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M.C. Escher. The Graphic Work by TASCHEN 9783836529846
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £14.16From impossible staircases to tessellated birds, Dutch artist M.C. Escher (1898-1972) crafted a unique graphic language of patterns, puzzles, and mathematics. Dense, complex, and structured by... -
Niemeyer Philip Jodidio 9783836536226
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £12.68Until his death at age 104, Oscar Niemeyer (1907-2012) was something of an unstoppable architectural force. Over seven decades of work, he designed approximately 600 buildings, transforming skylines... -
Hiroshige Adele Schlombs 9783836519632
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £12.00Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) was one of the last great artists in the ukiyo-e tradition. Literally meaning "pictures of the floating world," ukiyo-e was a particular woodblock print genre of art... -
Yves Klein by Hannah Weitemeier
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £12.00In the mid-1950s, Yves Klein (1928-1962) declared that "a new world calls for a new man." With his idiosyncratic style and huge charisma, this bold artist would go on to pursue a brief but bountiful... -
Harry Benson. Paul by Reuel Golden
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £24.53Harry Benson began photographing Paul McCartney in 1964, when the Beatles took America by storm, toured the world, and made their movie debut with A Hard Day's Night. The legendary photojournalist... -
Matisse. Cut-outs by 9783836534277
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £12.09Henri Matisse (1869-1954) was a fighting spirit. Despite a cancer diagnosis in 1941, increasing frailty, and the confines of a wheelchair, the indomitable Frenchman never stopped in his quest to make... -
Rodin by Francois Blanchetiere 9783836555043
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.79While anchoring his practice in the traditions of antiquity and the Renaissance, Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) paved the way for modern sculpture. From a very early stage, he was interested in movement,... -
Pollock by Leonhard Emmerling 9783836529075
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £12.09The rebel hero of Abstract Expressionism, Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) careened through his life like a firework across the American art landscape. Channeling ideas from sources as diverse as Picasso... -
Dürer by Norbert Wolf 9783836530811
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £12.09A polymath of the German Renaissance, Albrecht Durer (1471-1528) was a prolific artist, theorist, and writer whose works explored everything from religion to art theory to philosophy. His vast body... -
Friedrich Norbert Wolf 9783836560719
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.79The beauty of nature and man's loneliness are dominant themes in the work of Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840). The artist often places a small human figure in a broad landscape, as in his famous... -
Turner by Michael Bockemuhl
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £14.16In the work of Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) lies an impact akin to a sudden acquisition of sight. His landscapes and seascapes scorch the eye with such ravishing light and color, with... -
Futurism by Sylvia Martin 9783836505833
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £12.00With motion and machines as its most treasured tropes, Futurism was founded in 1909 by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, along with painters Giacomo Balla, Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carra, and Gino Severini... -
Leonardo by Frank Zollner
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £10.73Filling notebook after notebook with sketches, inventions, and theories, Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) not only stands as one of the most exceptional draftsmen of art history, but also as a... -
Haring by Alexandra Kolossa
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £12.00One of the key figures in the New York art world of the 1980s, Keith Haring (1958-1990) created a signature style that blended street art, graffiti, a Pop sensibility, and cartoon elements to unique,... -
Rembrandt by Michael Bockemuhl
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £12.09Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) never left his homeland of the Netherlands but in his massive body of painting, drawing, and etching, he changed the course of Western art. His prolific oeuvre... -
Rousseau by Cornelia Stabenow 9783836570763
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.79Henri Rousseau (1844-1910) was a clerk in the Paris customs service who dreamed of becoming a famous artist. At the age 49, he decided to give it a try. At first, Rousseau's bright, bold paintings of... -
Kirchner by Norbert Wolf 9783836535045
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £14.16Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938) is regarded as one of the key figures in 20th-century European art. A Modernist to his bones, he sent seismic waves through the art world with his hard-edged,... -
Expressionism by Dietmar Elger
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £13.28Sharp angles, strange forms, lurid colors, and distorted perspectives are classic hallmarks of Expressionism, the twentieth century movement that prioritized emotion over objective reality. Though... -
Macke by Anna Meseure
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.79A style of his own: The colorful work of a truly avant-garde painterIn the course of his short life, German painter August Macke (1887--1914) combined inspirations from extremely different sources... -
O'Keeffe by Britta Benke
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £12.09Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) was a major figure in modern American art for some seven decades. Importantly, her fame was not associated with shifting art styles and trends, but rather with her own... -
Erotica Universalis by Gilles Neret 9783836547789
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.79From the dawn of time, ever since Adam and Eve, all artists of every age-whether the Egyptian, Greek, or Roman artists of Antiquity, or more recent famous names such as Rembrandt, Courbet, Degas, or... -
Vermeer by Norbert Schneider 9783836504898
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £12.00Though numbering just 35 known works, the oeuvre of Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675) is hailed as one of the most important and inspiring portfolios in art history. His paintings have prompted a New York... -
Degas Bernd Growe 9783836532716
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £12.09Most commonly associated with the birth of the Impressionist movement in mid-19th-century Paris, Edgar Degas (1834-1917) in fact defied easy categorization and instead developed a unique style,... -
Modigliani by Doris Krystof
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £12.09In endless odes to the female form, Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920) traced elongated bodies, almond eyes, and his own name into art history. His languid female subjects are as instantly recognizable as... -
Lichtenstein by Janis Hendrickson
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £14.16American painter Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997) pioneered a new epoch in American art, bursting onto a scene dominated by Abstract Expressionism in late 1950s New York and defining a new art vocabulary... -
Velázquez by Norbert Wolf
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £12.09Court painter to King Philip IV of Spain, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez (June 1599 - August 6, 1660) is not only a leading light of the Spanish Golden Age, but among the most celebrated... -
Raphael by Christof Thoenes 9783836532426
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.79In art history, we tend to be on first name terms only with the most revered of masters. The Renaissance painter and architect Raphael Santi (1483-1520) is one such star. The man we call simply... -
Dadaism by Dietmar Elger 9783836505628
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £13.28Emerging amid the brutality of World War I, the revolutionary Dada movement took disgust with the establishment as its starting point. From 1916 until the mid-1920s, artists in Zurich, Cologne,... -
Photographers A-Z by Hans-Michael Koetzle 9783836554367
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.61Arranged alphabetically, this biographical encyclopedia features every major photographer of the 20th century alongside her or his most significant monographs. From the earliest representatives of... -
Vienna 1900 by Rainer Metzger 9783836567053
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £12.00Poets and intellectuals brushed shoulders in bustling coffeehouses, young avant-gardists heralded a new era in social and sexual liberalism, waltzes resounded through the Ringstrasse, the Vienna... -
Klee by Susanna Partsch 9783836501101
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £12.00With meticulous theories and many thousands of paintings, drawings, and watercolors, Paul Klee (1879-1940) is considered one of the most cerebral and prolific leaders of 20th-century European art... -
Entryways of Milan - Ingressi di Milano by Fabrizio Ballabio 9783836564182
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £39.35First impressions count, especially in Milano. In this unprecedented photographic journey, editor Karl Kolbitz opens the door to 144 of the city's most sumptuous entrance halls, captivating in their... -
Gropius by 9783836544344
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £12.68Walter Gropius (1883-1969) set out to build for the future. As the founding director of the Bauhaus, the Berlin-born architect had an inestimable influence on our aesthetic environment, championing a... -
Bacon by Luigi Ficacci
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £12.00Largely self-taught as an artist, Francis Bacon (1909-1992) developed a unique ability to transform interior and unconscious impulses into figurative forms and intensely claustrophobic compositions. ... -
Tiki Pop by Sven Kirsten 9783836581547
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.79Urban islands and bamboo hideaways set the stage for a pop culture phenomenon like no other. In mid-century America, the imaginative appeal of Tiki penetrated fashion, music, eating, drinking, and... -
Pre-Raphaelites by Heather Birchall 9783836519656
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £12.00Founded in 1848 as a secret society, the Pre-Raphaelites rejected classical ideals and the dominant artistic genre painting of their era for what they saw as a more spiritual, sincere, and... -
Toulouse-Lautrec by Matthias Arnold 9783836534901
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £12.09In our imaginings of Paris, painter and graphic artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) has no small role to play. In his prints, posters, paintings, and drawings, the artist immortalized the... -
Rubens by Gilles Neret 9783836545143
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £14.16There are over 1,000 catalogued works by Sir Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), the 16th-century flag bearer for Baroque drama, movement, and sensuality. This essential introduction takes in the most... -
Gio Ponti by Graziella Roccella
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £12.68Italian architect and designer Gio Ponti (1891-1979) is difficult to pin down. With an extraordinarily prolific output and eclectic style, his oeuvre remains one of the most diverse and... -
Rockwell by Karal Ann Marling
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £12.09An extraordinarily prolific artist, Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) produced some 4,000 paintings in his lifetime, not including a prodigious quantity of commissioned editorial, commercial, and...