowned art dealer, undertook a grand tour of Eastern Europe, the Balkans, Turkey, and Italy. While Klipstein's interests were more focused... -
The Final Spectacle: Military Painting under the Second Empire, 1855-1867 by Julia Thoma
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £47.49The book examines military paintings in France in the 1850s and 1860s, when the genre experienced a new lease of life. It recreates the paintings' art-historical, historical and social context, and considers the explosion of military subjects in their... -
Russian Avant-Garde by Evgueny Kovtun
Booksplease Price: £30.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646992270Author Evgueny KovtunFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Parkstone Press USA, LimitedPublisher Parkstone Press USA, Limited -
Painting, Politics, and the New Front of Cold War Italy Adrian R. Duran 9781138548268
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £40.13The first English-language monograph on Il Fronte Nuovo delle Arti, this study explores the rise and fall of this postwar Italian artists' group as a representative instance of the tensions facing Italian painting during the transition out of two decades... -
Consuming Surrealism in American Culture: Dissident Modernism Sandra Zalman (University of Houston) 9781138548251
RRP: £43.99Booksplease Price: £38.44Consuming Surrealism in American Culture: Dissident Modernism argues that Surrealism worked as a powerful agitator to disrupt dominant ideas of modern art in the United States. Unlike standard accounts that focus on Surrealism in the U.S. during the... -
The Yeats Circle, Verbal and Visual Relations in Ireland, 1880-1939 by Dr. Karen E. Brown
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.34Focusing on W.B. Yeats's ideal of mutual support between the arts, Karen Brown sheds new light on how collaborations and differences between members of the Yeats family circle contributed to the metamorphosis of the Irish Cultural Revival into Irish... -
Visual Merchandising: The Image of Selling by Louisa Iarocci
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £43.50Situated at the crossroads of visual culture and consumerism, this essay collection examines visual merchandising as both a business and an art. It seeks to challenge that scholarly ambivalence that often celebrates the spectacle but denies the agenda of... -
The Psychological Roots of Modernism: Picasso and Jung by William A. Sikes
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £42.66A radically new interpretation of Picasso's life and work by an important Jungian scholar, The Psychological Roots of Modernism is an exciting contribution to the fields of both Jungian psychology and cultural criticism.All of Picasso's major works, from... -
Manhattan's Hotel des Artistes: America's Paris on West 67th Street by Robert Hudovernik
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £38.06More than 600 archival color and black-and-white photos take readers inside the magnificent Hotel des Artistes on Manhattan's West Side. This is the well-researched, untold story of the artists, returning from stints in Paris in the early 1900s, who... -
Latin Blackness in Parisian Visual Culture, 1852-1932 Dr. Lyneise E. Williams (Associate Professor of Art History, UNC Chapel Hill, USA) 9781501332357
Booksplease Price: £119.86Latin Blackness in Parisian Visual Culture, 1852-1932 examines an understudied visual language used to portray Latin Americans in mid-19th to early 20th-century Parisian popular visual media. The term 'Latinize' is introduced to connect France's early... -
Think Twice: Twenty Years of Contemporary Art from Collection Sandretto Re Rebaudengo by Achim Borchardt-Hume
RRP: £18.95Booksplease Price: £12.72Collection Sandretto Re Rebaudengo is a Turin-based collection owned by arts patron Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo. Founded in 1995, it has become one of the foremost collections of international contemporary art in Italy today, consisting of over 1000... -
Painted Journeys: The Art of John Mix Stanley by Peter H Hassrick
Booksplease Price: £41.95Artist-explorer John Mix Stanley (1814-1872), one of the most celebrated chroniclers of the American West in his time, was in a sense a victim of his own success. So highly regarded was his work that more than two hundred of his paintings were held at... -
Art History after Modernism by Hans Belting
RRP: £81.00Booksplease Price: £77.55"Art history after modernism" does not only mean that art looks different today; it also means that our discourse on art has taken a different direction, if it is safe to say it has taken a direction at all. So begins Hans Belting's... -
The Art of Joaquin Torres-Garcia: Constructive Universalism and the Inversion of Abstraction Aarnoud Rommens 9781472471437
RRP: £135.00Booksplease Price: £117.28Intertwining art history, aesthetic theory, and Latin American studies, Aarnoud Rommens challenges contemporary Eurocentric revisions of the history of abstraction through this study of the Uruguayan artist Joaquin Torres-Garcia. After studying and... -
AngloModern: Painting and Modernity in Britain and the United States by Janet Wolff
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £26.50Early twentieth-century art and art practice in Britain and the United States were, Janet Wolff asserts, marginalized by critics and historians in very similar ways after the rise of post-Cubist modern art. In a masterly book on the sociology of... -
Emma and Edvard Looking Sideways: Loneliness and the Cinematic Mieke Bal 9780300229110
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £44.55In this compelling publication, two masters come face-to-face when the works of Edvard Munch are juxtaposed against Gustave Flaubert's groundbreaking novel Madame Bovary. Munch's art is presented in stills taken from an elaborate video installation,... -
Jorn + Munch Oda Wildhagen Gjessing 9780300226584
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £34.59Jorn + Munch is the first publication to examine the enduring impact Edvard Munch (1863-1944) had on Asger Jorn (1914-1973). In Munch's later works, Danish artist Jorn discovered an artist with a direct, spontaneous, and raw form of expression. Already... -
The Cubism Seminars Harry Cooper 9780300226188
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £44.21The complex facets of Cubism remain relevant subjects in art history today, a century after Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque developed the revolutionary style. This impressive collection of essays by international experts presents new lines of inquiry,... -
Revolution of the Eye: Modern Art and the Birth of American Television Maurice Berger 9780300207934
RRP: £37.50Booksplease Price: £31.98An engaging exploration of the relationship between avant-garde art and American network television from the 1940s through the 1970s The aesthetics and concepts of modern art have influenced American television ever since its inception in the 1930s. In... -
Eye on a Century: Modern and Contemporary Art from the Charles B. Benenson Collection at the Yale University Art Gallery by Cathleen Chaffee
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £38.63Eye on a Century celebrates a cornerstone of the Yale University Art Gallery's holdings: the Charles B. Benenson Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art. This major bequest includes works by a veritable pantheon of modern and contemporary artists-among... -
Un certain etat du monde?: A Selection of Works from The Francois Pinault Foundation by Caroline Bourgeois
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £17.35Artists play a fundamental role as mirror of society and can, in particular, give expression to specific corners of the world in our global economy. A new stop of the Francois Pinault collection "journey" around the world. A monumental... -
Praised and Ridiculed: French Painting 1820-1880 Zuricher Kunstgesellschaft 9783777429465
RRP: £39.95Booksplease Price: £26.43Romanticism, Realism, Impressionism - these are still the most important stylistic labels which acted as slogans for French painting during the 19th century. At that time Delacroix, Courbet, Manet and many others left the "straight and narrow" of... -
Between Art Practice and Psychoanalysis Mid-Twentieth Century: Anton Ehrenzweig in Context Beth Williamson 9781409467625
RRP: £135.00Booksplease Price: £117.68The work of mid-twentieth century art theorist Anton Ehrenzweig is explored in this original and timely study. An analysis of the dynamic and invigorating intellectual influences, institutional framework and legacy of his work, Between Art Practice and... -
Adrian Stokes: An Architectonic Eye by Stephen Kite
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £35.06Adrian Stokes: An Architectonic EyeBook InformationISBN 9780367602048Author Stephen KiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 235Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 470g -
Curating Fascism: Exhibitions and Memory from the Fall of Mussolini to Today Dr. Sharon Hecker 9781350229457
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.27On the centenary of the fascist party's ascent to power in Italy, Curating Fascism examines the ways in which exhibitions organized from the fall of Benito Mussolini's regime to the present day have shaped collective memory, historical narratives, and... -
The Organic School of the Russian Avant-Garde: Nature's Creative Principles by Isabel Wunsche
RRP: £43.99Booksplease Price: £38.44The artists of the Organic School of the Russian avant-garde found inspiration as well as a model for artistic growth in the creative principles of nature. Isabel Wunsche analyzes the artistic influences, intellectual foundations, and scientific... -
Landscape Imagery, Politics, and Identity in a Divided Germany, 1968-1989 by Catherine Wilkins
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £35.06Landscape Imagery, Politics and Identity in a Divided Germany, 1968-1989 explores the communicative relationship between German landscape painting and the viewing public that developed in the wake of the student revolutions of the late 1960s. The book... -
Representing Berlin: Sexuality and the City in Imperial and Weimar Germany by Dorothy Rowe
RRP: £135.00Booksplease Price: £117.68Berlin, city of Bertolt Brecht, Marlene Dietrich, cabaret and German Expressionism, a city identified with a female sexuality - at first alluring but then dangerous. In this fascinating study, Dorothy Rowe turns our attention to Berlin as a sexual... -
Modernism and Memory: Rhoda Pritzker and the Art of Collecting Ian Collins 9780300214871
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £39.23This book is a glorious celebration of Rhoda Pritzker's collection of 20th-century British art, much of which has been donated to the Yale Center for British Art. Pritzker, who was born in Manchester in1914 and emigrated to the United States during the... -
Helmut Schober: Vortex by Dieter Ronte
RRP: £39.95Booksplease Price: £27.03The famous international painter and performance artist Helmut Schober (* 1947) has focused for the past 40-odd years on the vortex and its intercultural content. Over the decades the vortex has remained a constant in his oeuvre, always supported by his... -
Stories of Traumatic Pasts: Colonialism, Antisemitism, and Turbo-Nationalism by Marina Grzinic
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £24.24Belgian colonialism in the Congo. Antisemitism in Austria. Turbo-nationalism in former Yugoslavia. Over the last two centuries, these three historic lines of violence and annihilation (re)enforced a process of oblivion that to this day prevents a... -
Race Experts: Sculpture, Anthropology, and the American Public in Malvina Hoffman's Races of Mankind by Linda Kim
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £28.21Charles C. Eldredge Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in American Art from the Smithsonian American Art Museum In Race ExpertsLinda Kim examines the complicated and ambivalent role played by sculptor Malvina Hoffman in the Races of Mankind series... -
Coastal Cultures of the Long Nineteenth Century by Matthew Ingleby
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £81.97This volume' 'examines the cultural importance of the coastline in Britain during a time of vast change.Book InformationISBN 9781474435734Author Matthew InglebyFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University... -
Replication in the Long Nineteenth Century: Re-Makings and Reproductions by Julie Codell
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £86.45The first study of nineteenth-century replication across art, literature, science, social science and humanities This landmark study explores replication as a nineteenth-century phenomenon. Replication, defined by Victorian artists as subsequent versions... -
The Art and Politics of Asger Jorn: The Avant-Garde Won't Give Up Karen Kurczynski 9781409431978
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £108.26A leading figure of the postwar avant-garde, Danish artist Asger Jorn has long been recognized for his founding contributions to the Cobra and Situationist International movements - yet art historical scholarship on Jorn has been sparse, particularly in... -
Impressionism by Nathalia Brodskaia
Booksplease Price: £15.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683259251Author Nathalia BrodskaiaFormat HardbackPage Count 72Imprint Parkstone Press USA, LimitedPublisher Parkstone Press USA, Limited -
Cezanne and the Modern: Masterpieces of European Art from the Pearlman Collection by Rachael Ziady DeLue
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £41.52A beautiful presentation of fifty masterworks of late 19th- to mid-20th-century avant-garde European art from one of America's most distinguished private collections Cezanne and the Modern showcases fifty masterworks of late 19th- to mid-20th-century... -
The Paris Letters of Thomas Eakins by Thomas Eakins 9780691138084
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £23.29The most revealing and interesting writings of American artist Thomas Eakins are the letters he sent to family and friends while he was a student in Paris between 1866 and 1870. This book presents all these letters in their entirety for the first time;... -
Art History after Deleuze and Guattari by Sjoerd Van Tuinen 9789462701151
RRP: £53.00Booksplease Price: £50.11Though Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari were not strictly art historians, they reinvigorated ontological and formal approaches to art, and simultaneously borrowed art historical concepts for their own philosophical work. They were dedicated modernists,... -
Nolde, Klee & Der Blaue Reiter: The Braglia Collection Ute Eggeling 9783777424972
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £22.21The foundation stone for the exceptional collection of Gabriele and Anna Braglia was laid by an exhibition of German Expressionism in Venice. The collection will be made accessible to the public in Lugano starting in September. Fascinated by the vivid...