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Rene Magritte by Patricia Allmer
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $15.20The Belgian surrealist artist Rene Magritte redefined the way we think about art. Famous for his men in bowler hats, Magritte's witty and provocative work inspired generations of later artists, from... -
Selected Writings by Rene Magritte
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $15.20Available for the first time in an English translation, this selection gives non-Francophone readers the chance to encounter the many incarnations of renowned Belgian painter Rene Magritte - the... -
Cinemagritte: Rene Magritte within the Frame of Film History, Theory, and Practice by Lucy Fischer 9780814346365
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Cinemagritte: Rene Magritte within the Frame of Film History, Theory, and Practice by Lucy Fischer 9780814346372
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Surrealism by Amy Dempsey
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $10.32Surrealism was launched as a literary and artistic movement by French poet Andre Breton in 1924, and by the time of his death in 1966 had become one of the most popular art movements of the 20th... -
Codename Suzette: An extraordinary story of resistance and rescue in Nazi Paris by Anne Nelson
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $6.79The thrilling and previously untold true story of Suzanne Spaak, who abandoned her life of opulence to save the Jewish children of Occupied Paris during the Second World War.Suzanne Spaak was born... -
Magritte: A Life by Alex Danchev 9781781250785
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $18.38A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'The first significant biography of the artist' Michael Prodger, The Times' 'Best art books of 2021' 'Exemplary ... a scintillating read' Alastair Sooke, Daily... -
New Surrealism: The Uncanny in Contemporary Painting by Robert Zeller 9781580935692
RRP: $42.51Booksplease Price: $30.81New Surrealism: The Uncanny in Contemporary Painting by Robert Zeller offers a sweeping exposition of both historical Surrealism and its legacy in the world of contemporary art. It demonstrates the... -
Mac in the City of Light by Christopher Ward 9781459706149
Booksplease Price: $9.56Mac's school trip to Paris turns into an adventure she never imagined. Fourteen-year-old California girl Mackenzie, known as Mac, goes on a school trip to Paris where she meets up with an old... -
This is Magritte by Patricia Allmer 9781780678504
Booksplease Price: $6.77Belgian artist Rene Magritte's biography is a key element of his art. His life is infused with bizarre moments: a surreal journey oscillating between fact and fiction that he always conducted as the... -
Modern Art for Kids: Hands-On Art and Craft Activities Inspired by the Masters Stephanie Ho Poon 9780760382073
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $12.65Take a fun and engaging illustrated journey through modern art history, from Impressionism to Minimalism, to meet key artists and make crafts inspired by their work.Modern Art for Kids, the debut... -
What is Real? What is True?: Picturing Figures and Faces by Bart Verschaffel 9789076714639
RRP: $59.34Booksplease Price: $47.85What is real? What is true? Picturing Figures and Faces collects theoretical essays and artists' studies, published between 1988 and 2019, devoted to the artistic representation of the human figure... -
Modern Art Collection in the Pinakothek der Moderne Munich: Director's Choice by Bernhard Maaz 9781785511929
RRP: $12.84Booksplease Price: $9.35The Modern Art Collection (Sammlung Moderne Kunst) at the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich is one of the world's leading institutions for painting, sculpture, photography and new media. The spectrum... -
Salvador Dalí and the Surrealists: Their Lives and Ideas, 21 Activities by Michael Elsohn Ross 9781556524790
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $18.72The bizarre and often humorous creations of Rene Magritte, Joan Miro, Salvador Dali, and other surrealists are showcased in this activity guide for young artists. Foremost among the surrealists,... -
Sunrise by Lucy Fischer
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $15.56Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) is one of the most historically pivotal of all films. The first American film of the celebrated German director F.W. Murnau, Sunrise tells the story of a love... -
Modern Art Journal by Mary Richards
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95What made modern art so ground-breaking? Discover for yourself with The Modern Art Journal - a thought-provoking introduction to the revolutionary world of modern art.This interactive activity book... -
Magritte by Marcel Paquet 9783836503570
RRP: $19.35Booksplease Price: $18.27From men in bowler hats, floating in the sky, to a painting of a pipe above the caption "this is not a pipe", Rene Magritte (1898-1967) created an echo chamber of object and image, name and thing,... -
Botticelli by Barbara Deimling
RRP: $19.35Booksplease Price: $15.48With the patronage of the powerful Medici family, a canon of secular and religious work, and contributions to the celebrated Sistine Chapel, Sandro Botticelli (1444/45-1510) was well placed for fame... -
The Cinema of Converging Lives: Complex Films and Intersecting Stories in an Isolated World Lucy Fischer 9780197768655
Booksplease Price: $86.08What happens when strangers meet in film? The Cinema of Converging Lives explores a group of films within an important category of complex film, a genre that critics have hailed as proliferating... -
The Tears of Things: Melancholy And Physical Objects by Peter Schwenger 9780816646319
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $24.23We surround ourselves with material things that are invested with memories but can only stand for what we have lost. Physical objects-such as one's own body-situate and define us; yet at the same... -
Phantom Communities: The Simulacrum and the Limits of Postmodernism by Scott Durham 9780804730716 [USED COPY]
RRP: $123.84Booksplease Price: $1.37Phantom Communities reconsiders the status of the simulacrum-sometimes defined as a copy of a copy, but more rigorously defined as a copy that subverts the legitimacy and authority of its model-in... -
If Monet Painted a Monster by Amy Newbold 9780884487692
Booksplease Price: $10.44Edward Hopper's monster lurks outside the nighthawks' diner. James Whistler's monster rocks in her chair. Monsters invade masterpieces by Dorthea Tanning, Paul Cezanne, M.C. Escher, Jean Michel... -
Underworlds: A compelling journey through subterranean realms, real and imagined by Stephen Ellcock 9780500026311
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $23.09A darkly evocative compendium of images exploring natural, constructed, imaginary and subconscious underworlds, curated by renowned image collector and social media figure Stephen Ellcock. From the... -
The Golden Avant-garde: Idolatry, Commercialism and Art by Raphael Sassower 9780813919355
Booksplease Price: $51.47Since the eighteenth century, artists--especially so-called avant-garde artists--have played a conflicting role in society. Part of the reason for their complex position, argue Raphael Sassower and... -
Surrealism by Cathrin Klingsoehr-Leroy 9783836506731
RRP: $19.35Booksplease Price: $17.13With Salvador Dali as its figurehead, the great ship of Surrealism traversed the turbulent seas of the early 20th century with sails billowing with dreams and desires. Inspired by the... -
Dr. Seuss's Horse Museum by Andrew Joyner 9780241425732
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.60Your tour guide will show you how different artists can look at one thing - like a horse - and have totally different visions. These different visions create ART. And this is a book that canters... -
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Cultures of the Death Drive: Melanie Klein and Modernist Melancholia by Esther Sanchez-Pardo 9780822330097 [USED COPY]
RRP: $139.32Booksplease Price: $1.54Cultures of the Death Drive is a comprehensive guide to the work of pioneering psychoanalyst Melanie Klein (1882-1960) and to developments in Kleinian theory to date. It is also an analysis and a... -
Interviews with Francis Bacon: The Brutality of Fact by David Sylvester
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $17.97The extraordinarily revealing interviews with Francis Bacon conducted over a period of 25 years by the distinguished art critic David Sylvester amount to a unique statement by Bacon on his art and... -
The Milk Bowl of Feathers: Essential Surrealist Writings by Mary Ann Caws 9780811227070
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.38Originating in 1916 with the avant-garde Dada movement at the famous Cafe Voltaire in Zurich, surrealism aimed to unleash the powers of the creative act without thinking. Max Ernst, Andre Breton,... -
Alanbrooke War Diaries 1939-1945: Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke by Lord Alanbrooke
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $17.36'These are almost certainly the last secrets to be unlocked about the British high command in World War II' DAILY MAIL'Superb' SPECTATOR'A fascinating daily snapshot of the direction of the greatest... -
In Montparnasse: The Emergence of Surrealism in Paris, from Duchamp to Dali by Sue Roe
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $9.98'Supercharged. Highly colourful . . . they're all here, the big names of the time - behaving badly, and, at times, quite madly too' ObserverDuring the 1920s, in the Parisian neighbourhood of... -
In the Half Room Carson Ellis 9781406399837
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.95From the Caldecott Honor-winning creator of Home and Du Iz Tak? comes a gorgeous and quirky tale of an extraordinary room where everything is a half.The half room is full of half things. A half... -
Artistic Places by Susie Hodge
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $13.20Explore the landscapes and places that inspired great art: find peace in Monet's lily-filled garden oasis, climb Mount Fuji on a printmaker's pilgrimage, sail with Gauguin to the South Pacific to... -
The Daughter of Man by L. J. Sysko 9781682262306
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.49The Daughter of Man follows its unorthodox heroine as she transforms from maiden to warrior-then to queen, maven, and crone-against the backdrop of suburban America from the 1980s to today. In this... -
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Artistic Places by Susie Hodge 9780711254534 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $9.29Explore the landscapes and places that inspired great art: find peace in Monet's lily-filled garden oasis, climb Mount Fuji on a printmaker's pilgrimage, sail with Gauguin to the South Pacific to... -
Little Weirds: 'Funny, positive, completely original and inspiring' George Saunders by Jenny Slate
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.95'Magical' MINDY KALING'Funny and poignant and beautiful' JOHN MULANEY 'It made me remember I was alive' GEORGE SAUNDERS To see the world through Jenny Slate's eyes is to see it as though for the...