Art

A stylish collection of legendary designer Yves Saint Laurent’s maxims on fashion, craft, women and inspiration, presented in an attractive gift fo...

Great works of art cannot be fully understood in a single encounter: to revisit and reconsider art again and again throughout one's life is to be r...

Product Description Drawing Masterclass explores the act of vision of the world’s great artists, describing how their work was created to allo...

The incredible first memoir by System Of A Down frontman Serj Tankian With nearly 40 million record sales, three albums topping the Billboard char...

Product Description This book features over 180 photographs and accompanying texts of Russian criminal tattoos from the Arkady Bronnikov collectio...

Christopher Dresser (1834–1904) is one of the most influential British designers of all time and he is widely regarded as Britain’s first independe...

In the 17th century, Amsterdam was a vibrant hub of the burgeoning European trade with Asia, Africa, and the Levant, importing copious amounts of f...

Paul Gauguin created some of the most advanced art in a brilliant generation of artists - all of whom struggled against the stifling conformity of ...

There is nothing quite so satisfying as capturing a stunning wildlife photograph; a good one will reflect practice, patience, careful equipment cho...

Portugal has developed a special cultural landscape due to its location between the Atlantic Ocean and neighboring Spain. North African, Moorish in...

Chaim Soutine was an eccentric both in life and on the canvas. His wild painting style inspired many younger artists and leaves no one who sees his...

Product Description In Artists’ Homes, writer and photographer Tom Harford Thompson presents some thirty individual, eccentric houses and workspac...

From the medieval works of Romanesque and Gothic art to the golden age of the Baroque, from the famous Beatus Apocalypses to Diego Vel�zquez and Fr...

When the original edition of this book was published, John Russell hailed it as a `massive contribution to our knowledge of one of the most fascina...

Bamboo has gained the name of "plant steel" in the field of construction. Since ancient times, it has been widely used in Asia and Latin America. F...

Art Deco is the decorative, distinctly aesthetic style of the years between 1920 and 1940. The movement embraced all areas of lifestyle and art. Ar...

About the Author Art historian Ruth Dangelmaier has worked for many years as a freelance writer and editor. She lives with her family in Colog...

Classical on account of his subjects, modern on account of his sense of composition, color, and light, the Nabis painter Pierre Bonnard (1867–1947)...

As artists push further and further beyond their, and our, comfort zones, this book aims to help decipher the bizarre and often intimidating aspect...

Nature as a work of art: birds in their habitat, spectacularly presented in their natural surroundings The award-winning Winged Prism photo series ...

Type Tells Tales focuses on typography that is integral to the message or story it is expressing. This is type that speaks - that is literally the ...

Speed, regulation and mass production defined the first Industrial Revolution, but we have entered a new era. Today's revolution has been driven by...

Product Description For more than 50 years, the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition has championed honest and ethical wildlife photograp...

PEPIN is a series of thematic titles on various types of textile and dress - including unusual and overlooked styles. Each volume contains introduc...

Made in Dublin winner of Photography category in the British Design and Production Awards 'A singular new vision and an original contribution to t...

Classical on account of his subjects, modern on account of his sense of composition, color, and light, the Nabis painter Pierre Bonnard (1867–1947)...

Sinan was the greatest architect of the Ottoman Golden Age of the sixteenth century - when the Ottoman Empire reached its zenith of power and magni...

The London Transport bar and circle also known as the bulls-eye or roundel is an icon of commercial design. Over the last century it has come to re...

During a time of development and change that has the potential to transform the unique character of London's Soho, this book delves into the area's...

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

Product Description Antoni Gaud� has a reputation as monastic, mad and hermetic. But the architect of many of the buildings that define Barcelona’...

‘Comprehensive and groundbreaking’ Amateur Photographer From the daguerreotype to the digital age, Face Time is an accessible introduction to on...

This official tie-in book to Marilyn Agrelo’s (Mad Hot Ballroom) documentary Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street supplements the film’s explor...

“Painting is about studying the impression of a pebble falling onto the surface of the water, a bird in flight, the sun receding over the sea or am...

Between popular masterpieces and rather little known artists, this book unfolds nine centuries of the history of French painting.This book contains...

Product Description British artist Clare Woods is internationally regarded as one of the most significant painters working today. Her paintings an...

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

Holy Works is the culmination of Andres Serrano's vision of Christian iconography, reinterpreted photographically for the present. Serrano's intent...

Body art, practised across all world cultures and throughout history, is the most intimate art form, linking the self, the senses, and the social a...

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

Gustav Mahler was born on 7 July 1860 in an insignificant outpost of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He grew to become one of the greatest conductors ...