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My Life by Marc Chagall
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.23'As fresh, poignant and individual as his paintings' Lucy Beckett, TLS, Books of the Year 2018'Here is my soul. Look for me here; here I am, here are my pictures, my roots'Marc Chagall, one of the... -
My Life by Marc Chagall 9780306805714
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.29My Life was written in Moscow in 1921-1922, when Chagall was thirty-five years old. Although long out-of-print, it remains one of the most extraordinarily inventive and beautifully told of all... -
Marc Chagall on Art and Culture by Benjamin Harshav
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $36.67Marc Chagall (1887-1985) traversed a long route from a boy in the Jewish Pale of Settlement, to a commissar of art in revolutionary Russia, to the position of a world-famous French artist. This book... -
Marc Chagall: The Artist as Peacemaker by Fred Dallmayr
RRP: $67.18Booksplease Price: $62.60This book follows Chagall's life through his art and his understanding of the role of the artist as a political being. It takes the reader through the different milieus of the nineteenth and... -
Marc Chagall on Art and Culture by Benjamin Harshav 9780804748308
RRP: $176.40Booksplease Price: $142.84Marc Chagall (1887-1985) traversed a long route from a boy in the Jewish Pale of Settlement, to a commissar of art in revolutionary Russia, to the position of a world-famous French artist. This book... -
The The White Crucifixion: A novel about Marc Chagall by Michael Dean 9781907320736
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $21.11The White Crucifixion starts with Chagall's difficult birth in Vitebsk 1887, in the present-day Belarus, and tells the unlikely story of how the eldest son of a herring schlepper became enrolled in... -
On the Spirit and the Self: The Religious Art of Marc Chagall by J A Swan 9781630514211
RRP: $147.00Booksplease Price: $125.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781630514211Author J A SwanFormat HardbackPage Count 226Imprint Chiron PublicationsPublisher Chiron... -
Journey on a Cloud: a Children's Book Inspired by Marc Chagall by Veronique Massenot
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $19.11This book tells the story of the postman Zephyr, who lives in a little blue village in the mountains where nothing ever changes. A dreamer hoping for adventures, he travels on a cloud, embarking on a... -
On the Spirit and the Self: The Religious Art of Marc Chagall by J A Swan 9781630514204
RRP: $58.80Booksplease Price: $58.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781630514204Author J A SwanFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Chiron PublicationsPublisher Chiron... -
Spiritual Light: The Stained Glass of Marc Chagall in Pocantico Hills, New York and Tudeley, Kent by Martha Richards 9780992940416
Booksplease Price: $16.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992940416Author Martha RichardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint SozoprintPublisher... -
Stargazing in the Atomic Age: Essays by Anne Goldman 9780820358444
RRP: $54.50Booksplease Price: $52.52A Kirkus Best Book of the YearDuring World War II, with apocalypse imminent, a group of well-known Jewish scientists and artists sidestepped despair by challenging themselves to solve some of the... -
Razzle Dazzle: New and Selected Poems 2002-2022 Major Jackson 9781324105138
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $27.59A preeminent voice in contemporary literature, Major Jackson offers steady miracles of vision and celebrations of language in rapturous, sophisticated poems. Razzle Dazzle traces the evolution of... -
Razzle Dazzle: New and Selected Poems 2002-2022 by Major Jackson
RRP: $46.20Booksplease Price: $38.72A preeminent voice in contemporary literature, Major Jackson offers steady miracles of vision and celebrations of language in rapturous, sophisticated poems. Razzle Dazzle traces the evolution of... -
Church and Patronage in 20th Century Britain: Walter Hussey and the Arts by Peter Webster 9781349676583
Booksplease Price: $55.86This 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... -
License to Travel: A Cultural History of the Passport by Patrick Bixby
RRP: $44.10Booksplease Price: $37.04This surprising global history of an indispensable document reveals how the passport has shaped art, thought, and human experience while helping to define the modern world. In License to Travel,... -
The Bible in Western Culture: The Student's Guide by Esther Hughes
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $48.20The influence of the Bible in Western culture is immeasurable, but these days few of us know much about it. Presenting concise and accessible introductions to the Bible's most important characters,... -
If Picasso Painted a Snowman by Amy Newbold
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $13.38If someone asked you to paint a snowman, you would probably start with three white circles stacked one upon another. Then you would add black dots for eyes, an orange triangle for a nose and a black... -
The Art of Resistance: My Four Years in the French Underground by Justus Rosenberg
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.20A gripping memoir written by a 96-year-old Jewish Holocaust survivor about his escape from Nazi-occupied Poland in the 1930's and his adventures with the French Resistance during World... -
The Bible in Western Culture: The Student's Guide by Esther Hughes 9780415326179
RRP: $262.50Booksplease Price: $233.84The influence of the Bible in Western culture is immeasurable, but these days few of us know much about it. Presenting concise and accessible introductions to the Bible's most important characters,... -
Instrument of Memory: Encounters with the Wandering Jew by Lisa Lampert-Weissig 9780472133468
Booksplease Price: $132.83How can immortality be a curse? According to the Wandering Jew legend, as Jesus made his way to Calvary, a man refused him rest, cruelly taunting him to hurry to meet his fate. In response, Jesus... -
Russian Through Art: For Intermediate to Advanced Students Anna S. Kudyma 9781138400276
RRP: $104.98Booksplease Price: $94.98Russian Through Art: For Intermediate to Advanced Students develops all four language skills while enhancing students' cultural knowledge through exposure to Russian visual arts.Each of the six... -
The Tortured Life of Scofield Thayer by James Dempsey 9780813062358
Booksplease Price: $48.36Regarded as a titanic artistic and aesthetic achievement, the influential literary magazine The Dial published most of the great modernist writers, artists, and critics of its day. As publisher and... -
The Tortured Life of Scofield Thayer by James Dempsey 9780813049267
Booksplease Price: $78.62Regarded as a titanic artistic and aesthetic achievement, the influential literary magazine The Dial published most of the great modernist writers, artists, and critics of its day. As publisher and... -
The Art Lover's Guide to Paris by Ruby Boukabou 9781526733658
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $24.74There's no doubt that Paris is brimming with some of the world's best art. But on a trip to the City of Light, it's easy to be overwhelmed by the options, get caught up in the queues and miss the... -
Empirical Foundations Of Psychology by Pronko, N H & Bowles, J W
RRP: $111.28Booksplease Price: $100.38Kunst und schoepfer-isches Vnbewusstes, which was published in 1954, as the third of a series of volumes of collected essays by Erich Neumann. They include the topics of Leonardo da Vinci; Art and... -
The Glass Château by Stephen P Kiernan 9780063322806
RRP: $71.40Booksplease Price: $50.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063322806Author Stephen P KiernanFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint CollinsPublisher... -
Sons of Saviors: The Red Jews in Yiddish Culture by Rebekka Voß 9781512824322
RRP: $109.20Booksplease Price: $90.34Envisioned as a tribe of ruddy-faced, redheaded, red-bearded Jewish warriors, bedecked in red attire who purportedly resided in isolation at the fringes of the known world, the Red Jews are a... -
Artist Within: A Guide to Becoming Creatively Fit by Whitney Ferre 9781596524071
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.18If you can spill paint, this book will help you turn your creative potential into reality. Whether you are looking to be a writer, architect, entrepreneur, painter, or business leader, developing... -
The Essays of Erich Neumann, Volume 2: Creative Man: Five Essays by Erich Neumann 9780691614038
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $76.76This selection of essays by one of C. G. Jung's favorite and most creative students explores important connections between analytical psychology and the study of literature and art. Originally... -
No Joke: Making Jewish Humor by Ruth R. Wisse 9780691149462
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $41.58Humor is the most celebrated of all Jewish responses to modernity. In this book, Ruth Wisse evokes and applauds the genius of spontaneous Jewish joking--as well as the brilliance of comic masterworks... -
No Joke: Making Jewish Humor by Ruth R. Wisse 9780691165813
RRP: $37.78Booksplease Price: $37.19Humor is the most celebrated of all Jewish responses to modernity. In this book, Ruth Wisse evokes and applauds the genius of spontaneous Jewish joking--as well as the brilliance of comic masterworks... -
The Essays of Erich Neumann, Volume 1: Art and the Creative Unconscious by Erich Neumann
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $68.33Four essays on the psychological aspects of art. A study of Leonardo treats the work of art, and art itself, not as ends in themselves, but rather as instruments of the artist's inner situation. Two... -
Art and the Creative Unconscious: The Collected Essays of Erich Neumann, Volume 1 by Erich Neumann 9780691279138
Booksplease Price: $49.60A landmark account of how artistic expression arises from the collective unconsciousThis book brings together four essays by analytical psychologist Erich Neumann, who explores the connections... -
Niko Pirosmani by Sam Keller 9783775755146
RRP: $121.80Booksplease Price: $81.59A Legendary Artist Revisited Unknown to many, Niko Pirosmani is revered as a legend in his native Georgia. Conveying a sense of poignant empathy, his portraits, animal paintings, landscapes and... -
Mayakovsky: A Poet in the Revolution by Edward James Brown 9780691618852
RRP: $126.00Booksplease Price: $115.08An absorbing portrait of an extraordinary man, an analysis of the work of a great Russian poet, and the evocation of a crucial period in Russian cultural history--all are combined in Edward J... -
A Garment Worker's Legacy: The Joe Fishstein Collection of Yiddish Poetry: Volume 11 by Goldie Sigal 9780773514577 [USED COPY]
RRP: $191.10Booksplease Price: $2.63In addition to standard works, the collection includes many rare books, most of which have been preserved in vintage condition by beautiful hand-made jackets fashioned by Fishstein. The collection... -
Studios of Their Own: Where Great Artists Work Alex Johnson 9780711293786
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $26.12Studios of Their Own travels around the world examining the unique spaces, habits and rituals of over 50 famous artists.From Picasso, to Hockney, to Caravaggio, discover the eclectic creative spaces... -
American Yiddish Poetry: A Bilingual Anthology by Benjamin Harshav 9780804751704
RRP: $79.80Booksplease Price: $70.73This remarkable volume introduces to the large English-speaking audience what is probably the most coherent segment of twentieth-century American literature not written in English. The range of... -
Scrawl: An A to Z of Famous Doodles by C. Strauss-Schulsons 9780847865291
RRP: $62.90Booksplease Price: $62.54From the first ever sketch of the Red Cross logo by its founder Clara Barton to a cartoon scrawled on a love letter from Charles Bukowski, the objects in this fascinating collection are a perfect... -
Sing, Stranger: A Century of American Yiddish Poetry-A Historical Anthology by Benjamin Harshav
RRP: $117.60Booksplease Price: $98.57Sing, Stranger is a comprehensive historical anthology of a century of American poetry written in Yiddish and now translated into English for the first time. Here are the Proletarian or "sweat-shop"...