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Grayson Perry: Smash Hits by Grayson Perry
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $22.81"The Turner Prize winner leads a visual tour through his life in six artworks - from college days to knighthood." - Telegraph Grayson Perry is one of Britain's most celebrated contemporary artists... -
Grayson Perry: Delusions of Grandeur Grayson Perry 9781781301340
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $27.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781301340Author Grayson PerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Philip Wilson Publishers... -
Grayson Perry: The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman Grayson Perry 9780714118321
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $23.74'The Tomb of an Unknown Craftsman is of a treasure hoard from a distinct civilisation. The difference is that it is a civilisation of one. The territory it springs from is my imagination. ... The... -
Grayson Perry by Jacky Klein
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $34.29In this major monograph on Grayson Perry, now updated and expanded, writer and art historian Jacky Klein explores the artist's work through a discussion of his major themes and subjects. Klein's text... -
The Descent of Man by Grayson Perry
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91'A breeze of a read, makes you see our male-manufactured world a little differently' Matt Haig'GRAYSON PERRY FOR KING AND QUEEN OF ENGLAND. Imagine how BRILLIANT our country would look if he was'... -
MUSE: A Portrait of Grayson Perry Richard Ansett 9781788842327
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $33.02"Wow! Just wow! ... It's a really stunning thing. A love letter that is itself a work of art about a work of art that is Grayson. Both playful and deadly serious ... these photos are not simply about... -
Grayson Perry: The Pre-Therapy Years by Catrin Jones
RRP: $25.74Booksplease Price: $18.06The first book to concentrate on the early ceramic work of 'Transvestite Potter', bestselling author, broadcaster and social commentator Grayson Perry. Grayson Perry is now a household name as a... -
Look Again: Fashion by Shahidha Bari 9781849767170
RRP: $12.90Booksplease Price: $9.55Look Again is a new series of short books from Tate Publishing, opening up the conversation about British art over the last 500 years, and exploring what art has to tell us about our lives today... -
Grayson Perry: The Pre-Therapy Years The Holburne Museum 9780500298206
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $18.21The first book to concentrate on the early ceramic work of 'Transvestite Potter', bestselling author, broadcaster and social commentator Grayson Perry. Grayson Perry is one of today's most popular... -
Grayson Perry: Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Girl by Perry Grayson 9780099485162
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20Every 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... -
Grayson's Art Club: The Exhibition Volume II Grayson Perry 9781399906432
RRP: $19.35Booksplease Price: $13.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399906432Author Grayson PerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Bristol Museum & Art... -
What Does God Think About Brexit?: A Theological Reflection by David Nixon 9783030339449
Booksplease Price: $59.70This book is a theological reflection about the process and event of Brexit: Britain's departure from the European Union. Within a framework of liberation and postmodern theology, it examines Brexit... -
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Playing to the Gallery: Helping Contemporary Art in its Struggle to Be Understood by Grayson Perry 9781846148576 [USED COPY]
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $4.23'It's easy to feel insecure around art and its appreciation, as though we cannot enjoy certain artworks if we don't have a lot of academic and historical knowledge. But if there's one message that I... -
Pushing paper: Contemporary drawing from 1970 to now by Isabel Seligman
RRP: $24.45Booksplease Price: $17.93Focusing on 56 selected works from the 1970s to today, Pushing paper examines why drawing has endured as a method of making art, and explores the vital and fundamental nature of drawing through... -
Talk Art The Interviews by Russell Tovey
Booksplease Price: $8.54'Insights from the zeitgeist are preserved with conviction and clarity, offering an inclusive way to access contemporary art in all its forms. If Talk Art is the fun podcast, then this book is the... -
Making Pots: A ceramicist's guide by Stefan Andersson
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $16.13Learn the ancient craft of making artisan pots, from clay preparation and drying to glazing and firing. You don't need much to make your first pot, just a piece... -
Art Is Magic by Jeremy Deller
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $28.51'What makes Art is Magic so rewarding is that Deller can write. Strikingly, he finds the literary process "mortifying . . . as though I am slowly dying". Perhaps it is that painful intensity that... -
WINTER by Kirsteen McSwein
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55An elegant gift book, celebrating the joys (and sometimes the travails) of the winter season through art, spanning several centuries and featuring a variety of artists from J.M.W. Turner and John... -
Contemporary British Ceramics: Beneath the Surface by Ashley Thorpe 9781785008887
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $29.48Ceramics is one of the most vibrant and engaging fields of contemporary British art. This lavishly illustrated book reviews the work of twenty-two artists and celebrates their contribution to its... -
What I Wish I'd Known When I Was Young: The Art and Science of Growing Up by Rachel Sylvester
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $19.03'A superb study ... brilliant stories, hilarious observations and jaw dropping revelations about so many figures in public life we thought we knew - but never understood' EMILY MAITLIS ... -
The Hero's Body by William Giraldi 9780857301086
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43The Hero's Body is a memoir of what it means to be a man in modern America. At just forty-seven years old, William Giraldi's father was killed in a horrific motorcycle accident. Writing here with... -
Depraved: The Story of Dangerous Art Daisy Dixon 9780571383221
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $18.55'Essential . . . An urgent reckoning with institutional violence, curatorial practice and the meaning of freedom.' Dan Hicks'Daisy Dixon is the guide you need in encountering the disturbing side of... -
None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary by Travis Alabanza 9781838854331
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26WINNER OF THE JHALAK PRIZE 2023WINNER OF THE SOMERSET MAUGHAM AWARD 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE POLARI FIRST BOOK PRIZE 2023A WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2022: POLITICS'No memoir like it' Independent'Travis... -
What I Wish I’d Known When I Was Young: The Art and Science of Growing Up by Rachel Sylvester
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.05'A superb study ... brilliant stories, hilarious observations and jaw dropping revelations about so many figures in public life we thought we knew - but never understood' EMILY MAITLIS ... -
Ways of Curating by Hans-Ulrich Obrist
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.93Drawing on his own experiences and inspirations - from staging his first exhibition in his tiny Zurich kitchen in 1986 to encounters with artists, exhibition makers and thinkers - Hans Ulrich Obrist... -
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What I Wish I’d Known When I Was Young: The Art and Science of Growing Up by Rachel Sylvester 9780008497507 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $7.06'A superb study ... brilliant stories, hilarious observations and jaw dropping revelations about so many figures in public life we thought we knew - but never understood' EMILY MAITLIS ... -
Money in Art: From Coinage to Crypto Dr. David Trigg 9781912122967
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $21.01As an inescapable aspect of everyday life, money has appeared in the background of art throughout its history within the context of mythological, biblical and historic scenes. In the last seventy... -
Material: The Art of Handcrafting Beautiful Objects in a Digital Age Nick Kary 9781915294623
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.74'An important book, brimming with insight.' Nicholas Evans, author of The Horse Whisperer 'Material is generous, wise, fascinating and fundamentally humane.' Dan Richards, author of Outpost ... -
Eroticism by Georges Bataille
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26A philosopher, essayist, novelist, pornographer and fervent Catholic who came to regard the brothels of Paris as his true 'churches', Georges Bataille ranks among the boldest and most disturbing of... -
The Gender Games: The Problem With Men and Women, From Someone Who Has Been Both by Juno Dawson
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95*WINNER OF THE UK BLACK PRIDE LITERARY PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION DIVA AWARDS 2017**AS SEEN ON TRANSFORMATION STREET* 'Opens minds, breaks down myths and vaporises prejudice - I loved it!' Rebecca Root,... -
Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery by Jeanette Winterson
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20These interlocking essays uncover art as an active force in the world - neither elitist or remote, present to those who want it, affecting even those who don't. Winterson's own passionate vision of... -
Henri Matisse: A Second Life by Alastair Sooke
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.60Henri Matisse by Alastair Sooke - an essential guide to one of the 20th century's greatest artists'One January morning in 1941, only a fortnight or so after his seventy-first birthday, the bearded... -
140 Artists' Ideas for Planet Earth by Hans Ulrich Obrist
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91Through 140 drawings, thought experiments, recipes, activist instructions, gardening ideas, insurgences and personal revolutions, artists who spend their lives thinking outside the box guide you to a... -
Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a Man Thomas Page McBee 9781786890887
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26If he is to become a man, what sort of man should Thomas Page McBee be?To find out, McBee must confront the suffering he has endured at the hands of men: the abuse he endured as a child from his... -
Walk Through Walls: A Memoir by Marina Abramovic 9780241974520
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91'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... -
Reflections: Andrew Logan in Conversation with Andrew Lambirth by Andrew Lambirth
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $33.22Told in his own words, in response to questions from the writer and art critic Andrew Lambirth, this book chronicles Andrew Logan's life and work through expressive anecdote and factual recollection... -
Self-Portrait by Man Ray
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56In this remarkable autobiography, Man Ray - painter, photographer, sculptor, film maker and writer - relates the story of his life, from his childhood determination to be an artist and his technical... -
The White Road: a pilgrimage of sorts by Edmund de Waal
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20The gripping story of the lure of porcelain, or 'white gold', from the Number One bestselling author of The Hare with Amber Eyes.** A Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller ** "Other things in the world are... -
Leonardo Da Vinci: The Flights of the Mind by Charles Nicholl
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $17.71Leonardo da Vinci is the most mysterious of all the great artists, continuing to inspire and intrigue centuries after his death. Who lies behind the legend of the 'Renaissance genius'? What is the... -
The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh by Vincent Van Gogh
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91A 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...