New & Recommended
By Tate
By Tate
New arrivals in modern & contemporary international art, British art, visual culture and fresh ideas.
Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?
Linda Nochlin
£9.99 £9.29A 50th anniversary edition of Nochlin's ground-breaking and feminist art defining 1971 essay. Also included is her "Thirty Years After" follow up, and a new 2021 introduction by Catherine Grant, Senior Lecturer in Art and Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths. Nochlin exposed the acceptance of a Western white male viewpoint in art history as both a moral and intellectual failing. There is still a long way to go, but the hope now is that this time around is so widely read that there will be no need for a future edition!
The Boiled in Between
Helen Marten
£12.00 £11.16The Boiled in Between is the debut novel by Turner Prize-winning artist Helen Marten, a bold and daring work of fiction which transposes the poetic sensibility of Martens visual work to the page. It is a challenging, playful, enigmatic, tactile and deliberately ambiguous work of great inventiveness, which will establish Marten as an exceptional talent and unique voice in contemporary fiction.
You Are An Artist
Bob and Roberta Smith
£14.99 £13.94A fast-track art school in book form: an explanation of what art is and does alongside practical exercises and provocations to get you on the art-making path.
More Than Just a House: At Home with Collectors and Creators
Kate Martin and Alex Eagle
£39.95 £37.15
David King: Designer, Activist, Visual Historian
Rick Poynor
£30.00this is the first book to fully explore the unique accomplishments of the extraordinary visual historian and journalist David King. His personal collection of graphic art and photographs, with a keen focus on revolutionary Russia, extends to more than 250,000 images. King designed books, political posters and album artwork in a truly remarkable career that blended activism with graphic design. An inspirational marriage of the personal and the professional, turning passion into both art-making and making a living.
Foundations: How the Built Environment Made Twentieth-Century Britain
Dr Sam Wetherell
£30.00 £27.90
The Whole Picture: The colonial story of the art in our museums & why we need to talk about it
Alice Procter
£16.98 £15.79
Avant-Garde as Method: Vkhutemas and the Pedagogy of Space, 1920-1930
Anna Bokov
£50.00 £46.50We've been waiting and at long last it is printed! Anna Bokov’s groundbreaking study on the early Soviet Union's Higher Art and Technical Studios, known as Vkhutemas, and their pioneering curriculum that has been a source of inspiration for generations of architects, designers, and artists until the present day Marking the 2020 centenary of Vkhutemas, its outstanding design makes this tremendous book a most fitting tribute to Bauhaus’s Russian sibling.
Africa State of Mind: Contemporary Photography Reimagines a Continent
Ekow Eshun and Lina Iris Viktor
£39.95 £37.15
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures
Merlin Sheldrake
£20.00 £18.60
The Saddest Thing Is That I Have Had to Use Words: A Madeline Gins Reader
Madeline Gins
£25.00 £23.25Experimental literature and poetry from artist, philosopher and architect Madeline Gins. An anthology of her extraordinary conceptual wordplay and prose all either long out of print or previously unpublished. Gins worked for years alongside her architect partner Arakawa creating buildings intended to prevent death, or at the very least make the occupants live life more fully, in schemes known as "Reversible Destiny" architecture. Don’t miss!
Make Time for Creativity: Finding Space for Your Most Meaningful Work (A Self-Guide)
Brandon Stosuy
£11.99 £11.15
A More Exciting Life: A Guide to Greater Freedom, Spontaneity and Enjoyment
The School of Life
£15.00 £13.95
Gregory Halpern: Let the Sun Beheaded Be
Copublished by Aperture and Fondation d'entreprise Hermes
£35.00 £32.55
The Monocle Book of Gentle Living: A guide to slowing down, enjoying more and being happy
Tyler Brule, Andrew Tuck, et al.
£35.00 £32.55
Photography and Belief
David Levi Strauss
£8.94 £8.31A key issue for contemporary photography: seeing is not believing. Photography in the digital age of image and message manipulation leaves us uncertain we can trust our own eyes. With Deep Fake technology and the exponential success of hyper-normalisation in politics, photography has gained an inordinate power to influence public opinion, manufacture desire, and appeal to our base emotions. A book of the present moment, exploring our past and future relationship with truth.
The Museum Makers: A Journey Backwards - from Old Boxes of Dark Family Secrets to a Gold Era of Museums
Rachel Morris
£16.98 £15.79
The Honest Art Dictionary: A Jovial Trip through Art Jargon
The Art History Babes and Carmen Casado
£14.99 £13.94
Napoli Super Modern
LAN - Local Architecture Newtwork
£42.00 £39.06A unique comprehensive survey of modern architecture in Naples of the 1930s to 1960s Offers topical essays and an atlas of eighteen significant buildings with concise descriptions and illustrated with site and floor plans, elevations, and sections Features some fifty new photos by celebrated French photographer Cyrille Weiner.
The Museum of Whales You Will Never See: Travels Among the Collectors of Iceland
A. Kendra Greene
£14.99 £13.94
Paul Klee: 1939
Paul Klee, Dawn Ades, et al.
£40.00 £37.20The year before he died, Paul Klee created his most inventive works, using adhesive, grease, oil, chalk, watercolour to create a series of striking drawings that acted as meditative reflections on the pains and pleasures of life. A key moment in modernism is captured brilliantly here in this stunning book.
Bernd and Hilla Becher: Basic Forms
£24.99 £23.24
The Becher’s unique approach to photography, essentially cataloguing building ‘types’ in a formalised style, brought an order and majesty to seemingly random and mundane structures such as cooling towers, gas tanks, mine shafts and silos. Their method and passion brought a solemn beauty to the images, to the extent that their 40-year documentary efforts can be enjoyed as exceptional conceptual art. A classic.
Ernst Haas: New York in Color, 1952-1962
Phillip Prodger
£35.00 £32.55For the talented Haas, the new medium of colour photography was the only way to capture mid-century New York’s energy and humanity. His genius handling of Kodachrome film while wrestling with the technical constraints of colour printing resulted in a series of dramatic and intense images, not to be missed.
Kwame Brathwaite: Black Is Beautiful
£32.95 £30.64
Reprinted by popular demand and back in stock. Superb photography collection.
Cuba: Music and Revolution: Original Album Cover Art of Cuban Music, The Record Sleeve Designs of Revolutionary Cuba 1960-85
Stuart Baker and Gilles Peterson
£35.00 £32.55
Photography of Protest and Community: The Radical Collectives of the 1970s
Noni Stacey
£40.00 £37.20
How to Think More Effectively: A Guide to greater productivity, insight and creativity
The School of Life
£10.00 £9.30
