Arts

Sandy Isenstadt examines how architects, interior designers, and landscape designers worked to enhance spatial perception in middle class houses vi...

The Provincetown Players was a major cultural institution in Greenwich Village from 1916 to 1922, when American Modernism was conceived and develop...

Roberto Rossellini's Rome Open City instantly, markedly, and permanently changed the landscape of film history. Made at the end of World War II, it...

Raging Bull (1980) represents American film making at its best. Since its initial release, the film has been called the greatest film of the 1980s,...

The book traces the history of African American theatre from its beginnings to the present. It analyses the types of plays written for this theatre...

The process of translating works of literature to the silver screen is a rich field of study for both students and scholars of literature and cinem...

Women - as warriors, workers, mothers, sensual women,even absent women - haunt 19th- and 20th-century Western painting: their representation is one...

For 150 years, the French department store Printemps has been the temple of chic for Parisians, a symbol of elegance, beauty and style. It has clot...

Published on the 50th anniversary of Maurice Renoma's career, this book offers a retrospective of this French stylist, designer, photographer and d...

Product Description Over 30 years, Joe Nahem of Fox-Nahem has built a reputation for creating classic, contemporary, bespoke, and highly creativ...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

In Directing Herbert White James Franco writes about making a film of Frank Bidart's poem, Herbert White. Though the main character, Herbert White ...

"This book contains all the hot Ayoade-on-Ayoade action any self-respecting adult could reasonably withstand." (Charlie Brooker). "This book change...

Gordy LaSure's passionate about film. He eats film, he drinks film, and sometimes he'll even watch a film. But most of all he loves talking to peop...

An overview of Brandeis University's Rose Art Museum, which houses a terrific collection of American and European works from the early twentieth ce...

Product Description In the process of decommunisation, Ukraine has toppled all its Lenin monuments. The authors have hunted down and photographed ...

Product Description 'Its snarky hero is a joy', a Times and Sunday Times Novel of the Year, 2020 'Clever, witty and perceptive . . . Gekoski writ...

In October 2009, a major artwork by Leonardo da Vinci was uncovered. The 500 year-old portrait is one of the most extraordinary discoveries of our ...

To this day, major women artists continue to be excluded from the mainstream art cannon, art exhibitions and even art textbooks. Broad Strokes is t...

From the momentus invention of the needle some 40,000 years ago to the development of blue denim, from Neolithic weavers to the biggest names in th...

The Frieze New York Catalog is an essential guide to international contemporary art. Highly respected critics profile over 190 acclaimed internatio...

Make your Mark is divided into three: 'Draw', 'Paint', 'Make'. It celebrates and discusses the work of forty-five urban artists, extraordinarily di...

Product Description Seeing Science offers an insightful and reader-friendly collection of essays and pictures about photography’s role in visualiz...

Product Description This intimate portrait of eight houses by the Maine architect Carol A. Wilson illustrates how “local” is an idea as close to ...

Product Description Design legend Milton Glaser demystifies his creative process in this thoughtful collection of illustrations showing his journ...

Architects use CAD to help them visualize their ideas. Parametric design is a fast-growing development of CAD that lets architects and designers sp...

An understanding of trends is a fundamental skill for anyone working in the fashion industry. In this book Gwyneth Holland and Rae Jones look at ho...

This 60-piece collection showcases an array of inspired and stylish projects that don't demand a large investment of time or money, but do give jew...

Synopsis This book presents the most flamboyant and whimsical of all Chihuly's series. The voluptuous glass pieces, shown in full-colour, were i...

This is the definitive book on fashion in the 1940s, covering everything from French style under the Occupation and the `make do and mend' mentalit...

This insightful, wide-ranging book surveys the applied arts and industrial design from the eighteenth century to the present day, exploring the dyn...

Synopsis Ilkka Uimonen travelled to Jerusalem on September 25, 2000, to photograph a story in the Old City. Three days later Ariel Sharon visite...

Review "...[Lebensztejn] elegantly reveals how artists have repeatedly used our queasiness in the face of bodily functions to transgress narro...

Product Description Through photographs of both iconic and individual styles, this book decodes celebrity fashion secrets and demonstrates how to ...

Product Description The Digital Brushes Sourcebook is a one-stop resource for designers and illustrators who want to explore the enormous creative...

Review "With sections on creating the perfect composition, finding an original angle,and capturing scenes and places, this book covers all you nee...

For too long, kindergarten architects have been seemingly preoccupied with the principles of durability, maximisation of space, and minimisation of...

Product Description What does architecture have to do with health? This fun - damental, yet unusual question is based on the elemen - tary conside...

Silvia Bachli and Eric Hatan spent four months, from March to June, in Seydisfjordur in eastern Iceland. The landscape they explored on their daily...

Can regional and interregional mechanisms better institutionalize the - creasing complexity of economic and security ties among states in Nor- east...

Product Description In numerous civilizations throughout world history city walls were an indispensable part of every city. In China they can ...

Claude Lorrain (c. 1600/1604-1682) is justifiably referred to as the father of European landscape painting. Basing his work on carefully observed s...