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Man of Iron by Julian Glover
RRP: £10.99£7.77The enthralling Sunday Times-bestselling biography of the shepherd boy who changed the world with his revolutionary engineering and whose genius we still benefit from today 'A biography of great verve ... brings back to vivid life a man who should... -
1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: A Memoir by Ai Weiwei
RRP: £25.00£16.53A FAMILY STORY AND THE TALE OF A NATION.Ai Weiwei - one of the world's most famous artists and activists - weaves a century-long epic tale of China through the story of his own life and that of his father, Ai Qing, the nation's most celebrated poet... -
Austin Osman Spare: The Life and Legend of London's Lost Artist: Revised Edition by Phil Baker
RRP: £23.00£15.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913689650Author Phil BakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Strange Attractor PressPublisher Strange Attractor Press -
Threads: The Delicate Life of John Craske by Julia Blackburn 9780099582199
RRP: £30.00£21.35Winner 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... -
Michelangelo: His Epic Life by Martin Gayford
RRP: £30.00£22.55'An absorbing book, beautifully told and with the writer fully in command of a huge body of research' Philip Hensher, Mail on Sunday There was an epic sweep to Michelangelo's life. At 31 he was considered the finest artist in Italy, perhaps the world;... -
I Know What I Am: The Life and Times of Artemisia Gentileschi by Gina Siciliano
RRP: £29.99£22.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683962113Author Gina SicilianoFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher Fantagraphics -
Tracey Emin by Jonathan Jones
RRP: £14.99£10.23This accessible and expertly written introduction and overview of Tracey Emin's life offers a completely up-to-date view on the work of one of the most important and respected artists working today.From some of her previously unpublished early works from... -
Edvard Munch: Behind the Scream by Sue Prideaux
RRP: £17.99£15.79Who was the man behind The Scream, the iconic painting that so acutely expresses the anguish of the twentieth century? Edvard Munch (1863 - 1944) was twenty-eight when he embarked on a lifelong effort to paint his 'soul's diary' - and began a perverse... -
Eric Stanton and the History of the Bizarre Underground by ,Richard,Perez Seves 9780764355424
RRP: £27.99£18.74Tracing the rise of commercial fetish art from its shadowy beginnings in the 1940s to its acceptance in the 1970s, this illustrated biography explores the unconventional life and art of Eric Stanton, a pioneering sexual fantasist who helped shape the... -
Double Vision: The Unerring Eye of Art World Avatars Dominique and John de Menil: Paris, New York, Houston by William Middleton 9780375415432
RRP: £42.00£32.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375415432Author William MiddletonFormat HardbackPage Count 896Imprint Alfred A KnopfPublisher Alfred A. Knopf -
The Blue Touch Paper: A Memoir by David Hare 9780571294343
RRP: £9.99£6.70When, in 2000, the National Theatre published its poll of the hundred best plays of the 20th century, David Hare had written five of them. Yet he was born in 1947 into an anonymous suburban street in Hastings. It is a world he believes to be as... -
Keith Haring by Simon Doonan
RRP: £12.99£8.60Keith Haring was a revolutionary artist, who transformed the art world during his short but impactful life. Brought to life by Simon Doonan, Creative Director for Barneys New York, this new pocket-sized biography tells his inspirational story... -
The Lives of Lucian Freud: FAME 1968 - 2011 by William Feaver
RRP: £14.99£9.08LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, THE TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, MAIL ON SUNDAY, FINANCIAL TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, SPECTATOR THE SUNDAY TIMES ART BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 ... -
Guillermo del Toro: The Iconic Filmmaker and his Work by Ian Nathan
RRP: £28.00£19.19Guillermo del Toro is a complete and intimate study of the life and work of one of modern cinema's most truly unique directors, whose distinct aesthetic and imagination are unmatched in contemporary film. Widely regarded as one of the most imaginative... -
Andy Warhol by Robert Shore
RRP: £12.99£8.60King of Pop Art Andy Warhol is one of the greatest artists of all time. Rarely venturing into public without his camera and tape recorder, Warhol was a great observer and documentarist of the American social scene.Somewhere within the iconic images,... -
Jacques-Louis David, Revolutionary Artist: Art, Politics, and the French Revolution by Warren Roberts 9780807843505
RRP: £55.00£51.49The 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,... -
The Ninth: Beethoven and the World in 1824 by Harvey Sachs
RRP: £9.99£6.70A 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... -
Chalk by Joshua Rivkin
RRP: £17.99£12.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612198545Author Joshua RivkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing -
Here I Am: The story of Tim Hetherington, war photographer by Alan Huffman
RRP: £14.99£10.95Tim Hetherington (1970-2011) was one of the world's most distinguished and dedicated photojournalists, whose career was tragically cut short when he died in a mortar blast while covering the Libyan Civil War. Someone far less interested in professional... -
The Collected Letters of Jane Morris by Jan Marsh 9781837651382
RRP: £36.99£31.16Presents 570 newly discovered letters from Jane Morris to diverse correspondents, which radically revise the popular view of a silent, discontented invalid and instead portray her as an independent thinker following her own causes. The vast majority of... -
Steady Lens: The True Story of Pioneer Photographer Mary Spencer by Sherril Foster 9781927575222
RRP: £14.99£8.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781927575222Author Sherril FosterFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Caitlin PressPublisher Caitlin PressWeight(grams) 370g -
The Last Days of Roger Federer: And Other Endings by Geoff Dyer 9781838855772
RRP: £10.99£7.77A 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... -
Vanessa Bell: Portrait of the Bloomsbury Artist by Frances Spalding
RRP: £14.99£11.87The 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... -
Dark Room by Garry Fabian Miller
RRP: £40.00£30.09Garry Fabian Miller's Dark Room is a photography book unlike any other. At its heart is the artist's description of a life lived making pictures between the dark and the light, a deeply personal account woven against the history of photography from the... -
The Inking Woman: 250 Years of British Women Cartoon and Comic Artists by Nicola Streeten
RRP: £19.99£14.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995590083Author Nicola StreetenFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Myriad EditionsPublisher Myriad Editions -
Kate: Inside the Rainbow by John Carder Bush
RRP: £50.00£34.75A 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... -
Album Picabia by Beverley Calte
RRP: £30.00£25.85Album Picabia is an inspiring, artistic chronicle of Francis Picabia's life (1879-1953) as seen through the eyes of his last wife and creative protegee, Olga Mohler Picabia. Begun in 1936, four years before their marriage, and left unfinished in 1951,... -
The Sagrada Familia: Gaudi's Heaven on Earth by Gijs van Hensbergen
RRP: £12.99£9.09'Exquisite ... A wonderment of an essay about a wonderment of a building' Paul Preston Its scaffolding-cloaked spires reach up to the heavens, dominating the Barcelona skyline and drawing in millions of visitors every year. What seduces our attention... -
Long Live Great Bardfield: The Autobiography of Tirzah Garwood by Tirzah Garwood 9781910263099
RRP: £16.00£15.64Apologies 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 -
Vivian Maier Developed: The Untold Story of the Photographer Nanny by Ann Marks
RRP: £28.00£18.62The definitive biography that unlocks the remarkable story of Vivian Maier, the nanny who lived secretly as a world-class photographer, featuring nearly 400 of her images, many never seen before, placed for the first time in the context of her life... -
Salvator Rosa: Paint and Performance by Helen Langdon 9781789145731
RRP: £17.95£13.32Painter, poet and actor Salvator Rosa was one of the most engaging and charismatic personalities of seventeenth-century Italy. Although a gifted landscape painter, he longed to be seen as the pre-eminent philosopher-painter of his age. This new account... -
Almost Nothing: The 20th-Century Art And Life Of Jozef Czapski by Eric Karpeles
RRP: £15.99£11.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681372846Author Eric KarpelesFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books,... -
Michelangelo, God's Architect: The Story of His Final Years and Greatest Masterpiece by William E. Wallace 9780691195490
RRP: £25.00£19.18The untold story of Michelangelo's final decades-and his transformation into one of the greatest architects of the Italian RenaissanceAs he entered his seventies, the great Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo despaired that his productive years were... -
William Morris: A Life for Our Time by Fiona MacCarthy
RRP: £40.00£27.68Winner of the Wolfson History Prize, and described by A.S.Byatt as 'one of the finest biographies ever published', this is Fiona MacCarthy's magisterial biography of William Morris, legendary designer and father of the Victorian Arts and Crafts movement... -
Hans Holbein: The Artist in a Changing World by Jeanne Nuechterlein
RRP: £17.95£13.32Immensely skillful and inventive, Hans Holbein molded his approach to art-making during a period of dramatic transformation in European society and culture: the emergence of humanism, the impact of the Reformation on religious life and the effects of new... -
Roam: A Search for Happiness by Juno Roche 9780349702339
RRP: £10.99£7.40'Delicate and devastating. Up there with the best of them.' HANNAH LOWE, WINNER OF THE COSTA PRIZE 'Roche is a charming, unflinchingly honest guide on a journey that's as funny as it is heart-breaking.' JUNO DAWSON How does an untrained eye recognise the... -
Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey by Mark Dery
RRP: £9.99£6.64The definitive biography of Edward Gorey, the eccentric master of macabre nonsense. 'A genius book about a bookish genius' Daniel Handler, author of A Series of Unfortunate Events ... -
Marcel Duchamp: The Afternoon Interviews by Marcel Duchamp 9781936440399
RRP: £14.50£9.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936440399Author Marcel DuchampFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Badlands UnlimitedPublisher Badlands Unlimited -
It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth by Zoe Thorogood
RRP: £11.99£9.32Nominated 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... -
Walter Moorcroft: Memories of Life and Living by Walter Moorcroft 9780903685719
RRP: £25.00£11.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780903685719Author Walter MoorcroftFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Richard DennisPublisher Richard DennisWeight(grams) 803gDimensions(mm) 312mm * 235mm...