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Boy in a China Shop: Life, Clay and Everything by Keith Brymer Jones 9781529385250
RRP: £10.99£7.30'During downtime on the pottery throwdown Keith made my hair curl with some of his tales - he's a great raconteur and recounts his story in this book as he does in real life - with joy, charm & mischief.' - Sara Cox'Fans of Throw Down will enjoy this... -
Down Below by Leonora Carrington
RRP: £9.99£6.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681370606Author Leonora CarringtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books,... -
Ithell Colquhoun: Genius of The Fern Loved Gully by Amy Hale
RRP: £23.00£15.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907222863Author Amy HaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Strange Attractor PressPublisher Strange Attractor Press -
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... -
The Girl in the Green Jumper: My Life with the Artist Cyril Mann by Renske Mann
RRP: £30.00£19.18When it comes to deciding the most tragic British artist of the 20th century, Cyril Mann (1911-80) must be a contender. Mann made a number of genuinely innovative breakthroughs and certainly had the potential to become one of the most important... -
Ways of Life: Jim Ede and the Kettle's Yard Artists by Laura Freeman
RRP: £30.00£21.95This first biography of the Kettle's Yard artists reveals the life of a visionary who helped shape twentieth-century British art and explores a thrilling moment in the history of modernism'The beautiful, revelatory biography we have been waiting for. I... -
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone by Olivia Laing
RRP: £10.99£7.57SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZEChosen as 'BOOK OF THE YEAR' by Observer, Guardian, Telegraph, Irish Times, New Statesman, Times Literary Supplement, HeraldWhen Olivia Laing moved to New York City in her mid-thirties, she found herself inhabiting... -
The Vanishing Man: In Pursuit of Velazquez by Laura Cumming
RRP: £12.99£9.34WINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK BIOGRAPHY PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONSelected as a Book of the Year in the Herald In 1845, a Reading bookseller named John Snare came across the... -
Monet: The Restless Vision by Jackie Wullschläger 9780241188309
RRP: £35.00£24.69The Art Book of the Year, The TimesA Telegraph, Sunday Times, Financial Times, Economist, Tablet and Evening Standard Book of the YearA magnificent new biography of the founder of ImpressionismIn the course of a long and exceptionally creative life,... -
It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War by Lynsey Addario
RRP: £13.99£9.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143128410Author Lynsey AddarioFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Daniel Cottier - Designer, Decorator, Dealer by Petra Ten-doess Chu
RRP: £40.00£35.16The story of an innovative designer and farsighted art entrepreneur and the important role he played in the dissemination of 19th-century Aestheticism This book follows the phenomenal rise of Daniel Cottier (1838-1891) from an apprentice coach painter in... -
Grayson Perry: Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Girl by Perry Grayson
RRP: £9.99£7.36Every inch of Grayson's childhood bedroom was covered with pictures of aeroplanes, and every surface with models. Fantasy took over his life, in a world of battles ruled by his teddy bear, Alan Measles. He grew up. And in 2003, an acclaimed ceramic... -
Leonardo's Notebooks: Writing and Art of the Great Master by H. Anna Suh
RRP: £17.99£14.20Leonardo's Notebooks is a biography of the genius in his own words, connecting moments of his life to artistic accomplishments through his writings, drawings, and intimate thoughts.Leonardo da Vinci -- artist, inventor, and prototypical Renaissance man... -
Letters to Gwen John by Celia Paul
RRP: £18.99£14.01A unique combination of memoir and artistic biography, interspersed with original artworks, from the acclaimed artist and author of SELF-PORTRAIT.We are both painters. We can connect to each other through images, in our own unvoiced language. But I will... -
Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston (new edition) by Musa Mayer
RRP: £40.00£27.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783906915753Author Musa MayerFormat PaperbackPage Count 372Imprint Hauser & WirthPublisher Hauser & WirthWeight(grams) 866g -
John Craxton: A Life of Gifts by Ian Collins 9780300255294
RRP: £25.00£21.30Uplifting and engaging, this story recounts the life and career of a rebellious 20th-century British artist Born into a large, musical, and bohemian family in London, the British artist John Craxton (1922-2009) has been described as a Neo-Romantic, but... -
Brunel: The Man Who Built the World by Dan Cruickshank
RRP: £9.99£6.73A celebration of the life and engineering achievements of Isambard Kingdom Brunel by two of the world's foremost authorities.In his lifetime, Isambard Kingdom Brunel towered over his profession. Today, he remains the most famous engineer in history, the... -
Frida Kahlo by Hettie Judah
RRP: £12.99£8.60Step into the world of Frida Kahlo: behind the portraits and the surrealist art discover the fascinating woman who has transfixed the world.Fridamania has made Frida Kahlo's image ubiquitous: she has been reborn as a Halloween costume, Barbie doll,... -
See What You're Missing: 31 Ways Artists Notice the World – and How You Can Too by Will Gompertz
RRP: £20.00£14.29The internationally bestselling author on how art can help us appreciate life in all its strange and exhilarating beautyArtists have learnt to pay attention. The rest of us spend most of our time on autopilot, rushing from place to place, our... -
Daily Rituals: How Great Minds Make Time, Find Inspiration, and Get to Work by Mason Currey
RRP: £12.99£9.03'Utterly fascinating' Daisy Goodwin, Sunday TimesBenjamin Franklin took daily naked air baths and Toulouse-Lautrec painted in brothels. Edith Sitwell worked in bed, and George Gershwin composed at the piano in pyjamas. Freud worked sixteen hours a day,... -
Life With Picasso by Francoise Gilot
RRP: £12.99£9.34Francoise Gilot was a young painter in Pasis when she first met Picasso - he was sixty-two and she was twenty-one. During the following ten years they were lovers, worked closely together and she became mother to two of his children, Claude and Paloma... -
The Last Days of John Lennon by James Patterson
RRP: £7.99£6.04'Incredibly tense and thriller-like . . . I totally recommend it' LEE CHILDThe greatest true-crime story in music history.A GLOBAL SUPERSTARIn the summer of 1980, ten years after the break-up of the Beatles, John Lennon signed with a new label, ready to... -
Behind the Crown: My Life Photographing the Royal Family by Arthur Edwards
RRP: £25.00£17.43For 45 years I've chronicled the Royal Family for the Sun newspaper with my camera. I've witnessed their triumphs and disasters, their laughter and tears, when they've found love and when their relationships splinter. I'm there when they emerge from the... -
Charleston: A Bloomsbury House & Garden by Quentin Bell
RRP: £19.99£12.95The newly revised and updated Charleston: A Bloomsbury House & Garden is the definitive publication on the Bloomsbury Group's rural outpost in the heart of the Sussex Downs. "It's absolutely perfect...", wrote the artist Vanessa Bell when she moved to... -
The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh by Vincent Van Gogh
RRP: £12.99£9.34A new selection of post-impressionist painter Vincent Van Gough's letters, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh put a human face on one of the most haunting figures in modern Western culture. In this Penguin Classics edition, the letters are selected and... -
The Lives of the Artists by Giorgio Vasari 9780199537198
RRP: £10.99£8.02Packed with facts, attributions, and entertaining anecdotes about his contemporaries, Vasari's collection of biographical accounts also presents a highly influential theory of the development of Renaissance art. Beginning with Cimabue and Giotto, who... -
Walk Through Walls: A Memoir by Marina Abramovic 9780241974520
RRP: £10.99£8.02'Her bravest work of performance art to date . . . Rawly intimate' ObserverThis memoir spans Marina Abramovic's five decade career, and tells a life story that is almost as exhilarating and extraordinary as her groundbreaking performance art. Taking us... -
Dior by Dior: The autobiography of Christian Dior by Christian Dior
RRP: £9.99£7.00Christian Dior (1905-1957) rocketed to fame with his first collection in 1947 when the "New Look" took the world by storm. This charming and modest autobiography gives a fascinating and detailed insight into the workings of a great fashion house, while... -
Francis Bacon: Revelations by Mark Stevens
RRP: £20.00£14.34The Times Art Book of the Year 2021 FINALIST FOR THE PLUTARCH AWARD 2022 'Must surely be the definitive life of Francis Bacon ... A biography that no Bacon fan - or indeed foe - can afford to overlook ... Mesmerising'... -
The Upside-Down World: Meetings with the Dutch Masters by Benjamin Moser 9780241586457
RRP: £30.00£21.35The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer turns his eye to the seventeenth-century Dutch Golden Age Twenty years ago, Benjamin Moser followed a love affair to an ancient Dutch town. In order to make sense of this new place, he threw himself into the Dutch... -
Women's Work: From feminine arts to Feminist Art by Ferren Gipson
RRP: £25.00£16.87This powerful and insightful work offers a bold celebration of the innovative, brilliant artists reclaiming the idea of 'women's work'. In the history of western art, decorative and applied arts - including textiles and ceramics - have been separated... -
Christopher Nolan: The Iconic Filmmaker and his work by Ian Nathan
RRP: £28.00£19.84This comprehensive and in-depth study delves into the life and works of one of modern films most celebrated, successful and intriguing auteurs, Christopher Nolan.'What is the most resilient parasite? Bacteria? A virus? An intestinal worm? An idea... -
Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring by Brad Gooch 9780062698261
RRP: £30.00£21.35"It's all here: the grade school Walt Disney and Dr. Seuss; the adolescent acid trips; the fondness for Post-it notes and flying saucers; the long tails of Dubuffet and Burroughs; the encounters with Madonna, Warhol, and one game-changer of a subway... -
The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination by Fiona MacCarthy
RRP: £25.00£17.59Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, this is the biography of celebrated nineteenth-century artist Edward Burne-Jones, who - with William Morris - connects Victorian and modern art.'A triumph of biographical art.' Independent'Magnificent.'... -
Aleister Crowley in Paris: Sex, Art, and Magick in the City of Light by Tobias Churton
RRP: £26.00£16.83Exploring occultist, magician, poet, painter, and writer Aleister Crowley's longstanding and intimate association with Paris, Tobias Churton provides the first detailed account of Crowley's activities in the City of Light. Using previously unpublished... -
Love Letters Bound in Gold Handcuffs by Lee Miller
RRP: £70.00£56.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914298059Author Lee MillerFormat HardbackPage Count 408Imprint Lee Miller Archives PublishingPublisher Lee Miller Archives Publishing -
Wild: The Life of Peter Beard: Photographer, Adventurer, Lover by Graham Boynton
RRP: £27.99£18.02He was the original 20th century "enfant terrible" with the looks of a Greek god who blazed like a comet across the worlds of art, photography, and fame. The scion of several old WASP fortunes, he was by instinct an adventurer, and the more dangerous the... -
Sleuth: The Amazing Quest for Lost Art Treasures by Philip Mould
RRP: £14.99£9.95CSI meets Who Do You Think You Are? meets Time Team meets The Antiques Roadshow. Two-dimensional works of art become three-dimensional thrillers. Philip Mould is an international art dealer who has lived the high stakes game of art sleuthing... -
Daily Rituals Women at Work: How Great Women Make Time, Find Inspiration, and Get to Work by Mason Currey
RRP: £12.99£8.73'That word, "vacation," makes me sweat.' Coco Chanel on taking a break'You must do it irregardless, or it will eat its way out of you.' Zora Neale Hurston on writing'One has to choose between the Life and the Project.' Susan Sontag on choosing artFrom... -
Crisis of Brilliance: Five Young British Artists and the Great War by David Boyd Haycock 9781906964320
RRP: £9.99£7.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906964320Author David HaycockFormat PaperbackImprint Old Street PublishingPublisher Old Street Publishing