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Boy in a China Shop: Life, Clay and Everything by Keith Brymer Jones 9781529385250
RRP: $14.18$9.82'During downtime on the pottery throwdown Keith made my hair curl with some of his tales - he's a great raconteur and recounts his story in this book as he does in real life - with joy, charm & mischief.' - Sara Cox'Fans of Throw Down will enjoy this... -
A Lesson in Art and Life: The Colourful World of Cedric Morris and Arthur Lett-Haines by Hugh St Clair
RRP: $16.76$11.39Cedric Morris (1889-1982) and Arthur Lett-Haines (known as Lett) (1894-1978) were an extraordinary couple who were at the centre of the Modern British art scene and were hugely influential across the spheres of gardening and cookery as well as art. ... -
Down Below by Leonora Carrington
RRP: $12.89$9.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681370606Author Leonora CarringtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books,... -
Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art by Mary Gabriel
RRP: $25.80$21.26Five women revolutionize the modern art world in postwar America in this "gratifying, generous, and lush" true story from a National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist (Jennifer Szalai, New York Times).Set amid the most turbulent social and political... -
How We Might Live: At Home with Jane and William Morris by Suzanne Fagence Cooper
RRP: $19.34$12.96William 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,... -
John Soane's Cabinet of Curiosities: Reflections on an Architect and His Collection Bruce Boucher 9780300275698
$47.09An in-depth study that sheds a fascinating new light on Sir John Soane (1753–1837) and his world-renowned collection Sir John Soane’s architecture has enjoyed a revival of interest over the last seventy years, yet Soane as a collector—the strategy... -
To See Clearly: Why Ruskin Matters by Suzanne Fagence-Cooper
RRP: $14.18$9.82'To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, religion, all in one'"Brilliant" - Philip Hoare, New StatesmanJohn Ruskin - born 200 years ago, in February 1819 - was the greatest critic of his age: a critic not only of art and architecture but of society and life... -
Tales from the Colony Room: Soho's Lost Bohemia by Darren Coffield
RRP: $16.76$11.18'Entertaining, shocking, uproarious, hilarious . . . like eavesdropping on a wake, as the mourners get gradually more drunk and tell ever more outrageous stories' Sunday Times'Riveting . . . An elegy to that vanished world . . . where people talked to... -
Charleston: A Bloomsbury House & Garden by Quentin Bell
RRP: $25.79$17.48The newly revised and updated Charleston: A Bloomsbury House & Garden is the definitive publication on the Bloomsbury Group's rural outpost in the heart of the Sussex Downs. "It's absolutely perfect...", wrote the artist Vanessa Bell when she moved to... -
Sandfuture by Justin Beal
RRP: $29.67$19.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262543095Author Justin BealFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Alice Neel: The Art of Not Sitting Pretty by Phoebe Hoban
RRP: $32.25$21.45Phoebe Hoban's definitive biography of the renowned American painter Alice Neel tells the unforgettable story of an artist whose life spanned the twentieth century, from women's suffrage through the Depression, McCarthyism, the civil rights movement, the... -
Truckload of Art: The Life and Work of Terry Allen—An Authorized Biography by Brendan Greaves 9780306924545
RRP: $36.12$23.98Drawing on hundreds of interviews with Allen himself, his family members (including actor and poet Jo Harvey Allen, his wife and artistic partner of more than sixty years), and his many notable friends, colleagues, and collaborators (from musicians like... -
Josef Koudelka: Next: A Visual Biography by Melissa Harris by Melissa Harris 9781597114653
RRP: $51.60$35.53An intimate portrait of the life and work of one of photography's most renowned and celebrated artists Throughout his more than sixty-year-long obsession with the medium, Josef Koudelka considers a remarkable range of photographic subjects-from his... -
Modern Man: The Life of Le Corbusier, Architect of Tomorrow by Anthony Flint 9781477801314
RRP: $11.60$8.15From the award-winning author of Wrestling with Moses comes a fascinating, accessible biography of the most important architect of the twentieth century. Modern Man is a riveting biography of Le Corbusier-a man who invented new ways of building and... -
Nonbinary: A Memoir by Genesis P-Orridge 9781419749773
RRP: $16.76$11.79A revealing and beautifully open memoir from pioneering industrial music artist, visual artist, and transgender icon Genesis P-Orridge-now in paperbackIn this groundbreaking book spanning decades of artistic risk-taking, the inventor of "industrial... -
Lee Miller: A Life by Carolyn Burke 9780226080673
$22.41Lee 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... -
The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington by Joanna Moorhead
RRP: $16.76$11.39In 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... -
Iconic: My Life in Fashion in 50 Objects by Zandra Rhodes 9780857505217
RRP: $32.25$19.36‘A wonderful, fascinating, fun collection of memories and stories. I have known Zandra for many years, and her passion for art shines now more than ever. We share the same sentiment: who wants to live a life without colour, music or laughter!’Dame... -
Coreyography by Corey Feldman 9781250054913
RRP: $24.51$15.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250054913Author Corey FeldmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Saint Martin's Griffin,U.S.Publisher St Martin's Press -
Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston (new edition) by Musa Mayer
RRP: $45.15$29.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783906915753Author Musa MayerFormat PaperbackPage Count 372Imprint Hauser & WirthPublisher Hauser & WirthWeight(grams) 866g -
The Grand Affair: John Singer Sargent in His World by Paul Fisher 9781250872548
RRP: $25.80$16.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250872548Author Paul FisherFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's Press -
French Riviera and Its Artists by John Baxter
RRP: $21.92$17.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940842059Author John BaxterFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Museyon GuidesPublisher Museyon Guides -
Behind the Crown: My Life Photographing the Royal Family by Arthur Edwards
RRP: $32.25$22.48For 45 years I've chronicled the Royal Family for the Sun newspaper with my camera. I've witnessed their triumphs and disasters, their laughter and tears, when they've found love and when their relationships splinter. I'm there when they emerge from the... -
Dear Theo: The Autobiography of Vincent Van Gogh by Irving Stone 9780452275041 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.93$9.00"Written from the heart and without restraint, alive."-The New York TimesVincent van Gogh, the great but tormented artist, bared his tortured yet ecstatic soul in his letters to his confidant and companion, his beloved brother Theo. These letters reveal... -
Dear Theo: The Autobiography of Vincent Van Gogh by Irving Stone
RRP: $21.93$15.49"Written from the heart and without restraint, alive."-The New York TimesVincent van Gogh, the great but tormented artist, bared his tortured yet ecstatic soul in his letters to his confidant and companion, his beloved brother Theo. These letters reveal... -
Eric Stanton and the History of the Bizarre Underground by ,Richard,Perez Seves 9780764355424
RRP: $36.11$27.67Tracing the rise of commercial fetish art from its shadowy beginnings in the 1940s to its acceptance in the 1970s, this illustrated biography explores the unconventional life and art of Eric Stanton, a pioneering sexual fantasist who helped shape the... -
Queer Saint: The Cultured Life of Peter Watson by Adrian Clark 9781839012921
RRP: $23.21$18.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839012921Author Adrian ClarkFormat PaperbackPage Count 420Imprint Lume BooksPublisher Lume BooksWeight(grams) 531gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 24mm -
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone by Olivia Laing
RRP: $14.18$9.73SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZEChosen as 'BOOK OF THE YEAR' by Observer, Guardian, Telegraph, Irish Times, New Statesman, Times Literary Supplement, HeraldWhen Olivia Laing moved to New York City in her mid-thirties, she found herself inhabiting... -
The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh by Vincent Van Gogh
RRP: $16.76$12.05A new selection of post-impressionist painter Vincent Van Gough's letters, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh put a human face on one of the most haunting figures in modern Western culture. In this Penguin Classics edition, the letters are selected and... -
The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever by Prudence Peiffer 9780063097209
RRP: $50.30$29.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063097209Author Prudence PeifferFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint HarperPublisher HarperWeight(grams) 454g -
The Upside-Down World: Meetings with the Dutch Masters by Benjamin Moser 9780241586457
RRP: $38.70$27.54The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer turns his eye to the seventeenth-century Dutch Golden Age Twenty years ago, Benjamin Moser followed a love affair to an ancient Dutch town. In order to make sense of this new place, he threw himself into the Dutch... -
Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson 9781501139154
RRP: $51.60$36.18The #1 New York Times bestseller from Walter Isaacson brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography that is "a study in creativity: how to define it, how to achieve it...Most important, it is a powerful story of an exhilarating mind and... -
Monet: The Restless Vision by Jackie Wullschläger 9780241188309
RRP: $45.15$32.62The Art Book of the Year, The TimesA Telegraph, Sunday Times, Financial Times, Economist, Tablet and Evening Standard Book of the YearA magnificent new biography of the founder of ImpressionismIn the course of a long and exceptionally creative life,... -
Picasso: A Biography by Patrick O'Brian 9780393311075
RRP: $32.25$27.54Patrick O'Brian's outstanding biography of Picasso is here available in paperback for the first time. It is the most comprehensive yet written, and the only biography fully to appreciate the distinctly Mediterranean origins of Picasso's character and art... -
Life With Picasso by Francoise Gilot
RRP: $16.76$12.05Francoise Gilot was a young painter in Pasis when she first met Picasso - he was sixty-two and she was twenty-one. During the following ten years they were lovers, worked closely together and she became mother to two of his children, Claude and Paloma... -
The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles by Martin Gayford
RRP: $16.76$12.05The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles is art critic Martin Gayford's account of the tumultuous nine weeks in which the famous nineteenth century artists Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin shared a house in the small French... -
Van Gogh: His Life and Works in 500 Images by Michael Howard 9780754819547
RRP: $21.92$17.91The first half of this fascinating book contains a detailed exploration of Van Gogh's life, including his background, early career, influences and relationships. Beginning with his birth in 1853, it details his childhood, family life, education and... -
Room to Dream by David Lynch
RRP: $16.76$11.35THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERDavid Lynch - co-creator of Twin Peaks and writer and director of groundbreaking films such as Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive - opens up about a lifetime of extraordinary creativity, the... -
Women's Work: From feminine arts to feminist art Ferren Gipson 9780711264656
RRP: $32.25$22.74This powerful and insightful work offers a bold celebration of the innovative, brilliant artists reclaiming the idea of 'women's work'. In the history of western art, decorative and applied arts - including textiles and ceramics - have been separated... -
Anna: The Biography by Amy Odell 9781838957285
RRP: $16.76$11.35'Fascinating' Sunday Times'Deeply sourced and rich with anecdotes' The Times'Like a nonfiction version of The Devil Wears Prada' Elizabeth Day'Odell's extensive reporting dredges up a wealth of delightful details' New York TimesThis definitive biography...