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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,... -
Thomas Jones of Pencerrig - Artist, Traveller, Country Squire by Richard Veasey
RRP: £12.99£9.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784613709Author Richard VeaseyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y Lolfa -
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£21.95'The beautiful, revelatory biography of Jim Ede and Kettle's Yard that we have been waiting for. I loved it' - Edmund de WaalIn this first biography of the Kettle's Yard artists, Laura Freeman reveals the life of a visionary who helped shape... -
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,... -
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... -
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... -
Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston (new edition) by Musa Mayer
RRP: £38.00£27.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783906915753Author Musa MayerFormat PaperbackPage Count 372Imprint Hauser & WirthPublisher Hauser & Wirth -
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. ... -
Michelangelo: His Epic Life by Martin Gayford
RRP: £20.00£15.89'An absorbing book, beautifully told and with the writer fully in command of a huge body of research' Philip Hensher, Mail on Sunday There was an epic sweep to Michelangelo's life. At 31 he was considered the finest artist in Italy, perhaps the world;... -
The Last Days of John Lennon by James Patterson
RRP: £7.99£6.04___________ 'Incredibly tense and thriller-like . . . I totally recommend it' LEE CHILD 'The dialogue is punchy, cinematic . . . we get inside the mind of Patterson's villain, the delusional Chapman, through periodic chapters from his point of view as... -
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... -
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... -
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'... -
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... -
The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination by Fiona MacCarthy
RRP: £25.00£18.62Winner 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.'... -
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... -
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... -
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 Boyd HaycockFormat PaperbackImprint Old Street PublishingPublisher Old Street Publishing -
Miserable Miracle by Henri Michaux
RRP: £16.99£10.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590170014Author Henri MichauxFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
Banksy: The Man Behind the Wall by Will Ellsworth-Jones 9781781310403
RRP: £9.99£7.46For 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... -
POPism by Andy Warhol
£5.54'POPism reads like a novel... Social history of the rarest kind, set down in ultra-sharp focus by someone who helped shape the events he describes' The New YorkerA cultural storm swept through the 1960s - Pop Art, Bob Dylan, psychedelia, underground... -
Sir Christopher Wren by Paul Rabbitts
£7.70Sir Christopher Wren (1632-1723) is now mostly remembered as a genius of architecture - but he was also an accomplished polymath, who only came to architecture quite late in life. Most famous as the mastermind behind the rebuilding of St Paul's Cathedral... -
The Stuart Image: English Portraiture 1603 to 1649 by Roy Strong
RRP: £30.00£26.03Based on a lifetime's work in the field, Sir Roy Strong offers an expert and engaging new look at portrait painting in Stuart England, studying the sitters as much as the artists. Sir Roy Strong has been writing for over half a century on the painters... -
Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up by Claire Wilcox
RRP: £35.00£24.04In 1954, following her death, Frida Kahlo's possessions were locked away in the Casa Azul in Mexico City, her lifelong home. Half a century later, her collection of clothing, jewellery, cosmetics and other personal items was rediscovered. Frida Kahlo:... -
The Hockneys: Never Worry What the Neighbours Think by John Hockney
£10.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800316669Author John HockneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Legend Times LtdPublisher Legend Times LtdWeight(grams) 129g -
Art is a Tyrant: The Unconventional Life of Rosa Bonheur by Catherine Hewitt
RRP: £11.99£8.18WINNER OF THE FRANCO-BRITISH SOCIETY LITERARY AWARD 2020'Art is a Tyrant recounts [Bonheur's] life with no little brio.' Michael Prodger, The Times Books of the Year 2020 'A diligently researched, beautifully produced and insistently sympathetic... -
Dead Famous: An Unexpected History of Celebrity from Bronze Age to Silver Screen by Greg Jenner
RRP: £10.99£7.30'Fizzes with clever vignettes and juicy tidbits... [a] joyous romp of a book.' Guardian'A fascinating, rollicking book in search of why, where and how fame strikes. Sit back and enjoy the ride.' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads'[An] engaging and...