Secondhand Art Books

A Daily Telegraph, Times, Evening Standard, TLS and Spectator Book of the Year.Winner of the Hawthornden Prize.Edward Lear is well-loved for his 'nonsenses', from joyous limericks to great love songs,...

The urban sketcher's ultimate guide to drawing buildings! Whether it's a suburban street scene or a vast city skyline, learn all the skills you need to improve your sketches and...

Lavishly illustrated and beautifully designed, this brand new textbook covers selected topics from the Leaving Certificate Art History and Appreciation syllabus in full and comprehensive detail. An accessible text that...

Painting is about responding to the world around you, engaging with light and form, feeling the moment as well as placing lines of colour on a canvas; it can be...

A puzzling journey through the Royal MailOpen this book, and you will discover a most curious and diverting collection of decorated envelopes, all of which have been sent through the...

This volume of pen-and-ink drawings of Scottish mountain scenery by A. Wainwright - author of the legendary Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells and many volumes of Lakeland sketches -...

The perfect introduction to the life and work of Anselm Kiefer

'Never has a publication been more timely' - Dazed'A brave writer whose books open up fundamental questions about life and art' - TelegraphIn this remarkable, inspiring collection of essays, acclaimed...

Robert Hughes first encountered Goya's work while a student in Australia. Looking at his etchings for the first time, he wondered what made it possible for an eighteenth-century Spanish artist...

Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) was not cut out for finance. Nor did he last particularly long in the French Navy, or as a tarpaulin salesman in Copenhagen who did not speak...

Easily portable and versatile, pastels are a popular medium both for beginners and practising artists. This book contains a structured course in pastel art covering materials and equipment, basic techniques...

'A breeze of a read, makes you see our male-manufactured world a little differently... Grayson Perry has written the very book I wanted to write'Matt Haig'GRAYSON PERRY FOR KING AND...

In this book, Alexia Tala explores and investigates the new experimental forms of printmaking, which are today pushing the traditional boundaries of this technique in contemporary art. These include the...

Georges de La Tour's haunting depiction of a repentant Mary Magdalen gazing into a mirror by candlelight; Jean Simeon Chardin's perfectly balanced image of a young boy making a house...

"My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of the undetermined." -RedonIn reaction to the "narrow-mindedness" of his fellow...

This work is Taschen's 25th anniversary - special edition! This work presents painting as a concept. A tragic icon of Abstract Expressionism, Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) took influences from Picasso and...