Non-Fiction Books

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...

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. ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

No longer considered merely decorative, ceramic art has broken free from the dusty display cases to which it was once relegated and is now taking c...

What makes a magazine into a design classic? How can timeless ideas be incorporated into an ever-changing contemporary context? While many books on...

Over the past 40 years, Lois Greenfield has earned a reputation as one of the world's most accomplished and respected photographers of human motion...

The nations bordering the North Sea have always been engaged in a dialogue with water. The sea is the source of livelihoods as well as leisure, ind...

Thirty of the world's leading architects, including Norman Foster, Thom Mayne, Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, talk about the houses they designed ...

PHUNK is a contemporary art and design collective based in Singapore. Founded in 1994 by Alvin Tan, Melvin Chee, Jackson Tan and William Chan when ...

All knowledge, the cosmos arranged on shelves, in cupboards, or hanging from the ceiling, 'infinite riches in a little room' - such were the cabine...

From the intricate embroidery on a Palestinian wedding dress to the complex iconography on an Afghan war rug, textiles reflect the beliefs, practic...

This ambitious and fascinating book traces the history of fashion in every part of the world, from Greco-Roman woven-cloth clothing and the silk co...

A year-by-year history of people and events, The Chronicle of Jazz tells the whole story of jazz music and its personalities. Each chronologically ...

This book captures the new mood - a return to a preference for the unique and the handmade. Design expert and acclaimed blogger Olivier Dupon has s...

Created in collaboration with Dronestegram, the world-leading drone photography website, and Ayperi Karabuda Ecer, a highly renowned photography ed...

Anja Niemi: In Character is the first career retrospective/monograph by one of the most exciting talents working in contemporary photography, whose...

David Bailey flew to Afghanistan earlier this year to take photographs for auction to raise money for Help for Heroes, a charity that aims to help ...

The accessibility and familiarity of a postcard makes it an artistic medium rich with potential for subversion, appropriation or manipulation for ...

The ultimate repertoire of wit and wisdom from fashions sharpest pin Karl Lagerfeld is a modern master of couture. He is also famously outspoken: h...

Over the past decade, digital tools have radically transformed the design, practice and construction of architecture. But behind the superslick, ph...

Born in Ravenna, Italy, in 1947, Paolo Roversi discovered photography at the age of seventeen on a family holiday. A chance meeting with photograph...

Anders Petersen (b. 1944) lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden. He is noted for his intimate and personal documentary-style black-and-white photogr...

Supremely successful at the beginning of his life; lonely, bankrupt and virtually ignored at its end, Rembrandt produced some of the most powerful ...

The architecture of the 15th and 16th centuries was revolutionary, both in terms of design and building technique. From St Peter's in Rome to the C...

Egon Schiele lived in Vienna during its last years as capital of the declining Habsburg Empire. Rejected by his family and hounded by society for h...

The most controversial and newsworthy plays of British theatre are a rash of rude, vicious and provocative pieces by a brat pack of twentysomething...