Art & Photography Books
Paul Holberton Publishing Ltd Goya: The Witches and Old Women Album
Book SynopsisThis groundbreaking reconstruction of Goya's so-called 'Witches and Old Women' album will offer rich insights into the artist's concerns and preoccupations and will immeasurably deepen our understanding of the artist. With its themes of witchcraft, madness and nightmares, the predominant imagery of the album offers a particularly important perspective on the development of Goya's interest in old age and its relationship to the fantastic and diabolical.
£28.50
Paul Holberton Publishing Ltd Rodin and Dance: The Essence of Movement
Book SynopsisRodin & Dance: The Essence of Movement is the first serious study of Rodin’s late sculptural series known as the Dance Movements. Exploring the artist’s fascination with dance and bodies in extreme acrobatic poses, the exhibition and accompanying catalogue give an account of Rodin’s passion for new forms of dance – from south-asian dances to the music hall and the avant garde – which began appearing on the French stage around 1900. Rodin made hundreds of drawings and watercolours of dancers. From about 1911 he also gave sculptural expression to this fascination with dancers’ bodies and movements in creating the Dance Movements, a series of small clay figure studies (each approx. 30 cm in height) that stretch and twist in unsettling ways. These leaping, turning figures in terracotta and plaster were found in the artist’s studio after his death and were not exhibited during Rodin’s lifetime or known beyond his close circle. Presented alongside the associated drawings and photographs of some of the dancers, they show a new side to Rodin’s art, in which he pushed the boundaries of sculpture, expressing themes of flight and gravity. This exhibition catalogue aims to become the authoritative reference for Rodin’s Dance Movements, comprising essays from leading scholars in the field of sculpture. It includes an introductory essay on the history of the bronze casting of the Dance Movements and the critical fortune of the series, an essay on the dancers Rodin admired, and an extensive technical essay. The Catalogue will comprise detailed entries on the works in the exhibition and new technical information on the drawings. Contributors include Alexandra Gerstein, Curator of Sculpture and Decorative Arts, The Courtauld Institute of Art; Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, Director, Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art, Paris; Juliet Bellow, Associate Professor of Art History, American University in Washington, DC and currently Resident Fellow, the Center for Ballet and the Arts, New York University; François Blanchetière, Curator of Sculpture at the Musée Rodin; Agnès Cascio and Juliette Lévy, distinguished sculpture conservators; Sophie Biass-Fabiani, Curator of Works on Paper at the Musée Rodin; and Kate Edmonson, Conservator of Works on Paper at The Courtauld Gallery.Trade ReviewSimply put, Rodin excelled at fragmentation, assemblage and variation. * The Art Newspaper *Perfectly realised … excellent catalogue" * Apollo Magazine *
£28.50
Dewi Lewis Publishing Afghan Box Camera
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£27.00
Dent-De-Leone Form Next to Form Next to Form
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£18.61
Dent-De-Leone Ampersand: Notes on a Collection
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£13.99
Dent-De-Leone ECHT/70
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£14.25
Dent-De-Leone THE ANNOTATED READER
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£20.90
Dent-De-Leone Enter Fatima
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£12.45
Dent-De-Leone Le CouteauOK TIERS
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£10.00
Dent-De-Leone Jewellery Drawings
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£23.75
Dent-De-Leone Survival Spell
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£10.00
L-13 The Not Banksy Book: Lying, Cheating, Stealing &
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£17.00
Carpet Bombing Culture Beauty in Decay Ii: Urbex
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£17.95
Carpet Bombing Culture Stick It
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£14.20
Carpet Bombing Culture Autopsy of America: The Death of a Nation
Book SynopsisAutopsy of America takes you through the tattered remnants of the United States of America in a way that you never seen before. The beautiful apocalyptic landscapes consisting of abandoned schools, factories, shopping malls, amusement parks, theaters, hospitals, sport arenas, homes even entire towns offer a visual diagnostic to some of the county''s true ills. The captivating images are accompanied by Lawless'' personal anecdotes and thoughtprovoking stories that are equally riveting as the images.
£22.46
Carpet Bombing Culture Hey Human See What You Do
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£9.45
Clearview The Gardens At Rousham
Book SynopsisRousham in Oxfordshire was one of the first landscape gardens created in England and is, still, one of the most influential. Designed by William Kent in the late 1730s for the Cottrell-Dormer family (who are its owners today) it has become a place of pilgrimage for landscape architects and garden designers worldwide as well as garden lovers. Its magical glades and sculptural set-pieces have long intrigued Francis Hamel, who has lived and worked there for 25 years. Since the beginning of 2020 he has composed an extraordinary collection of paintings that capture the gardens and their magic. With essays by Tom Stuart-Smith, Joanna Kavenna and Christopher Woodward, the reader is led down its mysterious pathways; from tree-shaded walks peopled with statues of Pan, Venus and other immortals to sun-dappled meadows carpeted with wild flowers. It is just as Kent left it– a secret garden that is open to all.
£24.00
Clearview Picasso The Lost Sketchbook
Book SynopsisThe Picasso sketchbook featured here dates back to March 1923 and has never been seen before.It was part of a cache of works stolen over decades by Picasso''s electrician and only discovered when he and his wife tried to sell some pieces in 2020. A facsimilie of the sketchbook itself, bound in real linen cloth that has been specifically aged to match the original, is packaged in a clamshell box with an illustrated book that tells the story of the theft and the discovery and examines the sketches in detail relating them to several examples of Picasso''s finished work.
£375.00
Global Book Sales The Oxford Paintings
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£28.00
Glasgow Museums Publishing Souvenir Guide The Burrell Collection
Book SynopsisThe world-famous Burrell Collection reopens to the world in the spring of 2021 after a multi-million pound refurbishment. This new guidebook functions as both a memento and a tool for visitors as they peruse the galleries, which house tapestries, stained glass, Chinese art, French paintings, medieval sculpture and much more. It contains key objects and gallery highlights, offering visitors who require it more in depth information about the fantastic collection Sir William Burrell gave to his home city, Glasgow, in 1944. The opening essays illuminate the background story to this huge collection of over 9,000 objects, and touch on the building's history and recent redevelopment. The guidebook reflects the scope of the new galleries, helping to orient visitors further.
£14.24
Glasgow Museums Publishing The Burrell Collection: Renaissance of a global
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£23.75
Glasgow Museums Publishing Introducing British Silver
Book SynopsisIntroducing British Silver is one of a series of new books exploring items acquired by the famous 20th-centuryGlaswegian shipping magnate and philanthropist Sir William Burrell and Constance, Lady Burrell, his wife, for their vast collection of art.Following the donation of the entire collection to the City of Glasgow in 1944, it was not until 1983 that the dedicated Burrell Collection museum opened in Pollok Country Park. This book is the sixth published since the reopening of the museum in spring 2022, allowing readers to marvel anew at the highlights from the decorative arts collection items that Sir William acquired.Divided thematically by the theme Ceremonial Silver, Domestic Silver, Silver Marks, Huguenot Silversmiths, and Silver Service the book examines some of the most interesting pieces, their origins, symbolism, and design. It also unpacks why Sir William acquired certain pieces and from whom.Lavishly illustrated in full colour, this book offers readers the latest research
£10.00
Antenne Publishing Kronos
Book SynopsisEstate Of is the new publication series from Antenne Publishing. Published twice a year in a magazine-like stapled format, each edition is given to a single artist working with photographs as a space to realise projects. Estate Of aims to become a meeting point between an informal physical object, and a substantial body of work from an individual artist. Kronos by Victor Boullet is the first publication in the Estate Of series. Victor Boullet's title refers to the Greek god Kronos, a deity known for its doublesidedness, a concept closely connected to his project The Institute of Social Hypocrisy. The publication Kronos is a means to carry his work forward into a newer form of expression, whilst maintaining a constant sense of dichotomy.The act of art production becomes a performance. The photographs serve as a documentation of performances made in the artist's private domain; his apartment in Paris, a holiday home on the Scottish coast. Spaces that are so personal as to allow the work to become an existential exploration.The works themselves, invariably, seem to hold no meaning with a rawness and naivety that could be perceived as covertly provocative. When asked to discuss the content and concept of this publication, Boullet declined, saying it was all too personal and to make of it what we will.Boullet uses text as a means for miscommunication and confusion where personal musings are incomprehensible and impenetrable. Where elements of commercial branding are integrated into painting, performance and text works, Boullet considers the pretense and affectation brought about by wearing brands, thus creating a product of himself.Questions are raised as to whether the works are entirely serious or whether there is an element of fun being poked at the notion of what it is to be an artist. The imagery is presented as an imperfect document not to be taken at face value. The very question of truth underpins Kronos.
£11.40
Art / Books Love Me or Leave Me Alone: The Very Public Art of
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£23.99
Art / Books Art Without Frontiers: The Story of the British
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£26.99
Art / Books Modern World: The Art of Richard Hamilton
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£21.25
Art/Books Vicken Parsons
Book SynopsisParsons? unnerving tension between surface and depth in her paintings evoke insightful responses from artists, authors and psychoanalystsLondon?based artist Vicken Parsons (born 1957) makes intimate panel paintings of interior spaces and landscapes. Her work has beguiled writers from the fields of art, literature and psychoanalysis. Their collected written responses to her ?visual poems? are gathered here for the first time.
£28.00
Art / Books Clare Woods As I Please
Book SynopsisGrand, fluid brushstrokes infuse Woods? coloristic portraits and still lifes with a sense of the sublimeBritish artist Clare Woods (born 1972) is known for her portraits and still lifes that are infused with poetic romanticism and an unnerving psychic charge. This monograph showcases her recent paintings, whose bold and gestural brushstrokes are influenced by her training in sculpture.
£28.00
Art / Books Michael CraigMartin
Book SynopsisCraig-Martin?s signature style abounds in his collected prints and multiples, featuring everyday objects minimally rendered and in bright colorsCoinciding with a retrospective exhibition at the Royal Academy, this catalogue raisonné enumerates all of Michael Craig-Martin''s (born 1941) printed work. Screenprints, letterpress and computer works all present his signature style of everyday objects drawn in outline and rendered in intense saturated colors.
£45.00
Art/Books Kasmins Camera
Book SynopsisDr Chris Stephens has been Director of the Holburne Museum since 2017. Prior to that he worked at Tate for over 20 years, as Head of Displays, Tate Britain, for much of that time, and also as Head of Modern British Art. Judith Goldman is an award-winning writer, curator, and publisher in New York City. A former editor of ARTnews, she was also the curator of prints at the Whitney Museum of Art from 1977 to 1991. She has established the Blue Heron Press and Deuce II Editions to publish artists' books and editions.
£24.00
Camberwell Press Richard Slee - Means of Production
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£25.00
Graffito Books Ltd DESPERATELY SEEKING FRIDA
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£12.34
Graffito Books Ltd DESPERATELY SEEKING BASQUIAT
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£12.34
Graffito Books Ltd Street Artists The Complete Guide
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£12.34
Graffito Books Ltd Street Art in the Time of Corona
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£12.34
Prospect Books Cooking & Dining in the Victorian Country House
Book SynopsisFor centuries the food cooked in our country houses was the finest available, its variety greatly expanded by Victorian investment in new technology and professional cooks who were employed in the country houses. Adventurous, international trade in the Victorian period also meant that new ingredients became available. This great culinary tradition began its decline around the time of the First World War, and collapsed with the outbreak of war in 1939. Now, over eighty years later, it remains forgotten, as even those who experienced its final stages have passed away. Hopefully Peter Brears? book will go a long way in reviving interest in it, and encouraging further appreciation and enjoyment of all its diverse aspects.
£36.00
3DTotal Publishing Ltd How to Keep a Sketch Journal: A Guide to
Book SynopsisHow to Keep a Sketch Journal is the essential travel-sized guide to keeping a visual diary of your surroundings. Whether you're a habitual sketcher or just starting out, this book will teach you how to improve your observational sketching, indoors or outdoors, whether you're drawing still lifes, environments, or scenes. It covers sketching with different media, from a simple pen or pencil to using watercolors or pastels on the go. The book stands perfectly on its own as a guidebook, or can be used as a complement to 3dtotal's Sketch Journal travel portfolio, fitting neatly alongside your favorite sketching tools.
£13.29
3DTotal Publishing Ltd Sketch Workshop: Future Concepts
Book SynopsisThe Sketch Workshop – Future Concepts is 3dtotal's answer to the question: 'Why can't I draw futuristic scenes like that?' Designed for beginners and hobbyists alike, it's a fun and innovative way for people of all ages to find the inspiration to pick up a pencil and draw. It is different from our other books in that it is 50 percent a workbook in which you draw and 50 percent a project guide with instructional text and reference images for drawing characters. Created by a number of top industry artists who share their tips and tricks and help you grasp the fundamental elements needed to draw beautiful futuristic sketches.
£7.99
Bristol Books CIC From Brycgstow to Bristol in 45 Bridges
Book SynopsisJeff Lucas tells the story of each of the 45 bridges which span the waterways of Bristol between Avonmouth and St Anne's. The bridges form a 45km circular walk which is also the solution to a mathematical puzzle called the "Koenigsberg Bridge Problem". Thilo Gross contributes a chapter about the bridge problem and how he solved it for Bristol.
£19.00
Triarchy Press Body and Performance
Book Synopsis12 contemporary approaches to the human body that are being used by performers or in the context of performance training. The second in a series of books entitled: Ways of Being a Body. Following on from Sandra Reeve's Nine Ways of Seeing a Body (which offered a historical perspective on different key approaches to the body over time), this new edited collection brings together a wide range of contemporary approaches to the body that are being used by performers or in the context of performance training. The intention is for students, dancers, performers, singers, musicians, directors and choreographers to locate their own preferred approach(es) to the body-in-performance amongst the lenses described here. The collection is also designed to facilitate further research in that direction as well as to signpost alternatives that might enrich their current vocabulary. All 12 approaches represent the praxis and research of their authors. The chapters reveal a wide variety of different interests but they share the common framework of the notion of 'body as flux', of 'no fixed or determined sense of self' and of supporting the performer's being-becoming-being as a skilful creative entity, emphasising the intelligence of the body at work.Table of ContentsThe Ontogenetic Body - makes us aware of developmental processes and gives us a way to embody the forms, mind states and movement patterns of our cellular histories. The Intersubjective Body - explores the inter-relationship between dancing bodies and the environment in the context of site-responsive performance practice. The Autobiographical Body - examines somatic performance practices that explore autobiography as a fluid experience based on relationships with other people and places. The Resonant Body - considers 'cellular-body-mindfulness' through site-responsive sound dance improvisation, paying particular attention to temporality. The Dwelling Body - sees the practitioner as a conduit: experiencing body and place as continually in process and recognising the vital inter-relationship of place and identity. The Vocal Body - moves beyond the idea of the body as a 'homebase' of vocal emission and offers an integrative approach to physiovocal unity. The Musical Body - re-intepreting Stockhausen's Tierkreis offers a physical approach to performance where the body is the driving force behind musical interpretation. The Resilient Body - through the adaptive capacity of the human body the performer can develop resilience and potential. The Imaginal Body - rooted in the Alexander technique, this approach uses anatomical images, specific thinking, touch and visualisations to let go of habitual restrictive patterns and release imaginative potential. The Learnt Body - proposes a training of the performer's body that can consciously transcend socially coded habits and movement patterns. The Kinetic Body - through Kudiyattam dance training, this approach demonstrates how, underpinning the kinetics of breathing, 'foot' produces temporality, which is the fundamental source of the presence of the body. The Cognitive Body - uses Damasio's body-minded brain and 'somatic marker hypothesis' to articulate methods of physical devising for performance
£18.00
Triarchy Press Ways to Wander
Book Synopsis'Ways to Wander' is your invitation to experiment with a whole range of different ways to 'go for a walk'. Rather than picking up a map and following a footpath, the book offers 54 intriguingly different suggestions, tactics and recollections, all submitted by artists (most of them involved with the Walking Artists Network). There are plenty of ideas you can just go out and try, but others are more performative or explore the psychological, cultural and philosophical aspects of walking Pop the book in your back pocket, leave it in your rucksack, share it with friends and take them on a walk, use it in creative workshops, read it as if each instruction were poetry, engage with each page as visual art or as a performance activity, let it remind you of places you've been or walks you'd like to do. When the moment takes you, be inspired by the variety of inventive and reflective ideas mapped out here and then simply...wander.
£11.08
Reel Art Press Audrey Hepburn In Hats
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£16.96
Reel Art Press David Hurn On Instagram
Book SynopsisMagnum''s David Hurn is one of Britain''s most influential documentary photographers. His work is characterised by a quiet observation and singular insight, his natural inclination towards ordinary people in their everyday lives. In 2016, Hurn casually started an Instagram account to allow him to share constructive photography advice: tips, books and recommendations. His stream developed to include reflections on photographs from his 60-year career; his ennui during the endless days of lockdown; the work of fellow photographers; and a grappling with questions of AI and artifice in photography. There are photographs here from the Hungarian revolution in 1956, on the set of The Beatles'' A Hard Day''s Night in 1964, trips to Arizona between 1979 and 2001, Halloween celebrations in his local Welsh village during the pandemic, and many more. A love of the land is also evident in much of his work. Printed in exquisite quality, the large book format does justice to Hurn''s photographs, while
£39.96
CB Editions Do Not Send Me Out Among Strangers
Book SynopsisDo Not Send Me Out Among Strangers is a consideration of shame, isolation, and the strange terrain where private and public grief meet.
£10.44
Instant Apostle Where is God in our 21st-Century World?
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£13.50
Royal Collection Trust Holbein at the Tudor Court
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£23.96
Two Rivers Press Bonjour Mr Inshaw: Poems by Peter Robinson,
Book SynopsisBonjour Mr Inshaw is a homage by the award-winning poet Peter Robinson to David Inshaw, the celebrated painter, whom he first met during the artist's years as Creative Arts Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge, in the mid-1970s. Largely produced in an unexpected burst of inspiration after a visit to the painter's studio early in 2019, these poems combine memories of Inshaw's paintings, or characteristic landscapes, with experiences of his company and conversation. Showing a formal flexibility and deftness characteristic of this poet's work, they reflect on the role of art in a time of political and cultural division. Presented in an en face format, Bonjour Mr Inshaw beautifully illustrates its ekphrastic encounters and allows us to reflect in turn on this contemporary example of the centuries-old dialogue between the arts of poetry and painting. `Following the visionary traditions of such quintessentially English predecessors as Samuel Palmer ... or Stanley Spencer ... Inshaw's paintings discover the mystical in what could just as easily be overlooked as the mundane.' - Rachel Campbell-Johnston, art critic for The Times `Robinson is the finest poet alive when it comes to the probing of shifts in atmosphere, momentary changes in the weather of the mind, each poem an astonishingly fine-tuned gauge for recording the pressures and processes that generate lived occasions' - Adam Piette in The ReaderTrade Review"The stillness of Inshaw’s focus upon more than the moment is complimented by the way in which Peter Robinson’s poems note the depth of the present’s conversation with the past" ~ Ian Brinton, Tears in the Fence
£14.39
Two Rivers Press The Whole Story: Painting more than just the
Book SynopsisDiscover a whole new realm of botanical painting - the natural life forms that coexist with flowering plants, revealed in exquisite detail. Traditionally, botanical art has focused on the flowers, leaves and form of plants. They are depicted in solitary glory on a page, divorced from the life forms that live alongside them in nature. But award-winning UK botanical painter, Christina Hart-Davies, believes passionately that flowers are only part of the picture and loves to explore the different stages, related species, habitats and associated creatures that provide their setting in the wild. She looks at plants and other life forms from all angles - scientific, aesthetic and cultural - to tell The Whole Story. Showcasing examples of her most popular works, The Whole Story draws on Christina's long and parallel careers in both art and illustration. Take inspiration from her enthusiasm for the details and beauty of all aspects of the natural world and benefit from her experience as she shares techniques for painting moss and insects as well as advice on composition and lettering. This book will transform your perspective and inspire you to look beyond the flowers.Trade Review“This little book spans the many-facetted life of an artist of prestigious accomplishments, of small but exquisite, accurate paintings, expositions of artistic techniques and an uncompromising composition” – Roger Reynolds, writing in Eryngium, the Journal of the Institute for Analytical Plant Illustration
£14.39
