Non-Fiction Books

THE OFFICIAL COMPANION TO THE ITV SERIES William Thackeray's Vanity Fair was first published in the 1840s, but its power to entertain and provoke ...

This deceptively simple and addictive sketchbook-with-content includes tons of hip and entertaining things to draw. Encourages artists to try their...

Drawing on the unparalleled collection of original designs for Central Park in the New York City Municipal Archives, Cynthia S. Brenwall tells the ...

For the past 50 years, the covers of Rolling Stone have depicted the icons of popular culture-from John Lennon, Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones, Mado...

Rare notes, memos, and telegrams from Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn, Frank Sinatra, Jane Fonda, and more Letters from Hollywood reproduces in...

As an art student in 1993, Michael De Feo drew a simple bloom that became a familiar and welcome presence in New York after he spent countless nigh...

New York City Brick by Brick is the ultimate exploration of the architecture and history of New York City through the creative medium of LEGO. Expe...

*From the author of the New York Times bestseller Capture Your Style* Aimee Song is a fashion icon, a sartorial star, the blogger behind Song of S...

In 1993, Fox debuted a strange new television show called The X-Files. Little did anyone suspect that the series would become one of the network's ...

At a time in which a woman can be a firefighter, surgeon, astronaut, military officer, athlete, judge, and more, what does it mean to dress like a ...

Product Description There are many guidebooks on the market to assist in planning a trip to Africa. The African Safari Journal and Field Guide sta...

Double Take presents thirty-nine uncannily accurate reconstructions of the great images and moments from history - ranging from the earliest known ...

Presented here for the first time is a compendium of one hundred hieroglyphs that are also building blocks of ancient Maya painting and sculpture. ...

This volume, the second catalogue of the Wyvern Collection, celebrates an outstanding group of medieval ivory carvings and small sculpture, the fin...

This imaginative collection of royalty-free images juxtaposes portraits of Old Japan's samurai warriors with medieval armored knights. The 200 full...

Bill Viola began producing video works in the early 1970s, and since then has captivated audiences with his poignant and beautifully wrought interp...

This is an overview of the top 100 leading young designers working across Asia, selected by the co-founders of one of Asia's foremost interior-desi...

Just as Picasso's Guernica or Gericault's Raft of the Medusa survive as powerful cultural documents of their time, there will be works from our own...

A study of this complex, multifaceted artist, whose groundbreaking work continues to engage and entertain while challenging the relationship betwee...

In our age of fast-paced biotechnological progress and humans' increasing impact on the environment the autonomy of 'nature' has come into question...

This publication documents Gerhard Richter's experiment of taking an image of an original abstract painting and dividing it vertically into two. Ea...

Best known for his luscious paintings of pies and ice-cream cones, American artist Wayne Thiebaud (born 1920) has been an avid and prolific draftsm...

The coming of the Industrial Revolution in the early 19th century witnessed unprecedented changes in society: rapid economic progress went hand-in-...

There can be no doubt about Klimt's greatness as a draughtsman. Remarkable above all is the intensely sensual mood that he establishes in his limpi...

This standard introduction to visual art since 1945 has been revised, updated and redesigned for the first time since 2001. Movements, trends and i...

In this new and engaging study Alex Harris presents a confident case for the interest and importance of the English arts during the modern period. ...

'I have a more or less irresistible passion for books' Vincent van Gogh Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) was famously driven by his passion for God, f...

Raymond Briggs has changed the face of children's picture books, with his innovations of both form and subject. Stylistically versatile, he has ill...

In this classic survey, now updated and with full-colour images throughout, Edward Lucie-Smith introduces the art of Latin America from 1900 to the...

In this path-breaking new history, Maja and Reuben Fowkes introduce outstanding artworks and major figures from across central and eastern Europe t...

The art of the past can seem very far away, obscured both by time and by knotty academic theory. Foregrounding the experience of the contemporary v...

This wide-ranging survey, now established as the best single-volume introduction to Andean art and architecture on the market today, describes the ...

This accessible overview is invaluable for the way in which it makes coherent sense of the often-bewildering diversity of styles, forms, media, tec...

John Boardman has updated his classic account of one of the most popular historic artistic traditions among Western audiences. In the twenty years...

This indispensable guide to the entire world of fashion has been completely revised to include detailed information on every important designer fro...

There have been many books about this astonishing artist, most of them written as celebrations of his creative abundance. Tim Hilton has a more cha...

New in theWorld of Art series is this guide to the treasures of the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, the national museums of Asi...

A Chronology of Photography presents a fresh perspective on the medium by taking a purely chronological approach to its history, tracing the comple...

What makes some photographs stay in the memory forever? Sometimes it's the subject matter alone, but more often it's the skill of the artists who t...

Christian Dior achieved immortality with his first collection in 1947. His `New Look' amazed the world as it emerged after wartime austerity, and r...

This lavish publication celebrates the gentleman's search for the perfect sartorial detail, the ideal accessory, or beautiful gift for a loved one....

Le Arti d'Oggi was originally published in Italy in 1930. This near-facsimile edition of that rare and much sought-after book follows the format of...

Hernan Diaz Alonso is one of the most influential and innovative architects working today. Director of one of the leading architecture schools in t...

This is the ultimate book on the extraordinary life and work of Franco Zeffirelli, produced with the full co-operation of the director and his fami...

Postmodernism was the defining look of the 1980s. Originating as a rebellious movement in philosophy and literature, and spearheaded by Michael Gra...

Product Description This Building Likes Me offers an engaging account of the recent work of one of Australia’s most significant architectural prac...

This Empty World, Nick Brandt's new monograph, features a series of dramatically staged photographs that bring together and reveal the animals and ...

The Iconic House features one hundred of the most important and influential architect-designed houses from around the world.With seminal works from...