Arts

We have grown accustomed to two beliefs: the first, that only experts can be designers; the second, that our everyday activities are harming the na...

Product Description While information science draws distinctions between 'information', signals and data, artists from the 1960s to the present ha...

Linda Nochlin's seminal essay on women artists is widely acknowledged as the first real attempt at a feminist history of art. Nochlin refused to ha...

The first global history of comics from 1968 through to the present day, arranged chronologically and richly illustrated with prime examples of the...

Product Description An amazing archive of New York City Transit Authority memorabilia provides a unique look at the city’s past. New York City Tr...

A tribute to the groundbreaking drag elders who helped pave the way for the queens of todayDrag has officially transcended the underground and expl...

'Clemmie writes about each piece of music with such energy and passion that you can't help but immediately want to stop what you're doing and seek ...

Product Description Some of the world’s greatest architects, including Walter Gropius, Frank Lloyd Wright and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, have u...

Arcade Game Typography presents readers with a fascinating new world of typography - the pixel typeface. Video game designers of the 70s, 80s and 9...

From ancient and classical masterpieces to contemporary, cutting-edge buildings, architecture has defined our world throughout history. Drawing its...

Product Description We hurtle together into the future at ever-increasing speed – or so it seems to the collective psyche. Every day and every hou...

Written by an expert whose fashion knowledge extends around the globe, The Fashion Design Directory presents an enticing panorama of around 150 of ...

Human beings have been transforming Mediterranean landscapes into art for at least thirty thousand years. Today's artists, sculptors, designers, ar...

Product Description Despite his posthumous fame as a painter of flowers, still-lifes, gardens, landscapes and city scenes, during his lifetime Vin...

This highly acclaimed survey of modern architecture and its origins has become a classic since it first appeared in 1980, and has helped to shape a...

The sudden flurry of colour and rapid spread of busy prints is the result of the new ease of computer printing in fabric design. Pioneered by Brazi...

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...

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...

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...

With Art Nouveau there developed a new, international style under various names in the architecture and handicrafts from the 1880s onwards that sou...

Rodin's sculpture was in defiance of academic conventions but in later life he became a famous and widely respected figure. This work reappraises h...

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...

What you see is very different from what you think you see... There's a lot going on behind the scenes when you like a photograph. Maybe somethin...

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

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...

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...

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 ...