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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... -
Master of Shadows: The Secret Diplomatic Career of the Painter Peter Paul Rubens by Mark Lamster 9780307387356
RRP: £14.99£11.05Apologies 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 -
Aino + Alvar Aalto: A Life Together by Heikki Aalto-Alanen 9781838666071
RRP: £100.00£76.00A visual biography of Aino and Alvar Aalto, who designed some of the most iconic objects of the twentieth century Aino and Alvar Aalto together founded Artek and created some of the most celebrated objects and buildings of the twentieth century. Through... -
Nonbinary: A Memoir by Genesis P-Orridge
RRP: £19.99£14.32A revealing memoir from a pioneering industrial musician and visual artist who inspired generations of outsiders, rebels, and risk-takers In a memoir spanning decades of artistic risk-taking, Genesis P-Orridge, the inventor of "industrial music,"... -
Self-Portrait by Celia Paul
RRP: £25.00£18.02I'm not a portrait painter. If I'm anything, I have always been an autobiographer.Self-Portrait reveals a life truly lived through art. In this short, intimate memoir, Celia Paul moves effortlessly through time in words and images, folding in her past... -
Edvard Munch: An Inner Life by Oystein Ustvedt
RRP: £16.95£11.51'My art is a self-confession - in it I seek to clarify my relationship with the world. But at the same time I have always thought and felt that my art could also clarify other people's quest for the truth' Edvard Munch Why do people travel from across... -
The Museum Makers: From Old Boxes of Dark Family Secrets to a Golden Era of Museums by Rachel Morris 9781912836826
RRP: £9.99£6.80Part 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... -
The Seven Lives Of Alejandro Jodorowsky by Vincent Berniere 9781643375946
RRP: £29.99£20.73A definitive look at the life of legendary filmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky and his many wild creative ventures throughout his 90 years on earth.A journey through Jodo's personal life, his life in the theater, his rebirth as a 70s cinematic cult figure and... -
Hogarth: Life in Progress by Jacqueline Riding 9781788163484
RRP: £12.99£9.09THE 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... -
The Memoirs Of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: Vol. 2: A True and Exact Accounting of the History of Turtle Island by Kent Monkman 9780771006470
RRP: £29.99£19.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780771006470Author Kent MonkmanFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint McClelland & Stewart Inc.Publisher McClelland & Stewart Inc. -
Artists' Letters: Leonardo da Vinci to David Hockney by Michael Bird 9780711288867
RRP: £18.99£12.75A treasure trove of carefully selected letters written by great artists, providing unique insight into their characters and a glimpse into their lives. Artists' Letters is a collection of intriguing, entertaining, moving, significant, surprising, witty... -
Howard Kazanjian: A Producer's Life by J W Rinzler
RRP: £25.00£18.14A captivating exploration of the life, work, and insider insight of legendary film producer Howard Kazanjian Howard Kazanjian, a film producer whose career spans 50 years, has collaborated with Hollywood legends such as Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder,... -
Albert and the Whale by Philip Hoare
RRP: £10.99£7.25A 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... -
Artemisia Gentileschi by Jonathan Jones
RRP: £12.99£8.60Artemisia Gentileschi was the greatest female artists of the Baroque age. In Artemisia Gentileschi, critic and historian Jonathan Jones discovers how Artemisia overcame a turbulent past to become one of the foremost painters of her day.As a young woman... -
The Girl in the Green Jumper: My Life with the Artist Cyril Mann by Renske Mann
RRP: £30.00£19.80When 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... -
Leonardo: Revised Edition by Mr Martin Kemp 9780199583355
RRP: £19.99£14.64This 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... -
The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance by Edmund de Waal 9781250811271
RRP: £18.00£12.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250811271Author Edmund de WaalFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 208mm *... -
Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies by Ross King
RRP: £18.99£13.61Claude 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... -
Daybook: The Journal of an Artist by Anne Truitt 9781476740980
RRP: £10.99£10.96Renowned 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... -
Lee Miller: On Both Sides of the Camera by Carolyn Burke 9780747581192
RRP: £16.99£12.28_______________________ THE FIRST FULL-LENGTH BIOGRAPHY OF LEGENDARY PHOTOGRAPHER LEE MILLER _______________________ 'Lee Miller was an astounding woman, brought memorably to life in this astounding book' - Daily Telegraph 'Does its... -
A Life Of Picasso Volume III: The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932 by John Richardson
RRP: £40.00£29.99Drawing 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... -
Leonardo Da Vinci: The 100 Milestones by M. Kemp 9781454930426
RRP: £25.00£17.38To commemorate the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci's death, world-renowned da Vinci expert Martin Kemp explores 100 of the master's milestones in art, science, engineering, architecture, anatomy, and more. Leonardo da Vinci was born in the small... -
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... -
Speaking East: The Strange and Enchanted Life of Isidore Isou by Andrew Hussey
RRP: £25.00£18.02A vibrant account of both the sensuous cultural scene of postwar Paris and the life of an alluring icon of modern art. Isidore Isou was a young Jew in wartime Bucharest who barely survived the Romanian Holocaust. He made his way to Paris, where, in... -
Selected Writings by Rene Magritte
RRP: £9.99£7.11Available for the first time in an English translation, this selection gives non-Francophone readers the chance to encounter the many incarnations of renowned Belgian painter Rene Magritte - the artist, the man, the aspiring noirist, the fire-breathing... -
Banksy: The Man behind the Wall: Revised and Illustrated Edition by Will Ellsworth-Jones
RRP: £22.00£14.96In this fully revised and richly illustrated edition, author and journalist Will Ellsworth-Jones pieces together a complete picture of the life and work of Banksy, perhaps the most iconic, enigmatic and controversial artist of modern times. For someone... -
The Collector: The Story of Sergei Shchukin and His Lost Masterpieces by Natalya Semenova
RRP: £12.99£11.46A 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... -
Piranesi Unbound by Carolyn Yerkes
RRP: £65.00£52.11Why Piranesi's greatest works weren't his famous prints but rather the books for which he made themA draftsman, printmaker, architect, and archaeologist, Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-78) is best known today as the virtuoso etcher of the immersive and... -
Van Gogh's Finale: Auvers and the artist's rise to fame by Martin Bailey
RRP: £25.00£17.38A captivating and definitive account of the final days of Van Gogh's life and the incredible story of what followed. Divided into three parts, the book first examines the eventful days from the artists' departure from the asylum in Saint-Remy and arrival... -
Switched On: Bob Moog and the Synthesizer Revolution by Albert Glinsky
RRP: £31.49£27.58The Moog synthesizer "bent the course of music forever" Rolling Stone declared. Bob Moog, the man who did that bending, was a lovable geek with Einstein hair and pocket protectors. He walked into history in 1964 when his homemade contraption... -
See What You're Missing: 31 Ways Artists Notice the World – and How You Can Too by Will Gompertz 9780241315484
RRP: £10.99£8.43How might we see ourselves more clearly? Consult Rembrandt.Who can encourage us to see more intimately? Tracey Emin is the expert.What about helping us see through pain? Look no further than Frida Kahlo.Too often we move through life on autopilot, blind... -
Agnes Martin: Painting, Writings, Remembrances by Arne Glimcher 9781838663094
RRP: £100.00£76.00The 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... -
Gluck: Her Biography by Diana Souhami
RRP: £12.99£8.60As 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... -
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 -
Joan: Beauty, Rebel, Muse: The Remarkable Life of Joan Leigh Fermor by Simon Fenwick
RRP: £25.00£18.02Volumes have been written by and about Patrick Leigh Fermor, but his wife Joan is almost entirely absent from their pages. Now Simon Fenwick, the first archivist to see the Leigh Fermor papers, reveals a woman hitherto only fleetingly glimpsed. A... -
Where the Heart Beats: John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the Inner Life of Artists by Kay Larson 9780143123477
RRP: £19.75£12.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143123477Author Kay LarsonPage Count 512Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
A Place for All People: Life, Architecture and the Fair Society by Richard Rogers
RRP: £30.00£20.70Richard Rogers, founder of Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, is a pre-eminent architect of his generation, whose approach to buildings is infused with his enthusiasm for modernism, love of life and strong sense of social justice.From the Pompidou Centre... -
Sir Richard Wallace: Connoisseur, Collector & Philanthropist by Suzanne Higgott 9781843682264
RRP: £45.00£30.85A richly illustrated book about the celebrated connoisseur, collector and philanthropist Sir Richard Wallace (1818-1890), published by the Wallace Collection to mark the bicentenary of his birth. Includes 490 illustrations and new information on... -
Thomas Telford by L. T. C. Rolt
RRP: £14.99£11.55Thomas Telford, the son of a shepherd, was born in Westerkirk, Scotland in 1757. At the age of 14, he was apprenticed to a stonemason. He worked for a time in Edinburgh and in 1792, he moved to London where he was involved in building additions to... -
Titian's Touch: Art, Magic and Philosophy by Maria Loh 9781789140828
RRP: £17.95£13.32At the end of his long, prolific life, Titian was rumored to paint directly on the canvas with his bare hands. He would slide his fingers across bright ridges of oil paint, loosening the colors, blending, blurring, and then bringing them together again...