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Abstract Art by Dietmar Elger
RRP: $31.50Booksplease Price: $25.39Abstraction shook Western art to its core. In the early part of the 20th century, it refuted the reign of clear, indisputable forms and confronted audiences instead with vivid visual poems devoid of... -
The Art and Science of Ernst Haeckel. 40th Ed. by Rainer Willmann
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $38.85Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919) was a German-born biologist, naturalist, evolutionist, artist, philosopher, and doctor who spent his life researching flora and fauna from the highest mountaintops to the... -
Bu Pierre - Joseph Redoute the Complete Plates by Dr H Walter Lack
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $44.25Floral Masterpieces The finest floral treasures of Pierre-Joseph Redoute French flower painter Pierre-Joseph Redoute (1759-1840) devoted himself exclusively to capturing the diversity of flowering... -
Jean Marc Bourgery. Atlas of Human Anatomy and Surgery by Jean-Marie Le Minor
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $34.13We owe a great debt to Jean Baptiste Marc Bourgery (1797-1849) for his Atlas of Anatomy, which was not only a massive event in medical history, but also remains one of the most comprehensive and... -
Massimo Listri. Cabinet of Curiosities. 40th Ed. Antonio Paolucci 9783836593786
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $38.83The Wunderkammer, or “cabinet of curiosities,” saw collectors gathering objects from many strands of artistic, scientific, and intellectual endeavor, in an ambitious attempt to encompass all of... -
Henri Matisse. Cut-outs. 40th Ed. by Xavier-Gilles Neret
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $42.06Toward the end of his monumental career as a painter, sculptor, and lithographer, an elderly, sickly Matisse was unable to stand and use a paintbrush for long. In this late phase of his life-he was... -
King Tut. The Journey through the Underworld. 40th Ed. Sandro Vannini 9783836584234
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $42.57Buried in the 14th century BC but unearthed by Howard Carter in 1922, the objects entombed with Tutankhamun are an invaluable window into a long-extinct belief system. Seen today, they create an... -
Van Gogh. The Complete Paintings by Rainer Metzger
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $33.68Vincent van Gogh's story is one of the most ironic in art history. Today, he is celebrated the world over as one of the most important painters of all time, recognized with sell-out shows, feted... -
Dian Hanson’s: The History of Men’s Magazines. Vol. 1: From 1900 to Post-WWII by Dian Hanson
Booksplease Price: $128.92The first commercial camera was introduced in 1839. By 1865 technology enabled ordinary men to create photographic negatives, and they immediately began taking and distributing photos of naked women... -
Max Ernst by Ulrich Bischoff 9783836595292
RRP: $31.50Booksplease Price: $24.76With unparalleled artistic originality Max Ernst (1891–1976) transformed everything he touched. By pushing the boundaries and breaking loose from the confined view of the culture of his time, he... -
Frida Kahlo. 40th Ed. by Luis-Martín Lozano 9783836594851
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $40.01Among the women artists who have transcended art history, none had a meteoric rise quite like Mexican painter Frida Kahlo (1907–1954). Her unmistakable face, depicted in over fifty extraordinary... -
domus 1940-1949 Charlotte & Peter Fiell 9783836593830
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $54.85Founded in 1928 as a “living diary” by the great Milanese architect and designer Gio Ponti, domus has been hailed as the world’s most influential architecture and design journal. With style and... -
Stephen Wilkes. Day to Night Lyle Rexer 9783836592574
RRP: $126.00Booksplease Price: $85.16If you were to stand in one spot at an iconic location for 30 hours and simply observe, never closing your eyes, you still wouldn’t be able to take in all the detail and emotion found in a Stephen... -
domus 1950-1959 Charlotte & Peter Fiell 9783836593847
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $60.52Founded in 1928 as a “living diary” by the great Milanese architect and designer Gio Ponti, domus has been hailed as the world’s most influential architecture and design journal. With style and... -
The East German Handbook by Justinian Jampol 9783836565202
RRP: $84.00Booksplease Price: $54.05For 40 years, the Cold War dominated the world stage. East and West Germany stood at the frontlines of the global confrontation, symbolized by the infamous Berlin Wall, which separated lovers,... -
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Mucha by Renate Ulmer 9783822885741 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.68Booksplease Price: $2.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783822885741Author Renate UlmerFormat PaperbackPage Count 95Imprint Taschen GmbHPublisher Taschen GmbH -
George Herriman’s “Krazy Kat”. The Complete Color Sundays 1935–1944 Taschen 9783754401309
RRP: $168.00Booksplease Price: $134.30The premise is simple: a black cat loves scheming a white mouse who incessantly throws bricks at the cat's head, which police dog Officer Pupp, secretly harboring a passionate love for the cat,... -
All-American Ads of the 80s by 9783836588614
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $60.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783836588614Format HardbackPage Count 608Imprint Taschen GmbHPublisher Taschen GmbHWeight(grams) 196g -
Modern Architecture A-Z by TASCHEN
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $33.68With more than 280 entries, this architectural A-Z, now part of our Bibliotheca Universalis series, offers an indispensable overview of the key players in the creation of modern space. From the... -
Frederic Chaubin. Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed by Frederic Chaubin
RRP: $105.00Booksplease Price: $81.59Photographer Frederic Chaubin reveals 90 buildings sited in 14 former Soviet Republics which express what he considers to be the fourth age of Soviet architecture. His poetic pictures reveal an... -
Egypt by Rose-Marie Hagen
RRP: $31.50Booksplease Price: $24.76From the Land of the Pharaohs. The finest treasures from Ancient Egypt. The art of ancient Egypt that has been handed down to us bears no names of its creators, and yet we value the creations of... -
Wolfgang Tillmans. four books. 40th Ed. by Wolfgang Tillmans
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $42.06Like hardly any other artist of his generation, Wolfgang Tillmans has shaped our perception of the world. From early portraits of his friends to still lifes, travel shots, nudes, landscape and sky... -
Walter Chandoha. Dogs. Photographs 1941-1991 Reuel Golden 9783836584296
RRP: $84.00Booksplease Price: $67.12The world appears to be divided into cat and dog lovers, but fortunately Walter Chandoha, the 20th century’s greatest pet photographer found himself happily in the middle. He loved these intriguing... -
Gay Talese. Phil Stern. Frank Sinatra Has a Cold Gay Talese 9783836576185
RRP: $105.00Booksplease Price: $79.91"Sinatra with a cold is Picasso without paint, Ferrari without fuel-only worse. For the common cold robs Sinatra of that uninsurable jewel, his voice, cutting into the core of his confidence... -
Kay Nielsen. 1001 Nights by Taschen 9783836595636
RRP: $105.00Booksplease Price: $79.02In the late 1910s, in a Europe ravaged by World War I, Danish illustrator Kay Nielsen put the finishing touches on his illustrations of A Thousand and One Nights. The results are considered... -
domus 1928-1939 Charlotte & Peter Fiell 9783836594455
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $59.89Offering an unrivaled record of architecture and design, the “living diary” of domus was founded by Gio Ponti in 1928. Through the years and decades that followed, the journal charted the major... -
Fausto & Felice Niccolini. The Houses and Monuments of Pompeii by Valentin Kockel 9783836556873
RRP: $315.00Booksplease Price: $246.77When the excavations at Pompeii were first placed on a scholarly archaeological footing in the 19th century, brothers Fausto and Felice Niccolini were close at hand and ready to respond. Making use... -
Rock Covers by Robbie Busch 9783836545259
RRP: $126.00Booksplease Price: $98.03Album art is indelibly linked to our collective musical memories; when you think of your favorite albums, you picture the covers. Many photographers, illustrators, and art directors have become... -
Rem Koolhaas. Elements of Architecture by Rem Koolhaas 9783836556149
RRP: $262.50Booksplease Price: $204.04Elements of Architecture focuses on the fragments of the rich and complex architectural collage. Window, facade, balcony, corridor, fireplace, stair, escalator, elevator: the book seeks to excavate... -
Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott by Charlotte Cotton 9783836573061
RRP: $210.00Booksplease Price: $144.80Mert Alas, born in Turkey, and Marcus Piggott, born in Wales, met in 1994, at a party on a pier in Hastings, England. Piggott asked Alas for a light, the pair got talking, and rapidly discovered they... -
Bosch. the Complete Works by Stefan Fischer 9783836578691
RRP: $168.00Booksplease Price: $126.04A bird-monster devouring sinners, naked bodies in tantric contortions, a pair of ears brandishing a sharpened blade: with just 20 paintings and nine drawings to his name, Netherlandish visionary... -
The James Bond Archives. “No Time To Die” Edition by Paul Duncan
RRP: $168.00Booksplease Price: $126.04“Bond, James Bond.” Since Sean Connery uttered those immortal words in 1962, the most dashing secret agent in the history of cinema has been charming and thrilling audiences worldwide. This... -
Chagall Ingo F. Walther 9783836527835
RRP: $31.50Booksplease Price: $25.39For Marc Chagall (1887-1985), painting was an intricate tapestry of dreams, tales, and traditions. His instantly recognizable visual language carved out a unique early 20th-century niche, often... -
100 Interiors Around the World by TASCHEN
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $33.68Making stops in North and South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia, this edition rounds up some of today's most exceptional and inspiring interiors across six continents. From rustic... -
Living in Mexico. 40th Anniversary Edition by Barbara & Rene Stoeltie
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $42.06South of the border, rich colors and woven textiles form a unique design aesthetic, crafted by the union of local Aztec and Mayan cultures and Spanish influences. Bold pigments and vivid patterns... -
Massimo Listri. The World’s Most Beautiful Libraries. 40th Ed. by Taschen
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $42.57From the mighty halls of ancient Alexandria to the coffered ceilings of the Morgan Library in New York, human beings have had a long, enraptured relationship with libraries. Like no other concept and... -
All-American Ads of the 40s by Jim Heimann 9783836588584
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $59.89At the beginning of the decade, America was at war. Patriotism was an integral part of everyday life, with the sentiment mirrored in advertising. As America emerged victorious out of the darkness of... -
The World of Ornament by David Batterham
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $33.68Discover a world of decorative ideas with this compendium of history's most elegant patterns and ornamental designs.The World of Ornament brings together the two greatest encyclopedic collections of... -
Pieter Bruegel. The Complete Works by Jurgen Muller
RRP: $168.00Booksplease Price: $127.18The life and times of Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1526/30-1569) were marked by stark cultural conflict. He witnessed religious wars, the Duke of Alba's brutal rule as governor of the Netherlands,... -
Strandbeest: the Dream Machines of Theo Jansen by Lena Herzog
RRP: $126.00Booksplease Price: $96.05Sculptural species: A new life-form in its own right? Lena Herzog captures the uncanny sculpture-creatures of Theo Jansen For the past seven years, photographer and artist Lena Herzog has followed...