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Church and Patronage in 20th Century Britain: Walter Hussey and the Arts by Peter Webster 9781137369093
Booksplease Price: £90.86This book is the first full-length treatment of Walter Hussey's work as a patron between 1943 and 1978, first for the Anglican parish church of St Matthew in Northampton, and then at Chichester... -
From Fauvism to Surrealism by 9788417769987
Booksplease Price: £35.54A primer on four key movements from the heyday of modernism This volume gathers a wide selection of masterpieces from Fauvism, Cubism, Surrealism and the School of Paris. Fauvism followed in the... -
The Place of Creation: The Collected Essays of Erich Neumann, Volume 3 by Erich Neumann 9780691279183
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £45.98Six essays on creativity from one of the twentieth century’s foremost Jungian psychologistsErich Neumann, whom C. G. Jung regarded as one of his most gifted students, devoted much of his later... -
Chagall: Masters of Art Ines Schlenker 9783791386607
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Marc Chagall's remarkable oeuvre spans a variety of media; from painting, ceramics, and stained glass to illustration, tapestry, and stage sets. Regardless of the format, his singular narrative style... -
The Glass Ch�teau by Stephen P Kiernan 9780063227309
Booksplease Price: £14.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063227309Author Stephen P KiernanFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint CollinsPublisher... -
The Polyphony of Jewish Culture by Benjamin Harshav
RRP: £56.00Booksplease Price: £46.14This book is a coat of many colors. It is a collection of essays written in English by the distinguished Israeli literary and cultural critic, Benjamin Harshav, covering the whole span of Jewish... -
Chagall (Norwegian Edition) by Illka Voermann
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £30.75Marc Chagall (1887-1985) is regarded as the poet amongst modernist artists. His works from the 1930s and 1940s are less well known. In them, his bright colour palette became darker. Even in the... -
Maeght Universe by Isabelle Maeght 9788410024076
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £28.09A fruitful visual dialogue between Chillida, his contemporaries and the art dealer who uplifted their idiosyncratic visions On the occasion of the centennial of Basque sculptor Eduardo Chillida... -
Creative Man: The Collected Essays of Erich Neumann, Volume 2 by Erich Neumann 9780691279169
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.88An essential exploration of creativity by one of the twentieth century’s foremost Jungian psychologistsThough said to be C. G. Jung’s favorite and most innovative student, Erich Neumann provoked... -
Chagall Ingo F. Walther 9783836527835
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £12.09For Marc Chagall (1887-1985), painting was an intricate tapestry of dreams, tales, and traditions. His instantly recognizable visual language carved out a unique early 20th-century niche, often... -
Children and Yiddish Literature: From Early Modernity to Post-Modernity by Gennady Estraikh
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80Children have occupied a prominent place in Yiddish literature since early modern times, but children's literature as a genre has its beginnings in the early 20th century. Its emergence reflected the... -
Villa Air-Bel: World War II, Escape, and a House in Marseille by Professor Rosemary Sullivan 9780060732516
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060732516Author Professor Rosemary SullivanFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint CollinsPublisher... -
The Fictions of Bruno Schulz: The Street of Crocodiles & Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass by Bruno Schulz 9781447219477
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78The stories in these pages comprise all the surviving fiction of a man described by John Updike in the introduction as 'one of the great transmogrifiers of the world into words'. They portray the... -
Modernist Diaspora: Immigrant Jewish Artists in Paris, 1900-1945 by Richard D. Sonn 9781350286610
Booksplease Price: £31.86In the years before, during, and after the First World War, hundreds of young Jews flocked to Paris, artistic capital of the world and center of modernist experimentation. Some arrived with prior... -
Scenes of New York City: The Elie and Sarah Hirschfeld Collection by Roberta J.M Olson
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £29.69Scenes of New York City celebrates the promised gift of 130 works from the Elie and Sarah Hirschfeld Collection to the New-York Historical Society. The Hirschfeld promised gift is at once a... -
Ars Judaica: The Bar-Ilan Journal of Jewish Art, Volume 15 by 9781789622119
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £54.80This volume focuses on the migration and acculturation of images in Jewish culture and how that reflects intercultural exchange. Gender aspects of Jewish art are also highlighted, as is the role of... -
Guggenheim Museum Collection: A to Z by Nancy Spector 9780892075492
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £32.32This revised and redesigned edition of the Guggenheim Museum's guide to its New York collection is a concise primer on art of the late 19th to the early 21st centuries Revised, updated, and... -
Ars Judaica: The Bar-Ilan Journal of Jewish Art, Volume 14 by Ilia Rodov 9781786940865
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £55.62This volume focuses on the migration and acculturation of images in Jewish culture and how that reflects intercultural exchange. Gender aspects of Jewish art are also highlighted, as is the role of... -
Ara Guler's Istanbul by Ara Guler
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £24.16This book is a vivid photographic record of daily life in Istanbul from the 1940s to the 1980s. Captured through the unerring lens of the award winning Ara Guler, the 'Eye of Istanbul', it reflects... -
Dali's Mustache Salvador Dali 9782080304667
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38Cult classic and collector's item, Dali's Mustache is the result of the astonishing artistic collaboration between surrealist Salvador Dali and experimental photography pioneer Philippe Halsman. Dali... -
The Forger of Marseille: A Novel by Linda Joy Myers
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £10.42It’s 1939, and all across Europe the Nazis are coming for Jews and anti-fascists. The only way to avoid being imprisoned or murdered is to assume a new identity. For that, people are desperate for... -
The Avant-Gardists: Artists in Revolt in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union 1917–1935 by Sjeng Scheijen 9780500024553
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £24.48A fascinating, narrative biography of the art movement that transformed the modern world, tracing the lives and activities of the key protagonists as they set about a revolution in art. October 1917... -
Children's Culture and the Avant-Garde: Painting in Paris, 1890-1915 Marilynn Strasser Olson 9781138548015
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £47.80This volume explores the mutual influences between children's literature and the avant-garde. Olson places particular focus on fin-de-siecle Paris, where the Avant-garde was not unified in thought... -
Secret Corisca Guide: A guide to the unusual and unfamiliar 9782361956257
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.06Let Secret Corsica guide you around the unusual and unfamiliar. Step off the beaten track with this fascinating Corsica guide book. Let our local experts show you the well-hidden treasures and... -
Gauguin to Picasso: Masterworks from Switzerland by Dorothy M. Kosinski 9781907804601
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £24.31Gauguin, Van Gogh, Cezanne, Monet, Chagall, Picasso-some of the finest works by the greatest artists of the 20th century were collected by two Swiss art patrons, Rudolf Staechelin (1881 1946) and... -
Murals of New York City: The Best of New York's Public Paintings from Bemelmans to Parrish Glenn Palmer-Smith 9780789347077
RRP: £12.98Booksplease Price: £9.78Whether it's cocktails at the Carlyle, taking in a show at Lincoln Center, traveling via subway, or flying out of LaGuardia's venerable Marine Air Terminal, uptown to downtown to the outer boroughs,... -
Nabokov and the Art of Painting by Gerard de Vries 9789053567906
RRP: £71.99Booksplease Price: £67.18Vladimir Nabokov was one of the greatest novelists of the previous century and his mastery of English and Russian prose is unequalled. Nabokov had originally trained to become a painter and shared... -
Rothko Jacob Baal-Teshuva 9783836504263
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £12.00Resisting interpretation or classification, Mark Rothko (1903-1970) was a prominent advocate for the artist's consummate freedom of expression. Although identified as a key protagonist of the... -
Artists, Intellectuals and World War II: The Pontigny Encounters at Mount Holyoke College, 1942-1944 by Christopher E. G. Benfey
Booksplease Price: £33.37Sixty years ago, at the height of World War II, an extraordinary series of gatherings took place at Mount Holyoke College in western Massachusetts. During the summers of 1942-1944, leading European... -
The Loves of Daphnis and Chloe: A Pastrol Novel by Longus 9781513271958
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.56The Love of Daphnis and Chloe (2nd century C.E.) is an ancient Greek romance novel by Longus. Set on Lesbos, it is a classic story of love set in a recognizably pastoral setting. An important early... -
Under Cover: A Poet's Life in Publishing by Jeremy Robson 9781785904097
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £15.30As an independent publisher, Jeremy Robson always punched above his weight with a roster of authors that have been the envy of many large publishers. As a poet, he has been at the centre of the... -
Gérald Genta James Cahill 9781912122820
RRP: £69.99Booksplease Price: £47.59Gerald Genta is a substantial monograph that explores, for the first time, a lesser-known artistic side to the internationally acclaimed Swiss watchmaker. Aptly named the 'Picasso of Timepieces',... -
Modernist Diaspora: Immigrant Jewish Artists in Paris, 1900-1945 by Professor of History Richard D Sonn
Booksplease Price: £114.12In the years before, during, and after the First World War, hundreds of young Jews flocked to Paris, artistic capital of the world and center of modernist experimentation. Some arrived with prior... -
Symbolic Allusion, Temporal Illusion: in The Lady of the Castle by Leah Goldberg & in A Selection of Modern Paintings by Dr Ruth Dorot 9781845196011
Booksplease Price: £109.44This book draws parallels between literature and the arts, and between drama and painting, in terms of Time and Symbolism, as they appear in the play The Lady of the Castle by Leah Goldberg, and in a... -
Clock Struck Murder by Betty Webb 9781728269931
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.99Expat Zoe Barlow has settled well into her artist's life among the Lost Generation in 1920s Paris. When a too-tipsy guest at her weekly poker game breaks Zoe's favorite clock, she's off to a... -
Icons in Time, Persons in Eternity: Orthodox Theology and the Aesthetics of the Christian Image by C.A. Tsakiridou
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £42.10Icons in Time, Persons in Eternity presents a critical, interdisciplinary examination of contemporary theological and philosophical studies of the Christian image and redefines this within the... -
A Diamond in the Dust: The Stuarts: Love, Art, War Michael Dean 9781907320965
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £10.88A Diamond in the Dust is a fictionalised account of the life of Charles I from his birth to the age of twenty-eight. It shows England's most maligned monarch, Charles I, as he really was... -
The Left-handed Story: Writing and the Writer's Life by Nancy Willard 9780472069996
Booksplease Price: £22.74Praise for Nancy Willard"Willard's invention and lyricism, the splash of her wit, the glancing slyness of her dialogue, all have the fresh breath of a first-rate writer."---New York Times Book... -
The Art of JAMA: Covers and Essays from The Journal of the American Medical Association, Volume III by M.Therese Southgate
Booksplease Price: £107.92Since 1964, beginning with a reproduction of Jan van Eycke's St Jerome in His Study, the front cover of JAMA:The Journal of the American Medical Association has featured full-color images of renowned... -
How Artists See Cities: Streets, Buildings, Shops, Transportation Colleen Carroll 9780789201874
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.70How Artists See Cities uses works by such artists as Edward Hopper, Archibald Motley, Marc Chagall and Georgia O'Keeffe to explore the streets, buildings, shops and transportation that make up a...