The Arts Books
National Portrait Gallery Publications Virginia Woolf: Art, Life and Vision
Book SynopsisVirginia Woolf’s many novels, notably Night and Day (1919), Jacob’s Room (1922), Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927) and The Waves (1931), transformed ideas about structure, plot and characterisation. The third child of Leslie and Julia Stephen, and sister of Vanessa (later Bell), Woolf was a central figure in the Bloomsbury Group: that union of friends who revolutionised British culture with their innovative approach to art, design and society in the early years of the twentieth century. Portraiture figured greatly in Woolf’s life. Portraits by G.F. Watts and photographs made by her aunt, Julia Margaret Cameron, furnished rooms in which she lived. Written portraits were produced in the family home; her father, Leslie Stephen, published short biographies of Samuel Johnson, Pope, Swift, George Eliot and Thomas Hobbes, while editing the first twenty-six volumes of the Dictionary of National Biography. Throughout her life, Woolf, a sharp observer and a brilliant wordsmith, composed memorable vignettes-in-words of people she knew or encountered, and was herself portrayed by artists and photographers on many occasions. Illustrated with over a hundred works from public and private collections, documentary photographs and extracts from her writings, this book catches Woolf’s appearance and that of the world around her. It also points to her pursuit of the hidden, the fleeting and the obscure, in her desire to understand better the place and moment in time and in history in which she lived. In charting some of the milestones in Woolf’s life, author Frances Spalding acknowledges the seen and unseen aspects of her subject; the outer and the inner, the recognisable and the concealed.
£28.64
National Portrait Gallery Publications Jane Austen and her World
Book SynopsisTo coincide with the bicentenary of Jane Austen’s death ( and her appearance on English banknotes ) in July 2017, this illuminating account of the novelist’s life is told with particular reference to the great men and women who inspired and influenced her, and whose portraits, along with her own, are now in the Collection of the National Portrait Gallery.
£14.33
National Portrait Gallery The Encounter Drawings from Leonardo to Rembrandt
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£33.75
Ridinghouse COLLECTED WRITINGS OF JON THOMPSON PB
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£25.65
Ridinghouse BRIDGET RILEYPAINTINGS HB
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£37.60
Ridinghouse Tim Davies
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£20.61
Ridinghouse Rezi Van Lankveld At The First Clear Sight
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£25.65
Ridinghouse Zarina Bhimji Whitechapel Exhibition Catalogues
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£31.50
Ridinghouse William Scott
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£12.95
Ridinghouse Jos Damasceno
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£28.45
Ridinghouse Ticio Escobar The Invention of Distance
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£15.95
Ridinghouse Notes from the Playground
Book SynopsisThis new collection of Richard Flood's written work from over the past 40 years reveals an original and rigorous connection to the world of ideas and beauty and the critical and aesthetic experience of our present times. Drawing from his broad knowledge of history, cinema, literature, poetry, design and architecture, Flood’s writings combine the autobiographical with the theoretical, presenting an intimate understanding of renowned contemporary artists. Throughout many of the essays, Flood draws on personal correspondence between himself and the artist, including an annotated conversation with Paul Thek discussing his fabricated works of wax ‘raw meat’ facsimiles embedded in luxurious Plexiglas cases; four interviews with Robert Gober during the 1990s, offering vivid accounts of his sculptural and creative process; and a detailed description of a portrait sitting at Michael Landy’s studio. Flood’s significant essay on Arte Povera, co-authored with Frances Morris, is also reproduced, providing evidence of his ability to write in multiple ways.
£19.00
Ridinghouse Paul de Monchaux
Book SynopsisPaul de Monchaux (born 1934) has been an influential presence in Britain over the last fifty years, inspiring generations with his beautifully made and measured sculptures. De Monchaux began his career as a student at the Slade School of Art in 1955; ten years later he was teaching at Camberwell School of Art, where he worked for over twenty years as Head of Sculpture and Head of Fine Art. Early portraits and 'Head' and 'Handworks' from the 1960s and 1970s reveal an artist who combined thinking and making in subtle and unusual ways, privileging form over material and blending geometry with intuitive shaping. The stunning carved stone sculptures for which he has become well known reward careful and prolonged attention and reveal a subtly contemplative sculptural imagination, not unlike that of Constantin Brancusi, who was been a huge inspiration to de Monchaux over the years. His public projects, begun in the 1980s, have also been critically acclaimed, and later works such as Song (2005), Silence (2007) and Breath (2011), all illustrated in this book, show a mature artist with a rare and highly poetic sculptural sensibility.Table of ContentsPoints of Passage: The Sculpture of Paul de Monchaux (Natalie Rudd) Plates Quarrying Sculpture (Paul de Monchaux in conversation with Jon Wood) Biography Selected Bibliography
£31.70
MACK What the Living Carry
Book SynopsisWhat the Living Carry unveils a small town named Hoy’s Fork, situated in the American South. Drawing on memories of the rural setting in which he grew up, Virginian photographer Morgan Ashcom brings together photographs, type-written letters and a hand-drawn map to build a fictional narrative of a foreboding place. Leading us on a trail through the town and its surrounding forest, Ashcom presents scenes that point to a mysterious history, and people whose familial connections remain unknown: a forlorn old man, with champagne to hand, reclines on the corroding steps of a once grand home; a bloodied mattress is carried through an overgrown field; a solitary child burrows into a meadow, while on the streets, a man dutifully cleans a white picket fence – a vision that belies a local mural of a distant, ancient land. Interspersing this fragmented narrative is a set of texts – four letters responding to ‘Morgan’s’ request for DNA analysis – written by ‘Eugene’ of the ‘Center for Epigenetics and Wellness of the Spirit’. If What the Living Carry provides a set of clues to unravel the enigma behind this strange world, it is through a visual record that is simultaneously autobiographical and imagined, and inclined to elude.
£28.50
EatSleepArchitecture Fragments of Glasgow
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£28.50
Smith Street Books Burger Night
Book SynopsisMake every night burger night! Learn how to make over-sized all-American burgers, including the classic Cheeseburger, the eponymous Smash burger, and a triple beast burger simply called The Cowboy, all piled high with everyone's favorite toppings and condiments. Or discover the Southern-fried Chicken Waffle Breakfast Burger or Gochujang Fried Chicken Burger, coated in a finger-licking sweet-spicy glaze that is off-the-charts good. Vegetarians and vegans are also catered for with a range of plant-based offerings including the Impossible Double Smash, the Californian, and a Fried Green Tomato burger. In addition to 50 burger recipes, you'll also learn how to craft your own condiments, so you'll never have to rely on store-bought versions again; and mix and match fillings to make your own burger creations. With a bold design that nods to the series' three previous cookbooks Taco Night, Pasta Night, and Pizza Night and bright and poppy photography that oozes over-the-top deliciousness, Burger Night is the only cookbook you need to make burgers your favorite meal every night of the week.
£13.50
Smith Street Books The Ultimate Guidebook for Dog Owners from a
Book SynopsisA veterinarian's guide to raising happy dogs!With friendly, down-to-earth advice straight from veterinarian Dr. Marlena Lopez, The Ultimate Guidebook for Dog Owners is your companion to navigating life with your new furry friend. With tips like choosing the right breed, preparing your house, selecting the right food, dealing with issues like separation anxiety and rough play, and knowing when to take your pet to the vet (or when the issue isn't that serious), this is the book for all the new paw parents who need to hear that it's alright. Rooted in science and shaped by years of real-world experience, Dr. Lopez offers guidance that cuts through the noise and misinformation, giving you the tools you need to make sound decisions for your pet's well-being.
£13.50
Smith Street Books The Ultimate Guidebook for Cat Owners from a
Book SynopsisA veterinarian's guide to raising happy cats!With friendly, down-to-earth advice straight from veterinarian Dr. Marlena Lopez, The Ultimate Guidebook for Cat Owners is your companion to navigating life with your new furry friend. With tips like choosing the right breed, preparing your house, selecting the right food, dealing with issues like separation anxiety and rough play, and knowing when to take your pet to the vet (or when the issue isn't that serious), this is the book for all the new paw parents who need to hear that it's alright. Rooted in science and shaped by years of real-world experience, Dr. Lopez offers guidance that cuts through the noise and misinformation, giving you the tools you need to make sound decisions for your pet's well-being.
£13.50
Smith Street Books Concoctions
Book SynopsisInfuse your cocktails with intention with 50 recipes for deliciously powerful drinks. Divided into five chapters Love, Abundance, Harmony, Strength, and Luck the drinks in Concoctions celebrate and tap into the energies of their ingredients. Inspire love with Cupid's Sparkler or draw strength with a Blood Moon. Cleanse the day with a Chamomile Martini and welcome a new beginning with a Spiced Sun. Each drink is prepared with ingredients whose magical correspondences resonate together to channel a witch's willpower. Alongside drinks to prepare, there are spirits to infuse and syrups to prepare at home, as well as an introduction to spellwork through cocktails. Explore the possibilities of each ingredient and imbue your drinks with meaning (and delicious flavours).
£13.50
Smith Street Books Trinkets
Book SynopsisCreate your own collection of adorable, hand-sewn felt friends. Trinkets invites you into a whimsical world of felt creations. With Cat Rabbit's adorable, playful designs and step-by-step instructions, you'll learn to make an assortment of charming felt food friends, from the fruit bowl to eggs three ways. Perfect for beginners and experienced crafters alike, this book makes sewing accessible, fun, and extraordinarily cute, and will have you making adorable trinkets for everyone you know.
£15.29
Smith Street Books Dogs Best Friend
Book SynopsisDog's Best Friend celebrates the heartwarming bond between dogs and their humans, one city street at a time!In Dog's Best Friend, photographer Giuseppe Santamaria presents a beautiful street photography collection celebrating the joy, character, and companionship shared by dogs and their humans. Through candid snapshots taken on city streets from Paris to Tokyo, Melbourne to New York, Santamaria reveals the universal connection between people and their pets, capturing moments that are heartwarming, playful, and often poignant. This book is a tribute to the timeless friendship between dogs and their human companions.
£17.00
Smith Street Books Snow Be It
Book SynopsisLearn how to make the perfect holiday wreath and plenty more festive fun activities! Halloween has been and gone, and Thanksgiving is over it's time to prepare for the most festive holiday of all Christmas! Learn how to make the perfect holiday wreath to adorn your front door with a step-by-step guide that even the littlest elf can follow. Then move onto some other holiday activities, like making an advent calendar so you can count down the days to the 25th; preparing a custom snack tray to leave out for Santa and the reindeer; building a sturdy snowman; and how to trim a tree to perfection. Then turn your attention to crafting the perfect festive table, whipping up some steaming mulled wine, eggnog or a fizzy festive cocktail to entertain your guests, before impressing them all with a showstopping feast with all the trimmings. Transform your festive fun with 29 ideas that will have you saying, Snow be it!
£13.50
Smith Street Gift The Pizza Shop
Book SynopsisDeborah Kaloper is a California-raised, Melbourne-based sought-after food stylist, prop stylist and recipe developer. Her passion for all things food started at the age of six with her first cookbook given to her by her grandmother, Nonie. A former breakfast and pastry chef, Deb works daily with top photographers, chefs, food writers, and brands, styling their food for books, magazines, and advertising. In her downtime you can find her up early walking along the ocean to catch the sunrise and trying to perfect her Nonie's Croatian Easter bread.
£15.80
Smith Street Gift The Cocktail Cabinet Aperitif
Book SynopsisKara Newman is a spirits and cocktail writer based in New York. She reviews spirits for Wine Enthusiast magazine, where she's also a writer-at-large. Her writing has appeared in publications including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Food & Wine, Bloomberg BusinessWeek and PUNCH. She's the author of seven cocktail books. Giacomo Bagnara is an illustrator and artist living in Verona, Italy. His work has been recognised over the last years by American Illustration and the Society of Illustrators of NY. Avid observer, Giacomo loves exploring different perspective of the everyday life questioning his own perceptions.
£20.00
Smith Street Gift The Cocktail Cabinet Vodka
Book SynopsisKara Newman is a spirits and cocktail writer based in New York. She reviews spirits for Wine Enthusiast magazine, where she's also a writer-at-large. Her writing has appeared in publications including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Food & Wine, Bloomberg BusinessWeek and PUNCH. She's the author of seven cocktail books. Giacomo Bagnara is an illustrator and artist living in Verona, Italy. His work has been recognised over the last years by American Illustration and the Society of Illustrators of NY. Avid observer, Giacomo loves exploring different perspective of the everyday life questioning his own perceptions.
£20.00
Smith Street Books Slurp
Book SynopsisA delicious mix-and-match book for exploring colours and patterns. Slurp! is a mix-and-match book that invites you to flip through its split pages to reassemble the popsicles by matching the patterns or create brand new ones by mixing it up. A deliciously fun and interactive way for little ones to explore colours and patterns.
£13.50
Smith Street Books Yum
Book SynopsisA delicious mix-and-match book for discovering shapes. Yum! is a mix-and-match book that invites you to flip through its pages to reassemble the fruit cups or create brand new ones. A deliciously fun and interactive way for little ones to discover shapes.
£13.50
Smith Street Books Plus
Book SynopsisLydia Hudgen's debut photo book, featuring only plus-sized models: a first in fashion publishing. In a landscape where magazine covers are still dominated by skinnier bodies and fashion week runways have moved backward in the models that are walking, Plus breaks with business as usual and features only plus-sized models in a celebration of diverse fashion and a demand for the industry to move forward. Divided into three chapters Beauty, Editorial, and Body Lydia Hudgen's photography celebrates the beauty of all bodies, and the figures who've pushed fashion forward to welcome more people in. Alongside shoots of models, Plus features interviews with trailblazers like Kellie Brown who have made their mark on the fashion world. The fashion industry needs to keep evolving, and these icons, models, and Hudgens are helping to make it happen.
£28.00
Badlands Unlimited Marcel Duchamp: The Afternoon Interviews
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£13.05
Badlands Unlimited Hans Ulrich Obrist: Think Like Clouds
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£26.60
Thorntree Press Psyche
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£14.25
Hendrik Varju Mexican Dinner Parties: Complete Menus for
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£30.35
Freya Rothwell-Bodycomb Blush Feelings Notebook: We Are Greater Series
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£8.55
Mandy Stanley Art and Design Lettice Ballet Practice
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£11.07
Editions Dis Voir British Black Art Debates on the Western Art
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£17.10
Jrp Ringier JeanLuc Manz Notebooks 19892014
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£62.71
JRP Ringier Josephine Pryde: The Enjoyment of Photography
Book SynopsisThis publication presents a broad selection of work by English artist Josephine Pryde (born 1967), from 1990 to 2014. In photography, sculpture and writing, the artist offers incisive and often ironic commentary on the values, hierarchies and economies attending contemporary art.
£41.70
JRP Ringier Art & Crisis
Book SynopsisArt & Crisis is a theoretical publication on educational processes and what it means to teach and learn fine arts in a city such as Zurich. It brings together contributions from 2017 MFA students, their professors at Zurich University of the Arts and guest writers.
£25.23
JRP Ringier Gustav Metzger: Writings 1953-2016
Book SynopsisManifestos and texts on auto-destructive art and beyond from countercultural artist and activist Gustav MetzgerBringing together more than 350 texts written between 1953 and 2016, this comprehensive volume establishes artist and activist Gustav Metzger (19262017) as one of the towering figures of the 20th century, a long-overdue recognition of Metzger''s influential vision.Renowned for his use of unstable materials and chemical reactions to create artworks that embody processes of change, destruction and renewal, Metzger was also a prolific writer, theoretician and satirist. His interest in technology and science and his anti-nuclear activism influenced his development of the concepts of auto-destructive and auto-creative art, terms he coined with his manifestos on Auto-Destructive Art in 1959 and Auto-Creative Art in 1961. He put these ideas into action with artworks made to decay, disintegrate or change following natural processes.Edited by Metzger''s long-time friend, curator Mathieu Copeland, this anthology of writings makes Metzger''s essential thinking from the 1950s onward available to a wide audience. It includes seminal writings such as Metzger''s manifestoes of auto-destructive and auto-creative art, his essays about architecture, and an interview with R. Buckminster Fuller from 1970 and a retrospective manifesto on his own legacy, Remember Nature, from 2013. Also included are examples of Metzger''s art criticism, political lampoons and lectures. Altogether Gustav Metzger: Writings presents a challenging reading of our artistic, political and technological moment as analyzed by one of our most pioneering, discerning thinkers.
£18.00
Hirmer Verlag Native Studio Art Since the 1920s
Book SynopsisAdvancing multi-vocal knowledge on critical yet overlooked movements, this collection catalogue from the Saint Louis Art Museum explores the field of Native modern studio art and expands narratives of Indigenous art more broadly. This catalogue introduces a new collection of Native Modern art. Across 100 works in a range of media, the William P. Healey Collection at the Saint Louis Art Museum includes 63 artists with a focus on the Western United States. The book's comprehensive breadth conveys major narratives and key figures of 20th-century Native American art. Advancing multi-vocal knowledge on critical yet overlooked movements, this catalogue introduces the field of Native modern art and expands narratives of Indigenous art more broadly.
£38.25
Hirmer Verlag Human Marks
Book SynopsisHeavily illustrated, this publication features 30 artists who worked during the pivotal period between 1948 and 1978, and practiced in a range of media from painting and sculpture to printmaking, drawing and architecture. Featuring an introductory essay by exhibition curator Pantea Haghighi that surveys the range of artistic and political influences on the emergence of Iranian modernisms, and a selection of focused essays by scholars and curators Fereshteh Daftari, Davood Madadpoor and Hans Ulrich Obrist, Modern Iran and the Avant-Gardes, 194878 is a timely addition to the scholarship on both alternate modernisms and the history of Iranian art. Human Marks: Tattooing in Contemporary Art explores convergences between tattoo culture and global contemporary art. Presenting a range of media by sixteen artists who also tattoo, this richly illustrated book unpacks how the ethics, strategies, and concerns of tattooing shape the artists' studio practices in experimental and revelatory ways. Through an introductory essay, artist profiles, and additional texts and interviews, Human Marks presents the full creative spectrum of artists who maintain both tattoo and studio practices to ask what the world of fine art can learn from today's tattoo community. With a range of surprising mediafrom paintings made with human blood to wearable works in silicone and even perfumerythemes of ritual, ethics, and identity tie together the materially dynamic, unexpected, and challenging artwork featured in Human Marks. Artist Profiles: Kaur Alia Ahmed, Oz Bardos, Makoto Chi, Nassim Dayoub, Evan Paul English, Gesiye, Don Ed Hardy, Ciara Havishya, Dr. Lakra, Duke Riley, Miller Robinson, Tamara Santibañez, Lyric Shen, Jayna Won. Additional contributions by: Kaur Alia Ahmed, Makoto Chi, Nassim Dayoub, Don Ed Hardy, Tamara Santibañez, Fiona Smith, and Stevie Soares, Marcia Tucker, and V. Vale
£36.00
Hirmer Verlag Network Paris
Book SynopsisA journey to the art capital of the 1930s: Paris. The avant-garde group abstraction-création and its fifty or so members were an inspiration to the art world with their clear lines and kaleidoscopic experiments with form. Leading figures of abstraction joined together to support artistic freedom and oppose the rise of fascism, before modernism shifted its gravitational centre to New York. Liberal, progressive and visionary: a network for abstract art!
£26.40
Dumont Emil Nolde Sudsee the South Seas
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£15.15
DuMont Literatur und Kunst Verlag GmbH & Co KG Emil Nolde: Hunde/Dogs
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£15.20
Walther Konig, Verlag Time Pieces Video Art Since 1963 Nbk Berlin
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£25.66
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig Slavica Perkovic: Vertigo
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£39.90
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig Dan Graham: Don’t Trust Anyone Over Thirty. An
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£25.00
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig Herzog & De Meuron / Ai Weiwei: Serpentine
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£43.70
