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		Source Book of American Architecture
		500 Notable Buildings from the 10th Century to the Present		Art
		GE Kidder Smith
		Princeton Architectural 1996 680 pages		Qty
		Paperback Illustrated 1568982542
		Published Price £21.95		Sale Price £10.99
	From cliff dweliings in Mesa Verde, Colorado to Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House in Chicago, and from the Chrysler Building to James Ingo Freed's Holocaust Museum in Washington, this book offers a comprehensive and insightful illustrated survey of 500 of America's most distinguished buildings and an overview of the 1000-year architectural development of the country. Each building is fully described and illustrated in one or more monochrome photographs.
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		Transgressions
		The Offences of Art		Art
		Anthony Julius
		Thames & Hudson 2002 272 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 0500237999 244x172mm
		Published Price £24.95		Sale Price £6.99
	From Manet to the Chapman brothers, each generation of artists has arrived in a blaze of scandal. Transgression - of the rules of art, morality, the law - was the mark of the true artist. But now, in an age where anything goes, has art lost its power to shock? Julius, a celebrated lawyer and a cultural commentator, brings a forensic intelligence to bear on this central dilemma of modern art. His conclusions are themselves disturbing and thought-provoking.
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		Potted Histories
		An Artistic Voyage through Plant Exploration		Art
		Sandra Knapp
		Scriptum 2003 336 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 1902686284 280x260mm
		Published Price £45.00		Sale Price £12.99
	Botanical art for Sandra Knapp, 'has an unbreakable link with exploration, not just exploration of places unknown, but of morphology: what plants look like in all their amazing detail and variety'. In this book she examines that link, through the magnificent collections of horticultural art in the Natural History Museum, and in essays on the discoveries and subsequent histories of 20 groups of plants, among them arums, water lilies, cacti and succulents, magnolias, roses, conifers and poppies.
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		In Monet's Garden
		Artists and the Lure of Giverny		Art
		Joe Houston; Dominique H Vasseur; M Melissa Wolfe
		Scala 2007 160 pages		Qty
		Paperback Illustrated 1857595009 228x283mm
		Published Price £19.95		Sale Price £3.99
	Monet's garden at Giverny continues to inspire artists even today and is as much a part of the artist's legacy as his paintings of it. In this illustrated study, the juxtaposition of Monet's work with that of his American contemporaries, as well as later artists, highlights his significance as a revolutionary modernist. Through a broad range of works, the book explores the lure of Giverny, the relationship between American artists and the garden, and its interpretation in contemporary art.
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		Portraits of Artists
				Art
		Nicholas Sinclair
		Lund Humphries 2000 78 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 0853317992
		Published Price £27.50		Sale Price £5.99
	Nicholas Sinclair has been photographing artists since 1990, from the older generation such as Frank Auerbach, John Piper and Paula Rego to younger stars such as Gillian Wearing and Jake and Dinos Chapman. Some of these portraits are intensely theatrical, such as those of Gilbert and George and Maggi Hambling; others show the artist engaged with raw materials, such as Marc Quinn covered in plaster. These 48 superbly reproduced black-and-white photographs are introduced by a thought-provoking essay by the art critic Ian Jeffrey.
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		Illustrated Letters
		Artists and Writers Correspond		Art
		Roselyne de Ayala; Jean-Pierre Gueno (Edited by)
		Abrams 1999 240 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 0810906538 310x250mm
		Published Price £38.00		Our Price £8.99
	This engaging volume presents the artistic correspondence of more than 60 French and European artists and writers of the 19th and 20th centuries. From the witty doodles of Rimbaud and Baudelaire to the fine architectural marginalia of Le Corbusier, the letters and postcards reproduced here - along with biographical notes on the writers and recipients, portraits and transcriptions of the manuscripts - evoke an age when written correspondence was the rule for communication, rather than the exception.
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		Mapping St Petersburg
		Imperial Text and Cityshape		Art
		Julie A Buckler
		Princeton University Press 2005 364 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0691113491
		Published Price £37.95		Sale Price £4.99
	Pushkin's palaces or Dostoevsky's slums? Buckler traces the evolution of the old Russian capital from 'conceptual hierarchy' to living cultural system, a topography expressed not only by the city's physical structures but also by the literary texts that have helped create it. By favouring non-canonical works and 'underdescribed places' she seeks to revise the literary mapping of St Petersburg - with Pushkin and Dostoevsky representing traditional albeit opposing perspectives - to describe a richer, less familiar urban landscape.
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		Drawing the Line
				Art
		Gary Groth
		Fantagraphics 2004 148 pages		Qty
		Paperback Illustrated 1560975970 304x304mm
		Published Price £16.99		Sale Price £2.99
	In this Comics Journal Library volume, four outstanding cartoonists talk about their lives and their art in interviews with Gary Groth: the Pulitzer Prize-winning comic strip cartoonist and author Jules Feiffer; David Levine, the artist and illustrator best known for his caricatures in The New York Review of Books; the illustrator, cartoonist and graphic designer Edward Sorel; and Ralph Steadman. All four interviews are liberally illustrated with the cartoonists' work - and all four contribute a Richard Nixon.
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		Collins Complete Period House
				Art
		Albert Jackson; David Day
		Collins 2002 240 pages		Qty
		Paperback Illustrated 0007271034
		Published Price £16.99		Sale Price £3.99
	The attraction of living in a period property, be it stately home or humble cottage, is rooted in the value and character of the building, both of which can suffer severely as a result of neglect. Published in association with English Heritage, this step-by-step guide covers every aspect of period house care and sympathetic restoration. Following an introduction to architectural styles, it provides expert, illustrated advice on the maintenance of every element of the building, from the roof and chimneys to decorative metalwork.
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		Bible Road
		Signs of Faith in the American Landscape		Art
		Sam Fentress
		David & Charles 2007 160 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 0715326856 266x286mm
		Published Price £18.99		Sale Price £4.99
	The result of 25 years of travel and observation, this catalogue records the distinctly American phenomenon of religious expression embedded in urban and rural landscapes. Shop fronts and billboards inscribed with full bible verses, messages like 'obey God or burn' scratched onto a sidewalk in Harlem, 'Jesus loves you' painted onto a row of cinderblocks... With images such as these, Fentress has created a unique typology of America's 'roadside religion'.
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		International Art Galleries
		Post-War to Post-Millennium		Art
		Uta Grosenick; Raimar Stange (Edited by)
		Thames & Hudson 2005 540 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 0500512663 295x235mm
		Published Price £45.00		Sale Price £11.99
	With over 75 photographic portraits of leading commercial galleries of contemporary art from around the world, this volume examines the modern phenomenon of the gallery, celebrating its extensive influence in launching careers and breathing life into important artistic movements. Divided by decade from the 1940s and '50s to the 21st century, the book summarizes the social background to each decade before dealing individually with the galleries that had their greatest public influence in that era.
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		The Daily Telegraph Guide to England's Parish Churches
				Art
		Robert Harbison
		Aurum 2006 256 pages		Qty
		Paperback Illustrated 1845130669
		Published Price £16.99		Sale Price £4.99
	Of the thousands of parish churches in England, Robert Harbison has selected just over 600, chosen as often for their simplicity and the beauty of their settings as for their architectural grandeur or the quality of their stained glass, stonework or monuments. They range from the magnificent wool churches of East Anglia and the Cotswolds to 'the most exquisitely humble' church at Wasdale Head in Cumbria - all described by Harbison with an eye for architectural detail, lightly-worn scholarship and infectious enthusiasm.
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		Children of the Gilded Era
		Portraits by Sargent, Renoir, Cassatt and their Contemporaries		Art
		Barbara Dayer Gallati
		Merrell 2004 96 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 1858942721 210x180mm
		Published Price £12.95		Sale Price £3.99
	The later 19th century was a period characterized by the pursuit of wealth in Europe and America, and the transformation of family life, with children becoming the most important element of the family unit. This change is reflected in the work of artists such as Degas, Sargent, Mary Cassatt and Whistler. Their paintings, beautifully reproduced here with commentary by Gallati, go beyond commissioned portraits of beloved sons and daughters to engage with the subjects of childhood, individuality and innocence.
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		Forms into Time
				Art
		David Nash
		Artmedia 2001 128 pages		Qty
		Paperback Illustrated 1902889045 305x250mm
		Published Price £19.95		Sale Price £4.99
	'Identifying with the time and energy of the tree and with its mortality', the sculptor David Nash employs traditional techniques and agricultural skills to produce works in wood that reflect the material's importance as shelter, fuel and a symbol of life and death. With an essay by Marina Warner, Forms in Time illustrates, in special pages designed by the artist, 14 themes - including vessels, charred surfaces and stoves - that have run throughout his work for the last 30 years.
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		Jerry Garcia
		The Collected Artwork		Art
		April Higashi (Edited by)
		Thunder's Mouth 2005 188 pages		Qty
		Paperback Illustrated 1560257555 280x280mm
		Published Price £25.99		Sale Price £5.99
	Leader of the legendary rock band, The Grateful Dead, Jerry Garcia was also a natural artist who never stopped drawing and painting. Marking the 10th anniversary of his death in 1995, this celebration of his life and art presents over 150 of Garcia's paintings, drawings and prints in vibrant reproductions, along with contributions from friends, family and fellow musicians including Bob Dylan, Mickey Hart, Carlos Santana and F Lanier Graham.
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