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Eating with Uncle Sam: Recipes and Historical Bites from the National Archives by David S. Ferriero 9781907804007
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.06President John F. Kennedy's favourite fish chowder and First Lady Laura Bush's guacamole are among nearly 200 dishes chosen from the National Archives of the United States in this book of historical... -
Discovering American History in England: an Illustrated Traveller's Guide by Cathy Leitch 9781904832386
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £14.04Discovering American History in England presents twelve chapters which look variously at Colonial Settlers in the New World, the birth of American Independence, military connections, politicians,... -
Gateways: African American Art from the Key Collection Halima Taha 9781913875664
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £20.76Since he started collecting in the 1990s, Eric Key's intent has always been to help preserve America's Black experience in the arts, and to benefit the many communities of which he has been a... -
American Louvre: A History of the Renwick Gallery Building by ,Charles,J Robertson 9781907804816
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £11.89American Louvre tells the fascinating story of the first purpose-built art museum in the United States, modelled on its famous namesake in Paris, and is illustrated with a wealth of contextual and... -
Making American Art: Narrative Art for a New Democracy by Linda S. Ferber 9781904832768
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £32.09Making American Taste: Narrative Art for a New Democracy is a landmark publication focusing on American narrative art from 1825 to 1870. A significant contribution to our understanding of taste and... -
Painting with Light by 9781907804656
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.23One of the gems of the Freer/Sackler Gallery is the impressive collection of 19th- and 20th-century photographs of scenes and figures from Asia and the Middle East. This remarkable archive is... -
Rosalba Carriera's Man in Pilgrim's Costume by Nicolas Party 9781913875510
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £13.74This pastel belongs to a small number of works of art at the Frick by a female artist. Rosalba Carriera (Italian, 1673 1757) spent most of her life in Venice, then a popular destination for young... -
Encounters: Travel and Money in the Byzantine World by Eurydice S. Georganteli 9781904832270
RRP: £6.95Booksplease Price: £5.16The study of Byzantine coins is essentially the study of communications and movement of people and ideas, within and outside Byzantium. This highly illustrated and accessible volume focuses on over... -
To Live Forever by Edward Bleiberg 9781904832522
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.56130 colour and 12 mono illustrations 32,000 words, including Foreword, Chronology, To Live Forever: Egyptian Funerary Beliefs and Practices by Edward Bleiberg, How Much did a Coffin Cost? The Social... -
School House to White House: the Education of the Presidents by Sharon L. Barry 9781904832430
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.36Presidents from Herbert Hoover to Bill Clinton, this book features memoirs and souvenirs reflecting on their lives and formative experiences in youth, and brief summaries of their careers showing how... -
Olympic Stadiums: People, Passion, Stories by 9781907804953
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £14.04With a wealth of archival images, stadium stories and reminiscences by athletes, supporters and those who worked on the building and organisation, this new volume is a richly illustrated souvenir of... -
Double Exposure V1 - Through the African American Lens by Rhea Combs 9781907804465
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £7.60Double Exposure is a major new series based on the remarkable photography collection held by the Earl W. and Amanda Stafford Center for African American Media Arts at the NMAAHC. From pre-Civil War... -
Renoir and Friends: Luncheon of the Boating Party by ,Eliza Rathbone 9781911282006
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £17.31Pierre-Auguste Renoir's famous painting Luncheon of the Boating Party (1880-81) portrays an informal gathering of real people he knew: fellow artists, journalists, critics, collectors, models and... -
Attachments: Faces and Stories from America's Gates by Bruce I. Bustard 9781907804076
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.06Americans proudly proclaim the United States "a nation of immigrants." Millions who came to the US found freedom and opportunity, but America's immigrant story has always been made up of individuals... -
Divine Encounter: Rembrandt's Abraham and the Angels by Seidenstein,,Joanna Sheers 9781911282037
RRP: £17.95Booksplease Price: £12.51Explores Rembrandt's unique approach to depicting the nature of divine encounter and the complexities of its representation. Rembrandt took an unusual and dramatic approach to biblical subjects,... -
Myth and Mystique: Cleveland's Gothic Table Fountain by 9781907804946
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £13.76The Cleveland table fountain, dated c. 1320 40, is the only version of its kind to have survived in its complete form from the Middle Ages. A superb example of French Gothic goldsmithing, it is an... -
East Meets West by Martin Bommas
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £8.82This entirely new volume illuminates the complex intersection of western and eastern culture and civilization in the Eastern Mediterranean during the period of the Crusades from the eleventh to late... -
Holbein's Sir Thomas More by Hilary Mantel
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £13.74Hans Holbein's famous portrayal of Sir Thomas More is one of the artist's greatest and most popular portraits. In the opening piece of this appealing new volume, "A Letter to Thomas More, Knight",... -
Objects of Affection: Jewelry by Robert Ebendorf from the Porter - Price Collection by Rebecca E Elliot 9781913875626
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £20.44Robert Ebendorf (b. 1938) has been one of the most influential artists in the studio jewellery movement from its beginning in the 1960s to today. His work combines exceptional craftsmanship, acquired... -
Determined: The 400-Year Struggle for Black Equality by Karen A Sherry 9781911282990
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £6.09An accessible, single-volume, highly visual history that tells the remarkable story of four centuries of Black history in Virginia. Intended for general audiences, this publication presents a concise... -
Sochi 2014 by John Huet
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £7.60American photographers John Huet and David Burnett were commissioned by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to create a personal record ofthe Olympic Games in their own way; these new books are... -
Exporting Caravaggio: The Crucifixion of Saint Andrew by Professor Erin E. Benay
RRP: £21.95Booksplease Price: £15.27Marking a crucial turning point in Caravaggio's life and artistic development, the Crucifixion of Saint Andrew exemplifies the artist's famous tenebristic style, developed during his rise to fame in... -
Bellini and Giorgione in the House of Taddeo Contarini by Xavier F Salomon 9781913875442
RRP: £23.95Booksplease Price: £16.20The Three Philosophers by Giorgione (Italian, 1477 1510) in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna and St. Francis in the Desert by Giovanni Bellini (ca. 1424/35 1516) in The Frick Collection, New... -
Illuminations by Benedict Leca 9781907804571
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £8.82Italian Baroque painting is often discussed in terms of theatre and the creation of powerful visual spectacle through the dramatic use of light. Seventeenth-century painters pushed the limits of... -
Double Exposure V 3 - African American Women by 9781907804489
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £7.60Double Exposure is a major new series based on the remarkable photography collection held by the Earl W. and Amanda Stafford Center for African American Media Arts at the Smithsonian National Museum... -
Pursuit of Immortality: Masterpieces from the Scher Collection of Portrait Medals by 9781911282068
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £10.06The Stephen K. and Janie Woo Scher Collection of portrait medals is considered to be the world's greatest medals collection in private hands. This fully illustrated volume features twenty of the best... -
Collecting With Vision: Treasures from the Chrysler Museum of Art by Various 9781904832331
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.06Featuring highlights from the great collection of the Chrysler Museum of Art, this volume includes paintings by leading American artists, such as Copley, Cole, Bierstadt, Homer, Cassatt and Hopper;... -
Porcelain Garden: Vladimir Kanevsky at the Frick Collection Xavier F. Salomon 9781917273169
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £16.74IIn conjunction with its reopening, following its 2020-25 renovation, The Frick Collection commissioned porcelain flowers from Ukrainian sculptor Vladimir Kanevsky. Some 20 arrangements evoke the... -
Classic Black: The Basalt Sculpture of Wedgwood and His Contemporaries by ,Brian,D. Gallagher 9781911282358
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £31.29WINNER OF THE AMERICAN CERAMIC CIRCLE AWARD 2021 A fascinating exploration of the inspiration behind, and development of, classically inspired sculpture and other ornamental wares in black basalt,... -
Rembrandt's Polish Rider (Frick Diptych) by 9781911282532
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £10.04The romantic and enigmatic character of this picture has inspired many theories about its subject, meaning, history, and even its attribution to Rembrandt. Several portrait identifications have been... -
Chrysler Museum of Art: 40 Works Mark A Castro 9781913875848
RRP: £13.95Booksplease Price: £9.43Chrysler Museum of Art's expansive collection contains more than 30,000 historical objects from across the globe. This compelling new guide offers a snapshot of the collection through 40 key works... -
Monet's Vetheuil in Winter by Susan Grace Galassi
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £13.74Claude Monet's Vetheuil in Winter (1878-79), painted during the artist's first winter in the village, depicts his new home on the Seine, seen from the opposite bank of the river. Monet's two and a... -
Bronzino's Lodovico Capponi by Daniel Mendelsohn
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £13.74Painted by Agnolo Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo) (Italian, 1503-1572) ca. 1550-55, the young aristocrat is Lodovico Capponi (b. 1533), a page at the Medici court. As was his custom, he wears black and... -
Riemenschneider and Late Medieval Alabaster Gerhard Lutz 9781913875435
RRP: £21.95Booksplease Price: £15.27Said to have come from the Benedictine abbey church of Saint Peter in Erfurt, Germany, this statue by Tilman Riemenschneider (c. 1460 - 1531), dated to c. 1495, depicts the church father Saint Jerome... -
Bruegel's Three Soldiers Anna-Claire Stinebring 9781913875534
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £13.74One of the greatest Netherlandish painters of the sixteenth century, Pieter Bruegel the Elder (ca. 1525 1569) is best known for his landscapes and peasant scenes. One of only three signed works by... -
Riccio's Oil Lamp by James Fenton
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £13.74The form of this extraordinary bronze lamp, the most elaborate of several produced by Riccio (Andrea Briosco), is based on a Roman sandal, and its surface is covered with intricate reliefs modelled... -
Boucher's Four Seasons Xavier F. Salomon 9781913875732
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £16.81Francois Boucher (1703 1770) made the four paintings known as the Four Seasons in 1755 for Madame De Pompadour, King Louis XV's long-term official mistress. Their original location is unknown, but... -
African Americans and the American Flag: Photographs from the National Museum of African American History and Culture 9781913875992
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £7.60This volume coincides with the 10th anniversary of the opening of the NMAAHC and celebrations surrounding the signing of the Declaration of Independence 250 years ago. It illustrates how the American... -
Double Exposure: Pictures with Purpose by 9781911282235
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £7.60Pictures with Purpose, the seventh volume in the Double Exposure series, explores images from the NMAAHC's collection of nineteenth and early twentieth-century photography that includes... -
Medieval Money, Merchants, and Morality by Diane Wolfthal 9781913875374
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £23.51Medieval Money explores the ways art reflected and reinforced the complex ethical discussions that developed from the widespread role of money in everyday life in the Middle Ages. It traces the...