Art

'This mix of genuine humility and hard-won hubris, of mysticism and technical mastery ... makes Van Morrison quite simply, and quite indisputably, ...

Over the past 40 years, Lois Greenfield has earned a reputation as one of the world's most accomplished and respected photographers of human motion...

An overview of the most important paintings of the Renaissance; includes more than 400 works. The origin of Renaissance painting lies in Italy. Wit...

Israel fascinates by its contrasts: unique cultural treasures, with biblical sites on the one hand and the pulsating life in metropolises like Tel ...

The face is not only central to identity, but is also the primary vehicle for human expression, emotion and character. It also signifies intellect ...

Equal parts design inspiration and travelogue, this book highlights the rapidly growing adaptive reuse movement � From the author and photographe...

Review Fans of Sedaris's acerbic wit will want to check out this stunning new diary compilation...the writer's worldview comes to gorgeous, biting...

Contemporary craft presents a profusion of paradoxes. It bridges ancient traditions and state-of-the-art technologies, cutting edge concepts and en...

The Young British Artists (YBAs) stormed on to the contemporary art scene in 1988 with their attention-grabbing, ironic art. They exploded art-worl...

All across the Americas, from the 16th century onwards, enslaved Africans escaped their captors and struck out on their own. These runaways, having...

Modern art begins with Goya. He was the first to create works of art for their own sake, and he lived in a time of incredible cultural and social d...

The American Dream: From Pop to present presents an overview of the development of American printmaking since 1960, paying particular attention to ...

Today - from haute couture to ready-to-wear - parkas, puffer coats and backpacks, as well as garments made of neoprene and Mylar are everywhere. Bu...

Personally compiled and curated by Yoko Ono, Imagine John Yoko is the definitive inside story - told in revelatory detail - of the making of the le...

The most successful of living artists Jeff Koons has been a focus of creative fascination and significance for more than thirty years, but has a...

A social communication project presented through 930 posters by graphic artists from around the world on subjects such as global warming, human rig...

This book narrates the evolution of textile pattern through the history of manmade design. It studies the decorative art of pattern across a range ...

A thorough exploration of the designer-silversmiths behind the post-war British silver revival Several colour illustrations and extensive, insightf...

Bestselling author of Modernists & Mavericks Martin Gayford recounts some of the extraordinary journeys he has made in the name of art. In the...

Review "30 Rock is undoubtedly one of the greatest sitcoms in history, and its complete story has finally been told, thanks to this riveting book....

Prototyping is an essential part of the designer's repertoire. Designers prototype their projects to test them, structurally, aesthetically, techni...

This book presents the most remarkable, beautiful, and innovative contemporary building fa�ades. A building's fa�ade sets the aesthetic tone for it...

Clive Arrowsmith is one of the world's most celebrated fashion and celebrity photographers Clive Arrowsmith has photographed a who's who of celebri...

The aim of this collection is to offer a series of short monographs which, though brief, nevertheless deal with all aspects of the master's persona...

Henri Rousseau (1844–1910) is one of the most importantrepresentatives of naive art. His paintings, characterizedby a pronounced exoticism and a ch...

American architect Michael Graves divides architectural design into three distinctive moments: referential sketches, preparatory studies, and final...

Rembrandt is probably the most famous Dutch painter of the seventeenth century. His works are greatly loved today, but he was not always so well re...

'There are prizes, normally named after PG Wodehouse, given to literary comic novels and non-fiction, and these books will have blurbs saying "hila...

Uncovered is an oral history of the stories behind the most ground-breaking and controversial magazine covers ever published, as told by the people...

A must-have guide to Harry Potter s Platform 9 ¾, packed with dazzling reproductions of props from the Harry Potter films Every year on September f...

About the Author Lesley-Ann Jones is a journalist, newspaper columnist and broadcaster. The author of eight published books, she has enjoyed more ...

Attention all hipsters! In November 2012, the worlds coolest camera brand celebrates its 20th anniversary with the publication of this official two...

Extraordinary images by master macro photographer Levon Biss capture a vanishing world of insects from the collections of the American Museum of Na...

One of two launch volumes in an important and highly collectible new photography series by the V&A, here is an introduction to the history of s...

Influential ceramics company People Will Always Need Plates bring you notecards depicting four stunning Brutalist architectural gems.These outstand...