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Seattle's Olympic Sculpture Park: A Place for Art, Environment, and an Open Mind by Mimi Gardner Gates 9780932216809
RRP: €52.30Booksplease Price: €32.49How a public-private partnership created an iconic Pacific Northwest park The Seattle Art Museum's Olympic Sculpture Park, where Alexander Calder's The Eagle soars over Puget Sound, Roxy Paine's... -
Gerhard Richter: Life and Work by Armin Zweite 9783791386515
RRP: €117.81Booksplease Price: €86.99One of the world's most revered visual artists, Gerhard Richter embraces many concepts in his work and continually thwarts categorisation. In this expansive and authoritative overview, Armin Zweite... -
Ronald Bladen: Sculpture by 9780789213389
RRP: €101.15Booksplease Price: €66.41The first monograph on a pivotal figure of postwar American art Best known for his monumental sculptures, Ronald Bladen (1918-1988) was regarded as an artistic forerunner by such minimalist artists... -
Lotus Girl: My Life at the Crossroads of Buddhism and America by Helen Tworkov 9781250321558
RRP: €29.74Booksplease Price: €21.74From one of the central figures in Buddhism's introduction to the West and the founder of Tricycle magazine comes a brilliant memoir of forging one's own path that Pico Iyer calls 'unflinching' and... -
Djamel Tatah by Djamel Tatah
RRP: €49.98Booksplease Price: €25.26A unique look at the works of Djamel Tatah and those of the minimalist artists in the Lambert Collection. Djamel Tatah's refined paintings reveal the way in which humanity can assert itself as a... -
I Am. We Are. Liberty Ester Coen 9781907112744
RRP: €95.20Booksplease Price: €63.78Cloth-covered box containing catalogues, postcards and posters celebrating and exploring the 150th anniversary of London's iconic store. To celebrate 150 years of Liberty, I Am. We Are. Liberty... -
Art in Nature: Rowdy Meadow Sculpture Park Reto Thüring 9781580937207
RRP: €71.34Booksplease Price: €47.23An exclusive invitation to explore an extraordinary private sculpture park Set on a 150-acre property of former apple orchards, steep woodlands, meadows, and ravines just east of Cleveland, Ohio,... -
Antony Gormley on Sculpture by Anthony Gormley
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €16.77Antony Gormley occupies an unusual position as a highly popular sculptor - known chiefly for his Angel of the North (1998), a national landmark in the UK - who is also widely regarded as one of the... -
Collecting Contemporaries: The Fuhrman Collection Glenn Fuhrman 9781580937252
RRP: €83.24Booksplease Price: €54.55An intimate glimpse into one of the world’s most renowned contemporary art collections and the collector whose vision and passion shaped it Step inside one of the most captivating private art... -
Forms of Persuasion: Art and Corporate Image in the 1960s by Alex J. Taylor
RRP: €49.98Booksplease Price: €40.76In the 1960s, multinational corporations faced new image problems-and turned to the art world for some unexpected solutions. The 1960s saw artists and multinational corporations exploring new ways to... -
Learning to Look at Sculpture by Mary Acton 9780415577380
RRP: €38.07Booksplease Price: €35.47Learning to Look at Sculpture is an accessible guide to the study and understanding of three dimensional art. Sculpture is all around us: in public parks, squares, gardens and railway stations, as... -
Claudette Johnson: Presence by Dorothy Price 9781913645540
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €30.24This catalogue accompanies a major exhibition of work by British artist Claudette Johnson (b. 1959) at The Courtauld Gallery. A founding member of the Black British Arts Movement, Johnson is... -
Slow Art: The Experience of Looking, Sacred Images to James Turrell by Arden Reed 9780520285507
RRP: €59.50Booksplease Price: €55.69Americans, on average, spend between six and ten seconds with individual artworks in museums or galleries-hardly time enough. But how, in our culture of distraction, might we extend attention? Slow... -
Slow Art: The Experience of Looking, Sacred Images to James Turrell by Arden Reed 9780520300583
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €25.64Americans, on average, spend between six and ten seconds with individual artworks in museums or galleries-hardly time enough. But how, in our culture of distraction, might we extend attention? Slow... -
Bruegel in Black and White: Three Grisailles Reunited by Karen Serres 9781907372940
RRP: €15.41Booksplease Price: €14.97Accompanying a focused display at The Courtauld Gallery that will bring together for the first time Pieter Bruegel the Elder's only three known grisaille paintings - the Courtauld's Christ and the... -
A Sabbatical in Leipzig: Shortlisted for the 2021 Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year by Adrian Duncan
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €8.39'Duncan brings a new way of seeing to the world of prose' Irish Times Michael has been away from Ireland for most of his life and lives alone in Bilbao after the death of Catherine, his girlfriend... -
Art in Seattle's Public Spaces: From SoDo to South Lake Union by James M. Rupp
RRP: €41.59Booksplease Price: €31.04From cedar totem poles to high-tech video installations, downtown Seattle sparkles with hundreds of artworks adorning plazas, lobbies, parks, and waterfront piers and paths. This impressive... -
Memory Passages: Holocaust Memorials in the United States and Germany by Natasha Goldman 9781439914236
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €40.04For decades, artists and architects have struggled to relate to the Holocaust in visual form, resulting in memorials that feature a diversity of aesthetic strategies. In Memory Passages, Natasha... -
Memory Passages: Holocaust Memorials in the United States and Germany by Natasha Goldman
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €19.85For decades, artists and architects have struggled to relate to the Holocaust in visual form, resulting in memorials that feature a diversity of aesthetic strategies. In Memory Passages, Natasha... -
Imagine Buildings Floating like Clouds: Thoughts and Visions on Contemporary Architecture from 101 Key Creatives Vladimir Belogolovsky 9781864709087
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €20.94In this invaluable and thought-provoking book, Vladimir Belogolovsky reflects on nearly 20 years of conversations with leading creatives from around the world whose focus is on art, photography,... -
Edvard Munch: Masterpieces from Bergen by Barnaby Wright 9781913645274
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €26.92This important publication accompanies a major exhibition at The Courtauld Gallery, London, of paintings by Edvard Munch, one of the world's greatest modern artists. The exhibition and catalogue... -
Art and Abstract Objects by Christy Mag Uidhir 9780199691494
RRP: €98.77Booksplease Price: €68.60Art and Abstract Objects presents a lively philosophical exchange between the philosophy of art and the core areas of philosophy. The standard way of thinking about non-repeatable (single-instance)... -
Art Hiding in New York: An Illustrated Guide to the City's Secret Masterpieces by Lori Zimmer
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €17.31There's so much to love about New York, and so much to see. The city is full of art, and architecture, and history -- and not just in museums. Hidden in plain sight, in office building lobbies, on... -
Josef Albers: Life and Work by Charles Darwent
RRP: €29.69Booksplease Price: €20.48While Josef Albers' Bauhaus colleagues Klee and Kandinsky are household names, Albers himself has remained inscrutable. He is best known as the painter of the Homages to the Square, a series of over... -
A Sabbatical in Leipzig by Adrian Duncan 9781843517764
Booksplease Price: €12.73Adrian Duncan's novel A Sabbatical in Leipzig was shortlisted for the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year 2021 Michael, a retired engineer, has lived away from Ireland for most of his life and now... -
The Japanese Garden by Sophie Walker
RRP: €71.34Booksplease Price: €48.18An in-depth exploration spanning 800 years of the art, essence, and enduring impact of the Japanese garden.The most comprehensive exploration of the art of the Japanese garden published to date, this... -
What Comes After Farce?: Art and Criticism at a Time of Debacle Hal Foster 9781804295939
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.40If farce follows tragedy, what follows farce? Where does the double predicament of a post-truth and post-shame politics leave artists and critics on the left? How to demystify a hegemonic order that... -
Provoking Democracy: Why We Need the Arts Caroline Levine (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) 9781405159272
RRP: €40.40Booksplease Price: €37.08A provocative and compelling book that explores the complex relationship between democracy and avant-garde art, offering a surprising new perspective on the critical role that the arts play in... -
Chateau La Coste: Art and Architecture in Provence by Robert Ivy 9781858946818
RRP: €53.55Booksplease Price: €41.46Chateau La Coste, near Aix-en-Provence, is a unique property that combines sculptural artworks by leading contemporary artists alongside works by some of the world's best-known architects, all within... -
Reflections on the Aesthetic Experience: Psychoanalysis and the uncanny Gregorio Kohon 9781138795426
RRP: €61.87Booksplease Price: €55.86Interest in the relationship between psychoanalysis and art - and other disciplines - is growing. In his new book Reflections on the Aesthetic: Psychoanalysis and the uncanny, Gregorio Kohon examines... -
Alphabetical Diaries by Sheila Heti 9781804270776
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46Sheila Heti collected hald a millions words from a decade's worth of journals, put them in a spreadsheet, and sorted them alphabetically. She spent the next ten years cutting and refining, and was... -
Pictures of Nothing: Abstract Art since Pollock by Kirk Varnedoe 9780691126784
RRP: €69.02Booksplease Price: €57.23"What is abstract art good for? What's the use--for us as individuals, or for any society--of pictures of nothing, of paintings and sculptures or prints or drawings that do not seem to show anything...