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Michelangelo by Adrian Stokes
Booksplease Price: £14.48Adrian Stokes was one of the twentieth century's finest and most discriminating writers on art. Of over twenty works of art criticism, Michelangelo was considered by Lawrence Gowing to be the most... -
Surrealism in Britain by Michel Remy
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £24.42Since 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... -
Michelangelo by Adrian Stokes 9781138150331
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £110.39Adrian Stokes was one of the twentieth century's finest and most discriminating writers on art. Of over twenty works of art criticism, Michelangelo was considered by Lawrence Gowing to be the most... -
Working Against the Grain: Women Sculptors in Britain c.1885 - 1950 Pauline Rose 9781789621563
Booksplease Price: £45.60This lavishly illustrated book breaks new ground in focusing on some of the many successful professional British women sculptors active during this period. Largely unknown, the few women who have... -
Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts: Can the Seas Survive Us? Tania Moore 9781836360049
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.68Addressing one of the urgent issues of climate crisis and environmental pollution, this book explores our relationship to the sea: how we live alongside it, our bodily relationship to it, its role in... -
Imagine Math 3: Between Culture and Mathematics by Michele Emmer 9783319012308
Booksplease Price: £46.58Imagine mathematics, imagine with the help of mathematics, imagine new worlds, new geometries, new forms. This volume in the series "Imagine Math" casts light on what is new and interesting... -
Brian Jungen: Couch Monster: Sadzěʔ Yaaghehch'ill by Brian Jungen
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.05Everyday objects transformed into an extraordinary elephant sculpture Published with Art Gallery of Ontario. Over the past two decades, British Columbia-based Indigenous artist Brian Jungen... -
Scale in Contemporary Sculpture: Enlargement, Miniaturisation and the Life-Size Rachel Wells 9781138270695
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £52.44The first book to devote serious attention to questions of scale in contemporary sculpture, this study considers the phenomenon within the interlinked cultural and socio-historical framework of the... -
Irascible: The Combative Life of Douglas Cooper, Collector and Friend of Picasso Adrian Clark 9780300282696
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £38.87A 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... -
Grown but Not Made: British Modernist Sculpture and the New Biology by Edward Juler
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £61.91What 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... -
Monsieur Ozenfant's Academy by Charles Darwent 9781739469412
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.62Before the Second World War, an art school stood in a pair of mews houses off Kensington High Street in London. Although the school was small and short-lived, it would be linked to an extraordinary... -
The Life of the Rev. John Wesley, M.A.: Some Time Fellow of Lincoln-College, Oxford by John Whitehead 9781108059671
Booksplease Price: £47.58Published in 1793-6, amid controversy following the death of John Wesley (1703-91), this two-volume work vied with others for status as the most authentic biography of the Methodist leader. Wesley... -
Aegeomania: Modern Reimaginings of the Aegean Bronze Age by Nicoletta Momigliano 9781009538930
Booksplease Price: £56.13This Element provides an overview of Aegeomania: the fascination, sometimes bordering on the obsession, with the Aegean Bronze Age, which manifests itself in the uses of Aegean Bronze Age material... -
Making a Life in Photography: Rollie McKenna by Jessica D. Brier 9781785514548
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £34.07Making a Life in Photography: Rollie McKenna is the first career survey of prolific American photographer Rosalie (Rollie) Thorne McKenna (1918–2003). After graduating from Vassar College in 1940,... -
Contemporary Stone Sculpture by Dona Z. Meilach 9780887400896
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £17.29There is currently a revival in the art of stone sculpture-along contemporary lines-of the Golden Age in Greece and the Renaissance in Europe. Many noted twentieth-century sculptors are now working... -
Art, Cybernetics and Pedagogy in Post-War Britain: Roy Ascott's Groundcourse by 9781032338606
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.99This is the first full-length study about the British artist Roy Ascott, one of the first cybernetic artists, with a career spanning seven decades to date. The book focuses on his early career,... -
Sculpture and Film by Jon Wood 9781032476087
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69During much of the twentieth century, film was often assumed to be a 'flat' pictorial art, more often compared with painting and graphic media than with sculpture. In the last few decades, however,... -
Lee Miller and Surrealism in Britain: 2018 by Eleanor Clayton 9781848222724
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.02Lee Miller (1907-1977) moved to London in the late 1930s, just as a rich strand of Surrealist practice was burgeoning in Britain. Miller was central to its development and prolonged life after World... -
Annus Mirabilis?: Art in the Year 2000 Richard Cork 9780300095111
RRP: £27.50Booksplease Price: £24.65Richard Cork is one of the most serious, most influential, and best-informed art critics in Britain today. These four volumes contain a selection of his articles from the seventies, eighties,... -
What is Black Art? by Alice Correia
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23A landmark anthology on British art history, bringing together overlooked and marginalized perspectives from 'the critical decade'What is Black art? This vital anthology gives voice to a generation... -
Tate British Artists: Terry Frost by Chris Stephens
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £7.54Terry Frost was one of Britain's great abstract painters. His career spanned seven decades, starting with his introduction to art in a prisoner of war camp, and stretching into the twenty-first... -
Super Sculptures: Band 05/Green (Collins Big Cat) by Tasha Pym
Booksplease Price: £7.01This fascinating book gives an introduction to some of the oldest, boldest and coldest sculptures ever made! From the sphinx and the Statue of Liberty, to works by Henry Moore, Rachel Whiteread and... -
Emily Young: Stone Carvings and Paintings by Jon Wood 9781848224964
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £36.98Exploring Emily Young's carved works from the 1980s to the present, Jon Wood's thoughtful survey places her sculpture within its resonant contexts, both art historical and more broadly cultural. In... -
Savage Messiah: A biography of the sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska by H.S. Ede 9781904561804
RRP: £12.50Booksplease Price: £12.26Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (1891-1915) was one of the leading figures of European avant-garde sculpture. Gaudier played an important role in the development of modern sculpture in Britain, working... -
The Life of the Rev. John Wesley, M.A. 2 Volume Set: Some Time Fellow of Lincoln-College, Oxford by John Whitehead 9781108059688
Booksplease Price: £78.75Published in 1793-6, amid controversy following the death of John Wesley (1703-91), this two-volume work vied with others for status as the most authentic biography of the Methodist leader. Wesley... -
Towards a Modern Art World: Studies in British Art I by Brian Allen 9780300063806
Booksplease Price: £35.42When the story of modern art is told, British artists are mentioned infrequently or not at all. In this book, distinguished art historians attempt to explain the marginal position of British modern... -
Grown but Not Made: British Modernist Sculpture and the New Biology by Edward Juler 9781526106537
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.84What 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... -
Barbara Hepworth: Strings by Stephen Feeke 9781901192667
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £48.85Barbara Hepworth: Strings is the first publication dedicated to the artist's stringed sculptures, paintings and drawings. In 1939, Hepworth (1903-1975) made her first sculpture threaded with strings... -
The Fear of the Feminine: And Other Essays on Feminine Psychology by Erich Neumann
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £31.30These essays by the famous analytical psychologist and student of creativity Erich Neumann belong in the context of the depth psychology of culture and reveal a prescient concern about the... -
Auguste Rodin by Rainer Maria Rilke 9781606065617
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £7.36Intensely sensitive to art, and in particular to the irreducible power of objects, Rilke responded to Rodin's work in prose of great lyricism and clarity. His essay, a sustained and deeply personal... -
Ben Nicholson: Writings and Ideas by Lee Beard 9781848222410
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £27.84Throughout his life, Ben Nicholson (1894-1982) was a prolific and creative writer. Correspondent to many, his unpublished letters, selected and extracted here for the first time (along with published... -
Peter Gregory: Publisher and Patron of Modern British Artists Valerie Holman 9781848226999
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £28.05Peter Gregory (1887-1959), Director and then Chairman of Lund Humphries, was at the heart of the avant-garde British art world for nearly thirty years of major change in society, politics, and... -
Rare and Indispensable: Masterpieces from Flemish Collections 9789085868422
RRP: £56.50Booksplease Price: £38.42Magritte, Bacon, Ensor, Moore, Jordaens, Rubens ... These were just some of the world-famous names on display at the MAS. The not-to-be-missed exhibition 'Rare and Indispensable' brought a unique... -
The Sculpture of Francis Derwent Wood by Matthew Withey 9781848220010
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £39.70This final volume in the British Sculptors and Sculpture series addresses the work of the important but neglected British sculptor Francis Derwent Wood RA (1871-1926). A student of Edouard Lanteri at... -
Visions of War: Art of the Imperial War Museums by Claire Brenard 9781912423644
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.42IWM 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... -
Alison Wilding: Vanish & Detail by Dr. Penelope Curtis 9781905464852
Booksplease Price: £21.80Exploring over 25 works by Alison Wilding - one of Britain's most noted sculptors - this publication draws on the artist's ambitious display at the Duveen Galleries, Tate Britain. Wilding is known... -
A Hatfield Mass: Voice and Shape in an English Landscape by Martyn Crucefix 9781905208258
RRP: £7.00Booksplease Price: £5.98In Martyn Crucefix's bold new sequence of poems, A Hatfield Mass, the sensuous shapes of Henry Moore's work interweave with the fluid, observant voices of the verse. From curves and spaces, words and... -
Sculpture Since 1945 by Andrew Causey
RRP: £24.49Booksplease Price: £19.52Since 1945 the modern revolution in sculpture has gathered pace, and sculpture has now ceased to be the fixed category it once was. In recent decades the modernist idea of sculpture across the UK,... -
Cycladic Art Seán Hemingway 9781588397973
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £39.13A comprehensive collection of early Cycladic antiquities presented through an unprecedented partnership between Greece and The Metropolitan Museum of ArtCreated more than four millennia ago in an... -
Anthony Caro by Willard Boepple
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £50.54A comprehensive monograph on the pioneering artist Anthony Caro. Regarded as the greatest British artist of his generation and represented in museum collections all over the world, Anthony Caro...