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Hanging Man: The Arrest of Ai Weiwei by Barnaby Martin
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.40In October 2010, Ai Weiwei's Sunflower Seeds appeared in the Turbine Hall in the Tate Modern. Six months later, he was arrested in China and held for over two months in terrible conditions. The most... -
Ai Weiwei - 40 by 9783836581950
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $32.54As his personal circumstances move in constant flux, Ai Weiwei remains a cultural magnet. Renowned for his political activism and social media activity almost as much as for his social interventions,... -
Zodiac: A Graphic Memoir by Ai Weiwei 9781984862990
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984862990Author Ai WeiweiFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint -
Ai Weiwei: Making Sense by Justin McGuirk
RRP: $46.83Booksplease Price: $33.81The first book to dive exclusively into Ai Weiwei's approach to design and collecting, shedding light on the value we ascribe to everyday objects. Artist, film-maker, architect, activist, collector... -
Zodiac: A Graphic Memoir by Ai Weiwei 9781984863003
Booksplease Price: $22.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984863003Author Ai WeiweiFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint -
Ai Weiwei Speaks: with Hans Ulrich Obrist by Hans-Ulrich Obrist
Booksplease Price: $21.21A new edition of conversations between the artist Ai Wei Wei and curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, coming up to the present dayAi Weiwei - artist, architect, curator, publisher, poet and urbanist -... -
On the Tip of a Wave: How Ai Weiwei's Art Is Changing the Tide by Joanna Ho 9781338715941
Booksplease Price: $20.84From New York Times bestselling author of Eyes That Kiss in the Corners, Joanna Ho, and critically acclaimed illustrator, Catia Chien comes a moving, powerful... -
Traces of Survival: Drawings of Refugees in Iraq Selected by Ai Weiwei Tamara Chalabi 9780300218206
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $22.99This compelling book is the result of a project intended to visually communicate the hardships endured by Iraqi communities. Utilizing art materials donated to camps by the Ruya Foundation for... -
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Ai Weiwei Speaks: with Hans Ulrich Obrist by Hans-Ulrich Obrist 9780241957547 [USED COPY]
RRP: $8.03Booksplease Price: $3.97'If artists betray the social conscience and the basic principles of being human, where does art stand then?' Ai Weiwei - artist, architect, curator, publisher, poet and urbanist - extended the... -
China in Ten Words by Yu Hua
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65A courageous and intimate memoir of China framed in ten telling words. People. Leader. Reading. Writing. Revolution. Grassroots. Through these and other common vernacular words and phrases, Yu Hua... -
1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: The story of two lives, one nation, and a century of art under tyranny by Ai Weiwei
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.37A FAMILY STORY AND THE TALE OF A NATION.Ai Weiwei - one of the world's most famous artists and activists - weaves a century-long epic tale of China through the story of his own life and that of his... -
Selected Poems by Ai Qing
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.29A timeless, visionary collection of poems from one of China's most acclaimed poets-now available in English for the first time in a generation and featuring a foreword by his son, contemporary artist... -
Humanity by Weiwei Ai 9780691181523
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $15.68Writings on human life and the refugee crisis by the most important political artist of our timeAi Weiwei (b. 1957) is widely known as an artist across media: sculpture, installation, photography,... -
Fragile Beauty: Photographs from the Sir Elton John and David Furnish Collection - The Official V&A Exhibition Book by Duncan Forbes 9781838510466
RRP: $53.60Booksplease Price: $38.73Over the past 30 years, Sir Elton John and David Furnish have carefully built an unrivalled collection of photography. Remarkable in its range and depth, it's a who's who of photographer and subject... -
I Paint What I Want to See by Philip Guston
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.65Illuminating reflections on painting and drawing from one of the most revered artists of the twentieth century'Thank God for yellow ochre, cadmium red medium, and permanent green light'How does a... -
Think Like an Artist: . . . and Lead a More Creative, Productive Life by Will Gompertz
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65Think Like an Artist by BBC Arts editor Will Gompertz - wisdom and smart thinking from Da Vinci to Ai WeiweiWhy do some people seem to find it easy to come up with fresh, brilliant ideas? And how do... -
Western Journeys by Teow Lim Goh 9781647690953
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.98In Western Journeys, Teow Lim Goh charts her journeys immigrating from Singapore and spending the last fifteen years living in and exploring the American West. Goh chronicles her lived experiences... -
Kraftwerk: Future Music from Germany by Uwe Schutte
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $9.46'Highly stimulating ... Kraftwerk is a pleasure to read' Jon Savage, New StatesmanThe story of the phenomenon that is Kraftwerk, and how they revolutionised our cultural landscape'We are not artists... -
Ways of Curating by Hans-Ulrich Obrist
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.35Drawing on his own experiences and inspirations - from staging his first exhibition in his tiny Zurich kitchen in 1986 to encounters with artists, exhibition makers and thinkers - Hans Ulrich Obrist... -
Weiwei-isms by Weiwei Ai 9780691157665
Booksplease Price: $17.63This collection of quotes demonstrates the elegant simplicity of Ai Weiwei's thoughts on key aspects of his art, politics, and life. A master at communicating powerful ideas in astonishingly few... -
Lives of the Artists, Lives of the Architects by Hans-Ulrich Obrist
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.49From world-renowned curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, Lives of the Artists, Lives of the Architects offers a unique opportunity to learn about the lives and creativity of the world's leading artistsHans... -
Elements of Architecture: Assembling archaeology, atmosphere and the performance of building spaces by Mikkel Bille 9780367869625
Booksplease Price: $77.17Elements of Architecture explores new ways of engaging architecture in archaeology. It conceives of architecture both as the physical evidence of past societies and as existing beyond the physical... -
Xi Jinping: The Most Powerful Man in the World Stefan Aust 9781509555147
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.25If China seems unstoppable, so too does its leader Xi Jinping. As General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and President of China, he commands over 1.4 billion people, in a vast country that... -
The Notebooks by Jean-Michel Basquiat 9780691167893
RRP: $42.88Booksplease Price: $35.63Brooklyn-born Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-88) was one of the most important artists of the 1980s. A key figure in the New York art scene, he inventively explored the interplay between words and images... -
Once Upon A Time in the East: A Story of Growing up by Xiaolu Guo
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.68*Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award* *Shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award**Shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize**Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2018**A Sunday Times Book of... -
The Little Book of Art: Brushstrokes of Wisdom Orange Hippo! 9781800693845
RRP: $9.37Booksplease Price: $7.42"Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable..." - Cesar A. CruzAcross the centuries, art has held up a mirror to humanity's evolving culture and creativity. Ancient civilizations... -
What Are You Looking At?: 150 Years of Modern Art in the Blink of an Eye by Will Gompertz
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.61What is modern art? Why do we either love it or loathe it? And why is it worth so much damn money? Join Will Gompertz on a dazzling tour that will change the way you look at modern art forever. From... -
Unfree Speech: The Threat to Global Democracy and Why We Must Act, Now by Joshua Wong
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04'Joshua Wong is a brave and inspiring young leader.' - GRETA THUNBERG Imprisoned on 2 December 2020 for the third time, read Joshua Wong's urgent and powerful story - the Hong Konger fighting for... -
Breakfast at Sotheby's: An A-Z of the Art World by Philip Hook
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65Breakfast at Sotheby's is a wry, intimate, truly revealing exploration of how art acquires its financial value, from Philip Hook, a senior director at Sotheby's'Reading it is like participating in a... -
The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles by Martin Gayford
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles is art critic Martin Gayford's account of the tumultuous nine weeks in which the famous nineteenth century artists Vincent van... -
100 Artists' Manifestos: From the Futurists to the Stuckists by Alex Danchev
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37In this one-of-a-kind volume, indispensable for students of art, architecture and film,Alex Danchev presents 100 Artists' Manifestos, each reproduced with an introduction on the author and the... -
Design as Art by Bruno Munari
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.65One of the last surviving members of the futurist generation, Bruno Munari's Design as Art is an illustrated journey into the artistic possibilities of modern design translated by Patrick Creagh... -
11 Life Lessons from Nelson Mandela by Ndaba Mandela
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92Every life has the power to change the world. Ndaba Mandela was raised by his grandfather, Nelson Mandela. It is easy to forget that legendary figures like Mandela were first and foremost human... -
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Untitled Autobiography: The fascinating memoir by the theatre and movie legend by Brian Cox 9781529416497 [USED COPY]
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $3.11The long-awaited memoir by movie and theatre legend, Brian Cox.A Guardian, Times, Sunday Times and Independent Book of the Year*Featuring a foreword by the executive producer of Succession, Frank... -
Modern Art. A History from Impressionism to Today by Hans Werner Holzwarth
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $24.46Most art historians agree that the modern art adventure first developed in the 1860s in Paris. A circle of painters, whom we now know as Impressionists, began painting pictures with rapid, loose... -
Basquiat-isms by Jean-Michel Basquiat
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.83A collection of essential quotations and other writings from artist and icon Jean-Michel BasquiatOne of the most important artists of the late twentieth century, Jean-Michel Basquiat explored the... -
Fear: An Alternative History of the World Robert Peckham 9781788167253
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41'Extraordinary' Ai Weiwei 'Brilliant' Simon Schama Fear has long been a driving force - perhaps the driving force - of world history: a coercive tool of power and a catalyst for radical change... -
Art Since 1989 by Kelly Grovier 9780500204269
RRP: $17.35Booksplease Price: $12.38The years since 1989 have seen a complete untethering of what art can be, who makes it and where it can be found, which has been matched by a reassessment of art's appropriate place in society and... -
The Age of Earthquakes: A Guide to the Extreme Present by Shumon Basar
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08Planet Earth needs a self-help book, and this is itThe future is happening to us far faster than we thought it would and this book explains whyFifty years after Marshall McLuhan's ground breaking... -
Movements in Art Since 1945 by Edward Lucie-Smith
RRP: $22.71Booksplease Price: $19.50This standard introduction to visual art since 1945 has been revised, updated and redesigned for the first time since 2001. Movements, trends and individual artists from abstract expressionism to the...