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Yu Hong: Another One Bites the Dust by Yu Hong 9781636811512
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £27.30Virtuosic, large-scale figurative paintings that capture contemporary anxieties in harsh relief Published to accompany a major site-specific installation in Venice, Yu Hong: Another One Bites the... -
Fire Island Modernist: Horace Gifford and the Architecture of Seduction 9781881616993
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £38.28Featuring new houses, many additional photographs and a new afterword, Fire Island Modernist offers a fascinating look at the history and culture of this "gay paradise" through the life and work of... -
Really Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe by Nellie Mae Rowe
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £28.90An unprecedented look at Nellie Mae Rowe's art as a radical act of self-expression and liberation in the post-civil rights-era South A New York Times critics' pick | Best Art Books 2021 During... -
Andrew Wyeth: Life and Death by Andrew Wyeth
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £25.10Presenting recently rediscovered drawings, Life and Death explores what it means for an artist to picture their own death, in both the context of Wyeth's late career and contemporary American art ... -
Gertrude Abercrombie: The Whole World Is a Mystery 9781636811550
RRP: £51.00Booksplease Price: £34.18A sumptuously produced retrospective on the beloved and under-published Chicago-based Surrealist Gertrude Abercrombie, the "queen of the bohemian artists" This book is the definitive scholarly... -
Another World: The Transcendental Painting Group by Michael Duncan
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £36.40Abstract painting meets theosophical spirituality in 1930s New Mexico: the first book on a radical, astonishingly prescient episode in American modernism Founded in Santa Fe and Taos, New Mexico,... -
The Lost World: The Art of Minnie Evans Minnie Evans 9781636812199
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £26.05Visionary self-taught Southern folk artist Minnie Evans receives a long overdue encore of her mystical, divinely inspired drawings Published with High Museum of Art. American artist Minnie... -
Joan Didion: What She Means by Joan Didion
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £28.10An exploration of the visual corollary to Didion's life and work and the feeling that each generates in her admirers, detractors and critics-including artists from Helen Lundeberg to Diane Arbus,... -
Nick Cave: Forothermore by Nick Cave
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £36.40With a wealth of images and commentary, this is the essential career survey of Cave's socially responsive art The definitive volume on the ever-evolving and shape-shifting work of the... -
Writing a Chrysanthemum: The Drawings of Rick Barton by Rick Barton
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £27.60This first ever book on the Bay Area Beat artist reveals a unique drawing style that dovetails Cocteau with Japanese and Renaissance printmaking "Rick Barton should have been a San Francisco... -
Hayao Miyazaki by Hayao Miyazaki
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £33.14A richly illustrated journey through the extraordinary cinematic worlds of beloved filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki A New York Magazine 2021 holiday gift guide pick For over four decades, Hayao... -
Virgil Abloh: Figures of Speech by Virgil Abloh
RRP: £67.99Booksplease Price: £47.20The essential volume on the great fashion designer, entrepreneur and Louis Vuitton artistic director, back in print This authoritative Virgil Abloh compendium, created by the designer himself,... -
MONUMENTS Hannah Burstein 9781636810997
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £45.46Scholars and contemporary artists reckon with decommissioned monuments, examining fraught narratives of the legacy of the Civil War and slavery as well as national identity in the United States ... -
Wild Things Are Happening: The Art of Maurice Sendak by Maurice Sendak
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £31.23The most comprehensive survey of the work of Maurice Sendak, the most celebrated picture book artist of all time-with previously unpublished archival materials Published in conjunction with the... -
Displaced: Manzanar 1942-1945 Evan Backes 9781942884293
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £28.10"This sorry episode has been illuminated in books and documentaries. But I've never felt its emotional texture-the unexpected mix of dereliction and upstanding hopefulness-so vividly as in this set... -
Jeffrey Gibson: The Space in Which to Place Me 9781636811628
RRP: £64.00Booksplease Price: £42.30Vibrant and immersive installations from the first Indigenous artist to represent the US with a solo exhibition at the Venice Biennale This lush, comprehensive volume celebrates Jeffrey Gibson's... -
Jay Defeo: Photographic Work by Jay Defeo 9781636811116
RRP: £67.00Booksplease Price: £46.58A revelatory trove of innovative photo collages, photograms, photographs and photocopies-many never before published-most reproduced at the size DeFeo printed them This monograph on the legendary... -
Timeless Mucha: The Magic of Line 9781636813998
RRP: £51.00Booksplease Price: £37.05A fabulous tribute to the artist whose stylized poster designs defined Art Nouveau's visual language, and whose influence can be seen everywhere from manga to the Grateful Dead This volume... -
Women Painting Women by Andrea Karnes
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £21.83Replete with complexities, abjection, beauty and joy, Women Painting Women offers new ways to imagine the portrayal of women, from Alice Neel to Jordan Casteel A thematic exploration of nearly 50... -
Barbara Kruger: Thinking of You. I Mean Me. I Mean You by Barbara Kruger
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £45.33Five decades of iconic and incisive art from Barbara Kruger Since the mid-1970s, Barbara Kruger (born 1945) has been interrogating the hierarchies of power and control in works that often combine... -
Henry Taylor: B Side by Henry Taylor
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £33.55The official catalog accompanying the major retrospective at MoCA LA: Henry Taylor creates a grand pageant of contemporary Black life in America Surveying 30 years of Henry Taylor's work in... -
Jeff Divine: 70s Surf Photographs Jeff Divine 9781942884606
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £24.98A colorful, insider portrait of '70s surf culture, with a foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning author William Finnegan If you were there, even just for some of it-Hawaii, California, surfing, the... -
Belle Da Costa Greene: A Librarian's Legacy Belle Da Costa Greene 9781636811352
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £32.03The incredible story of the first director of the Morgan Library: a visionary Black woman who walked confidently in an early 20th-century man's world of wealth and privilege When J.P. Morgan's... -
Afro-Atlantic Histories by Adriano Pedrosa
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £32.83A colossal, panoramic, much-needed appraisal of the visual cultures of Afro-Atlantic territories across six centuries Named one of the best books of 2021 by Artforum Afro-Atlantic Histories... -
The Sleeve Should Be Illegal by 9781942884798
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £18.93Explore the treasures of The Frick Collection through the eyes of a diverse group of contemporary writers, artists and other cultural figures, from George Condo, Lydia Davis and Julie Mehretu to Abbi... -
Love, Icebox: Letters from John Cage to Merce Cunningham by John Cage
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.50These early letters from John Cage to Merce Cunningham will be revelatory for many. While the two are widely known as a dynamic, collaborative duo, the story of how and when they came together has... -
Kent Monkman: History Is Painted by the Victors 9781636811543
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £28.55The renowned Cree artist unmasks a whitewashed, Eurocentric history through provocative paintings full of sexuality and drama Published with Denver Art Museum and Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. ... -
The New Woman Behind the Camera by Andrea Nelson 9781942884743
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £34.70An in-depth look at the many ways women around the world helped shape modern photography from the 1920s to the 1950s as they captured images of a radically changing world During the 1920s the New... -
An Indigenous Present by Jeffrey Gibson 9781636811024
RRP: £67.00Booksplease Price: £46.58A monumental gathering of more than 60 contemporary artists, photographers, musicians, writers and more, showcasing diverse approaches to Indigenous concepts, forms and mediums - A Wall Street...