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Nothing too Beautiful for the Gods: Today’s Altars and Artists from the Global World Bérengère Primat 9791254600870
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £23.10Globalisation has forced us to stop thinking that art only exists in the West. The very notion of art was invented by the West and refers to the learned version of its material culture. It was then... -
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Futurism by Didier Ottinger 9788874394968 [USED COPY]
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £4.54Impassioned, polemical, and rebellious, the Futurist movement exalted the modern world by placing machines, speed, and technology at the heart of its artistic experimentations. Futurism embodied the... -
Gathered Leaves: Discoveries from the Drawings Vault National Gallery of Canada 9791254600917
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £32.39Founded in 1921 and the first of its kind in the country, the National Gallery of Canada's Department of Prints and Drawings boasts a world-class collection of historical drawings dating from the... -
Omar Victor Diop by 9788874399932
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £27.60Since 2012, Dakar-born Omar Victor Diop has been hailed by the art world for his stunning, colour-saturated studio photography. His conceptual projects are primarily staged as beautifully costumed... -
The Color of Light by Joël Denot 9791254600474
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £19.43Joel Denot (b.1961) is a French photographer. His images are centred on the essential elements of photography: light, colour and shape. They are neither figurative nor abstract, with coloured... -
Outsider Art of Canada: What else can art be like? by Linda Rainaldi 9791254600375
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £24.48Outsider art reflects a territory of cultural production that gives credence to creative practices independent of formal training, recognised art movements, and current trends. Outsider art is said... -
Reflections on Renaissance Venice Mary Frank 9788874396344
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £30.15Lavishly illustrated throughout, this collection of essays honours the scholarship and publications of Patricia Fortini Brown, one of the pre-eminent scholars of Venetian art and history and... -
Shells Jacques Senders 9791254600825
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £25.60Molluscs are extraordinary builders; indeed, their architectural skills are almost unparalleled in the animal world. Who among us has failed to marvel at the wonderful structure of the smallest shell... -
Ernst Gamperl Ernst Gamperl 9791254600863
RRP: £59.00Booksplease Price: £41.58The relationship Ernst Gamperl, an artist of international renown, has developed with wood as a living material and the acknowledgment of inescapable serendipity are a source of creative inspiration... -
Italian and American Art: An Interaction 1930s-1980s by Renato Miracco 9791254600535
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.35Italian and American Art focuses on the period between 1930 and 1980 in particular. By comparing artworks and examining exhibition and gallery policies, political meddling, and figures linking Italy... -
Ghitta Carell’s Portraits: We All Think of Ourselves as One Single Person but it's Not True by Roberto Dulio 9791254600542
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.85This book explores the figure of Ghitta Carell (1899–1972), a Hungarian-born photographer who was naturalised Italian. Ghitta was born into a Jewish family of humble origins; at a very young age she... -
Canova. Four Tempos: Volume IV: Sculptures from the Gypsotheca of Possagno by Vittorio Sgarbi 9791254600566
RRP: £37.00Booksplease Price: £25.73The fourth and final volume of the photographic and editorial project Canova. Four Tempos, dedicated to the plaster casts by Antonio Canova at the Gypsotheca in Possagno (Italy), continues the... -
Manhattan Project Neil deGrasse Tyson 9791254600955
RRP: £41.00Booksplease Price: £28.73Manhattan Project is a collection of photographs that capture the evolving landscape of Manhattan's West Side over the past decade. Exploiting the revelatory power of photography, these images... -
When the Sun Goes Down and the Moon Comes Up by Ugo Rondinone 9791254600399
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £29.70Italian artist Ugo Rondinone was invited by the Musee d’Art et d’Histoire (MAH) in Geneva to curate a show that invites a dialogue between his work and the works in the permanent collection. The show... -
Maria Lai: Holding the Shadow by the Hand Elena Pontiggia 9791254600849
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £22.60Maria Lai always had a special relationship with fairy tales. She considered them a metaphor for art and a way of communicating with the public in a simple, straightforward way. Starting in the... -
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High Altitude: Photography in the Mountains by Nathalie Herschdorfer 9788874395880 [USED COPY]
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £3.31Mountains have been a central defining theme in Switzerland, as they have elsewhere in the world. This has fascinated artists and, since the earliest invention of the medium, photographers. Today... -
Loving II: More Vintage Photographs of Men in Love, 1850-1950 Hugh Nini 9788874394456
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £36.40LOVING: A Photographic History of Men in Love, 1850s – 1950s (ISBN 9788874399284), was published in 2020 at the height of the pandemic. Despite that, the book was available in five languages, the... -
Laure Pigeon: Infiniment bleu, Infinite blue Anic Zanzi 9788874394128
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £25.10Laure Pigeon (1882-1965) is one of the leading figures in Art Brut (Outsider Art), along with Aloise Corbaz and Adolf Woelfli. The Collection de l'Art Brut in Lausanne probably possesses her entire... -
Passenger Of Silence: Ten Years of Initiation in China Fabienne Verdier 9791254600634
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £25.60An artist travels to Communist China to learn the secrets of Chinese ink painting Was it really reasonable to drop everything overnight and go off alone into the depths of Communist China in search... -
Emmanuel Babled: The Hand of Others/La Main des Autres Angela Vettese 9791254600641
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £50.20This monograph's title, The Hand of Others/La Main des Autres, could not be more appropriate, as it aptly summarises Emmanuel Babled's work and essence. The French designer, who now operates his... -
Magalí Herrera: A Spark of Light in this World by Pascale Jeanneret 9791254600092
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £24.48This monograph dedicated to Magali Herrera (1914-1992) reveals for the first time the large body of work by this Uruguayan-born artist and the many personal archives in the holdings of the... -
Verso Reverso by Patricio Reig 9791254600429
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £24.98This volume marks the publishing debut of the Spanish-Argentinian photographer based in Milan, Patricio Reig, and introduces one of the artist's preferred subjects: the female portrait. Patricio... -
Red Figures: Vase Painting At The Museo Ridola, Matera Luigi Spina 9791254600290
RRP: £41.00Booksplease Price: £28.73The red-figure vases from the National Museum "Domenico Ridola" in Matera and the Rizzon Collection - rich in precious Apulian and Lucanian pieces - offer a unique opportunity to grasp Magna Graecia... -
Yves Dana: A Fresh Perspective on Sculpture by Marc-Alain Ouaknin 9791254600467
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £61.45This double volume devoted to Yves Dana, a Swiss sculptor of Egyptian descent, is the ideal continuation of a 2015 publication by 5 Continents Editions. His sculptures present themselves to... -
Baroque Sculpture In Rome: The Art Gallery Series by Alessandro Angelini 9788874391189
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £10.78On the whole, when one thinks of seventeenth-century sculpture in Rome, one has in mind the wonderful and famous works of Gian Lorenzo Bernini, such as the Fountain of the Rivers or The Ecstasy of St... -
So Distant, So Near: Ji-Young Demol Park – Lee Lee Nam by Laure Schwartz-Arenales 9791254600504
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.38To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Switzerland and South Korea, this volume offers a unique point of view on the work of Ji-Young Demol Park and... -
New York Waterfront Diary by Sophie Fenwick 9791254600351
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £31.23These previously unpublished images of New York's waterfront are presented here as part of a unique editorial project: the iconographic perspective is analysed and discussed in Pauline Vermare's... -
Python Spirit on the Baga Coast: A Scientific and Art Historical Investigation by Frederick John Lamp 9791254600443
RRP: £70.00Booksplease Price: £47.65This study of the wooden Serpent figures/headdresses of the Baga people of Guinea is a collaboration by the author, as an art historian, with many contributions from diverse perspectives, including... -
Woods Davy: Sculptures by Suzanne Muchnic 9791254600405
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £37.20This volume is the first monograph devoted to Woods Davy and collects the works made by the artist from 1978 to the present, highlighting their context, the stories connected to their creation, and... -
Samantha McEwen: London | Paris | New York. Works and Life from the 1980s to the Present by Linda Yablonsky 9791254600597
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £28.90Who is Samantha McEwen? Who is this Anglo-American artist born in 1960 in London, about whom Keith Haring declares in one of his interviews: "When I arrived in New York, I spent my time at school... -
Passage de temoins pour Luciano Fabro Vivianne van Singer 9788874399857
RRP: £47.00Booksplease Price: £28.03This book, designed and edited by the Italian-Swiss artist Vivianne van Singer, is an ode to Italian sculptor Luciano Fabro (1936-2007), a well-known Informalist artist and one of the founders of the... -
Culture(s): A World Tour of 99 Antique Miniature Treasures from the Donnadieu Collection Luigi Spina 9791254600658
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £22.60The ancient treasures collected over the past 20 years by Ludovic Donnadieu, hail from a myriad of ancient cultures, famous or obscure, across all five continents. The selection maintains a balanced... -
A King’s Passion: A 21st-Century Patron of African Art by Sandra Mbanefo Obiago 9791254600498
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £61.45Passion, intellectual curiosity, and intuition inspired His Royal Majesty Igwe Nnaemeka Alfred Achebe CFR, over a period of 40 years, to collect and support artists from his native Onitsha,... -
Outsider Art Cuba - Art Brut Cuba Derbis Campos 9791254600726
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £25.10This volume accompanies the Art Brut CUBA exhibition organised by Collection de l'Art Brut in Lausanne and features essays by Cuban authors and other experts, reproductions of works and previously... -
Seeds Michel Butor 9791254600795
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £25.60Paul Starosta is a French nature photographer, famous for finding and highlighting the artistic beauties of nature. The 200 superb photographs in this book illustrate the splendour and complexity of... -
Photomachinees by Antoine Gentil 9788874399994
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.68This catalogue for an exhibition at the Collection de l'Art Brut in Lausanne brings together an ensemble of found images gathered over the course of several years by gallerist Antoine Gentil and... -
Pier Paolo Pasolini Everything Is Holy: Il corpo veggente by Michele Di Monte 9791254600160
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.38This volume is one of three companion catalogues to an exhibition taking place simultaneously at three venues in Rome on the large-scale projects of Pier Paolo Pasolini. They explore a theme dear to... -
Pier Pasolini Everything is Sacred: The Body Poetic by Giuseppe Garrera 9791254600153
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.38This volume is one of three companion catalogues to an exhibition taking place simultaneously at three venues in Rome on the large-scale projects of Pier Paolo Pasolini. They explore a theme dear to... -
The Decorative Arts: Volume 1: Sculptures, enamels, maiolicas and tapestries by Fabienne Fravalo
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £32.83Aesthetic seduction, superb workmanship, and historical interest are the three central themes in the collection of Fondation Gandur pour l'Art (Geneva), created in 2010 and still expanding. The... -
Enzo Cucchi: The Poet and the Magician by Luigia Lonardelli 9791254600344
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £24.98Italian artist Enzo Cucchi (b. 1949), is one of the pioneers of the 20th century trans avant-garde art movement, and was part of a wider international movement of Neo-Expressionist painters. Today he...