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To Begin Again: Artists and Childhood by Jeffrey de Blois
RRP: £32.99Booksplease Price: £22.93How artists from Paul Klee and Mierle Laderman Ukeles to Faith Ringgold and Deborah Roberts have explored childhood themes of innocence, spontaneity and storytelling Artists have long been... -
Keith Haring: Art Is for Everybody by Keith Haring 9781636810935
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £37.20Haring as activist and egalitarian: a fresh, accessible and dynamic look at one of New York's most exhilarating artists Lavishly illustrated with essays and reflections by cultural leaders, Keith... -
An Indigenous Present by Jeffrey Gibson 9781636811024
RRP: £67.00Booksplease Price: £46.58A monumental gathering of more than 60 contemporary artists, photographers, musicians, writers and more, showcasing diverse approaches to Indigenous concepts, forms and mediums - A Wall Street... -
Fire Figure Fantasy: Selections from ICA Miami's Collection Alex Gartenfeld 9781636810836
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £34.80A thematic introduction to the thriving Miami museum's permanent collection Since its founding in 2014, ICA Miami has established itself as a singular voice in artistic stewardship with a... -
The Sleeve Should Be Illegal by 9781942884798
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £18.93Explore the treasures of The Frick Collection through the eyes of a diverse group of contemporary writers, artists and other cultural figures, from George Condo, Lydia Davis and Julie Mehretu to Abbi... -
Paula Wilson: Toward the Sky's Back Door 9781636811666
RRP: £34.00Booksplease Price: £23.55Wilson invokes her own Black biracial identity in her mixed-media pieces, inspired by art historical traditions as much as the plants outside her door Published with Tang Museum. This first... -
The Lost World: The Art of Minnie Evans Minnie Evans 9781636812199
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £26.05Visionary self-taught Southern folk artist Minnie Evans receives a long overdue encore of her mystical, divinely inspired drawings Published with High Museum of Art. American artist Minnie... -
Fragments of Epic Memory by Julie Crooks
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £23.90New ways of understanding Caribbean visual culture, from historical photographs following emancipation to contemporary transnational perspectives, on the occasion of a major exhibition at the Art... -
Vermeer's Maps by Johannes Vermeer
RRP: £32.99Booksplease Price: £23.23Exploring the convergence of art and science in the map renderings of one of the world's most beloved artists Marcel Proust declared View of Delft by Johannes Vermeer (1632-75) "the most beautiful... -
Joan Didion: What She Means by Joan Didion
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £28.10An exploration of the visual corollary to Didion's life and work and the feeling that each generates in her admirers, detractors and critics-including artists from Helen Lundeberg to Diane Arbus,... -
Regeneration: Black Cinema, 1898-1971 by Doris Berger
RRP: £41.00Booksplease Price: £27.93The overlooked yet vibrant history of Black participation in American film, from the beginning of cinema through the civil rights movement From the dawn of the medium onward, Black filmmakers have... -
Nick Cave: Forothermore by Nick Cave
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £36.40With a wealth of images and commentary, this is the essential career survey of Cave's socially responsive art The definitive volume on the ever-evolving and shape-shifting work of the... -
Writing a Chrysanthemum: The Drawings of Rick Barton by Rick Barton
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £27.60This first ever book on the Bay Area Beat artist reveals a unique drawing style that dovetails Cocteau with Japanese and Renaissance printmaking "Rick Barton should have been a San Francisco... -
Gary Simmons: Public Enemy by Gary Simmons
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £34.80Long overdue, this first comprehensive survey spans three decades of Simmons' richly layered, socially engaged art Covering 30 years of sculptures, paintings, works on paper, large-scale wall... -
Alison Elizabeth Taylor: The Sum of It by Alison Elizabeth Taylor
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £28.55The first book on Alison Elizabeth Taylor, known for her daring fusion of wood inlay technique with gritty, dystopian scenes of deserts, casinos and cocktail lounges Repudiating distinctions... -
Yashua Klos: Our Labour by Yashua Klos 9781636811031
RRP: £54.00Booksplease Price: £36.05Klos unravels American histories of Black labor in brilliantly executed print-based collages and sculptures that mark new creative terrain for the artist This book features a recent body of work by... -
Blue Dream and the Legacy of Modernism in the Hamptons: A House by Diller Scofidio + Renfro by Paul Goldberger 9781636811123
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £49.18The story of the creation of an astonishing house that renews and reinvigorates the spirit of the avant-garde in the Hamptons Architecture critic Paul Goldberger tells the story of an... -
Radical Fiber: Threads Connecting Art and Science by Rebecca McNamara 9781636810409
RRP: £43.99Booksplease Price: £29.80Can crochet explain the complexities of non-Euclidean geometry? How does the 1804 Jacquard loom relate to modern computing? Radical Fiber celebrates the overlap between art, science,... -
Jay Defeo: Photographic Work by Jay Defeo 9781636811116
RRP: £67.00Booksplease Price: £46.58A revelatory trove of innovative photo collages, photograms, photographs and photocopies-many never before published-most reproduced at the size DeFeo printed them This monograph on the legendary... -
Calida Rawles: Away with the Tides by Calida Rawles 9781636811406
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £31.35Rawles' transcendent, hyperrealistic paintings of Black bodies in water reckon with the legacy of racial injustice Merging hyperrealism, poetic abstraction and the cultural and historical... -
Yu Hong: Another One Bites the Dust by Yu Hong 9781636811512
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £27.30Virtuosic, large-scale figurative paintings that capture contemporary anxieties in harsh relief Published to accompany a major site-specific installation in Venice, Yu Hong: Another One Bites the... -
McArthur Binion: DNA by 9781942884828
RRP: £53.00Booksplease Price: £37.03An intimate minimalism: McArthur Binion's permutational uses of abstraction, collage and autobiography Chicago-based painter McArthur Binion (born 1946) combines collage, drawing and painting to... -
Made in L.A. 2025 Essence Harden 9781636811697
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £22.30Animated by its inimitable residents and cacophonous disorder, Los Angeles is brought to life through interventions by 28 emerging and under-recognized local artists Published with Hammer Museum. ... -
Renoir Drawings Pierre-Auguste Renior 9781636811840
RRP: £39.00Booksplease Price: £26.68Drawings, pastels, prints and watercolors: Renoir's works on paper provide crucial insight into his instantly recognizable Impressionist paintings The paintings of Pierre-Auguste Renoir have... -
Kim Chong Hak: Painter of Seoraksan Chong Hak Kim 9781636811864
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £25.60Flouting the postmodern trends of 1960s South Korea, Kim's Mount Seorak landscapes mark a poignant return to figuration Since debuting his mature style in 1984, Kim Chong Hak (born 1937) has... -
3d-Doings: The Imagist Object in Chicago Art 9781636811659
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £36.68Eccentric and entertaining, the bold and cartoonish three-dimensional objects of the Chicago Imagists receive an enthusiastic survey in this playful volume Published with Tang Museum. ... -
Seydou Keïta: A Tactile Lens Seydou Keita 9781636811888
RRP: £54.00Booksplease Price: £38.45This lavishly illustrated book offers a comprehensive overview of the work of the great Malian photographer Seydou Keita, one of the most important portraitists of the 20th century Published with... -
Fashioning Chinese Women: Empire to Modernity Michaela Hansen 9781636811680
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £37.90A visual chronology of modern Chinese fashion-from the fall of the Qing dynasty to the Cultural Revolution-as seen through 70 rare ensembles Published with Los Angeles County Museum of Art. ... -
Matisse's Femme Au Chapeau: 1905 to Today Henri Matisse 9781636811895
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £21.85Charting the legacy of Matisse's pivotal Fauvist painting across 120 years Published with San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Henri Matisse's Femme au chapeau (Woman with a Hat) was at the... -
Impressionist and Modern Art: The A. Jerrold Perenchio Collection at Lacma Leah Lehmbeck 9781636811932
RRP: £62.50Booksplease Price: £45.46A commemoration of a renowned collection of 19th- and 20th-century European art, from Manet to Magritte Published with Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The collection of former Univision CEO,... -
Samara Golden: if earth is the brain then where is the body Golden, Samara 9781636812175
RRP: £34.00Booksplease Price: £23.55Plunging the reader into the aquatic world of Golden's recent dazzling mirrored environment Published with Nasher Sculpture Center. For nearly 15 years, American artist Samara Golden (born... -
Spike Lee: Director's Inspiration by Spike Lee 9781636810133
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £22.30An inspirational trove of film posters and ephemera, photographs, artwork and more from the collection of Spike Lee For nearly four decades, Spike Lee has made movies that demand our attention... -
Inside Out: The Prints of Mary Cassatt by Mary Cassatt 9781636810065
RRP: £31.50Booksplease Price: £21.99An intimate look at one of the most radical and groundbreaking printmakers of all time, the American Impressionist Mary Cassatt This book examines the radical experimentation and innovation of one... -
Andrea Bowers by 9781942884835
RRP: £53.00Booksplease Price: £35.43Between art and activism, from climate change to immigration: the multimedia work of Andrea Bowers Based in Los Angeles, Andrea Bowers (born 1965) constructs her practice around the notions of... -
Marisol: A Retrospective by Marisol Escobar 9781636811017
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £50.08The most comprehensive volume yet published on the work and legacy of the "forgotten star of Pop art," with previously unpublished materials and new scholarly explorations In the mid-1960s Marisol... -
Allan McCollum: Works Since 1969 by Allan McCollum 9781942884934
RRP: £43.99Booksplease Price: £29.80Early works, regional projects and acclaimed series from Allan McCollum, whose work often blurs boundaries between unique artifacts and mass production Since the late 1960s, the American artist... -
Afro-Atlantic Histories by Adriano Pedrosa
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £32.83A colossal, panoramic, much-needed appraisal of the visual cultures of Afro-Atlantic territories across six centuries Named one of the best books of 2021 by Artforum Afro-Atlantic Histories... -
Made in L.A. 2023: Acts of Living by Diana Nawi 9781636810874
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £28.55The sixth iteration of the Los Angeles biennial, highlighting themes of the vernacular, the urban, the performative and the collective Taking its cues from the ethos of the city and situating art... -
Agnès Varda: Director's Inspiration by Matt Severson 9781636810607
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £24.98A visual tribute to Agnes Varda's three lives as a photographer, filmmaker and artist, with previously unseen archival materials, texts and personal reflections from Jane Birkin, Martin Scorsese, JR... -
Andrew Wyeth: Life and Death by Andrew Wyeth
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £25.10Presenting recently rediscovered drawings, Life and Death explores what it means for an artist to picture their own death, in both the context of Wyeth's late career and contemporary American art ...