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Anders Zorn: Sweden's Master Painter by Johan Cederlund 9780847841516
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £37.14Accompanying a major retrospective of Anders Zorn's work, this is the first volume in English to explore the Swedish Impressionist's entire career in depth. Anders Zorn (1860-1920) is one of Sweden's most accomplished and beloved artists. Renowned for... -
America's Cool Modernism: O'Keeffe to Hopper by Katherine Bourgignon
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £16.63As some American artists began to eliminate people and remove extraneous details from their compositions, they often employed neat, orderly brushwork or close-up, unemotional photography. Artists as diverse as Patrick Henry Bruce, John Covert, Georgia... -
Discover Degas & Miss La La by Anne Robbins 9781857097146
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.56The extraordinary story behind Degas’s groundbreaking painting of the biracial circus performer Miss La La Edgar Degas’s Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando (1879) is one of only two paintings by the artist representing people of colour. Miss La La, born... -
Joan Eardley: A Sense of Place by Patrick Elliott
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £15.42Joan Eardley (1921-1963) is one of Scotland's most admired artists. During a career that lasted barely fifteen years, she concentrated on two very distinct themes: children in the Townhead area of central Glasgow, and the fishing village of Catterline,... -
Paul Klee Masterpieces of Art by Susie Hodge 9781783612086
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.04Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
A Queer Little History of Art by Alex Pilcher
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £10.91A 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... -
Creativity Through Nature: Foraged, Recycled and Natural Mixed-Media Art by Ann Blockley
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £12.77A passionate and purposeful book on finding real creativity through nature. An essential book for our times and all artists at whatever level. In her most passionate and personal book to date, acclaimed watercolour artist Ann Blockley takes both budding... -
Pollock by Leonhard Emmerling 9783836529075
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.21The rebel hero of Abstract Expressionism, Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) careened through his life like a firework across the American art landscape. Channeling ideas from sources as diverse as Picasso and Mexican surrealism, he rejected convention to... -
Tirzah Garwood: Beyond Ravilious James Russell 9781781301302
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.68This beautifully illustrated book is the first full-length critical study to focus on the works of fine artist and printmaker, Tirzah Garwood (1908-1951), wife of artist Eric Ravilious. Tirzah Garwood (1908-1951) proved herself an artist of rare... -
Rembrandt Is in the Wind: Learning to Love Art through the Eyes of Faith by Russ Ramsey
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £11.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780310129721Author Russ RamseyFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint ZondervanPublisher ZondervanWeight(grams) 139g -
After Modern Art: 1945-2017 by David Hopkins
RRP: £24.49Booksplease Price: £15.82Contemporary art can be baffling and beautiful, provocative and disturbing. This pioneering book presents a new look at the controversial period between 1945 and 2015, when art and its traditional forms were called into question. It focuses on the... -
The Shock of the New: Art and the Century of Change by Robert Hughes
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £25.08This 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,... -
Kiki Man Ray: Art, Love and Rivalry in 1920s Paris by Mark Braude
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.60'Exuberantly entertaining' NYT Book Review'Mark Braude's writing and subject make this book irresistible, as was Kiki herself.' Jim Jarmusch'A delightful, marvelously readable, meticulously-researched romp of a book, Kiki Man Ray brings to life not just... -
Art Deco by Alastair Duncan 9780500202302
RRP: £20.95Booksplease Price: £14.21Art Deco is one of the most exciting chapters in the history of the decorative arts. Conceived in France before the First World War, it spread throughout Europe and had its greatest and most spectacular success in the United States. Myriad influences... -
Van Gogh. the Complete Paintings by Ingo F Walther
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £38.44Today, the works of Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) are among the most well known and celebrated in the world. In paintings such as Sunflowers, The Starry Night, and Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear, we recognize an artist uniquely dexterous in the... -
Van Gogh: His Life and Works in 500 Images by Michael Howard 9780754819547
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.83The first half of this fascinating book contains a detailed exploration of Van Gogh's life, including his background, early career, influences and relationships. Beginning with his birth in 1853, it details his childhood, family life, education and... -
Art Nouveau by Alastair Duncan 9780500202739
RRP: £27.95Booksplease Price: £21.15Alastair Duncan tells the story of the meteoric rise and fall of Art Nouveau, which began as a general reaction by young artists and designers to the stifling traditionalism and revivalism of the mid-nineteenth-century fine and decorative arts. The 'new... -
William Nicholson: A Catalogue Raisonne of the Oil Paintings by Patricia Reed 9780300170542
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £81.78William Nicholson (1872-1949) is among the most admired and elusive painters in the history of British art. In the first four decades of the 20th century, Nicholson explored the genres of portraiture, landscape, and still life with exceptional... -
Modigliani by Doris Krystof
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.21In endless odes to the female form, Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920) traced elongated bodies, almond eyes, and his own name into art history. His languid female subjects are as instantly recognizable as they are startling, sensual, and swan-necked. ... -
The Quilt Design Coloring Workbook: 91 Modern Art-Inspired Designs and Exercises Thomas Knauer 9781612127859
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £8.97The Quilt Design Coloring Workbook calls on an unlikely but exciting muse to help inspire quilt designers: modern art. More than 90 full-page ready-to-color design prompts invite quilters to try new color combinations and pattern experiments. Author... -
The Shining Sands: Artists in Newlyn and St Ives 1880-1930 by Tom Cross 9781841147000
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £30.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781841147000Author Tom CrossFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint HalsgrovePublisher Halsgrove -
Concepts of Modern Art: From Fauvism to Postmodernism by Nikos Stangos 9780500202685 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £2.37In a series of essays by some of the most internationally acclaimed writers on art, the extraordinary artistic challenges of the twentieth century are introduced and discussed with unparalleled lucidity, intelligence and factual accuracy. No other book... -
Concepts of Modern Art: From Fauvism to Postmodernism by Nikos Stangos 9780500202685
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £20.18In a series of essays by some of the most internationally acclaimed writers on art, the extraordinary artistic challenges of the twentieth century are introduced and discussed with unparalleled lucidity, intelligence and factual accuracy. No other book... -
Paul Klee Pedagogical Sketchbook: Bauhausbucher 2, 1925 by ,Paul Klee 9783037785850
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783037785850Author Paul KleeFormat HardbackPage Count 56Imprint Lars Muller PublishersPublisher Birkhauser Verlag AG -
Impressionism Karin H. Grimme 9783836536974
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £10.19Discover how scenes of daily life and delicate dabs of color shocked the art world establishment. In this TASCHEN Basic Art introduction to Impressionism, we explore the artists, subjects, and techniques that first brought the easel out of the studio... -
Understanding Photojournalism Jennifer Good 9781526612236
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £26.67Understanding Photojournalism explores the interface between theory and practice at the heart of photojournalism, mapping out the critical questions that photojournalists and picture editors consider in their daily practice and placing these in context... -
Kirchner Norbert Wolf 9783836535045
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £9.84Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938) is regarded as one of the key figures in 20th-century European art. A Modernist to his bones, he sent seismic waves through the art world with his hard-edged, intensely colored paintings and disseminated his ideas... -
William Morris: Artist Craftsman Pioneer by Rosalind Ormiston
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.93Revised edition of the bestselling backlist title. William Morris was an outstanding character of many talents, being an architect, writer, social campaigner, artist and, with his Kelmscott Press, an important figure of the Arts and Crafts movement. Many... -
Edward Hopper: An Intimate Biography by Gail Levin
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.40New York Times Notable BookLos Angeles Times Book Prize FinalistWall Street Journal-One of Five Best Artist Biographies Edward Hopper's canvasses are filled with stripped-down spaces and unrelenting light, evocative landscapes, and the lonely aspects of... -
50 Art Nouveau Works of Art You Should Know by Susie Hodge
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.90The heyday of the Art Nouveau style was relatively short, spanning the decades immediately before and after 1900. However it was a tremendously important period, not only for its radical shift away from the academic and romantic movements of the late... -
Poussin as a Painter: From Classicism to Abstraction by Richard Verdi 9781789141474
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £30.46Universally regarded as the father of French painting, Nicolas Poussin is arguably the greatest of all painters of that school. Yet Poussin's reputation has been founded more on the intellectual and philosophical qualities of his art than its sheer... -
Harry Clarke: The Life and Work by Nicola Gordon Bowe 9781845887421
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £26.75"Nicola Gordon Bowe has undoubtedly produced the definitive study of Harry Clarke, in a lively and lucid style, with profound insight." - Irish Arts ReviewHarry Clarke was Ireland's greatest stained glass artist and arguably the finest of his time in any... -
Total Expansion of the Letter: Avant-Garde Art and Language After Mallarme by Trevor Stark 9780262043717
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £30.43How cubism and Dada radically reimagined the social nature of language, following the utopian poetic vision of Stephane Mallarme. At the outset of the twentieth century, language became a visual medium and a philosophical problem for European... -
Experience or Interpretation: The Dilemma of Museums of Modern Art by Nicholas Serota
RRP: £7.95Booksplease Price: £5.79How do we see art? How is it displayed? One hundred years ago, art was shown in a way intended to educate. Galleries reflected the curator's view of history at the expense of differing opinions. Today, not only do museums and galleries celebrate these... -
The Art of Art History: A Critical Anthology by Donald Preziosi
RRP: £26.49Booksplease Price: £19.35What is art history? Why, how, and where did it originate, and how have its methods changed over time? The history of art has been written and rewritten since classical antiquity. Since the foundation of the modern discipline of art history in Germany in... -
Art Deco by Norbert Wolf 9783791382418
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £31.17The Art Deco style is so recognisable and widespread that its original impact on the culture in which it emerged has been all but lost in the clutter of imitation. This book draws our attention back to the birth of Art Deco-a period between two... -
Matisse. Cut-outs by 9783836534277
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.21Henri Matisse (1869-1954) was a fighting spirit. Despite a cancer diagnosis in 1941, increasing frailty, and the confines of a wheelchair, the indomitable Frenchman never stopped in his quest to make art. With what he called une seconde vie, a second... -
Warhol by Klaus Honnef
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £14.04Andy Warhol (1928-1987) is hailed as the most important proponent of the Pop art movement. A critical and creative observer of American society, he explored key themes of consumerism, materialism, media, and celebrity. Drawing on contemporary... -
How We Might Live: At Home with Jane and William Morris by Suzanne Fagence Cooper 9781529409482
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £19.18William Morris - poet, designer, campaigner, hero of the Arts & Crafts movement - was a giant of the Victorian age, and his beautiful creations and provocative philosophies are still with us today: but his wife Jane is too often relegated to a footnote,... -
Eric Ravilious: Artist and Designer by Alan Powers
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £23.43More popular than ever, the work of Eric Ravilious (1903-42) is rooted in the landscape of pre-war and early wartime England. This best-selling book by Alan Powers, the established authority on Ravilious, provides the most comprehensive overview to date...