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To Begin Again: Artists and Childhood by Jeffrey de Blois
RRP: £32.99Booksplease Price: £22.93How artists from Paul Klee and Mierle Laderman Ukeles to Faith Ringgold and Deborah Roberts have explored childhood themes of innocence, spontaneity and storytelling Artists have long been... -
Keith Haring: Art Is for Everybody by Keith Haring 9781636810935
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £37.20Haring as activist and egalitarian: a fresh, accessible and dynamic look at one of New York's most exhilarating artists Lavishly illustrated with essays and reflections by cultural leaders, Keith... -
An Indigenous Present by Jeffrey Gibson 9781636811024
RRP: £67.00Booksplease Price: £46.58A monumental gathering of more than 60 contemporary artists, photographers, musicians, writers and more, showcasing diverse approaches to Indigenous concepts, forms and mediums - A Wall Street... -
Fire Figure Fantasy: Selections from ICA Miami's Collection Alex Gartenfeld 9781636810836
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £34.80A thematic introduction to the thriving Miami museum's permanent collection Since its founding in 2014, ICA Miami has established itself as a singular voice in artistic stewardship with a... -
The Sleeve Should Be Illegal by 9781942884798
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £18.93Explore the treasures of The Frick Collection through the eyes of a diverse group of contemporary writers, artists and other cultural figures, from George Condo, Lydia Davis and Julie Mehretu to Abbi... -
Paula Wilson: Toward the Sky's Back Door 9781636811666
RRP: £34.00Booksplease Price: £23.55Wilson invokes her own Black biracial identity in her mixed-media pieces, inspired by art historical traditions as much as the plants outside her door Published with Tang Museum. This first... -
Several Eternities in a Day: Form in the Age of Living Materials Pablo Ramirez 9781636811956
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £28.55United by their innovative use of natural materials, 22 international artists compose a space of multiple temporalities, invoking all things with which we share the land Published with Hammer... -
The Lost World: The Art of Minnie Evans Minnie Evans 9781636812199
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £26.05Visionary self-taught Southern folk artist Minnie Evans receives a long overdue encore of her mystical, divinely inspired drawings Published with High Museum of Art. American artist Minnie... -
City of Cinema: Paris 1850-1907 Leah Lehmbeck 9781636810218
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £32.42How film emerged in 19th-century Paris amid an array of social, political, artistic and technological innovations-with works by the Lumiere brothers, Melies, Cheret and more City of Cinema traces... -
Witch Hunt by Ann Philbin
RRP: £47.50Booksplease Price: £31.99Sixteen international artists at the forefront of feminism This book focuses on a selection of midcareer international artists whose oeuvres are informed by the legacies of feminist thought. Each... -
Sarah Cain: Enter the Center by Sarah Cain
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £22.30The most comprehensive publication to date on Sarah Cain's exuberant paintings and installations Published with Tang Museum. Los Angeles-based painter Sarah Cain (born 1979) works on canvases... -
Imagined Fronts: The Great War and Global Media by Timothy O. Benson 9781636810904
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £42.93How the first global media war impacted art, graphic design and cinema, from Otto Dix to Kathe Kollwitz The media spectacle in which we live today has origins in the Great War (1914–18) and the... -
Rebecca Morris: 2001–2022 by Rebecca Morris 9781636811222
RRP: £51.50Booksplease Price: £36.09A survey for a long-term champion of abstraction Acclaimed American painter Rebecca Morris (born 1969) has long been celebrated for her juxtapositions of thin, matte washes of color with shimmering,... -
Simone Leigh by Simone Leigh 9781636810782
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £39.80The first major monograph on Simone Leigh's multimedia explorations of community, Black feminism and the traditions and material cultures of the African diaspora Over the past two decades, Simone... -
Firelei Báez by Firelei Baez 9781636811253
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £35.43"Her language for exploring [history] is at once serious and exuberant." -Siddhartha Mitter, New York Times Over the last 15 years, Firelei Baez has created artwork that delves into the historical... -
Christine Sun Kim: Oh Me Oh My by Christine Sun Kim 9781636811260
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £32.30Drawings, videos and murals center the experience of the Deaf community in an auditory world In this monograph, the groundbreaking work of the American-born, Berlin-based artist Christine Sun Kim... -
Ordinary People: Photorealism and the Work of Art Since 1968 by Anna Katz 9781636811000
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £39.80This fresh look at photorealism argues for its continued relevance today This volume, Ordinary People, recovers the social art history of the long-dismissed genre of photorealism and demonstrates... -
Martha Diamond: Deep Time by Martha Diamond 9781636811451
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £27.30The first major monograph on an American painter known for her abstracted cityscapes Martha Diamond (1944-2023) was among the most perceptive painters of the last five decades. Her work's formal... -
Arnold Newman’s Magazine World: Building Icons Arnold Newman 9781636811673
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £27.30A richly illustrated presentation of the creative career of the acclaimed portraitist, documentarian and experimentalist frequently found in the pages of Life, Look and Harper's Bazaar American... -
Chinatowns: Tong Yan Gaai by Morris Lum Morris Lum 9781636811796
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £22.30In a stunning visual journey, Lum reveals how Chinatowns across North America are defined by both their evolving architecture and their rich cultural identity Published with WORK BOOK. Over the... -
Zheng Chongbin: Golden State Zheng Chongbin 9781636811826
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £19.80Bridging Chinese ink painting and Western installation art in dynamic works that engage with the agency of nature Published with Los Angeles County Museum of Art and INK Institute. Over the... -
Jesse Mockrin: Echo Jesse Mockrin 9781636811871
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £22.30Baroque masterpieces from the Art Gallery of Ontario resonate throughout Mockrin's new oil paintings full of unsettling, uncanny drama Published with Art Gallery of Ontario. Philadelphia-based... -
Bong Joon Ho: Director's Inspiration Bong Joon Ho 9781636811802
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £24.18Through objects from his personal archive, Bong Joon Ho reveals his inspirations and creative processes for his films including Snowpiercer, Parasite and Mickey 17 Published with Academy Museum of... -
Antony Gormley: Survey Antony Gormley 9781636811833
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £30.43An expansive view of Gormley's work, including new perspectives on its engagement with public space and its philosophical underpinnings Published with Nasher Sculpture Center. Spanning the... -
Alex Katz: Out of Sight: A Drawing Survey Alex Katz 9781636811987
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £26.05A fresh look at one of the most influential American artists working today, revealing drawing as the little-known engine of his endlessly inventive creative practice Published with Colby College... -
Tavares Strachan: The Day Tomorrow Began Tavares Strachan 9781636811765
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £28.85A deep dive into the life and practice of the conceptual artist creating work that is "always encyclopedic, engrossing, disconcerting and engaging" -the Guardian Published with Los Angeles County... -
Hayao Miyazaki by Hayao Miyazaki
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £37.69A richly illustrated journey through the extraordinary cinematic worlds of beloved filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki A New York Magazine 2021 holiday gift guide pick For over four decades, Hayao... -
Theaster Gates: Facsimile Cabinet of Women Origin Stories by Theaster Gates
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £13.63A multidisciplinary look at the foremost archive of Black American visual culture, as recast by Theaster Gates This book features essays and other reflections commissioned in response to the... -
Virgil Abloh: Figures of Speech by Virgil Abloh
RRP: £67.99Booksplease Price: £47.20The essential volume on the great fashion designer, entrepreneur and Louis Vuitton artistic director, back in print This authoritative Virgil Abloh compendium, created by the designer himself,... -
Objects of Desire: Photography and the Language of Advertising by Rebecca Morse
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £28.55From Pop art and the Pictures Generation to Instagram and branding: how the dialogue between art and advertising has evolved over the decades The world of advertising has changed drastically over... -
Really Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe by Nellie Mae Rowe
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £28.90An unprecedented look at Nellie Mae Rowe's art as a radical act of self-expression and liberation in the post-civil rights-era South A New York Times critics' pick | Best Art Books 2021 During... -
Black American Portraits: From the Los Angeles County Museum of Art by Christine Kim
RRP: £43.99Booksplease Price: £29.80A celebratory visual chronicle of the many ways in which Black Americans have used portraiture to envision themselves Spanning over two centuries from around 1800 to the present day, Black... -
Leonard Cohen: Everybody Knows: Inside His Archive by Leonard Cohen
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £29.48Previously unseen journals, letters, sketches and more from the vast personal archive of Leonard Cohen Leonard Cohen is renowned the world over for his meditations on beauty, death, loss and the... -
I Am Here: Home Movies and Everyday Masterpieces by Jim Shedden
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £20.02Multimedia expressions of a universal human impulse: the desire to record our daily lives, from cave paintings to TikTok Published with Art Gallery of Ontario. Home movies capture everything... -
Sarah Oppenheimer: Sensitive Machine by Sarah Oppenheimer
RRP: £42.99Booksplease Price: £25.81How Oppenheimer's complex artworks break down barriers between art, audience and architecture This publication documents the four interactive artworks by New York-based artist Sarah Oppenheimer... -
Pedro Almodóvar: Installation/Instalación by Pedro Almodóvar
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £44.37A visually immersive exploration of the provocative and humanistic themes at the heart of Almodovar's cinema Pedro Almodovar is one of the most daring and influential writer-directors of our time... -
Matthew Ritchie: A Garden in the Flood Matthew Ritchie 9781636810621
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £28.55Ritchie locates patterns in an unpredictable universe, with garden and flood serving as metaphors for growth and destruction Renowned New York-based interdisciplinary artist Matthew Ritchie (born... -
Isaac Julien: Lessons of the Hour - Frederick Douglass by Isaac Julien
RRP: £64.99Booksplease Price: £44.53A visual and literary meditation juxtaposing Isaac Julien's artworks with archival images of Frederick Douglass and essays that consider his enduring legacy This sumptuously illustrated artist's... -
Ink Dreams: Selections from the Fondation Ink Collection by Susanna Ferrell
RRP: £59.00Booksplease Price: £39.18The ongoing legacy of the East Asian ink tradition in contemporary art Including the work of more than 50 contemporary artists-from Xu Bing and Lin Tianmiao to Lee Ufan and Hiroshi Sugimoto-and... -
Whistler: Streetscapes, Urban Change by James McNeill Whistler 9781636810942
RRP: £34.00Booksplease Price: £23.55An in-depth look at Whistler's city streets and storefronts, addressing the phenomena of urbanization and gentrification, past and present James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) created hundreds of...