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Michelangelo, God's Architect: The Story of His Final Years and Greatest Masterpiece by William E. Wallace 9780691195490
RRP: $48.75$38.20The 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... -
Walter Moorcroft: Memories of Life and Living by Walter Moorcroft 9780903685719
RRP: $48.75$22.15Apologies 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 Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington by Joanna Moorhead
RRP: $25.33$16.77In 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... -
The Last Days of John Lennon by James Patterson
RRP: $15.58$11.29'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... -
See What You're Missing: 31 Ways Artists Notice the World – and How You Can Too by Will Gompertz
RRP: $39.00$27.87The 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: $21.43$14.43Lives 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: $39.00$37.52Now 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 Baby on the Fire Escape: Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Baby Problem by Julie Phillips 9780393088595
RRP: $42.88$34.46What does it mean to create, not in "a room of one's own" but in a domestic space? Do children and genius rule each other out? In The Baby on the Fire Escape, award-winning biographer Julie Phillips traverses the shifting terrain where motherhood and... -
The Worlds of John Ruskin by Kevin Jackson 9781843681489
RRP: $38.98$26.03Ruskin 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... -
The Invisible Painting: My Memoir of Leonora Carrington by Gabriel Weisz Carrington
RRP: $35.08$25.66Since her death in 2011, the legendary Surrealist Leonora Carrington has been reconstructed and reinvented many times over. In this book, Gabriel Weisz Carrington draws on remembered conversations and events to demythologise his mother, revealing the... -
Hilma af Klint: Notes and Methods by Hilma af Klint
RRP: $78.00$67.45At 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... -
Desperate Romantics by Franny Moyle
RRP: $25.33$16.77Their Bohemian lifestyle and intertwined love affairs shockingly broke 19th Century class barriers and bent the rules that governed the roles of the sexes. They became defined by love triangles, played out against the austere moral climate of Victorian... -
Francis Bacon: Revelations by Mark Stevens
RRP: $39.00$27.96The Times Art Book of the Year 2021 FINALIST FOR THE PLUTARCH AWARD 2022 'Must surely be the definitive life of Francis Bacon ... A biography that no Bacon fan - or indeed foe - can afford to overlook ... Mesmerising'... -
Tom of Finland: The Official Life and Work of a Gay Hero by F. Valentine Hooven
RRP: $68.25$48.05Tom of Finland (born Tuoko Laaksonen, 1920-1991), was an iconic and ground-breaking artist who rose to cult status in the international queer community and beyond for his work celebrating the male figure and masculinity during a time when being... -
Insurgent Muse: Life and Art at the Woman's Building by Terry Wolverton 9780872864030
RRP: $25.33$24.00In the 1970s, the West Coast feminist art movement coalesced around the Woman's Building in Los Angeles, founded by artist Judy Chicago. Arriving as a young art student in 1976, Terry Wolverton stayed on to become a teacher and co-founder of the Lesbian... -
Caravaggio - The Artist and His Work by Sybille Ebert-Schifferer 9781606060957
$97.70This is a fascinating re-evaluation of the life and works of a hugely talented yet controversial artist. The young Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) created a major stir in late-sixteenth-century Rome with the groundbreaking naturalism and... -
Kyffin Williams by Quing Chao Ma 9781913134792
RRP: $58.50$43.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913134792Author Qing Chao MaFormat HardbackPage Count 276Imprint Graffeg LimitedPublisher Graffeg LimitedDimensions(mm) 250mm * 250mm * 30mm -
The Lives of Lucian Freud: FAME 1968 - 2011 by William Feaver 9781526603562
RRP: $68.25$49.32LONGLISTED 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 'A... -
Modernists & Mavericks: Bacon, Freud, Hockney and the London Painters by Martin Gayford
RRP: $29.23$19.11Sunday 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,... -
The Last Days of Roger Federer by Geoff Dyer
RRP: $39.00$27.87A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK'Quite possibly the best living writer in Britain' Daily TelegraphMuch attention has been paid to so-called late style - but what about last style? When does last begin? How early is late? When does the end set in?In this... -
Janet Leach: Potter by Joanna Wason 9781916846005
RRP: $48.75$33.74Janet Darnell's childhood in Texas during the Roaring Twenties and the Depression imbued her with resilience and practical skills, largely acquired on her grandparents' farm. Aged 19 she took a bus to New York City where she found work as a sculptor's... -
Leonardo Da Vinci: The Flights of the Mind by Charles Nicholl 9780140296815 [USED COPY]
RRP: $37.03$4.56Leonardo da Vinci is the most mysterious of all the great artists, continuing to inspire and intrigue centuries after his death. Who lies behind the legend of the 'Renaissance genius'? What is the real story behind his elusive masterpieces and... -
Leonardo Da Vinci: The Flights of the Mind by Charles Nicholl
RRP: $37.03$26.54Leonardo da Vinci is the most mysterious of all the great artists, continuing to inspire and intrigue centuries after his death. Who lies behind the legend of the 'Renaissance genius'? What is the real story behind his elusive masterpieces and... -
Modigliani: A Painter and His Art Dealer by Cécile Girardeau 9782080430519
RRP: $58.50$37.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782080430519Author Cecile GirardeauFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint FlammarionPublisher Editions FlammarionWeight(grams) 1060g -
Letters to Gwen John by Celia Paul
RRP: $37.03$27.32A unique combination of memoir and artistic biography, interspersed with original artworks, from the acclaimed artist and author of SELF-PORTRAIT.We are both painters. We can connect to each other through images, in our own unvoiced language. But I will... -
David Hockney by James Cahill
RRP: $25.33$15.85The latest addition to the 'Lives of the Artists' series: highly readable short biographies of the world's greatest artistsDavid Hockney is the most famous living British artist. And he is arguably one of the more famous American artists as well... -
The Stuart Image: English Portraiture 1603 to 1649 by Roy Strong
RRP: $58.50$48.46Based on a lifetime's work in the field, Sir Roy Strong offers an expert and engaging new look at portrait painting in Stuart England, studying the sitters as much as the artists. Sir Roy Strong has been writing for over half a century on the painters... -
Monet by Susie Hodge 9780754819530
RRP: $33.13$27.07This is an expert and detailed account of the painter Claude Monet, one of the key founders of the Impressionist movement and arguably the most influential painter of modern times. It is an insightful biography that tells the story of his life, the... -
Turner - A Life by James Hamilton 9780340628119
RRP: $29.23$19.11The definitive biography of J.M.W. Turner.'A pleasure to read'.' A.S. BYATT'With splendid clarity and shrewd humour, James Hamilton evokes the visceral world of a great artist and a fascinating character.' MIKE LEIGHIn 1799, aged just 24, Turner became... -
Studio of the South by Martin Bailey
RRP: $37.03$25.64"Martin Bailey has written some of the most interesting books on Vincent's life in France, where he produced his greatest work" - Johan van Gogh, grandson of Theo, the artist's brotherStudio of the South tells the story of Van Gogh's stay in Arles, when... -
William Morris: A Life for Our Time by Fiona MacCarthy
RRP: $78.00$53.98Winner 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... -
Becoming Superman: My Journey From Poverty to Hollywood by J. Michael Straczynski
RRP: $25.33$16.54Featuring 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... -
My Adventures as an Illustrator: The Definitive Edition by ,Tom Rockwell
RRP: $56.53$39.78The life of America's most beloved artist, in his own words-back in print with restored text and drawings, new illustrations, and more The wit, humanity, and many-sided talent of Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) are on full display in his classic... -
Keith Haring Journals by Keith Haring
RRP: $33.13$23.95Keith Haring is synonymous with the downtown New York art scene of the 1980's. His artwork-with its simple, bold lines and dynamic figures in motion-filtered in to the world's consciousness and is still instantly recognizable, twenty years after his... -
Albert and the Whale by Philip Hoare
RRP: $21.43$14.14A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR AN OBSERVER BEST ART BOOK OF 2021 SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2022 'This is a wonderful book. A... -
Manolo Blahnik and the Tale of the Elves and the Shoemaker: A Fashion Fairy Tale Memoir by Camilla Morton 9780061917301
RRP: $25.33$17.86Each book in this inspired series by fashion writer Camilla Morton inventively reimagines one of our favorite "Once Upon a Time" stories, blending it with the real-life story of a famed fashion designer. Lushly illustrated by the designers themselves,... -
Renoir: His Life and Works in 500 Images by Susie Hodge 9780754823476
RRP: $33.13$25.90This fascinating new book looks in detail at Renoir's influences, life and works. The first part begins examines his style; it covers Renoir's techniques and training: painting copies at the Louvre; his time at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts; meeting his muse,... -
Smash Cut: A Memoir of Howard & Art & the '70s & the '80s by Brad Gooch 9780062354969
$22.35The author of the acclaimed City Poet returns with a searing memoir of life in 1980s New York City-a colorful and atmospheric tale of wild bohemians, glamorous celebrity, and complicated passions-with cameo appearances by Madonna, Robert Mapplethorpe,... -
Terry Abraham: Life on the Mountains by Terry Abraham
RRP: $38.81$33.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999894061Author Terry AbrahamFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Jake Island LtdPublisher Jake Island Ltd -
The Last Leonardo: The Secret Lives of the World's Most Expensive Painting by Ben Lewis
RRP: $19.48$12.95In 2017 the Salvator Mundi was sold at auction for $450m. But is it a real da Vinci? In a thrilling narrative built on formidable research, Ben Lewis tracks the extraordinary journey of a masterpiece lost and found, lied and fought over...