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Jeff Koons: Mucem by Jeff Koons
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $31.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782373721249Author Jeff KoonsFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint DilectaPublisher... -
Jeff Koons: 2000 Words by Jeff Koons
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $18.77Jeff Koons (born 1955) became prominent in the mid 1980s by targeting the meaning of art and spectacle in a media-saturated era. Since his first solo exhibition which consisted of small-scale... -
Jeff Koons: Gazing Ball Jeff Koons 9780989980913
RRP: $41.28Booksplease Price: $29.80Hailed by Peter Schjeldahl in The New Yorker as "the most original, controversial, and expensive American artist of the past three and a half decades," Jeff Koons has come to reign as a master of the... -
Jeff Koons: A Retrospective by Scott Rothkopf
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $53.24A fresh and engaging look at the controversial work of Jeff Koons, with insightful analyses and illustrations of all of his iconic pieces alongside preparatory works and historical photographs ... -
Jeff Koons: Lost in America by Massimiliano Gioni
RRP: $54.18Booksplease Price: $40.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857245386Author Massimiliano GioniFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint SkiraPublisher... -
Jeff Koons: At the Ashmolean Sir Norman Rosenthal 9781910807293
RRP: $19.35Booksplease Price: $13.93"I couldn't think of a better place to have a dialogue about art today and what it can be" - Jeff Koons Curated by Koons himself, together with guest curator Norman Rosenthal, this show features... -
Jeff Koons: Gazing Ball Paintings by Joachim Pissarro
RRP: $83.85Booksplease Price: $64.32Dealing with the power of artistic gesture, each work, presented here in stunning colour, features a blue glass gazing ball that sits on a painted aluminum shelf attached to the front of the painting... -
MUSEO JUMEX: 10 Years by Jeff Koons 9788891840080
RRP: $148.35Booksplease Price: $105.16Located in the vibrant Polanco neighborhood of Mexico City, Museo Jumex opened its doors to the public in 2013 as a one-of-a-kind museum devoted to the production and discussion of contemporary art. ... -
True Colors: The Real Life of the Art World by Anthony Haden-Guest 9780871137258
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.83The last quarter century has been an extraordinary and turbulent period in the art world. It was a time of creative intensity during which a handful of artists, like Julian Schnabel, Jeff Koons,... -
Art in the Age of Mass Media by John A. Walker 9780745317441
RRP: $38.69Booksplease Price: $30.83Can fine art survive in an age of mass media? If so, in what forms and to what purpose? And can radical art still play a critical role in today's divided world? These are the questions addressed... -
The Lives of Artists: Collected Profiles by Calvin Tomkins
RRP: $129.00Booksplease Price: $85.02The definitive collection of artist profiles by legendary journalist and New Yorker writer Calvin Tomkins, from the 1960s to today When Calvin Tomkins joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in... -
Appearance Stripped Bare: Desire and the Object in the Work of Marcel Duchamp and Jeff Koons, Even by Massimiliano Gioni
RRP: $64.44Booksplease Price: $44.30The first book to explore two of the biggest names in modern and contemporary art side by side, Marcel Duchamp and Jeff Koons In the first half of the 20th century, Marcel Duchamp redefined what we... -
Wearing of This Garment Does Not Enable You to Fly: 101 Real Dumb Warning Labels by Jeff Koon 9781439150443
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $13.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439150443Author Jeff KoonFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint The Free PressPublisher Simon &... -
At the Strangers' Gate by Adam Gopnik 9781786489210
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35'A dazzling talent' Malcolm GladwellWhen Adam Gopnik and his soon-to-be-wife, Martha, left the comforts of home in Montreal for New York, the city then, much like today, was a pilgrimage site for the... -
Wish You Were Here: 111 Artists, 111 Notes Hans Ulrich Obrist 9781912122974
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.35Hans Ulrich Obrist, the Artistic Director of the Serpentine Galleries in London, brings his curating expertise to the Instagram feeds of more than 396,000 followers (and counting!) in an endeavour to... -
The Wisdom of Finance: How the Humanities Can Illuminate and Improve Finance by Mihir Desai
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.51Longlisted for the FT & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2017 Finance is shrouded in mystery for outsiders, while many insiders are uneasy with the disrepute of their profession. How can... -
No Problem: Cologne / New York 1984-1989 Bob Nickas 9781941701027
RRP: $54.18Booksplease Price: $39.29In the words of Peter Schjeldahl, writing in The New Yorker about the exhibition No Problem: Cologne/New York 1984-1989 at David Zwirner in New York, "the show's cast of artists amounts to a... -
Out of Bounds - The Collected Writings of Marcia Tucker Lisa Phillips 9781606065969
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $40.04Jointly published by the Getty Research Institute and the New Museum. The first anthology to assemble the writings of the groundbreaking art historian, critic, and curator Marcia Tucker. These... -
Dream On Baby: Artists and Their Childhood Memories 9783775756822
RRP: $49.02Booksplease Price: $34.37"Every work of art tells a story, even if it doesnt actually want to be told." Childhood never lets go of anyone. For many artists, it was the trigger for making art in the first place, and still... -
BMW M: 50 Years of Ultimate Driving Machines by Tony Lewin
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $33.26BMW M-Series celebrates the 50th anniversary of these legendary German performance cars, detailing both its production and motorsport stories with expert commentary and fascinating photography. BMW... -
ThinkingJewellery 2 by Wilhelm Lindemann
RRP: $21.93Booksplease Price: $15.97Alongside artistically experimental aspects of education, the ThinkingJewellery 'trademark' stands as a contextual leitmotif throughout the gemstones and jewellery study programme at Trier... -
What Art Can Tell Us About Love Nick Trend 9781399620963
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $17.97Discover 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... -
Art + NYC: A Complete Guide to New York City Art and Artists by Museyon
RRP: $28.32Booksplease Price: $20.00'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,... -
The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000-2020 by Rachel Kushner
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.51From the Booker-shortlisted author of The Mars Room, a career-spanning collection of spectacular essays about politics and culture.In The Hard Crowd, Rachel Kushner gathers a selection of her writing... -
The Power of Cute Simon May 9780691271149
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $13.30An exploration of cuteness and its immense hold on us, from emojis and fluffy puppies to its more uncanny, subversive expressionsCuteness has taken the planet by storm. Global sensations Hello Kitty... -
The Power of Cute by Simon May 9780691181813
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $18.05An exploration of cuteness and its immense hold on us, from emojis and fluffy puppies to its more uncanny, subversive expressionsCuteness has taken the planet by storm. Global sensations Hello Kitty... -
The First Pop Age: Painting and Subjectivity in the Art of Hamilton, Lichtenstein, Warhol, Richter, and Ruscha by Hal Foster 9780691160986
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $31.62Who branded painting in the Pop age more brazenly than Richard Hamilton, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter, and Ed Ruscha? And who probed the Pop revolution in image and identity more... -
Brutal Aesthetics: Dubuffet, Bataille, Jorn, Paolozzi, Oldenburg by Hal Foster
RRP: $54.18Booksplease Price: $45.34How artists created an aesthetic of "positive barbarism" in a world devastated by World War II, the Holocaust, and the atomic bombIn Brutal Aesthetics, leading art historian Hal Foster explores how... -
Why a Painting Is Like a Pizza: A Guide to Understanding and Enjoying Modern Art by Nancy G. Heller 9780691090528
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $27.61The first time she made a pizza from scratch, art historian Nancy Heller made the observation that led her to write this entertaining guide to contemporary art. Comparing modern art not only to... -
Patronizing the Arts by Marjorie Garber 9780691124803
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $21.99What is the role of the arts in American culture? Is art an essential element? If so, how should we support it? Today, as in the past, artists need the funding, approval, and friendship of patrons... -
Art Sleeves: Album Covers by Artists D.B. Burkeman 9780789346537
RRP: $21.90Booksplease Price: $20.05Art Sleeves is a time capsule of visual art and music culture as shown through the most important record covers designed by visual artists and graphic designers in the past forty years. This tightly... -
The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art Don Thompson 9781845134075
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35Why would a smart New York investment banker pay twelve million dollars for the decaying, stuffed carcass of a shark? By what alchemy does Jackson Pollock' s drip painting No.5 1948 sell for $140... -
Talking Prices: Symbolic Meanings of Prices on the Market for Contemporary Art by Olav Velthuis
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $32.52How do dealers price contemporary art in a world where objective criteria seem absent? Talking Prices is the first book to examine this question from a sociological perspective. On the basis of a... -
Kata Legrady: Bombs and Candies David Rosenberg 9788857208602
RRP: $38.64Booksplease Price: $29.52The first monograph on Kata Legrady's works presenting a collection of drawings, photographs, sculptures and video-installations. Kata Legrady (Hungary 1974) belongs to that long line of artists for... -
Ashley Bickerton: Ornamental Hysteria Ashley Bickerton 9781906967833
RRP: $87.72Booksplease Price: $58.82Bali-based artist Ashley Bickerton (born 1959) rose to prominence in the early 1980s as part of New York's East Village art scene with his vibrant abstract works critiquing consumer culture and the... -
Bob Nickas - Komp-laint Dept. by Bob Nickas 9781942607823
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $20.38The latest volume of writing by influential New York-based critic and curator Bob Nickas collects his 2012-14 column for Vice magazine's Komp-laint Dept. This column unleashed the full omnivorous... -
Let Me Be Your Guide: Collection Guide by Exhibitions International 9789050061995
RRP: $21.93Booksplease Price: $15.97With the help of 100 artworks, this book guides you through the collection of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Learn more about Kazimir Malevich's groundbreaking abstract paintings, the ingeniously... -
Reasons Give No Answers by William Burroughs 9781912613045
RRP: $77.34Booksplease Price: $51.32From Bacon and Burroughs to Halley and Lucas: the art collection of Damien Hirst This unique publication presents a varied selection of works from Damien Hirst's personal collection, including... -
The Milton and Sheila Fine Collection Eric Crosby 9780880390736
RRP: $56.76Booksplease Price: $38.44Key works of contemporary art from an exemplary Pittsburgh collection Promised to Carnegie Museum of Art in 2015, the Milton and Sheila Fine Collection is an outstanding selection of contemporary... -
The Art of Being Unreasonable: Lessons in Unconventional Thinking Eli Broad 9781118173213
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $18.80Unorthodox success principles from a billionaire entrepreneur and philanthropist Eli Broad's embrace of "unreasonable thinking" has helped him build two Fortune 500 companies, amass personal...