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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,... -
Cubed: The Puzzle of Us All by Erno Rubik
RRP: £9.99£6.80'More than just a memoir. A manifesto for a whole way of thinking' Daily Mail'An idiosyncratic and gripping memoir about his life and the indomitable career of the Cube' Observer'The rise and enduring power of the world's most popular puzzle toy . . ... -
The Artist Helen Coombe (1864–1937): The Tragedy of Roger Fry's Wife by Martin Ferguson Smith 9781913645533
RRP: £45.00£31.81This fascinating book presents the first biography of Helen Coombe, a woman admired not only for her artistic skill, but also for her intellect, personality and wit. It reveals her family background and education, her place in the Arts and Crafts... -
Aleister Crowley: the Beast in Berlin: Art, Sex, and Magick in the Weimar Republic by Tobias Churton
RRP: £20.00£13.26Gnostic poet, painter, writer, and magician Aleister Crowley arrived in Berlin on April 18, 1930. As prophet of his syncretic religion "Thelema," he wanted to be among the leaders of art and thought, and Berlin, the liberated future-gazing metropolis,... -
A Working-Class Family Ages Badly by Juno Roche
RRP: £18.99£12.75'An incredibly honest tale of survival, escape and resilience' The Observer 'Roche is a charming, unflinchingly honest guide on a journey that's as funny as it is heart-breaking.' JUNO DAWSONHow does an untrained eye recognise the process of dying, when... -
Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of History by Benjamin Balint
RRP: £23.99£20.51The twentieth-century artist Bruno Schulz was born an Austrian, lived as a Pole and died a Jew. First a citizen of the Habsburg monarchy, he would, without moving, become the subject of the West Ukrainian People's Republic, the Second Polish Republic,... -
Romaine Brooks: A Life by Cassandra Langer
RRP: £26.95£24.52The artistic achievements of Romaine Brooks (1874-1970), both as a major expatriate American painter and as a formative innovator in the decorative arts, have long been overshadowed by her fifty-year relationship with writer Natalie Barney and a... -
The Man in the Glass House: Philip Johnson, Architect of the Modern Century by Mark Lamster
£32.57When Philip Johnson died in 2005 at the age of 98, he was still one of the most recognizable--and influential--figures on the American cultural landscape. The first recipient of the Pritzker Prize and MoMA's founding architectural curator, Johnson made... -
Artists in Residence: Seventeen Artists and Their Living Spaces, from Giverny to Casa Azul by Melissa Wyse
RRP: £17.99£15.46"I've ordered a few books about home over the past year [...] But none brought me more joy than a slim book [...] Artists in Residence, written by Melissa Wyse and illustrated by Kate Lewis." -Vanity Fair This charmingly illustrated book invites readers... -
David Shepherd: Artist and Conservationist by J. C. Jeremy Hobson
RRP: £20.00£12.86In 1975, David Shepherd wrote The Man Who Loves Giants - an autobiography. Even though he was only forty-four, he had already achieved more than most could have in three lifetimes. In the intervening years, until his death in 2017, he painted a huge... -
Henri Matisse: A Second Life by Alastair Sooke
RRP: £7.99£5.79Henri Matisse by Alastair Sooke - an essential guide to one of the 20th century's greatest artists'One January morning in 1941, only a fortnight or so after his seventy-first birthday, the bearded and bespectacled French artist Henri Matisse was lying in... -
I Know What I Am: The Life and Times of Artemisia Gentileschi by Gina Siciliano
RRP: £33.99£22.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683962113Author Gina SicilianoFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher Fantagraphics -
Tracey Emin by Jonathan Jones
RRP: £14.99£9.80This accessible and expertly written introduction and overview of Tracey Emin's life offers a completely up-to-date view on the work of one of the most important and respected artists working today.From some of her previously unpublished early works from... -
The Making of a Monster by Connor Allen
RRP: £9.99£8.17A grime-theatre mash-up. Too black for my white friends, but too white for my Black friends. Growing up mixed race in Newport, I fell into a cloud of grey. Absent Black father, ducking the police, working out what it means to be a man. I was struggling... -
Mr Barry's War: Rebuilding the Houses of Parliament after the Great Fire of 1834 by Caroline Shenton 9780198707202
RRP: £14.99£10.95When the brilliant classical architect Charles Barry won the competition to build a new, Gothic, Houses of Parliament in London he thought it was the chance of a lifetime. It swiftly turned into the most nightmarish building programme of the century... -
Double Vision: The Unerring Eye of Art World Avatars Dominique and John de Menil: Paris, New York, Houston by William Middleton 9780375415432
RRP: £42.00£32.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375415432Author William MiddletonFormat HardbackPage Count 896Imprint Alfred A KnopfPublisher Alfred A. Knopf -
Peter Blake (Modern Artists) by Natalie Rudd
RRP: £16.99£12.28This volume forms part of Tate Publishing's Modern Artists monographs. In a career spanning five decades, Peter Blake has established himself as one of the most influential and original artists working in Britain. Coming to prominence in the late 1950s... -
Guillermo del Toro: The Iconic Filmmaker and his Work by Ian Nathan
RRP: £28.00£19.19Guillermo del Toro is a complete and intimate study of the life and work of one of modern cinema's most truly unique directors, whose distinct aesthetic and imagination are unmatched in contemporary film. Widely regarded as one of the most imaginative... -
Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane by Paul Auster 9780571353361
RRP: £14.99£9.80** WINNER OF THE L.A. TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY **'Exhilarating.' Joyce Carol Oates, Times Literary Supplement Books of the Year'Sharp-eyed and revealing.' The New Yorker'Brilliant . . . Remarkable.' New York Journal of BooksStephen Crane produced... -
Le Corbusier by Kenneth Frampton 9780500203415
RRP: £27.95£18.95Le Corbusier is probably the most famous architect of the 20th century. The richness and variety of his work and his passionately expressed philosophy of architecture have had a gigantic impact on the urban fabric and the way we live. Weaving through... -
Rossetti: His Life and Works by Evelyn Waugh
RRP: £10.99£7.77Evelyn Waugh's first book: a portrait of one of the greatest artists of the nienteenth century, from one of the greatest writers of the twentieth'Biography, as books about the dead are capriciously catalogued, is still very much in the mode'This is a... -
Ithell Colquhoun: Genius of The Fern Loved Gully by Amy Hale
RRP: £23.00£14.37Apologies 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 -
Somebody: The Reckless Life and Remarkable Career of Marlon Brando by Stefan Kanfer
RRP: £12.99£8.56Marlon Brando will never cease to fascinate us: for his triumphs as an actor (On the Waterfront, The Godfather, Last Tango in Paris), as well as his disasters; for the power of the screen portrayals he gave, and for his turbulent, tumultuous personal... -
Black Square: Malevich and the Origin of Suprematism by Aleksandra Shatskikh 9780300140897
£59.66An in-depth exploration of Malevich's pivotal painting, its context and its significance Kazimir Malevich's painting Black Square is one of the twentieth century's emblematic paintings, the visual manifestation of a new period in world artistic culture... -
The Beechwood Airship Interviews by Dan Richards 9780008105211
RRP: £16.99£12.68A journey into the headspaces and workplaces of some of Britain's most unique artists, from the co-author of the critically acclaimed Holloway. 'Very good - up my street' Sir Quentin Blake ... -
If Walls Could Speak by Moshe Safdie
RRP: £25.00£16.59Over more than five decades, legendary architect Moshe Safdie has built some of the world's most influential and memorable structures - from the 1967 modular housing scheme in Montreal known as Habitat to the Marina Bay Sands development in Singapore... -
De Kooning: American Master by Mark Stevens
RRP: £30.00£21.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Ambassador Book Award 2005 and L.A. Times book Prize (Biography) 2004 and National Book Critics Circle Awards 2005 and Pulitzer Prize 2005.Book InformationISBN... -
The Lost Pre-Raphaelite: The Secret Life & Loves of Robert Bateman by Nigel Daly 9781908524386
RRP: £25.00£16.78When the author bought a falling down fortified house on the Staffordshire moorlands, he had no reason to anticipate the astonishing tale that would unfold as it was restored. An increasingly mysterious, set of relationships emerged amongst its former... -
Goya: A Portrait of the Artist by Janis Tomlinson
RRP: £30.00£23.69The first major English-language biography of Francisco Goya y Lucientes, who ushered in the modern eraThe life of Francisco Goya (1746-1828) coincided with an age of transformation in Spanish history that brought upheavals in the country's politics and... -
Adolfo Kaminsky: A Forger's Life: A Forger's Life by Sarah Kaminsky 9780997003475
RRP: £19.99£13.80[An] engrossing literary debut...Writing in Adolfo's voice gives this suspenseful narrative candor and immediacy. - Kirkus Reviews Adolfo Kaminsky: A Forger's Life is "worthy of the best spy novels" and tells the story of Sarah Kaminsky's father, "the... -
Biographic: Shakespeare by Viv Croot 9781781452912
RRP: £9.99£6.80The Biographies series presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world's greatest thinkers and creatives. It takes the 50 defining facts, dates, thoughts, habits, and achievements of each subject, and uses infographics to convey each of... -
Fashion Climbing: A New York Life by Bill Cunningham
RRP: £10.99£7.77An enchanting memoir by the legendary New York Times fashion photographer Bill Cunningham ... -
Mrs Delany: A Life by Clarissa Campbell Orr
RRP: £35.00£29.97The first comprehensive biography of Mary Granville Delany - the artist and court insider whose flower collages, in particular, continue to inspire widespread admiration Mrs Delany is best remembered for her captivating paper collages of flowers, but... -
Light and Love: The Extraordinary Developments of Julia Margaret Cameron and Mary Hillier by Kirsty Stonell Walker
RRP: £15.00£10.96When fourteen-year-old Mary Hillier delivered a message to photographer Julia Margaret Cameron's door, little did she know what her life would become... Julia Margaret Cameron received her first camera as a gift when she was forty-eight but her love... -
Bold Ventures: Thirteen Tales of Architectural Tragedy by Charlotte Van den Broeck
RRP: £16.99£12.28'Bold Ventures resembles a pop version of Iain Sinclair's psychogeography or Out of Sheer Rage, Geoff Dyer's anti-biography of DH Lawrence' Olivia Laing, GUARDIAN'A marvel: a monument to human beings continuing to reach for the skies, even after their... -
Julia Morgan: An Intimate Biography of the Trailblazing Architect by Victoria Kastner
RRP: £24.99£17.54This new biography-featuring over 150 archival images and full-color photographs printed throughout-introduces Julia Morgan as both a pioneering architect and a captivating individual. Julia Morgan was a lifelong trailblazer. She was the first woman... -
A Life of Christian Dior: The Authorized Biography by Marie-France Pochna
RRP: £25.00£17.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782081514010Author Marie-France PochnaFormat HardbackPage Count 496Imprint FlammarionPublisher Editions FlammarionWeight(grams) 1040g -
The Inking Woman: 250 Years of British Women Cartoon and Comic Artists by Nicola Streeten
RRP: £19.99£14.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995590083Author Nicola StreetenFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Myriad EditionsPublisher Myriad Editions -
Rudolf Zwirner: Give Me the Now: An Autobiography by Rudolf Zwirner
RRP: £25.00£16.38Rudolf Zwirner, "the man who invented the art market," as coined in Der Spiegel, reflects on more than sixty years in the art business in his authoritative autobiography. An art dealer of the ages, Rudolf Zwirner, father of the esteemed gallerist David... -
Vidal Sassoon: How One Man Changed the World with a Pair of Scissors by Vidal Sassoon
£34.64A captivating look at the career of social and style revolutionary Vidal Sassoon. A visionary hairstylist who became a household name, Vidal Sassoon was an instrument of change during the cultural shifts of the 1960s. Inspired by Bauhaus architecture,...