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Ventriloquism, Performance, and Contemporary Art by Jennie Hirsh 9781032304762
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £38.83Ventriloquism, Performance, and Contemporary Art volume calls attention to the unexpected prevalence of ventriloqual motifs and strategies within contemporary art.Engaging with issues of voice,... -
Roseborough: A Novel by 9781574412796
Booksplease Price: £15.47In "Roseborough", Jane Roberts Wood returns with a keenly observed tale of bighearted people in small-town Texas. Three weeks after Mary Lou's Gypsy husband dies, her fourteen-year-old... -
The Ethics Rupture: Exploring Alternatives to Formal Research-Ethics Review by Will C. van den Hoonaard
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.40For decades now, researchers in the social sciences and humanities have been expressing a deep dissatisfaction with the process of research-ethics review in academia. Continuing the ongoing critique... -
Seeing Witness: Visuality and the Ethics of Testimony by Jane Blocker 9780816654772
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24Unearthing the meaning of witnessing in contemporary art and politicsThe act of bearing witness can reveal much, but what about the figure of the witness itself? As contemporary culture is... -
Feint of Heart: Art Writings, 1982-2002 Dave Hickey 9781644231272
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £24.45From the legendary and iconoclastic critic Dave Hickey, a collection of twenty of his most emblematic essays on art“We really don’t need to know the aesthetic and moral parameters of a work to love... -
The Open Studio: Essays on Art and Aesthetics by Susan Stewart 9780226774466
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.30Poets often have responded vitally to the art of their time, and ever since Susan Stewart began writing about art in the early 1980s, her work has resonated with practicing artists, curators, art... -
The Open Studio: Essays on Art and Aesthetics Susan Stewart 9780226774473
Booksplease Price: £32.30Poets often have responded vitally to the art of their time, and ever since Susan Stewart began writing about art in the early 1980s, her work has resonated with practicing artists, curators, art... -
Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture: Volume 50 by David A. Brewer 9781421440101
RRP: £37.00Booksplease Price: £28.04In a section commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Howard D. Weinbrot, Felicity A. Nussbaum, and Heather McPherson trace the history of the... -
Landmarks: 2008-2018: The Public Art Program of the University of Texas at Austin by Andree Bober 9781477315392
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.86Public art has the capacity to resonate deeply, stimulate curiosity, and inspire the imagination in unexpected ways. The collection on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin is no exception... -
A Philosophy of Textile: Between Practice and Theory by Catherine Dormor 9781350195837
Booksplease Price: £35.01Textile is at once a language, a concept and a material thing. Philosophers such as Plato, Deleuze and Derrida have notably drawn on weaving processes to illustrate their ideas, and artists such as... -
Graphicstudio: Uncommon Practice and the Art of the Impossible by Jade Dellinger 9781907804359
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £21.24Graphicstudio: Uncommon Practice at USF explores the incredible body of art from Graphicstudio, the print atelier at the University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida that has hosted artists including... -
Nina Katchadourian: Curiouser by Veronica Roberts 9781477311516
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.29Nina Katchadourian: Curiouser accompanies the Blanton Museum's mid-career survey of the work of Brooklyn-based artist Nina Katchadourian, organized by Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art Veronica... -
I entered without words: Poems by Jody Gladding
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.51An innovative and inviting book of poems about the places where language and landscape convergeIn this strongly visual and environmentally engaged collection, award-winning poet and translator Jody... -
The People's City: One City Trust by Irvine Welsh
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02'Five engrossing, resonant stories here, with no weak links' The Herald The world's first UNESCO city of literature, Edinburgh is steeped in literary history. It is the birthplace of a beloved... -
I entered without words: Poems by Jody Gladding 9780691238951
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £44.25An innovative and inviting book of poems about the places where language and landscape convergeIn this strongly visual and environmentally engaged collection, award-winning poet and translator Jody... -
Health Systems Improvement Across the Globe: Success Stories from 60 Countries Jeffrey Braithwaite 9780367881740
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £55.84Following on from 2015's Healthcare Reform, Quality and Safety: Perspectives, Participants, Partnerships and Prospects in 30 Countries, this book encompasses a global perspective on healthcare while... -
Contemporary Art Underground: MTA Arts & Design New York by Sandra Bloodworth 9781580936422
RRP: £39.95Booksplease Price: £30.02A celebration of more than 100 major public art commissions throughout the New York transit system Contemporary Art Underground presents more than 100 permanent projects completed between 2015 and... -
In Search of Spatial Scripts: Introspective Improvisations for Two Construction Sites: Parcel X Encampment (1994) and The Goodwin Memorial (2004) Peter Waldman 9781961856820
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £28.99In Search of Spatial Scripts is a re-collection of improvisational stories and stage sets and serves those interested in Spatial Tales of Origin Revealed through Specifications for Construction... -
It Is Almost That: A Collection of Image & Text Work by Women Artists & Writers Lisa Pearson 9780979956263
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £28.10A marvelously bold interdisciplinary anthology, It Is Almost That collects works by women artists and writers who have constructed hybrid environments that merge image and text. The works in this... -
Adeline de Monseignat: Motherhood in Four Acts Adeline de Monseignat 9781910221709
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £28.77Motherhood in Four Acts is a publication about the sculptures and sculptural installations of Mexico-based artist Adeline de Monseignat (b. 1987, Monaco). It is also a publication about the artist's... -
Past Participle by Jane Labous 9781739982478
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Dakar, Senegal, 1987: On a rainy night after a wild party, the British ambassador's wife, Vivienne Hughes, is involved in a car crash. Her vehicle hits the motor-bike of a young Senegalese doc-tor,... -
The Green Library Planner: What Every Librarian Needs to Know Before Starting to Build or Renovate by Mary M. Carr 9780810887367
Booksplease Price: £103.11Green buildings are better buildings. In fact, buildings use 36% of the energy in the United States, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, so green buildings that use less energy help to...