Fine Art & Art History (£5 or Less)

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...

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...

Hannah Feldman Softcover | 17.78 x 1.91 x 25.4 cm | 336 pp Duke University Press | 2014 | 9780822353713 From a Nation Torn provides a powerful critique of art history's understanding of French modernism and the historical circumstances that shaped its production and reception. Within...

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...

Softcover | 23.88 x 1.52 x 28.45 cm | 160 pp JRP Ringier | 2008 | 9783905829877 Since the early 1990s, Sean Landers' oeuvre has proven to be one of the most fascinating and repeatedly irritating in contemporary art. Over the years, he has...

Hardcover | 20.96 x 1.27 x 26.04 cm | 56 pp Skarstedt Fine Art | 2007 | 9780970909060 Rare & Collectible Color Coordinated Interiors catalogues a little known but characteristic and illuminating early project of Laurie Simmons's from 1983, just a few years after...

Catherine E. Hutchins, Christopher Rothko & David Anfam Softcover | 29.85 x 1.27 x 24.13 cm | 118 pp Stativ | 2008 | 9780979091605 Rare & Collectible In 2006, the Rothko Chapel in Houston, Texas, invited Michael Somoroff to place his majestic sculptural installation, Illumination...

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...

Softcover | 29.72 x 22.61 x 1.02 cm | 120 pp Yale University Press | 2015 | 9780300215960 Linking two influential figures in American art, this fascinating catalogue explores the intersection between works by modern master Robert Rauschenberg (1925­–2008) and innovative contemporary artist Rachel...

Hardcover | 23.83 x 1.57 x 28.22 cm | 144 pp Lannoo | 2010 | 9789020991055 Contains explicit sexual images Disorder in the House was the first presentation of the collection of contemporary art that Walter Vanhaerents has assembled across thirty years. The Vanhaerents...

Softcover | 21.6 x 2.5 x 28 cm | 296 pp JRP Editions | 2007 | 9783905770056 Electronic communications have had a transformative effect on the public discourse on contemporary art by removing temporal and geographical barriers to the flow of information and, for...

Hardcover | 20.32 x 1.27 x 24.89 cm | 224 pp JRP Ringier | 2011 | 9783037642412 In the early 1980s, the artist Tim Rollins initiated a curriculum for high schoolers in the South Bronx to engage their creativity with art and literature activities,...

Softcover | 22.96 x 0.97 x 27.89 cm | 88 pp Yale University Press | 2012 | 9780300180374 In her performances, videos, and installations, Sharon Hayes (b. 1970) explores the nexus between politics, history, speech, and desire. Her works modify or appropriate the language...

Hardcover | 36.4 x 1.8 x 25 cm | 124 pp Twin Palms | 1998 | 9780944092590 95 sheet-fed gravure plates Contains sexually explicit images Ross Bleckner’s deeply personal camera work travels over the intimate contours of a lover’s body and the pages of...