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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... -
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... -
Dime-Store Alchemy by Charles Simic
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)... -
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)... -
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 -
Kyffin Williams: The Light and The Dark by Rian Evans 9781848222403
RRP: £40.00£31.34In Kyffin Williams' centenary year, this monograph examines the life and work of an artist who, over six decades from Slade student to Royal Academician to knighthood, achieved both success and remarkable popular appeal.Best known for his rendering of... -
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... -
Glorious Freedom: Older Women Leading Extraordinary Lives by Lisa Congdon
RRP: £14.99£10.32The 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... -
The British Surrealists by Desmond Morris
RRP: £25.00£18.02The lives, loves and works of key British Surrealists revealed by one of the last surviving members of this movement, bestselling author and artist Desmond Morris. Feted for their idiosyncratic and imaginative works, the surrealists marked a pivotal... -
Guernica: The Biography of a Twentieth-century Icon by Gijs van Hensbergen 9780747568735
RRP: £18.99£13.61Of all the great paintings in the world, Picasso's Guernica has had a more direct impact on our consciousness than perhaps any other. In this absorbing and revealing book, Gijs van Hensbergen tells the story of this masterpiece. Starting with its origin... -
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... -
Art of Rock: Posters from Presley to Punk: Tiny Folio by Paul Grushkin 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... -
Warbirds: The Aviation Art of Adam Tooby by Adam Tooby
RRP: £29.99£22.54Adam Tooby is a rising star in the field of aviation art. His work currently graces the new range of Airfix model boxes, as well as covers for military aviation books. Moving away from traditional approaches to the subject matter, he uses computer... -
Louis Comfort Tiffany Masterpieces of Art by Susie Hodge
RRP: £12.99£9.00Louis 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 by M. 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... -
Michelangelo: The Complete Sculpture, Painting, Architecture by William E. Wallace
RRP: £40.00£30.79With an engaging text by renowned Michelangelo scholar William E. Wallace, Michelangelo: The Complete Sculpture, Painting, Architecture brings together in one exquisite volume the powerful sculptures, the awe-inspiring paintings, and the classical... -
Van Gogh: in 50 works by John Cauman
RRP: £20.00£14.34A captivating and highly illustrated introduction to Vincent Van Gogh, told through 50 major works. This new book presents all you need to know about Vincent Van Gogh's turbulent and prolific creative life, featuring... -
Eric Ravilious: Imagined Realities by Alan Powers 9781781300015
RRP: £25.00£18.89A 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... -
Citizen Warhol by Blake Stimson 9781780231921
£37.40More than any other figure throughout art's long history, Andy Warhol has attracted fans, aficionados, enthusiasts, experts, critics, art historians, philosophers and many thoughtful others who have not just reported on the details of his life's work but... -
Georgia O'Keeffe and New Mexico: A Sense of Place by Barbara Buhler Lynes 9780691116594
RRP: £40.00£32.37When Georgia O'Keeffe first visited New Mexico in 1917, she was instantly drawn to the stark beauty of its unusual architectural and landscape forms. In 1929, she began spending part of almost every year painting there, first in Taos, and subsequently in... -
Tintoretto: Tradition and Identity by Tom Nichols
RRP: £30.00£28.94The 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... -
Grinling Gibbons and the Art of Carving by David Esterly 9781838510299
RRP: £35.00£27.32'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... -
Raymond Briggs by Nicolette Jones 9780500022184
RRP: £19.99£13.35Raymond Briggs has changed the face of children's picture books, with his innovations of both form and subject. Stylistically versatile, he has illustrated some sixty books, twenty of them with his own text, and first became a household name in the late... -
Dance Vision: Dance Through the Eyes of Today's Artists by Joshua Teal
RRP: £25.00£16.77A breathtaking collection of contemporary photography, sculpture, illustration, and design that celebrates the world of danceThere's no question that humans have been fascinated by movement and dance for as long as we've been creating art, from... -
You Must Change Your Life: The Story of Rainer Maria Rilke and Auguste Rodin by Rachel Corbett 9780393354928
RRP: £13.99£12.25In Paris in 1902, Auguste Rodin had just completed The Thinker; visiting from Prague was Rainer Maria Rilke, broke and with writer's block. When Rilke was commissioned to write a book about Rodin, everything changed. You Must Change Your Life tells one... -
Van Gogh's Finale: Auvers and the artist's rise to fame by Martin Bailey
RRP: £25.00£17.38A captivating and definitive account of the final days of Van Gogh's life and the incredible story of what followed. Divided into three parts, the book first examines the eventful days from the artists' departure from the asylum in Saint-Remy and arrival... -
Strangest Genius: The Stained Glass of Harry Clarke by Lucy Costigan 9781845889715
RRP: £60.00£44.94Harry Clarke (1889-1931) was undoubtedly Ireland's greatest stained-glass artist. Internationally, his name is synonymous with quality craftsmanship and imaginative genius. The use of rich colours, the delicate depiction of beautiful elongated figures... -
Women Artists by Flavia Frigeri
RRP: £12.99£8.60Focusing on fifty diverse women artists, from Lavinia Fontana and Artemisia Gentileschi through Judy Chicago, Ana Mendieta and the Guerrilla Girls to Barbara Kruger, Cindy Sherman and Louise Bourgeois, this book equips the reader with a general... -
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... -
Soldiers and Suffragettes: The Photography of Christina Broom by Anna Sparham
RRP: £20.00£15.98Essays 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... -
The Life of Alfred Wallis by Molly Russon
RRP: £10.00£6.85This 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... -
Math and the Mona Lisa: The Art and Science of Leonardo Da Vinci by Bulent Atalay 9781588344939
RRP: £13.99£11.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781588344939Author Bulent AtalayFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Smithsonian BooksPublisher Smithsonian BooksWeight(grams) 1g -
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... -
Dali. The Paintings by Robert Descharnes 9783836576246
£50.59At the age of six, Salvador Dali (1904-1989) wanted to be a cook. At the age of seven, he wanted to be Napoleon. "Since then," he later said, "my ambition has steadily grown, and my megalomania with it. Now I want only to be Salvador Dali, I have no... -
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... -
Monet Cookbook: Recipes from Giverny by Florence Gentner 9783791382883
RRP: £27.50£27.34It'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... -
The Art of Curiosity: 50 Visionary Artists, Scientists, Poets, Makers & Dreamers Who Are Changing the Way We See Our World by Exploratorium 9781681889993
RRP: £35.00£22.22Fifty of the world's most creative people share their stories, their inspirations, and their unique takes on science and education, all inspired by the Exploratorium science museum.What do music visionary Brian Eno, kinetic sculptor Theo Jansen, science... -
The Collected Toppi vol.4: The Cradle of Life by Sergio Toppi
RRP: £22.99£16.17The fourth volume contains five tales of folklore set in colonial-era Africa, Australia, and the South Pacific, presented in English for the first time since their groundbreaking debut in the 1970s and 1980s. Included are THE KOKOMBO DOSSIER, BWUMA MY... -
Henri Matisse. Cut-outs. 40th Ed. by Xavier-Gilles Neret
RRP: £25.00£16.47Toward the end of his monumental career as a painter, sculptor, and lithographer, an elderly, sickly Matisse was unable to stand and use a paintbrush for long. In this late phase of his life-he was almost 80 years of age-he developed the technique of...