Art, Design & Architecture

Stephen McKenna - Persepctives of Europe 1980-2014 ( Middlesbrough Gallery of Modern Art with The Hugh Lane Gallery - HB - 2015

Large format hardcover, in cloth covers without DJ ( as issued? ) , co produced by the two galleries - Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art and Hugh Lane Gallery Dublin, 2015.  Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane with former Turner Prize nominee...

Art in Focus Series / Francisco De Goya: Life and Work (Large Paperback)

Splendid reproductions of The Parasol, The Duchess of Alba, The Third of May, The Maja Clothed, and 12 others.   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the...

Whitney Museum of American Art - Selected Works from the Permanent Collection - PB

The 1994 second edition, published by the Whitney Museum , New York.  Full page colour reproductions from the gallery's permanent collection- ranging from the 19th century to the late 20th, with sculpture, installations, paintings, ceramics etc all...

Edward McParland - Public Architecture in Ireland 1680-1760 - HB

Large format hardcover, published by Yale UP , 2001. Newspaper review loosely laid in.    This innovative book examines the public architecture of Ireland from 1680 to 1760, a crucial period during which the country undertook the combined tasks...

Elke Linda Buchholz , Beate Zimmermann / Picasso (Large Paperback)

Pablo Picasso is indisputably one of the great artists of the 20th century. This handsome volume is a fine introduction to a legendary figure and includes more than 60 plates of his masterpieces as well as some lesser-known works. Find out where Picasso...

Dieter Beaujean / Velazquez (Large Paperback)

Art in Focus   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we...

Roads Publishing - Theatres - HB - 2014

A large format hardcover, still sealed in the publishers' original shrinkwrap, 2014.  Published by Roads Publishing.  If, Theatre is the greatest of all art forms, as Oscar Wilde avowed, surely it should be housed in the greatest of buildings...

Philip Brennan - Clare : Unique Images of the Artist's native County Clare - PB

Published by Ashfield Press, 2002. In very good condition throughout.  Philip Brennan is a native of County Clare. He has been exhibiting his work since the late ‘seventies. He works mainly in watercolour, but also in other media. His work...

Patrick Waldberg / Surrealism (Large Paperback)

"An excellent picture of a movement which...has had a profound effect on the arts of the twentieth century."― The Times Educational Supplement The character of Surrealism had been crystallizing over the previous five years when, in 1924, Andre Breton's...

SEDDON TONY / Draw Your Own Fonts (Coffee Table Book)

Hand-drawn lettering has never been more popular, and every home designer is in on the act, creating energetic, quirky fonts that seem to jump off the screen, the poster or the page. To the uninitiated this free design can seem a little intimidating...

DAVIES LUCY / Arts and Crafts of South America (Coffee Table Book)

A wooden head carved in the north of Brazil to ward off evil spirits; belts woven with symbolic designs from Lake Titicaca in Peru; the beautiful baskets of the Cholo Indians of the Pacific coast of Colombia. Whether from coastal areas, forests or...

Keri Smith / How to Be an Explorer of the World: Portable Life Museum (Coffee Table Book)

From the author of Wreck this Journal , Keri Smith's How to be an Explorer of the World is an invitation to rediscover the world around you. Artists and scientists analyze the world around them in surprisingly similar ways, by observing, collecting,...

Gregory Sholette / Delirium and Resistance: Activist Art and the Crisis of Capitalism (Large Paperback)

Delirium and Resistance: Activist Art and the Crisis of Capitalism Gregory Sholette, Lucy R. Lippard (Foreword), Kim Charnley (Editor) In the aftermath of the 2016 US election, Brexit, and a global upsurge of nationalist...

Ben Street / 200 Words to Help You Talk About Art (Hardback)

Have you have ever felt at a disadvantage when joining in a conversation on a subject that you aren't confident about? If yes, this new book series is for you. Each book features definitions of two hundred words frequently used to describe and discuss a...

Célia Bertin / Jean Renoir: A Life in Pictures (Hardback)

Jean Renoir: A Life in Pictures is the first biography of this master of modern cinema--the director of Grand Illusion, Rules of the Game, The River, and other classics. Clia Bertin tells Renoir's story from his magical childhood to his first success in...

David B. Berman / Do Good Design: How Designers Can Change the World (Large Paperback)

Today, everyone is a designer. And the future of civilization is our common design project. How does design help choose our leaders?Why do we really have an environmental crisis?How can accessible design broaden your audience?Why does the U.S. economy...

Robert Henri , Margery Ryerson / The Art Spirit (Large Paperback)

In this book are the essential beliefs and theories of a great teacher and American artist, Robert Henri. While it embodies the entire system of his teaching, with much technical advice and critical comment for the student, it also contains inspiration...

K.J Barton - Pottery in England From 3500BC - 1730AD - HB - 1975

Published by David & Charles UK, 1975, smaller format hardcovert in dustjacket.  Photography throughout in b&w, with maps, line drawings etc. 

Matthew Hart / The Irish Game : A True Story of Crime and Art (Large Paperback)

Vermeer, Goya, Rembrandt, Rubens - the Beit art collection was worth millions. For decades Sir Alfred and Lady Beit had lived peacefully at Russborough House in Ireland. Until people started stealing their paintings...Of all the canvases at Russborough,...

Elie Faure - L'Art Renaissant ( Histoire de l'art) - PB - 1964

Publsihed by Livre de Poche, PARIS 1964 Text entirely in French - illustrated with b&w photographs of Renaissance art)  Text on spine is sunfaded. 

Llewellynn Jewitt - The Ceramic Art of Great Britain - HB 1985 Facsimile ( Originally 1877)

The Ceramic Art of Great Britain is a comprehensive guide to the history of British pottery and ceramics, written by Llewellynn Frederick William Jewitt and first published in 1883. The book provides a detailed overview of the development of ceramic art...

Taschen Publications - The Circus 1870'S-1950'S - HB - Slipcased - 2021

Edition: Multilingual (Text ( all text)  in English, French, German) In its heyday, the American circus was the largest showbiz industry the world had ever seen. From the mid-1800s to mid-1900s, traveling circuses performed for audiences of up to...

Parragon Books / Watercolour and Sketching for Beginners (Hardback)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain...

Ralph Mayer / The HarperCollins Dictionary of Art Terms & Techniques (Large Paperback)

The HarperCollins Dictionary of Art Terms and Techniques, 2nd edition, contains over 3,200 clear definitions of terns encountered in the study and practice of the visual arts and in their literature. It covers all forms of easel and mural paintings,...

Robert Mugerauer / Interpretations on Behalf of Place: Environmental Displacements and Alternative Responses (Environ Architect Phen (Large Paperback)

In this book, Mugerauer emphasizes the interplay between European continental philosophy and North American environments and architecture. Drawing on a keen understanding of conceptual trends in both scholarship and the design professions, he clarifies...

James Howard Kunstler / The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape (Large Paperback)

The Geography of Nowhere traces America's evolution from a nation of Main Streets and coherent communities to a land where every place is like no place in particular, where the cities are dead zones and the countryside is a wasteland of cartoon...

John Berger - Permanent Red - PB

Paperback, previous owner's name to title page.  1981 reprint of the 1960 original - published by Writers and Readers Co-Op.  In Permanent Red , John Berger argues that the contemporary artist should strive for a realism that aims for hope, to...

Declan Ryan & Dan Edwards - Dan Edwards : The Life and Times of a Craftsman and Artist - HB - 2016

Dan Edwards – The Life & Times of a Craftsman & Artist By Declan Ryan and Dan Edwards Dan Edwards, blacksmith, craftsman and artist, is a man with a huge depth of artistic creativity. He is a quiet scholar of history, literature, legend and...

Anne Crookshank & The Knight of Glin - The Watercolours of Ireland ( Works on Paper in Pencil, Pastel and Paint 1600-1914) - HB

Published by Barrie & Jenkins UK , 1994.  A detailed and profusely illustrated guide to Irish watercolour art, large format hardcover, by two experts in Irish art and antiques.   

Mauro F. Guillén / The Taylorized Beauty of the Mechanical: Scientific Management and the Rise of Modernist Architecture (Large Paperback)

The dream of scientific management was a rationalized machine world where life would approach the perfection of an assembly line. But since its early twentieth-century peak this dream has come to seem a dehumanizing nightmare. Henry Ford’s assembly...

Roland Barthes - Camera Lucida : Reflections on Photography - PB

Barthes shares his passionate, in-depth knowledge and understanding of photography.Examining the themes of presence and absence, the relationship between photography and theatre, history and death, these 'reflections on photography' begin as an...

Eoin Ó Broin & Mal McCann - Flats and Cottages Herbert Simms and the Housing of Dublin's Working Class 1932-1948

A city gripped by an ever-worsening housing crisis. An expensive and insecure private rental sector. Rogue landlords running overcrowded and poorly maintained flats. Central and local government struggling to keep up with population growth and...

Mark Carruthers & Colin Davidosn- Colin Davidson: Twelve Paintings: Conversations with Mark Carruthers (Hardback) - BRAND NEW

Twelve Paintings is an intimate and compelling exploration of the life and work of renowned artist Colin Davidson. Structured around a series of deeply personal conversations with broadcaster Mark Carruthers, the book uses twelve key works - from early...

Bruce Sterling / Shaping Things (Large Paperback)

A guide to the next great wave of technology--an era of objects so programmable that they can be regarded as material instantiations of an immaterial system. Shaping Things is about created objects and the environment, which is to say, it's...

Ulrich Conrads / Programs and Manifestoes on 20th-Century Architechture (Large Paperback)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain...

Reyner Banham / Theory and Design in the First Machine Age (Large Paperback)

First published in 1960, Theory and Design in the First Machine Age has become required reading in numerous courses on the history of modern architecture and is widely regarded as one of the definitive books on the modern movement. It has influenced...

Steen Eiler Rasmussen / Experiencing Architecture (Large Paperback)

Profusely illustrated with fine instances of architectural experimentation through the centuries, Experiencing Architecture manages to convey the intellectual excitement of superb design. From teacups, riding boots, golf balls, and underwater...

Henry Petroski / The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance (Large Paperback)

Henry Petroski traces the origins of the pencil back to ancient Greece and Rome, writes factually and charmingly about its development over the centuries and around the world, and shows what the pencil can teach us about engineering and technology...

Martin Gayford - A Bigger Message : Conversations With David Hockney - HB - 2011

Published by Thames & Hudson UK , 2011, Illustrated throughout with colour photographs and reproductions of artwork.  David Hockney is possibly the world's most popular living painter, but he is also something else: an incisive and original...

Frank Martin - Hollywood - Continental - HB - 1988

Frank Martin was one of the foremost British graphic artists of the 20th century. He was a master printmaker, a commercial illustrator and a teacher of graphic arts. Published by Academy Editions/ St. Martin's Press, 1988, with essays  on the artist...

Thomas Hoving / False Impressions: The Hunt for Big-Time Art Fakes (Large Paperback)

Delving into one of the most sacrosanct areas of culture—fine art collecting—Thomas Hoving presents a gallery of art fakes, fakers, and the suckers who fell for the scams.False Impressions from Thomas Hoving reveals the biggest, the best, the...

Constance Rubini / The Little Book of Miro (Large Paperback)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain...

David Carrier / The Aesthetics of Comics (Large Paperback)

From Gary Larson’s The Far Side to George Herriman’s Krazy Kat , comic strips have two obvious defining features. They are visual narratives, using both words and pictures to tell stories, and they use word balloons to represent the...

John Killen - John Bull's Famous Circus : Ulster History Through Postcards 1905-1985 - HB

John Killen's book, "John Bull's Famous Circus: Ulster History Through the Postcard, 1905-1985," uses postcards as a historical source to illustrate the social, political, and cultural landscape of Ulster. The title, "John Bull's Famous Circus," is a...

Roger Coleman - The Art Of Work : An Epitaph to Skill - HB - 1988

Published by Pluto Press, 1988, examines the relationship between work and art, in a aworld where technology seemed poised to transform both.   

Kate Shelley & Clodagh Murphy - Wild Atlantic Pen - PB - COLOURING

John O'Regan -Gwen O'Dowd - Gandon Editions - Works 13 - Irish Artist

interview and intro by Rosemarie MulcahyISBN 978 0946641 390 32 pages (paperback) 20x15cm 18 illus Gwen O’Dowd’s highly individual style and the tactile quality of paintings puts her at the vanguard of Irish landscape painting. As the artist...

John O'Regan -John T Davis - Gandon Editions - Works 11 - Irish Artist

interview by John O’ReganISBN 978 0946641 321 32 pages (paperback) 20 x 15 cm 17 illus John T Davis’s first experience of film-making came about through a chance encounter with the legendary film-maker DA Pennebaker in Belfast in 1966. Many...

John O'Regan - Charles Tyrell - Gandon Editions - Works 15 - Irish Artist

interview by Brian FallonISBN 978 0946641 413 32 pages (paperback) 20x15cm 18 illus Charlie Tyrrell’s early paintings were influenced by the work of American Abstract Expressionists, but these gave way to works concerned with geometric...

John O'Regan - Eithne Jordan - Gandon Editions - Works 16 - Irish Artist

  ISBN 9780946641420     32 pages (paperback)    20x15cm    17 illus Many influences have touched Eithne Jordan’s work. Since her emotionally charged early paintings, Jordan’s work has become more concerned...

John O'Regan - Mary Fitzgerald - Gandon Editions - Works 6 - Irish Artist

interview by Felicity Woolf; intro by the artistISBN 978 0946641 239 32 pages (paperback) 20x15cm 22 illus Mary Fitzgerald’s interest in addressing aspects of Eastern and Western culture informs her work. In this book she discusses the language of...

Anne Van Der Linden / Freak Wave No 1 - La Vague Scélérate (Large Paperback)

      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a...