Monographs

A lavishly illustrated biography of James Gillray, inventor of the art of political caricature James Gillray (1756-1815) was late Georgian Britain's funniest, most inventive, and most celebrated graphic satirist and continues to influence cartoonists...

This accessible volume devoted to the enigmatic artist known as Banksy showcases pivotal works from private collections grouped to reveal Banksy s key reference points and creative drives. The show features more than 100 original iconic works always...

The art of Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) is synonymous with the female nude, with the term 'Rubenesque' first coined in the 19th century to describe a voluptuous female body. Yet remarkably, there has never been a focused study of Rubens' depictions of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940842059Author John BaxterFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Museyon GuidesPublisher Museyon Guides

A deluxe large-format edition of this beautifully illustrated introduction to Katsushika Hokusai, the most prolific artist of Japan's Edo period, and master of ukiyo-e - 'images of the floating world'. Hokusai: the blue, foam-crested wave rearing above...

The first English-language collection of the titular artist, "The Art of Sachiko Kaneoya" chronicles the creator's work and themes for nearly a decade, showcasing the monstrous, the romantic, and the mortal suffering of her subjects. Inspired by anime...

A woman ahead of her time, Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) was an intrepid explorer, naturalist and scholar, as well as a magnificent artist. This lovely, impeccably designed book tells Merian's incredible life story alongside colourful reproductions of...

The first exploration of Piranesi's work as a draughtsman, published to coincide with an exhibition at the British Museum.The Venetian-born artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) is best known for his dramatic prints of the architecture and...

David Lynch is internationally renowned as a filmmaker, but it is less known that he began his creative life as a visual artist and has maintained a devoted studio practice, developing an extensive body of painting, prints, photography, and drawing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780854882960Author Lydia YeeFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Whitechapel GalleryPublisher Whitechapel GalleryWeight(grams) 1400g

"There is one kind of structure that defies the principles of both simultaneity and oscillation, and whose verticality is comparable, therefore, neither to that of the tree or the lighthouse, nor to that of the person. This is the statue." -Tim Ingold ...

World-renowned visionary artist John Harris' unique concept paintings capture the Universe on a massive scale, from epic landscapes and towering cities to vast alien vistas. This new collection focuses on his futuristic art as well as his striking book...

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882), best known and admired for his striking and seductive portraits of women, was one of the founding members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a group of artists whose work is inspired by the art of the early Italian...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807600184Author Henri MatisseFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint George Braziller IncPublisher George Braziller IncWeight(grams) 307gDimensions(mm)...

Discover the hidden stories of tarot and divination-traced through the lives and contributions of Lady Frieda Harris, Marie Anne Lenormand, Pamela Colman Smith, and Rachel Pollack-in this vividly illustrated popular history of the cards. Tarot's storied...

Comical and bizarre, Kim Jong Il Looking at Things is based upon one of the most followed, shared and imitated monothematic Tumblr blogs in recent years. Created by Joao Rocha, an art director at an advertising firm in Lisbon, the blog is a collection of...

Peter Howson has established a formidable reputation as one of his generation's leading figurative painters. Many of his paintings derive inspiration from the streets of Glasgow, where he was brought up. He is renowned for his penetrating insight into...

Delacroix's journal - fresh and unselfconsciously spontaneous - is one of art history's most important documents.Reviews'Mini-triumphs of contemporary design ... the words contained within these gem-like covers are lapidary as well.' (Times Literary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781802584363Author Harry HollandFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Bird Eye BooksPublisher Graffeg LimitedDimensions(mm) 370mm * 265mm * 20mm

This monograph on Susanna Bauer presents the artist's work to an international audience for the first time in book form. The essential ingredients of Bauer's artistic production are the ephemeral natural elements that she encounters during walks and...

Emil Nolde was one of the most important exponents of Expressionism, and is consid ered one of the main precursors of modernism. His virtuoso handling of colour and the incomparable expressiveness of his paintings, watercolours, and Unpainted...

Henri Matisse described the Chapel of the Rosary, the chief labour of his final years, as the 'gathering together' of his lifetime's work. Although widely known as 'Matisse's Chapel', the building's remarkable 'modern' design and decoration emerged from...

During the late 1970s and early 1980s, New York City was financially and socially bankrupt, but the art and music scene was flourishing. During these years, the downtown New York music scene - no wave, hip-hop, disco funk and club culture - shaped...

In 1965/66 Georg Baselitz created the monumental series "The Heroes" and "New Types", which he presented in wild colour and with defiant style. By turning his attention towards the tradition of representational painting his work formed a striking...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743201100Author Yoko OnoFormat HardbackImprint Simon & Schuster LtdPublisher Simon & Schuster Ltd

The first monograph in a generation, and the first study in English in over eighty years, this book presents a new understanding of the Renaissance master-artist Filippino Lippi. Celebrated as 'ingenious' by Vasariin 1550, Filippino was highly praised...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916041639Author Alice StricklandFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Eiderdown BooksPublisher Eiderdown Books

Exquisite Dreams is the first full account of Dorothea Tanning's art and life. Rather than only focusing on her well-known surrealist paintings, this book gives equal weight to Tanning's lesser-known but equally powerful sculptures, abstract paintings...

Through his highly subversive art Ron English (b. 1959) has bombed the global landscape with striking and often unsettling imagery. He coined the term "POPaganda" to describe his signature and darkly satirical renderings of corporate branding icons...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486282916Author J.G. HeckFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 670gDimensions(mm)...

Andy Warhol-Top of the Pops, devout Catholic, silver-wig wearer and now the star of Where's Warhol? Spot Warhol in the corridors of the Bauhaus or the Sistine Chapel as he and his famous friends pop up in 12 spectacles of art history. Expand your art...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941220436Author Makoto ShinkaiFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Vertical Inc.Publisher Vertical Inc.Weight(grams) 628g

Peter Paul Rubens was one of the most productive and exciting painters of his time, noted for his expressive, emotive and sensual paintings which are now instantly recognizable. Indeed, his voluptuous female figures have given rise to the word...

A compelling look at Doris Salcedo's works from the past fifteen years, exploring how the artist challenges not only the limits of the materials she uses but also the traditions of sculpture itself Colombian sculptor and installation artist Doris Salcedo...

A major career survey of Yayoi Kusama, one of the most widely admired and popular artists of our time, published in collaboration with M+, Hong Kong, to accompany M+'s first Special Exhibition, Yayoi Kusama: 1945 to Now, from 12 November 2022 to 14 May...

For someone who shuns the limelight so completely that he conceals his name, never shows his face and gives interviews only by email, Banksy is remarkably famous. From his beginnings as a Bristol graffiti artist, his artwork is now sold at auction for...

Gustav Stickley (1858-1942) is an iconic character and one of the most influential figures of the American Arts & Crafts movement. A self-made man whose furniture company, Craftsman Workshops, and the seminal magazine he founded in 1901, The Craftsman,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784756247896Author Hiroshi UnnoFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint PIE BooksPublisher PIE Books

This book explores the great interest that Pablo Picasso had in ceramics, which he certainly didn't consider a minor art, but a means of artistic expression in its own right, like sculpture, painting and graphics. In Vallauris, at the Madoura...

The landmark publication of C.G. Jung's The Red Book spurred enormous interest in Jung-not just as a founding figure in modern psychology but also as a creative man with tremendous figurative and ornamental flair and a vibrant eye for colour. Expanding...