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Secret Warwick by Graham Sutherland
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.68The county town of Warwick is famous for its castle, St Mary's Collegiate Church, with its links to Joan of Arc, and the Lord Leycester Hospital, but much more of its history has been too often... -
The Unwanted Inheritance by Graham Sutherland 9783991312222
RRP: £18.50Booksplease Price: £17.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783991312222Author Graham SutherlandFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint novum publishing... -
Secret Royal Leamington Spa by Graham Sutherland
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.68Although Royal Leamington Spa has its origins several hundred years ago, then known as Leamington Priors, the town only came to prominence in the past 200 years. With the Revolutionary and Napoleonic... -
Warwickshire Murders and Misdemeanours Graham Sutherland 9781398124578
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.68Although areas of Warwickshire became industrialised in the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, much of the county remains rural. The history of crime in the county encompasses small... -
Graham Sutherland: Life, Work and Ideas by Rosalind Thuillier 9780718893408
Booksplease Price: £71.53A compelling biographical study of a leading twentieth-century British artist, 'Graham Sutherland: Life, Work and Ideas' offers new insight into how he and his paintings developed. In the culmination... -
John Craxton: A Life of Gifts by Ian Collins 9780300255294
Booksplease Price: £31.23Uplifting and engaging, this story recounts the life and career of a rebellious 20th-century British artist Born into a large, musical, and bohemian family in London, the British artist John Craxton... -
John Craxton: A Life of Gifts by Ian Collins
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91Born into a large, musical, and bohemian family in London, the British artist John Craxton (1922-2009) has been described as a Neo-Romantic, but he called himself a "kind of Arcadian". His early art... -
British Landscapes: A Sense of Place by Simon Martin 9781869827632
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.98British Landscapes: A Sense of Place explores how artists responded to the landscape of England, Scotland, Wales during the 20th century. Drawn from the remarkable Modern British art collection of... -
Church and Patronage in 20th Century Britain: Walter Hussey and the Arts by Peter Webster 9781349676583
Booksplease Price: £26.60This book is the first full-length treatment of Walter Hussey's work as a patron between 1943 and 1978, first for the Anglican parish church of St Matthew in Northampton, and then at Chichester... -
Church and Patronage in 20th Century Britain: Walter Hussey and the Arts by Peter Webster 9781137369093
Booksplease Price: £90.86This book is the first full-length treatment of Walter Hussey's work as a patron between 1943 and 1978, first for the Anglican parish church of St Matthew in Northampton, and then at Chichester... -
Accidental Alchemy: Oliver Simon, Signature Magazine, and the rise of British Neo-Romantic Art by Neil Wells
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.42The significant influence of the periodical Signature on fine art has long been overlooked. While few people nowadays will have read it, no journal has greater claim to have stimulated the taste that... -
Pastures Green and Dark Satanic Mills by Tim Barringer 9781907804342
RRP: £39.95Booksplease Price: £27.39. A single, encompassing view of the rise of landscape art in Britain from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century. . Features masterpieces by renowned artists: JMW Turner, Richard Wilson,... -
Imaging God Anew: A Theological Aesthetics by W. Stoker 9789042945630
RRP: £99.00Booksplease Price: £92.49It is surprising how religious symbolism in modern art continues to speak to a broad public. Art and religion are intrinsically connected because both deal with the fundamental issues of life... -
Shell Art & Advertising by Scott Anthony
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £35.22Exploring Shell's remarkable archive of advertising art, this book is the first to present a comprehensive overview of the company's artistic heritage. Examinations of the historical, political and... -
Sense and Spirituality: The Arts and Spiritual Formation by James McCullough 9780718894177
Booksplease Price: £22.84There is growing interest in the relationship between the arts and Christian faith. Much has been written about the arts and theology and the place of the arts in church life. Not as much has been... -
In Camera - Francis Bacon: Photography, Film and the Practice of Painting by Martin Harrison
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.85A lavishly illustrated look at the sources behind the paintings of Francis Bacon. Francis Bacon famously found inspiration in photographs, film-stills and mass-media imagery. In this new, updated... -
Mid-Century Modern Tiles: A History and Collector's Guide by Rob Higgins
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.42This book showcases British decorative tiles from 1945 to 1975. 'Mid-century Modern' had its roots in the 1930s, with influences especially from California and Europe. Pioneers include the architect... -
Picasso, Friends and Family: Photographs by Edward Quinn Wolfgang Frei. 9783775755016
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £27.94An intimate portrait of Picasso in never-before-seen photographs by Edward Quinn, published 50 year's after the artist's passing. "He doesn't bother me," Picasso commented of the photographer Edward... -
Too Brave to Dream R. S. Thomas 9781780373072
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.64When R.S. Thomas died in 2000, two seminal studies of modern art were found on his bookshelves - Herbert Read's Art Now (1933) and Surrealism (1936), edited by Read and containing essays by key... -
Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper by Alexandra Harris
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50An award-winning study of England's unique and peculiarly insular variant of modernism. While the battles for modern art and society were being fought in France and Spain, it has seemed a betrayal... -
Masterworks from the Beaverbrook Art Gallery by Terry Graff
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £34.36Shortlisted, Best Atlantic Published Book Award and Canadian Regional Design AwardA major publication comprising 240 pages with 75 colour plates and 60 black-and-white photographs provides extensive... -
The Life of Henry Moore by Roger Berthoud 9781900357227
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.17Henry Moore's rise from Yorkshire miner's son to international acclaim as the twentieth century's greatest sculptor is one of the most remarkable stories in British art. In this revised, updated,... -
Bryan Organ Tristram Hunt 9780500029831
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £32.35Published to mark the artist's 90th birthday, this is the first and only book to provide an overview of Bryan Organ, one of the world's great portrait painters. This book tells the story of Bryan... -
British Art in the Nuclear Age Catherine Jolivette 9781138548886
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.79Rooted in the study of objects, British Art in the Nuclear Age addresses the role of art and visual culture in discourses surrounding nuclear science and technology, atomic power, and nuclear warfare... -
The Passion in Art by Richard Harries 9780754650119
Booksplease Price: £39.99Jesus was not depicted on the cross until the early fifth century. Since then this scene has been painted or carved in sharply differing ways. With the aid of over thirty full-page plates, The...Qty in Cart: 0Price:Booksplease Price: £39.99Subtotal: -
Fresh Out of the Sky George Szirtes 9781780375847
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Fresh Out of the Sky is a book of songs, dreams, laments, narratives and comedies intertwined with passages about major life changes involving country, identity and belonging. It is about perpetually... -
Thomas Hennell: The Land and the Mind Jessica Kilburn 9781910258620
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £41.85Thomas Hennell (1903-45) said his aim was to 'surprise his subject' - to capture the transient quality of the moment. In watercolour he found his perfect medium, producing work which was, as his... -
The Image of Christ in Modern Art Richard Harries 9781409463825
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24The Image of Christ in Modern Art explores the challenges presented by the radical and rapid changes of artistic style in the 20th century to artists who wished to relate to traditional Christian...