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Boy in a China Shop: Life, Clay and Everything by Keith Brymer Jones 9781529385250
RRP: £10.99£7.40'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: £12.99£8.60Cedric 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: £9.99£6.80Apologies 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: £20.00£14.35Five 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... -
Eric Stanton and the History of the Bizarre Underground by ,Richard,Perez Seves 9780764355424
RRP: £27.99£18.18Tracing 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... -
The Greek House: The Story of a Painter's Love Affair with the Island of Sifnos by Christian Brechneff 9780374535261
RRP: £10.99£9.00When Christian Brechneff first set foot on the Greek island of Sifnos, it was the spring of 1972 and he was a twenty-one-year-old painter searching for artistic inspiration and a quiet place to work. There, this Swiss child of Russian emigres, adrift and... -
To See Clearly: Why Ruskin Matters by Suzanne Fagence-Cooper
RRP: £10.99£7.40'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... -
John Soane's Cabinet of Curiosities: Reflections on an Architect and His Collection Bruce Boucher 9780300275698
RRP: £35.00£30.57An 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... -
Sandfuture by Justin Beal
RRP: £23.00£15.17Apologies 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: £25.00£16.38Phoebe 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: £28.00£18.59Drawing 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: £40.00£27.33An 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: £8.99£6.13From 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... -
Lee Quiñones: Fifty Years of New York Graffiti Art and Beyond by Lee Quinones 9788862088114
RRP: £45.00£30.25Fifty Years of New York Graffiti Art and Beyond is the first monograph of Puerto Rican born artist Lee Quinones presenting his monumental work and following his evolution over five decades. 'An inspired outlaw with a meticulous design process and... -
Nonbinary: A Memoir by Genesis P-Orridge 9781419749773
RRP: £12.99£8.91A 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... -
Coreyography by Corey Feldman 9781250054913
RRP: £19.00£10.14Apologies 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: £35.00£22.83Apologies 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 -
French Riviera and Its Artists by John Baxter
RRP: £16.99£13.47Apologies 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 -
The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever by Prudence Peiffer 9780063097209
RRP: £38.99£23.49Apologies 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 Grand Affair: John Singer Sargent in His World by Paul Fisher 9781250872548
RRP: £20.00£12.60Apologies 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 -
Life With Picasso by Francoise Gilot
RRP: £12.99£9.09Francoise 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... -
Queer Saint: The Cultured Life of Peter Watson by Adrian Clark 9781839012921
RRP: £17.99£12.94Apologies 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 -
Daily Rituals: How Great Minds Make Time, Find Inspiration, and Get to Work by Mason Currey
RRP: £12.99£9.26'Utterly fascinating' Daisy Goodwin, Sunday TimesBenjamin Franklin took daily naked air baths and Toulouse-Lautrec painted in brothels. Edith Sitwell worked in bed, and George Gershwin composed at the piano in pyjamas. Freud worked sixteen hours a day,... -
Behind the Crown: My Life Photographing the Royal Family by Arthur Edwards
RRP: £25.00£17.43For 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... -
Marina Abramovic: A Visual Biography by Katya Tylevich 9780857829467
RRP: £80.00£53.85The definitive guide to the life and work of Marina Abramovic, the world's most famous performance artist.Combining brand-new interviews, never-before-seen images and fascinating ephemera, this book is a testament to the extraordinary life and work of... -
Charleston: A Bloomsbury House & Garden by Quentin Bell
RRP: £19.99£13.35The 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... -
Grayson Perry: Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Girl by Perry Grayson 9780099485162
RRP: £9.99£7.11Every inch of Grayson's childhood bedroom was covered with pictures of aeroplanes, and every surface with models. Fantasy took over his life, in a world of battles ruled by his teddy bear, Alan Measles. He grew up. And in 2003, an acclaimed ceramic... -
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone by Olivia Laing
RRP: £10.99£7.32SHORTLISTED 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... -
A Life In Pictures by Alasdair Gray 9781841956404
RRP: £50.00£34.69Alasdair Gray is known throughout the world for his writing, but he is also a highly regarded artist who not only illustrates and designs his own books, but has created many beautiful and intriguing portraits, paintings, posters and murals.Alasdair... -
The Infernal World Of Branwell Bronte by Daphne Du Maurier
RRP: £10.99£7.40FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA'Daphne du Maurier has no equal' DAILY TELEGRAPH'Miss du Maurier has brought to the art of the biography the narrative urgency' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW ' . . . she is unravelling a long distorted mystery' KIRKUS... -
Dior by Dior: The autobiography of Christian Dior by Christian Dior
RRP: £9.99£6.75Christian Dior (1905-1957) rocketed to fame with his first collection in 1947 when the "New Look" took the world by storm. This charming and modest autobiography gives a fascinating and detailed insight into the workings of a great fashion house, while... -
Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson 9781501139154
RRP: £40.00£27.66The #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: £35.00£24.69The 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: £25.00£21.19Patrick 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... -
Dear Theo: The Autobiography of Vincent Van Gogh by Irving Stone
RRP: £17.00£11.31"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... -
Self-Portrait by Celia Paul 9781529111552
RRP: £12.99£9.09'Painfully honest on what it means to be a woman who puts art first, no matter what' Olivia LaingI'm not a portrait painter. If I'm anything, I have always been an autobiographer.In Self-Portrait, Celia Paul reveals a life truly lived through art. She... -
Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring by Brad Gooch 9780062698261
RRP: £30.00£20.64"It's all here: the grade school Walt Disney and Dr. Seuss; the adolescent acid trips; the fondness for Post-it notes and flying saucers; the long tails of Dubuffet and Burroughs; the encounters with Madonna, Warhol, and one game-changer of a subway... -
Ways of Life: Jim Ede and the Kettle's Yard Artists by Laura Freeman
RRP: £30.00£21.95This first biography of the Kettle's Yard artists reveals the life of a visionary who helped shape twentieth-century British art and explores a thrilling moment in the history of modernism'The beautiful, revelatory biography we have been waiting for. I... -
Art of the Extreme 1905-1914 by Philip Hook
RRP: £30.00£21.35A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR The ten years leading up to the First World War were the most exciting, frenzied and revolutionary in the history of art. They were the crucible of Modernism, when Fauvism, Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism and Abstract... -
Tales from the Colony Room: Soho's Lost Bohemia by Darren Coffield
RRP: £12.99£8.45'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...