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Keith Haring: Art Is for Everybody by Keith Haring 9781636810935
RRP: €61.88Booksplease Price: €44.27Haring 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... -
City of Cinema: Paris 1850-1907 Leah Lehmbeck 9781636810218
RRP: €52.36Booksplease Price: €38.58How film emerged in 19th-century Paris amid an array of social, political, artistic and technological innovations-with works by the Lumiere brothers, Melies, Cheret and more City of Cinema traces... -
Firelei Báez by Firelei Baez 9781636811253
RRP: €63.06Booksplease Price: €42.16"Her language for exploring [history] is at once serious and exuberant." -Siddhartha Mitter, New York Times Over the last 15 years, Firelei Baez has created artwork that delves into the historical... -
Bong Joon Ho: Director's Inspiration Bong Joon Ho 9781636811802
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €28.77Through objects from his personal archive, Bong Joon Ho reveals his inspirations and creative processes for his films including Snowpiercer, Parasite and Mickey 17 Published with Academy Museum of... -
Vermeer's Maps by Johannes Vermeer
RRP: €39.26Booksplease Price: €27.64Exploring 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... -
Calida Rawles: Away with the Tides by Calida Rawles 9781636811406
RRP: €53.55Booksplease Price: €37.31Rawles' transcendent, hyperrealistic paintings of Black bodies in water reckon with the legacy of racial injustice Merging hyperrealism, poetic abstraction and the cultural and historical... -
Renoir Drawings Pierre-Auguste Renior 9781636811840
RRP: €46.41Booksplease Price: €31.75Drawings, 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... -
Andrea Bowers by 9781942884835
RRP: €63.07Booksplease Price: €42.16Between 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... -
Yoshitomo Nara by Yoshitomo Nara
RRP: €58.30Booksplease Price: €42.48Three decades of the beloved Japanese artist's paintings, drawings, sculptures and more Yoshitomo Nara is among the most beloved Japanese artists of his generation. His widely recognizable... -
Ron Finley: The Gangsta Gardener: Breath(e), Toward Climate and Social Justice Ron Finley 9781636811772
RRP: €29.74Booksplease Price: €20.68The first book on beloved Los Angeles community organizer and urban gardener Ron Finley, known as the "Gangsta Gardener" Ron Finley is a visionary designer, horticulturalist and artist, who has... -
Agnès Varda: Director's Inspiration by Matt Severson 9781636810607
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €29.73A 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... -
Alison Elizabeth Taylor: The Sum of It by Alison Elizabeth Taylor
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €33.97The 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... -
The Stars We Do Not See: Australian Indigenous Art Myles Russell-Cook 9781636811536
RRP: €61.88Booksplease Price: €44.27Witness Australian Indigenous art in all its myriad ingenious forms, from ochre bark paintings and experimental weavings to immersive sound and video art and powerful photographs Published with... -
Matisse's Femme Au Chapeau: 1905 to Today Henri Matisse 9781636811895
RRP: €35.69Booksplease Price: €26.00Charting 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... -
Leonard Cohen: Everybody Knows: Inside His Archive by Leonard Cohen
RRP: €40.45Booksplease Price: €28.38Previously unseen journals, letters, sketches and more from the vast personal archive of Leonard Cohen Leonard Cohen is renowned the world over for his meditations on beauty, death, loss and the... -
Pedro Almodóvar: Installation/Instalación by Pedro Almodóvar
RRP: €71.40Booksplease Price: €52.80A visually immersive exploration of the provocative and humanistic themes at the heart of Almodovar's cinema Pedro Almodovar is one of the most daring and influential writer-directors of our time... -
Ink Dreams: Selections from the Fondation Ink Collection by Susanna Ferrell
RRP: €70.21Booksplease Price: €46.62The ongoing legacy of the East Asian ink tradition in contemporary art Including the work of more than 50 contemporary artists-from Xu Bing and Lin Tianmiao to Lee Ufan and Hiroshi Sugimoto-and... -
Digital Witness: Revolutions in Design, Photography, and Film by Britt Salvesen 9781636811338
RRP: €61.88Booksplease Price: €43.24An essential primer on the history of Photoshop and other tools of digital image manipulation, from the 1970s through to the current day This timely volume, Digital Witness, examines the impact of... -
KAWS: FAMILY by Julian Cox 9781636811093
RRP: €59.44Booksplease Price: €37.01A lavishly illustrated tour of the methods, process and sources behind the iconic pop artworks of KAWS American artist KAWS is one of the most famous living contemporary artists today. Renowned... -
Betye Saar: Serious Moonlight by Betye Saar
RRP: €52.36Booksplease Price: €36.41Rarely seen installation works that exemplify this pioneering artist's critical focus on Black identity and Black feminism Showcasing a lesser-known aspect of Saar's art, Betye Saar: Serious... -
Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors by Yayoi Kusama 9781636811215
RRP: €65.45Booksplease Price: €41.15The first and only comprehensive volume exploring the artist's best-known and most spectacular series This book presents world-renowned Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama's most famous series, the... -
What Matters Most: Photographs of Black Life: The Fade Resistance Collection by Zun Lee
RRP: €38.07Booksplease Price: €26.54This powerful collection highlights the importance of snapshots in Black American life: as tools to challenge stereotypes, and as a way to document family and culture Thoughtfully illustrated,... -
To Begin Again: Artists and Childhood by Jeffrey de Blois
RRP: €39.26Booksplease Price: €27.29How 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... -
Simone Leigh by Simone Leigh 9781636810782
RRP: €71.39Booksplease Price: €47.36The first major monograph on Simone Leigh's multimedia explorations of community, Black feminism and the traditions and material cultures of the African diaspora Over the past two decades, Simone... -
3d-Doings: The Imagist Object in Chicago Art 9781636811659
RRP: €65.45Booksplease Price: €43.65Eccentric 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. ... -
Spike Lee: Director's Inspiration by Spike Lee 9781636810133
RRP: €38.07Booksplease Price: €26.54An 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... -
Lee Alexander McQueen: Mind, Mythos, Muse by Lee Alexander McQueen
RRP: €47.59Booksplease Price: €41.39McQueen's iconic fashion juxtaposed with historic textiles and works of art, revealing the designer's dynamic approach to storytelling One of the most significant contributors to fashion between... -
Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence by Kehinde Wiley 9781636810980
RRP: €59.50Booksplease Price: €33.75"That is the archaeology I am unearthing: the specter of police violence and state control over the bodies of young Black and brown people all over the world." -Kehinde Wiley Kehinde Wiley: An... -
Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California 9781636811598
RRP: €65.45Booksplease Price: €45.55A celebration of the joyful power of African American quilts, featuring images of over 100 quilts, new research and essays Published with Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA). ... -
Architecture. Research. Office. by Stephen Cassell 9781636811413
RRP: €89.25Booksplease Price: €58.52A richly illustrated, substantial documentation of the AIA Award-winning architectural firm This is the definitive publication on New York design firm Architecture Research Office (ARO). When it... -
Nina Chanel Abney: Big Butch Energy/Synergy 9781636811635
RRP: €60.69Booksplease Price: €40.67Combining representation and abstraction, Abney's vibrant works reference gender, sexuality and pop culture Published with Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami and Museum of Contemporary Art... -
Seydou Keïta: A Tactile Lens Seydou Keita 9781636811888
RRP: €64.26Booksplease Price: €45.76This 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... -
Black American Portraits: From the Los Angeles County Museum of Art by Christine Kim
RRP: €52.35Booksplease Price: €35.46A celebratory visual chronicle of the many ways in which Black Americans have used portraiture to envision themselves Spanning over two centuries from around 1800 to the present day, Black... -
Marisol: A Retrospective by Marisol Escobar 9781636811017
RRP: €89.25Booksplease Price: €59.52The 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... -
Ordinary People: Photorealism and the Work of Art Since 1968 by Anna Katz 9781636811000
RRP: €71.39Booksplease Price: €47.36This fresh look at photorealism argues for its continued relevance today This volume, Ordinary People, recovers the social art history of the long-dismissed genre of photorealism and demonstrates... -
This Morning, This Evening, So Soon: James Baldwin and the Voices of Queer Resistance by James Baldwin 9781636811321
RRP: €41.64Booksplease Price: €28.77Portrayals of James Baldwin and others in his circle highlight the iconic writer's activism The American writer and activist James Baldwin (1924-87) considered himself a "witness" as he challenged... -
Dawoud Bey and Carrie Mae Weems: In Dialogue by Dawoud Bey
RRP: €47.59Booksplease Price: €32.49A visual and conceptual conversation between two leading US photo-artists famed for their mutual explorations of race, class and power Dawoud Bey and Carrie Mae Weems met in New York in the late... -
Regeneration: Black Cinema, 1898-1971 by Doris Berger
RRP: €48.79Booksplease Price: €34.64The 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... -
Gary Simmons: Public Enemy by Gary Simmons
RRP: €61.88Booksplease Price: €41.41Long 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... -
Blue Dream and the Legacy of Modernism in the Hamptons: A House by Diller Scofidio + Renfro by Paul Goldberger 9781636811123
RRP: €89.25Booksplease Price: €58.52The 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...