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Exquisite Dreams: The Art and Life of Dorothea Tanning by Amy Lyford
RRP: $38.70$28.75Exquisite Dreams is the first full account of Dorothea Tanning's art and life. Rather than only focusing on her well-known surrealist paintings, this book gives equal weight to Tanning's lesser-known but equally powerful sculptures, abstract paintings... -
Goya: A Portrait of the Artist by Janis Tomlinson 9780691234120
RRP: $25.80$20.81The 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... -
Karl: No Regrets Patrick Hourcade 9782080243713
RRP: $38.70$26.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782080243713Author Patrick HourcadeFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint FlammarionPublisher Editions FlammarionWeight(grams) 940g -
Vogue on Christian Dior by Charlotte Sinclair 9781419715884
RRP: $25.74$18.73In 1947, Christian Dior stunned the fashion world with his first collection, the &;New Look,&; which transformed the way women dressed, and he continued to send shock waves with his later shows, significantly altering the fashion landscape. Vogue on... -
Self-exposure by Ralph Gibson 9781912122103
RRP: $45.15$39.53Written in candid prose, Gibson takes the reader through his life and career that spans over 50 years. Gibson's story is a fascinating one, from his earliest memories growing up in California to his time in the navy and his continuous love affair with... -
Sir John Soane, Architect by Dorothy Stroud 9781900357029
RRP: $24.50$17.07Sir John Soane (1753-1837) has come to be regarded as one of the great architects of late 18th and early 19th century Europe, and contemporary architects and designers are becoming increasingly influenced by the subtleties of the unique 'Soane style'... -
Wild Things Are Happening: The Art of Maurice Sendak by Maurice Sendak
RRP: $58.05$40.20The most comprehensive survey of the work of Maurice Sendak, the most celebrated picture book artist of all time-with previously unpublished archival materials Published in conjunction with the eponymous Sendak retrospective touring museums in the... -
Poster Child: The Psychedelic Art & Technicolor Life of David Edward Byrd by David Edward Byrd 9781949480405
RRP: $45.15$34.30A stunning retrospective on the art and stories behind one of rock 'n' roll's most influential cover artistsBeginning in the late 1960s, graphic artist David Edward Byrd pioneered the iconic visual styles that have come to define rock 'n' roll. Byrd... -
Frank Lloyd Wright: A Biography by Meryle Secrest
$26.90This biography focuses on Wright's family history, personal adventures and colourful friends and family. The author had unprecedented access to an archive of over 100,000 of Wright's letters, photographs, drawings and books, and she also interviewed... -
Drawing Blood: Forty Five Years of Scarfe by Gerald Scarfe
RRP: $58.05$41.98This is a truly exceptional collection of drawings from one of our most revered cultural commentators. Gerald Scarfe began his career in the 60s working for PUNCH and PRIVATE EYE before taking a job as a political cartoonist for the DAILY MAIL. He then... -
Mina Loy: Apology of Genius by Mary Ann Caws 9781789145540
RRP: $32.25$30.68Mina Loy was born in London in 1882, became American, and lived variously in New York, Europe, and finally, Aspen, Colorado until she died in 1966. Flamboyant and unapologetically avant-garde, she was a painter, poet, novelist, essayist,... -
Augustus John: The New Biography Michael Holroyd 9781845951849
RRP: $38.70$28.75This 1997 revised and updated biography of the celebrated artist, using the mass of new material which has come to light since Holroyd's two-volume first edition in the mid 1970s, reveals the complete story of John and his circle, from one of our great... -
Recollections of a Picture Dealer by Ambroise Vollard 9780486428529
RRP: $21.92$15.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486428529Author Ambroise VollardFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
The Artist Helen Coombe (1864–1937): The Tragedy of Roger Fry's Wife by Martin Ferguson Smith 9781913645533
RRP: $58.05$41.36This 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... -
The Longing for Less: Living with Minimalism by Kyle Chayka 9781635572100
RRP: $24.50$20.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635572100Author Kyle ChaykaFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 412g -
In This Dark House: A Memoir by Louise Kehoe 9780805210170
RRP: $19.35$14.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805210170Author Louise KehoeFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Schocken BooksPublisher Schocken BooksWeight(grams) 283gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *... -
Another Day In The Life: My Life in Photos & Music by Ringo Starr 9781905662586
RRP: $38.70$26.94"This is a way of putting my life out there, because if I were to write a memoir, there'd be five volumes before I got to The Beatles. So I'm going at it this way, through photographs and quotes. And this is, I feel, a better way for me to do it." -... -
Henri Matisse: A Second Life by Alastair Sooke
RRP: $10.31$7.71Henri 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... -
The Collector of Lives: Giorgio Vasari and the Invention of Art by Noah Charney 9780393356366
RRP: $19.34$16.81An accomplished painter, architect and diplomat, Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) is best known for Lives of the Artists, his classic account of the great masters-an extraordinary book that invented the genre of artistic biography, single-handedly established... -
Thomas Hennell: The Land and the Mind Jessica Kilburn 9781910258620
RRP: $77.40$53.21Thomas Hennell (1903-45) said his aim was to 'surprise his subject' - to capture the transient quality of the moment. In watercolour he found his perfect medium, producing work which was, as his fellow artist Edward Bawden said, 'fully expressive and... -
Herge: The Man Who Created Tintin by Pierre Assouline 9780195397598
RRP: $27.08$20.28In this book Pierre Assouline reveals the life and art of Tintin's Belgian creator, Georges Prosper Remi, better known as 'Herge'. Assouline has had privileged access to personal papers to explore Herge's life and work and the fascinating ways in which... -
Falling Rocket: James Whistler, John Ruskin, and the Battle for Modern Art by Paul Thomas Murphy
RRP: $28.38$26.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639364916Author Paul Thomas MurphyFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 558gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 152mm... -
The Museum Makers: A Journey from Dark Boxes of Family Secrets to a Golden Era of Museums by Rachel Morris
RRP: $21.92$15.11Museum expert Rachel Morris had been ignoring the boxes under her bed for decades. When she finally opened them, an entire bohemian family history was laid bare. The experience was revelatory - searching for her absent father in the archives of the Tate;... -
Bergson and the Art of Immanence: Painting, Photography, Film by John Mullarkey
RRP: $37.40$34.98This title takes an immanent turn in art history. Immanence is a theory of divine presence, in which the divine is found in the material world, not outside of it. This new collection brings the major 20th century French philosopher Henri Bergson's work... -
The Woman in White: Joanna Hiffernan and James McNeill Whistler by Margaret F. MacDonald
RRP: $51.60$43.33A fascinating look at the partnership of artist James McNeill Whistler and his chief model, Joanna Hiffernan, and the iconic works of art resulting from their life together"[A] lavish volume. . . . Illuminating. . . . MacDonald's deep research has . . ... -
Try the Wilderness First: Eric Gill and David Jones at Capel-y-ffin by Jonathan Miles 9781781724019
RRP: $16.76$11.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781724019Author Jonathan MilesFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales Press -
Francis Bacon: Studies for a Portrait by Michael Peppiatt
RRP: $16.76$11.39Francis Bacon was one of most elusive and enigmatic creative geniuses of the twentieth century. However much his avowed aim was to simplify both himself and his art, he remained a deeply complex person. Bacon was keenly aware of this underlying... -
Thomas Jones of Pencerrig - Artist, Traveller, Country Squire by Richard Veasey 9781784613709 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.76$6.63Apologies 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 -
Thomas Jones of Pencerrig - Artist, Traveller, Country Squire by Richard Veasey
RRP: $16.76$11.84Apologies 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 -
Daniel Cottier: Designer, Decorator, Dealer Petra ten-Doesschate Chu 9781913107185
RRP: $51.60$43.67The 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... -
Giacometti: A Biography James Lord 9781857995015
RRP: $19.34$13.48The 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... -
Jean-Michel Basquiat: A Biography by Eric Fretz 9780313380563
$49.52This work examines the fascinating life and art of the African American painter Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988). Jean-Michel Basquiat was barely out of his teens when he rocketed to the center of New York's art scene. He was 27 when he died of a heroin... -
The Baby on the Fire Escape: Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Baby Problem by Julie Phillips
RRP: $19.34$16.22What does it mean to create, not in "a room of one's own" but in a domestic space? Do children and genius rule each other out? In The Baby on the Fire Escape, award-winning biographer Julie Phillips traverses the shifting terrain where motherhood and... -
Young Mr. Turner: The First Forty Years, 1775-1815 by Eric Shanes 9780300140651
RRP: $109.65$94.27A definitive new biography, deftly interweaving an account of Turner's early life with profound scholarly and aesthetic appreciation of his work A complex figure, and divisive during his lifetime, Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) has long been... -
Life, Letters, and Poetry by Michelangelo 9780199537365
RRP: $14.18$9.30The poems have been rendered into vigorous contemporary English. A selection of Michelangelo's letters, many of the to important contemporaries such as Vasari and Duke Cosimo, is accompanied by the `Life' of the great artist written by his pupil Ascanio... -
The Ninth: Beethoven and the World in 1824 by Harvey Sachs
RRP: $12.89$8.90A decade after the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars had given way to an era of retrenchment and repression, 1824 became a watershed year. The premiere of the Ninth Symphony, the death of Lord Byron - who had been aiding the Greeks in their... -
Lancelot 'Capability' Brown: The Omnipotent Magician, 1716-1783 by Jane Brown
RRP: $25.80$18.72Lancelot Brown changed the face of eighteenth-century England, designing country estates and mansions, moving hills and making flowing lakes and serpentine rivers, a magical world of green. This English landscape style spread across Europe and the world... -
Developing: My Life William Zeckendorf Jr. 9781954081338
RRP: $32.25$22.74In 1986, the New York Times called William Zeckendorf Jr. "Manhattan's most active real-estate developer," a judgment borne out by Zeckendorf's fascinating memoir. The second generation of a legendary family of developers, "Bill" Zeckendorf was a... -
Caravaggio and the Creation of Modernity by Troy Thomas
$29.03Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio was among the great artists of the Baroque period of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Considered one of the founders of modern painting, he is famous for creating a radically new kind of realistic art. He painted... -
Intimate Geometries: The Life and Work of Louise Bourgeois by Robert Storr
RRP: $129.00$99.43A must-have for the core contemporary art audience: Robert Storr's singular and long-awaited book is unprecedented in treating the full range of Louise Bourgeois's artistic achievement. In a career spanning nearly 75 years, Louise Bourgeois created a...