Arts

A fully illustrated, interactive tribute to the world's most famous and popular science fiction series: Star Trek. To boldly go where no one has go...

From the Pyramids of Giza to the Guggenheim, this lively guide explains the key concepts and inventions in architecture clearly and concisely. Expl...

The indispensable, illustrated pocket guide to the world of vampire movies, from Nosferatu to A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night. ...

Anselm Kiefer (b. 1945) is one of the most important and controversial artists at work in the world today. Through such diverse mediums as painting...

`A photographer's gift to the viewer is sometimes beauty in the overlooked ordinary' Saul Leiter Photography lovers the world over are now embra...

About the Author David Hlynsky is Senior Lecturer in Arts, Culture and Media at the University of Toronto. He is founding editor of the alternativ...

Product Description Close presents 120 portraits of the world’s most famous and infl uential people across the arts and entertainment industries, ...

What a shock it must have been for the Utrecht painters Hendrick ter Brugghen, Gerard van Honthorst and Dirck van Baburen when they first encounter...

Iwan Baan: Moments in Architecture offers the first comprehensive overview of works created by one of the leading photographers of our time. More ...

'My art is a self-confession - in it I seek to clarify my relationship with the world. But at the same time I have always thought and felt that my ...

A panoramic insider’s account of the global art industry, revealing the fascinating but mysterious workings of the world of contemporary art. Over...

The Art of Science explores the work of forty artists and artist-scientists whose work has furthered and made visible the relationship between thes...

This long-overdue, eponymous first monograph of India Mahdavi takes us on a retrospective journey through the most emblematic realizations of the w...

Please note that the individual books listed below, as per their original ISBN and cover image, will be dispatched together as a collective set. T...

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...

“Black women’s heads of hair are galaxies unto themselves, solar systems, moonscapes, volcanic interiors.” —Elizabeth Alexander, from the Introduct...

About the Author Ewen Spencer graduated from the University of Brighton in1997 and began shooting for visually driven style magazines, such as Sle...

Product Description How has the seaside been photographed? From the roaring waves of the nineteenth century through the reportage of the 1960s and...

Product Description A two-volume boxset facsimile of the first printing of Complexity and Contradiction paired with a compendium of new scholarshi...

The grande dame of Norwegian Painting – teacher of Nikolai Astrup and Harald Sohlberg. Harriet Backer (1845–1932) was one of Norway’s most promine...

TEXTURES synthesises research in history, fashion, art, and visual culture to reassess the “hair story” of peoples of African descent. A fraught to...

Discover the transformative power of self-discovery and personal growth in this compelling book that invites you to embark on a journey towards you...

Product Description Knitting and crochet have long been considered forms of folk art, but in the 21st century, these time-honoured crafts are brea...

Review "To hear Maureen Footer tell it, Paris in the late 1940s mirrors America of late. "Society was polarized, people felt like they were losing...

Product Description America, as a place and an idea, has occupied Mitch Epstein’s art for the past fi ve decades. With the first photographs he ma...

Today's artists have an unprecedented level of choice with regard to materials and methods available to them, yet the processes involved in making ...

Product Description In 1967, The Museum of Modern Art presented New Documents, a landmark exhibition organized by John Szarkowski that brought tog...

Product Description Many of Magnum’s most renowned photographers – beginning with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson on assignment in the 1930s...