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Starry Night: Van Gogh at the Asylum by Martin Bailey
RRP: $38.98$26.81Starry Night is a fascinating, fully illustrated account of Van Gogh's time at the asylum in Saint-Remy, during which he created some of his most iconic pieces of art. Despite the challenges of ill health and asylum life, Van Gogh continued to produce a... -
Frida Kahlo by Hettie Judah
RRP: $25.33$16.77Step 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: $19.48$13.26'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: $87.75$62.03This 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... -
In Montparnasse: The Emergence of Surrealism in Paris, from Duchamp to Dali by Sue Roe
RRP: $21.43$15.15'Supercharged. Highly colourful . . . they're all here, the big names of the time - behaving badly, and, at times, quite madly too' ObserverDuring the 1920s, in the Parisian neighbourhood of Montparnasse, a unique flowering of avant-garde artistic... -
Stalin's Architect: Power and Survival in Moscow by Deyan Sudjic
RRP: $58.50$38.61The first biography to trace the remarkable life and career of Ukrainian-born Boris Iofan, beautifully illustrated with many of Iofan's previously unseen sketchbooks and photographs from private collections. This is a history of architecture, politics... -
Vivian Maier: A Photographer's Life and Afterlife by Pamela Bannos
RRP: $37.05$28.18Who was Vivian Maier? Many people know her as the reclusive Chicago nanny who wandered the city for decades, constantly snapping photographs, which were unseen until they were discovered in a seemingly abandoned storage locker. They revealed her to be an... -
Aleister Crowley: the Beast in Berlin: Art, Sex, and Magick in the Weimar Republic by Tobias Churton
RRP: $39.00$25.86Gnostic 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: $37.03$24.86'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... -
The Man in the Glass House: Philip Johnson, Architect of the Modern Century by Mark Lamster
$63.51When 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: $35.08$30.15"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... -
I Know What I Am: The Life and Times of Artemisia Gentileschi by Gina Siciliano
RRP: $66.28$44.50Apologies 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: $29.23$19.11This 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: $19.48$15.93A 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... -
Peter Blake (Modern Artists) by Natalie Rudd
RRP: $33.13$23.95This 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: $54.60$37.42Guillermo 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... -
Le Corbusier by Kenneth Frampton 9780500203415
RRP: $54.50$36.43Le 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: $21.43$15.15Evelyn 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: $44.85$28.10Apologies 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 Invisible Painting: My Memoir of Leonora Carrington by Gabriel Weisz Carrington 9781526169648
RRP: $25.33$18.02Since her death in 2011, the legendary Surrealist Leonora Carrington has been reconstructed and reinvented many times over. In this book, Gabriel Weisz Carrington draws on remembered conversations and events to demythologise his mother, revealing the... -
Black Square: Malevich and the Origin of Suprematism by Aleksandra Shatskikh 9780300140897
$116.34An 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: $33.13$24.73A 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 ... -
My Name Is Prince by Randee St. Nicholas 9780062939234
RRP: $136.50$94.32The ultimate collection of stunning photographs documenting the career of one of the world's greatest superstars There has never been or will there ever be an artist like Prince. "A 5' 3? Mastermind . . . satiated with virtuosity, controversy,... -
Manolo Blahnik and the Tale of the Elves and the Shoemaker: A Fashion Fairy Tale Memoir by Camilla Morton 9780061917301
RRP: $25.33$17.86Each book in this inspired series by fashion writer Camilla Morton inventively reimagines one of our favorite "Once Upon a Time" stories, blending it with the real-life story of a famed fashion designer. Lushly illustrated by the designers themselves,... -
Constable In Love: Love, Landscape, Money and the Making of a Great Painter by Martin Gayford
RRP: $21.43$15.15Art critic Martin Gayford, author of The Yellow House, brings the Regency period to life in Constable in Love: Love, Landscape and the Making of a Great Painter his account of the life of English Romantic painter John Constable. Love, not landscape, was... -
David Shepherd: Artist and Conservationist by J. C. Jeremy Hobson
RRP: $39.00$25.08In 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... -
Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of History by Benjamin Balint
RRP: $46.78$39.99The 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,... -
The Lost Pre-Raphaelite: The Secret Life & Loves of Robert Bateman by Nigel Daly 9781908524386
RRP: $48.75$32.72When 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... -
Melancholy Wedgwood by Iris Moon 9780262546348
RRP: $62.40$40.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262546348Author Iris MoonFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Goya: A Portrait of the Artist by Janis Tomlinson
RRP: $58.50$46.20The 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... -
Mark Rothko: Toward the Light in the Chapel by Annie Cohen-Solal
RRP: $23.38$19.79A fascinating exploration of the life and work of one of America's most famous and enigmatic postwar visual artists Mark Rothko, one of the greatest painters of the twentieth century, was born in the Jewish Pale of Settlement in 1903. He immigrated to... -
Sargent's Women: Four Lives Behind the Canvas by Donna M. Lucey 9780393356168
RRP: $29.23$25.41With unprecedented access to newly discovered sources, Donna M. Lucey illuminates the lives of four women painted by the society portraitist John Singer Sargent. With uncanny clairvoyance, Sargent's portraits hint at the mysteries, passions and tragedies... -
Adolfo Kaminsky: A Forger's Life: A Forger's Life by Sarah Kaminsky 9780997003475
RRP: $38.98$26.91[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: $19.48$13.26The 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: $21.43$15.15An enchanting memoir by the legendary New York Times fashion photographer Bill Cunningham ... -
Light and Love: The Extraordinary Developments of Julia Margaret Cameron and Mary Hillier by Kirsty Stonell Walker
RRP: $29.25$21.37When 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: $33.13$23.95'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: $48.73$34.20This 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... -
Henri Matisse: A Second Life by Alastair Sooke
RRP: $15.58$11.29Henri 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... -
A Life of Christian Dior: The Authorized Biography by Marie-France Pochna
RRP: $48.75$33.89Apologies 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