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Discovering Tutankhamun Paul Collins 9781854442871
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.55Howard Carter's excavation of the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922 was one of the most significant archaeological discoveries of the 20th century. The name of Egypt's 'boy king' is now synonymous with the... -
Ashmolean NOW 4: Daphne Wright: Sons on Counch Xa Sturgis 9781910807675
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.25Artist Daphne Wright is fascinated with the collections of the Ashmolean Museum and the history of seeing they present. Her latest project grows out of a lifetime's engagement with this theme. Much... -
Ashmolean NOW: Pio Abad by Lena Fritsch 9781910807606
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.48Pio Abad’s artistic practice is concerned with the personal and political entanglements of objects. His wide-ranging body of work, encompassing drawing, painting, textiles, installation and text,... -
Manju: Netsuke from the Collection of the Ashmolean Museum Joyce Seaman 9781854442796
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £25.78Manju netsuke have never been the subject of a book on netsuke. Many books ignore them completely and it is hoped that this catalogue will throw light on the differences between the manju and other... -
The Origins of Museums: The Cabinet of Curiosities in Sixteenth-and-Seventeenth-Century Europe Oliver Impey 9781910807194
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £35.95History Today carried a feature in 2015, describing The Origin of Museums as "a cult book [that] spawned a new discipline in the history of collecting". Indeed, the first publication of this book in... -
Colonial Views of India: Photographs by Eugene Clutterbuck Impey Mallica Kumbera Landrus 9781910807729
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.38In the 19th century, photography and colonial ethnography were tools of British governance on the subcontinent. Colonial officers were asked to submit photographs on various subjects across India... -
Treasures of the Goldmith's Art: The Michael Wellby Bequest to the Ashmolean Museum Matthew Winterbottom 9781910807019
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £10.50The Wellby Bequest, received by the Ashmolean Museum in 2013, consists of some 500 precious and exotic objects, mainly from Continental Europe, from the late medieval to the rococo, and is the most... -
Ashmolean NOW: Bettina von Zwehl Lena Fritsch 9781910807637
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.25This well-designed publication features new photographs by London-based artist Bettina von Zwehl (b.1971 in Munich). Following her graduation from the Royal College of Art in 1999, von Zwehl has... -
Anselm Kiefer: Early Works Lena Fritsch 9781910807644
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.18This book accompanies a major exhibition in the Ashmolean Museum on the early work of internationally acclaimed German artist Anselm Kiefer. It focuses on his paintings, drawings, photographs and... -
Worcester Porcelain by Dinah Reynolds 9780907849759
RRP: £8.95Booksplease Price: £7.46'Worcester Porcelain' illustrates in colour a selection of items from the Henry Rissik Marshall Collection of 'First Period' Worcester Porcelain (1751-83), given to the Ashmolean Museum in 1957. The... -
Money Talks: Art, Society & Power Shailendra Bhandare 9781910807620
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £15.80This book aims to tell the story of social history through Money. Money and Art have shared a long history. Both words are metaphors derived from Latin terms used over 2,000 years ago. The word Money... -
This Is What You Get: Stanley Donwood | Radiohead |Thom Yorke Lena Fritsch 9781910807668
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.52This major retrospective catalogue is the first institutional show focusing on the visual works of art by Stanley Donwood and Thom Yorke. The majority of the paintings, drawings and digital works... -
Hiroshige: Landscape, Cityscape: Woodblock Prints in the Ashmolean Museum by Clare Pollard 9781854442956
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £10.80Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) is one of the best known of all Japanese woodblock print designers. He is particularly renowned for his landscape prints, which are among the most frequently reproduced... -
Sylloge of Aksumite Coins in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford by Wolfgang Hahn 9781910807101
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £27.60These essays by Hahn and West will deal respectively with the formation of the collection and the figure of Bent Juel-Jensen, the seminal Aksumite coin collector in Oxford (as well as a medical... -
Soma Surovi Jannat: Climate, Culture, Care Mallica Kumbera Landrus 9781910807712
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.25In 2023 Soma Surovi Jannat (b.1990), one of the most exciting emerging artists working in South Asia, became the Ashmolean’s first artist-in-residence from Bangladesh. Jannat’s art practice arises... -
Modern Chinese Art: The Khoan and Michael Sullivan Collection by Michael Sullivan 9781854442338
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.18Khoan and Michael Sullivan began collecting modern Chinese painting in Sichuan in western China in the 1940s, and their collection has developed over the course of over half a century to include... -
The Marshall Collection of Worcester Porcelain in the Ashmolean Museum Rosalind Sword 9781910807057
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £64.58This catalogue describes what is probably the most encyclopaedic collection of early coloured Worcester porcelain in existence. Henry Marshall assembled the collection between the two World Wars. In... -
The Beauty of Bronze Jeremy Warren 9781910807613
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.05This book looks at bronze through the remarkable collections of European bronze sculptures in the Ashmolean Museum of the University of Oxford. Largely thanks to the generosity of Charles Drury... -
Qu Leilei: A Chinese Artist in Britain Yan Liu 9781910807200
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.30Qu Leilei now stands as a technically accomplished master, capable of handling brush and ink with the utmost competency and photographic-like quality. His visual language is well established, and it... -
America's Cool Modernism: O'Keeffe to Hopper by Katherine Bourgignon
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.68As some American artists began to eliminate people and remove extraneous details from their compositions, they often employed neat, orderly brushwork or close-up, unemotional photography. Artists as... -
Dodos and Dark Lanterns: Highlights of Ashmolean History by David A. Berry
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.25Throughout its history, the Ashmolean has evolved to meet changing needs and reflect new ideas. In the process, it has transformed from a cabinet of curiosities, representing the world in microcosm,... -
Metamorphosis: Form and Change in the Ashmolean Museum by James Hudson 9781905622528
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £9.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905622528Author James HudsonFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint -
Building the New Ashmolean by Weimin He
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.55Weimin He's 324 ink drawings, pen sketches and woodblock prints comprise an intimate record of the progress of construction in the newly designed Ashmolean Museum that opened late last year. An... -
Box of Delights: Wood Engravings from the Ashmolean Collection by Anne Desmet
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.40The Ashmolean Museum houses one of the most extensive collections of wood engravings in the world. The collection effectively began with the gift in 1964, by Arthur Mitchell, of over 3,000 prints,... -
Richard Rawlinson & His Seal Matrices: Collecting in the Early Eighteenth Century John Cherry 9781910807026
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £28.10The Rawlinson collection of seal matrices in the University of Oxford is the most important early collection of European seal matrices to survive. Created by Dr Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755) in the... -
An Instinct to Draw: John Ruskin's Drawings in the Ashmolean Museum Stephen Wildman 9781910807453
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.55John Ruskin assembled 1470 diverse works of art for use in the Drawing School he founded at Oxford in 1871. They included drawings by himself and other artists, prints and photographs. This book... -
Twentieth Century Paintings: in the Ashmolean Museum Katharine Eustace 9781854441171
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £9.24The collections of twentieth-century paintings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, have developed largely through the generosity of individuals. Notable among these in the early decades of the century... -
Jeff Koons: At the Ashmolean Sir Norman Rosenthal 9781910807293
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £10.80"I couldn't think of a better place to have a dialogue about art today and what it can be" - Jeff Koons Curated by Koons himself, together with guest curator Norman Rosenthal, this show features... -
Nineteenth-Century French Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum by Jon Whiteley 9781916347427
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £105.68A fully illustrated, comprehensive, and scholarly catalogue of the paintings in the Ashmolean Museum's collection by French artists born between 1775 and 1875 The only complete catalogue of French... -
Sumerian Literary Texts in the Ashmolean Museum by O. R. Gurney 9780198154501
Booksplease Price: £67.88Sumerian Literary Texts in the Ashmolean MuseumBook InformationISBN 9780198154501Author O. R. GurneyPage Count 122Imprint -
Sylloge of Islamic Coins in the Ashmolean: v. 6: The Egyptian Dynasties Norman D. Nicol 9781854442109
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £40.60This volume contains nearly 1600 coins of the 9th-16th centuries from North Africa to Great Syria. The collections included in the catalogue are those of the Heberden Coin Room and the Shamma... -
Ashmolean NOW: Daniel Crews-Chubb x Flora Yukhnovich by Lena Fritsch 9781910807583
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.55The book will coincide with the first Ashmolean NOW exhibition in Gallery 8, opening in July 2023. The Ashmolean NOW Program features exciting works by prominent early to mid-career artists based in... -
Colour Revolution: Victorian Art, Fashion & Design by Charlotte Ribeyrol 9781910807576
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.12Contrary to the monochrome vision of Queen Victoria's mourning dresses and the coal-polluted streets of Charles Dickens' London, Victorian Britain was, in fact, a period of new and vivid colours. The... -
Pre-Raphaelite Drawings and Watercolours Christiana Payne 9781910807439
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.80Oxford has a special place in the history of Pre-Raphaelitism. Thomas Combe (superintendent of the Clarendon Press) encouraged John Everett Millais and William Holman Hunt at a crucial early stage of... -
Labyrinth: Knossos Myth and Reality by Andrew Shapland
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.18Crete was famous in Greek myth as the location of the labyrinth in which the Minotaur was confined in a palace at somewhere called 'Knossos'. From the Middle Ages travellers searched unsuccessfully... -
Master Drawings: Michelangelo to Moore by Jon Whiteley 9781854442789
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.55The collection of drawings in the Ashmolean is one of the greatest treasures of the University of Oxford. It began spectacularly in 1843 when a group of drawings by Raphael and Michelangelo that had... -
Museum Secrets: Hidden Stories from the Ashmolean by Lucy Dawkins
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £10.50In December 2020, spirits were low. The first tentative visitors had only just made it back through the doors of the Ashmolean after months of isolation, only for another lockdown to come crashing... -
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Twentieth Century Paintings: in the Ashmolean Museum by Katharine Eustace 9781854441164 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.95Booksplease Price: £2.19The collections of twentieth-century paintings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, have developed largely through the generosity of individuals. Notable among these in the early decades of the century... -
Custodians Joanna Vestey 9781854442970
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.68Custodians brings together for the first time, in this beautifully compiled collection, images of many of Oxford's most prestigious buildings along with some rarely seen, but wonderful venues and... -
Plum Blossom and Green Willow: Japanese Surimono Poetry Prints from the Ashmolean Museum Clare Pollard 9781910807262
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £10.80Surimono poetry prints are among the finest examples of Japanese woodblock printmaking of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Consisting of witty poetry combined with related images,...