Individual Artists

Published to coincide with the UK release in November 2023 of the film Lee, starring Kate Winslet as Lee Miller, a biography described by the Sunday Times as 'a fascinating revelation of an adventurous and protean spirit.' Lee Miller, 1927 - New York: A...

Travel is a fundamental experience of human existence. For Max Beckmann it was of existential importance both in a symbolic, but also in a deeply personal sense. In the 1920s, he regularly traveled to the noble health resorts and palace hotels on the...

Get Your Shit Together is the first book that exclusively features recent artwork in color by beloved British artist David Shrigley. This volume celebrates Shrigley's absurd, deadpan sensibility through both his signature drawing style and accompanying...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783753301259Author James AttleeFormat HardbackPage Count 396Imprint Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig,GermanyPublisher Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther...

The third book in the Toppi Gallery series features the master's non-sequential, stand-alone illustration work (as opposed to his graphic novel stories featured in The Collected Toppi series). This volume focuses on themes of masculinity and femininity,...

The first monograph in over 70 years on the celebrated female protagonist of Dutch floral painting At the end of the 17th century and beginning of the 18th, Rachel Ruysch was celebrated across Europe for her sumptuous floral still lifes, admired both...

'Dress as though your life depends on it, or don't bother.'(Leigh Bowery, 1985)Outlaws dives into the anarchic energy of London's 1980s club scene, celebrating the avant-garde, experimental designs of Leigh Bowery and his fellow fashion renegades,...

The first book dedicated to Picasso's self-portraits, many held in private collections and published here for the first time. Much has been said and written about Picasso's life and art, but until now his self-portraits have never been studied and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865621367Author Jon HulFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint S Q Publications,USPublisher S Q Publications,USWeight(grams) 227g

Major survey chronicling superstar US artist Mickalene Thomas and her vibrant, rhinestone-adorned paintings, collages and photographs. Accompanies her international touring exhibition. New York-based artist Mickalene Thomas' critically acclaimed and...

Portia Zvavahera is one of the outstanding artists of her generation. Born in Harare, Zimbabwe in 1985, she has developed a unique combination of print/painting techniques to register a private world of dreams, fantasies and figural constructions. She...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999814441Author Carmen WinantFormat HardbackPage Count 120Imprint Self Publish, Be HappyPublisher MACK

Understanding Rex Whistler's place in and contributions to the arts and culture of his time. Focusing on the British virtuoso Rex Whistler (1905-44), who was linked to many of the most illustrious figures of the interwar period, this book explores an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938922763Author Agnes MartinFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Distributed Art PublishersPublisher Distributed Art PublishersWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786185039073Author Chris WileyFormat PaperbackPage Count 107Imprint Kentro SynchronisPublisher Kentro Synchronis

Hokusai's series depicting Mount Fuji is widely considered to be the pinnacle of his career. This beautiful boxed accordion- fold edition comprises the full set of forty-six prints (the original thirty-six and ten more that were completed later) and...

Vincent van Gogh's story is one of the most ironic in art history. Today, he is celebrated the world over as one of the most important painters of all time, recognized with sell-out shows, feted museums, and record prices of tens of millions of dollars...

THE PERFECT BOOK TO BRIGHTEN YOUR YEAR! This heart-warming collection of illustrations from the much-loved viral sensation, Murphy's Sketches (@murphys_sketches) on Instagram is the most wonderful gift for yourself or for your loved ones - A Book to...

Jim Moir loves birds. His popularity as a painter has soared in recent years and the simplicity and sincerity of his bird paintings have given them cult status among his fans. Now, for the first time, one hundred of these beautiful paintings are gathered...

'How wonderful that one of those exciting and innovative women artists of the 60s should be recovered and celebrated in this way.'- JULIE CHRISTIE'Brings the British pop artist, Pauline Boty, into vivid focus' - VANITY FAIRPauline Boty (1938 -1966) was a...

The artist Mark Hearld finds his inspiration in the flora and fauna of the British countryside: a blue-eyed jay perched on an oak branch; two hares enjoying the spoils of an allotment; a mute swan standing at the frozen water's edge; and a sleek red fox...

A new selection of post-impressionist painter Vincent Van Gough's letters, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh put a human face on one of the most haunting figures in modern Western culture. In this Penguin Classics edition, the letters are selected and...

Picasso was one of the most creative and experimental talents ever to explore the medium of print. This book charts his career as a printmaker, which was characterised by close collaboration with skilled printers, through which extraordinary artworks...

Artistic genius, political activist, painter and decorator, mythic legend or notorious graffiti artist? The work of Banksy is unmistakable, except maybe when it's squatting in the Tate or New York's Metropolitan Museum. Banksy is responsible for...

A collection of legendary British artist David Hockney's insights into art, life, nature, creativity and much more. 'I've always been a looker ... that's what artists do' This anthology of quotations by David Hockney follows in the successful format of...

The intimate memoirs of one of the most acclaimed and controversial artists of her generation.Here I am, a fucked, crazy, anorexic-alcoholic-childless, beautiful woman. I never dreamt it would be like this.'Frequently affecting...intriguing, almost...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770466203Author Shigeru MizukiFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Drawn and QuarterlyPublisher Drawn and QuarterlyWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 216mm...

Michelangelo 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...

In recent years David Hockney has returned to England to paint the landscape of his childhood in East Yorkshire. Although his passionate interest in new technologies has led him to develop a virtuoso drawing technique on an iPad, he has also been...

A highly illustrated history of the Wars of the Roses based on the medieval art of Graham Turner. The period of civil strife in the second half of the 15th century now known as the Wars of the Roses was one of the most dramatic and tumultuous in...

Renowned for his paintings of the industrial towns of North West England, Lancashire born Lowry had a distinctive and enchanting style, depicting the everyday life of the world around him. In association with The Lowry, which houses over 400 of Lowry's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486281223Author Ronald K GetoorFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Andy Warhol was a relentless chronicler of life and its encounters. Carrying a Polaroid camera from the late 1950s until his death in 1987, he amassed a huge collection of instant pictures of friends, lovers, patrons, the famous, the obscure, the scenic,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798887241166Author Jim LeeFormat HardbackPage Count 140Imprint Idea & Design WorksPublisher Idea & Design Works

Artistic genius, political activist, painter and decorator, mythic legend or notorious graffiti artist? The work of Banksy is unmistakable, except maybe when it's squatting in the Tate or New York's Metropolitan Museum. Banksy is responsible for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912740093Author Pino DangelicoFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Korero PressPublisher Korero Press

Delve into the world of Charles Rennie Mackintosh and his Glasgow School of Art-trained contemporaries who forged a unique and distinct vision in both art and architecture at the end of the Victorian era. The Glasgow Style is the name given to the work...

Mike Kelley (1954-2012) is widely considered one of the most influential artists of our time, with an irreverent and visionary practice that spanned and mixed performance, installation, drawing, painting, video, photography, sound, text and sculpture. ...

Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919) was a German-born biologist, naturalist, evolutionist, artist, philosopher, and doctor who spent his life researching flora and fauna from the highest mountaintops to the deepest ocean. A vociferous supporter and developer of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798988928614Author Larry WarshFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint No More RulersPublisher No More Rulers