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Robert Smithson: The Collected Writings by Robert Smithson
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £31.59Since the 1979 publication of The Writings of Robert Smithson, Robert Smithson's significance as a spokesman for a generation of artists has been widely acknowledged and the importance of his... -
Robert Smithson: Time Crystals by Amelia Barikin
Booksplease Price: £26.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925523614Author Amelia BarikinFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Monash University... -
Robert Smithson and the American Landscape by Ron Graziani 9780521827553
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £89.99Robert Smithson and the American Landscape is a social history of the artist's earthworks and their critical reception. Providing a close analysis of Smithson's own writings and art works, Ron... -
Inside the Spiral: The Passions of Robert Smithson by Suzaan Boettger 9781517913533
RRP: £112.00Booksplease Price: £89.90An expansive and revelatory study of Robert Smithson's life and the hidden influences on his iconic creations This first biography of the major American artist Robert Smithson, famous as the creator... -
Inside the Spiral: The Passions of Robert Smithson by Suzaan Boettger 9781517913540
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £22.27An expansive and revelatory study of Robert Smithson's life and the hidden influences on his iconic creations This first biography of the major American artist Robert Smithson, famous as the creator... -
Allan Kaprow, Robert Smithson, and the Limits to Art by Philip Ursprung 9780520245419
RRP: £71.00Booksplease Price: £64.72This innovative study of two of the most important artists of the twentieth century links the art practices of Allan Kaprow and Robert Smithson in their attempts to test the limits of art - both what... -
Teresita Fern�ndez / Robert Smithson Teresita Fern�ndez 9798890181039
RRP: £42.99Booksplease Price: £29.18Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Art of Return: The Sixties and Contemporary Culture by James Meyer
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £36.00More than any other decade, the Sixties captures our collective cultural imagination. And while many Americans can immediately imagine the sound of Martin Luther King, Jr. declaring, "I Have A... -
The Spiral Jetty Encyclo: Exploring Robert Smithson's Earthwork through Time and Place by Hikmet Sidney Loe 9781607815419
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £30.22Robert Smithson's earthwork, Spiral Jetty (1970), an icon of the Land Art movement of the 1960s and 1970s, is located on the northern shores of Utah's Great Salt Lake. Smithson built a masterpiece... -
Dia: An Introduction to Dia's Locations and Sites by Jessica Morgan
RRP: £17.50Booksplease Price: £12.69Featuring a textured cover, silver foil-stamped type and interior maps, this affordable and elegant guidebook maps out Dia's 11 global locations for international art lovers Released with the... -
Art in Time by Cole Swensen
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.88Historically, much landscape art has reinforced binaries such as inside/outside, subject/object, and culture/nature, thus reducing a complex network to an ornament that reinforces a sense of human... -
The Science Fiction of Poetics and the Avant-Garde Imagination by Michael Golston 9780817361006
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £26.32How the tropes of science fiction infuse and inform avant-garde poetics and many other kindred arts. This insightful, playful monograph from Golston does exactly what it advertises: modeling poetics... -
The Art of Mechanical Reproduction: Technology and Aesthetics from Duchamp to the Digital by Tamara Trodd
Booksplease Price: £57.22The Art of Mechanical Reproduction presents a striking new approach to how traditional art mediums - painting, sculpture, and drawing - changed in the twentieth century as a result of photography,... -
Spiral Jetta: A Road Trip Through the Land Art of the American West by Erin Hogan
Booksplease Price: £15.82Erin Hogan hit the road in her Volkswagen Jetta and headed west from Chicago in search of the monuments of American land art: a salty coil of rocks, four hundred stainless steel poles, a gash in a... -
New Jersey as Non-Site by Kelly Baum 9780300174373
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.35"Best in Show" - 2014 AAM Museum Publications Design Competition Between 1950 and 1975, some of the postwar era's most innovative artists flocked to a very unexpected place: New Jersey. Appreciating... -
Spiral Jetta: A Road Trip through the Land Art of the American West by Erin Hogan 9780226348452
Booksplease Price: £25.56Erin Hogan hit the road in her Volkswagen Jetta and headed west from Chicago in search of the monuments of American land art: a salty coil of rocks, four hundred stainless steel poles, a gash in a... -
Unearthed: Stephen Talasnik: Drawings, Sculpture, Installations by Stephen Talasnik
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £23.84Stephen Talasnik's intricate and mesmerizing work bridges the disciplines of art and architecture in this debut monograph. A polymath whose work encompasses sculpture, drawing, and architectural land... -
Nature's Nation: American Art and Environment by Karl Kusserow
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £42.83A groundbreaking ecocritical exploration of American art that examines the complex and evolving relationship between art and the environment Public awareness of environmental issues has never been... -
Gianfranco Gorgoni: Land Art Photographs by Ann Wolfe
RRP: £79.95Booksplease Price: £53.59The first career-spanning catalog of the work of Gianfranco Gorgoni, whose iconic photographs established Land Art as one of the major art movements of the twentieth century. For five decades,... -
Michael Heizer: The Once and Future Monuments by William L. Fox
RRP: £32.95Booksplease Price: £22.58The most comprehensive account available of Michael Heizer's art by a writer and curator who has critical experience with the artist and his work. Michael Heizer is among the greatest, and often... -
Black Mountain Chamberlain: John Chamberlain's Writings at Black Mountain College, 1955 by John Chamberlain 9780691204482
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £33.83The first publication of the unknown poetry of a major twentieth-century sculptorIn 1955, long before he became famous for his abstract metal sculptures, John Chamberlain lived at Black Mountain... -
The Short Story of Contemporary Art: A Pocket Guide to Key Movements, Works, Themes & Techniques Susie Hodge 9781399618731
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.54The Short Story of Contemporary Art is a must-read introduction to this exciting and important period from bestselling author and art historian Susie Hodge.This fascinating pocket guide to art... -
Art and Nature in the Anthropocene: Planetary Aesthetics by Susan Ballard 9780367710941
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37This book examines how contemporary artists have engaged with histories of nature, geology, and extinction within the context of the changing planet. Susan Ballard describes how artists challenge the... -
Second Site by James Nisbet 9780691194950
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21A meditation on how environmental change and the passage of time transform the meaning of site-specific artIn the decades after World War II, artists and designers of the land art movement used the... -
The New Monuments and the End of Man: U.S. Sculpture between War and Peace, 1945-1975 by Robert Slifkin 9780691192529
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £31.60How leading American artists reflected on the fate of humanity in the nuclear era through monumental sculptureIn the wake of the atomic bombings of Japan in 1945, artists in the United States began... -
Cartographies of New York and Other Postwar American Cities: Art, Literature and Urban Spaces by Monica Manolescu 9783030075170
Booksplease Price: £51.20Cartographies of New York and Other Postwar American Cities: Art, Literature and Urban Spaces explores phenomena of urban mapping in the discourses and strategies of a variety of postwar artists and... -
Dia: An Introduction to Dia's Locations and Sites by Kamilah N Foreman 9780944521281
RRP: £17.00Booksplease Price: £12.38A comprehensive guide to the Dia Art Foundation's constellation of 12 art spaces across the globe, from Times Square to the Great Salt Lake Basin This handy guidebook maps Dia Art Foundation's... -
Islands and Contemporary Art Gill Perry 9781789149364
RRP: £29.00Booksplease Price: £25.87In this ground-breaking exploration, Gill Perry looks at the vital role that islands play in contemporary visual arts. Responding to urgent issues such as migration, the climate emergency, and... -
A Life with Artists: Hannelore and Rudolph Schulhof by John Yau
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £40.69The Schulhofs were unique among American collectors, as they sought art with a truly international dimension; Milan, Rome, Paris, Dusseldorf, Basel, London, Kassel, Venice,... -
Cartographies of New York and Other Postwar American Cities: Art, Literature and Urban Spaces by Monica Manolescu 9783319986623
Booksplease Price: £70.88Cartographies of New York and Other Postwar American Cities: Art, Literature and Urban Spaces explores phenomena of urban mapping in the discourses and strategies of a variety of postwar artists and... -
The Share of Perspective Emmanuel Alloa 9781032739199
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.39This book is a defense of perspectivism in the age of post-truth. At the crossroads of science, art, and philosophy, it unearths a tradition that we must rediscover: the point of view is not only... -
Transporting Visions: The Movement of Images in Early America by Jennifer L. Roberts 9780520251847
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £40.73Transporting Visions follows pictures as they traveled through and over the swamps, forests, towns, oceans, and rivers of British America and the United States between 1760 and 1860. Taking seriously... -
Chris Dorland: Future Ruins Robert Hobbs 9783777446646
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £24.18Discover Chris Dorland: Future Ruins, the first monograph on the acclaimed artist, featuring a major essay by renowned art historian Robert Hobbs. Published by Hirmer in Spring 2026, this volume... -
Downtime: The Twentieth Century in Slow Motion by Mark Goble 9780231219150
RRP: £121.00Booksplease Price: £100.37Slow motion has become perhaps the least special effect in film and media, a stylistic technique for showing violence, dream sequences, and flashbacks or other experiences outside ordinary time. We... -
Omer Arbel by Omer Arbel
RRP: £69.95Booksplease Price: £45.04A dynamic, highly visual, and in-depth study of Omer Arbel, the internationally celebrated and collected multi-disciplinary designer and master of sculptural lighting The work of Omer Arbel Office... -
Geopoetry: Geology, Materiality, Ecopoetics by Dale Enggass 9780826365583
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £43.02At its core, geopoetics proposes that a connection between language and geology has become a significant development in post-World War II poetics. In Geopoetry, Dale Enggass argues that certain... -
The Ethics of Earth Art by Amanda Boetzkes
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.01Since its inception in the 1960s, the earth art movement has sought to make visible the elusive presence of nature. Though most often associated with monumental land-based sculptures, earth art... -
Nietzsche's Earth: Great Events, Great Politics Gary Shapiro 9780226394459
Booksplease Price: £47.72We have Nietzsche to thank for some of the most important accomplishments in intellectual history, but as Gary Shapiro shows in this unique look at Nietzsche's thought, the nineteenth-century... -
The Human Shutter: Photographs, Stereoscopic Depth, and Moving Images Robert L. Bowen 9781835950395
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £29.34This book provides four key insights, beginning with how photographic stillness, depth, and motion emerged en masse, departing from the gradualist narratives familiar in histories of photography and... -
Looking Up: The Skyviewing Sculptures of Isamu Noguchi by Hafthor Yngvason
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £23.51Isamu Noguchi's Skyviewing Sculpture was created by invitation for Western Washington University, north of Seattle, in 1969. The 14-foot high sculpture, which sits in the university's central quad,...