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The Lives of Lee Miller: Soon to be a major motion picture starring Kate Winslet Antony Penrose 9780500297520
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $13.65Described by the Sunday Times as 'a fascinating revelation of an adventurous and protean spirit', this biography is the inspiration behind the 2024 film Lee, starring Kate Winslet as Lee Miller. Beautiful, bewitching and an exceptionally good... -
Room to Dream by David Lynch
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $21.04THE 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... -
A Lesson in Art and Life: The Colourful World of Cedric Morris and Arthur Lett-Haines by Hugh St Clair
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $18.52Cedric 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: $20.98Booksplease Price: $14.74Apologies 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,... -
How We Might Live: At Home with Jane and William Morris by Suzanne Fagence Cooper
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $21.04William 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,... -
Eric Stanton and the History of the Bizarre Underground by ,Richard,Perez Seves 9780764355424
RRP: $58.78Booksplease Price: $38.68Tracing 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... -
Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin Sue Prideaux 9780571365937
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $42.00A TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, SPECTATOR, ECONOMIST AND TLS BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024A vital re-examination of the trailblazing and controversial artist Paul Gauguin - and the first full biography in over... -
Iconic: My Life in Fashion in 50 Objects by Zandra Rhodes 9780857505217
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $37.63'A vivid and compelling picture of the broader fashion landscape between 1960 and the present day. Anecdotes? The book is full of them.' The Times'Dazzling from start to finish.' Joanna LumleyIn this insightful memoir, Zandra shares her life story for... -
Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of History by Benjamin Balint
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $42.86The twentieth-century artist Bruno Schulz was born an Austrian, lived as a Pole and died a Jew. First a citizen of the Habsburg monarchy, he would, without moving, become the subject of the West Ukrainian People's Republic, the Second Polish Republic,... -
Francis Bacon: Revelations by Mark Stevens
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $29.69The Times Art Book of the Year 2021 FINALIST FOR THE PLUTARCH AWARD 2022 'Must surely be the definitive life of Francis Bacon ... A biography that no Bacon fan - or indeed foe - can afford to overlook ... Mesmerising'... -
Lee Miller: A Life by Carolyn Burke 9780226080673
Booksplease Price: $34.08Lee 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... -
Under the Ivy: The Life and Music of Kate Bush Graeme Thomson 9781915841353
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.55The critically acclaimed definitive biography of Kate Bush, revised and updated for 2024, with a new foreword by Sinead Gleeson.Detailing everything from Bush's upbringing to her early exposition of talent, to her subsequent evolution into a stunningly... -
Crisis of Brilliance: Five Young British Artists and the Great War by David Boyd Haycock 9781906964320
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $17.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906964320Author David HaycockFormat PaperbackImprint Old Street PublishingPublisher Old Street Publishing -
In Search of Greatness: Reflections of Yousuf Karsh by Yousef Karsh 9781487592172
Booksplease Price: $45.97In this book Yousuf Karsh, whose great photographic portraits have revealed so vividly the outstanding personalities of our time, writes about his own life and work. It is the story of an Armenian immigrant boy who rose to be the world's finest portrait... -
The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh by Vincent Van Gogh
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $16.78A 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... -
Coreyography by Corey Feldman 9781250054913
RRP: $39.90Booksplease Price: $25.68Apologies 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 -
Walk Through Walls: A Memoir by Marina Abramovic 9780241974520
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $14.28'Her bravest work of performance art to date . . . Rawly intimate' ObserverThis memoir spans Marina Abramovic's five decade career, and tells a life story that is almost as exhilarating and extraordinary as her groundbreaking performance art. Taking us... -
Tales from the Colony Room: Soho's Lost Bohemia by Darren Coffield
Booksplease Price: $28.62'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... -
Uncanny: The Origins of Fear Junji Ito 9781974747306
RRP: $48.30Booksplease Price: $33.56For the first time since his debut 35 years ago, horror master Junji Ito reveals exactly how he creates his unique worlds.Why are we drawn to fear?Horror manga legend Junji Ito has fascinated the world with his beautiful and strange tales, from his debut... -
Catland: Feline Enchantment and the Making of the Modern World by Kathryn Hughes 9780008365103
RRP: $46.20Booksplease Price: $26.57'If a Louis Wain cat were reading this book, he would raise his topper in tribute' - The Times 'Excellent ... Hughes reveals a fascinating, forgotten aspect of late Victorian and Edwardian Britain: how the British fell in love with felines'... -
Dear Theo: The Autobiography of Vincent Van Gogh by Irving Stone
RRP: $35.70Booksplease Price: $25.94"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... -
Behind the Crown: My Life Photographing the Royal Family by Arthur Edwards
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $36.18For 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... -
Strangeland: The memoirs of one of the most acclaimed artists of her generation by Tracey Emin
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $18.52The intimate memoirs of one of the most acclaimed and controversial artists of her generation.Here I am, a fucked, crazy, anorexic-alcoholic-childless, beautiful woman. I never dreamt it would be like this.'Frequently affecting...intriguing, almost... -
Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane by Andrew Graham-Dixon
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $23.00Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio lived the darkest and most dangerous life of any of the great painters. The worlds of Milan, Rome and Naples through which Caravaggio moved and which Andrew Graham-Dixon describes brilliantly in this book, are those of... -
The Mystery Guest by Grégoire Bouillier 9781961341050
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $23.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781961341050Author Gregoire BouillierFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint McNally EditionsPublisher McNally EditionsDimensions(mm) 216mm * 127mm * 6mm -
The Grand Affair: John Singer Sargent in His World by Paul Fisher 9781250872548
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $27.87Apologies 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 -
Van Gogh: The Life by Steven Naifeh
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $47.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375758973Author Steven NaifehFormat PaperbackPage Count 976Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 1213gDimensions(mm) 231mm... -
Choice of Weapons by Gordon Parks
RRP: $32.55Booksplease Price: $27.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873517690Author Gordon ParksFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Minnesota Historical Society Press,U.S.Publisher Minnesota Historical Society Press,U.S... -
Charleston: A Bloomsbury House & Garden by Quentin Bell
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $26.52The 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... -
Monet: The Restless Vision by Jackie Wullschläger 9780241188309
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $53.09The 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,... -
The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington by Joanna Moorhead
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $18.52In 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... -
Hilma af Klint: A Biography by Julia Voss
RRP: $58.80Booksplease Price: $46.45A 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... -
Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs Sally Mann 9780241699287
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $23.63The electrifying memoir of acclaimed photographer Sally Mann - 'An instant classic' (New York Times)In this extraordinary memoir, the acclaimed American photographer Sally Mann blends narrative and image to explore the forces that shaped her work... -
Widow Basquiat: A Memoir Jennifer Clement 9781782114246
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $15.83MADONNA. ANDY WARHOL. KEITH HARING. FAB 5 FREDDIE. DEBBIE HARRY. JULIAN SCHNABEL. Jean-Michel Basquiat's transition from the subways to the chic gallery spaces of Manhattan brought the artist into the company of many of New York's established and... -
The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles by Martin Gayford
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.55The 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... -
Toast & Marmalade: Stories From the Kitchen Dresser, A Memoir Emma Bridgewater 9781473604315
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.00This is the black and white paperback edition of Toast & Marmalade and Other Stories, published in hardback in 2014 by Saltyard Books. If you would like the original colour illustrated version of Toast & Marmalade it is available in hardback. 'Emma... -
Boy in a China Shop: Life, Clay and Everything by Keith Brymer Jones 9781529385250
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.00'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... -
Later ... With Jools Holland: 30 Years of Music, Magic and Mayhem by Mark Cooper 9780008424404
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $15.69'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... -
Antoni Gaudí by Michael Eaude 9781789148374
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.55The celebrated art nouveau architect Antoni Gaudi was a contradictory figure: a deeply religious, politically right-wing man who nevertheless created revolutionary, lyrical buildings. This book explores Gaudi's life, work and influences, from Catalan... -
From A to Biba by Barbara Hulanicki
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $14.64Barbara Hulanicki tells the story of the rise and fall of the tiny, energetic boutique that grew into a vast emporium and epitomised Swinging London. The Biba store was to become an icon of hip '60s and '70s London and a hangout for artists, film stars...