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Dorothea Tanning: Doesn't the Paint Say It All? Dorothea Tanning 9781947232983
RRP: £37.00Booksplease Price: £25.73A concise introduction to the later work of the self-taught American Surrealist artist and author American Surrealist artist Dorothea Tanning (1910-2012) worked across painting, sculpture,... -
Chasm: A Weekend by Dorothea Tanning
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'Tanning's fictional debut unquestionably deserves to be recognised as a complete artistic success . . . Tanning has assembled all the ingredients necessary for an extraordinary drama of love and... -
Coming to That: Poems by Dorothea Tanning 9781555976019
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555976019Author Dorothea TanningFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint -
A Surrealist Stratigraphy of Dorothea Tanning's Chasm by 9781032339825
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08In A Surrealist Stratigraphy of Dorothea Tanning's Chasm, Catriona McAra offers the first critical study of the literary work of the celebrated American painter and sculptor Dorothea Tanning... -
Dorothea Tanning: Art and Life by Victoria Carruthers 9781848221741
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.82This is the definitive study of US artist Dorothea Tanning (1910-2012), positioning her as one of the most fascinating and significant creative forces to emerge during the 20th century. It provides a... -
Dorothea Tanning: A Surrealist World Alyce Mahon 9780300244601
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.98Born on the day of a hurricane in Galesburg, Illinois, Dorothea Tanning (1910-2012) would become a figure at the very heart of the avant-garde, among a close circle of contemporaries including Joseph... -
Exquisite Dreams: The Art and Life of Dorothea Tanning by Amy Lyford
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £24.85Exquisite Dreams is the first full account of Dorothea Tanning's art and life. Rather than only focusing on her well-known surrealist paintings, this book gives equal weight to Tanning's lesser-known... -
Between Lives: An Artist and Her World by Dorothea Tanning 9780393343984
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £19.52Dorothea Tanning (1910-2012), one of the twentieth-century's most original and provocative painters, delivers a vivid account of a fascinating life lived as an artist among artists, revealing the... -
It Hurts!: Violence against Women in Art and Psychoanalysis Elana Shapira 9783111335964
RRP: £65.50Booksplease Price: £54.69Psychoanalysis, the study of the unconscious, has provided artists in the 20th and 21st centuries with both a visual language and valuable psychological tools to address the social phenomenon of... -
Art Essays: A Collection by Alexandra Kingston-Reese 9781609388119
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £20.18Art Essays is a passionate collection of the best essays on the visual arts written by contemporary novelists. This vibrant and diverse selection includes essays by award-winning writers such as... -
White Rabbits/Down Below by Leonora Carrington 9780241809617
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.01Playful, sharp and fantatsical: a new selection of writing by Leonora Carrington, the last great SurrealistIn 1940, Leonora Carrington - a twenty-two-year-old British-born Surrealist artist - was... -
The Art of Fantasy: A visual sourcebook of all that is unreal by S. Elizabeth 9780711279957
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.55This beautiful, fully illustrated book presents a compendium of artworks throughout history which have been inspired by myth, fantasy and the unreal. Artists have explored imaginary worlds and... -
Brushed Aside: The Untold Story of Women in Art by Noah Charney 9781538170991
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £28.02How many female artists can you name? Frida Kahlo, Georgia O'Keefe, Marina Abramovic? How about female artists who lived prior to the Modern era? Maybe Artemisia Gentileschi and then... even a... -
What Art Can Tell Us About Love Nick Trend 9781399620963
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.62Discover the love affairs that inspired art's greatest masterpieces. Whether in the throes of passion, enduring the pain of an unrequited love or basking in the joy of a wonderfully supportive... -
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: 150th Anniversary Edition by Lewis Carroll
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £20.13Commemorating the 150th anniversary of one of the most beloved classics of children's literature, this illustrated edition presents Alice like you've never seen her before. In 1865, Charles Lutwidge... -
Women's Work: From feminine arts to feminist art Ferren Gipson 9780711264656
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £15.00This powerful and insightful work offers a bold celebration of the innovative, brilliant artists reclaiming the idea of 'women's work'. In the history of western art, decorative and applied arts -... -
From Louise Bourgeois to Yoko Ono: Jewellery by Female Artists Petra Hesse 9783897907508
RRP: £39.00Booksplease Price: £26.98From Louise Bourgeois to Yoko Ono presents around 60 jewellery works by some 40 internationally renowned female visual artists from the 1920s to the present day. Their jewellery pieces open up new,... -
Surrealism and Magic: Enchanted Modernity by Peggy Gugenheim Collection
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £31.95Like no other 20th-century movement, Surrealism was keenly inspired by tropes of magic, myth and the occult. In their engagement with the irrational and the unconscious, numerous of its members... -
The Art of the Occult: A Visual Sourcebook for the Modern Mystic: Volume 1 by S. Elizabeth
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.55A visual feast of eclectic artwork informed and inspired by spiritual beliefs, magical techniques, mythology and otherworldly experiences. Mystical beliefs and practices have existed for millennia,... -
The Art of Love: The Romantic and Explosive Stories Behind Art's Greatest Couples by Kate Bryan 9780711240315
Booksplease Price: £12.52The Art of Love tells the stories of the most fascinating couples of the art world - uncovering the passionate, challenging and loving relationships behind some the world's greatest works of art... -
Women Artists in Midcentury America: A History in Ten Exhibitions by Daniel Belasco 9781789148435
RRP: £29.00Booksplease Price: £26.02In Women Artists in Midcentury America, readers embark on a journey spanning two decades, delving into the evolving social and artistic landscapes through the lens of all-women exhibitions. These... -
Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement by Whitney Chadwick
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.55This pioneering book stands as the most comprehensive treatment of the lives, ideas and art works of the remarkable group of women who were an essential part of the Surrealist movement. Frida Kahlo,... -
Dreamworld: Surrealism at 100 Matthew Affron 9780876333082
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £34.80A lively history of Surrealism, from its beginnings in Paris to its expansion into an international artistic movement Dreamworld: Surrealism at 100 celebrates the centennial of Andre Breton's... -
Motherhood by Ann Coxon
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.63Depictions of motherhood are ever present in Western art, yet rarely questioned or challenged. We may shy away from a subject that could be seen as sentimental or overly associated with idealistic... -
Magdalena Abakanowicz by Ann Coxon 9781849766739
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £23.48Magdalena Abakanowicz (1930-2017) was a Polish artist who revolutionised the use of woven forms in art. In the mid 1960s, she transformed the modest material of sisal into monumental hanging... -
Surrealism: Worlds in Dialogue Institut für Kunstaustausch 9783777444079
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £31.55Surrealism revolutionised art with fantastic, radically subjective motifs. As a political and international movement, the artists wanted to change society. The topicality of their ideas enables a... -
Transmissions by Nick Mauss
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.62An aesthetic and social history of art and dance in mid-20th-century New York interpreted by contemporary artist Nick Mauss Over the past decade, Nick Mauss (b. 1980) has pursued a hybrid mode of... -
Artifacts: Fascinating Facts about Art, Artists, and the Art World by Phaidon Editors
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £12.42'Even a seasoned art history buff will find new things to discover in this book.' - Hyperallergic 'Fascinating facts and illuminating anecdotes.' - The Art Newspaper The perfect miscellany for every... -
Imagery of Chess Larry List 9780807615553
RRP: £27.95Booksplease Price: £20.03The Imagery of Chess Revisited recovers a celebrated and extraordinary moment in art history: the 1944-45 exhibition The Imagery of Chess, held at the Julien Levy Gallery in New York City. The... -
Surrealist Women's Writing: A Critical Exploration by Anna Watz 9781526132024
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £49.06Surrealist women's writing: A critical exploration is the first sustained critical inquiry into the writing of women associated with surrealism. Featuring original essays by leading scholars of... -
Famm: Female Artists of the Mougins Museum, France Samantha Baskind 9781858947181
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £36.98For centuries, art history has largely overlooked the accomplishments of women artists. Opened in 2024, the Female Artists of the Mougins Museum - or FAMM for short - redresses this imbalance in the... -
Surrealist Ghostliness by Katharine Conley
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £39.90In this study of surrealism and ghostliness, Katharine Conley provides a new, unifying theory of surrealist art and thought based on history and the paradigm of puns and anamorphosis. In Surrealist... -
Surrealist Women's Writing: A Critical Exploration by Anna Watz 9781526167156
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.37Surrealist women's writing: A critical exploration is the first sustained critical inquiry into the writing of women associated with surrealism. Featuring original essays by leading scholars of... -
Blue Guide by Stephen Yenser 9780226951348
Booksplease Price: £50.23From Sfakian Variations - Goats bawl and goats' bells clink and ice in the glass of ouzo tinkles back and that is all the music - even tzitzikes rest and listen - anyone needs to face tonight, until... -
Artists' Letters: Leonardo da Vinci to David Hockney Michael Bird 9780711288867
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £10.64A 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,... -
The Marquis de Sade and the Avant-Garde Alyce Mahon 9780691264622
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.02How the notorious author of The 120 Days of Sodom inspired the surrealists and other avant-garde artists, writers, and filmmakersThe writings of the Marquis de Sade (1740-1814) present a libertine... -
Masterpieces in Pieces: A Young Person's Guide to Taking Great Art Apart Ingrid Swenson 9781526314956
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.70Shortlisted for the Information Book Awards 2023Come on an eye-catching adventure!Masterpieces in Pieces takes you on a journey through great art from all around the world and across the ages. Some... -
Melodies Unheard: Essays on the Mysteries of Poetry by Anthony Hecht
Booksplease Price: £38.42Originally published in 2003. The fruit of a lifetime's reading and thinking about literature, its delights and its responsibilities, this book by acclaimed poet and critic Anthony Hecht explores the... -
Why Surrealism Matters by Mark Polizzotti 9780300257090
Booksplease Price: £20.83An elegant consideration of the Surrealist movement as a global phenomenon and why it continues to resonate "Mr. Polizzotti carefully balances the movement's aspirations and attainments against its... -
Why Surrealism Matters Mark Polizzotti 9780300285543
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78An elegant consideration of the Surrealist movement as a global phenomenon and why it continues to resonate "Mr. Polizzotti carefully balances the movement's aspirations and attainments against its...