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Gerhard Richter: Panorama - revised by Nicholas Serota
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $33.26Gerhard Richter is widely regarded as one of the most important painters at work today. He is as well known for his figurative works as he is for his abstract paintings, often combining elements of... -
Experience or Interpretation: The Dilemma of Museums of Modern Art by Nicholas Serota
RRP: $10.26Booksplease Price: $7.92How do we see art? How is it displayed? One hundred years ago, art was shown in a way intended to educate. Galleries reflected the curator's view of history at the expense of differing opinions... -
Rose Wylie: Which One Rose Wylie 9781644230756
RRP: $90.30Booksplease Price: $61.47"Wylie fearlessly tackles the thorniest topics head-on, committing her thoughts and questions about politics, religion, fame, love, history, money and nature to canvas." - Charlotte Brook, Harper's... -
Bruce Nauman by Andrea Lissoni
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $22.42A journey through the groundbreaking works of Bruce Nauman, one of the most restlessly inventive contemporary artists of today. Since the late 1960s Bruce Nauman has established a completely new... -
Lucian Freud: The Copper Paintings by Martin Gayford
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $34.80Brings together, for the first time, Lucian Freud's oil on copper paintings, including his lost portrait of Francis Bacon and two works that have never been reproduced before In the early 1950s,... -
Richter Dieter Schwarz 9782386110597
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $42.35Gerhard Richter describes himself as a "classical painter," and the exhibition at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris aims to showcase the complete evolution of his career, spanning over six decades... -
Girl in White by Sue Hubbard 9781782279129
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43Paula Modersohn-Becker was a pioneer of modern art in Europe, but denounced as degenerate by the Nazis after her death. Sue Hubbard draws on the artist's diaries and paintings to bring to life her... -
Vermeer by Wayne Franits
RRP: $23.16Booksplease Price: $16.52In this new monograph, the latest in Phaidon's Art and Ideas series, Wayne Franits examines the work of Vermeer within the framework of his times, one of the most intellectually creative periods in... -
Chinati: The Vision of Donald Judd by Marianne Stockebrand
RRP: $83.85Booksplease Price: $74.20A beautiful book on the famed Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas The Chinati Foundation, a world-famous destination for large-scale contemporary art, was founded by Donald Judd (1928-1994) to... -
Aboriginal Art by Jacques Guiod 9780714837529
RRP: $45.09Booksplease Price: $41.81For thousands of years, Australian Aborigines have been making art. A manifestation of the creative forces of Dreamtime, art is also a fundamental means of expressing individual and group identity... -
The Curator's Handbook: Museums, Commercial Galleries, Independent Spaces Adrian George 9780500297612
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $19.03An updated edition of this essential practical handbook for all those involved in, or studying, the dynamic field of curating. From pitching your ideas and writing loan requests to working with... -
Greek Art by Francoise Guiramand 9780714833682
RRP: $45.09Booksplease Price: $41.81Nigel Spivey sets the formation of the classical style in its proper historical context. He explores the question of how Greek art was inextricably bound up with the social, religious, philosophical... -
Stones, Clouds, Miles: A Richard Long Reader Clarrie Wallis 9781909932302
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $18.77Charting Richard Long's critical reception, this anthology of writings explores the artist's radical rethinking of the relationship between art and landscape. Widely considered as one of the most... -
Courbet by Xavier Bernard
RRP: $23.16Booksplease Price: $16.52Amid the background of social turbulence in the mid-nineteenth century, Gustave Courbet's unconventional paintings of real people in everyday scenes came to embody values with radical political... -
Romanticism by David Blayney Brown 9780714834436
RRP: $45.09Booksplease Price: $41.81Romanticism was a way of feeling rather than a style in art. In the period c.1775-1830 - against the background of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars - European artists, poets and... -
Islamic Arts by Jonathan M. Bloom 9780714831763
RRP: $45.09Booksplease Price: $41.81Islamic Arts, a comprehensive survey covering a thousand years, highlights those characteristics that connect the various arts of the Islamic lands without minimizing the differences. The book is... -
Durer by Jeffrey Chipps Smith 9780714845609
RRP: $23.16Booksplease Price: $16.52Albrecht Durer (1471-1528) was the greatest artist of the Northern European Renaissance. Durer's virtuoso woodcuts and engravings ensured his fame throughout the Continent during his own lifetime... -
The Gothic Revival by Phil Baines 9780714834801
RRP: $45.09Booksplease Price: $41.81At the height of the Victorian period, a passion for the Gothic style swept England and spread far beyond. Gothic architecture, associated with the social and cultural ideals of the Middle Ages, was... -
Pop Art by Bradford R. Collins
RRP: $23.16Booksplease Price: $16.52This new title in the renowned Art & Ideas series is a thorough introduction to, and significant appraisal of, the art of Pop. Bradford Collins explains the essence of Pop art and examines its full... -
See What You're Missing: 31 Ways Artists Notice the World – and How You Can Too by Will Gompertz 9780241315484
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.93How might we see ourselves more clearly? Consult Rembrandt.Who can encourage us to see more intimately? Tracey Emin is the expert.What about helping us see through pain? Look no further than Frida... -
Building Culture: Sixteen Architects on How Museums Are Shaping the Future of Art, Architecture, and Public Space Julian Rose 9781797223681
RRP: $33.54Booksplease Price: $23.09An insider's look at art museums and how they shape the ways we view art, through the eyes of the architects who design them. Architects and art lovers everywhere will enjoy this remarkable...