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The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington by Joanna Moorhead
RRP: £12.99£8.60In 2006 journalist Joanna Moorhead discovered that her father's cousin, Prim, who had disappeared many decades earlier, was now a famous artist in Mexico. Although rarely spoken of in her own family (regarded as a black sheep, a wild child; someone they... -
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 -
Cosmic Scholar: The Life and Times of Harry Smith by John Szwed 9780374282240
RRP: £25.99£17.38He was an anthropologist, a filmmaker, a painter, a folklorist, a mystic, and a walking encyclopedia. He taught Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe about the occult, swapped drugs with Timothy Leary, jammed with Thelonious Monk, lived with Allen... -
Self-Portrait by Man Ray
RRP: £14.99£10.95In this remarkable autobiography, Man Ray - painter, photographer, sculptor, film maker and writer - relates the story of his life, from his childhood determination to be an artist and his technical drawing classes in a Brooklyn high school, to the... -
Solutions and Other Problems by Allie Brosh
RRP: £14.99£12.61*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... -
The Factory of Facts by Luc Sante 9780679746508
RRP: £19.00£14.38Apologies 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... -
Giorgio de Chirico: Life and Paintings by Fabio Benzi
RRP: £42.50£32.04Giorgio de Chirico was one of the most controversial and consequential artists of the twentieth century a key member of the Paris avant-garde, he was a major influence on other artists, especially the nascent surrealists. His repertoire of motifs empty... -
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... -
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... -
The Lives of Lucian Freud: FAME 1968 - 2011 by William Feaver
RRP: £14.99£9.32LONGLISTED 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 ... -
Akiane: Her Life, Her Art, Her Poetry: Her Life, Her Art, Her Poetry by Akiane Kramarik 9780718075866 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00£7.94Experience the wonder of child prodigy Akaine Kramarik's divinely inspired artwork firsthand.Akiane's nonreligious parents were bewildered when their four-year-old daughter started sharing her dreams of angels, heaven, and Jesus. Her spiritual insight... -
Akiane: Her Life, Her Art, Her Poetry: Her Life, Her Art, Her Poetry by Akiane Kramarik 9780718075866
RRP: £20.00£14.69Experience the wonder of child prodigy Akaine Kramarik's divinely inspired artwork firsthand.Akiane's nonreligious parents were bewildered when their four-year-old daughter started sharing her dreams of angels, heaven, and Jesus. Her spiritual insight... -
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,... -
Words Without Music by Philip Glass
RRP: £14.99£9.80The 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... -
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 -
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... -
The Last Days of Roger Federer: And Other Endings by Geoff Dyer 9781838855772
RRP: £10.99£7.32A 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... -
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... -
Modernists & Mavericks: Bacon, Freud, Hockney and the London Painters by Martin Gayford
RRP: £14.99£9.80Sunday 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 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... -
Vanessa Bell: Portrait of the Bloomsbury Artist by Frances Spalding
RRP: £14.99£12.15The 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... -
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... -
Dark Room by Garry Fabian Miller
RRP: £40.00£30.67Garry 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... -
Wilderness Dreaming: Memoir of an African Wildlife Photographer by Greg Du Toit
RRP: £19.00£13.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781776323258Author Greg Du ToitFormat PaperbackPage Count 444Imprint HPH PublishingPublisher HPH Publishing -
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,... -
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 -
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... -
Marcel Duchamp: The Afternoon Interviews by Marcel Duchamp 9781936440399
RRP: £14.50£9.85Apologies 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 -
Later ... With Jools Holland: 30 Years of Music, Magic and Mayhem by Mark Cooper 9780008424404
RRP: £10.99£7.25'You never knew what you were going to be confronted with when you went on Later...' Nick Cave 'Later... is a voyage of discovery for us as well as the viewers' Dave Grohl Dave Grohl and Alicia Keys loved it, Bjoerk... -
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... -
Michelangelo, God's Architect: The Story of His Final Years and Greatest Masterpiece by William E. Wallace 9780691195490
RRP: £25.00£19.59The 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... -
Family Secrets: Acts of Memory and Imagination by Annette Kuhn
£16.88Annette Kuhn's work as a theorist of culture has won her a wide reputation for dissecting film and other images in books such as Women's Pictures and The Power of the Image. In Family Secrets, she turns her attention to the deconstruction of pictures... -
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... -
The Last Days of John Lennon by James Patterson
RRP: £7.99£5.79'Incredibly tense and thriller-like . . . I totally recommend it' LEE CHILDThe greatest true-crime story in music history.A GLOBAL SUPERSTARIn the summer of 1980, ten years after the break-up of the Beatles, John Lennon signed with a new label, ready to... -
Becoming Superman: My Journey From Poverty to Hollywood by J. Michael Straczynski
RRP: £12.99£8.48Featuring an introduction by Neil Gaiman! "J. Michael Straczynski is, without question, one of the greatest science fiction minds of our time." -- Max Brooks (World War Z) For four decades, J. Michael Straczynski has been one of the most... -
See What You're Missing: 31 Ways Artists Notice the World – and How You Can Too by Will Gompertz
RRP: £20.00£14.29The internationally bestselling author on how art can help us appreciate life in all its strange and exhilarating beautyArtists have learnt to pay attention. The rest of us spend most of our time on autopilot, rushing from place to place, our... -
Lives and Letters of Artemisia Gentileschi by Artemisia Gentileschi
RRP: £10.99£7.40Lives of Artemisia Gentileschi presents a fascinating look at the famous Baroque artist. Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653) was an Italian painter known for the naturalism with which she depicted the female body and her use of rich colours and chiaroscuro... -
Exist Otherwise: The Life and Works of Claude Cahun by Jennifer L. Shaw
RRP: £20.00£19.24Now available in paperback, this is the first work in English to tell the full story of Claude Cahun's art and life. It both recounts her life and analyses her complex writings and images, making them available to a wide audience. Shaw's account embeds... -
The Worlds of John Ruskin by Kevin Jackson 9781843681489
RRP: £19.99£13.35Ruskin 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... -
Hilma af Klint: Notes and Methods by Hilma af Klint
RRP: £40.00£33.82At the turn of the twentieth century, Swedish artist Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) created a body of work that left visible reality behind, exploring the radical possibilities of abstraction years before Vasily Kandinsky, Kazimir Malevich, or Piet Mondrian...