Art

In October 2009, a major artwork by Leonardo da Vinci was uncovered. The 500 year-old portrait is one of the most extraordinary discoveries of our ...

To this day, major women artists continue to be excluded from the mainstream art cannon, art exhibitions and even art textbooks. Broad Strokes is t...

From the momentus invention of the needle some 40,000 years ago to the development of blue denim, from Neolithic weavers to the biggest names in th...

The Frieze New York Catalog is an essential guide to international contemporary art. Highly respected critics profile over 190 acclaimed internatio...

Make your Mark is divided into three: 'Draw', 'Paint', 'Make'. It celebrates and discusses the work of forty-five urban artists, extraordinarily di...

Product Description Seeing Science offers an insightful and reader-friendly collection of essays and pictures about photography’s role in visualiz...

Product Description This intimate portrait of eight houses by the Maine architect Carol A. Wilson illustrates how “local” is an idea as close to ...

Product Description Design legend Milton Glaser demystifies his creative process in this thoughtful collection of illustrations showing his journ...

Architects use CAD to help them visualize their ideas. Parametric design is a fast-growing development of CAD that lets architects and designers sp...

An understanding of trends is a fundamental skill for anyone working in the fashion industry. In this book Gwyneth Holland and Rae Jones look at ho...

This book serves as an introduction to the key elements of good illustration. The Illustration Idea Book presents 50 of the most inspiring appr...

This 60-piece collection showcases an array of inspired and stylish projects that don't demand a large investment of time or money, but do give jew...

Synopsis This book presents the most flamboyant and whimsical of all Chihuly's series. The voluptuous glass pieces, shown in full-colour, were i...

This is the definitive book on fashion in the 1940s, covering everything from French style under the Occupation and the `make do and mend' mentalit...

This insightful, wide-ranging book surveys the applied arts and industrial design from the eighteenth century to the present day, exploring the dyn...

In the DESIGN MUSEUM DESIGNERS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY series, a study of the career and designs of Frank Gehry. It is illustrated with colour pho...

Synopsis Ilkka Uimonen travelled to Jerusalem on September 25, 2000, to photograph a story in the Old City. Three days later Ariel Sharon visite...

Review "...[Lebensztejn] elegantly reveals how artists have repeatedly used our queasiness in the face of bodily functions to transgress narro...

Product Description Through photographs of both iconic and individual styles, this book decodes celebrity fashion secrets and demonstrates how to ...

Product Description The Digital Brushes Sourcebook is a one-stop resource for designers and illustrators who want to explore the enormous creative...

Review "With sections on creating the perfect composition, finding an original angle,and capturing scenes and places, this book covers all you nee...

For too long, kindergarten architects have been seemingly preoccupied with the principles of durability, maximisation of space, and minimisation of...

Product Description What does architecture have to do with health? This fun - damental, yet unusual question is based on the elemen - tary conside...

Silvia Bachli and Eric Hatan spent four months, from March to June, in Seydisfjordur in eastern Iceland. The landscape they explored on their daily...

Can regional and interregional mechanisms better institutionalize the - creasing complexity of economic and security ties among states in Nor- east...

Product Description In numerous civilizations throughout world history city walls were an indispensable part of every city. In China they can ...

Claude Lorrain (c. 1600/1604-1682) is justifiably referred to as the father of European landscape painting. Basing his work on carefully observed s...

Sasha Waltz is a pioneer of the so-called "turn to the installation". She is expanding the field of the installation to include actions and people....

Discover the captivating world of art and creativity with this stunning book that invites you to explore the depths of human expression. Perfect fo...

In 1955, Mercedes-Benz wins the sports car world championship with the racing car 300 SLR (W 196 S). In addition to the titles achieved that same y...

In his singular paintings, Niklaus Manuel Gudel (*1988 in Delemont, Switzerland) assigns a void to the actual pictorial subject. The people or anim...

For Stefan Hanke (*1961 in Regensburg), each new day harbored the danger of being able to meet one less person who had survived one of the greatest...

What began as an academic initiative to improve the quality of life of poor strata of the population has meanwhile become a professional "do tank" ...

Difficult to categorize and branded as "naive"-art history had and still has a hard time with works by the great autodidacts: artists such as Henri...

The Swiss artist Christoph Hansli (*1963) gained international recognition a few years ago for his epic work, Mortadella (2006-08), a series of 332...

Ashley Hans Scheirl overcomes the limitations of media as easily as she deals with gender and cultural norms. Born Angela Scheirl, the artist achie...

The work of Angela Bulloch (*1966, Rainy River, Canada, currently based in Berlin) spans many media, manifesting her interest in systems, patterns ...

Summer in Siberia? What does that feel like? Is Siberia perhaps a new travel destination we didn't know about? How is climate change making itself ...

Two of the most important Spanish sculptors of the sixteenth century and their work in Naples can be found here together in an opulent art book. Du...

The publication presents Joan Miro's (1893- 1983) mural art in the context of his life's work. Miro's ideas for large-scale mural art can be traced...

Rapunzel, the famous fairy - tale character of the Brothers Grimm, comes from the world of magic. She is the girl, lover, woman and mother who e...

At a time when extreme climatic phenomena, air quality, and industrial impact are among the most pressing issues on the public agenda, the dramatic...

Emigration, being lost in a strange world, the search for a new identityand longing for things and people that have been lost form the central topi...

The iF product design award was introduced in 1954 and is annually conferred by iF Industrie Forum Design of Hanover, Germany. Each year the iF awa...

Product Description A key figure in French design, and the man behind the first high-speed trainThis volume compiles a selection of illustrator, g...

Discover the hidden treasures of literature with this used book, a gem that has stood the test of time! Perfect for avid readers and collectors ali...

Product Description The most important book on Richard Hamilton’s life and work Richard Hamilton (1922 – 2011) was an English painter and col...

Product Description One of the most important artists of his generation, Olafur Eliasson (born 1967) creates immersive environments and spectacul...