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Michelangelo Buonarroti Alison Cole 9781910350669
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $11.92Michelangelo's (1475 1564) "Taddei Tondo," in the collection of the Royal Academy in London, offers a fascinating insight into the master's technical and experimental skill. Joshua Reynolds, the... -
Matisse: Chapel at Vence Marie-Therese Pulvenis de Seligny 9781907533600
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $34.29Considered one of the most important religious structures of the twentieth century, the Chapel of the Rosary in Vince was regarded by Matisse himself as his great masterpiece. He dedicated four years... -
Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael: Florence, c. 1504 Scott Nethersole 9781915815101
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $35.60At the turn of the 16th century, three titans of the Italian Renaissance briefly crossed paths, competing for the attention of the most powerful patrons in Republican Florence. In January 1504 the... -
An Indian Sketchbook: Anthony Eyton Anthony Eyton 9781915815217
RRP: $19.29Booksplease Price: $13.52One of the country's most distinguished figurative painters, the centenarian Royal Academician Anthony Eyton OBE (b. 1923) is renowned for the fluidity of his technique and the spontaneity of his... -
Green Fingers of Monsieur Monet by Giancarlo Ascari 9781910350348
Booksplease Price: $4.50This is a perfect first-facts book about Monet, telling the story of the artist and his work through the famous garden at Giverny that so inspired him. Monet's lavish paintings are re-imagined in... -
Nigel Hall: Drawings by Andrew Lambirth 9781915815071
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $18.77Born in 1943 in Bristol, Nigel Hall RA studied at the West of England College of Art and at the Royal College of Art in London before winning a Harkness Fellowship to study in America, where he... -
Michaelina Wautier Jean Bastiaensen 9781915815200
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $28.19Michaelina Wautier (1604-1689) is a name unfamiliar even to connoisseurs of Old Master painting. This handsome book seeks to correct that, by exploring the surviving portraits, history paintings,... -
The Multitude Diaries: Chris Orr by Chris Orr 9781905711352 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $3.87"The Multitude Diaries" presents 238 of Orr's drawings from the last twenty years. Best known as a printmaker, Chris Orr RA is also a prodigious draughtsman. His drawings introduce a cast of... -
Bill Woodrow: Alphabet by Bill Woodrow 9781907533839
RRP: $6.44Booksplease Price: $5.17B is for Mutant? Z is for Secret? Bill Woodrow's unique alphabet offers a glimpse into a playful and endlessly inventive artistic mind. Part sketchbook, part riddle, this small clothbound book... -
Sydney Lee Prints by Robert Meyrick 9781907533402
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $32.22The first publication devoted to the work of Sydney Lee RA (18661949), this fully illustrated and annotated catalogue raisonne of his prints offers a long overdue appraisal of his contribution to... -
Michael Craig-Martin Michael Bracewell 9781915815095
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $36.25Sir Michael Craig-Martin CBE RA (b. 1941) is an important figure in British conceptual art, and among the most influential artists and teachers of his generation. Since his rise to prominence in the... -
Rose Wylie Katharine Stout 9781915815224
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $28.19Rose Wylie OBE RA (b. 1934) lives and works in Kent. She paints from memory, frequently taking her imagery from mass media. Her large works on unstretched, unprimed canvas appear simple at first... -
Ian McKeever: Writings on Art by Ian McKeever 9781915815231
RRP: $21.87Booksplease Price: $17.54Ian McKeever RA (b. 1946) began painting in 1969. His early work grew out of a conceptual interest in landscape, painting and photography, reflecting his journeys to Greenland, Papua New Guinea and... -
Light Line: The Architectural Photographs of Helene Binet by 9781912520855
RRP: $21.87Booksplease Price: $13.31The Franco-Swiss photographer Helene Binet (b. 1959) is renowned for making images that express an intimate experience of architecture. Using a combination of analogue and digital techniques, her... -
David Remfry: Tango by Royal Academy of Arts 9781915815088
RRP: $23.16Booksplease Price: $16.74Born in 1942 in Worthing, David Remfry RA studied at Hull College of Art. His first solo show in London in 1973 has been followed by more than 50 international solo exhibitions. He is well known both... -
The Royal Academy of Arts: History and Collections by Robin Simon 9780300232073
RRP: $90.30Booksplease Price: $80.08Published in association with the Royal Academy of Arts, London Animated by an unprecedented study of its collections, this book tells the story of the Royal Academy of Arts, London, and... -
The Miserable Lives of Fabulous Artists Chris Orr 9781910350898
RRP: $21.87Booksplease Price: $16.32In The Miserable Lives of Fabulous Artists, Chris Orr turns his humorous gaze on some of the most famous - and fabulous - artists of the past. With over 30 new works, accompanied by Orr's captions,... -
Burlington House: Home of the Royal Academy of Arts Nicholas Savage 9781910350805
RRP: $77.40Booksplease Price: $53.41On Charles II's restoration to the throne in 1660, four of his supporters were provided with plots of land in a leafy suburb of London, on which to build their extravagant town palaces. The only... -
Angelica Kauffman by Bettina Baumgärtel 9781915815033
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $18.77Internationally renowned, highly educated and very well connected, Angelica Kauffman (1741-1807) led a brilliant career as a pioneering history painter, an innovative portraitist and one of only two... -
Francis Bacon: Man and Beast Michael Peppiatt 9781912520558
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $32.22Francis Bacon is considered one of the most important painters of the twentieth century. A major exhibition of his paintings at the Royal Academy of Arts, planned for 2020 but postponed because of... -
Bill Jacklin: Monotypes by Nancy Campbell 9781915815064
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $22.81Born in 1943 in London, Bill Jacklin RA studied and worked in graphic design before a move to study painting at the Royal College of Art. Initially abstract, his work moved towards figuration in the... -
Humphrey Ocean: Africa! by Humphrey Ocean 9781915815149
RRP: $23.16Booksplease Price: $16.74On regular visits to his sister in Kenya and Tanzania over many years, the British artist and Royal Academician Humphrey Ocean (b. 1951) has chanced upon and recorded in his deft, inimitable style a... -
Lost Futures: The Disappearing Architecture of Post-War Britain Owen Hopkins 9781910350621
RRP: $19.29Booksplease Price: $13.91Lost Futures looks in detail at the wide range of buildings constructed in Britain between 1945 and 1979. Although their bold architectural aspirations reflected the forward-looking social ethos of... -
Parallel Lines: Eileen Cooper Kathleen Soriano 9781399931502
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $18.77"The book is compact, beautifully designed, and includes excellent essays by Linsey Young and Kathleen Soriano, with introductions on each section by the artist, reproductions of each work in the... -
Shetland Notebook by Norman Ackroyd 9781907533891
RRP: $24.45Booksplease Price: $17.54Norman Ackroyd CBE RA has spent over four decades recording the coastal landscapes of the British archipelago. All his watercolours and many of his etchings are executed en plein air, mainly from... -
Understanding Modern Art Sam Phillips (Royal Academy of Arts, UK) 9781912217205
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $8.98An updated edition of the pocket-sized guide to the 'isms' of modern art. This is a handy guide to the art 'isms' of the modern day. From Impressionism and the birth of modern art to street art... -
Mick Moon by Mel Gooding 9781910350928
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $17.56The first monograph on this important but overlooked artist. Coincides with a major show of new work at Alan Cristea Gallery, London, 27 June to 31 July, 2019. Mick Moon RA was born in Edinburgh... -
Cornelia Parker: Transitional Object (PsychoBarn) Margaret Iversen 9781912520077
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $11.92In October 2018 Cornelia Parker's Transitional Object (PsychoBarn) lands in the courtyard of the Royal Academy of Arts, London. This meticulous and unsettling installation - first shown on the roof... -
A Yorkshire Sketchbook by David Hockney
RRP: $24.45Booksplease Price: $14.64In recent years David Hockney has returned to England to paint the landscape of his childhood in East Yorkshire. Although his passionate interest in new technologies has led him to develop a virtuoso... -
Bill Viola / Michelangelo: Life Death Rebirth by Martin Clayton 9781910350997
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $31.19At first glance, there may appear to be more to separate Michelangelo (1475-1564) and Bill Viola (b. 1951) than to unite them: one, the great master of the Italian Renaissance; the other, the creator... -
Norman Ackroyd: An Irish Notebook by Norman Ackroyd
RRP: $24.45Booksplease Price: $17.54Norman Ackroyd CBE RA has been a familiar face to the boatmen of the British Isles for the past 50 years, often requiring their services to take him out on the water, where he paints the coastal... -
Emma Stibbon: Melting Ice / Rising Tides by Sara Cooper 9781915815057
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $21.88Working principally in drawing and print media on paper, Emma Stibbon RA depicts landscapes and environments that are undergoing dynamic transformation, among them the polar regions, volcanic areas,... -
Kerry James Marshall: The Histories Mark Godfrey 9781915815125
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $37.67Kerry James Marshall: The Histories is the most extensive publication on the artist to date, celebrating half a century of his work. It reveals the complex ways in which he has transformed histories... -
Barbara Rae: Arctic Sketchbooks Barbara Rae 9781912520114
RRP: $21.87Booksplease Price: $15.93These sketchbooks, the work of the acclaimed Scottish artist Barbara Rae CBE RA during her three journeys towards the Northwest Passage in the depths of the Arctic Circle in 2015, 2016 and 2017,... -
Impressionists on Paper: Degas to Toulouse-Lautrec by Ann Dumas 9781912520978
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $22.81"Monet, van Gogh and Cezanne feature in a pleasurable Royal Academy show that demonstrates why the Impressionists remain the world's favourite set of artists." - Independent Best known for their... -
Six Fairy Tales From The Brothers Grimm by David Hockney 9781907533242
RRP: $21.87Booksplease Price: $15.93The fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm according to David Hockney are like no other version you will have read before. Although inspired by earlier illustrators of the tales, from Arthur Rackham to... -
Summer Exhibition Illustrated 2020 Jane Wilson RA 9781912520527
RRP: $21.87Booksplease Price: $15.93The Royal Academy's legendary Summer Exhibition has been an annual event since 1769 and is always an occasion for innovation, experiment and debate. But 2020 may prove to be its most extraordinary... -
A Book of Birds: by Humphrey Ocean Humphrey Ocean, RA 9781912520374
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $11.92The artist Humphrey Ocean RA has painted portraits of Sir Paul McCartney and Philip Larkin, among many others. But alongside these prestigious commissions, he has always returned to drawing the... -
Italian Journey Anne Desmet 9781910350546
RRP: $19.29Booksplease Price: $13.52This jewel-like book evokes unmistakable Italian landscapes and cityscapes. Anne Desmet's pen commits every detail to paper, and the small-scale format emphasises her distinctive flair for capturing... -
Herzog & de Meuron Ila Beka and Louise Lemoine 9781912520718
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $18.38Renowned for such prominent buildings as London's Tate Modern, Beijing's Bird's Nest National Stadium and 1111 Lincoln Road in Miami Beach, Herzog & de Meuron sits at the cutting edge of contemporary...