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Illuminated Manuscripts Masterpieces of Art Michael Kerrigan 9781783612116
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.38Prior to the invention of the printing press, all books had to be written by hand. Manuscripts are the beautiful manifestation of this craft, and the most precious and expensive of such manuscripts... -
E. McKnight Kauffer: An Artist in Design by James King 9783034351508
RRP: €76.16Booksplease Price: €67.97American-born Edward McKnight Kauffer (1890-1954)-known as the 'Poster King'- is recognized as one of the most important designers to have worked in England and the United States in the first half of... -
A Fractured Landscape of Modernity: Culture and Conflict in the Isle of Purbeck by J. Wilkes 9781349449491
Booksplease Price: €55.07This book uses the contradictions, fractures and coincidences of a twentieth-century rural landscape to explore new methods of writing place beyond 'new nature writing'. In doing so it opens up new... -
Edward Seago by James Russell 9781848221475
RRP: €53.55Booksplease Price: €42.86This is the definitive account of the life and work of Edward Seago (1910-1974), the highly popular, versatile and talented British painter whose work was inspired by John Sell Cotman, John Constable... -
War and Art: A Visual History of Modern Conflict by Joanna Bourke 9781780238463
RRP: €55.93Booksplease Price: €50.09This sumptuously illustrated volume, edited by eminent war historian Joanna Bourke, offers a comprehensive visual, cultural and historical account of the ways in which armed conflict has been... -
Edward Burra Thomas Kennedy 9781849769396
RRP: €38.08Booksplease Price: €27.49A new major monograph on the unconventional life and works of English painter, printmaker and draughtsman, Edward Burra (1905-1976) A contemporary to British Surrealist artist Paul Nash, Edward... -
Image, Text, Architecture: The Utopics of the Architectural Media Robin Wilson 9781138573260
RRP: €63.06Booksplease Price: €59.37Image, Text, Architecture brings a radical and detailed analysis of the modern and contemporary architectural media, addressing issues of architectural criticism, architectural photography and the... -
Edward Bawden by James Russell
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €23.79This comprehensive survey of the career of Edward Bawden (1903-89) accompanies a major exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery and brings together his most significant work in watercolour, printmaking,... -
Visions of War: Art of the Imperial War Museums by Claire Brenard 9781912423644
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €26.68IWM holds one of the most significant collections of British art anywhere in the world - a collection whose artists and artworks have uniquely shaped our understanding of war. Visions of War... -
Lost Interiors: Beauty in Desolation by Flame Tree Studio
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €11.80A broken piano, a dilapidated staircase, a chair half standing on two bent legs surrounded by layers of history peeling from the wallpaper of an abandoned house. The chilling air of an abandoned... -
Places of the Mind (British Museum): British watercolour landscapes 1850–1950 by Kim Sloan 9780500026403
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €24.66A fresh perspective on British landscape drawing in the Victorian and Modern eras. The attempts by artists of the Victorian and early Modern period to convey not merely the physical properties of a... -
WINTER by Kirsteen McSwein
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.81An 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... -
Thames Path in the Country: National Trail Guide David Sharp 9781781315750
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €13.98The official guide to the riverside path from its Gloucestershire source all the way to the outskirts of London. With the London Thames now covered by Aurum' s separate new guide, a... -
Modern Times: British Prints, 1913-1939 Jennifer Farrell 9781588397393
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €41.41A look at the artistic and technical innovation of British printmaking from World War I to the eve of World War II, as artists from the Grosvenor School and beyond harnessed an emerging modernist... -
Visions of the Occult: An Untold Story of Art & Magic Victoria Jenkins (Archivist Curator) 9781849767620
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €21.04The first major survey of the occult collection of artworks, letters, objects and ephemera in the Tate Archive and collection. Revealing over 150 esoteric and mystical pieces, some never before seen,... -
The Artist's Sketchbook (Victoria and Albert Museum): Inside the Creative Mind Jenny Gaschke 9780500480946
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €34.75The first in an exciting and inspirational new V&A sketchbook series that explores the sketching processes and techniques of artists from the 16th century to the present day. Artists have been... -
A Look at My Life by Eileen Agar 9780500026809
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €29.73'A thrilling insight into one of the 20th century's great artists. Agar's exuberant and colourful life and work come alive in this book' Katy Hessel 'A vivid panorama of an adventurous and... -
William Blake Masterpieces of Art by Michael Kerrigan 9781804177075
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.38Rich and delicate, ethereal and muscular, the art of William Blake is as fascinating as the philosophies threading through his poetry and prophetic works. Presented here in this magnificent new... -
Claud Lovat Fraser: Design Brian Webb 9781851496631
RRP: €14.88Booksplease Price: €10.66The Design series is the winner of the Brand/Series Identity Category at the British Book Design and Production Awards 2009, judges said: "A series of books about design, they had to be good and... -
Stanley Spencer: Art as a Mirror of Himself by Andrew Causey 9781848221468
RRP: €53.55Booksplease Price: €42.86Stanley Spencer (1891-1959) explored fundamental issues of life with an urgency and persistence unique among British artists of his generation. His art comments on religion, love, sexuality,... -
Lucy Kemp-Welch 1869-1958: The Life and Work of Lucy Kemp-Welch, Painter of Horses Dr David Boyd Haycock 9781788842242
RRP: €53.55Booksplease Price: €38.12Over the course of a long and very successful career spanning the first half of the 20th century, Lucy Kemp-Welch established herself as one of the leading equestrian painters at work in the UK and... -
Flying School by Robert Saxton 9781848616424
Booksplease Price: €15.02Flying School is a book of beautifully crafted poems about the contrivances by which we attempt to enrich or repair our lives. One dominant image is flight and, more specifically, parachutes -... -
Comrades in Art: Artists Against Fascism 1933-1943 Andy Friend 9780500027417
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €33.44Author and curator Andy Friend explores the legacy of the Artists International Association in a compelling group biography set against a background of resistance to the rise of fascism in Europe. ... -
FHK Henrion: Design Brian Webb 9781851496327
RRP: €14.88Booksplease Price: €11.97F.H.K Henrion was one of a distinguished group of graphic designers - refugees from Europe just prior to World War II, who brought cutting-edge continental design to the rather parochial English... -
Flight and the Artistic Imagination by Sam Smiles
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €18.50Accompanying a major exhibition at Compton Verney, Warwickshire, this book examines the innate human desire to transcend the limitations of physiology and gravity - and to fly. Through an intriguing... -
Unquiet Landscape: Places and Ideas in 20th-Century British Painting by Christopher Neve
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €9.70Christopher Neve's classic book is a journey into the imagination through the English landscape. How is it that artists, by thinking in paint, have come to regard the landscape as representing states... -
Ravilious by James Russell
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €25.10This beautifully illustrated book is the first full-length critical study to focus on the watercolours of multitalented British artist and designer Eric Ravilious (1903-1942). Adopting the... -
The Real and the Romantic: English Art Between Two World Wars by Frances Spalding
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €30.05The Times and Sunday Times Art Book of the Year 'Superb ... Spalding is a lucid and revealing guide who wears her scholarship lightly' Sunday Times 'Spalding's prose is as clear as a Ravilious... -
Grown but Not Made: British Modernist Sculpture and the New Biology by Edward Juler
RRP: €101.15Booksplease Price: €73.67What does it mean for a sculpture to be described as 'organic' or a diagram of 'morphological forces'? These were questions that preoccupied Modernist sculptors and critics in Britain as they... -
Irascible: The Combative Life of Douglas Cooper, Collector and Friend of Picasso Adrian Clark 9780300282696
RRP: €53.55Booksplease Price: €46.26A pioneering collector of Cubist art, the English art historian and critic Douglas Cooper was one of the most important - and divisive - figures in the international art world of the 20th century... -
Surrealism in Britain by Michel Remy
RRP: €35.64Booksplease Price: €29.06Since the rediscovery of British Surrealism at the Children of Alice exhibition at Marcel Fleiss's Galerie 1900-2000 in Paris in 1982, there has been a major revival of interest in Surrealism outside... -
Art at the Service of War: Canada, Art, and the Great War by Maria Tippett 9781442616042
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €27.94The Canadian War Memorials Exhibition opened in the galleries of the Royal Academy in Burlington House in January 1919. Featuring four hundred paintings and sculptures depicting the Canadian... -
Banksy: Cultural Outlaw Paul Gough 9781915670236
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €16.67Banksy is always viewed through the lens of the 'whodunnit', as a disruptive street artist who alternates between being hailed a national treasure and urban folk hero; an imposter who has reneged on... -
Edward Bawden: Design by Brian Webb 9781851498390
RRP: €17.79Booksplease Price: €12.47Edward Bawden (1903-1989) was one of twentieth century Britain's most innovative graphic designers. Book illustrator, wallpaper, textile and poster designer, watercolourist, mural painter, teacher... -
Rodchenko: Design by John Milner
RRP: €17.79Booksplease Price: €12.47A new title in the Design series and an excellent introduction to the life and work of this versatile Russian artist. Alexander Mikhailovich Rodchenko (1891-1953) was a central figure in the Russian... -
British Art: Ancient Landscapes by Sam Smile 9781911300144
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €25.12Published to accompany an exhibition at Salisbury Museum and Art Gallery,this volume explores the most significant works of art engaged with prehistoricmoments across Britain from the 18th century to... -
Peter Blake: Design by Peyton Skipwith 9781851496181
RRP: €14.88Booksplease Price: €10.66"Stars, stripes, hearts and targets... If Peter Blake's name is not the first thing you spot on the cover of the latest addition to the Antique Collectors' Club's highly regarded Design series, the... -
David Mellor: Design by Teleri Lloyd-Jones 9781851496037
RRP: €14.88Booksplease Price: €10.66"David Mellor ...was the outstanding British flatware designer of the last century and a remarkable man who ... understood, and insisted upon, the essential relationship between making things and... -
Introduction to the Psychology of Ageing for Non-Specialists by Ian Stuart-Hamilton
RRP: €27.36Booksplease Price: €22.60Whether you provide care for older people, or you are simply interested in ageing, this complete primer on the psychology of ageing explains the key issues clearly and concisely. Beginning with... -
Edward Bawden's England by Gill Saunders
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.50A beautiful and informative gift book devoted to Edward Bawden's representations of England. Edward Bawden (1903-1989) was a printmaker, painter, illustrator and designer. He studied and later...