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Robert Mapplethorpe - The Archive by Frances Terpak 9781606064702
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £45.33Celebrated photographer Robert Mapplethorpe challenged the limits of censorship and conformity, com- bining technical and formal mastery with unexpected, often provocative content that secured his... -
Therese Makes a Tapestry by Alexandra Hinrichs 9781606064733
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.19Step back in time to seventeenth-century Paris with Therese, a talented young girl who lives and works at the Gobelins Manufactory, where Europe's greatest artisans make tapestries and luxury objects... -
Unruly Nature - The Landscapes of Theofire Rousseau Scott Allan 9781606064771
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £40.47The odore Rousseau (1812-1867), arguably the most important French landscape artist of the mid-nineteenth century and a leader of the so-called Barbizon School, occupies a crucial moment of... -
Bouchardon - Royal Artist of the Enlightenment Edouard Kopp 9781606065068
RRP: £70.00Booksplease Price: £61.58One of the most imaginative and fascinating artists of eighteenth-century France, Edme Bouchardon (1698-1762) was instrumental in the transition from Rococo to Neoclassicism and in the artistic... -
Drawings by Rembrandt and his Pupils - Telling the Difference by Holm Bevers 9780892369782
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £57.52Rembrandt was the most famous painter of the Dutch Golden Age, and the opportunity to work in his studio attracted young artists for nearly four decades, until the artist's death in 1669. This... -
Drawings by Rembrandt and His Pupils - Telling the Difference by Holm Bevers 9780892369799
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £37.94This is a groundbreaking study of more than 40 drawings by Rembrandt and related works by his pupils. Rembrandt was the most famous painter of the Dutch Golden Age, and the opportunity to work in his... -
The Structural Conservation of Panel Paintings - Proceedings of a Symposium at the J. Paul Getty Museum, April 1995 by Kathleen Dardes 9780892363841
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £59.34This volume presents 31 papers grouped into four topic areas: wood science and technology; history of panel manufacturing techniques; history of the structural conservation of panel paintings; and... -
Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum - Fascicule 1 by Andrew Clark 9780892361342
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £73.77This historic 1933 publication documents the important collection of Egyptian, Greek and Italian pottery assembled in the early years of what is now the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. This collection,... -
Edgar Degas – Drawings and Pastels by . Lloyd 9781606063279
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £28.49Edgar Degas (1834 1917) was one of the outstanding draftsmen of the nineteenth century, and drawing was not only a central tenet of his art but also essential to his existence. Through an examination... -
The Mythology of Plants - Botanical Lore From Ancient Greece and Rome by Annette Giesecke 9781606063217
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £20.17This is a fascinating exploration of the role of the botanical in ancient Greek and Roman myth and classical literature. This engaging book focuses on the perennially fascinating topic of plants in... -
Crossing Over: Art and Science at Caltech, 1920-2020 by Peter Sachs Collopy 9781606069424
Booksplease Price: £56.67Science is as much a visual practice as a textual or quantitative one. For centuries, scientists have used microscopes, telescopes, painting, illustration, printing, and photography to perceive... -
Roger Fenton - Pasha and Bayadere by Gordon Baldwin 9780892363674
Booksplease Price: £20.23This is a study of the Victorian photographer's photograph "Pasha and Bayadere". It includes information about the life and career of Roger Fenton, best known for his photographs of The Crimean War... -
Maria Sibylla Merian by Catherine Powell-Warren 9781606069929
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £28.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606069929Author Catherine Powell-WarrenFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Getty... -
Pedro - The Angel of Olvera Street by Leo Politi 9780892369904
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.40This Caldecott Honor book from beloved children's book author Leo Politi, originally published in 1946, is set on Olvera Street, the site of Los Angeles' original Latino settlement, which is still... -
Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Fascicule 10 - Athenian Red-Figure Column and Volute Kraters by Despoina Tsiafakis 9781606066010
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £113.24Cataloging some hundred thousand examples of ancient Greek painted pottery held in collections around the world, the authoritative Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum (Corpus of Ancient Vases) is the oldest... -
Legion: Life in the Roman Army by Richard Abdy 9781606069189
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £32.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606069189Author Richard AbdyFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Getty PublicationsPublisher... -
Y Si... by Sarah Perry 9780892365425
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.44A Spanish-language edition of the title "If...". The book's fanciful illustrations present a world of imaginative creatures and situations. Cats fly, leaves are fish, dogs become mountains, and... -
Wall to Wall: Mural Art Around the World by Mary Ann Fraser 9781947440081
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £16.27People have been drawing on walls since ancient times. They do it to create beauty, to tell a story, to make a statement, or just to say, "I was here." You can find wall art in a remote cave in... -
Gesina Ter Borch by Adam Eaker 9781606069462
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £30.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606069462Author Adam EakerFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Getty PublicationsPublisher Getty... -
If... - 25th Anniversary Edition by Sarah Perry 9781947440050
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.92Take a fantastical journey through an inspiring world where anything can happen: leaves turn into fish, cats fly with wings, humans have tails, frogs eat rainbows, and dreams become visible. ... -
Daido Moriyama: Quartet by Mark Holborn 9798887120096
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £43.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798887120096Author Mark HolbornFormat HardbackPage Count 440Imprint Getty PublicationsPublisher Getty... -
Eufrasia Burlamacchi by Loretta Vandi 9781606069561
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £29.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606069561Author Loretta VandiFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Getty PublicationsPublisher... -
Chatting with Henri Matisse - The Lost 1941 Interview by Henri Matisse
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £42.51In 1941 the Swiss art critic Pierre Courthion interviewed Henri Matisse while the artist was in bed recovering from a serious operation. It was an extensive interview, seen at the time as a vital... -
Greek Inscriptions by Peter Liddel 9781606069615
Booksplease Price: £19.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606069615Author Peter LiddelFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Getty PublicationsPublisher... -
Buried by Vesuvius - The Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum Kenneth Lapatin 9781606065921
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £48.59The Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum, the model for the Getty Villa in Malibu, is one of the world's earliest systematically investigated archaeological sites. Buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius... -
The Conservation and Presentation of Mosaics: At What Cost? - Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the Intl Committee for the Conservation of Mosaics by Jeanne Marie Teutonico 9781606065334
Booksplease Price: £84.26In recent years, funding for the conservation of cultural heritage has become increasingly difficult to obtain, and this trend shows no sign of changing significantly in the foreseeable future. The... -
Modern Metals in Cultural Heritage - Understanding and Characterization Virginia Costa 9781606066058
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £42.93The proliferation of new metals-such as stainless steels, aluminium alloys and metallic coatings-in modern and contemporary art and architecture has made the need for professionals who can address... -
Artists and Their Books, Books and Their Artists by Marcia Reed 9781606065730
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.56Ever innovative and predictably diverse in their physical formats, artists' books occupy a creative space between the familiar four-cornered object and challenging works of art that effectively... -
Liberated: The Radical Art and Life of Claude Cahun by Kaz Rowe 9781947440074
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorKaz Rowe is a Chicago-based cartoonist, illustrator, and YouTuber, and was formerly located in Los Angeles... -
The Traveling Camera: Lewis Hine and the Fight to End Child Labor by Alexandra Hinrichs
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.94Stunning visuals and poetic text combine to tell the inspiring story of Lewis Hine (1874-1940), a teacher and photographer who employed his art as a tool for social reform. Working for the National... -
On Modern Beauty - Three Paintings by Manet, Gauguin, and Cezanne by Richard R. Brettell 9781606066065
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.99As the discipline of art history has moved away from connoisseurship, the notion of beauty has become increasingly problematic. Both culturally and personally subjective, the term is difficult to... -
Maria Sibylla Merian - Artist, Scientist, Adventurer by Sarah B. Pomeroy 9781947440012
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.93In 1660, at the age of thirteen, Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) began her study of butterfly metamorphosis-years before any other scientist published an accurate description of the process. Later,... -
Clara Peeters by Alejandro Vergara-Sharp 9781606069509
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £28.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606069509Author Alejandro Vergara-SharpFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Getty... -
Ruth Asawa: An Artist Takes Shape by Sam Nakahira 9781947440098
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.55Brave, unconventional, and determined, Ruth Asawa let nothing stop her from living a life intertwined with art Renowned for her innovative wire sculptures, Japanese American artist Ruth Asawa... -
A Looking at Fashion: A Guide to Terms, Styles, and Techniques Debra.N Mancoff 9781606068991
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.21Whether in art or life, fashion makes a statement. It gives form to the temper of the times and the motives of the moment, charting shifts in society, status, technology, and economy. Fashion is... -
Icons of Style - A Century of Fashion Photography Paul Martineau 9781606065587
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.39In 1911 the French couturier Paul Poiret challenged Edward Steichen to create the first artistic, rather than merely documentary, fashion photographs, a moment that is now considered to be a turning... -
Uta Barth: Peripheral Vision 9781606068052
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £36.36Los Angeles-based contemporary artist Uta Barth (b. 1958) has spent her decades-long career exploring the complexities and limits of human and mechanical vision. At first, her photographs appear to... -
A Knight for the Ages - Jacques de Lalaing and the Art of Chivalry Elizabeth Morrison 9781606065754
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £42.10The Livre des faits de Jacques de Lalaing (Book of the Deeds of Jacques de Lalaing), a famous Flemish illuminated manuscript, relays the audacious life of Jacques de Lalaing (1421-1453), a story that... -
Jean-Baptiste Greuze - The Laundress by Colin B. Bailey 9780892365647
Booksplease Price: £19.89Jean-Baptiste Greuze created "The Laundress" in 1761. This work traces the history of the painting, compares it to other Greuze paintings of laundresses and places the artist in the social and... -
Michaelina Wautier by Katlijne Van Der Stighelen 9798887120171
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £28.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798887120171Author Katlijne Van Der StighelenFormat HardbackPage Count 152Imprint Getty...