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Daan Roosegaarde by Carol Becker
RRP: £35.00£26.72The first monograph on the indefatigable explorer of relationships between people, technology, and environmental issues. Book InformationISBN 9780714878324Author Carol BeckerFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Phaidon Press LtdPublisher Phaidon... -
Out of Now: The Lifeworks of Tehching Hsieh by Adrian Heathfield
RRP: £36.00£25.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262528214Author Adrian HeathfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 382Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Alberto Giacometti: A Biography by Catherine Grenier
RRP: £30.00£18.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782080203793Author Catherine GrenierFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint FlammarionPublisher Editions FlammarionWeight(grams) 630g -
Ruth Asawa: Citizen of the Universe by Emma Ridgway
RRP: £28.00£19.19A unique look at the visionary artist, educator and activist Ruth Asawa (1926-2013). 'I state, without hesitation or reserve, that I consider Ruth Asawa to be the most gifted, productive, and originally inspired artist that I have ever known... -
Mark Rothko: Toward the Light in the Chapel by Annie Cohen-Solal
RRP: £11.99£10.15A fascinating exploration of the life and work of one of America's most famous and enigmatic postwar visual artists Mark Rothko, one of the greatest painters of the twentieth century, was born in the Jewish Pale of Settlement in 1903. He immigrated to... -
John Waters: Indecent Exposure by Kristen Hileman 9780520300477
RRP: £42.00£34.03It has been more than fifty years since John Waters filmed his first short on the roof of his parents' Baltimore home. Over the following decades, Waters has developed a reputation as an uncompromising cultural force not only in cinema, but also in... -
Piet Mondrian Masterpieces of Art by Susie Hodge 9781783613557
£9.08Part of a new series of beautiful gift art books this book focuses on Dutch artist Piet Mondrian. Renowned especially for his style of painting that featured grids of black lines with blocks of primary colour, Mondrian was regarded as a true pioneer of... -
Constable In Love: Love, Landscape, Money and the Making of a Great Painter by Martin Gayford
RRP: £10.99£7.77Art critic Martin Gayford, author of The Yellow House, brings the Regency period to life in Constable in Love: Love, Landscape and the Making of a Great Painter his account of the life of English Romantic painter John Constable. Love, not landscape, was... -
Transfigurations by Alex Grey 9780892818518
RRP: £43.00£38.58Every once in a great while an artist emerges who does more than simply reflect the social trends of the time. These artists are able to transcend established thinking and help us redefine ourselves and our world. Today, a growing number of art critics,... -
Great Goya Etchings: The Proverbs, the Tauromaquia and the Bulls of Bordeaux by Francisco De Goya 9780486447582
RRP: £14.49£9.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486447582Author Francisco De GoyaFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
The Audubon Reader by John James Audubon
RRP: £14.99£11.35John James Audubon (1785-1851) was for half a century America's dominant wildlife artist. His seminal Birds of America, a collection of 435 life-size prints, is still a standard work, and the name Audubon remains synonymous with birds and bird... -
Sturtevant: Warhol Marilyn by Patricia Lee
RRP: £17.99£12.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846381638Author Patricia LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Afterall PublishingPublisher Afterall Publishing -
Modigliani: Masters of Art by Olaf Mextorf
RRP: £9.99£7.11Amedeo Modigliani experimented with sculpture and drawing, but is primarily known for his paintings of nudes and portraits characterized by elongated figures, faces, and necks. He began painting in his youth in Italy before moving to Paris in 1906,... -
Trevor Paglen: Sites Unseen by John Jacob 9781911282334
RRP: £45.00£35.17Trevor Paglen is an American artist, geographer, and author. What I want from art," says Paglen, "is to help see the historical moment we live in." His photographs make visible things we're not meant to see; he regards this invisibility as emblematic of... -
Drawn: The Art of Ascent by Jeremy Collins
RRP: £19.95£16.44A graphic-adventure that delves into why we pursue the wild outdoors. Shivering in a cave beneath Mount Fitz Roy in Patagonia, artist and rock climber Jeremy Collins had an intense and anxious vision, "both geographic and artistic," about his life and... -
FHK Henrion: Design by Brian Webb 9781851496327
RRP: £12.50£7.86F.H.K Henrion was one of a distinguished group of graphic designers - refugees from Europe just prior to World War II, who brought cutting-edge continental design to the rather parochial English scene. He quickly made his mark as a poster designer for... -
Banksy Myths and Legends Volume II by Liza Kirwin
RRP: £5.95£5.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908211316Author Marc LevertonFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Carpet Bombing CulturePublisher Carpet Bombing CultureWeight(grams) 108gDimensions(mm)... -
Bernard Buffet: The Invention of the Modern Mega-artist by Nicholas Foulkes
RRP: £12.99£9.09It is said that asphyxiation brings on a state of hallucinatory intoxication...in which case the 71 year old artist who lay in his sprawling Provencal villa died happy. In the early afternoon of Monday 4 October 1999, wracked with Parkinson's, and unable... -
Reading Cy Twombly: Poetry in Paint by Mary Jacobus 9780691170725
RRP: £42.00£33.43Many of Cy Twombly's paintings and drawings include handwritten words and phrases--naming or quoting poets ranging from Sappho, Homer, and Virgil to Mallarme, Rilke, and Cavafy. Enigmatic and sometimes hard to decipher, these inscriptions are a... -
Harriet Backer: Every Atom is Colour by Vibeke Waallann Hansen 9783777442105
RRP: £39.95£26.43The grande dame of Norwegian Painting - teacher of Nikolai Astrup and Harald Sohlberg. Harriet Backer (1845-1932) was one of Norway's most prominent painters of the 19th century and a pioneer among women artists in Europe. In 1880, she debuted in the... -
Amazona: The Art of Chris Achilleos by Chris Achilleos
RRP: £14.99£11.35Massively popular and highly regarded, Chris Achilleos science fiction/fantasy artwork ranges from his acclaimed Doctor Who and Star Trek covers to the erotic pin-ups that made him famous, embracing along the way Greek mythology, role-playing games,... -
Irrational Judgments: Eva Hesse, Sol LeWitt, and 1960s New York by Kirsten J. Swenson
RRP: £42.50£36.01An intimate study of the friendship and creative dialogue between two artists, offering an in-depth understanding of their work and the upheavals of 1960s New YorkIrrational Judgments examines the close friendship and significant exchange of ideas... -
Diary Of A Genius: 5th Edition, Revised by Salvador Dali
RRP: £12.95£8.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840686845Author Salvador DaliFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Creation BooksPublisher Creation Books -
John Armstrong: The Complete Paintings by Andrew Lambirth
RRP: £50.00£38.59A superb classical painter and draughtsman, Armstrong also undertook much work in film, theatre, and ballet, as well as being a successful designer of ceramics and murals. As a painter he has often been associated with the surrealists, especially after... -
Banksy Myths & Legends: Volume 1 by Liza Kirwin
RRP: £5.95£5.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908211019Author Marc LevertonFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Carpet Bombing CulturePublisher Carpet Bombing CultureWeight(grams) 120gDimensions(mm)... -
Yin Xiuzhen by Hou Hanru
RRP: £29.95£22.54A leading female sculptor and figure in Chinese contemporary art, Yin Xiuzhen (b. 1963, Beijing, China) began her career in the early 1990s following her graduation from Capital Normal University in Beijing where she received a B.A. from the Fine Arts... -
Louis Comfort Tiffany: Masterworks by Camilla de la Bedoyere
RRP: £25.00£17.98A gorgeous new edition with the cover printed on silver. Tiffany was highly skilled in jewellery design, ceramics, enamels, and metalwork but he is best known for his beautiful stained-glass designs. Using opalescent glass in a variety of colours and... -
Ornament & Crime: Selected Essays by Adolf Loos 9781572410466
RRP: £20.99£18.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781572410466Author Adolf LoosFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Ariadne PressPublisher Ariadne PressWeight(grams) 314g -
Tunnel – Johannes Nagel: Works in Porcelain—Arbeiten aus Porzellan 2018–2023 by Glenn Adamson 9783897906945
RRP: £42.00£28.39The catalogue Tunnel presents works from 2018 to 2023 by ceramicist Johannes Nagel (*1979). The majority of the objects were formed by the artist's hands digging into sand to form cavities, negative spaces, which were then molded and revealed using... -
Jan Tschichold - Master Typographer: His Life, Work & Legacy by Cees W. de Jong
RRP: £39.95£27.83Few have left a deeper impression on the world of typography than Jan Tschichold (1902-74), one of the most outstanding and influential designers of the 20th century. Not only was he was a master in his field, but he wrote a number of highly influential... -
Stones, Clouds, Miles: A Richard Long Reader by Clarrie Wallis
RRP: £20.00£13.75Charting Richard Long's critical reception, this anthology of writings explores the artist's radical rethinking of the relationship between art and landscape. Widely considered as one of the most influential British artists of his generation, Long's... -
Luminous Lives: A Biography of Anna-Eva Bergman by Thomas Schlesser 9781912475155
RRP: £30.00£22.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912475155Author Thomas SchlesserFormat HardbackPage Count 486Imprint ERISPublisher ERIS -
Isabella and Leonardo: The Artistic Relationship between Isabella d'Este and Leonardo da Vinci, 1500-1506 by Francis Ames-Lewis 9780300121247
RRP: £47.50£40.04Isabella d'Este, the marchioness of Mantua, was a collector of antiquities, a patron of art, and one of the most vivid personalities of the Italian Renaissance. Her artistic relationship with Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) is charted through the letters... -
Life With Picasso by Francoise Gilot 9781681373195
RRP: £16.99£12.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681373195Author Francoise GilotFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc -
Gonzo: The Art by Ralph Steadman
RRP: £50.00£35.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780151003877Author Ralph SteadmanFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint HarperPublisher HarperWeight(grams) 1406gDimensions(mm) 291mm * 242mm * 25mm -
William Morris Masterpieces of Art by Michael Robinson
RRP: £12.99£8.60William 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 of us probably know him best, however, from his... -
Marianne North's Travel Writing: Every Step a Fresh Picture by Michelle Payne 9781842467954
RRP: £28.00£19.62Excerpts from her personal correspondence and passages from her published autobiography combine to produce a vivid first-person account revealing her interests, opinions and experiences, along with all the pleasures and frustrations of prolonged overseas... -
Sex, Surrealism, Dali and Me: The Memoirs of Carlos Lozano by Clifford Thurlow
RRP: £10.95£9.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781491038208Author Clifford ThurlowFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Magritte by Richard Calvocoressi
RRP: £6.95£5.26The paintings of the Belgian Surrealist Rene Magritte (1898-1967) have exerted an extraordinary fascination, particularly since the enormous increase in awareness and popularity of his work during the 1960s. Magritte shows us a world of silence and... -
Piet Mondrian: Mondrian Evolution by Fondation Beyeler, Riehen / Basel
RRP: £54.00£34.83Piet Mondrian had a decisive influence on the development of painting from figuration to abstraction. On the occasion of his 150th birthday, Mondrian Evolution is dedicated to his multifaceted work and artistic development. Initially working in the...