Fine Art & Art History (£5 or Less)

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...

Laurie Schneider Adams Softcover | 12.95 x 2.29 x 19.81 cm | 240 pp Oneworld Publications | 2012 | 9781851688531 From Stone Age statuettes to twenty first-century video art, Laurie Schneider Adams unravels the extraordinary story of Western art in this fast-paced introduction. Reining in the isms'...

Harriet Vyner Softcover | 12.95 x 2.29 x 20.57 cm | 384 pp Heni Publishing | 2016 | 9780571205752 Acclaimed on first publication, Harriet Vyner's Groovy Bob is the cult biography of hedonistic gallery owner Robert Fraser and a dazzling evocation of 1960s culture and counter-culture....

Hardcover | 16 x 0.8 x 15 cm | 36 pp Coracle | 2013 Edition of 200 numbered copies Facsimiles of 13 painted-out postcards following the life of St. Anthony with narrative captions opposite. Anthony of Padua was a Portuguese Catholic priest and member...

Boris Friedewald Hardcover | 14.61 x 1.91 x 19.05 cm | 144 pp Prestel | 2016 | 9783791382555 This original and utterly captivating celebration of Salvador Dali's life and career traces the countless, often outrageous, ways the artist employed his moustache to brilliant effect. Whether...

Jorella Andrews & Patrick Vale  Hardcover | 17.8 x 1.9 x 22.9 cm | 80 pp Laurence King | 2015 | 9781780674780 Paul Cézanne challenged convention and pioneered new possibilities in painting. He was remarkable for his ability to perceive and paint aspects of everyday life...

Hardcover | 22.86 x 1.27 x 31.12 cm | 64 pp Hatje Cantz | 2008 | 9783775719681 Fides Becker (b. 1962) lures us into a world of dreams in which princesses seem to stroll through pleasure palaces and spacious park meadows. Becker uses her...

Marcia Brennan Softcover | 17.3 x 1.2 x 22 cm | 240 pp MIT Press | 2006 | 9780262524681 How postwar abstract modernist paintings came to be seen as metaphorical embodiments of masculine selfhood; an examination of the critical discourse surrounding the work of...

Richard Deming & Marianne Mays Hardcover | 24.7 x 1.8 x 15.9 cm | 128 pp Coracle | 2012 | 9780906630457 The colour black has long held a fascination in art, craft and design. dubh: Dialogues in black looks at black as both a physical and...

William Vaughan Softcover | 14.99 x 1.78 x 21.08 cm | 224 pp Thames & Hudson | 2002 | 9780500203583 William Vaughan puts Gainsborough's work into the context of contemporaneous social and political developments in Britain, and in particular the celebration of original genius...