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Unfinished Business by Michael Bracewell
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $9.17UNFINISHED BUSINESS focuses on an ordinary suburban office worker, fundamentally weak but always keeping his eyes fixed on some horizon where a heightened, romantic, better world must surely exist. ... -
Souvenir by Michael Bracewell 9781399621922
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.86Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
When Surface Was Depth by Michael Bracewell 9780306811302
Booksplease Price: $22.38He's the only person to whom The Velvet Underground ever played as an audience of one, the first British writer to talk to Patti Smith after her seventeen-year hiatus from rock. One reviewer hailed... -
What Is Gilbert & George? by Michael Bracewell 9781912122028
RRP: $12.84Booksplease Price: $9.87In answering the question posed by its title, and drawing on his twenty year relationship with the artists, Michael Bracewell is the first writer to engage directly with Gilbert & George to... -
John Stezaker: Tabula Rasa Michael Bracewell 9781905464302
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $13.40Stezaker attended the Slade School of Art in London in his early teens, he graduated with a Higher Diploma in Fine Art in 1973. In the early 1970s, he was among the first wave of British conceptual... -
Michael Borremans: Fire from the Sun Michael Bracewell 9781941701836
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $22.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941701836Author Michael BracewellFormat HardbackPage Count 80Imprint
Michael Borremans: The Acrobat by Michael Borremans
RRP: $19.35Booksplease Price: $13.55"Michael Borremans may be the greatest living figurative painter." -John Vincler, The New York Times "'The Acrobat' provides an opportunity - all too rare on this side of the Atlantic - to see the...
The Critic as Artist by Oscar Wilde
RRP: $15.48Booksplease Price: $11.15In The Critic as Artist, arguably the most complete exploration of his aesthetic thinking, and certainly the most entertaining, Oscar Wilde harnesses his famous wit to demolish the supposed boundary...
Re-make/Re-model: Art, Pop, Fashion and the making of Roxy Music, 1953-1972 by Michael Bracewell
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56Written with the assistance, for the first time, of all of those involved, including Bryan Ferry, Brian Eno, Andy Mackay and Phil Manzanera; the fashion designer Antony Price, the founding guru of...
Gilbert & George: The Paradisical Pictures Gilbert & George 9780903696708
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $15.47The paperback edition of THE PARADISICAL PICTURES is created to celebrate the opening of the Gilbert & George Centre in East London. Gilbert & George's work confounds and rejects all art historical...
The Turner Prize and British Art by Katharine Stout 9781854377425
RRP: $35.48Booksplease Price: $21.30Since the mid 1980s the visual arts scene in Britain has changed beyond recognition and the Turner Prize lies at the heart of an ever-increasing fascination with contemporary culture in the UK...
Albion's Secret History: Snapshots of England's Pop Rebels and Outsiders Guy Mankowski 9781789040289
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35Albion's Secret History compiles snapshots of English pop culture's rebels and outsiders, from Evelyn Waugh to PJ Harvey via The Long Blondes and The Libertines. By focusing on cultural figures who...
A Year on Earth with Mr Hell by Young Kim 9798985378177
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $18.01A Year on Earth With Mr. Hell is the critically acclaimed debut memoir by Young Kim. The book explores a liberated woman's erotic experience in a clandestine affair without the cliched political and...
Gilbert & George: London Pictures by Gilbert & George 9780903696890
RRP: $19.35Booksplease Price: $13.55Gilbert & George's London Pictures are their largest group of works, inspired by a collection of 3,712 newspaper posters amassed by the artists. This catalogue documents the 2024-25 exhibition at The...
Aesthetics of Pop Music by D Diederichsen
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $12.24In this short book, the leading German cultural critic Diedrich Diederichsen puts forward a fresh and original account of pop music. He argues that pop music is not so much a form of music as a...
What Did Yayoi Kusama Make? Yayoi Kusama 9781644231616
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $12.59Explore the world of artist Yayoi Kusama in this lively, interactive lift-the-flap book for children ages 0-3.Pumpkins, polka dots, flowers, and so much more! Yayoi Kusama creates art that's bursting...
What Did Ruth Asawa Make? Ruth Asawa 9781644231609
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $11.92Explore the world of artist Ruth Asawa in this lively, interactive lift-the-flap book for children ages 0-3.Ruth Asawa found inspiration everywhere-whether she looked to her children, her garden, or...
Haunted Houses by Lynne Tillman 9781913512170
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35From the author of Weird Fucks, a witty, bleak, and outrageous account of American girlhood. Haunted Houses is the story of three young women. Jane's occasionally violent father reads her the...
Spike Island: The Memory of a Military Hospital by Philip Hoare 9781841152943
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.36The story of Netley in Southampton - its hospital, its people and the secret history of the 20th-century. Now with a new afterword uncovering astonishing evidence of Netley's links with Porton Down &...
How to Write About Contemporary Art by Gilda Williams
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $15.97How to Write About Contemporary Art is the definitive guide to writing engagingly about the art of our time. Invaluable for students, arts professionals and other aspiring writers, the book first...
Mick Rock. The Rise of David Bowie. 1972–1973 by Barney Hoskyns 9783836594035
RRP: $19.35Booksplease Price: $17.79A unique tribute from David Bowie's official photographer and creative partner, Mick Rock, compiled in 2015, with Bowie's blessing.In 1972, David Bowie released his groundbreaking album The Rise and...
In The Dark Room by Brian Dillon 9781910695722
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.01Boldly combining the highly personal with the brilliantly scholarly, In the Dark Room explores the question of how memory works emotionally and culturally. It is narrated through the prism of the...
Pretentiousness: Why it Matters by Dan Fox 9781804270936
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.60What is pretentiousness? Why do we despise it? And more controversially: why is it vital to a thriving culture? In this brilliant, passionate essay, Dan Fox argues that it has always been an...
Equilibrium by Tonino Guerra
RRP: $12.90Booksplease Price: $11.95"I had just gotten away from it all, by which I mean all those ordinary, boring things like skyscrapers, cigar-smoking industrialists, linoleum, plastics, television, westerns and marihuana. I had...
Pop by Hal Foster
RRP: $19.29Booksplease Price: $13.98From the late 1950s to the late 1960s the word Pop described art, film, photography and architectural design which engaged with the new realities of mass production and the mass media. Unlike books...
Blood and Guts in High School by Kathy Acker
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.26'Acker gives her work the power to mirror the reader's soul' William S. Burroughs'Kathy Acker's writing is virtuoso, maddening, crazy, so sexy, so painful, and beaten out of a wild heart that nothing...
Making a Great Exhibition: (Books for Kids, Art for Kids, Art Book) Doro Globus 9781644230497
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $14.32"It never occurred to me while growing up that art is an industry involving countless jobs, so if this book helps shed light to just one kid that it is a viable career option, then it has done its...
Man-Eating Typewriter by Richard Milward 9781399602013
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $30.75'A major talent' Irvine Welsh'Remarkable, beautiful, magic. Like Ulysses for those who can't cope with reading Ulysses' Paolo Hewitt'We're all in the gutter but some of us are ogling the sparkles...
The Mirror and the Palette: Rebellion, Revolution and Resilience: 500 Years of Women's Self-Portraits Jennifer Higgie 9781474613798
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35'Reveals an until-now hidden history of women's self-portraiture. A gift that keeps on giving' ALI SMITH, NEW STATESMAN, Books of the Year'A fascinating survey . . . Extraordinary' DAILY MAIL'A...