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Travels with my Sketchbook by Chris Riddell
RRP: $33.13$24.73Full of sketches, doodles and journal entries, Travels with My Sketchbook gives a fascinating glimpse of the incredible journey of Chris Riddell's time as Children's Laureate.After two years travelling the length and breadth of the country, visiting... -
The King's Painter: The Life and Times of Hans Holbein by Franny Moyle
RRP: $23.40$16.46A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 'A great, thrusting codpiece of a book. It is big, bombastic and richly brocaded... A jewel in its own right' The Times 'Evokes the painter and his world as vividly as a Holbein masterpiece. Beautifully written and... -
Shirley: The Life of a Botanical Adventurer by Shirley Sherwood 9781911397892
RRP: $48.75$34.52Shirley, The Life of a Botanical Adventurer is the remarkable story of Dr Shirley Sherwood, scientist, author, travel writer, gardener as well as mother and grandmother. Following the tragic death of her brilliant scientist husband, Michael Cross, in a... -
Miserable Miracle by Henri Michaux
RRP: $33.13$22.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590170014Author Henri MichauxFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
Jacques-Louis David, Revolutionary Artist: Art, Politics, and the French Revolution by Warren Roberts 9780807843505
RRP: $107.25$98.07The lifetime of Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825) coincides with the most tumultuous period in the history of France and much of the Western world. And David's life was closely bound up with the changes that were taking place in French politics, society,... -
It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth by Zoe Thorogood
RRP: $23.38$19.05Nominated for 2023 Eisner Awards in the Best Graphic Memoir and Best Writer/Artist categories Nominated for the 2023 Russ Manning Most Promising Newcomer Award Included in Forbes' "The Best Graphic Novels of 2022" list "Thorogood elevates the dark... -
Bernini: His Life and His Rome by Franco Mormando
RRP: $35.10$30.81Sculptor, architect, painter, playwright, and scenographer, Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) was the last of the great universal artistic geniuses of early modern Italy, placed by both contemporaries and posterity in the same exalted company as Leonardo,... -
Pieter Bruegel and the Idea of Human Nature by Elizabeth Alice Honig
RRP: $29.15$21.2916th-century Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder redefined how people perceived human nature. Bruegel turned his critical eye to mankind's labours and pleasures, its foibles and rituals of daily life. Portraying landscapes, peasant life and biblical... -
Aleister Crowley in England: The Return of the Great Beast by Tobias Churton
RRP: $48.75$31.67A detailed examination of the last 15 years of Crowley's life* Reveals Crowley's sex magick relations in London and his contacts with important figures, including Dion Fortune, Gerald Gardner, Jack Parsons, Dylan Thomas, and black equality activist Nancy... -
Maison Martin Margiela by Martin Margiela
RRP: $156.00$154.79Graduating from Antwerp's Royal Academy of Fine Arts in the 1980s, Martin Margiela (and his contemporaries in the Antwerp Six) transformed global fashion with his aggressive restatement of traditional fashion design and a polemical approach to luxury... -
The Allure of Chanel by Euan Cameron 9781805330219
RRP: $25.33$16.69The story of Coco Chanel in her own words, as told by her to Paul Morand Told in her own words, Coco Chanel's memories offer a rare glimpse into the mind of one of the most influential women in fashion history. During a visit to St. Moritz at the... -
It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War by Lynsey Addario
RRP: $27.28$18.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143128410Author Lynsey AddarioFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles by Martin Gayford
RRP: $25.33$17.73The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles is art critic Martin Gayford's account of the tumultuous nine weeks in which the famous nineteenth century artists Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin shared a house in the small French... -
Warhol After Warhol: Power and Money in the Modern Art World by Richard Dorment 9781529081497
RRP: $39.00$27.87Long-time art critic Richard Dorment reveals the corruption and lies of the art world and its mystifying authentication process.Late one afternoon in the winter of 2003 art critic Richard Dorment answered a telephone call from a stranger. The caller was... -
Titian and the End of the Venetian Renaissance by Tom Nichols
RRP: $68.25$66.59Titian's works are often seen as embodying the famous tradition of Venetian Renaissance painting. But how 'Venetian' was Titian, and can his unique works be taken as truly representative of his adoptive city? This comprehensive new study, covering... -
Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane by Andrew Graham-Dixon
RRP: $29.23$21.35Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio lived the darkest and most dangerous life of any of the great painters. The worlds of Milan, Rome and Naples through which Caravaggio moved and which Andrew Graham-Dixon describes brilliantly in this book, are those of... -
My Mother Laughs by Chantal Akerman
RRP: $29.23$21.00In 2013, the filmmaker Chantal Akerman's mother was dying. She flew back from New York to care for her, and between dressing her, feeding her and putting her to bed, she wrote. She wrote about her childhood, the escape her mother made from Auschwitz but... -
Strangeland: The memoirs of one of the most acclaimed artists of her generation by Tracey Emin
RRP: $25.33$16.77The intimate memoirs of one of the most acclaimed and controversial artists of her generation.Here I am, a fucked, crazy, anorexic-alcoholic-childless, beautiful woman. I never dreamt it would be like this.'Frequently affecting...intriguing, almost... -
Living in Squares, Loving in Triangles: The Lives and Loves of Viginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group by Amy Licence
RRP: $25.33$16.54Sisters Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf have long been celebrated for their central roles in the development of modernism in art and literature. Vanessa's experimental work places her at the vanguard of early twentieth-century art, as does her role in... -
Leonardo and the Last Supper by Ross King
RRP: $29.23$21.35For more than five centuries The Last Supper has been an artistic, religious and cultural icon. The art historian Kenneth Clark called it 'the keystone of European art', and for a century after its creation it was regarded as nothing less than a... -
Brunel: The Man Who Built the World by Dan Cruickshank 9780753821251
RRP: $19.48$13.26A celebration of the life and engineering achievements of Isambard Kingdom Brunel by two of the world's foremost authorities.In his lifetime, Isambard Kingdom Brunel towered over his profession. Today, he remains the most famous engineer in history, the... -
Effie: The Passionate Lives of Effie Gray, John Ruskin and John Everett Millais by Suzanne Fagence Cooper
RRP: $21.43$14.39The scandalous love triangle at the heart of the Victorian art world. Effie Gray, a Scottish beauty, was the heroine of a great Victorian love story. Married at nineteen to John Ruskin, she found herself trapped in a loveless and unconsummated union... -
John Martin: Apocalypse Now! by Barbara C. Morden 9781904794998
RRP: $74.10$54.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904794998Author Barbara C. MordenFormat HardbackPage Count 156Imprint Northumbria University PressPublisher McNidder & Grace -
Correspondence – Georges Bataille and Michel Leiris by Georges Bataille 9781803091914
RRP: $38.98$33.09Including a number of short essays by Bataille and Leiris on aspects of the other's work as well as excerpts on Bataille from Leiris' diaries, this collection of correspondence throws new light on two of Surrealism's most radical dissidents. In the... -
The Art and Flair of Mary Blair: An Appreciation by John Canemaker
RRP: $87.75$57.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781423127444Author John CanemakerFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Disney EditionsPublisher Disney EditionsWeight(grams) 782gDimensions(mm) 251mm * 263mm... -
The Creativity Code: How AI is learning to write, paint and think by Marcus du Sautoy
RRP: $21.43$14.14'Du Sautoy's discussion of computer creativity is fascinating' Observer CAN MACHINES BE CREATIVE? In The Creativity Code, Marcus du Sautoy examines the nature of creativity, asking... -
Widow Basquiat: A Memoir by Jennifer Clement
RRP: $21.43$14.27MADONNA. ANDY WARHOL. KEITH HARING. FAB 5 FREDDIE. DEBBIE HARRY. JULIAN SCHNABEL. Jean-Michel Basquiat's transition from the subways to the chic gallery spaces of Manhattan brought the artist into the company of many of New York's established and... -
The Dali Legacy: How an Eccentric Genius Changed the Art World and Created a Lasting Legacy by Jean-Pierre Isbouts
RRP: $38.98$28.16This immersive dive into the life and work of Salvador Dali unlocks the secret of this creative genius and reveals for the first time how his erotically charged paintings changed the world of modern art. In turns beloved and reviled, twentieth century... -
The 5 Lives of Hilma af Klint by Hilma af Klint
RRP: $48.75$31.94A moving biography, told in vivid illustrations, this graphic novel features key moments in the life of Swedish artist and pioneer of abstract painting Hilma af Klint (1862-1944). Long-underrecognized, af Klint's sensational rediscovery continues to take... -
Aleister Crowley in Paris: Sex, Art, and Magick in the City of Light by Tobias Churton
RRP: $50.70$32.82Exploring occultist, magician, poet, painter, and writer Aleister Crowley's longstanding and intimate association with Paris, Tobias Churton provides the first detailed account of Crowley's activities in the City of Light. Using previously unpublished... -
Lives of the Artists by Giorgio Vasari
RRP: $21.43$15.15Beginning with Cimabue and Giotto in the thirteenth century, Vasari traces the development of Italian art across three centuries to the golden epoch of Leonardo and Michelangelo. Great men, and their immortal works, are brought vividly to life, as Vasari... -
Memories of a London Fine Art Dealer by Alexander Wengraf
RRP: $58.50$40.85Memories of a London Art Dealer is the distillation of a lifetime's experience and expertise in the art world. Neither an autobiography nor a traditional memoir, the book consists of reflections, anecdotes, telling conversations, encounters, touches... -
The Gilded Gutter Life Of Francis Bacon: The Authorized Biography by Daniel Farson
RRP: $25.33$17.73Widely regarded as the best British painter since Turner, very little is known about Francis Bacon's life. In this, the first-ever book to be written about him, Daniel Farson, friend and confidant to Bacon for over forty years, gives a highly personal,... -
The Philosophy of Andy Warhol by Andy Warhol
RRP: $19.48$13.86The autobiography of an American icon'I never think that people die. They just go to department stores'Andy Warhol - American painter, filmmaker, publisher, actor and major figure in the Pop Art movement - was in many ways a reluctant celebrity. Here, in... -
Paul Klee by Susie Hodge 9781789505139
RRP: $25.33$17.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789505139Author Susie HodgeFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint ArcturusPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd -
The Artist's Journey: The travels that inspired the artistic greats: Volume 2 by Travis Elborough 9780711268692
RRP: $39.00$24.63Follow in the footsteps of some of the world's most famous painters in this fascinating work from the Journeys of Note series. Some truly remarkable works of art have been inspired by artists spending time away from their typical surroundings. From epic... -
So Much Longing in So Little Space: The art of Edvard Munch by Karl Ove Knausgaard
RRP: $33.13$23.95In So Much Longing in So Little Space, Karl Ove Knausgaard explores the life and work of Edvard Munch. Setting out to understand the enduring power of Munch's painting, Knausgaard reflects on the essence of creativity, on choosing to be an artist,... -
What Would Frida Do?: A Guide to Living Boldly by Arianna Davis
RRP: $39.00$23.69Revered as much for her independent spirit as she is for her art, Frida Kahlo stands today as a brazen symbol of female agency and daring creativity. She was a woman ahead of her time, who even decades after her passing has inspired Oscar-winning films,... -
Dandy in the Underworld by Sebastian Horsley
RRP: $21.43$14.43'Like Salvador Dali's confessions, only far funnier and more self-deprecating, Dandy in the Underworld entertains as much as it revolts, is as tender as it is shocking, and as genuine as it is false.' IndependentSure to shock and surprise, Sebastian... -
Christopher Nolan: The Iconic Filmmaker and his work by Ian Nathan
RRP: $54.60$37.42This comprehensive and in-depth study delves into the life and works of one of modern films most celebrated, successful and intriguing auteurs, Christopher Nolan.'What is the most resilient parasite? Bacteria? A virus? An intestinal worm? An idea...