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A New Era Alice Strang 9781911054160
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £14.53Revealing an alternative story of modern Scottish art, A New Era examines the most experimental work of Scottish artists during the first half of the 20th century. It challenges the accepted view of... -
Picasso's 'Toys for Adults' Cubism as Surrealism: Watson Gordon Lecture 2008 by Neil Cox 9781906270261
RRP: £7.95Booksplease Price: £6.14This lecture was given by Neil Cox of the University of Essex, one of Britain's leading scholars of Cubism and Surrealism, and a particular authority on Picasso, approaching the Spaniard's work from... -
Perfect Chemistry by Anne M. Lyden 9781911054047
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £21.03Pioneering Edinburgh photographers David Octavius Hill (1802-1870) and Robert Adamson (1821-1848) together formed one of the most famous partnerships in the history of photography. Producing highly... -
Shepherd's Life: Paintings of Jenny Armstrong by Victoria Crowe by Victoria Crowe 9781903278024
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'A Shpeherd's Life' focuses on Jenny Armstrong, born in 1903 at the farm in Fairliehope, who spent her life working a s a shepherd in the Pentland Hills. In a series of remarkable paintings made over... -
True to Life: British Realist Painting in the 1920s and 1930s by Patrick Elliott 9781911054054
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £16.93British realist art of the 1920s and 1930s is visually stunning - strong, seductive and demonstrating extraordinary technical skill. Despite this, it is often overshadowed by abstract art. This book... -
Calum Colvin: Ossian-fragments of Ancient Poetry by Tom Normand 9781903278352
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £9.24Calum Colvin is one of Scotland's most innovative and exciting contemporary photographers. In his work he creates a kaleidoscope of figures, symbols and ideas, which are blended into the most vibrant... -
F.C.B. Cadell Alice Strang 9781906270407
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £12.35F.C.B. Cadell was born in Edinburgh, where he lived for most of his life, and studied in Paris and Munich. This book illustrates many of the works for which Cadell is celebrated, including stylish... -
Art & Court of James VI & I: Bright Star of the North Kate Anderson 9781911054702
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £17.68James VI & I, the only child of Mary, Queen of Scots, has often been overshadowed by the dramatic lives of his mother and son, Charles I. This book seeks to redress the balance by centering the first... -
Arthur Melville by Kenneth McConkey 9781906270872
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.80Arthur Melville was arguably the most innovative and modernist Scottish artist of his generation and one of the finest British watercolourists of the nineteenth century, yet he avoided categorisation... -
Face of Scotland, The: the Scottish National Portrait Gallery at Kirkcudbright James Holloway 9781906270131
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.30Scotland has produced an astonishingly high number of men and women whose lives have inspired and changed the world. This book, illustrating just over forty portraits, represents only a few of them,... -
The Classic Mondrian in Neo-Calvinist View: The Watson Gordon Lecture 2017 by Joseph Masheck 9781911054283
RRP: £7.95Booksplease Price: £6.14In this book, Joseph Masheck re-examines the spiritual in Mondrian's art and proposes a parallel between the equilibrium found in his paintings and his writings on theological justification. The... -
Force: a Contemporary Portrait of Scotland's Police by Jane Brettle 9781903278819
RRP: £7.95Booksplease Price: £6.14Jane Brettle captures the diversity of Scotland's Police forces in this group of work by highlighting the differences in geography, population density and community across the country and the... -
Generation: 25 years Contemporary Art in Scotland Guide Moira Jeffrey 9781906270711
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38In the last twenty-five years contemporary art in Scotland has grown from a tiny and tightly knit community to a globally recognised centre of artistic innovation and experiment. This book provides... -
Modern Scottish Women: Painters and Sculptures 1885-1965 by Alice Strang 9781906270896
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £17.68This revelatory book concentrates on Scottish women painters and sculptors from 1885, when Fra Newbery became Director of the Glasgow School of Art, until 1965, the year of Anne Redpath's death. It... -
Daubigny and Impressionism Frances Fowle 9781911054009
RRP: £7.95Booksplease Price: £6.14Known today for his atmospheric views of the river Oise, Charles Francois Daubigny was a pioneer of modern landscape painting and an important precursor of French Impressionism. Although commercially... -
Hardest Kind of Archetype: Reflections on Roy Lichetenstein by Hal Foster 9781906270384
RRP: £7.95Booksplease Price: £6.14Established following the 125th anniversary of the Chair of Fine Art at the University of Edinburgh and named after the painter Sir John Watson Gordon, the Watson Gordon Lectures Typify the... -
French Paintings 1500-1900 Michael Clarke 9781911054641
RRP: £169.00Booksplease Price: £112.17The Scottish National Gallery’s outstanding collection of French paintings is described fully in this two-volume illustrated catalogue. Underpinned by extensive scholarly research, this comprehensive... -
Winifred Nicholson in Scotland by Alice Dewey 9781906270902
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50"Nicholson's Scottish paintings encapsulate her concerns with light, radiance and harmony which she expressed through flowers and the lyricism of the natural landscape." - The Independent. Throughout... -
J.D. Fergusson by Alice Strang 9781906270629
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £10.78J. D. Fergusson (1874-1961) is one of the four artists known as the Scottish Colourists, the others being F. C. B. Cadell, G. L. Hunter and S. J. Peploe. Fergusson was born in Leith, and was... -
Monarch of the Glen Christopher Baker 9781911054177
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £9.26The Monarch of the Glen by Sir Edwin Landseer (1802 1873) is one of the most celebrated paintings of the nineteenth century. It was acquired by the National Galleries of Scotland in 2017. In this new... -
Portrait Miniatures from Scottish Private Collections Stephen Lloyd 9781903278796
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38This book reveals the wealth of British and European miniatures preserved in Scottish private collections, most of which are not normally on show to the public. Some of these intimate and private... -
Energy: North Sea Portraits by Fiona Carlisle 9781903278925
RRP: £7.95Booksplease Price: £6.14The North Sea oil industry plays a vital role in the UK economy. Oil was first pumped ashore thirty years ago and based on current estimates there are still thirty further years of oil reserves to be... -
Generation: Reader and Guide Moira Jeffrey 9781906270728
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £15.03In the last twenty-five years contemporary art in Scotland has grown from a tiny and tightly knit scene to a globally recognised centre of artistic innovation and experiment. Generation Reader... -
Inspired? Get Writing! National Galleries Scotland 9781906270421
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38Thought-provoking, amusing, intriguing, disturbing: all these words will come to mind when browsing through this lavishly illustrated publication. The result of an ongoing collaboration between the... -
Joan Eardley by Fiona Pearson 9781906270766
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.25Joan Eardley was one of the best-loved Scottish artists of the twentieth century. Her observations of children in the back streets of Glasgow as well as her expressionistic drawings and oils of the... -
Perfect Chemistry: Photographs by Hill and Adamson by Anne M. Lyden 9781911054108
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £14.23Pioneering Edinburgh photographers David Octavius Hill (1802-1870) and Robert Adamson (1821-1848) together formed one of the most famous partnerships in the history of photography. Producing highly... -
Nathan Coley by Ewan Morrison 9781911054139
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38This richly illustrated publication explores the work of contemporary artist Nathan Coley. It offers a detailed look at three of his most significant sculptural works: The Lamp of Sacrifice, 286... -
Companion Guide to Photography in the National Galleries of Scotland by Sara Stevenson 9781906270209
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.70Since the practical invention of photography in the 1840s, Scotland has been at the centre of the history and development of the medium. The Scottish National Portrait Gallery - which houses the... -
100 Masterpieces: National Galleries of Scotland John Leighton 9781906270018
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £18.18The National Galleries of Scotland comprises threegalleries: the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Scottish National Gallery ofModern Art and the Scottish National Gallery. Together these... -
Scottish Art in 100 Works Patricia Allerston 9781911054474
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.05The National Galleries of Scotland is home to the most important collection of Scottish art in the world. This beautifully illustrated book introduces the collection through 100 works, specially... -
An Art Adventure around the National Galleries of Scotland Eilidh Muldoon 9781906270926
RRP: £7.95Booksplease Price: £6.14This beautiful colouring and drawing book contains intricate illustrations, decorative details and a fabulous fold-out map. This is the perfect starting point for your art adventure around the... -
Grayson Perry: Smash Hits by Grayson Perry
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £17.68"The Turner Prize winner leads a visual tour through his life in six artworks - from college days to knighthood." - Telegraph Grayson Perry is one of Britain's most celebrated contemporary artists... -
Dürer to Van Dyck: Drawings from Chatsworth House Charles Noble 9781911054672
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.85A unique opportunity to see rare and beautiful drawings by some of the biggest names in European art. Chatsworth House in Derbyshire holds one of the finest and most significant private collections... -
Lady Agnew: A Painting by John Singer Sargent Christopher Baker 9781911054481
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Gertrude Vernon, or Lady Agnew of Lochnaw, was an English woman who married a Scot. The American artist John Singer Sargent excelled as a painter in Europe. His portrait of Lady Agnew was painted in... -
Charles Rennie Mackintosh in France by P. Robertson 9781911054405
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.55Known worldwide for his architecture and interior designs, Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928) was also an extremely gifted painter. Towards the end of his life, he gave up his principal career as... -
I Want to Be A Machine: Andy Warhol and Eduardo Paolozzi by Keith Hartley 9781911054306
RRP: £7.95Booksplease Price: £6.14Through the early works of Andy Warhol and Eduardo Paolozzi, this book traces the development of their deep obsession with the machine. Looking at the way that both artists began in the late... -
J.M.W. Turner: The Vaughan Bequest by Christopher Baker 9781911054092
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.80J.M.W. Turner 1775-1851 was perhaps the most prolific and innovative of all British artists. His outstanding watercolours in the Scottish National Gallery are one of the most popular features of its... -
Rembrandt: Britain's Discovery of the Master Christian Tico Seifert 9781911054191
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.80This is the exceptionally rich story of Rembrandt's fame and influence in Britain. No other nation has witnessed such a passionate - and sometimes eccentric - craziness for Rembrandt's works. His... -
Victoria Crowe: Beyond Likeness Duncan MacMillan 9781911054221
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.00Victoria Crowe is one of the world's most vital and original figurative painters. Her instantly recognisable work is represented in a large number of public and private collections. This extensively... -
Desire Lines: A Year of Celtic Saints Thomas Joshua Cooper 9781911054658
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £22.32Using descriptions from stories about early Scottish and Celtic saints, photographer Thomas Joshua Cooper and Catherine Mooney made pilgrimages to the birth sites, death sites and places of...