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Discover the captivating world of art and design with this stunning book that takes you on a visual journey through the most influential movements ...

The enormous rise in popularity in recent decades of the Camino, the ancient pilgrim path that stretches from France, across northern Spain to Sant...

An absorbing group biography revealing how exiles from war-torn France brought Surrealism to America, helping to shift the centre of the art world ...

Since its invention in c.100 BC, paper has been a cornerstone of civilization and a key component of the human experience. Artist Matthew Shlian ha...

Product Description "Hillenbrand brings a fresh viewpoint to old and standard concepts . . . an interesting and refreshing work." - The Times High...

Claude Monet (1840–1926) is one of the most admired and famous painters of all time, and the architect of Impressionism: a revolution that gave bir...

Product Description Whitney Chadwick’s acclaimed study challenges the assumption that great women artists are exceptions to the rule, who ‘transc...

The African diaspora – a direct result of the transatlantic slave trade and Western colonialism – has generated a wide array of artistic achievemen...

Genius. Anti-artist. Charlatan. Impostor! Since 1914 Marcel Duchamp has been called all of these. No artist of the 20th century has aroused more pa...

Paul Gauguin achieved a high public profile during his lifetime, and was one of the first artists of his generation to achieve international recogn...

Discover the captivating world of art and design with this essential guide that delves into the history, movements, and influential figures that ha...

The third edition of this classic study, a thorough introduction to one of the most popular and recognizable artists of the 20th century. Salvador...

A new, updated and expanded edition of this classic survey on the history of Caribbean art, featuring the work of over 100 artists from the period ...

The fourth edition of the essential introduction to digital art, one of contemporary art’s most exciting and dynamic forms of practice. Digital ar...

The definitive introduction to the artist Mary Cassatt, placing her work in the wider context of 19th-century feminism and art theory. A close all...

A classic monograph in the World of Art series, offering a a detailed insight into Rembrandt’s life and work. Rembrandt is among the few Old Maste...

Product Description In this exploration of the idea of the masterpiece, over fifty world masterpieces, from cave paintings to C�zanne, are brought...

Product Description Marcel Duchamp’s life and work in more than 200 alphabetical entries – from alchemy and anatomy to Warhol and windows, via the...

Product Description Painting is a continually expanding and evolving form of creative expression whose ongoing relevance is here convincingly ...

About the Author Maura Reilly is the founding curator of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum, where she organi...

Product Description From the origins of urbanization in Mesopotamia to the global metropolises of today, great cities have marked the development ...

About the Author Robert C. Davis is professor of Renaissance history at Ohio State University. He is the author of Christian Slaves Muslim Masters...

The fifth instalment in this popular and highly successful series, Viking follows on from Legionary, Gladiator, Knight and Samurai, your guide to t...

Product Description Great cities marked the earliest development of civilization. From the world’s first true cities, in Mesopotamia, to the spect...

In recent years, demand for kilims (flatwoven textiles) in the West has reached unprecedented levels. Kilim: The Complete Guide unravels the comple...

Giver and taker of life; essential element of all existence and untameable destroyer; spiritual expression of purity and contaminated purveyor of a...

Exactly 500 years after its first publication by the great Venetian printing house Aldus Manutius, Francesco Colonna's weird, erotic, allegorical a...

About the Author David Warnes is the author of Russia: A Modern History. The history of Russia has been his principal enthusiasm since his final y...

From cabinets of curiosities to assemblages of found objects and imitations of museum displays, artists have often turned their attention to the id...

Michael Hopkins is an expert guide to the origins, development, eventual ending and ongoing legacies of the Cold War, focusing on the decisions of ...

Product Description Can an artist claim that an object is a work of art if it has been made for him or her by someone else? If so, who is the ...

About the Author Gilda Williams is a contemporary art critic, editor and teacher. She is a lecturer on the MFA in Curating programme, Goldsmiths C...

India is set to join the world's fashion hubs. With a unique creative inheritance, stretching back thousands of years, it is also rapidly making th...

About the Author James Hall is an art critic, historian, lecturer and broadcaster. He was formerly Chief Art Critic of The Sunday Correspondent an...

The final edition of the late Tom Phillips’s ‘defining masterpiece of postmodernism’. In 1966 the artist Tom Phillips discovered A Human Document ...

Product Description Drawing on the author’s personal experience of living and working as an architect in Syria, this book offers an eyewitness per...

Product Description Robotics is the fastest-growing and most exciting area of development in architecture and architectural education for a genera...

About the Author Whitney Chadwick is Professor Emerita at San Francisco State University. Among her other books are Women Artists and the Surr...

Product Description For centuries the beguiling ancient ruins of Egypt have provided an endless source of fascination for explorers, antiquarians,...

Product Description ‘Chris Naunton makes the search for the lost tombs of Egypt as exciting as a novel’ Dan Snow, award-winning historian and auth...

A new way of appreciating art that puts the artwork front and centre, brought to us by one of the freshest and most exciting voices in cultural cri...

Manifesting in a broad range of media, from massive land and environmental works and extensive sculpture parks to giant public murals, ‘destination...

Self-portraiture shows no sign of losing its ability to capture the public imagination. Given our current proclivity to snap and share ‘selfies’ in...

Product Description Francis Bacon was one of most elusive and enigmatic creative geniuses of the twentieth century. However much his avowed a...

Did you know that: • Deserts provide food for fish? • 70% of all birds on the planet are chickens? • Climate change was the reason why humans be...

Photography: The Whole Story is a celebration of the most beautiful, meaningful and inspiring photographs that have arisen from this very modern me...

Discover the captivating world of art and design with this beautifully illustrated book that takes you on a journey through the most influential mo...

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