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Richard Neutra and the Making of the Lovell Health House, 1925-35 by Edward Dimendberg 9798887120089
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £45.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798887120089Author Edward DimendbergFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Getty Research Institute,U.S... -
In What Style Should we Build? by Heinrich Hubsch 9780892361984
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £20.47This series offers a range of heretofore unavailable writings in English translation on the subjects of art, architecture, and aesthetics.Hubsch's argument that the technical progress and changed... -
Modern Architecture in Czechoslovakia and Other Writings by Karel Teige 9780892365968
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £47.79Karel Teige (1900-51) was a graphic designer, critic, and Czech partisan who in 1920 founded a group to promote modernism in the international sphere through polemics and manifestos. This is a... -
Victory of the New Building Style Walter Curt Behrendt 9780892365630
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.68In this volume, first published in German in 1927, Walter Curt Behrendt presents a revisionist concept of style that places equal emphasis on form and function. Behrendt calls on architects to return... -
Odd Man Out - Readings of the Work and Reputation of Edgar Degas . Armstrong 9780892367283
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £23.73Carol Armstrong offers an important study of Edgar Degas's work and reputation. Armstrong grapples with contradictory portrayals of Degas as "odd man out" within the modernist canon: he was a realist... -
Bernard Picart and the First Global Vision of Religion . Hunt 9780892369683
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £47.79This is a superbly illustrated exploration of one of the most important works of comparative religion ever published. In an era of intense religious conflict in Europe and ongoing exploration of the... -
The Blind Spot - An Essay on the Relations Between Painting and Sculpture in the Modern Age . Lichenstein 9780892368921
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.98Beginning in the seventeenth century, many of Europe's greatest writers and artists became embroiled in a debate that centered on the priority of paintings or sculpture, touch or sight, colour or... -
Sculpture and Enlightenment . Naginski 9780892369591
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £35.60This is a unique volume that explores the ways in which the aesthetics of public art were affected by the social, political, and cultural changes of the Enlightenment. This pioneering book chronicles... -
Observations on the Letter of Monsieur Mariette . Piranesi 9780892366361
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.68Published in 1765, Giovanni Battista Piranesi's "Osservazioni" is an impassioned defence of the superiority of Roman architectural "invention" over the "beautiful and noble simplicity" of Ancient... -
Art of Defeat - France 1940-1944 . Dorleac 9780892368914
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £35.60This is an unflinching and honest portrayal of how numerous artists and their works were used during the German occupation of France. "Art of the Defeat" provides an unflinching an honest look at the... -
Introduction to Controlled Vocabularies - Terminology For Art, Architecture, and Other Cultural Works, Updated Edition . Harping 9781606061503
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £39.17This is a practical tool and comprehensive introduction to the use of controlled vocabularies. This authoritative and detailed volume presents readers with a "how-to" guide to building controlled... -
African Masks and Emotions: In Theory and in Practice Z. S. Strother 9781606069936
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16In Western European languages, the word mask exerts a powerful presence as a figure of speech. To masquerade is to pretend to be someone or something one is not. By extension, unmasking is ... -
Printing the Grant Manner - Charles Le Brun and Monumental Prints in the Age of Louis XIV . Marchesano 9780892369805
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £39.67This is a superbly illustrated survey of the monumental print works of Charles Le Brun, court painter to Louis XIV. This richly illustrated volume illuminates an extraordinary moment in the... -
Brush and Shutter - Early Photography in China . Cody 9781606060544
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £36.40This title offers a lavishly illustrated exploration of the history of photography in China. Photography was introduced to China in the 1840s through the West's engagement in the Opium Wars and the... -
The Ruins of the Most Beautiful Monuments of Greece . Le Roy 9780892366699
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £43.73Julien-David Le Roy's "Les ruines des plus beaux monuments de la Grece", initially issued in 1758, first revealed to European eyes the wonders of Greek classical architecture. Overnight, Greece... -
Letters to Miranda and Canova on the Abduction of Antiquities From Rome and Athens by Antoine Quatremere de Quincy 9781606060995
Booksplease Price: £46.02This is the first English translation of French art critic Quatermere de Quincy's controversial series of letters about the removal of antiquities from Rome and Athens. In the 1790s and early 1800s,... -
Money in the Air: Art Dealers and the Making of a Transatlantic Market, 1880-1930 Gail Feigenbaum 9781606068915
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £42.93“There was money in the air, ever so much money,” wrote Henry James in 1907, reflecting on the American appetite for art acquisitions. Indeed, collectors such as Henry Clay Frick and Andrew W. Mellon... -
Collecting Mesoamerican Art before 1940: A New World of Latin American Antiquities by Andrew D. Turner 9781606068724
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £41.05This book traces the fascinating history of how and why ancient Mesoamerican objects have been collected. It begins with the pre-Hispanic antiquities that first entered European collections in the... -
Persian Cultures of Power and the Entanglement of the Afro-Eurasian World Matthew P. Canepa 9781606068427
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £46.99With the rise of the Achaemenid Empire (550-330 BCE), Persian institutions of kingship became the model for legitimacy, authority, and prestige across three continents. Despite enormous upheavals,... -
Art History and Anthropology: Modern Encounters, 1870–1970 by Peter Probst 9781606068793
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £46.99While today we are experiencing a revival of world art and the so-called global turn of art history, encounters between art historians and anthropologists remain rare. Even after a century and a half... -
Style Architecture and Building Art - Transformations of Architecture in the Nineteenth Centur and its Present Condition . Muthesius 9780892362837
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £20.17This text attempts to define the elements of early modernist architecture according to notions of realism and simplicity. Although the author, Hermann Muthesius, is perhaps most well-known in... -
East Asian Aesthetics and the Space of Painting in Eighteenth-Century Europe Isabelle Tillerot 9781606067970
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £51.05This volume offers the first critical account of how European imports of East Asian textiles, porcelain, and lacquers, along with newly published descriptions of the Chinese garden, inspired a... -
Transpacific Engagements: Trade, Translation, and Visual Culture of Entangled Empires (1565-1898) Florina H Capistrano-Baker 9786218028258
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £41.30This wide-ranging collection of scholarly essays explores the hybrid cultures, intellectual clashes, and dynamic exchanges of the transpacific region in the age of imperialism. Between the sixteenth... -
Alfredo Boulton: Looking at Venezuela, 1928-1978 Idurre Alonso 9781606068199
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £42.93Alfredo Boulton (1908-1995) is considered one of the most important champions of modern art in Venezuela and a key intellectual of twentieth-century modernism. He was a pioneer of modern photography,... -
The Catholic Rubens - Saints and Martyrs . Sauerlander 9781606062685
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £35.60This is a rich exploration of the role the Baroque master played in the Counter-Reformation. The art of Rubens is rooted in an era darkened by the long shadow of devastating wars between Protestants... -
Transpacific Engagements: Trade, Translation, and Visual Culture of Entangled Empires (1565-1898) Florina H Capistrano-Baker 9786218028227
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £34.80This wide-ranging collection of scholarly essays explores the hybrid cultures, intellectual clashes, and dynamic exchanges of the transpacific region in the age of imperialism. Between the sixteenth... -
Japanese Zen Buddhism and the Impossible Painting Yukio Lippit 9781606065129
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.30Zen art poses a conundrum. On the one hand, Zen Buddhism emphasizes the concept of emptiness, which among other things asserts that form is empty, that all phenomena in the world are illusory. On the... -
The Colors of New World - Artists, Materials, and the Creation of the Florentine Codex by Diana Magalori Kerpel 9781606063293
Booksplease Price: £14.79This is a penetrating glimpse into the first illustrated encyclopaedia of the New World. In August 1576, in the midst of an outbreak of the plague, the Spanish Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahagun... -
Artists' Things: Rediscovering Lost Property from Eighteenth-Century France Katie Scott 9781606068632
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £37.81Artists are makers of things. Yet it is a measure of the disembodied manner in which we generally think about artists that we rarely consider the everyday items they own. This innovative book looks... -
Manet Paints Monet - A Summer in Argenteuil by Willibald Sauerlander 9781606064283
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.59This is a fascinating look at one of the defining images of the Impressionist movement. Manet Paints Monet focuses on an auspicious moment in the history of art. In the summer of 1874, Edouard Manet... -
Fluxus Means Change - Jean Brown's Avant-Garde Archive Marcia Reed 9781606066621
Booksplease Price: £45.29An exploration of the radical artists who transformed the ways art is conceived, exhibited, and collected, through the Dada, Surrealist, and Fluxus collections of Jean and Leonard Brown. Throughout... -
Lectures on Art - Selected Conferences from the Academie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture, 1667- 1772 Christian Michel 9781606066461
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £55.12Between 1667 and 1792, the artists and amateurs of the Acade mie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture in Paris lectured on the Acade mie's 'confe rences', foundational documents in the theory and... -
William Blake - Visionary by Edina Adam
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.58A richly illustrated, comprehensive introduction to the visionary British artist William Blake Celebrated for his boundless imagination and unique vision, William Blake (1757-1827) created some of... -
Introduction to Metadata 3e Murtha Baca 9781606064795
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £23.43A revised and expanded edition of a key text for librarians, scholars, and museum professionals Metadata provides a means of indexing, accessing, preserving, and discovering digital resources. The... -
Harry Smith - The Avant-Garde in the American Vernacular . Perchuck 9780892367351
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.98This title presents a superbly illustrated and insightful examination of the life and works of Harry Smith, one of America's most significant post-war creative talents. Filmmaker, musicologist,... -
The Tastemakers - British Dealers and the Anglo-Gallic Interior, 1785-1865 Diana Davis 9781606066416
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £47.79In this volume, Diana Davis demonstrates how London dealers invented a new and visually splendid decorative style that combined the contrasting tastes of two nations. Departing from the conventional... -
Qing Encounters - Artistic Exchanged between China and the West Petra ten-Doesschate Chu 9781606064573
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £47.60Qing Encounters: Artistic Exchanges between China and the West examines how the encounters between China and Europe in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries transformed the arts on both sides... -
Cultural Identity in the Ancient Mediterranean by Erich S. Gruen 9780892369690
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £48.59This is an illuminating collection of essays that explore the idea of cultural identity in the ancient Mediterranean. Cultural identity is a slippery and elusive concept. When applied to the... -
The Secrets We Keep: Hidden Histories of the Byzantine Empire Roland Betancourt 9781606069080
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.55Secrecy has played a role throughout human history and continues to capture the popular imagination. Some of the most seductive aspects of the Byzantine Empire-such as the relics of the imperial... -
Ed Ruscha's Streets of Los Angeles: City, Archive, Image, Artist Andrew Perchuk 9781606069523
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £53.87In 1966, Ed Ruscha drove a pickup truck rigged with a motorized camera to capture Los Angeles's most iconic street: Sunset Boulevard. Navigating the boulevard, he created a time capsule of...