Non-Secondhand Books

Royal Shoemakers Rayne was founded by Henry and Mary Rayne in London in 1885, and were the pre-eminent British ladies luxury shoe brand throughout the Twentieth Century Rayne is the...

She was known as "the girl with the ponytail" and her image has become one of the art world's most iconic. Sylvette David was a shy girl when she met...

Though images of women were ubiquitous in the Roman world, these were seldom intended to be taken simply at face value. The importance of marriage, motherhood and political stability was...

The first time a collection of Landseer's drawings have been brought together alongside a fascinating history of his life and timesRichard Ormond is an independent art historian.

This book sets out to explore the way, with the onset of a new and integral relationship between text and image, the modern poster is able to evolve distinctive persuasive...

Since the 1920s, an endless flow of studies has analyzed the political systems of fascism, theseizure of power, the nature of the regimes, the atrocities committed, and, finally, the wars...

Since the 1920s, an endless flow of studies has analyzed the political systems of fascism, theseizure of power, the nature of the regimes, the atrocities committed, and, finally, the wars...

This book focuses on the Ashburnham Pentateuch, an early medieval illuminated manuscript of the Old Testament whose pictures are among the earliest surviving and most extensive biblical illustrations. Dorothy Verkerk...

Ships and Seascapes gives an introduction to maritime prints, drawings and watercolours with a sweeping historical survey of the development of marine art. The book also focuses on the greatest...

Amy Goldin's critical writing inspired many artists of the 1960s and '70s. Her unconventional acceptance of the new art forms emerging during the time and her challenge to the traditional...

One of the greatest German painters of the 20th century, Max Beckmann (1884 - 1950) came to America in the mid-1940s and settled in St. Louis. There he met the...

Featuring 117 full-color photos and eight breathtaking essays on a force that fuels Black life all around the globe, this is Humans of New York meets The Black Book"A patchwork...

The first monograph conceived for the international market devoted to one of the most important Chinese contemporary artists. Wang Guangyi is considered one of the emblems of new China, because...

In the past two decades, there have been major developments in Korean art, as the country has opened up under the influence of globalization. This unprecedented book focuses on the...

In Painting as Medicine in Early Modern Rome, Frances Gage undertakes an in-depth study of the writings of the physician and art critic Giulio Mancini. Using Mancini's unpublished treatises as...

Author: Stephanie S. DickeyFormat: Hardback, 235mm x 298mm, 384 pagesPublished: Yale University Press, United States, 2021An in-depth examination of the crucial role that Amsterdam played in Rembrandt's evolution as an...

Author: Rachel WorthFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 256 pagesPublished: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2018In the context of this rapidly changing world, Rachel Worth explores the ways in which the...

Author: Xiaoping LinFormat: Hardback, 670g, 320 pagesPublished: University of Hawai'i Press, United States, 2009Children of Marx and Coca-Cola affords a deep study of Chinese avant-garde art and independent cinema from...

Author: Mary BeardFormat: Hardback, 148mm x 218mm, 670g, 240 pagesPublished: Profile Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2018Focusing on the arrival of the human figure as a subject of art, Mary Beard...

Author: Heidi SopinkaFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 320 pagesPublished: Scribe Publications, United Kingdom, 2019We grant men a right to solitude. Why can't we do the same for women? Ivory Frame...

Author: Michael SemffFormat: Hardback, 240mm x 300mm, 1800g, 272 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2012The present publication is the catalogue raisonne of Al Taylor's graphic works and introduces a previously nearly...

Author: Gary HustwitFormat: Paperback, 127mm x 229mm, 300g, 140 pagesPublished: Plexi Productions, United States, 2022The New York Subway Map Debate documents a pivotal event in design history: the 1978 debate...

Author: Nicoletta BaldiniFormat: Paperback, 135mm x 168mm, 180g, 96 pagesPublished: Skira, Italy, 2010Skira Mini ARTbooks is a pocket-sized series, conveniently priced, very practical and with lots of images dedicated to...

Author: Rose WylieFormat: Hardback, 171mm x 241mm, 460g, 76 pagesPublished: David Zwirner, United States, 2020Celebrated British painter Rose Wylie-whose works are at once tactile, cerebral, and humorous-often draws her influence...

Author: Gianni ArnaudoFormat: Hardback, 240mm x 280mm, 1740g, 224 pagesPublished: Skira, Italy, 2021An extensive monograph on this architect and designer's oeuvre Gianni Arnaudo is an architect and designer with a...

Author: Bauhaus-ArchivFormat: Paperback, 230mm x 250mm, 1060g, 208 pagesPublished: Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2018This lavishly illustrated volume, which comes in four different colours and with an open Japanese binding, looks from...

Author: John C. WelchmanFormat: Hardback, 240mm x 340mm, 2220g, 348 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2023A study and a guidance device, the first book on the Royal Book Lodge (RBL) is...

Author: Martin EnglerFormat: Hardback, 280mm x 280mm, 1510g, 176 pagesPublished: Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2016John Baldessari is an important American conceptual artists and the last member of the American postwar avant-garde....

Author: Cagla IlkFormat: Hardback, 220mm x 310mm, 1400g, 276 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2022As a painter, filmmaker, and photographer, Ulrike Ottinger has created an entire artistic universe, a Cosmos Ottinger....

Author: Andrey KurkovFormat: Hardback, 172mm x 216mm, 780g, 256 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2022A celebration of Ukraine's rich cultural heritage, drawing on over 100 of the country's...

Author: Elizabeth FullertonFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 240g, 224 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2021The Young British Artists (YBAs) stormed on to the contemporary art scene in 1988...

Author: Red Hong YiFormat: Hardback, 187mm x 235mm, 240 pagesPublished: Abrams, United States, 2023How to Paint Without a Brush introduces artist Red Hong Yi's creative process-the tools and methods she...

Author: Sandra Pisot for the Hamburger KunsthalleFormat: Hardback, 240mm x 280mm, 2160g, 336 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2022One feature of seventeenth-century Dutch genre painting is its focus on daily life....

Author: Bernard MeehanFormat: Paperback, 190mm x 248mm, 390g, 96 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2018The Book of Kells, dating from about 800, is a brilliantly decorated manuscript of...

Author: Julian BellFormat: Hardback, 153mm x 234mm, 800g, 256 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2023A brand-new perspective on early modern art and its relationship with nature as reflected...

Author: Hossein AmirsadeghiFormat: Paperback, 250mm x 285mm, 1640g, 288 pagesPublished: TransGlobe Publishing Ltd, United Kingdom, 2011Now in paperback!With over 500 stunning colour illustrations New Vision: Arab Contemporary Art in the...

Author: Steven MillerFormat: Hardback, 218mm x 250mm, 1300g, 288 pagesPublished: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia, 2021In 2021, the Art Gallery of New South Wales celebrates its 150th anniversary....

Author: Annebella PollenFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 230mm, 1260g, 408 pagesPublished: Art / Books, United Kingdom, 2024An accessible, lively and timely history of the collection and presentation of visual art by...

Author: The Africa InstituteFormat: Paperback, 165mm x 240mm, 980g, 246 pagesPublished: Skira, Italy, 2022For more than a half century, Ibrahim El-Salahi has been at the forefront of African modernism in...

Author: Nationalmuseet for Konst OsloFormat: Hardback, 240mm x 280mm, 1520g, 240 pagesPublished: Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2018I 2019 er det 150-arsjubileum for Harald Sohlbergs fodsel. Utstillingen i Nasjonalgalleriet hosten 2018 og...

Author: Blandine ChavanneFormat: Hardback, 190mm x 260mm, 1040g, 304 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2022A characteristic of 20th- and 21st-century artistic production is that casual acquaintances and close intimates, friends, lovers,...

Author: Carolyn LanchnerFormat: Paperback, 185mm x 230mm, 210g, 48 pagesPublished: Museum of Modern Art, United States, 2017In 1936, invited by Andre Breton to contribute to an exhibition of Surrealist objects,...

Author: Mason Leaver-YapFormat: Hardback, 216mm x 280mm, 720g, 256 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2022Since the late 1980s, Renee Green's multifaceted practice has imagined and expanded the ways in which art...

Author: Alexander EilingFormat: Hardback, 230mm x 280mm, 1940g, 328 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2022Like hardly any other artist, Pierre-Auguste Renoir has shaped our understanding of the atmospheric figure paintings of...

Author: Carmen GimenezFormat: Hardback, 227mm x 290mm, 1220g, 192 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2022Some 40 carefully chosen juxtapositions of masterpieces by both artists trace a dialogue that ranks among the...

Author: Adrian BojenoiuFormat: Paperback, 239mm x 304mm, 1200g, 224 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2020Contemporary art is more than just simple contemporaneity. It is a new way of seeing and making...

Author: Christiane PaulFormat: Paperback, 150mm x 210mm, 570g, 272 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2015Digital technology has revolutionized the way we produce and experience art. Here, Christiane Paul...

Author: Dorothy MossFormat: Hardback, 178mm x 229mm, 540g, 120 pagesPublished: Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2022Recent events have pushed artists to visualize ideas of closeness in a new light. Kinship, published on...