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Bauhaus by Magdalena Droste
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.61In a fleeting 14-year period between two world wars, Germany's Bauhaus school of art and design changed the face of modernity. With utopian ideas for the future, the school developed a pioneering... -
Alfred Stieglitz. Camera Work by Alfred Stieglitz
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.61Photographer, writer, publisher, and curator Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946) was a visionary far ahead of his time. Around the turn of the 20th century, he founded the Photo-Secession, a progressive... -
Abstract Art by Dietmar Elger
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £12.00Abstraction shook Western art to its core. In the early part of the 20th century, it refuted the reign of clear, indisputable forms and confronted audiences instead with vivid visual poems devoid of... -
The Art and Science of Ernst Haeckel. 40th Ed. by Rainer Willmann
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.74Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919) was a German-born biologist, naturalist, evolutionist, artist, philosopher, and doctor who spent his life researching flora and fauna from the highest mountaintops to the... -
Bu Pierre - Joseph Redoute the Complete Plates by Dr H Walter Lack
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £24.28Floral Masterpieces The finest floral treasures of Pierre-Joseph Redoute French flower painter Pierre-Joseph Redoute (1759-1840) devoted himself exclusively to capturing the diversity of flowering... -
Jean Marc Bourgery. Atlas of Human Anatomy and Surgery by Jean-Marie Le Minor
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.61We owe a great debt to Jean Baptiste Marc Bourgery (1797-1849) for his Atlas of Anatomy, which was not only a massive event in medical history, but also remains one of the most comprehensive and... -
Massimo Listri. Cabinet of Curiosities. 40th Ed. Antonio Paolucci 9783836593786
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.49The Wunderkammer, or “cabinet of curiosities,” saw collectors gathering objects from many strands of artistic, scientific, and intellectual endeavor, in an ambitious attempt to encompass all of... -
Great Escapes North America. The Hotel Book. 2021 Edition by TASCHEN
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £38.85The USA is one of the most varied and fascinating countries in the world. Its areas of natural beauty such as the Pacific Coast, the Yosemite National Park, and Monument Valley are the stuff of great... -
King Tut. The Journey through the Underworld. 40th Ed. Sandro Vannini 9783836584234
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.00Buried in the 14th century BC but unearthed by Howard Carter in 1922, the objects entombed with Tutankhamun are an invaluable window into a long-extinct belief system. Seen today, they create an... -
Van Gogh. The Complete Paintings by Rainer Metzger
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.79Vincent van Gogh's story is one of the most ironic in art history. Today, he is celebrated the world over as one of the most important painters of all time, recognized with sell-out shows, feted... -
Frida Kahlo. 40th Ed. by Luis-Martín Lozano 9783836594851
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.09Among the women artists who have transcended art history, none had a meteoric rise quite like Mexican painter Frida Kahlo (1907–1954). Her unmistakable face, depicted in over fifty extraordinary... -
domus 1940-1949 Charlotte & Peter Fiell 9783836593830
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £24.40Founded in 1928 as a “living diary” by the great Milanese architect and designer Gio Ponti, domus has been hailed as the world’s most influential architecture and design journal. With style and... -
Stephen Wilkes. Day to Night Lyle Rexer 9783836592574
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £37.55If you were to stand in one spot at an iconic location for 30 hours and simply observe, never closing your eyes, you still wouldn’t be able to take in all the detail and emotion found in a Stephen... -
domus 1950-1959 Charlotte & Peter Fiell 9783836593847
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £26.80Founded in 1928 as a “living diary” by the great Milanese architect and designer Gio Ponti, domus has been hailed as the world’s most influential architecture and design journal. With style and... -
The East German Handbook by Justinian Jampol 9783836565202
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £24.00For 40 years, the Cold War dominated the world stage. East and West Germany stood at the frontlines of the global confrontation, symbolized by the infamous Berlin Wall, which separated lovers,... -
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Mucha by Renate Ulmer 9783822885741 [USED COPY]
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £1.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783822885741Author Renate UlmerFormat PaperbackPage Count 95Imprint -
George Herriman’s “Krazy Kat”. The Complete Color Sundays 1935–1944 Taschen 9783754401309
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £59.83The premise is simple: a black cat loves scheming a white mouse who incessantly throws bricks at the cat's head, which police dog Officer Pupp, secretly harboring a passionate love for the cat,... -
Mailer/Stern, Monroe by Norman Mailer 9783836592611
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £59.52"This book is really two books. It is a biography, and it is also a pictorial retrospective of an actress whose greatest love affair was conceivably with the camera," wrote Norman Mailer in his 1973... -
100 All-Time Favorite Movies of the 20th Century by Jurgen Muller 9783836556187
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.41Take a journey through the makers and shapers of celluloid history. From horror to romance, noir to slapstick, adventure to tragedy, Western to new wave, this selection gathers the greats of... -
1000 Pin-Up Girls by TASCHEN 9783836520508
Booksplease Price: £20.05"Girls, Gags & Giggles," ran publisher Robert Harrison's recipe for dishing up pin-up to the American male. Men loved his tasty dishes, a mixture of strippers and starlets dressed in outfits so... -
The History of Graphic Design. 40th Ed. by TASCHEN
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.00Through the turbulent passage of time, graphic design-with its vivid, neat synthesis of image and idea-has distilled the spirit of each age. Surrounding us every minute of every day, from minimalist... -
Issey Miyake. 45th Ed. Taschen 9783754402863
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £24.31In 1983, Japanese designer Issey Miyake told The New Yorker that he aspired "to forge ahead, to break the mold." With the boundary-defying fashion lines that followed, he not only broke molds, but... -
Ai Weiwei. Updated Edition Taschen 9783754404270
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £78.71Ai Weiwei is famous for much more than his art. As a champion for the right to free expression and against arbitrary state power, his actions reach far beyond the art world. His work is infused with... -
75 Years of Atlantic Records Taschen 9783836592055
RRP: £150.00Booksplease Price: £118.51In 1947, when Ahmet Ertegun and two fellow music fans started Atlantic Records in New York City, they never could have known that their passion for discovering artists and making records would shape... -
David Hockney. 220 for 2020 Taschen 9783836599115
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £78.91From a small, picturesque farmhouse in the rich fields and meadows of Normandy, David Hockney followed the changing seasons across 2020 and into the new year. He used his iPad to spontaneously depict... -
All-American Ads of the 30s Taschen 9783836588669
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £28.52Illustrations dominated advertising to lower-income shoppers, while the end of Prohibition boosted alcohol sales. Despite the Great Depression, commerce thrived with clever copywriting and visuals... -
Living in Japan. 40th Anniversary Edition by Alex Kerr
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.48So rich and unique is traditional Japanese architecture that it's nearly impossible to improve upon. Yet contemporary Japanese designers and architects keep finding fresh approaches to refurbish and... -
Gerhard Richter by Klaus Honnef
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £12.00An encounter with Gerhard Richter, the German artist who widened horizons in the relationship between painting and reality. From early photographic paintings, along with his famous RAF cycle, to late... -
The Alps 1900. A Portrait in Color by Agnes Couzy
RRP: £150.00Booksplease Price: £114.61"Nothing compares to the Alps" wrote the great French historian Jules Michelet in 1868. At the very heart of Europe, the gigantic Alpine mountain range includes some of the most grandiose natural... -
The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm by Noel Daniel
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £27.72From Snow White to Cinderella, Rapunzel to Rumpelstiltskin, the Brothers Grimm bequeathed a canon of stories which have become literary and childhood classics. The most widely read story collection... -
Dian Hanson’s: The History of Men’s Magazines. Vol. 2: From Post-War to 1959 by Dian Hanson
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £38.85WWII was devastating to Europe, but the U.S. emerged with a robust economy. People who were encouraged to save every cent for the war effort now spent freely, including on magazines. The U.S. quickly... -
domus 1970–1979 by Charlotte & Peter Fiell 9783836593861
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £26.80Founded in 1928 as a “living diary” by the great Milanese architect and designer Gio Ponti, domus has been hailed as the world’s most influential architecture and design journal. With style and... -
Polaroids by Helmut Newton 9783836528863
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £38.05Instant Newton: A collection of Helmut Newton's test Polaroids Polaroids occupy a special place in the hearts of many photo enthusiasts who remember a time when "instant photography" meant... -
Sebastião Salgado. Workers. An Archaeology of the Industrial Age by Lélia Wanick Salgado 9783836596329
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £60.02Sebastião Salgado’s photo book classic Workers. An Archaeology of the Industrial Age (first published in 1993) pays tribute to the time-honored tradition of manual labor in the new millennium when... -
James Baldwin. Steve Schapiro. The Fire Next Time James Baldwin 9783836596992
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £10.68First published in 1963, James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time stabbed at the heart of America's so-called "Negro problem." As remarkable for its masterful prose as for its frank and personal account... -
Pirate Tales Robert E. and Jill P. May 9783836584760
Booksplease Price: £38.20In the imaginations of young and old alike, the word “pirate” resonates with spine-tingling fear and swashbuckling adventure. Over centuries, our cultural landscape has been populated by a host of... -
The Polaroid Book. 40th Ed. by 9783836591997
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783836591997Imprint Taschen GmbHPublisher Taschen GmbH -
Homes for Our Time. Contemporary Houses around the World. Vol. 2 by 9783836587006
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £56.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783836587006Format HardbackPage Count 464Imprint Taschen GmbHPublisher -
Mailer, The Fight by 9783836591492
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £59.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783836591492Imprint Taschen GmbHPublisher Taschen GmbH -
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Kandinsky by Hajo Duchting 9783822859827 [USED COPY]
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £2.96The Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), who later lived in Germany and France, is one of the pioneers of 20th-century art. Nowadays he is regarded as the founder of abstract art and is,...