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Ansel Adams: An Autobiography by Ansel Adams
RRP: £13.99£8.38In 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,... -
A Forger's Tale: Confessions of the Bolton Forger by Shaun Greenhalgh 9781760295288 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£2.53Observer's Best Art Book of the Year, 2018In 2007, Bolton Crown Court sentenced Shaun Greenhalgh to four years and eight months in prison for the crime of producing artistic forgeries. Working out of a shed in his parents' garden, Greenhalgh had... -
A Forger's Tale: Confessions of the Bolton Forger by Shaun Greenhalgh
RRP: £10.99£7.32Observer's Best Art Book of the Year, 2018In 2007, Bolton Crown Court sentenced Shaun Greenhalgh to four years and eight months in prison for the crime of producing artistic forgeries. Working out of a shed in his parents' garden, Greenhalgh had... -
Groovy Bob: The Life and Times of Robert Fraser by Harriet Vyner
RRP: £10.00£6.85Acclaimed 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... -
Something Like an Autobiography by Akira Kurosawa
RRP: £14.99£11.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394714394Author Akira KurosawaFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 215gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Bernard Buffet: The Invention of the Modern Mega-artist by Nicholas Foulkes
RRP: £12.99£9.09It is said that asphyxiation brings on a state of hallucinatory intoxication...in which case the 71 year old artist who lay in his sprawling Provencal villa died happy. In the early afternoon of Monday 4 October 1999, wracked with Parkinson's, and unable... -
Scenes and Apparitions: The Roy Strong Diaries 1988-2003 by Sir Roy Strong 9781474603904 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.53'Viper wit from the gardener, writer and Knight of exquisite taste' DAILY TELEGRAPH'Funny, barbed and moving ... magnificently readable' THE TIMESScenes and Apparitions covers a period of Roy Strong's life from 1988 to 2003. A sequel to Splendours and... -
Toymaker: A Life of Art, Wonder and Invention by Tom Karen
RRP: £20.00£14.05Step inside his home and you'll see papier-mache birds, a life-sized cardboard tiger, model cars; his work bench a vibrant collage of creativity, from hand-drawn maps and postcards to newly devised toys for his beloved grandchildren. Tom Karen is a... -
Yayoi Kusama by Robert Shore
RRP: £12.99£8.60'I, Kusama, am the modern Alice in Wonderland' Yayoi KusamaNonagenarian Japanese artist is simultaneously one of the most famous and most mysterious artists on the planet. A wild child of the 1950s and 1960s, she emerged out of the international Fluxus... -
Hilma af Klint: A Biography by Julia Voss
RRP: £28.00£22.85A 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... -
Lee Miller: A Life by Carolyn Burke 9780226080673
£17.24Lee Miller's life embodied all the contradictions and complications of the twentieth century: a model and photographer, muse and reporter, sexual adventurer and domestic goddess, she was also America's first female war correspondent. Carolyn Burke, a... -
Artists at Home by Susie Hodge 9780711269439
RRP: £30.00£19.40Take a look inside the homes of some of your favourite artists and explore how each one reflected their spirit and creativity. From William Morris and Pablo Picasso to Georgia O'Keeffe and Frida Kahlo, Artists at Home showcases the quiet retreats,... -
Vivienne Westwood by Vivienne Westwood 9781447254140 [USED COPY]
RRP: £25.00£5.03Vivienne Westwood is one of the icons of our age. Fashion designer, activist, co-creator of punk, global brand and grandmother; a true legend. Her career successfully spanned five decades and her work has influenced millions of people across the world... -
Vivienne Westwood by Vivienne Westwood
RRP: £25.00£16.03Vivienne Westwood is one of the icons of our age. Fashion designer, activist, co-creator of punk, global brand and grandmother; a true legend. Her career successfully spanned five decades and her work has influenced millions of people across the world... -
Louis XIV's Architect: Louis Le Vau, France's Most Important Builder by Richard Ballard 9781399054195
RRP: £25.00£17.62This is a study of royal absolutism in a most extreme form in modern European history, and of the nature of Louis XIV's concept of personal glory and of the embodiment of France as a new superpower. It is a study of political ideas expressed in... -
A House in Bali by Colin McPhee
RRP: £13.99£9.20"It remains one of the most penetrating and illuminating books on the island's elusive, alluring culture." - National GeographicA House in Bali tells the fascinating story of renowned writer and composer Colin McPhee's obsession with Balinese gamelan... -
Floor Sample: A Creative Memoir - with an introduction by Emma Gannon by Julia Cameron
RRP: £10.99£7.77In Floor Sample, the author of the international bestseller The Artist's Way weaves an honest and moving portrayal of her life. From her early career as a writer for Rolling Stone magazine and her marriage to Martin Scorsese, to her tortured... -
The Lives of Lucian Freud: YOUTH 1922 - 1968 by William Feaver
RRP: £14.99£11.95SHORTLISTED 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... -
Lucky to be an Artist by Unity Spencer 9781910065600
£13.23In this autobiography Unity Spencer writes about her unconventional childhood, her unconventional father and her life as an artist in her own right.About the AuthorUnity Spencer has exhibited widely and still teaches printmaking to the many students who... -
The Museum of Modern Love by Heather Rose
RRP: £9.99£6.80'One of my stand-out Australian reads from 2016 . . . A glorious novel, meditative and special' Hannah Kent, author of BURIAL RITES Arky Levin, a film composer in New York, has promised his wife that he will not visit her in hospital, where she is... -
William Hogarth: A Life and a World by Jenny Uglow
RRP: £20.00£14.46William Hogarth is a house-hold name across the country, his prints hang in our pubs and leap out from our history-books. He painted the great and good but also the common people. His art is comically exuberant, 'carried away by a passion for the... -
Charlotte Salomon and the Theatre of Memory by Griselda Pollock 9780300100723
RRP: £50.00£43.25A long-awaited, new interpretation of Charlotte Salomon's singular and complex modern artwork, Life? or Theatre? Charlotte Salomon (1917-1943) is renowned for a single, monumental, modernist artwork, Life? or Theatre? (Leben? oder Theater?), comprising... -
Cezanne: A life by Alex Danchev
RRP: £25.00£18.02Today we view Cezanne as a monumental figure, but during his lifetime (1839-1906), many did not understand him or his work. With brilliant insight, drawing on a vast range of primary sources, Alex Danchev tells the story of an artist who was never... -
My Life by Marc Chagall
RRP: £9.99£7.11'As fresh, poignant and individual as his paintings' Lucy Beckett, TLS, Books of the Year 2018'Here is my soul. Look for me here; here I am, here are my pictures, my roots'Marc Chagall, one of the twentieth century's most popular artists, grew up in a... -
Illustrators on Creative Processes by Miguel Angel Arteaga
RRP: £24.99£17.61In How Ideas Are Born, readers will find a treasure chest of images by 26 diverse illustrators from 12 different countries that the author has gathered, selected and curated for the book. The types of images and styles vary, ranging from the childlike... -
Passion by Design: The Art and Times of Tamara de Lempicka by Baroness Kizette de Lempicka-Foxhall
RRP: £20.00£13.75An attractive new hardcover edition of the classic biography of Tamara de Lempicka, whose paintings defined Art Deco and whose life epitomised the Jazz Age. As F. Scott Fitzgerald portrayed the mad glories of the 1920s on the printed page, ... -
Later ... With Jools Holland: 30 Years of Music, Magic and Mayhem by Mark Cooper
RRP: £25.00£17.64'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 treasured it, Ed... -
Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce by Colm Toibin
RRP: £10.99£7.77An intimate study of three of Ireland's greatest writers from one of its best-loved contemporary voices, Colm Toibin__________________In Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know Colm Toibin takes three of Ireland's greatest writers - Oscar Wilde, W.B. Yeats and James... -
A Kind of Love Story by Tom Sellers
RRP: £35.00£23.43The story behind life in a world-renown Michelin-starred restaurant.Tom Sellers is a luminary of the British culinary scene. His Restaurant Story opened its doors in April 2013; its innovative literary-inspired menu, taking diners on 'a personal journey... -
Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues by Elijah Wald
RRP: £11.99£7.11The life of blues legend Robert Johnson becomes the centerpiece for this innovative look at what many consider to be America's deepest and most influential music genre. Pivotal are the questions surrounding why Johnson was ignored by the core black... -
Life, Letters, and Poetry by Michelangelo 9780199537365
RRP: £10.99£7.77The poems have been rendered into vigorous contemporary English. A selection of Michelangelo's letters, many of the to important contemporaries such as Vasari and Duke Cosimo, is accompanied by the `Life' of the great artist written by his pupil Ascanio... -
Irving Penn - Centennial by Maria Morris Hambourg 9781588396181
RRP: £55.00£48.59The definitive book on the work of a virtuosic and revered American photographer "Irving Penn: Centennial . . . presents page after page of startlingly fresh images."-Luc Sante, New York Times Irving Penn (1917-2009) was among the most esteemed and... -
Charles M. Schulz: The Creator of PEANUTS in 100 Objects by Charles M. Schulz Museum
RRP: £40.00£27.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681888606Author Charles M. Schulz MuseumFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Weldon OwenPublisher Weldon Owen -
Kenojuav Ashevak Life and Legacy by Silaqi Ashevak 9780764998188
RRP: £18.99£14.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780764998188Author Silaqi AshevakFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Pomegranate Communications Inc,USPublisher Pomegranate Communications... -
Shadows and Light: The Life of James McBey by Alasdair Soussi
RRP: £29.99£20.99Creative genius, war artist, adventurer, lover. These are just some of the words that can be used to describe Aberdeenshire-born painter and printmaker James McBey (1883-1959). McBey was a Scottish superstar amongst the creative spirits that fuelled... -
Renoir, My Father by Dorothy Weaver
RRP: £23.00£15.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780940322776Author Dorothy WeaverFormat PaperbackPage Count 456Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
Vogue on Christian Dior by Charlotte Sinclair 9781419715884
RRP: £19.95£15.24In 1947, Christian Dior stunned the fashion world with his first collection, the &;New Look,&; which transformed the way women dressed, and he continued to send shock waves with his later shows, significantly altering the fashion landscape. Vogue on... -
Sargent's Women: Four Lives Behind the Canvas by Donna M. Lucey 9780393356168
RRP: £14.99£13.03With unprecedented access to newly discovered sources, Donna M. Lucey illuminates the lives of four women painted by the society portraitist John Singer Sargent. With uncanny clairvoyance, Sargent's portraits hint at the mysteries, passions and tragedies... -
Vivian Maier: A Photographer's Life and Afterlife by Pamela Bannos
RRP: £19.00£14.40Who was Vivian Maier? Many people know her as the reclusive Chicago nanny who wandered the city for decades, constantly snapping photographs, which were unseen until they were discovered in a seemingly abandoned storage locker. They revealed her to be an... -
Con/Artist: The Life and Crimes of the World's Greatest Art Forger by Giampiero Ambrosi
RRP: £25.00£14.88The world's most renowned art forger reveals the secrets behind his decades of painting like the Masters-exposing an art world that is far more corrupt than we ever knew while providing an art history lesson wrapped in sex, drugs, and Caravaggio.The art...