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The Secret Life of Salvador Dali by Salvador Dali 9780486274546
RRP: €29.69€20.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486274546Author Salvador DaliPage Count 432Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc. -
Half the Perfect World: Writers, Dreamers and Drifters on Hydra: 1955-1964 by Paul Genoni
€50.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925523096Author Tanya DalziellFormat HardbackPage Count 456Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University Publishing -
Jay-Z: Made in America by Michael Eric Dyson 9781250230966
RRP: €23.80€19.27"Dyson's incisive analysis of JAY-Z's brilliance not only offers a brief history of hip-hop's critical place in American culture, but also hints at how we can best move forward." --Questlove JAY-Z: Made in America is the fruit of Michael Eric... -
A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600-1840 by Howard Colvin 9780300125085
RRP: €89.25€75.46This authoritative and now classic work of reference on the history of British architecture contains biographical information on some 2,000 architects who practiced in England, Scotland, and Wales from the time of Inigo Jones (1573-1652) to that of... -
Everything She Touched by Marilyn Chase
RRP: €26.17€25.24Everything She Touched recounts the incredible life of the American sculptor Ruth Asawa. This is the story of a woman who wielded imagination and hope in the face of intolerance and who transformed everything she touched into art. In this compelling... -
Maria Lassnig: The Biography Natalie Lettner 9783906915524
RRP: €30.94€20.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783906915524Author Natalie LettnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Hauser & WirthPublisher Hauser & Wirth -
Charles Addams: A Cartoonist's Life by Linda H. Davis 9781684426898
RRP: €17.84€12.07The Addams Family is creepy and kooky, but wait till you see what their creator had in his apartment. In Charles Addams: A Cartoonist's Life, meet the legendary cartoonist behind the altogether ooky Addams Family in this first biography, written with... -
A Reluctant Memoir by Robert Ballagh
RRP: €29.75€22.82A fiercely honest and unvarnished autobiography from Ireland's most successful and controversial living artist. Making his name as a Pop artist in the late 1960s and 70s, Robert Ballagh quickly achieved an international reputation. With little formal... -
Julia Margaret Cameron Biography by Colin Ford 9780892367078
RRP: €53.55€46.68British photographer Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879) has been described as one of the Finest portraitists of the nineteenth century-in any medium. Raised in a well-connected and creative family, Cameron led an unconventional life for a woman of the... -
The Eye of the Poet: Andre Breton and the Visual Arts by Elza Adamowicz
RRP: €35.70€34.88This is the first comprehensive study in English of surrealist leader Andre Breton's life-long commitment to the visual arts. As an essayist, art critic, collector, gallery director and artist, he actively promoted many painters, from Gustave Moreau and... -
Light on Fire: The Art and Life of Sam Francis by Gabrielle Selz
RRP: €35.70€28.19The first in-depth biography of Sam Francis, the legendary American abstract painter who broke all the rules in his personal and artistic life.Light on Fire is the first comprehensive biography of Sam Francis, one of the most important American abstract... -
Carolee Schneemann: From Then and Beyond by Carolee Schneemann
RRP: €45.22€35.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783903572966Author Carolee SchneemannFormat HardbackPage Count 236Imprint Verlag fur Moderne KunstPublisher Verlag fur Moderne Kunst -
Louis XIV's Architect: Louis Le Vau, France's Most Important Builder by Richard Ballard 9781399054195
RRP: €29.75€21.30This is a study of royal absolutism in a most extreme form in modern European history, and of the nature of Louis XIV's concept of personal glory and of the embodiment of France as a new superpower. It is a study of political ideas expressed in... -
William Morris: Romantic to Revolutionary by E. P. Thompson 9780850366808
RRP: €35.70€33.50William Morris-the great 19th century craftsman, architect, designer, poet and writer-remains a monumental figure whose influence resonates powerfully today. As an intellectual (and author of the seminal utopian News From Nowhere), his concern with... -
The Philosopher, the Priest, and the Painter: A Portrait of Descartes by Steven Nadler 9780691157306
RRP: €26.18€20.98In the Louvre museum hangs a portrait that is considered the iconic image of Rene Descartes, the great seventeenth-century French philosopher. And the painter of the work? The Dutch master Frans Hals--or so it was long believed, until the work was... -
Under a Wild Sky: John James Audubon and the Making of the Birds of America by William Souder 9781571313553
RRP: €15.46€11.03John James Audubon is renowned for his masterpiece of natural history and art, The Birds of America, the first nearly comprehensive survey of the continent's birdlife. And yet few people understand, and many assume incorrectly, what sort of man he was... -
First World War Poets by Alan Judd
RRP: €11.89€4.36First World War Poets by Alan Judd and David Crane. This collection of short biographies of those remarkable men who sought to record and convey the horrors of the Great War in poetry draws on letters, memoirs and portraits in a variety of media. Key... -
The Club King: My Rise, Reign, and Fall in New York Nightlife by Peter Gatien 9781542015301
€12.20A behind-the-scenes look at the meteoric rise and stunning takedown of a nightclub empire, by the man who held the reins. Limelight, Tunnel, Club USA, and Palladium-the cutting-edge, insanely successful, and notoriously decadent clubs that dominated... -
Jack Kirby: The Epic Life of the King of Comics by Tom Scioli
RRP: €28.56€21.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984856906Author Tom ScioliFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Sargent's Women: Four Lives Behind the Canvas by Donna M. Lucey 9780393356168
RRP: €17.84€15.51With 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... -
3D Warhol: Andy Warhol and Sculpture by Thomas Morgan Evans
€25.35Rain machines; alarmed kosher pickle jars filled with gemstones; replica corn flakes boxes; 'disco decor'; time capsules; art bombs; birthday presents; perfume bottles and floating silver pillows that are clouds; paintings that are also films; museum... -
Peggy Guggenheim: The Shock of the Modern by Francine Prose
RRP: €13.08€11.44A spirited portrait of the colorful, irrepressible, and iconoclastic American collector who fearlessly advanced the cause of modern art One of twentieth-century America's most influential patrons of the arts, Peggy Guggenheim (1898-1979) brought to wide... -
Calder: The Conquest of Time: The Early Years: 1898-1940 by Jed Perl
RRP: €44.63€40.44The first biography of America's greatest twentieth-century sculptor. In this beautifully written, deeply researched book Jed Perl shows how Alexander Calder became an avant-garde artist with enduring appeal. One of our most beloved modern artists,... -
James Baldwin: A Biography by David Leeming 9781628724387
RRP: €15.46€13.96"The most revealing and subjectively penetrating assessment of Baldwin's life yet published." -The New York Times Book Review. "The first Baldwin biography in which one can recognize the human features of this brilliant, troubled, principled, supremely... -
Surrealism: Inside the Magnetic Fields by Penelope Rosemont 9780872867680
RRP: €15.46€10.56A series of personal and historical encounters with surrealism from one of its foremost practitioners in the United States."Penelope Rosemont has given us, better than anyone else in the English language, a marvelous, meticulous exploration of the... -
Beatrix Farrand: Garden Artist Landscape Architect by Judith B. Tankard
RRP: €47.54€37.62Named a Best Book of 2022 by the American Society of Landscape Architects Beatrix Farrand: Private Gardens, Public Landscapes presents the life and work of one of the foremost landscape designers of the early 1900s. Born into a prominent New York family... -
Who We're Reading When We're Reading Murakami David Karashima 9781593765897
RRP: €19.03€12.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593765897Author David KarashimaFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Soft Skull PressPublisher Soft Skull Press -
Frida: The Story of Her Life by Vanna Vinci
RRP: €24.99€19.44The perfect subject for a graphic novel, Frida Kahlo's brief life was dramatic and romantic, tragic and painful. In this illustrated "biography", Vanna Vinci captures the spirit of Kahlo's world in boldly colored, minutely detailed illustrations... -
Hokusai: A Graphic Biography by Giuseppe Lantaza
RRP: €17.84€12.92A stunning visual biography of one of Japan's most famous historical artists, this book beautifully illustrates the story of Katsushika Hokusai.Enter the world of Katsushika Hokusai - the enigmatic creator of Japanese art's all-time most iconic image... -
Piranesi Unbound by Carolyn Yerkes
RRP: €77.35€62.48Why Piranesi's greatest works weren't his famous prints but rather the books for which he made themA draftsman, printmaker, architect, and archaeologist, Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-78) is best known today as the virtuoso etcher of the immersive and... -
Anthony Salvin: Pioneer of Gothic Revival Architecture by Jill Allibone 9780718827076
€49.31One of the most important architects practising in Britain during the years 1820-1880, Anthony Salvin had a long and successful career as a builder of country houses and churches and as a restorer of some of the most important castles in England,... -
Vidal Sassoon: How One Man Changed the World with a Pair of Scissors by Vidal Sassoon
€41.40A 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,... -
Gene Smith's Sink: A Wide-Angle View by Sam Stephenson 9780374537890
RRP: €20.23€14.11In an interview with Philippe Halsman, W. Eugene Smith remarked: "I didn't write the rules-why should I follow them?" Famously unabashed, Smith is photography's most celebrated humanist. During his reign as a photo-essayist at Life magazine in the 1940s... -
Yves Klein by Nuit Banai 9781780232935
RRP: €15.46€11.11Among his many captivating exploits, the French artist Yves Klein (1928 - 1962) invented his own brand of colour: the inimitable International Klein Blue. Denounced as a charlatan and feted as a mystic, Klein scandalized the art world with his... -
Spellbound by Marcel: Duchamp, Love, and Art by Ruth Brandon
RRP: €23.80€15.30In 1913 Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase exploded through the American art world. This is the story of how he followed the painting to New York two years later, enchanted the Arensberg salon, and-almost incidentally-changed art forever. In... -
Elephant House or the Home of Edward Gorey by Kevin McDermott 9780764924958
€23.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780764924958Author Kevin McDermottFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Pomegranate Communications Inc,USPublisher Pomegranate Communications... -
Raphael, Painter in Rome: A Novel by Stephanie Storey
€18.50Another Fabulous Art History Thriller by the Bestselling Author of Oil and Marble, Featuring the Master of Renaissance Perfection: Raphael! Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling is one of the most iconic masterpieces of the Renaissance. Here, in Raphael,... -
Graphic Design by Milton Glaser
RRP: €41.65€38.22Available again, the enduring, iconic volume showcasing the key early-career work and process of the godfather of modern graphic design Milton Glaser: Graphic Design, perhaps the most famous book of its kind, explores the early decades of America's... -
Lena Ashwell by Margaret Leask 9781907396649
RRP: €29.75€27.11For Ellen Terry, actress-manager Lena Ashwell (1869-1957) was 'a passionate voice'. From her first appearance on stage in 1891 to the end of her life, Ashwell was determined to make the theatre accessible and relevant to everyone, prompting G.B. Shaw to... -
Charles Addams: A Cartoonist's Life by Linda H. Davis
RRP: €27.36€18.40The Addams Family is creepy and kooky, but wait till you see what their creator had in his apartment. In Charles Addams: A Cartoonist's Life, meet the legendary cartoonist behind the altogether ooky Addams Family in this first biography, written with...