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Michelangelo: A Life on Paper by Leonard Barkan 9780691147666
RRP: £42.00£34.64Michelangelo is best known for great artistic achievements such as the Sistine ceiling, the David, the Piet, and the dome of St. Peter's. Yet throughout his seventy-five year career, he was engaged in another artistic act that until now has been largely... -
Letters of Note: Art by Shaun Usher
RRP: £6.99£4.84In Letters of Note: Art, Shaun Usher celebrates extraordinary correspondence about art, from missives on the agony of being overlooked, the ecstasy of producing work that excites, to surprising sources of inspiration and rousing manifestos. Includes... -
Renzo Piano by Lorenzo Ciccarelli 9780711288966
RRP: £45.00£29.25Renzo Piano is one of the world's greatest living architects and creator of a host of iconic modern buildings, including the Pompidou in Paris, the Menil Collection in Texas, Kansai Airport in Japan, the Shard in London and the new Whitney Museum of... -
Aleister Crowley in India: The Secret Influence of Eastern Mysticism on Magic and the Occult by Tobias Churton 9781620557969
RRP: £26.00£16.83Follow Aleister Crowley through his mystical travels in India, which profoundly influenced his magical system as well as the larger occult world * Shares excerpts from Crowley's unpublished diaries and details his travels in India, Burma, and Sri Lanka... -
The Secret Life: Volume One (1904-1924) by Salvador Dali 9781840686852
RRP: £13.95£9.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840686852Author Salvador DaliFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Creation BooksPublisher Creation Books -
Modernists & Mavericks: Bacon, Freud, Hockney and the London Painters by Martin Gayford 9780500239773
£12.55Sunday 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,... -
Love Letters Bound in Gold Handcuffs by Lee Miller
RRP: £70.00£48.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914298059Author Lee MillerFormat HardbackPage Count 408Imprint Lee Miller Archives PublishingPublisher Lee Miller Archives Publishing -
Roland Penrose: The Life of a Surrealist by James King
RRP: £37.00£34.41The first biography of Roland Penrose, one of the great English-born practitioners of modernism in the twentieth century. James King explores the intricacies of Penrose's life and work, his complex professional and personal lives,... -
Thoroughly Modern: The pioneering life of Barbara Ker-Seymer, photographer, and her brilliant Bohemian friends by Sarah Knights
RRP: £22.00£14.96The life of pioneering photographer Barbara Ker-Seymer'Thoroughly entertaining... Knights expertly evokes this hedonistic period' The Times'A picturesque portrayal of a world that sounds as thoroughly maniacal as it was modern' Daily Telegraph'I just... -
Contradiction Days: An Artist on the Verge of Motherhood by JoAnna Novak 9781646220762
RRP: £24.99£14.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646220762Author JoAnna NovakFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint CatapultPublisher Catapult -
The Well-Tempered Cello by Miranda Wilson 9781629920467
RRP: £21.95£20.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629920467Author Miranda WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Fairhaven PressPublisher Fairhaven PressWeight(grams) 399gDimensions(mm) 234mm *... -
Giacometti in Paris by Michael Peppiatt 9781526600950
RRP: £30.00£21.09THE 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... -
Marriage of Inconvenience: John Ruskin and Euphemia Gray by Robert Brownell
RRP: £29.99£20.40Effie Gray was an innocent victim of a male-dominated society, repressed and mistreated. Or was she? John Ruskin, the greatest art critic and social reformer of his time, was a callous misogynist and upholder of the patriarchy. Or was he? John Everett... -
Van Gogh's Ear: The True Story by Bernadette Murphy
RRP: £14.99£10.95In December 1888, Vincent van Gogh cut off his ear. It is the most famous story about any artist in history. But what really happened on that dark winter night?In Van Gogh's Ear, Bernadette Murphy reveals the truth. She takes us on an extraordinary... -
Wild: The Life of Peter Beard: Photographer, Adventurer, Lover by Graham Boynton
RRP: £27.99£18.59He 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... -
Ansel Adams: A Biography by Mary Street Alinder
RRP: £16.99£13.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781620408001Author Mary Street AlinderFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 554g -
Brilliant Destiny: The Age of Augustus John by David Boyd Haycock 9781848226579
RRP: £29.99£22.37Considered by John Singer Sargent to be the best British draughtsman since the Renaissance, Augustus John was the first of the British 'Post-Impressionists'. Such was his importance that Virginia Woolf declared in 1921 that by 1908 'The age of Augustus... -
Gainsborough: A Portrait by James Hamilton
RRP: £12.99£8.60** Selected as a Book of the Year in The Times, Sunday Times and Observer **'Compulsively readable - the pages seem to turn themselves' John Carey, Sunday Times 'Brings one of the very greatest [artists] vividly to life' Literary Review Thomas... -
Gaudi by Gijs van Hensbergen
RRP: £14.99£10.95The first critical biography of one of the twentieth century's greatest architects At the time of his death in 1926, Antoni Gaudi was arguably the most famous architect in the world. He had created some of the greatest and most controversial... -
Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat by Javaka Steptoe
RRP: £14.99£8.92Somewhere in Brooklyn, a little boy dreams of being a famous artist, not knowing that one day he would make himself a king.Jean-Michel Basquiat and his unique, collage-style paintings rocketed to fame in the 1980s as a cultural phenomenon unlike anything... -
Creators: From Chaucer and Durer to Picasso and Disney by Paul Johnson 9780060930462
RRP: £17.99£12.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060930462Author Paul JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)... -
Lubetkin and Goldfinger: The Rise and Fall of British High-Rise Council Housing by Nicholas Russell 9781915603746
RRP: £9.99£7.11Berthold Lubetkin and Ernoe Goldfinger were two leading architects who designed high-rise council housing after the Second World War; a type of building that now holds a poor reputation. Lubetkin built one of the earliest post-war estates in London, Spa... -
Nature's Engraver: A Life of Thomas Bewick by Jenny Uglow
RRP: £16.99£11.58Thomas Bewick wrote A History of British Birds at the end of the eighteenth century, just as Britain fell in love with nature. This was one of the wildlife books that marked the moment, the first 'field-guide' for ordinary people, illustrated by woodcuts... -
The Lives of Lucian Freud by William Feaver 9781408850930 [USED COPY]
RRP: £35.00£9.58SELECTED AS BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN, SUNDAY TIMES, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT AND SPECTATOR SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2019 'This exceptional book is far from... -
The Lives of Lucian Freud by William Feaver
RRP: £35.00£25.29SELECTED AS BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN, SUNDAY TIMES, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT AND SPECTATOR SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2019 'This exceptional book is far from... -
50 British Artists You Should Know by Lucinda Hawksley 9783791345383
RRP: £14.99£11.35This highly readable and informative collection of the best of British art showcases magnificent portraits by Thomas Gainsborough and Stanley Spencer; landscapes by J. M. W. Turner and David Hockney; satire by William Hogarth and Gilbert & George;... -
Leonardo's Notebooks: Writing and Art of the Great Master by H. Anna Suh
RRP: £17.99£14.20Leonardo's Notebooks is a biography of the genius in his own words, connecting moments of his life to artistic accomplishments through his writings, drawings, and intimate thoughts.Leonardo da Vinci -- artist, inventor, and prototypical Renaissance man... -
Behind the Mask: The Life of Vita Sackville-West by Matthew Dennison 9780007486984
RRP: £12.99£9.09Aristocrat, literary celebrity, 'Rose Queen', devoted wife, lesbian, recluse, iconoclast - Vita Sackville-West was many things, but she was never straightforward. Her life is re-told here in a dazzling new biography. Vita Sackville-West was a... -
How We Might Live: At Home with Jane and William Morris by Suzanne Fagence Cooper 9781529409482
RRP: £30.00£17.26William Morris - poet, designer, campaigner, hero of the Arts & Crafts movement - was a giant of the Victorian age, and his beautiful creations and provocative philosophies are still with us today: but his wife Jane is too often relegated to a footnote,... -
God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain by Rosemary Hill 9780140280999 [USED COPY]
RRP: £19.99£2.29Pugin was one of Britain's greatest architects and his short career one of the most dramatic in architectural history. Born in 1812, the son of the soi-disant Comte de Pugin, at 15 Pugin was working for King George IV at Windsor Castle. By the time he... -
God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain by Rosemary Hill
RRP: £19.99£14.28Pugin was one of Britain's greatest architects and his short career one of the most dramatic in architectural history. Born in 1812, the son of the soi-disant Comte de Pugin, at 15 Pugin was working for King George IV at Windsor Castle. By the time he... -
Duchamp: A Biography by Calvin Tomkins
RRP: £16.95£12.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870708923Author Calvin TomkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 552Imprint Museum of Modern ArtPublisher Museum of Modern ArtWeight(grams) 1060g -
Lives of the Artists by Giorgio Vasari 9780140444605 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£1.97In his Lives of the Artists of the Italian Renaissance, Vasari demonstrated a literary talent that outshone even his outstanding abilities as a painter and architect.Through character sketches and anecdotes he depicts Piero di Cosimo shut away in his... -
Lives of the Artists by Giorgio Vasari 9780140444605
RRP: £12.99£9.09In his Lives of the Artists of the Italian Renaissance, Vasari demonstrated a literary talent that outshone even his outstanding abilities as a painter and architect.Through character sketches and anecdotes he depicts Piero di Cosimo shut away in his... -
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... -
A Brief History of Black British Art by Rianna Jade Parker
RRP: £15.00£10.96Black artists in Britain have long been making major contributions to art history. While some of these artists have been embraced at times by the art world, for the most part they have not received the recognition they deserve. Taking as its starting... -
Grinling Gibbons: Master Carver by Paul Rabbitts
RRP: £8.99£6.96Master Carver Grinling Gibbons (1648-1721) is famous for his breathtakingly delicate, intricate and realistic carvings, both in wood and stone. Tantalising cascades of fruit and flowers, puffy-cheeked cherubs, crowds of figures and flourishes of... -
The Longing for Less: Living with Minimalism by Kyle Chayka 9781635572100
RRP: £18.99£15.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635572100Author Kyle ChaykaFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 412g -
Look Again: The Autobiography by David Bailey 9781509896868
RRP: £10.99£7.93Eye-opening and candid, David Bailey's Look Again is a fantastically entertaining memoir by a true icon.'Rollicking . . . with roguish tales as vivid as his era-defining photos' - Daily Mail'Brilliant' - TelegraphDavid Bailey burst onto the scene in 1960... -
Ansel Adams: An Autobiography by Ansel Adams 9780821222416 [USED COPY]
RRP: £13.99£4.12In this bestselling autobiography, completed shortly before his death in 1984, Ansel Adams looks back at his legendary six-decade career as a conservationist, teacher, musician, and, above all, photographer. Written with characteristic warmth, vigour,...