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Hogarth: Life in Progress by Jacqueline Riding 9781788163484
RRP: $16.76$12.05THE SUNDAY TIMES ART BOOK OF THE YEAR A Sunday Times Best Paperback of 2022 Christie's Best Art Books of the Year 'Deft and richly detailed ... rescues the artist from John Bull caricature' - Michael Prodger, Sunday Times 'Marvellous ... a... -
Lives and Letters of Artemisia Gentileschi by Artemisia Gentileschi
RRP: $14.18$9.82Lives 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... -
The Sagrada Familia: Gaudi's Heaven on Earth by Gijs van Hensbergen
RRP: $16.76$12.05'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... -
Fire in the Belly: The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz by Cynthia Carr
RRP: $19.34$14.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608194193Author Cynthia CarrFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Bloomsbury PressPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PlcWeight(grams) 818g -
Toymaker: A Life of Art, Wonder and Invention by Tom Karen
RRP: $25.80$18.40Step 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... -
Helen Oxenbury: A Life in Illustration Leonard S. Marcus 9781406357943
RRP: $38.70$27.48A fascinating, beautiful and definitive account of the life of esteemed artist Helen Oxenbury.Filled with insights that span Helen Oxenbury's life, from her early childhood through a unique career in children's books that began in 1964 and is still going... -
The Museum Makers: From Old Boxes of Dark Family Secrets to a Golden Era of Museums by Rachel Morris 9781912836826
RRP: $12.89$9.03Part memoir, part detective story, part untold history of museums - this is a fascinating and moving family story. Museum expert Rachel Morris had been ignoring the boxes under her bed for decades. When she finally opened them, an entire bohemian family... -
Agnes Martin: Painting, Writings, Remembrances by Arne Glimcher 9781838663094
RRP: $129.00$105.59The only complete career retrospective of this visionary painter, including all her most iconic works, which are prized for their exquisite visual poetry, together with personal letters and facsimiles, reprinted in Martin's own hand, adding intimacy to... -
God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain by Rosemary Hill 9780140280999 [USED COPY]
RRP: $25.79$2.95Pugin 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: $25.79$18.42Pugin 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... -
Giorgio de Chirico: Life and Paintings by Fabio Benzi
RRP: $54.83$39.14Giorgio 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... -
The Collector: The Story of Sergei Shchukin and His Lost Masterpieces by Natalya Semenova
RRP: $16.76$14.78A fascinating life of Sergei Shchukin, the great collector who changed the face of Russia's art world Sergei Shchukin was a highly successful textiles merchant in the latter half of the nineteenth century, but he also had a great eye for beauty. He was... -
William Hogarth: A Life and a World by Jenny Uglow
RRP: $25.80$18.65William 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... -
Blood And Champagne: The Life And Times Of Robert Capa by Alex Kershaw 9780306813566
$18.42Robert Capa, one of the finest photojournalists and combat photographers of the twentieth century, covered every major conflict from the Spanish Civil War to the early conflict in Vietnam. Always close to the action, he created some of the most enduring... -
Salvator Rosa: Paint and Performance by Helen Langdon 9781789145731
RRP: $23.16$17.44Painter, 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... -
Grinling Gibbons: Master Carver by Paul Rabbitts
RRP: $11.60$9.25Master 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... -
I Always Knew: A Memoir by Barbara Chase-Riboud 9780691234274
RRP: $45.15$30.68The extraordinary life story of the celebrated artist and writer, as told through four decades of intimate letters to her beloved motherBarbara Chase-Riboud has led a remarkable life. After graduating from Yale's School of Design and Architecture, she... -
Cezanne: A life by Alex Danchev
RRP: $32.25$23.61Today 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... -
The Secret Life Vol. 2 by Salvador Dali 9781840686876
RRP: $18.00$12.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840686876Author Salvador DaliFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Creation BooksPublisher Creation Books -
It's Kind of a Cute Story by Rolly Crump 9780985470647
$25.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985470647Author Rolly CrumpFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Bamboo Forest PublishingPublisher Bamboo Forest PublishingWeight(grams) 459g -
Aleister Crowley in Paris: Sex, Art, and Magick in the City of Light by Tobias Churton
RRP: $33.54$21.71Exploring occultist, magician, poet, painter, and writer Aleister Crowley's longstanding and intimate association with Paris, Tobias Churton provides the first detailed account of Crowley's activities in the City of Light. Using previously unpublished... -
Tiepolo Pink by Roberto Calasso
RRP: $19.34$14.13'Tiepolo: the last breath of happiness in Europe'The eighteenth-century Venetian painter Giambattista Tiepolo spent his life creating frescoes that are among the glories of Western art, yet he remains shrouded in mystery. Who was he? And what was the... -
The Fairy Tale Girl by Susan Branch
RRP: $37.35$26.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996044011Author Susan BranchFormat HardbackImprint Spring Street PublishingPublisher Spring Street PublishingWeight(grams) 839gDimensions(mm) 235mm *... -
Kiki Man Ray: Art, Love and Rivalry in 1920s Paris Mark Braude 9781529300482
RRP: $25.80$17.48***One of The New Yorker's Best Books of 2022******One of The New York Time's 100 Notable Books of 2022***'Exuberantly entertaining' NYT Book Review'Mark Braude's writing and subject make this book irresistible, as was Kiki herself.' Jim Jarmusch'A... -
Later ... With Jools Holland: 30 Years of Music, Magic and Mayhem by Mark Cooper
RRP: $32.25$22.76'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... -
Master of Shadows: The Secret Diplomatic Career of the Painter Peter Paul Rubens by Mark Lamster 9780307387356
RRP: $19.34$14.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307387356Author Mark LamsterFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 289g -
A Life Of Picasso Volume III: The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932 by John Richardson
RRP: $51.60$38.97Drawing on exhaustive research from interviews and unpublished archival material, John Richardson has produced the long-awaited third volume of the definitive biography, full of original, groundbreaking new insights into Picasso's life and work. His... -
Gluck: Her Biography by Diana Souhami
RRP: $16.76$11.39As stubborn as she was gifted, as fierce as she was tender, and notorious for her mannish dress that was provocative and chic in equal measure, Gluck was an artist and a rebel. Born Hannah Gluckstein in 1895 into the family that founded the J. Lyons & Co... -
Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography by David Michaelis
$20.20Charles Schulz, the most widely syndicated and beloved cartoonist of all time, is also one of the most misunderstood figures in popular culture. Now, acclaimed biographer David Michaelis gives us the first full-length biography of Schulz: at once a... -
Aleister Crowley: the Beast in Berlin: Art, Sex, and Magick in the Weimar Republic by Tobias Churton
RRP: $25.80$17.36Gnostic poet, painter, writer, and magician Aleister Crowley arrived in Berlin on April 18, 1930. As prophet of his syncretic religion "Thelema," he wanted to be among the leaders of art and thought, and Berlin, the liberated future-gazing metropolis,... -
Albert and the Whale by Philip Hoare
RRP: $14.18$9.62A 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... -
Leonardo: Revised Edition by Mr Martin Kemp 9780199583355
RRP: $25.79$18.89This fascinating exploration of Leonardo da Vinci's life and work identifies what it was that made him so unique, and explains the phenomenon of the world's most celebrated artistic genius who, 500 years on, still grips and inspires us. Martin Kemp... -
Creators: From Chaucer and Durer to Picasso and Disney by Paul Johnson 9780060930462
RRP: $23.21$16.98Apologies 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)... -
Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies by Ross King
RRP: $24.50$17.56Claude Monet's water lily paintings are among the most iconic and beloved works of art of the past century. Yet these entrancing images were created at a time of terrible private turmoil and sadness for the artist. The dramatic history behind these... -
Dark Room by Garry Fabian Miller
RRP: $51.60$39.86Garry 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... -
Turn Up The Strobe: The KLF, The JAMS, The Timelords - A History by Ian Shirley
RRP: $19.34$12.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909454637Author Ian ShirleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Cherry Red RecordsPublisher Cherry Red Records -
Daybook: The Journal of an Artist by Anne Truitt 9781476740980
$15.34Renowned American artist Anne Truitt kept this illuminating and inspiring journal over a period of seven years, determined to come to terms with the forces that shaped her art and life. Within its beautifully written pages, you will come to know a woman... -
Yayoi Kusama Robert Shore 9781786277862
RRP: $16.76$11.39'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... -
The Museum of Modern Love by Heather Rose
RRP: $12.89$9.03'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... -
The Girl in the Green Jumper: My Life with the Artist Cyril Mann by Renske Mann
RRP: $38.70$25.93When it comes to deciding the most tragic British artist of the 20th century, Cyril Mann (1911-80) must be a contender. Mann made a number of genuinely innovative breakthroughs and certainly had the potential to become one of the most important...