Fine Art & Art History (£5 or Less)

Michael Atavar Softcover | 11.5 x 1.1 x 14.8 cm | 128 pp Kiosk Publishing | 2013 | 9780953107353 Looking At Art (With Your Eyes Closed) contains Michael Atavar's teaching from his three courses at Tate. The book helps you to build a relationship with...

Jay McKean Fisher & William S. Lieberman Softcover | 17 x 0.9 x 21.5 cm | 90 pp American Federation of Arts | 2009 | 9781885444387 The catalogue of the first comprehensive exhibition on the printmaking of the great French artist Henri Matisse.  The...

Toby Ferris Hardcover | 15.9 x 3.1 x 24 cm | 336 pp Fourth Estate | 2020 | 9780008340964 This exceptional work is at once an astonishing journey across countries and continents, an immersive examination of a great artist’s work, and a moving and...

Softcover | 16.76 x 2.16 x 20.96 cm | 80 pp Tate Publishing | 2019 | 9781849763189 From the popular Tate Introduction series that offers a concise introduction and pictorial overview of the greatest modern artists and artistic movements. Warhol's work reflected and commented...

Clarrie Wallis Softcover | 21 x 0.9 x 27 cm | 128 pp Tate Publishing | 2014 | 9781849762250 Deacon's sculptures employ curvilinear forms made from a wide range of materials that are more traditionally associated with the manufacturing of industrial and domestic products. The works...

Hardcover | 22.2 x 1.9 x 25.4 cm | 96 pp Hayward Gallery Publishing | 2012 | 9781853322990 British artist Gary Hume first found international fame in the early 1990s, with his series of bold, abstract door paintings. As one of the YBAs, his work was featured...

Softcover | 22.2 x 3.2 x 29.2 cm | 240 pp Laurence King | 2016 | 9781780677477 This book presents a snapshot of the most interesting curatorial practices in the art world today. There is an emphasis on the now : the introduction sketches in the...

Michael Atavar Softcover | 12 x 1.6 x 18 cm | 272 pp Kiosk Publishing | 2011 | 9780953107322 12 Rules of Creativity is a book of twelve practical steps that help to stimulate your creativity. Michael Atavar guides you through the basic principles...

Stephen Westfall, Lilly Wei & Rene Paul Barilleaux Hardcover |  21.84 x 2.03 x 30.23 cm | 144 pp East of Borneo | 2014 | 9780615864518 Beauty Reigns focuses on exoticism, exuberance and optimism in contemporary painting through the work of 13 emerging and mid-career abstract painters. Common  characteristics include...

Mark Pomeroy Hardcover | 16.6 x 1.5 x 22.8 cm | 96 pp Royal Academy of Art | 2017 | 9781910350041 The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition has become a British institution, bringing the work of hundreds of artists to the public in the largest event of...

Thomas Kennedy Hardcover | 15.62 x 1.27 x 19.56 cm | 48 pp Tate Publishing | 2022 | 9781849768221  ‘Any fool can paint, but drawing is the thing and drawing is the test. If you are a good draughtsman you are ipso facto a good...

Sylvia Wolf Hardcover | 19.5 x 1.8 x 24 cm | 192 pp Prestel | 2010 | 9783791343181 The rise of digital photography is perhaps the most manifest legacy of the digital revolution in art. Through the use of sophisticated software and scanners, artists...

Softcover | 14 x 1 x 15 cm | 96 pp Research Group for Artists Publications | 2012 |  9780956902412 For more than 35 years, Coracle has produced artists' books, critical works, editions and ephemera. Printed in Norfolk tells the story of this contemporary small...

Susie Hodge & Sarah Papworth Hardcover | 14.73 x 2.16 x 20.7 cm | 192 pp Frances Lincoln | 2021 | 9780711255869 Artistic Circles introduces some of the most inspirational stories of friendship, love, creativity and shared passions in the world of art. Whether through teaching, as...

Alice Insley Hardcover | 17.53 x 1.52 x 21.72 cm | 80 pp Tate Publishing | 2021 | 9781849767699 Hogarth’s pictures are among the most iconic of the eighteenth century – his cacophonous crowds, bustling streets, polite or not-so polite companies, and all too revealing...

Softcover | 21.59 x 1.91 x 27.94 cm | 144 pp Black Dog Publishing | 2009 | 9781906155780 Incorporating research in the fields of psychical research, psychology, physiology, photography and optical viewing, Susan MacWilliam's work explores ideas about the visible and the invisible, about...

Jonathan Allen & Sally O'Reilly  Softcover | 17.78 x 0.64 x 24.13 cm | 115 pp Hayward Gallery | 2009 | 9781853322815 Published in conjunction with a 2009 Hayward Gallery exhibition, Magic Show demonstrates how visual artists adopt the perception-shifting tactics of the theatrical magician to explore...

Softcover | 19.05 x 2.29 x 23.5 cm | 151 pp Hayward Gallery | 2008 | 9781853322662 Laughing in a Foreign Language explores the role of laughter and humour in contemporary art through the work of over 30 international artists working in a range...

Hardcover board book | 21 x 2 x 29.5 cm | 14 pp Edizioni Corraini | 2005 | 9788875700713 Rare & Collectible Martí Guixé tackles a serious subject with his trademark light-heartedness and humour, providing us with a handbook that shows you how to...

Hardcover | 20.5 x 1.02 x 25.5 cm | 224 pp Yale University Press | 2016 | 9780300220124 This book peers into Troubleyn / Laboratorium, the workspace, collective art space, and creative incubator of Belgian multidisciplinary artist Jan Fabre (b. 1958), whose performances, staged...