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The Art and Flair of Mary Blair: An Appreciation by John Canemaker
RRP: £45.00£29.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781423127444Author John CanemakerFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Disney EditionsPublisher Disney EditionsWeight(grams) 782gDimensions(mm) 251mm * 263mm... -
Albert Oehlen by John Corbett 9783836508971
RRP: £60.00£58.62The paintings of Albert Oehlen live by audacious strategies, by questioning the image and the rules of abstraction, and by an openness and beauty often reached through the unlikeliest of means. In this expansive monograph, we meet the full range of... -
Yayoi Kusama by Robert Shore
RRP: £12.99£8.60'I, Kusama, am the modern Alice in Wonderland' Yayoi KusamaNonagenarian Japanese artist is simultaneously one of the most famous and most mysterious artists on the planet. A wild child of the 1950s and 1960s, she emerged out of the international Fluxus... -
Hans Hofmann: The Nature of Abstraction by Lucinda Barnes 9780520294479
RRP: £46.00£39.22Hans Hofmann: The Nature of Abstraction offers a fresh and revealing assessment of the artist's prolific and innovative painterly career. The comprehensive exhibition and accompanying catalogue will feature approximately seventy paintings and works on... -
Henry Darger by Klaus Biesenbach
RRP: £37.50£28.28Self-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,... -
Gilbert & George: The Meaning of the Earth by Gilbert & George
RRP: £35.00£22.43The Meaning of the Earth offers a retrospective on the work and lives of the relentlessly controversial artists Gilbert & George, connecting their beginnings as Living Sculptures to their pictorial work of today. ---------- 'The Meaning of the Earth,... -
Semaine de Bonte: A Surrealistic Novel in Collage by Max Ernst 9780486232522
RRP: £22.49£14.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486232522Author Max ErnstFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 595gDimensions(mm)... -
Schiele by Reinhard Steiner
RRP: £15.00£11.36With his graphic style, figural distortion, and defiance of conventional standards of beauty, Egon Schiele (1890-1918) was a pioneer of Austrian Expressionism and one of the most startling portrait painters of the 20th century. Mentored by Gustav Klimt,... -
Carrington's Letters: Her Art, Her Loves, Her Friendships by Dora Carrington
RRP: £30.00£21.95'Your letters are a great pleasure. I lap them down with breakfast and they do me more good than tonics, blood capsules or iron jelloids' Lytton StracheyDora Carrington was considered an outsider to Bloomsbury, but she lived right at its heart. Known... -
Edward Hopper: Graphic Novel by Sergio Rossi
RRP: £19.99£14.85This groundbreaking graphic novel delves into the life of the acclaimed artist Edward Hooper, whose iconic works depict quintessentially American scenes and experiences. While many of Hopper's most acclaimed works have been embraced by American culture,... -
In Praise of Hands: Woodcuts by Naoko Matsubara - Poems by Penny Boxall by Penny Boxall 9781910807446
RRP: £9.95£6.78This creative collaboration between artist Naoko Matsubara and poet Penny Boxall celebrates in words and colours the beauty and variety of the human hand. The series of dynamic woodcuts at the heart of this book was initially inspired by the... -
Jenny Saville by Sergio Risaliti
RRP: £42.00£29.79The volume is dedicated to the work of Jenny Saville (Cambridge, 1970), one of the greatest contemporary painters and a leading voice in the international art scene. Saville transcends the limits between figurative and abstract, between informal and... -
Gustav Klimt by Wilfried Rogasch
RRP: £9.95£8.00Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) is the one artist whose name we associate in particular with Viennese Jugendstil and the "Golden Age". As a sought-after painter of frescoes and the founding president of the Vienna Secession, as the portraitist of fashionable... -
The Blaue Reiter by Hajo Duchting
RRP: £15.00£14.35Although it only lasted three turbulent years, the afterburn of the Blaue Reiter (1911-1914) movement exerted a tremendous influence on the development of modern European art. Named after a Kandinsky painting, The Blue Rider, this loose band of artists,... -
The Art of Doris and Anna Zinkeisen by Philip Kelleway 9781913491819
RRP: £30.00£21.13This lavishly illustrated book celebrates the life of Doris and Anna Zinkeisen, charting the rise of the sisters from a childhood in Scotland, to their emergence as amongst the most eminent artists of their day in London, to a quieter yet still highly... -
Paintings of J Allen St John: Grand Master of Fantasy by Stephen D. Korshak 9781887591874
RRP: £17.99£13.36This is the greatest work of the greatest pulp artist. The masterful paintings of J. Allen St. John, the illustrator of "Tarzan", John Carter of "Mars", and many other pulp icons, inspired generations of later artists, including Frank Frazetta, Roy G... -
7 Reece Mews: Francis Bacon's Studio by John Edwards 9780500510346
RRP: £20.00£13.757 Reece Mews, South Kensington, was Francis Bacon's home and studio for over thirty years. After he died in 1992, access was granted to award-winning photographer Perry Ogden to work undisturbed for days on end to produce this riveting record of the... -
William Blake. Dante's 'Divine Comedy'. The Complete Drawings by Sebastian Schutze
£30.94Celebrated around the world as a literary monument, The Divine Comedy, completed in 1321 and written by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), is widely considered the greatest work ever composed in the Italian language. The epic poem describes Dante's journey... -
The Portraitist: Frans Hals and His World by Steven Nadler
RRP: £28.00£23.67A biography of the great portraitist Frans Hals that takes the reader into the turbulent world of the Dutch Golden Age. Frans Hals was one of the greatest portrait painters in history, and his style transformed ideas and expectations about... -
The Lives of Lucian Freud: YOUTH 1922 - 1968 by William Feaver
RRP: £14.99£11.95SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2019 SELECTED AS BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN, SUNDAY TIMES, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT AND SPECTATOR 'A compendium of high-grade gossip about... -
Lucky to be an Artist by Unity Spencer 9781910065600
£12.95In this autobiography Unity Spencer writes about her unconventional childhood, her unconventional father and her life as an artist in her own right.About the AuthorUnity Spencer has exhibited widely and still teaches printmaking to the many students who... -
My Life by Marc Chagall
RRP: £9.99£7.11'As fresh, poignant and individual as his paintings' Lucy Beckett, TLS, Books of the Year 2018'Here is my soul. Look for me here; here I am, here are my pictures, my roots'Marc Chagall, one of the twentieth century's most popular artists, grew up in a... -
Christopher Pratt: Six Decades by Tom Smart 9781770851283
RRP: £40.00£27.06Painter Christopher Pratt is one of Canada's most prominent painters and printmakers, a reputation that has solidified since the celebrated retrospective of his work at the National Gallery of Canada in 2005. The intense realism of his work is, at first... -
Tell Me Who I Am: The Story Behind the Netflix Documentary by Alex And Marcus Lewis
RRP: £10.99£7.40The 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... -
Rembrandt's Light by Jennifer Scott
RRP: £19.95£15.34A unique picture of Rembrandt's mastery of light and visual storytelling. Rembrandt's Light brings together 35 carefully selected paintings, concentrating on his greatest years from 1639-1658, when he lived in his ideal house at Breestraat in the... -
Lucian Freud: Herbarium by Giovanni Aloi
RRP: £39.99£29.98Lucian Freud's portraits are known for their spectacular detail and unflinching gaze. Although Freud brought the same qualities to his paintings and drawings of plants, flowers, and landscapes, these are largely unknown. This elegant book shows how... -
Charles M. Schulz: The Creator of PEANUTS in 100 Objects by Charles M. Schulz Museum
RRP: £40.00£29.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681888606Author Charles M. Schulz MuseumFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Weldon OwenPublisher Weldon Owen -
Renoir, My Father by Dorothy Weaver
RRP: £16.99£11.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780940322776Author Dorothy WeaverFormat PaperbackPage Count 456Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
Psychoanalyst Meets Marina Abramovic: Artist meets Jeannette Fischer by Marina Abramovic
RRP: £18.00£12.14In summer 2015, performance artist Marina Abramovic and psychoanalyst Jeannette Fischer spent four days together at Abramovic's house in the Hudson Valley. Associating freely, they explored - from a psychoanalytical perspective - Abramovic's biography... -
On Being, Quietly by Garrett Bradley 9780262048798
RRP: £27.00£17.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262048798Author Garrett BradleyFormat HardbackPage Count 196Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
The Art of Richard Diebenkorn by Jane Livingston 9780520212589
RRP: £49.00£39.25Recognized as a major figure in postwar American painting, Richard Diebenkorn (1922-1993) was an artist strongly identified with California but whose work is beloved throughout the United States and the rest of the world. This catalogue is the most... -
Sargent's Women: Four Lives Behind the Canvas by Donna M. Lucey 9780393356168
RRP: £14.99£12.77With unprecedented access to newly discovered sources, Donna M. Lucey illuminates the lives of four women painted by the society portraitist John Singer Sargent. With uncanny clairvoyance, Sargent's portraits hint at the mysteries, passions and tragedies... -
Olga de Amaral: To Weave a Rock by The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
RRP: £32.00£21.01A visual artist based in Bogota, Colombia, Olga de Amaral (b. 1932) is one of the most recognised names in craft and Latin American art. Drawing on techniques like plaiting and wrapping and materials such as horsehair and gold leaf, Amaral's... -
The Art of John Alvin by John Alvin
RRP: £24.99£19.40John Alvin's movie poster art is among the most iconic of the last 40 years, from Disney films such as Beauty and the Beast and Pinocchio, to Empire of the Sun, The Goonies, Blazing Saddles, Jurassic Park, and Star Wars Celebration posters. This book not... -
Isaac Levitan by Alexei Fiodorov-Davydov
RRP: £29.95£29.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646991419Author Alexei Fiodorov-DavydovFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Parkstone Press USA, LimitedPublisher Parkstone Press USA,... -
Wayne Thiebaud: Draftsman by Isabelle Dervaux
RRP: £24.95£16.75Best known for his luscious paintings of pies and ice-cream cones, American artist Wayne Thiebaud (born 1920) has been an avid and prolific draftsman since he began his career in the 1940s as an illustrator and cartoonist. This book of about ninety... -
Van Gogh: The Life by Steven Naifeh
RRP: £30.00£21.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375758973Author Steven NaifehFormat PaperbackPage Count 976Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 1213gDimensions(mm) 231mm... -
Barron & Larcher Textile Designers by M. Silver
RRP: £30.00£19.94"A design isn't dozens of little objects, or hungry-looking rectangular windowpanes: it is something that becomes a design by repeating, giving you something that a single pattern doesn't give you. " - (Phyllis Barron, Dartington 1964) During the... -
Addams' Apple the New York Cartoons of Charles Addams by Charles Addams
RRP: £18.99£15.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780764999369Author Charles AddamsFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Pomegranate Communications Inc,USPublisher Pomegranate Communications... -
Dadaism by Dietmar Elger
RRP: £15.00£11.36Emerging amid the brutality of World War I, the revolutionary Dada movement took disgust with the establishment as its starting point. From 1916 until the mid-1920s, artists in Zurich, Cologne, Hanover, Paris, and New York launched a radical assault on...