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Paula Modersohn-Becker Paula Modersohn-Becker 9783777434896
RRP: $25.20Booksplease Price: $19.13When Paula Modersohn-Becker's artistfriends examined her extensive estate afew weeks after her death, they were overwhelmed.They only gradually realised thatin the painter, who had died so young,... -
Paula Modersohn-Becker by 9780500025628
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $26.10An accessible introduction to the life and work of this trailblazing pioneer of early modernism, published to coincide with a major exhibition at the Royal Academy, London. Paula Modersohn-Becker... -
Paula Modersohn-Becker by Ingrid Pfeiffer
RRP: $88.20Booksplease Price: $74.66No other artist of Classical Modernism has achieved a similar mythical status to that of Paula Modersohn-Becker. At the same time, the view of her work is often distorted by cliches. This... -
Paula Modersohn-Becker by Jay A. Clarke 9783791377346
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $65.37This exhibition catalog considers the work of a pioneering artist who subverted conventions in her bold depictions of the nude, self-portraits, and still-lives. An iconoclast in her own time,... -
The Letters and Journals by Paula Modersohn-Becker 9780810116443
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $47.17Recognized today as one of the great modernist painters, Paula Modersohn-Becker was also a gifted writer, and her large body of letters and journals represent the story of her life. This volume... -
Being Here: The Life of Paula Modersohn-Becker by Marie Darrieussecq 9781925498608
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Paula Modersohn-Becker: London–Berlin–Worpswede–Paris Frank Schmidt 9783777447827
RRP: $79.80Booksplease Price: $54.71She was one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century, and her works influenced such major figures as Georg Baselitz and Chantal Joffe. But how did Paula Becker, born in Dresden in... -
Dear Friend: Rainer Maria Rilke and Paula Modersohn-Becker by Eric Torgersen 9780810118195
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $31.94In 1908, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote Requiem for a Friend in memory of Paula Modersohn-Becker, the German painter who had profoundly affected him and who had died a year earlier. Although a great modern... -
Women Artists in Paris, 1850-1900 by Laurence Madeline
RRP: $136.50Booksplease Price: $119.11A celebration of the work and lives of women artists who shaped the art world of 19th-century Paris In the second half of the 19th century, Paris attracted an international gathering of women... -
Girl in White by Sue Hubbard 9781782279129
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35Paula 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... -
Women Artists in Midcentury America: A History in Ten Exhibitions by Daniel Belasco 9781789148435
RRP: $60.90Booksplease Price: $54.64In Women Artists in Midcentury America, readers embark on a journey spanning two decades, delving into the evolving social and artistic landscapes through the lens of all-women exhibitions. These... -
Making Van Gogh Alexander Eiling 9783777432984
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $69.62Making van Gogh focuses on the oeuvre of Vincent van Gogh in the context of its reception. The publication examines the particular role which German gallerists, collectors, critics and museums played... -
Children's Culture and the Avant-Garde: Painting in Paris, 1890-1915 Marilynn Strasser Olson 9781138548015
RRP: $111.28Booksplease Price: $104.77This volume explores the mutual influences between children's literature and the avant-garde. Olson places particular focus on fin-de-siecle Paris, where the Avant-garde was not unified in thought... -
Camille Claudel and Bernhard Hoetger: Emancipation from Rodin Yvette Deseyve 9783777444666
RRP: $62.90Booksplease Price: $45.32Sculptures by two impressive artists, both inspired by Rodin, emerge from the shadow cast by their great role model: the works of Camille Claudel (1864-1943) and Bernhard Hoetger (1874-1949) paved... -
Blue Land and City Noise: An Expressionist Stroll through Art and Literature by Cathrin Klingsohr-Leroy
RRP: $52.40Booksplease Price: $37.55Colourful, emotional, impulsive and modern - these are the qualities which characterise our ideas of German Expressionist painting. It is hard to believe that the works caused a scandal when they... -
Cassirer and the Breakthrough of Impressionism Anette Hüsch 9783777447629
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $63.90All the leading figures of French Impressionism found their way to the gallery of Paul Cassirer (1871-1926). This richly illustrated volume traces the footsteps of the art dealer from Berlin whose... -
Women Artists in Expressionism: From Empire to Emancipation by Shulamith Behr 9780691044620
RRP: $136.50Booksplease Price: $116.93A beautifully illustrated examination of the women artists whose inspired search for artistic integrity and equality influenced Expressionist avant-garde cultureWomen Artists in Expressionism... -
Gothic Modern: Munch. Beckmann. Kollwitz Ralph Gleis 9783777446271
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $67.26Gothic Modern illuminates the pivotal discovery of medieval Gothic art for Edvard Munch, Kathe Kollwitz and their artist contemporaries. It explores their deep attraction to the Gothic art of... -
Flesh of My Flesh by Kaja Silverman
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $45.02What is a woman? What is a man? How do they-and how should they-relate to each other? Does our yearning for "wholeness" refer to something real, and if there is a Whole, what is it, and why do we... -
Paul Celan: A Life Anna Arno 9780674298637
RRP: $62.90Booksplease Price: $52.40A luminous, groundbreaking biography of one of the most important literary figures of the twentieth century, best known for the poem "Deathfugue."Paul Celan (1920-1970) was recognized as the greatest... -
Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood by Hettie Judah 9780500027868
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $42.00'Hettie Judah's enthralling and important book expands a male-centred art history to include mothers as subjects and symbols, makers and myths' Jennifer Higgie 'One of the most electrifying and... -
Gwen John: Art and Life in London and Paris by Alicia Foster
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $45.89A Sunday Times Art Book of the Year: the first critical illustrated biography of this much-loved artist, locating her firmly in the art worlds of late 19th- and early 20th-century London and Paris. ... -
The Mirror and the Palette: Rebellion, Revolution and Resilience: 500 Years of Women's Self-Portraits Jennifer Higgie 9781474613798
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84'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... -
Sleepless by Marie Darrieussecq 9781804270653
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38Plagued by insomnia for twenty years, Marie Darrieussecq turns her attention to the causes, implications and consequences of sleeplessness: a nocturnal suffering that culminates at 4 a.m. and then...