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Lisa Mara Batacchi: The Time of Discretion by Veronica Cacioll
RRP: $55.65Booksplease Price: $42.61The Time of Discretion is an intimate, slow and relational time. It is also an artistic project. Besides Italy, it has been developed in the remote areas on the southeast border of the Gobi Desert... -
Paolo Scheggi: Making Spaces by Ilaria Bignotti 9788836654208
RRP: $105.00Booksplease Price: $79.80“A point, a hole, a gap. A cut, a gash, a wound. The gaze stretches out towards openings, discovers small and large concavities, focal lines converge and branch out between chromatic shadows and... -
Veronese by Renzo Villa 9788836655304
RRP: $50.40Booksplease Price: $42.88The greatest director and set designer of the Cinquecento, Paolo Caliari (1528-1588), 'Veronese' to his patrons and admirers in Venice – the city in which he lived and worked becoming its citizen –... -
Gardens of Sri Lanka: 2000 Years of Landscape Architecture Tradition Senake Bandaranayake 9788836659555
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $72.58Sri Lanka takes its place in Asian garden history not only by virtue of its chronicle accounts, inscriptional records and literary descriptions of gardens and natural environments, but even more so... -
Mark Bradford: Keep Walking Sam Bardaouil 9788836656585
RRP: $25.20Booksplease Price: $19.28Mark Bradford’s expansive artistic practice is firmly rooted in the dynamics of movement within the prism of racial identity. It embodies an unyielding quest for liberation, where the ceaseless... -
Flowers Forever: Flowers in Art and Culture Suzanne Landau 9788836659906
RRP: $69.30Booksplease Price: $55.31With their splendour and diversity flowers have always captivated us. They possess great symbolic power - whether in mythology, religion, art or politics. In earlier centuries, flowers were coveted... -
Argentina: What the Night Tells the Day by Andrés Duprat 9788836656912
RRP: $67.20Booksplease Price: $53.89Through sculptures, installations, photographs, videos and performances, the curatorial project develops along three axes - irony, literalness and citation - presenting different approaches to the... -
Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective.: Biennale Architettura 2025 Carlo Ratti 9788836661176
RRP: $168.00Booksplease Price: $124.66The 19th International Architecture Exhibition, curated by Carlo Ratti, to be held from 10 May to 23 November 2025 in Venice, is titled Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective. The Exhibition,... -
Kenro Izu: Soul Places Filippo Maggia 9788836660674
RRP: $58.80Booksplease Price: $44.77"I have been photographing the world's sacred places since 1979. My lifelong theme in the photography is "beauty of impermanence". I find a beauty in flower, as its life is only several days and can... -
Rivista La Biennale Di Venezia 2/25: Things to Come La Biennale di Venezia 9788836662135
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $39.90Things to Come is the title of issue number 2/2025 of the historic Magazine published by La Biennale di Venezia, brought back to life after 53 years of editorial silence. Each issue contains... -
Tariq Abdulhakim: A Melody Between Past and Present Silvana Editoriale 9788836652754
RRP: $67.20Booksplease Price: $53.89Tariq Abdulhakim (ca.1920-2012) is widely recognised as the leader of Saudi music's renewal and development. As a composer, singer, and founder of numerous initiatives that have laid the foundation... -
A Seat at the Table: Food & Feasting in the Islamic World Silvana Editoriale 9788836661107
RRP: $67.20Booksplease Price: $50.53More than any other activity, food brings people, cultures, and communities together. Eating, whether sharing a meal or dining alone, goes well beyond the mere necessity of sustenance. It nurtures us... -
Fausto Melotti: In Lightness. Homage to Italo Calvino Michelina Eremita 9788836658114
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $49.33A bond of thin yet strong threads unites the two minds, that of the writer Italo Calvino (1923-1985) and that of the sculptor Fausto Melotti (1901-1986), similar in intent and manifestation. What... -
Rivista La Biennale Di Venezia 3/25: Materia Prima/Raw Material Silvana Editoriale 9788836662623
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $39.27Materia prima / Raw Material is the title of issue 3/2025 of the historic magazine published by La Biennale di Venezia, which has come back to life after 53 years of editorial silence. Printed to be... -
The Morandi Museum: Catalogue Raisonné 9788836658893
RRP: $109.20Booksplease Price: $85.41The volume constitutes the updated and renewed version of the General Catalogue of the Morandi Museum in Bologna, a point of reference not only for admirers of the master and art lovers, but also for... -
Dario Argento: The Exhibition Domenico De Gaetano 9788836651719
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $52.69This volume celebrates one of the best known and most loved Italian directors in the world, one of the great masters of tension and horror: Dario Argento. Over the years his cinema has established... -
Tony Gentile: Sicily 1992. Light and Memory by Ferdinando Scianna 9788836652723
RRP: $67.20Booksplease Price: $55.48"Tony Gentile is the most famous, but paradoxically also the most obscure, photographer among Italians familiar with a photograph he took that is so exceptional in nature that it became an icon... -
Marialuisa Tadei: Endlessly by Silvana Editoriale 9788836637911
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $40.95"Marialuisa Tadei succeeds in giving the mystery of life abstract form, implying that it trascends the nature in which it ordinarily manifests itself suggesting that it is unwordly - beyond... -
Deng Guoyuan: The Butterflies conquer the Dinosaur's Garden by Beate Reifenscheid 9788836643691
RRP: $55.65Booksplease Price: $45.97The Chinese artist Deng Guo Yuan has spent his entire life dealing with the theme of the garden. He interprets this theme against the background of the knowledge of the Chinese tradition. In the... -
Italian Jewelry: In the 20th Century by Melissa Gabardi 9788836635078
RRP: $83.90Booksplease Price: $67.01Through meticulous research, this book explores the Italian twentieth-century jewellery and goldsmithing landscape. This is the first time this topic has been investigated in such a comprehensive... -
Paolo Canevari: Self-Portrait by Robert Storr 9788836649280
RRP: $84.00Booksplease Price: $62.03Self-Portrait explores 30 years of artistic research by Paolo Canevari (Rome, 1963), proposing a series of sculptures, drawings and installations ranging from the first creations in the wake of Arte... -
Lisette Model Monica Poggi 9788836648320
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $40.95Published on the occasion of the first Italian anthological exhibition dedicated to her, the volume retraces the successful work of Lisette Model, an artist of Austrian origin who had great... -
Artur Żmijewski: When Fear Eats the Soul by Diego Sileo 9788836650101
RRP: $67.20Booksplease Price: $53.89Artur Żmijewski is one of the most important radical figures in the Polish art scene. His work reflects a concern for the socio-political problems of our times by examining the mechanisms of power... -
Fondazione Ghisla: Art Collection Locarno by Angela Madesani 9788836648269
RRP: $168.00Booksplease Price: $138.43Fondazione Ghisla Art Collection was founded in April 2014, with the aim of making an artistic holding of international value available to the public, to be shared with all those who recognise art to... -
Martine Franck: Looking at Others by Clément Chéroux 9788836656486
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $56.51“I do not believe you can be a good photographer if you aren’t curious about others” — Martine Franck This book was conceived to shed light on the significant visual contribution made to photography... -
Preis der Nationalgalerie 2024: Pan Daijing. Dan Lie. Hanne Lippard. James Richards Sam Bardaouil 9788836657889
RRP: $33.60Booksplease Price: $26.33In 2024, the Preis der Nationalgalerie goes to Pan Daijing, Dan Lie, Hanne Lippard, and James Richards, the first time the award has gone to four artists. This new format for presenting the award... -
Tan Ping: Body of Abstraction Beate Reifenscheid 9788836659951
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $49.33Tan Ping came to Berlin in 1989 to study at the University of the Arts (UDK) and shortly afterwards witnessed the fall of the Berlin Wall. China's opening to the Western World since 1985 has created... -
Erwin Wurm: Life Beat Soft Melt Beate Reifenscheid 9788836662913
RRP: $69.30Booksplease Price: $58.04Life Beat Soft Melt presents a new series of works by Erwin Wurm, introducing here, alongside his iconic One Minute Sculptures, a wall painting installation, which extends his sculptural concept. A... -
Petrit Halilaj: An Opera Out of Time Sam Bardaouil 9788836660759
RRP: $25.20Booksplease Price: $19.28Petrit Halilaj presents his first major institutional solo exhibition in Berlin at Hamburger Bahnhof - Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart. In addition to sculptures, installations and a video, new... -
Salvador Dalí: Divines créatures Silvana Editoriale 9788836660667
RRP: $67.20Booksplease Price: $50.53Proliferating ants, lace-clad rhinoceroses, apocalyptic horse, rotten donkey, spidery elephant, pet ocelot, and anteater on a leash... Salvador Dali imagined a fantastical bestiary revisiting ancient... -
Picasso céramiques: Les techniques du multiple Silvana Editoriale 9788836661473
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $39.90Picasso never considered ceramics a minor art form and was thus able to explore, through this medium, artistic practices that had preoccupied him since his Cubist years. Ceramics also allowed him to... -
Rauschenberg and the Twentieth Century by Gianfranco Maraniello, Nicola Ricciardi, Viviana Bertanzetti (eds.) 9788836662180
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $43.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788836662180Author Gianfranco Maraniello, Nicola Ricciardi, Viviana Bertanzetti (eds.)Format... -
Mat Mullican: That Person’s Heaven Stefano Raimondi 9788836663316
RRP: $37.80Booksplease Price: $29.21Matt Mullican has created a personal symbolic system for defining the reality that surrounds him. Composed of signs, diagrams, pictograms and symbols. That Person's Heaven, the largest work of art... -
Elio Luxardo: Nudes Giuseppe Vanzella 9788836662937
RRP: $69.30Booksplease Price: $51.95An adopted Roman, but born in Brazil in 1908 to Italian immigrant parents, Elio Luxardo (Sorocaba, 1908 - Milan, 1969) is perhaps the greatest representative of that generation of photographers who... -
Formless/Form: The Non-objective Phase of Italian Photography 1935-1958 by Antonella Russo
RRP: $46.20Booksplease Price: $38.30Formless/Form offers one of the first in-depth investigations on the birth of Italian experimental photography from the mid 1930s to the mid Fifties of the Twentieth century. This catalogue presents... -
Christine Rebet: Escapologie by Silvana Editoriale 9788836653096
RRP: $50.40Booksplease Price: $37.84Christine Rebet is fascinated by sleight of hand and optical illusions, the principal forms of entertainment before the invention of motion pictures. She combines history and fiction by creating... -
Le Prix Marcel Duchamp 2019: Eric Baudelaire, Katinka Bock, Marguerite Humeau, Ida Tursic & Wilfried Mille by Silvana Editoriale 9788836640744
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $26.29One of the most prestigious contemporary art awards, the Marcel Duchamp Prize was created in 2000 by the ADIAF, Association for the international diffusion of French art which groups together 400... -
Obaidi: In Conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist by Hans-Ulrich Obrist 9788836635122
RRP: $83.90Booksplease Price: $61.97Mahmoud Obaidi's work encompasses sculpture, conceptual objects, film and painting; a series of politically-charged fragments which are brought together within this publication. Born in Iraq in... -
Italian Olive Oil Tins: Guatelli Collection Emanuela Rossi 9788836642021
RRP: $71.40Booksplease Price: $59.30The Guatelli Collection is the most important collection of tin boxes for olive oil, from those for export to the ones destined for the domestic market, produced between the end of the nineteenth... -
Biennale Architettura 2023: The Laboratory of The Future Lesley Lokko 9788836654512
RRP: $157.50Booksplease Price: $117.45The 18th International Architecture Exhibition, in Venice from May 20th to November 26th, 2023, is entitled The Laboratory of the Future. Conceived as “a kind of workshop, a laboratory where...