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Rene Magritte by Patricia Allmer
RRP: $16.76$12.05The Belgian surrealist artist Rene Magritte redefined the way we think about art. Famous for his men in bowler hats, Magritte's witty and provocative work inspired generations of later artists, from Andy Warhol to Jasper Johns. In this illuminating new... -
The Lamberts: George, Constant and Kit by Sir Andrew Motion
RRP: $25.80$16.68'Families are societies in miniature.'The Lamberts: George, Constant and Kit won a Somerset Maugham Award in 1987. A lesson in the fragility of fame, it tells the tragic story of three generations: George, one of Australia's leading painters; his... -
I Know What I Am: The Life and Times of Artemisia Gentileschi by Gina Siciliano
RRP: $43.85$29.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683962113Author Gina SicilianoFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher Fantagraphics -
Thomas Chippendale by Adam Bowett
RRP: $11.60$9.25For at least 150 years, Thomas Chippendale has been synonymous with beautifully made eighteenth-century furniture in a variety of styles - Rococo, Chinese, Gothic and Neoclassical. Born in Otley, Yorkshire, in 1718, Chippendale rose to fame because of... -
Memories of a Pre-Raphaelite Youth Ford Madox Ford 9781843680857
RRP: $10.31$7.46" ... The author's personal, beautiful, and discursive style will appeal to enthusiasts of art and English literature." Library Journal One of the greatest literary artists in history, Ford Madox Ford's childhood is brought to life in this collection... -
Villagers: Athabaskan Indian Life Along the Yukon River in Drawings and Text by Claire Fejes 9781935347484
RRP: $24.45$16.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935347484Author Claire FejesFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Epicenter Press (WA)Publisher Epicenter Press (WA)Weight(grams) 268gDimensions(mm)... -
50 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship by Salvador Dali 9781774641378
RRP: $12.84$11.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781774641378Author Salvador DaliFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Must Have BooksPublisher Must Have BooksWeight(grams) 152g -
The Memoirs Of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: Vol. 1: A True and Exact Accounting of the History of Turtle Island by Kent Monkman 9780771061226
RRP: $41.27$27.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780771061226Author Kent MonkmanFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint McClelland & Stewart Inc.Publisher McClelland & Stewart Inc. -
The Life of Henry Moore by Roger Berthoud 9781900357227
RRP: $25.79$18.64Henry Moore's rise from Yorkshire miner's son to international acclaim as the twentieth century's greatest sculptor is one of the most remarkable stories in British art. In this revised, updated, expanded and redesigned new edition of The Life of Henry... -
Charlotte Salomon and the Theatre of Memory by Griselda Pollock 9780300100723
RRP: $64.50$55.79A long-awaited, new interpretation of Charlotte Salomon's singular and complex modern artwork, Life? or Theatre? Charlotte Salomon (1917-1943) is renowned for a single, monumental, modernist artwork, Life? or Theatre? (Leben? oder Theater?), comprising... -
If Walls Could Speak by Moshe Safdie
RRP: $32.25$21.74Over 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... -
You Belong to the Universe: Buckminster Fuller and the Future by Jonathon Keats 9780199338238
RRP: $33.53$24.56A compelling call to apply Buckminster Fuller's creative problem-solving to present-day problems. A self-professed "comprehensive anticipatory design scientist," the inventor Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) was undoubtedly a visionary. Fuller's... -
Kokoschka by Rudiger Goerner
RRP: $25.80$18.42The Austrian artist Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980) achieved world fame with his intense expressionistic portraits and landscapes. In this detailed biography, Rudiger Goerner masterfully depicts the multifaceted artist's life and long career. He traces... -
Trevor Paglen: Sites Unseen by John Jacob 9781911282334
RRP: $58.05$46.50Trevor Paglen is an American artist, geographer, and author. What I want from art," says Paglen, "is to help see the historical moment we live in." His photographs make visible things we're not meant to see; he regards this invisibility as emblematic of... -
Biographic: Picasso: Great Lives in Graphic Form Natalia Price-Cabrera 9781781453377
RRP: $12.89$9.03Many people know that Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker and poet, a pioneer of Modernism and Cubism whose works include `Les Demoiselles D'Avignon'. What, perhaps, they don't know is that his full name is 23 words... -
Van Gogh and the Artists He Loved by Steven Naifeh
RRP: $42.57$29.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593356678Author Steven NaifehFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Mermaid Singing Charmian Clift 9781838340186
RRP: $18.05$12.18In 1951 the Australian writers Charmian Clift and George Johnston left grey, post-war London for Greece. Settling first on the tiny island of Kalymnos, then Hydra, their plan was to live simply and focus on their writing, away from the noise of the big... -
Annie Leibovitz: Portraits 2005-2016 by Annie Leibovitz
RRP: $103.14$79.68Influential photographer Annie Leibovitz presents her remarkable portraits in this re-issue of her acclaimed and bestselling collection. Including never-before-published photographs, an essay by Alexandra Fuller, and an afterword by Annie Leibovitz Annie... -
Plagued By Fire: The Dreams and Furies of Frank Lloyd Wright by Paul Hendrickson
RRP: $27.08$19.27From the award-winning and best-selling author of Hemingway's Boat - a ground-breaking biography that illuminates the life, mind and work of one of the icons of twentieth-century America. Frank Lloyd Wright has long been known as both a supreme artist... -
Marriage of Inconvenience Robert Brownell 9781843680963
RRP: $25.79$18.00"A page turner, even for those familiar with the subject...The surprising truth that emerges is no less human, and no less revealing about the Victorians than the myths; on the contrary it gives a far more compelling insight into what relationships,... -
What Would Frida Do?: A Guide to Living Boldly by Arianna Davis 9781541600614
RRP: $18.05$13.08NAMED A BEST GIFT BOOK OF THE YEAR BY: Instyle, Oprah Daily, Business Insider, Esquire, Boston Globe, and RedbookRevered as much for her fierce spirit as she is for her art, Frida Kahlo stands today as a feminist symbol of daring creativity. Her... -
Laura Knight: A Life by Barbara C. Morden 9780857160492
$25.16Laura Knight: A Life covers her long productive career and probes the myths and fictions that have and continue to be woven around the artist. This highly readable and objective biography covers her relationship with her husband Harold, life in the... -
The Man Who Made Vermeers: Unvarnishing the Legend of Master Forger Han Van Meegeren by Jonathan Lopez 9780547247847
RRP: $27.08$19.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780547247847Author Jonathan LopezFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Cengage Learning, IncWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 201mm... -
Edward Burne-Jones by Penelope Fitzgerald 9780007588220
RRP: $16.76$12.85Penelope Fitzgerald, the Booker Prize-winning author of 'Offshore' and 'The Blue Flower', turns her attention to the remarkable life of the Pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones. 'I mean by a picture a beautiful, romantic dream of something... -
Biographic: Leonardo by Andrew Kirk 9781781452905
RRP: $12.89$9.03The 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... -
Lenore Tawney: Mirror of the Universe by Karen Patterson
RRP: $50.31$45.40Recent years have seen an enormous surge of interest in fiber arts, with works made of thread on display in art museums around the world. But this art form only began to transcend its origins as a humble craft in the late nineteenth and early twentieth... -
Piero's Light: In Search of Piero della Francesca: A Renaissance Painter and the Revolution in Art, Science, and Religion by Larry Witham
RRP: $20.58$13.49In the heart of Tuscany, Piero della Francesca became a painter and mathematician at the dawn of the Renaissance, revealing his innovative mind in some of the best known images from that period, and in his unusual writings on geometry. Yet as a... -
John Francis Bentley: Architect of Westminster Cathedral Peter Howell 9781789621990
RRP: $42.57$38.98This is the first biography of John Francis Bentley (1839-1902), best known as architect of Westminster Cathedral, since his daughter Winefride de l'Hopital's Westminster Cathedral and its Architect (1919). Bentley was born in Doncaster, Yorkshire, and... -
Between Lives: An Artist and Her World by Dorothea Tanning 9780393343984
RRP: $30.95$26.46Dorothea Tanning (1910-2012), one of the twentieth-century's most original and provocative painters, delivers a vivid account of a fascinating life lived as an artist among artists, revealing the irresistibly creative mind that propelled her. She... -
The Mario Lanza Story by Constantine Callinicos 9781958425466 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.92$19.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781958425466Author Constantine CallinicosFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Chosho PublishingPublisher Chosho PublishingWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm)... -
The Mario Lanza Story by Constantine Callinicos 9781958425466
RRP: $21.92$19.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781958425466Author Constantine CallinicosFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Chosho PublishingPublisher Chosho PublishingWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm)... -
Vivian Maier: A Photographer's Life and Afterlife by Pamela Bannos
RRP: $24.51$21.72Who 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... -
Twentieth-Century Boy: Notebooks of the Seventies by Duncan Hannah
RRP: $20.64$13.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524711221Author Duncan HannahFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint VintagePublisher VintageWeight(grams) 510gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm * 26mm -
Melancholy Wedgwood by Iris Moon 9780262546348
RRP: $41.28$26.59Apologies 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 -
Artist of Wonderland: The Life, Political Cartoons, and Illustrations of Tenniel by Frankie Morris
RRP: $57.08$42.07Best known today as the illustrator of Lewis Carroll's Alice books, John Tenniel was one of the Victorian era's chief political cartoonists. This extensively illustrated book is the first to draw almost exclusively on primary sources in family... -
Josef Albers: Life and Work by Charles Darwent
RRP: $32.19$22.38While Josef Albers' Bauhaus colleagues Klee and Kandinsky are household names, Albers himself has remained inscrutable. He is best known as the painter of the Homages to the Square, a series of over 2,000 seemingly tightly controlled experiments in the... -
Matisse and Picasso: The Story of Their Rivalry and Friendship by Jack Flam
$25.10Matisse and Picasso achieved extraordinary prominence during their lifetimes. They have become cultural icons, standing not only for different kinds of art but also for different ways of living. Matisse, known for his restraint and intense sense of... -
Isabella Stewart Gardner: A Life by Nathaniel Silver
RRP: $25.80$20.81A major new biography of legendary art collector and philanthropist Isabella Stewart GardnerIsabella Stewart Gardner (1840-1924) assembled an extraordinary collection of art from diverse cultures and eras-and built a Venetian-style palazzo in Boston to... -
Woolgathering by Patti Smith 9780811219440
RRP: $19.34$17.25A great book about becoming an artist, Woolgathering tells of a youngster finding herself as she learns the noble vocation of woolgathering, "a worthy calling that seemed a good job for me." She discovers-often at night, often in nature-the pleasures of... -
The Seven Lives Of Alejandro Jodorowsky by Vincent Berniere 9781643375946
RRP: $38.69$27.08A definitive look at the life of legendary filmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky and his many wild creative ventures throughout his 90 years on earth.A journey through Jodo's personal life, his life in the theater, his rebirth as a 70s cinematic cult figure and...