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Miro by Roland Penrose
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.48A new edition of this classic survey on the life and work of Spanish surrealist, Joan Miro, by his close friend, historian and fellow artist Roland Penrose. Among the great 20th-century masters,... -
Roland Penrose: The Life of a Surrealist by James King
RRP: $91.65Booksplease Price: $86.11The first biography of Roland Penrose, one of the great English-born practitioners of modernism in the twentieth century. James King explores the intricacies of Penrose's life and... -
Roland Penrose's Surrealist Camera by Ian Chance
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955959929Author Ian ChanceFormat HardbackPage Count 10Imprint Lee Miller Archives... -
Home Guard Manual of Camouflage by Roland Penrose
RRP: $25.25Booksplease Price: $18.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780953238972Author Roland PenroseFormat HardbackPage Count 101Imprint Lee Miller ArchivesPublisher... -
Roland Penrose: The Friendly Surrealist by Antony Penrose 9780953238958
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $27.79Penrose' wrote Andre Breton `est Surrealiste dans l'amitie' and `The Friendly Surrealist' is an apt description for the man who more than any other nurtured friendships and connections which... -
The Road is Wider Than Long: 2021 by Roland Penrose 9781914298004
RRP: $38.03Booksplease Price: $27.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914298004Author Roland PenroseFormat HardbackPage Count 56Imprint Lee Miller Archives... -
The Road is Wider Than Long: 2021 by Roland Penrose 9780953238996
RRP: $29.25Booksplease Price: $20.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780953238996Author Roland PenroseFormat HardbackPage Count 56Imprint Lee Miller Archives... -
Summer of 1937 - Lee Miller / Roland Penrose Antony Penrose 9781914298073
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $59.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914298073Author Antony PenroseFormat HardbackPage Count 124Imprint Lee Miller Archives... -
The Photobook World: Artists' Books and Forgotten Social Objects by Paul Ernest Michael Edwards
RRP: $175.50Booksplease Price: $128.99This volume sets out to challenge and ultimately broaden the category of the 'photobook'. It critiques the popular art-market definition of the photobook as simply a photographer's book, proposing... -
The Lives of Lee Miller: Soon to be a major motion picture starring Kate Winslet Antony Penrose 9780500297520
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $16.83Described by the Sunday Times as 'a fascinating revelation of an adventurous and protean spirit', this biography is the inspiration behind the 2024 film Lee, starring Kate Winslet as Lee Miller. ... -
The Home of the Surrealists: 75th Anniversary Edition by Antony Penrose 9781914298066
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $41.63Written by Antony Penrose, son of American feminist icon Lee Miller and British artist Roland Penrose this delightful narrative introduces the fascinating lives of Lee Miller; War Correspondent and... -
?�ngel Planells'Art and the Surrealist Canon Anna Vives 9781032929408
RRP: $79.93Booksplease Price: $72.42Having been mistakenly perceived as a follower of Salvador Dali, Catalan surrealist painter and writer Angel Planells (1901-1989) has passed through the history of art practically unnoticed. Yet his... -
A Picasso Anthology: Documents, Criticism, Reminiscences by Marilyn McCully 9780691003481
RRP: $78.00Booksplease Price: $64.00Picasso's extraordinary capacity to work in a variety of mediums and styles has amazed his critics since the first years of the century. This collection of critical and personal reactions to Picasso... -
Artists at Home Susie Hodge 9780711269439
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $41.05Take a look inside the homes of some of your favourite artists and explore how each one reflected their spirit and creativity. From William Morris and Pablo Picasso to Georgia O'Keeffe and Frida... -
The Lives of Lee Miller by Anthony Penrose
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06Published to coincide with the UK release in November 2023 of the film Lee, starring Kate Winslet as Lee Miller, a biography described by the Sunday Times as 'a fascinating revelation of an... -
Surrealism in Britain Michael Remy 9780367145736
RRP: $66.28Booksplease Price: $61.46This book was originally published in 1999, and is the first comprehensive study of the British surrealist movement and its achievements. Lavishly illustrated, the book provides a year-by-year... -
E. McKnight Kauffer: An Artist in Design by James King 9783034351508
RRP: $124.80Booksplease Price: $111.38American-born Edward McKnight Kauffer (1890-1954)-known as the 'Poster King'- is recognized as one of the most important designers to have worked in England and the United States in the first half of... -
Lee Miller and Surrealism in Britain: 2018 by Eleanor Clayton 9781848222724
RRP: $87.75Booksplease Price: $70.24Lee Miller (1907-1977) moved to London in the late 1930s, just as a rich strand of Surrealist practice was burgeoning in Britain. Miller was central to its development and prolonged life after World... -
Paul Nash: Designer and Illustrator by James King
RRP: $87.75Booksplease Price: $54.60Exploring the ways in which painting, applied design and illustration intertwined over the course of the accomplished career of Paul Nash (1889-1946), this book provides a new perspective on one of... -
Ady, Black Sun: by Gisèle Pineau Tiffane Levick 9781836242642
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $43.70When Man Ray, 44, and Adrienne Fidelin, 19, cross paths at the Bal Colonial on Rue Blomet during Paris' roaring twenties, an intense four-year love story is born. The four years of complicity and... -
Lee Miller's War: Beyond D-Day by Antony Penrose
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $25.94Lee Miller's work for Vogue from 1941-1945 sets her apart as a photographer and writer of extraordinary ability. The quality of her photography from the period has long been recognized as... -
A Ransomed Dissident: A Life in Art Under the Soviets by Igor Golomstock 9781350238886
Booksplease Price: $67.94In 1939, a ten-year-old Igor Golomstock accompanied his mother, a medical doctor, to the vast network of labour camps in the Russian Far East. While she tended patients, he was minded by assorted... -
On the Thirteenth Stroke of Midnight: Surrealist Poetry in Britain by Michel Remy
RRP: $36.95Booksplease Price: $27.85This book, the first published anthology of British surrealist poetry, takes its title from Herbert Read's words when he opened the Surrealist Poems and Objects exhibition at the London Gallery at... -
Miro's Magic Animals by Antony Penrose
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06A short, entertaining text narrated by the young Tony introduces Miro, a quiet, kind and smartly dressed man, who 'dreamed when he was awake' and painted wonderfully strange worlds filled with... -
Dorothy Morland: Making ICA History Anne Massey 9781789621280
RRP: $107.23Booksplease Price: $98.30This is the first full-length biography of Dorothy Morland (1906-99), to date the only female director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London. Based on unpublished letters and other... -
Surrealism in Britain by Michel Remy
RRP: $58.40Booksplease Price: $47.62Since the rediscovery of British Surrealism at the Children of Alice exhibition at Marcel Fleiss's Galerie 1900-2000 in Paris in 1982, there has been a major revival of interest in Surrealism outside... -
Irascible: The Combative Life of Douglas Cooper, Collector and Friend of Picasso Adrian Clark 9780300282696
RRP: $87.75Booksplease Price: $75.80A pioneering collector of Cubist art, the English art historian and critic Douglas Cooper was one of the most important - and divisive - figures in the international art world of the 20th century... -
Lee Miller: Photographs by Antony Penrose 9780500025925
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $42.61One hundred of the most outstanding photographs taken by photographer, model and Surrealist muse Lee Miller, published in anticipation of the November 2023 release of the film Lee, starring Kate... -
Dorothy Morland: Making ICA History by Anne Massey 9781789621273
Booksplease Price: $232.07This is the first full-length biography of Dorothy Morland (1906-99), to date the only female director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London. Based on unpublished letters and other... -
A Vast Horizon: Artists and Lovers, Freedom and War by Anna Thomasson 9781447245568
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $27.79A glorious fusion of history and art, A Vast Horizon tells the story of Pablo Picasso and his free-spirited friends, including Lee Miller and Man Ray, in the tumultuous years around the Second World... -
A Ransomed Dissident: A Life in Art Under the Soviets by Igor Golomstock 9781788312950
RRP: $79.95Booksplease Price: $63.22In 1939, a ten-year-old Igor Golomstock accompanied his mother, a medical doctor, to the vast network of labour camps in the Russian Far East. While she tended patients, he was minded by assorted...