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Sontag: Her Life by Benjamin Moser
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £12.54WINNER OF THE 2020 PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHYSelected as a Book of the Year 2019 by the SPECTATOR, TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN and FINANCIAL TIMES 'Definitive and delightful' Stephen Fry 'There can... -
Marxism and Literary Criticism by Terry Eagleton
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.95Is Marx relevant any more? Why should we care what he wrote? What difference could it make to our reading of literature? Terry Eagleton, one of the foremost critics of our generation, has some... -
Critical Theory: A Reader by Douglas Tallack 9780745015330
Booksplease Price: £60.27An anthology of readings and extracts providing a comprehensive introduction to the main schools and positions of critical theory. The book is divided into five sections; structuralism and... -
The Futurist Cookbook by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Part manifesto, part artistic joke, Fillippo Marinetti's Futurist Cookbook is a provocative work about art disguised as an easy-to-read cookbook. Here are recipes for ice cream on the moon; candied... -
Selected Poems by Geoffrey Hill
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.59This first selection of Geoffrey Hill's poetry charts the evolution of a complex, uncompromising, visionary body of work over fifty years. It includes poems from Hill's astonishing debut, For the... -
Lives of the Artists by Giorgio Vasari
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Beginning with Cimabue and Giotto in the thirteenth century, Vasari traces the development of Italian art across three centuries to the golden epoch of Leonardo and Michelangelo. Great men, and their... -
Literature and Evil by Georges Bataille
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'Literature is not innocent,' stated Georges Bataille in this extraordinary 1957 collection of essays, arguing that only by acknowledging its complicity with the knowledge of evil can literature... -
Selected Essays by Samuel Johnson
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51This volume contains a generous selection from the essays Johnson published twice weekly as 'The Rambler' in the early 1750s. It was here that he first created the literary character and forged the... -
Photography: A Critical Introduction by Liz Wells
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £39.55Now in its sixth edition, this seminal textbook examines key debates in photographic theory and places them in their social and political contexts. Written especially for students in further and... -
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Lives of the Artists by Giorgio Vasari 9780140445008 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £1.97Beginning with Cimabue and Giotto in the thirteenth century, Vasari traces the development of Italian art across three centuries to the golden epoch of Leonardo and Michelangelo. Great men, and their... -
A Parisian Affair and Other Stories by Guy de Maupassant
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.60Set in the Paris of society women, prostitutes and small-minded bourgeousie, and the isolated villages of rural Normandy that de Maupassant knew as a child, the thirty-three tales in this volume are... -
Virginia Woolf in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction Pamela Caughie 9781138986770
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £47.34This collection of ten original essays is the first to read Virginia Woolf through the prism of our technological present. Expanding on the work of feminist and cultural critics of the past two... -
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce 9780143108245
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51The first, shortest, and most approachable of James Joyce's novels, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man portrays the Dublin upbringing of Stephen Dedalus, from his youthful days at Clongowes Wood... -
Understanding a Photograph by John Berger
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.95John Berger's writings on photography are some of the most original of the twentieth century. This selection contains many groundbreaking essays and previously uncollected pieces written for... -
On Photography by Susan Sontag 9780141035789
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Susan Sontag's On Photography is a seminal and groundbreaking work on the subject.Susan Sontag's groundbreaking critique of photography asks forceful questions about the moral and aesthetic issues... -
Willehalm by Wolfram von Eschenbach 9780140443998
Booksplease Price: £13.80Wolfram von Eschenbach (fl. c. 1195-1225), best known as the author of Parzival, based Willehalm, his epic poem of military prowess and courtly love, on the style and subject matter of an Old... -
Ways of Seeing by John Berger 9780141035796
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Based on the BBC television series, John Berger's Ways of Seeing is a unique look at the way we view art, published as part of the Penguin on Design series in Penguin Modern Classics.'Seeing comes... -
Under the Sign of Saturn: Essays by Susan Sontag
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Susan Sontag's third essay collection brings together her most important critical writing from 1972 to 1980. In these provocative and hugely influential works she explores some of the most... -
Styles of Radical Will by Susan Sontag
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £9.23This collection of essays contains some of the most important pieces of criticism of the twentieth century, including the classics 'The Aesthetics of Silence', a brilliant account of language,... -
Phaedrus by Plato 9780140449747
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Phaedrus is widely recognized as one of Plato's most profound and beautiful works. It takes the form of a dialogue between Socrates and Phaedrus and its ostensible subject is love, especially... -
Keith Haring Journals by Keith Haring
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43Keith Haring is synonymous with the downtown New York art scene of the 1980's. His artwork-with its simple, bold lines and dynamic figures in motion-filtered in to the world's consciousness and is... -
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51In the summer of 1936, Agee and Evans set out on assignement for Fortune magazine to explore the daily lives of sharecroppers in the South. Their journey would prove an extraordinary collaboration... -
Selected Writings by Gerard de Nerval
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Poet, visionary, short-story writer and autobiographer, Gerard de Nerval (1808-1855) explored the uncertain borderlines between dream and reality, irony and madness, autobiography and fiction with... -
An Apology for Idlers by Robert Louis Stevenson
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02An irresistible invitation to reject the work ethic and enjoy life's simple pleasures (such as laughing, drinking and lying in the open air), Robert Louis Stevenson's witty and seminal essay on the... -
B is for Bauhaus: An A-Z of the Modern World by Deyan Sudjic
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51This an essential tool kit for understanding the world around us. It's about our obsession with collecting, the quest for authenticity and the creation of national identities. It's about Hitchcock's... -
Where the Stress Falls by Susan Sontag
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Where the Stress Falls is divided into three sections: the first, 'Reading', includes ardent pieces on writers from Sontag's own private canon - Machado de Assis, Barthes, W. G. Sebald, Borges,... -
The Benefactor by Susan Sontag
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23The Benefactor is Susan Sontag's first book and first novel. It was originally published in 1963, and introduced a unique writer to the world. In the form of a memoir by a latter-day Candide named... -
In America by Susan Sontag 9780141190105
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23The story of In America is inspired by the emigration to America in 1876 of Helena Modrzejewska, Poland's most celebrated actress, accompanied by her husband, Count Karol Chlapowski, her... -
Marseille 1940: The Flight of Literature Uwe Wittstock 9781509565429
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.61June 1940: France surrenders to Germany. The Gestapo is searching for Heinrich Mann and Franz Werfel, Hannah Arendt, Lion Feuchtwanger and many other writers and artists who had sought asylum in... -
Essays in Idleness: and Hojoki by Meredith McKinney
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73These two works on life's fleeting pleasures are by Buddhist monks from medieval Japan, but each shows a different world-view. In the short memoir Hojoki, Chomei recounts his decision to withdraw... -
On Photography by Susan Sontag
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.48'The most original and illuminating study of the subject.' The New YorkerPhotographs are everywhere. From high art to family albums to legal evidence, they capture and document the world around us... -
100 Artists' Manifestos: From the Futurists to the Stuckists by Alex Danchev
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23In this one-of-a-kind volume, indispensable for students of art, architecture and film,Alex Danchev presents 100 Artists' Manifestos, each reproduced with an introduction on the author and the... -
POPism by Andy Warhol
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'POPism reads like a novel... Social history of the rarest kind, set down in ultra-sharp focus by someone who helped shape the events he describes' The New YorkerA cultural storm swept through the... -
Avantgarde Art and Radical Material Theology: A Manifesto by Petra Carlsson Redell
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £49.51Theological thought has long been focused on the meaning to be found in our existence, but it has tended to neglect what it might offer to those seeking how to prolong and improve our physical... -
The Work of Forgetting: Or, How Can We Make the Future Possible? by Stephane Symons 9781538158272
Booksplease Price: £37.81For over fifty years the concept of memory has played a crucial role in a large number of academic and societal debates. The Work of Forgetting: Or, How Can We Make the Future Possible? draws... -
History of the Present: The Contemporary and its Culture David Roberts (Monash University, Australia) 9780367530969
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94This book explores the demise of the grand narrative of European modernity. That once commanding narrative located the meaning of the past in the present and the meaning of the present in an... -
Performance & Consciousness by Dinkgrafe 9789057550966
RRP: £96.99Booksplease Price: £84.74This is volume 1, part 4 of the Performing Arts International forum. This collection of essays covers a breadth of topics on the theme of consciousness; addressing the trend of studies trying to put... -
Architecture and Sacrament: A Critical Theory by David Wang
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.66David Wang's Architecture and Sacrament considers architectural theory from a Christian theological perspective, specifically, the analogy of being (analogia entis). The book tracks social and... -
Words Made Flesh: Formations of the Postsecular in British Romanticism by Sean Dempsey 9780813948119
Booksplease Price: £110.15Religion is not merely a different way of thinking but is rather an alternative manner of being-it is both a way of attending to the world and a form of embodiment. Literature provides another key to... -
The Tonality of Thought Byung-Chul Han 9781509569670
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.89In a lecture given in 2023, Byung-Chul Han likened his thinking to music: like the Goldberg Variations, his books present variations on themes, though in his case the variations are articulated in...