Art

Picasso's name has become synonymous with creative genius, but who was he - a public figure who lived his life in the headlines, or a private perso...

About the Author Peter Bogdanovich's feature films as director include Targets, The Last Picture Show, What's Up Doc?, Paper Moon, Daisy Miller, S...

Ian Bostridge is one of the outstanding singers of our time. Yet his early career was that of a professional historian, and A Singer's Notebook tak...

Based on his critically-acclaimed BBC Radio 3 programme The Listening Service, in which Tom Service takes an idea on an ear-opening and mind-expand...

'A joy to read.' Sunday Times 'Outstanding.' Daily Telegraph 'Excellent.' The Spectator 'Superb.' Literary Review 'Scintillating . . . A grippi...

WINNER OF THE INDIE BOOK AWARD 2022 FOR NON-FICTION WINNER OF THE ROYAL PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY STORYTELLING AWARD 2021 ‘Riveting, taking in prejudice...

A charming, chunky book filled with more than 150 works we love from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The book is divided into different themes for ...

The best-selling Guardian art critic Jonathan Jones presents a radical new story of British art. "Sensations is a riveting story of art and scienc...

Product Description Rick Joy’s reputation as one of the country’s most gifted designers, whose mining of materials and site create transcendent, e...

Who doesn’t love Santa Claus? From award-winning photographer Ron Cooper comes a beautifully curated collection of fifty professional Santas from a...

In little more than a century of cinema - Birth of a Nation was one hundred years old in 2015 - our sense of what a film director is, or should be,...

A Times Book of the Year 'Most underrated group? World of Twist.' - LIAM GALLAGHER 'They're a top band. No one could do what World of Twist do, ex...

Review Fluent and readable... [Levitin] rightly insists that we are all better equipped to perform and appreciate music than we think... We are, h...

Nineteenth Century British Painting provides a succinct and informative chronological survey of a century of British painting which produced a grea...

More than just a colouring book, Immortal Ink is a celebration of tattoo art and features a collection of art in different styles. Featuring 45 in...

Marina Abramovic has truly pioneered performance as a visual art form. Her work - notorious for its feats of endurance, pain and intense physical e...

Product Description Can one visualize peace? Are there signs, symbols, and images that present a positive image of peace as opposed to receiving t...

Dafi Kuhne is a Swiss designer who works with analog and digital ways to produce fresh and unique letterpress-printed posters. Using very different...

The beauty of Korean architecture in photographs. Photographer H�l�ne Binet works with world-famous architects such as Daniel Libeskind, John Hejdu...

Drawing on draftsmanship, painting, literature, and installations, Michael Tedja's oeuvre erupts into a flamboyant and visually playful whole. His ...

Discover the vibrant world of Henri Matisse through this captivating flexi edition that delves into one of his most significant artistic periods. W...

This book traces Schiele's development as a portraitist through four principal chronological phases, from 1906 to 1918. Starting with the artist's ...

Providing a rare glimpse into one of the finest private art collections in the world, this book presents the extraordinary collection of the Neue G...

Product Description Encompassing nearly 300 works, the Anthony Petullo Collection is one of the most impressive compilations of outsider art i...

An intimate art form, drawing offers a direct connection to one's imagination; a means of exercising the eye, brain, and the hand; and a way to spa...

In the 19th century, numerous photographers chose the same motifs as Impressionist painters: the forest of Fontainebleau, the cliffs of �tretat or ...

Review "I highly recommend Michael Findlay's new book, Seeing Slowly: Looking at Modern Art, published in September by Prestel. A longtime directo...

Product Description Although her reputation exploded in 2016 with her iconic portrait of Solange Knowles for the artist's album A Seat at the Tabl...

Graphic design software is constantly evolving, allowing designers to meet specific printing specifications. Great Impressions is a reference book ...

Drawing is a universal language, but not everybody feels capable of not even give it a go. This is a useful and entertaining book about the pleasur...

The images bear witness to the sublime beauty, complexity and fragility of life in the oceans. They are also a starting point for raising public aw...

A truly colorful history of the finest manufacturer of artists' paint: H. Schmincke & Co. Since its founding in 1881, H. Schmincke & Co ha...

Product Description One of Germany's leading architectural firms, schneider+schumacher has created an impressive portfolio of buildings, as c...

Paris is the city of light, the city of love, and the city of more art than you could possibly explore in a lifetime-and not just in museums. Tucke...

Arrows, swashes, swooshes, globes, sunbursts and parallel, vertical and horizontal lines, words, letters, shapes and pictures. Logos are the most u...

Review An affectionate but clear-eyed memoir of an unusual career that began at the tender age of 12 ― INDEPENDENT As charming on the page as she...

Product Description The debate surrounding hand drawing versus computer-generated imagery has become a hot topic. Having grown up with computers, ...

Mysteries and folkways of New York City revealed in an entertaining collection of graphic art � The life and legend of New York City, from the si...

Product Description The Haynes Digital Video Manual is a thorough, practical introduction to making professional-looking home movies armed only wi...

Review A nourishing, occasionally provoking hybrid of group biography, cultural criticism and travelogue... Accompany Sampson on her varied ramble...

Product Description For most people in the West, the realities of life behind the Iron Curtain have faded into caricatures of police state repress...

Review Praise for Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain -- : Think you can't draw? You absolutely can . . . You will quickly amaze and delight y...

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....

As a 20-something college dropout Nick Kent's first five interviews as a young writer were with the MC5, Captain Beefheart, The Grateful Dead, Iggy...

Product Description A new-born baby is carefully checked over at a hospital in Jaipur, a small girl grins from a bench on Rome's Piazza Navona and...

Review Holiday Gift Guide selection "...both beautiful and poignant, as in Paul Nicklen's photograph in "Human Nature" of a polar bear stranded on...

About the Author Lydia Bacrie is editor-in-chief of L’Express Styles, the lifestyle supplement of the French magazine L’Express. Charlotte Brunel ...

Product Description Polaroid Now celebrates new work created by contemporary artists working with Polaroid cameras and film today, and discusses t...