Fine Art & Art History (£5 or Less)

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...

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...

Hardcover |  24.77 x 1.91 x 33.5 cm | 224 pp Prestel | 2016 |  9783791355283 A lavishly illustrated book on the acclaimed visual artist, videographer, and filmmaker Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, whose exceptionally diverse body of work explores her haunting visions of the past, present...

Carol Jacobi Softcover | 16.83 x 0.64 x 20.96 cm | 80 pp Tate Publishing | 2017 | 9781849765299  This refreshingly accessible introduction to the lives and work of some of the best-known and best-loved impressionists features artworks by Degas, Monet, Pissarro and Morisot among...

Softcover | 11 x 0.3 x 15 cm | 16 pp Coracle | 2006 When having guests staying for few days, Erica Van Horn asks them to fold their napkins in a particular way so they will remember which one is theirs. Sometimes they...

Bernard Champigneulle  Softcover | 15 x 1.5 x 21 cm | 288 pp | 132 illustrations, 16 in colour Thames & Hudson | 1999 | 9780500200612 Originally published in 1967, this authoritative monograph, discusses Rodin's great significance as an innovator in sculpture, as well as his lasting influence...

Charlotte Chastel-Rousseau Hardcover | 12.5 x 17.5 x 1 cm | 64 pp Editions Gallimard | 2019 | 9782072877094 Published in conjunction with the El Greco exhibition at Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais in Paris. For a pocket size book, this really punches above it's...

Softcover | 13.34 x 1.78 x 20.32 cm | 322 pp Museyon | 2016 | 9781940842110 Art + NYC is an art-lover's guide to New York City that combines a crash course in 20th- and 21st-century art history with in-depth bios of ten celebrated New...

Softcover | 16 x 15 cm | 108 pp Coracle | 2005 | 9780906630280 The vinyl project uses installations made of vinyl film as signs and graphics output from the computer plotter and cutter. This was the single unifying means of making these works into a...

Softcover | 21.49 x 0.91 x 25.48 cm | 128 pp Scala | 2011 | 9781857596977 The explosion of rap music and the street culture from which it sprang have had an indelible influence on our lifestyle today. We see it in our language,...

Lionel Bovier, Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith & Dominic Molon Softcover | 25.4 x 1.9 x 30.5 cm | 192 pp JRP Ringier | 2014 | 9783037643853 In the 1980s Kilimnik's jumbled narrative installations were compared by critics to the 'scatter art' of the previous decade,...

Hardcover |  24 x 1.3 x 30 cm | 120 pp Prestel | 2009 | 9783791343914 With a unique style that blends drawing, painting, photography, graphic design, and text, Larry Johnson (b. 1959) creates photographic works that are sardonic, frequently melancholic or nostalgic, but...

Simon Cutts & Erica Van Horn Hardcover | 14.5 x 18.5 cm | 48 pp Coracle | 2023 | 9780906630679 Edition of 300 Coracle has been producing books and other printed artefacts displaced from the page, often leading to installations for walls and other...

George Roddam & Slawa Harasymowicz Hardcover | 15.88 x 2.06 x 24.13 cm | 80 pp Laurence King | 2014 | 9781780671895 Paul Gauguin created some of the most advanced art in a brilliant generation of artists – all of whom struggled against the stifling conformity of...