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Donald Judd Interviews by Donald Judd
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £20.34Donald Judd Interviews presents more than sixty interviews with the artist over the course of four decades, and is the first compilation of its kind. It is the companion volume to the critically... -
Donald Judd David Raskin 9780300228687
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £35.60This pioneering book, the first monograph devoted to Donald Judd, addresses the whole breadth of Judd's practices. Drawing on documents found in nearly twenty archives, David Raskin explains why some... -
Chinati: The Vision of Donald Judd by Marianne Stockebrand
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £57.52A beautiful book on the famed Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas The Chinati Foundation, a world-famous destination for large-scale contemporary art, was founded by Donald Judd (1928-1994) to... -
Donald Judd Furniture Judd Foundation 9781915743213
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £62.41'The art of a chair is not its resemblance to art, but is partly its reasonableness, usefulness, and scale as a chair.'This publication introduces readers to the furniture designs of renowned artist... -
Donald Judd: 1957-1963: Paintings and Objects Eileen Costello 9781951449834
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £85.74This is the most comprehensive exploration of Donald Judd s paintings and early works to date, providing unparalleled insight into the pivotal seven-year period in which the revered artist... -
Ballroom Marfa: The First Twenty Years Virginia Lebermann 9781580936262
RRP: £39.95Booksplease Price: £28.99A vibrant account of Ballroom Marfa's groundbreaking first two decades of art and music Since its founding in the storied but remote West Texas town of Marfa, Ballroom Marfa has punched above its... -
Sculpture and Film by Jon Wood 9781032476087
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99During much of the twentieth century, film was often assumed to be a 'flat' pictorial art, more often compared with painting and graphic media than with sculpture. In the last few decades, however,... -
Yayoi Kusama: Every Day I Pray for Love by Yayoi Kusama
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £27.60In her most personal book to date, Yayoi Kusama brings us into her private world through poetic recollections, giving insight into her creative process and the essential role language plays in her... -
Writing after Art: Essays on Modern and Contemporary Artists by Richard Shiff
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £27.90In his engaging and penetrating observations of major modern and contemporary visual art, Shiff has written about an impressive range of artists, including Willem de Kooning, Marlene Dumas, Jasper... -
Marfa Modern: Artistic Interiors of the West Texas High Desert by Helen Thompson
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £24.31Twenty-one houses in and around Marfa, Texas, provide a glimpse at creative life and design in one of the art world's most intriguing destinations. When Donald Judd began his Marfa project in the... -
Local History - Castellani, Judd, Stella by Linda Noren 9780986060632
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £31.40Local History brings together rarely seen works from the 1950s through the early 1970s by Enrico Castellani, Donald Judd and Frank Stella, juxtaposing these with later examples that reveal each... -
Icons: Images in Resonance by Emma LaVigne 9791254630860
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £23.55Selections from the Pinault Collection that reflect the transcendental power of artistic imagery This volume accompanies an exhibition composed of works selected from the Pinault Collection that... -
Modern Art And Modernism: A Critical Anthology by Francis Frascina 9780064301244
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £49.89Modern Art and Modernism offers firsthand material for the study of issues central to the development of modern art, its theory, and criticism. The history of modern art is not simply a history of... -
The New Monuments and the End of Man: U.S. Sculpture between War and Peace, 1945-1975 by Robert Slifkin 9780691192529
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £31.60How leading American artists reflected on the fate of humanity in the nuclear era through monumental sculptureIn the wake of the atomic bombings of Japan in 1945, artists in the United States began... -
Artists Respond: American Art and the Vietnam War, 1965-1975 by Melissa Ho 9780691191188
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £56.40How the Vietnam War changed American artBy the late 1960s, the United States was in a pitched conflict in Vietnam, against a foreign enemy, and at home-between Americans for and against the war and... -
Art + NYC: A Complete Guide to New York City Art and Artists by Museyon
RRP: £21.95Booksplease Price: £15.50'Art + NYC' is an art-lover's guide to New York City that combines a crash course in 20th- and 21st-century art history with in-depth bios of ten celebrated New York City artists: Edward Hopper,... -
Signifying Art: Essays on Art after 1960 by Marjorie Welish 9780521633017
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £98.84This book, first published in 1999, studies the work of a generation of 'respondents' to the New York School, including Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns and Cy Twombly, who reintroduced pictorialism... -
Jose Dávila by Jeffrey Grove
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £41.34In a practice spanning nearly two decades, Jose Dávila has created an expressive body of work that explores the visual tropes and iconic symbols of art, architecture, and urban design. Initially... -
Minimal Art: The Critical Perspective by Frances Colpitt
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £28.82In this important work, Frances Colpitt chronicles the Minimal art movement of the 1960s. Maintaining the original spirit of the period--enthusiasm for innovation and a passionate commitment to... -
Wyatt Kahn - Object Paintings by Kahn Wyatt 9780988997042
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £27.60Hovering in the space between sculpture and painting, the work of New York-based Wyatt Kahn (born 1983) reinvigorates the legacy of minimalism. His large-scale paintings collapse figuration and... -
Stanley Whitney by Matthew Jeffrey Abrams 9781848222519
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £39.60Since the mid-1970s, American painter Stanley Whitney has been exploring the formal possibilities of colour within grids of multi-coloured blocks. Matthew Jeffrey Abrams's thoughtful book, the first... -
Eye of the Sixties: Richard Bellamy and the Transformation of Modern Art by Judith E. Stein 9780374536992
Booksplease Price: £18.77A man with a preternatural ability to find emerging artists, Richard Bellamy was one of the first advocates of pop art, minimalism, and conceptual art. The founder and director of the fabled Green... -
Design and Art by Alex Coles 9780854881536
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £13.40Part of the acclaimed 'Documents of Contemporary Art' series of anthologies. This title comprehensively surveys and looks beyond the phenomenon of "designart" that has emerged since the Pop... -
Early Snow: Michael Snow 1947–1962 by King
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £17.38Michael Snow (1928-2023) was one of Canada's greatest living artists, and one of the most significant figures in twentieth-century Canadian art. Despite his longstanding international acclaim, the... -
Sculpture and Psychoanalysis Brandon Taylor 9781138253032
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £49.89Just what do psychoanalysis and modern sculpture have to do with one another? The present collection of essays, unique in its field, shows how key metaphors of Freudian and Kleinian psychoanalysis -... -
Signifying Art: Essays on Art after 1960 by Marjorie Welish 9780521633932
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £29.61This book, first published in 1999, studies the work of a generation of 'respondents' to the New York School, including Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns and Cy Twombly, who reintroduced pictorialism... -
Max Bill: No Beginning, No End by Friederke Fast
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £28.10Swiss artist, architect, designer, typographer, and theorist Max Bill (1908-94) was one of the most important exponents of concrete and constructive art and a key figure in the history of... -
Counterpoint: 20th-Century Art from the John M. Parker Jr. Collection René Paul Barilleaux 9781785515989
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £27.30Tells the story of one man's generous gift that formed a brilliant collection of Minimalism, Conceptualism, and Avant-Garde art.Counterpoint explores the vision of John M. Parker Jr., a prominent... -
Guide to Historic Artists' Homes & Studios: A Guide by Valerie A. Balint
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.29From the desert vistas of Georgia O'Keeffe's New Mexico ranch to Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner's Hamptons cottage, step into the homes and studios of illustrious American artists and witness... -
The Apartment by Thierry Davila
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £18.63A legendary Parisian collection of minimalist and conceptual art, and its evocative installation in the home of collector Ghislain Mollet-Vieville This book documents the scrupulous recreation,... -
Marfa: The Transformation of a West Texas Town by Kathleen Shafer
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.67A small town in the vast desert of West Texas, Marfa attracts visitors from around the world to its art foundations and galleries, film and music festivals, and design and architecture symposiums... -
Anti-Museum by Adrian Franklin
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £38.54Anti-Museum charts the development of the anti-museum as a concept and as it has been realised in practice. Drawing on a range of case studies, including the New Museum and PS1 in New York, Mona in... -
Anti-Museum Adrian Franklin 9781032086682
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.95Anti-Museum charts the development of the anti-museum as a concept and as it has been realised in practice. Drawing on a range of case studies, including the New Museum and PS1 in New York, Mona in... -
Marcel Duchamp In Perspective by Joseph Masheck 9780306810572
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £12.52Best known for cheeky conceptual works,like his signed urinals ("R. Mutt") and his graffitioed Mona Lisa,Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) was also an extraordinary painter and sculptor ( Nude Descending a... -
Concrete - Case Studies in Conservation Practice Catherine Croft 9781606065761
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £42.93This timely volume brings together fourteen case studies that address the challenges of conserving the twentieth century's most ubiquitous building material-concrete. Following a meeting of... -
Infinity Net: The Autobiography of Yayoi Kusama by Yayoi Kusama
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Yayoi Kusama is one of the most significant contemporary artists at work today. This extraordinary text tells the story of her life and remarkable career in her own words. 'I am deeply terrified... -
Francois Halard by Francois Halard
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £52.58Francois Halard s first assignment, to photograph Yves Saint Laurent s legendary Paris apartment when he was 23, cemented his reputation as one of the most original photographic eyes of our era. More... -
Buildings of Texas: East, North Central, Panhandle and South Plains, and West by Gerald Moorhead 9780813942346
Booksplease Price: £99.85From Dallas-Fort Worth to El Paso, Goodnight to Marfa to Langtry, and scores of places in between, the second of two towering volumes assembled by Gerald Moorhead and a team of dedicated authors... -
Ronald Bladen: Sculpture by 9780789213389
RRP: £60.99Booksplease Price: £42.03The first monograph on a pivotal figure of postwar American art Best known for his monumental sculptures, Ronald Bladen (1918-1988) was regarded as an artistic forerunner by such minimalist artists... -
That Day: Pictures in the American West by Laura Wilson
RRP: £32.50Booksplease Price: £31.11"Rather than the proverbial melting pot, Wilson asks us to recognize a West that is at least a place where, against a backdrop of aridity and expansive space, diverse lives can and do coexist." -John...