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Jon Hul Sketchbook: Volume 1 by Jon Hul
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $12.23Apologies 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 -
Portia Zvavahera: Dreaming in Shona Professor Tamar Garb 9781904561705
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $43.78Portia 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... -
Becoming Mary Sully: Toward an American Indian Abstract by Philip J. Deloria 9780295745046
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $43.39"The moment to savor [Mary Sully]. . . has arrived." -New York TimesDakota Sioux artist Mary Sully was the great-granddaughter of respected nineteenth-century portraitist Thomas Sully, who captured the personalities of America's first generation of... -
Candice Breitz Marcella Beccaria 9788876243684
RRP: $31.10Booksplease Price: $24.88The art of the up-and-coming South African artist Candice Breitz draws on contemporary mass culture, devising new systems for understanding reality. Published in association with the Castello di Rivoli, this book documents Breitz's new work "Mother +... -
Van Gogh. The Complete Paintings by Rainer Metzger
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $27.48Vincent 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... -
Monet by Christoph Heinrich
RRP: $29.25Booksplease Price: $17.53Hailed the "Prince of the Impressionists", Claude Monet (1840-1926) transformed expectations for the purpose of paint on canvas. Defying the precedent of centuries, Monet did not seek to render only reality, but the act of perception itself. Working "en... -
Kahlo by Andrea Kettenmann
RRP: $29.25Booksplease Price: $19.71The arresting pictures of Frida Kahlo (1907-54) were in many ways expressions of trauma. Through a near-fatal road accident at the age of 18, failing health, a turbulent marriage, miscarriage and childlessness, she transformed the afflictions into... -
L.S. Lowry Masterpieces of Art by Susan Grange 9781804177051
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.23Renowned 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... -
Andy Warhol. Polaroids by Richard B. Woodward 9783836569385
RRP: $97.50Booksplease Price: $74.96Andy 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,... -
Sex And Horror: Volume Four by Pino Dangelico
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $30.07Apologies 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 -
Bonnard by Timothy Hyman 9780500203101
RRP: $52.55Booksplease Price: $39.06Reviewing the work of Bonnard, one of the best-loved artists of the modern period, this book draws insights into his personality from his paintings. It is published on the occasion of a retrospective exhibition at the Tate Gallery, London, in February... -
Matisse by Volkmar Essers
RRP: $29.25Booksplease Price: $20.42The work of Henri Matisse (1869-1954) reflects an ongoing belief in the power of brilliant colors and simple forms. Though famed in particular for his paintings, Matisse also worked with drawing, sculpture, lithography, stained glass, and collage,... -
Gauguin Ingo F. Walther 9783836532235
RRP: $29.25Booksplease Price: $21.86Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) was not cut out for finance. Nor did he last particularly long in the French Navy, or as a tarpaulin salesman in Copenhagen who did not speak Danish. He began painting in his spare time in 1873 and in 1876 took part in the Paris... -
Leonardo da Vinci: The Complete Works by Leonardo da Vinci 9780715324530
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $17.41Leonardo Da Vinci is considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived, responsible for the Mona Lisa, The Last Supper, The Madonna of the Carnation and Vitruvian Man. Leonardo... -
Great Women Artists by Phaidon Editors
RRP: $97.40Booksplease Price: $68.41"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... -
Rothko Jacob Baal-Teshuva 9783836504263
RRP: $29.25Booksplease Price: $20.42Resisting interpretation or classification, Mark Rothko (1903-1970) was a prominent advocate for the artist's consummate freedom of expression. Although identified as a key protagonist of the Abstract Expressionist movement, first formed in New York... -
Klimt by Gilles Neret
RRP: $29.25Booksplease Price: $21.39The unfading popularity of Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) attests not only to the particular appeal of his luxuriant painting but also to the universal themes with which he worked: love, feminine beauty, aging, and death. The son of a goldsmith, Klimt created... -
Leonardo da Vinci. The Graphic Work by Frank Zollner
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $29.74One of the most accomplished human beings who ever lived, Leonardo da Vinci remains the quintessential Renaissance genius. Creator of the world's most famous paintings, this scientist, artist, philosopher, inventor, builder, and mechanic epitomized the... -
Caravaggio by Gilles Neret
RRP: $29.25Booksplease Price: $20.42Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) was always a name to be reckoned with. Notorious bad boy of the Italian Baroque, the artist was at once celebrated and controversial, violent in temper, precise in technique, a creative master, and a man on... -
Portrait Drawings by John Singer Sargent 9780486245249
RRP: $14.61Booksplease Price: $10.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486245249Author John Singer SargentFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Vincent's Gardens: Paintings and Drawings by Van Gogh by Ralph Skea
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $19.99This glorious gift book presents Van Gogh's lifelong love affair with the garden. Illustrated with an extraordinary range of works, from iconic oils such as Irises to exquisite etchings and intimate sketches, the book is a visual feast. The images are... -
The Arthur Rackham Treasury by Arthur Rackham 9780486446851
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $19.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486446851Author Arthur RackhamFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Bacon by Luigi Ficacci
RRP: $29.25Booksplease Price: $17.53Largely self-taught as an artist, Francis Bacon (1909-1992) developed a unique ability to transform interior and unconscious impulses into figurative forms and intensely claustrophobic compositions. Emerging into notoriety in the period following World... -
Monet Cookbook: Recipes from Giverny by Florence Gentner 9783791382883
RRP: $53.63Booksplease Price: $48.79It's well known that Claude Monet was a gourmand as well as an artistic genius. His culinary journals are filled with detailed recipes and notes about what he ate and with whom he shared his meals. Now, sixty of those recipes are gathered in this... -
Art Forms in Nature: The Prints of Ernst Haeckel by Ernst Haeckel
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $23.65The geometric shapes and natural forms, captured with exceptional precision in Ernst Haeckel's prints, still influence artists and designers to this day. This volume highlights the research and findings of this natural scientist. Powerful modern... -
Rebecca Horn (Bilingual edition): Concert for Anarchy Bettina M. Busse 9783775751209
RRP: $93.60Booksplease Price: $56.69Reality and fiction, matter and spirit, subject and object - the artist Rebecca Horn constantly blurs these boundaries. Even the different media she uses are not clearly separated but their interweaving is part of her artistic principle. This catalog,... -
The Lives of the Artists by Giorgio Vasari 9780199537198
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.03Packed 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... -
The Art Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained DK 9780241239018
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $29.31Learn about key movements like impressionism, cubism and symbolism in The Art Book.Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format. Learn about Art in this overview guide to the... -
The Short Story of Women Artists: A Pocket Guide to Key Breakthroughs, Movements, Works and Themes Susie Hodge 9781786276551
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $24.22The Short Story of Women Artists tells the full history - from the breakthroughs that women have made in pushing for parity with male artists, to the important contributions made to otherwise male-dominated artistic movements, and the forgotten and... -
Edvard Munch: Behind the Scream by Sue Prideaux
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $29.23Who was the man behind The Scream, the iconic painting that so acutely expresses the anguish of the twentieth century? Edvard Munch (1863 - 1944) was twenty-eight when he embarked on a lifelong effort to paint his 'soul's diary' - and began a perverse... -
Edward Hopper: Portraits of America by Wieland Schmied
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.61From his images of deserted small towns and solitary figures in empty offices to his cheerfully tranquil New England landscapes, Hopper's most famous compositions can be seen as products of a life spent observing human nature. Hopper's images evoke an... -
Hiroshige Adele Schlombs 9783836519632
RRP: $29.25Booksplease Price: $21.86Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) was one of the last great artists in the ukiyo-e tradition. Literally meaning "pictures of the floating world," ukiyo-e was a particular woodblock print genre of art that flourished between the 17th and 19th centuries... -
Grayson Perry: Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Girl by Perry Grayson 9780099485162
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.03Every inch of Grayson's childhood bedroom was covered with pictures of aeroplanes, and every surface with models. Fantasy took over his life, in a world of battles ruled by his teddy bear, Alan Measles. He grew up. And in 2003, an acclaimed ceramic... -
John Heartfield: Photography plus Dynamite Angela Lammert 9783777434438
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $48.91The political collages of John Heartfield (1891-1968) have earned him a reputation as one of the most innovative graphic artists of the Weimar Republic. His photomontages and book covers based on collages which had their origins in Berlin's Dada scene... -
Joaquin Sorolla: Painter of Light Micol Forti 9788857248042
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $48.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857248042Author Micol FortiFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 1460g -
Henry Darger by Klaus Biesenbach
RRP: $73.13Booksplease Price: $48.56Self-taught and working in isolation until his death in 1973, Henry Darger realized an elaborate fantasy world of remarkable beauty and strangeness through hundreds of paintings and an epic written narrative. Angel-like Blengins with butterfly wings,... -
Mondrian by Susanne Deicher
RRP: $29.25Booksplease Price: $23.40A key figure in the international avant-garde, Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) was at once an extraordinary painter and leading art theoretician whose influence resonates to this day. Coining the term "Neo-plasticism", he pursued a style of painting composed... -
Gwen John: Art and Life in London and Paris by Alicia Foster
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $41.34A Sunday Times Art Book of the Year: the first critical illustrated biography of this much-loved artist, locating her firmly in the art worlds of late 19th- and early 20th-century London and Paris. One of the most significant British artists of the... -
Stephen Biesty's Incredible Cross-Sections Stephen Biesty 9780241379783
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $18.17This children's book explores the innermost workings of some extraordinary buildings and machines. From helicopters to submarines, skyscrapers to coal mines, open up a fascinating world packed with unique and detailed cutaway drawings.Whether it's a... -
Tell Me Who I Am: The Story Behind the Netflix Documentary by Alex And Marcus Lewis
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.31The story behind the hit Netflix documentary: The bestselling account of the bond between brothers and the shocking legacy of a dangerous mother.Imagine waking up one day to discover that you have forgotten everything about your life. Your only link with...