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Modernists & Mavericks: Bacon, Freud, Hockney and the London Painters by Martin Gayford 9780500239773
€14.93Sunday Times Art Book of the Year 2018'If you are interested in modern British art, the book is unputdownable. If you are not, read it.' - Grey Gowrie, Financial Times 'All the good stories, and more, are here ... this is a genuinely encyclopaedic work,... -
Kate: Inside the Rainbow John Carder Bush 9780751559903
RRP: €59.50€41.65A MUST-HAVE COLLECTION OF RARE AND UNSEEN PHOTOGRAPHS OF KATE BUSH.WITH ESSAYS BY HER BROTHER, JOHN CARDER BUSH, ABOUT KATE'S LIFE AND CAREER.Stunning and unique images from throughout Kate Bush's career including:Outtakes from classic album shoots and... -
Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring by Brad Gooch 9780062698261
RRP: €35.70€24.56"It's all here: the grade school Walt Disney and Dr. Seuss; the adolescent acid trips; the fondness for Post-it notes and flying saucers; the long tails of Dubuffet and Burroughs; the encounters with Madonna, Warhol, and one game-changer of a subway... -
Constable In Love: Love, Landscape, Money and the Making of a Great Painter by Martin Gayford
RRP: €13.08€9.51Art 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... -
A Life of Picasso Volume I: 1881-1906 John Richardson 9781845951559
RRP: €47.60€35.24From 1950 to 1962, John Richardson lived near Picasso in France and was a friend of the artist. With a view to writing a biography, the acclaimed art historian kept a diary of their meetings. After Picasso's death, his widow Jacqueline collaborated in... -
The Philosophy of Andy Warhol by Andy Warhol
RRP: €11.89€8.71The 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... -
A Circle of Sisters: Alice Kipling, Georgiana Burne-Jones, Agnes Poynter and Louisa Baldwin by Judith Flanders
RRP: €20.22€14.61The Macdonald sisters -- Alice, Georgiana, Agnes and Louisa -- started life among the ranks of the lower-middle classes, with little prospect of social advancement. But as wives and mothers they made a single family of the poet Rudyard Kipling, the... -
Hilma af Klint: A Biography by Julia Voss
RRP: €33.32€28.17A highly anticipated biography of the enigmatic and popular Swedish painter. The Swedish painter Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) was 44 years old when she broke with the academic tradition in which she had been trained. While her naturalistic... -
Groovy Bob: The Life and Times of Robert Fraser by Harriet Vyner
RRP: €11.90€8.39Acclaimed on first publication, Harriet Vyner s Groovy Bob is the cult biography of hedonistic gallery owner Robert Fraser and a dazzling evocation of 1960s culture and counter-culture. Taste-maker, heroin addict and promiscuous homosexual, Fraser... -
People Behind The Disney Parks: Stories of Those Honored with a Window on Main Street, U.S.A by Chuck Snyder 9781484748725
RRP: €67.82€45.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781484748725Author Chuck SnyderFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint HyperionPublisher Hyperion -
Thomas Heaphy, 1775-1835, First President of the Society of British Artists by William T Whitley 9781633916234
RRP: €11.42€9.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633916234Author William T WhitleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Westphalia PressPublisher Westphalia PressWeight(grams) 104gDimensions(mm) 254mm *... -
In Montparnasse: The Emergence of Surrealism in Paris, from Duchamp to Dali by Sue Roe
RRP: €13.08€9.51'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... -
The Lives of Lucian Freud: YOUTH 1922 - 1968 William Feaver 9781408850954
RRP: €17.84€14.41SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2019 SELECTED AS BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN, SUNDAY TIMES, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT AND SPECTATOR 'A compendium of high-grade gossip about... -
This Dark Country: Women Artists, Still Life and Intimacy in the Early Twentieth Century by Rebecca Birrell
RRP: €13.08€8.72Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2022 Longlisted for the William M B Berger Prize for British Art History 2022 Guardian Art Book of the Year 2021 A dazzling, boldly original work that tells the powerful and passionate stories of a... -
The Visionary Art of Nicholas Roerich: A Messenger of Beauty by Jacqueline Decter 9781644117972
RRP: €47.60€31.49A fully illustrated biography of mystic, artist, and explorer Nicholas Roerich. Nicholas Roerich (1874-1947) was a Russian artist, writer, archaeologist, explorer, mystic, theosophist, and peacemaker who left a rich legacy of nearly 7,000 visionary... -
Threads: The Delicate Life of John Craske by Julia Blackburn 9780099582199
RRP: €35.70€25.41Winner of the East Anglian Book of the Year 2015 Winner of the New Angle Book Prize 2017John Craske, a Norfok fisherman, was born in 1881 and in 1917, when he had just turned thirty-six, he fell seriously ill. For the rest of his life he kept moving in... -
A Look at My Life by Eileen Agar 9780500026809
RRP: €41.65€26.69'A thrilling insight into one of the 20th century's great artists. Agar's exuberant and colourful life and work come alive in this book' Katy Hessel 'A vivid panorama of an adventurous and stimulating age' Financial Times Whether dancing on the... -
John Martin: Apocalypse Now! by Barbara C. Morden 9781904794998
RRP: €45.22€33.61Apologies 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 -
Artists Who Changed History by Andrew Graham Dixon 9780241632895
RRP: €29.75€19.19This visual celebration of the world's most celebrated thinkers tells the fascinating stories of their lives and pioneering ideas.Artists Who Changed History places well-known artists in their historical and cultural context, showing you how they came to... -
Christopher Nolan: The Iconic Filmmaker and his work by Ian Nathan
RRP: €33.32€23.17This 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... -
Giacometti in Paris by Michael Peppiatt 9781526600950
RRP: €35.70€25.67THE TIMES AND WATERSTONES BEST ART BOOK OF 2023 'Marvellous . . . intimate and insightful . . . reads like a novel by Samuel Beckett' Paul Theroux A portrait of one of the twentieth century's greatest sculptors from one of our most eminent art... -
The Creativity Code: How AI is learning to write, paint and think by Marcus du Sautoy
RRP: €13.08€8.88'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... -
Solutions and Other Problems by Allie Brosh
RRP: €17.84€14.96*THE NO.1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*For the first time in seven years, Allie Brosh, the creator of the immensely popular blog 'Hyperbole and a Half' and #1 New York Times bestselling author, returns with her new collection. Solutions and Other Problems... -
Wild: The Life of Peter Beard: Photographer, Adventurer, Lover Graham Boynton 9781250274991
RRP: €33.31€22.10He was the original 20th century "enfant terrible" with the looks of a Greek god who blazed like a comet across the worlds of art, photography, and fame. The scion of several old WASP fortunes, he was by instinct an adventurer, and the more dangerous the... -
Britten's Children by John Bridcut
RRP: €15.46€10.94Britten's Children confronts the edgy subject of the composer's obsessional yet strangely innocent relationships with adolescent boys. One of the hallmarks of Benjamin Britten's music is his use of boys' voices, and John Bridcut uses this to create a... -
Flappers: Six Women of a Dangerous Generation by Judith Mackrell 9780330529525
€21.53Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Elvis Presley: The Biography; The Fame, Gospel and Lonely Life of the King of Rock and Roll by United Library 9789493311367
RRP: €13.08€9.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789493311367Author United LibraryFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint United LibraryPublisher United LibraryWeight(grams) 82gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *... -
Vanessa Bell by Sarah Milroy
RRP: €29.75€24.01A stunning display of the vibrant and wide-ranging talent of Vanessa Bell in the first catalogue devoted to the artist. Vanessa Bell (1879-1961) has been known as the still, quiet centre around which the Bloomsbury Group revolved,. She was renowned... -
John Piper, Myfanwy Piper: A Biography by Frances Spalding
RRP: €46.99€35.27This book is about a shared journey made by John and Myfanwy Piper who early on settled down in a small hamlet on the edge of the Chilterns, whence they proceeded to produce work which placed them centre stage in the cultural landscape of the twentieth... -
Vanessa Bell: Portrait of the Bloomsbury Artist by Frances Spalding
RRP: €17.84€14.67The definitive and authorised biography of the artist Vanessa Bell. Even through the lens of the twenty-first century, the story of Vanessa Bell's life is unorthodox. A powerful magnetic figure, Bell lived at the heart of the Bloomsbury Group and was... -
Mr Barry's War: Rebuilding the Houses of Parliament after the Great Fire of 1834 by Caroline Shenton 9780198707202
RRP: €17.84€13.03When the brilliant classical architect Charles Barry won the competition to build a new, Gothic, Houses of Parliament in London he thought it was the chance of a lifetime. It swiftly turned into the most nightmarish building programme of the century... -
The Factory of Facts by Luc Sante 9780679746508
RRP: €22.61€17.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679746508Author Lucy SanteFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 289gDimensions(mm) 200mm * 132mm... -
Long Live Great Bardfield: The Autobiography of Tirzah Garwood by Tirzah Garwood 9781910263099
€20.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910263099Author Tirzah GarwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Persephone Books LtdPublisher Persephone Books Ltd -
Kaws by Monica Ramirez-Montagut
RRP: €47.60€35.24A vibrant look at the celebrated artist and designer KAWS.Multidisciplinary artist KAWS was first known for his work as a graffiti artist and his subersive approach to poular imagery on bus shelter and phone booth advertisements. This is the first... -
The Gilded Gutter Life Of Francis Bacon: The Authorized Biography by Daniel Farson
RRP: €15.46€11.11Widely 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,... -
Life of Picasso: v. 4 by John Richardson
RRP: €41.65€30.10'A masterpiece' Sunday Times'Magisterial... thrilling' Guardian'Terrifically enjoyable' Daily TelegraphThe beautifully illustrated, long-awaited final volume of John Richardson's magisterial Life of Picasso, drawing on original research from interviews... -
Words Without Music by Philip Glass
RRP: €17.84€11.97The long-awaited memoir by 'the most prolific and popular of all contemporary composers' (New York Times)Rapturous in its ability to depict the creative process, Words Without Music allows readers to experience that sublime moment of creative fusion... -
The Last Days of Roger Federer: And Other Endings by Geoff Dyer 9781838855772
RRP: €13.08€8.97A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKIn this endlessly stimulating investigation into 'things coming to an end, artists' last works, time running out', Geoff Dyer sets his own encounter with late middle age against the last days and last achievements of... -
Mark Rothko: Toward the Light in the Chapel by Annie Cohen-Solal
RRP: €14.27€12.39A 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... -
The Worlds of John Ruskin Kevin Jackson 9781843681489
RRP: €23.79€16.12Ruskin is one of the most influential and exhilarating writers in English. Art critic, architectural visionary, social reformer, climate warner and incomparable teacher; Ruskin's words not only transformed Victorian England but speak to us with...