Fine Art & Art History (£5 or Less)

Hardcover | 24.13 x 2.01 x 30.18 cm | 168 pp Prestel | 2021 | 9783791378411  The Berlin painter Christopher Lehmpfuhl (b. 1972) has been occupied with the urban transformation at Berlin's Schlossplatz for over a decade. His 126 portraits of this historic Mitte...

Softcover | 22.96 x 1.6 x 28.09 cm | 192 pp Birkhäuser | 2004 | 9783764370985 Challenging European cultural conventions, the work of Swiss-Bolivian artist Carmen Perrin (b.1953) is infused with fine undertones and references to her Latin American roots. In her preference for...

Michael Klant Softcover | 21.3 x 1.3 x 23.5 cm | 120 pp Hatje Cantz | 2008 | 9783775721165 Text in German and English Beuys dog food, Goya Vienna sausages, Rembrandt tooth paste, Vermeer woodchippers, Leonardo adhesive tape, Michelangelo knives, Klein bikes, Duchamp wine, Lichtenstein...

Lynn Zelevansky Softcover | 23.5 x 0.64 x 27.94 cm | 112 pp Los Angeles County Museum of Art | 2000 | 9780875871868 The artwork of Robert Therrien (1947-2019) makes reference to commonplace, even cliched motifs - a snowman, a cloud, a Dutch door, a...

Tod Williams & Billie Tsien Hardcover | 19 x 2.5 x 15.9 cm | 240 pp Yale University Press | 2013 | 9780300197983 An alluring glimpse into magnificent Cornell-like boxes created by some of the world's leading architects and designers Inspired by the idea of the...

Michael Atavar Softcover | 12 x 1.4 x 18 cm | 256 pp Kiosk Publishing | 2016 | 9780953107346  This book uses your unique creative power to generate new ideas, inspiring both you and those around you. Michael Atavar offers you twenty-four techniques for...

Softcover | 21.6 x 1.3 x 25.4 cm | 144 pp Black Dog Press | 2001 | 9781901033670 Performance artist Andre Stitt has presented hundreds of performances - or 'akshuns' - which are invariably violent and cathartic, involving self-abuse, tantrums and exorcisms. His references are...

Softcover | 21.5 x 15.5 cm | 96 pp Coracle | 2009 | 9780906630396 Dirt documents the objects, sculptures and installations, many of a temporal nature made by Les Coleman over a period of 40 years. His use of transient materials leads to an...

Nancy Kuhl Hardcover | 12.5 x 21.5 cm | 128 pp Coracle | 2010 | 9780906630419 In the work of Erica Van Horn, books collect and transform remnants, remembrances, remainders and reminders. From fragments that might otherwise be forgotten, she makes new inventories and series...

Softcover | 13 x 0.5 x 17.5 cm | 36pp  Coracle | 2008 | 9780906630389 Offset printed | Letterpress cover | Sewn binding Edition of 300 Drawn on location in ink, this book is as much a document of abandoned cars found while hiking in...

Beta Tank Softcover | 16 x 2.4 x 21 cm | 160 pp Gestalten | 2011 | 9783899553468 In recent years, the boundaries between art and design have become more and more blurred. It is not the object itself, but rather its economic functionality that...

Leonardo da Vinci Softcover | 13.92 x 0.99 x 19.99 cm | 128 pp Alma Classics | 2018 | 9781847497697 Found in the Codex Atlanticus of Leonardo da Vinci's writings and drawings, 'The Prophecies' are a collection of enigmatic divinatory pronouncements, some punning and playful,...

Softcover | 11.3 x 0.3 x 18.34 cm | 64 pp | 49 illustrations Yale University Press | 2014 | 9780300208757 The artist Dan Graham (b. 1942) has a wide-ranging practice that encompasses writing, performance art, installation, video, photography, and architecture. Throughout his career, Graham...

Softcover | 11.3 x 0.3 x 18.34 cm | 64 pp | 45 illustrations Yale University Press | 2021 | 9781588397294 Known for his use of familiar objects, icons, and brands in surprising and surreal contexts, Alex Da Corte (b. 1980) often confronts themes...

Softcover | 11.3 x 0.3 x 18.34 cm | 64 pp | 68 illustrations Yale University Press | 2017 | 9781588396211 Celebrated Argentinian artist Adrián Villar Rojas is known for his site-specific sculptural installations. For The Theater of Disappearance, the artist mines The Met's...

Softcover | 20.12 x 9.53 x 1.04 cm | 64 pp | 54 illustrations Yale University Press | 2013 | 9780300197754 This catalogue accompanied the artist's solo exhibition commissioned by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York in 2013. It includes colour plates of art...

Softcover | 11.3 x 0.3 x 18.34 cm | 64 pp | 43 illustrations Yale University Press | 2020 | 9781588396891 The work of Mexican artist Héctor Zamora engages with urban or built environments, both disrupting and re-articulating the viewer’s interaction with the site....

Softcover | 19 x 1 x 25 cm | 80 pp Modern Art Oxford | 2015 | 9781901352641 Edition of 1,000 This catalogue was published to coincide with the first solo exhibition in the UK of acclaimed Austrian artist Kiki Kogelnik (1935-1997) at Modern Art...

Jenny Uglow Softcover | 12.9 x 2.6 x 19.8 cm | 398 pp Faber & Faber | 2022 | 9780571354160 In 1922, Cyril Power, a fifty-year-old architect, left his family to work with the twenty-four-year-old Sybil Andrews. They would be together for twenty years....

Umbro Apollonio Softcover | 14.76 x 1.8 x 21.06 cm | 240 pp Museum of Fine Arts Boston | 2001 | 9780878466276 On February 20th, 1909, a belligerent manifesto announcing the birth of the Futurist movement appeared on the front page of the Paris newspaper Le...