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William Hogarth: A Life and a World by Jenny Uglow
RRP: £20.00£14.46William Hogarth is a house-hold name across the country, his prints hang in our pubs and leap out from our history-books. He painted the great and good but also the common people. His art is comically exuberant, 'carried away by a passion for the... -
The Painted House of Maud Lewis: Conserving a Folk Art Treasure by Laurie Hamilton 9780864923349
RRP: £15.99£10.48For many years, Maud Lewis was one of Nova Scotia's best-loved folk painters. In the 1990s she was embraced by the rest of the country when the landmark exhibition of her work The Illuminated Life of Maud Lewis travelled across Canada. By the time the... -
S, M, L, Xl by Rem Koolhaas
RRP: £69.95£54.16S,M,L,XL presents a selection of the remarkable visionary design work produced by the Dutch firm Office for Metropolitan Architecture (O.M.A.) and its acclaimed founder, Rem Koolhaas, in its first twenty years, along with a variety of insightful, often... -
Forty Names by Parwana Fayyaz 9781800171077
RRP: £10.99£7.64A New Statesman Book of the Year 2021. A White Review Book of the Year 2021. In this remarkable first collection, Parwana Fayyaz evokes events in the lives of Afghan women, past and present - their endurance and achievements, told from their points... -
John Armstrong: The Complete Paintings by Andrew Lambirth
RRP: £50.00£39.28A 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... -
Chardin by Gabriel Naughton 9780714833361 [USED COPY]
RRP: £6.95£2.65Jean Simeon Chardin (1699-1779) was arguably the most talented French painter of the eighteenth century, best known for his original still lifes. Composed of simple, everyday objects, these works glow with warmth and magic, from the dull iron of the... -
Chardin by Gabriel Naughton
RRP: £6.95£5.84Jean Simeon Chardin (1699-1779) was arguably the most talented French painter of the eighteenth century, best known for his original still lifes. Composed of simple, everyday objects, these works glow with warmth and magic, from the dull iron of the... -
Modigliani by Douglas Hall 9780714827582 [USED COPY]
RRP: £6.95£2.65Amadeo Modigliani (1884-1920) was one of the many and diverse talents who were drawn to Paris in the early years of this century, making the city a vibrant but pressurized environment for artistic expression. A legend grew up around Modigliani, who,... -
Constable by John Sunderland 9780714827544 [USED COPY]
RRP: £6.95£2.29No artist has rivalled John Constable (1776-1837) in his powers to express the beauties of the British countryside, especially the scenery of his native East Anglia. He sought above all to make 'pure and unaffected representations of the scenes', and to... -
The Art of Rock: Posters from Presley to Punk Abbeville Press 9780789206114
RRP: £9.99£6.80From the 1950s through today, here is the - complete - visual history of the rock concert poster: the funkiest bills advertising Elvis, B.B. King, and Howlin' Wolf; the multicoloured psychedelic hallucinations promoting the Grateful Dead, Dylan, and the... -
Cornelia Parker by Andrea Schlieker 9781849767866
RRP: £30.00£21.35Cornelia Parker's art is about destruction, resurrection and transformation. Always driven by curiosity, she reconfigures familiar objects to question our relationship with the world, and engage with the important issues of our time, be it violence,... -
Isaac Levitan by Alexei Fiodorov-Davydov
£30.18Apologies 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,... -
Ai Weiwei Speaks: with Hans Ulrich Obrist by Hans-Ulrich Obrist
RRP: £12.99£9.09A new edition of conversations between the artist Ai Wei Wei and curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, coming up to the present dayAi Weiwei - artist, architect, curator, publisher, poet and urbanist - extended the notion of art and is one of the world's most... -
Dime-Store Alchemy Charles Simic 9781590174869
RRP: £17.99£12.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590174869Author Charles SimicFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
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... -
The Glorious Nosebleed: Fifth Alphabet by Edward Gorey
RRP: £16.95£9.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781087505978Author Edward GoreyFormat HardbackPage Count 56Imprint Pomegranate CommunicationsPublisher Pomegranate CommunicationsWeight(grams)... -
Self-Portrait by Celia Paul
RRP: £25.00£18.02I'm not a portrait painter. If I'm anything, I have always been an autobiographer.Self-Portrait reveals a life truly lived through art. In this short, intimate memoir, Celia Paul moves effortlessly through time in words and images, folding in her past... -
Manet and Modern Beauty - The Artist's Last Years by Scott Allan 9781606066041
RRP: £55.00£48.09The name Manet often evokes the provocative, heroically scaled pictures he painted in the 1860s for the Salon, but in the late 1870s and early 1880s the artist produced quite a different body of work: stylish portraits of actresses and demimondaines,... -
Richard Estes: Phaidon Focus by Linda Chase
RRP: £14.95£11.90The perfect introduction to the life and work of Richard EstesAbout the AuthorLinda Chase is a noted author and curator, whose writings on Photorealism have helped define the movement. Her first interview with Richard Estes was published in 1972 in Art... -
The Seven Lives Of Alejandro Jodorowsky by Vincent Berniere 9781643375946
RRP: £29.99£20.73A definitive look at the life of legendary filmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky and his many wild creative ventures throughout his 90 years on earth.A journey through Jodo's personal life, his life in the theater, his rebirth as a 70s cinematic cult figure and... -
Lucie Rie by Tony Birks 9781840334487
RRP: £40.00£36.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840334487Author Tony BirksFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 280mm * 222mm * 20mm -
Ernst Haeckel: Art Forms in Nature: 22 Pull-Out Posters by ,Ernst Haeckel
RRP: £19.99£14.28Perfect for display or close observation, the posters in this elegantly produced collection of Ernst Haeckel's exquisite illustrations of natural forms demonstrate his exceptional artistry. Biologist, physician, philosopher, and artist, Ernst Haeckel was... -
Gus Wagner: Globe Trotter and Hand Tattoo Artist by Alan Govenar 9780764367281
RRP: £31.99£20.40A visual history of the life of Augustus "Gus" Wagner and his work as a hand tattoo artist, exploring a relatively unknown area of American art history from the 1890s to the 1930s. In 1897, Gus embarked on a four-year career as a merchant seaman... -
Glorious Freedom: Older Women Leading Extraordinary Lives by Lisa Congdon
RRP: £14.99£10.58The glory of growing older is the freedom to be more truly ourselves-with age we gain the liberty to pursue bold new endeavors and worry less about what other people think. In this richly illustrated volume, bestselling author and artist Lisa Congdon... -
Euan Uglow: The Complete Paintings by Catherine Lampert 9780300123494
RRP: £95.00£81.20British artist Euan Uglow (1932-2000) maintained a lower profile than others of his generation, yet his beautiful, intelligent, humane, and often witty landscapes, still lifes, and figure studies are today gaining the recognition they so clearly deserve... -
Hopper by Rolf G. Renner
RRP: £15.00£11.36Edward Hopper (1882-1967) is something of an American success story, if only his success had come swifter. At the age of 40, he was a failing artist who struggled to sell a single painting. As he approached 80, Time magazine featured him on its cover... -
The Disasters of War by Francisco Jose de Goya
RRP: £14.49£11.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486218724Author Francisco Jose De GoyaFormat PaperbackPage Count 97Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: With Artwork by Yayoi Kusama by Lewis Carroll
RRP: £30.00£22.34Since childhood, Kusama has been afflicted with a condition that makes her see spots, which means she sees the world in a surreal, almost hallucinogenic way that sits very well with the Wonderland of Alice. She is fascinated by childhood and the way... -
Louis Comfort Tiffany Masterpieces of Art Susie Hodge 9781783611409
RRP: £12.99£9.32Louis Comfort 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 textures, he created a stunning range of... -
Leonardo Da Vinci: The 100 Milestones Martin Kemp 9781454930426
RRP: £25.00£17.38To commemorate the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci's death, world-renowned da Vinci expert Martin Kemp explores 100 of the master's milestones in art, science, engineering, architecture, anatomy, and more. Leonardo da Vinci was born in the small... -
Eric Ravilious: Imagined Realities by Alan Powers 9781781300015
RRP: £25.00£19.28A collection of illustrations showcasing many previously unpublished paintings of the artist Eric Ravilious. Eric Ravilious (1903-1942) is now firmly one of the most popular artists of his period. He was a painter of watercolours and murals, a book... -
Grinling Gibbons and the Art of Carving by David Esterly 9781838510299
RRP: £35.00£27.82'David Esterly's handsome book on Gibbons has been republished by the V&A with sumptuous pictures' Laura Freeman, The Times, 14th August 2021 Reissued to mark 300 years since the death of Grinling Gibbons (1648-1721), this study views the work of the... -
Tintoretto: Tradition and Identity by Tom Nichols
RRP: £30.00£29.49The Venetian painter Jacopo Tintoretto (1518-1594) is an ambiguous figure in the history of art. Critics and writers such as Vasari, Ruskin and Sartre all placed him in opposition to the established artistic practice of his time, noting that he had... -
James Rosenquist: Collages, Drawings, and Paintings in Process James Rosenquist 9780691263281
RRP: £30.00£21.82A beautifully illustrated and designed book of the important Pop artist’s previously unpublished working studiesThis book sheds new light on the fascinating working processes of American Pop artist James Rosenquist. Using the techniques of billboard... -
Vermeer's Camera: Uncovering the Truth Behind the Masterpieces by Philip Steadman
RRP: £16.99£12.28Over 100 years of speculation and controversy surround claims that the great seventeenth-century Dutch artist, Johannes Vermeer, used the camera obscura to create some of the most famous images in Western art. This intellectual detective story starts... -
A Sparrow's Life's as Sweet as Ours by Carry Akroyd
RRP: £20.00£14.69A Sparrow's Life's as Sweet as Ours is a collection based on the Bird of the Month column in The Oldie, which is written by an instigator of the magazine, John McEwen and illustrated by renowned wildlife artist Carry Akroyd. In this beautiful new... -
Gerhard Richter: Panorama - revised by Nicholas Serota
RRP: £35.00£25.89Gerhard Richter is widely regarded as one of the most important painters at work today. He is as well known for his figurative works as he is for his abstract paintings, often combining elements of both in ground-breaking ways. Gerhard Richter: Panorama... -
The Life of Alfred Wallis by Molly Russon
RRP: £10.00£7.06This is the story of Cornish fisherman-turned-artist Alfred Wallis, whose paintings of boats from his past inspired the future of British modern art. Told from Wallis' perspective - inspired by his crudely written letters to Jim Ede - this book takes the... -
Soldiers and Suffragettes: The Photography of Christina Broom by Anna Sparham
RRP: £20.00£16.32Essays from four women who have engaged closely with Christina Broom's work explore and contextualise her imagery to reveal the compelling story of the women behind the lens. In 1903 a self-taught novice photographer, Christina Broom, turned to... -
Matisse: In 50 works by John Cauman
RRP: £20.00£13.86This enthralling and comprehensive new book on Henri Matisse is an eye-opener for all students and art lovers interested in early twentieth-century art. Taking fifty of Matisse's most iconic works of art, John Cauman provides an accessible narrative...