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Segmented Wood Turning by William Smith
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €11.28Here is a new and exciting aspect of wood turning, similar to traditional style turning except for gaps left between each segment. Step-by-step instructions and color photographs illustrate a basic vase project that can be completed in a weekend. You... -
Magdalena Abakanowicz by Ann Coxon
RRP: €38.08Booksplease Price: €29.61Magdalena Abakanowicz (1930-2017) was a Polish artist who revolutionised the use of woven forms in art. In the mid 1960s, she transformed the modest material of sisal into monumental hanging sculptures, known as Abakans, which captivated audiences and... -
Art Deco Sculpture by Alastair Duncan
RRP: €89.25Booksplease Price: €62.27This book showcases and puts into historical context a host of sculpted works created in the 1920s and 1930s in the decorative vernacular defined loosely today as 'Art Deco'. Whether designed as free-standing statuary for the domestic market or... -
Ronald Moody: Sculpting Life by Ego Ahaiwe Sowinski 9780500027035
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €25.41The first major monograph on sculptor Ronald Moody, exploring his legacy and impact through his key artistic relationships, networks and influences, and his relationship with nature, humanity and spirituality. Ronald Moody (1900-1984) was a leading... -
Noah Davis: In Detail Helen Molesworth 9781644230763
RRP: €77.35Booksplease Price: €51.86Designed as a companion to the hugely successful monograph Noah Davis, this volume offers further insight into the impact and legacy of the revolutionary Los Angeles artist and activist. ---------- "Embedding his dreams on canvas and in the community,... -
Anish Kapoor: Past, Present, Future by Nicholas Baume
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €9.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262026598Author Nicholas BaumeFormat HardbackPage Count 143Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 241mm * 165mm * 13mm -
Burning Man: Art on Fire: Revised and Updated Edition Jennifer Raiser 9780760379837
RRP: €38.08Booksplease Price: €26.55Revel in the power of human creativity with this completely revised and expanded edition of Burning Man: Art on Fire, illustrated with over 250 gorgeous color photos. For one week a year, a remote desert lakebed in Nevada becomes Black Rock City, the... -
Public Sculpture of Sussex by Jill Seddon 9781781381250
RRP: €104.13Booksplease Price: €18.94This is the seventeenth volume in the series the Public Sculpture of Britain, part of the PMSA National Recording Project, which will eventually cover the whole of the country. The introduction considers the ways in which the rural and urban landscapes... -
Stone Talks by Alyson Hallett 9781911193555
Booksplease Price: €15.60Stone Talks brings together poems and four talks/essays by noted poet Alyson Hallett on the subject of stones, rocks, somatics and our relationship with our environment. The book invites us to listen again to the world around us - the world of rocks and... -
Rome Through the Mist: Walks Among the Fountains of the Eternal City Joe Gartman 9781476689241
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €15.59Join Joe Gartman, culture columnist for Italia! Magazine, on a journey among 80 of Rome's celebrated fountains, and find a more intimate way of experiencing the Eternal City. On foot with book in hand, or simply in imagination, each chapter takes... -
Gego: Measuring Infinity by Gertrud Goldschmidt
RRP: €66.64Booksplease Price: €46.97Gego infused her art with architecture and engineering to create unique works of delicate suspense Accompanying the first major museum retrospective exhibition of Gego's work in the US in more than 15 years, this expansive, definitive catalog charts... -
Giacometti: A Biography James Lord 9781857995015
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.89The definitive biography of a fascinating and enigmatic figure'Succeeds in every way as one of the most readable, fascinating and informative documents, not just on an artist, but on art and artists in general' WASHINGTON TIMES'The most moving biography... -
Everything is Relevant: Writings on Art and Life, 1991-2018 by Ken Lum
RRP: €69.02Booksplease Price: €58.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781988111001Author Ken LumFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Concordia UniversityPublisher Concordia University -
Making Mobiles by Bruce Cana Fox
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €11.28When observing an especially beautiful mobile, beginning artists often think, "Wow, I want to make one like THAT!" If you have stood under a mobile by Alexander Calder and entertained such thoughts, this book will help you "make one like that." This... -
Ballynahatty: Excavations in a Neolithic Monumental Landscape by Barrie Hartwell
RRP: €69.02Booksplease Price: €64.09Just six miles from the center of Belfast, County Down, on the plateau of Ballynahatty above the River Lagan, is one of Ireland's great Neolithic henge monuments: the 200 m wide Giant's Ring. For over a thousand years, this area was the focus of intense... -
Modelling and Sculpting the Figure by Tanya Russell
RRP: €27.36Booksplease Price: €21.54An essential guide to the creative process for sculpting the figure. The human figure in sculpture is a powerful form, capable of great expression and depth. Sculpting the figure in any medium is a rewarding practice, but one that can lead to some... -
Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Water Projects by Germano Celant
RRP: €35.64Booksplease Price: €25.98This catalogue includes Christo and Jeanne-Claude's realised and unrealised large-scale projects from 1961 to 2016. Besides the famous wrapped monuments, from the Kunsthalle in Bern (1967-1968) to the Reichstag in Berlin (1971-1995), the publication also... -
The Art Of The Brick by Nathan Sawaya
RRP: €45.21Booksplease Price: €32.00Nathan Sawaya is renowned for his incredible, sometimes surreal, sculptures and portraits all made from LEGO bricks. The Art of the Brick is a stunning, full-color showcase of the work that has made Sawaya the world s most famous LEGO artist. Featuring... -
Three Dimensional Textile Art in Mixed Media by Ann Goddard
RRP: €27.31Booksplease Price: €21.50Fresh ideas and techniques for the rapidly evolving area of three-dimensional textiles. Leading textile artist Ann Goddard takes three-dimensional textiles to a new level in this practical book. Drawing inspiration from natural landscapes, organic... -
Isa Genzken: Fuck the Bauhaus by Andre Rottman 9781846382536
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €15.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846382536Author Andre RottmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Afterall PublishingPublisher Afterall Publishing -
Sevres Extraordinaire!: Sculpture from 1740 Until Today Tamara Preaud 9780300278750
RRP: €71.40Booksplease Price: €61.68A comprehensive, in-depth examination of nearly three centuries of sculptural production from France's famous Sevres Porcelain Manufactory Sevres Extraordinaire! brings to light the production of sculpture at Sevres over the 280 years of the... -
Louise Bourgeois, Freud's Daughter Philip Larratt-Smith 9780300247244
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €41.54An exploration of the art and writing of Louise Bourgeois through the lens of her relationship with Freudian psychoanalysis From 1952 to 1985, Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) underwent extensive Freudian analysis that probed her family history, marriage,... -
Rodin Francois Blanchetiere 9783836555043
RRP: €17.85Booksplease Price: €15.36While anchoring his practice in the traditions of antiquity and the Renaissance, Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) paved the way for modern sculpture. From a very early stage, he was interested in movement, the expression of the body, chance effects, and the... -
Born in India Made in England: Autobiography of a Painter by Balraj Khanna 9781916495746
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €28.25Balraj Khanna witnessed as a child in the Punjab, the cataclysmic Partition of India in 1947, when Hindus and Muslims who had lived peacefully together for generations, succumbed to blood-soaked enmity. At school and university a love of English language... -
Art of the Flower, The : A Photographic Collection of Iconic Floral Installations by Celebrity Florist Jeff Leatham by Jeff Leatham
RRP: €49.98Booksplease Price: €33.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681889238Author Jeff LeathamFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Weldon OwenPublisher Weldon Owen -
Gordon Matta-Clark Lorenzo Fusi 9788836611706
RRP: €31.54Booksplease Price: €21.71Covers the brief but groundbreaking career of the self-proclaimed 'anarchitect' Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-1978), one of the most influential American artists of the 1970s. The immense ambition and scale of Gordon Matta-Clark's projects, and their... -
Alberto Giacometti: A Biography by Catherine Grenier
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €25.41Apologies 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 -
Auguste Rodin Rainer Maria Rilke 9781843680314
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.87Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) was already an old man when the young poet Rainer Maria Rilke went to interview him for the first time. Rilke stayed on to work as Rodin's secretary. Intensely sensitive to art, and in particular to the irreducible power of... -
What is it that will last?: Land and tidal art of Julie Brook by Julie Brook
RRP: €47.54Booksplease Price: €37.59This publication offers a rich and expansive visual record of Julie Brook's artistic practice, and proposes a unique collaboration between Brook and distinct voices from the nature writing and craftsmanship traditions. Situating Brook's practice in the... -
Dreher Carvings: Gemstone Animals from Idar-Oberstein Wilhelm Lindemann 9783897905078
RRP: €64.26Booksplease Price: €42.45Engravers Gerd and Patrick Dreher are famous the world over for their masterly animal figures, each of which is cut from a single gemstone. In the early twentieth century, grandfather, great-grandfather and great-great-grandfather all cut gemstones for... -
Bronze Casting Manual: How to Cast a Small Bronze Sculpture by Yourself by Olivier Duhamel 9781451584752
Booksplease Price: €38.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451584752Author Olivier DuhamelFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint CreateSpacePublisher CreateSpace -
Ruth Asawa: Life's Work by Tamara Schenkenberg
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €37.63"Doing is living. That is all that matters."-Ruth Asawa Throughout her long and prolific career American artist Ruth Asawa (1926-2013) developed innovative sculptures in wire, a medium she explored through increasingly complex forms using craft-based... -
Christo and Jeanne-Claude. L'Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped by Lorenza Giovanelli
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €23.231961, three years after meeting Jeanne-Claude in Paris, Christo made a study of a mammoth project that would wrap one of the city's most emblematic monuments. 60 years, 25,000 square meters of recyclable fabric, and 3,000 meters of rope later, the... -
The Professional Approach to Sculpting the Human Figure by Andrew Sinclair 9781398455863
RRP: €48.78Booksplease Price: €35.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398455863Author Andrew SinclairFormat PaperbackPage Count 354Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers -
Egyptomaniacs: How We Became Obsessed with Ancient Epypt by Nicky Nielsen 9781526754011
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €17.68The Greek historian Hecataeus of Abdera declared during the 4th century BCE that the Egyptian civilization was unsurpassed in the arts and in good governance, surpassing even that of the Greeks. During the Renaissance, several ecclesiastical nobles,... -
Beautiful Lego by Mike Doyle
RRP: €34.50Booksplease Price: €24.66Mix hundreds of thousands of LEGO bricks with dozens of artists, and what do you get? Beautiful LEGO, a compendium of LEGO artwork that showcases a stunning array of pieces ranging from incredibly lifelike replicas of everyday objects and famous... -
The Conservation of Medieval Polychrome Wood Sculpture - History, Theory, Practice Michele D. Marincola 9781606066553
RRP: €71.40Booksplease Price: €61.39Medieval polychrome wood sculptures are highly complex objects, bearers of histories that begin with their original carving and adornment and continue through long centuries of repainting, deterioration, restoration, and conservation. Abundantly... -
Hellenistic Sculpture: A Handbook by R.R.R. Smith 9780500202494
RRP: €26.12Booksplease Price: €21.50The exuberant realism and virtuoso technique of Hellenistic sculpture formed the basis of European art. Under Alexander and his cosmopolitan successors, sculptors enriched the classical Greek repertoire with a whole range of new subjects -... -
Robert Rauschenberg Carolyn Lanchner 9780870707674
RRP: €8.27Booksplease Price: €6.64Jackson Pollock, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns each made a tremendous impact on modern art in the 20th century. As pioneers of revolutionary movements such as Abstract Expressionism and Pop art, they are key figures in the... -
Bill Brandt Henry Moore by Martina Droth
RRP: €59.50Booksplease Price: €54.72A close look at the work, relationship, and shared influences of two masterful 20th-century artists "The camera," said Orson Welles, "is a medium via which messages reach us from another world." It was the camera and the circumstances of the Second World...