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The Making of Rodin by Nabila, Achim Abdel Nabi, Borchardt-Hume
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $36.25Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) was a radical sculptor whose unorthodox approach to sculpture-making provided a definitive break in the history of Western sculpture. Although much of his commercial success... -
Rana Begum: Space Light Colour by Lisa le Feuvre
RRP: $64.49Booksplease Price: $51.21Rana Begum RA (b.1977) is an artist known for her wide ranging works, from the intimate to the monumental. Using a variety of materials and exploring the use of light, she blurs the boundaries... -
Reconstructing Exhibitions in Art Institutions Natasha Adamou 9781032524733
RRP: $54.17Booksplease Price: $51.20Reconstructing Exhibitions in Art Institutions spans exhibition histories as anti-apartheid activism within South African community arts; collectivities and trade unions in Argentina; Civil Rights... -
City Sketching Reimagined: Ideas, Exercises, Inspiration by Jeanette Barnes 9781837330232
RRP: $15.45Booksplease Price: $13.61Acclaimed Royal Academy artist Jeanette Barnes and Paul Brandford breathe new life into sketching for town and city dwellers everywhere.Mercurial, inspirational, practical and charming, this guide... -
Nick Hornby by Nick Hornby
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $33.69Nick Hornby (b. 1980, London) is one of the leading sculptors of his generation in Britain today, creating works on both intimate and monumental scales, and at the intersection of art history and... -
Portraits: John Berger on Artists by John Berger
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $12.19John Berger, one of the world's most celebrated storytellers and writers on art, tells a personal history of art from the prehistoric paintings of the Chauvet caves to 21st century conceptual artists... -
Carol Bove: Collage Sculptures Carol Bove 9781644230671
RRP: $64.50Booksplease Price: $45.80Carol Bove: Collage Sculptures presents an extensive look into the contemporary artist's work over the past five years and her ongoing exploration of scale, color, material, and artistic traditions... -
Art in the North of England, 1979-2008 by Gabriel N. Gee 9780367470470
RRP: $59.33Booksplease Price: $55.57Based on rare archival material and numerous interviews with practitioners, Art in the North of England 1979-2008 analyses the relation between political and economic changes stemming from the 1980s... -
Can We Stop Killing Each Other? Tafadzwa Nomphanelo Makwabarara 9781836360148
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $18.38Can We Stop Killing Each Other? wrestles with the darkest side of humanity. It explores the fundamental question of why humans are led to kill, examining the artworks, films, video games and... -
British Art: Ancient Landscapes by Sam Smile 9781911300144
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $27.23Published to accompany an exhibition at Salisbury Museum and Art Gallery,this volume explores the most significant works of art engaged with prehistoricmoments across Britain from the 18th century to... -
Power and Eroticism in Imperial Rome by Caroline Vout 9780521867399
RRP: $121.26Booksplease Price: $116.09The relationships between Roman emperors and their objects of desire, male and female, are well attested. The salacious nature of this evidence means that it is often omitted from mainstream... -
Art in the Cinema: The Mid-Century Art Documentary by Dr Steven Jacobs 9781788313674
RRP: $141.90Booksplease Price: $15.22In the 1940s and 1950s, hundreds of art documentaries were produced, many of them being highly personal, poetic, reflexive and experimental films that offer a thrilling cinematic experience. With the... -
Rodchenko: Design by John Milner
RRP: $19.29Booksplease Price: $7.46A new title in the Design series and an excellent introduction to the life and work of this versatile Russian artist. Alexander Mikhailovich Rodchenko (1891-1953) was a central figure in the Russian... -
Artists' Letters: Leonardo da Vinci to David Hockney Michael Bird 9780711288867
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $13.73A treasure trove of carefully selected letters written by great artists, providing unique insight into their characters and a glimpse into their lives. Artists' Letters is a collection of intriguing,... -
Masterworks from the Beaverbrook Art Gallery by Terry Graff
RRP: $64.50Booksplease Price: $44.32Shortlisted, Best Atlantic Published Book Award and Canadian Regional Design AwardA major publication comprising 240 pages with 75 colour plates and 60 black-and-white photographs provides extensive... -
Art in the Cinema: The Mid-Century Art Documentary by Dr Steven Jacobs 9781350357518
RRP: $33.53Booksplease Price: $31.82In the 1940s and 1950s, hundreds of art documentaries were produced, many of them being highly personal, poetic, reflexive and experimental films that offer a thrilling cinematic experience. With the... -
Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 10: 1942–1944 T. S. Eliot 9780571396498
RRP: $77.40Booksplease Price: $52.58'What is accomplished by this sort of cultural warfare is impossible to say: but it [is] a part of total warfare which one must, as an individual, accept one's part in.'At the height of the Second... -
Artists' Self-portraits by Omar Calabrese 9780789208941
RRP: $123.83Booksplease Price: $84.11An insightful, lavishly illustrated history of self-portraits by well-known artists from early examples in classical times through its flowering in the Renaissance to modern interpretations. In... -
Art and the Nation State: The Reception of Modern Art in Ireland Roisin Kennedy 9781802075403
Booksplease Price: $46.98Art and the Nation State is a wide-ranging study of the reception and critical debate on modernist art from the foundation of the Irish Free State in 1922 to the end of the modernist era in the 1970s... -
Children's Book of Art by DK 9780744082760
Booksplease Price: $30.90Go on an artistic journey around the world in this children's introduction.Discover the power of art and be inspired by cultures from all over the world with this extensive children's guide. This... -
City Sketching Reimagined: Ideas, exercises, inspiration by Jeanette Barnes
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.96Acclaimed Royal Academy artist Jeanette Barnes and Paul Brandford breathe new life into sketching for town and city dwellers everywhere. Mercurial, inspirational, practical and charming, this guide... -
The Cinema of Powell and Pressburger by Nathalie Morris 9781838719173
RRP: $41.28Booksplease Price: $33.20Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger were true visionaries of British cinema, creating glorious Technicolor masterpieces including A Matter of Life and Death (1946), Black Narcissus (1947) and ... -
William Turnbull: International Modern Artist by Jon Wood
RRP: $77.40Booksplease Price: $60.31William Turnbull (1922-2012) stands as one of Britain's foremost artists in the second half of the twentieth century. Both a sculptor and a painter, he explored the changing contemporary world and... -
Humankind: Ruskin Spear, class, culture and art in 20th century Britain by Tanya Harrod
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $32.57Humankind: Ruskin Spear is the first book on the painter Ruskin Spear RA (1911-1990) since a brief monograph in 1985. It uses Spear's career to unlock the coded standards of the 20th-century art... -
British Art in the Nuclear Age Catherine Jolivette 9781138548886
RRP: $64.49Booksplease Price: $60.36Rooted in the study of objects, British Art in the Nuclear Age addresses the role of art and visual culture in discourses surrounding nuclear science and technology, atomic power, and nuclear warfare... -
The Lawn Road Flats - Spies, Writers and Artists by David Burke 9781843837831
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $30.75The story of a modernist building with a significant place in the history of Soviet espionage in Britain, where communist spies rubbed shoulders with British artists, sculptors and writers The... -
The Artist at Home: Studios, Practices and Identities by Dr Imogen Racz 9781350379015
Booksplease Price: $137.08Artists have worked from home for many reasons, including care duties, financial or political constraints, or availability and proximity to others. From the 'home studios' of Charles and Ray... -
The Lawn Road Flats: Spies, Writers and Artists David Burke 9781783274703
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $20.45The story of a modernist building with a significant place in the history of Soviet espionage in Britain, where communist spies rubbed shoulders with British artists, sculptors and writers The... -
The Artist at Home: Studios, Practices and Identities Dr Imogen Racz 9781350379053
Booksplease Price: $39.40Artists have worked from home for many reasons, including care duties, financial or political constraints, or availability and proximity to others.From the 'home studios' of Charles and Ray Eames, to... -
What is the Meaning of Life?: Making and Breaking the Rules We Live By Tania Moore 9781836360438
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $18.38Taking the most existential question, 'What is the Meaning of Life?', this publication dissects creative expression, considers the place for frivolity, and unpacks the rhythms and rules of the... -
Have You Been Good?: A Memoir by Vanessa Nicolson 9781783780785
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26Vanessa Nicolson is the granddaughter of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson. She was born to an illustrious name and an unhappy marriage. Her father, the art historian Ben Nicolson, was... -
British Vogue: The Biography of an Icon by Julie Summers 9781474626224
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.55The official history of British Vogue, telling the magazine's story and how it has reflected the changing face of Britain from the first issue in 1916 right up to the present day.British Vogue has... -
Nancy Holt: Inside/Outside by Lisa Le Feuvre
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $30.37An in-depth exploration of the pathbreaking works of Nancy Holt, a pioneering practitioner of Conceptual and Land Art Nancy Holt: Inside/Outside takes a journey through the artist's key experiments... -
Life Meets Art by Sam Lubell
RRP: $57.99Booksplease Price: $41.36"... a gorgeous compilation of interiors from the homes of famous artists past and present as a way of exhibiting each creator's 'power and legacy' - Publishers Weekly An inspiring collection of... -
Kenneth Clark: Life, Art and Civilisation by James Stourton 9780007493449
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $16.15SHORTLISTED FOR THE BERGER PRIZE FOR BRITISH ART HISTORY 2017 SHORTLISTED FOR THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2017 ... -
The Real and the Romantic: English Art Between Two World Wars by Frances Spalding
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $32.57The Times and Sunday Times Art Book of the Year 'Superb ... Spalding is a lucid and revealing guide who wears her scholarship lightly' Sunday Times 'Spalding's prose is as clear as a Ravilious... -
Ernst Gamperl Ernst Gamperl 9791254600863
RRP: $76.11Booksplease Price: $53.64The relationship Ernst Gamperl, an artist of international renown, has developed with wood as a living material and the acknowledgment of inescapable serendipity are a source of creative inspiration... -
John Piper, Myfanwy Piper: A Biography by Frances Spalding 9780198804826
RRP: $52.88Booksplease Price: $45.87This book is about a shared journey made by John and Myfanwy Piper who early on settled down in a small hamlet on the edge of the Chilterns, whence they proceeded to produce work which placed them... -
Thinking the Sculpture Garden: Art, Plant, Landscape by Penny Florence
RRP: $54.17Booksplease Price: $51.20This innovative book poses two, deceptively simple, questions: what is a sculpture garden, and what happens when you give equal weight to the main elements of landscape, planting and artwork? Its... -
Celestial Tapestry: The Warp and Weft of Art and Mathematics by Nicholas Mee 9780198851950
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $21.94Artists and scientists view the world in quite different ways. Nevertheless, they are united in a search for hidden order beneath surface appearances. The quest for eternal geometrical designs is...