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Otto Freundlich: Cosmic Communism
A German painter and sculptor of Jewish origin, Otto Freundlich was widely known in the art circles of his day. He was on close terms with the leading artists of...
Operation Whisper: The Capture of Soviet Spies Morris and Lona Cohen
Meet Morris and Lona Cohen, an ordinary-seeming couple living on a teacher's salary in a nondescript building on the East Side of New York City. On a hot afternoon in...
Wang Guangyi: Works and Thoughts 1985-2012
The first monograph conceived for the international market devoted to one of the most important Chinese contemporary artists. Wang Guangyi is considered one of the emblems of new China, because...
Your Bright Future: 12 Contemporary Artists from Korea
In the past two decades, there have been major developments in Korean art, as the country has opened up under the influence of globalization. This unprecedented book focuses on the...
The Astrologer: How British Intelligence Plotted to Read Hitler's Mind
Were British Intelligence chiefs gullible or sensible to recruit an astrologer to assist in the war effort against Nazi Germany? And was the astrologer genuine or a charlatan? In the...
Double Agent Victoire: Mathilde Carre and the Interallie Network
On 28.2.42 there arrived in the U.K. a remarkable woman agent: Mathilde Lucie (or Lily) CARRE.' Her codename was VICTOIRE, although she became better known as 'La Chatte' - the...
Last Hope Island: Britain, Occupied Europe, and the Brotherhood That Helped Turn the Tide of War
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Independence Lost
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Haunted Victory: The American Crusade to Destroy Saddam and Impose Democracy on Iraq
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Hostage to Fortune: The Letters of Joseph P.Kennedy
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Men Who Gave Us Wings: Britain and the Aeroplane 1796-1914
Author: Peter ReeseFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 272 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2014Why did the British, then the leading nation in science and technology, fall far...
The Boundaries of Desire: A Century of Good Sex, Bad Laws, and Changing Identities
Author: Eric BerkowitzFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 228mm, 304 pagesPublished: Counterpoint, United States, 2015The act of reproduction, and its variants, never change much, but our ideas about the meaning of sex...
No God But God
Author: Geneive AbdoFormat: Hardback, 236 pagesPublished: Oxford University Press Inc, United States, 2000In Egypt, a new type of Islamic revival - a hidden revolution - has been quietly taking shape....
Goldstar Century: 31 Squadron RAF 1915-2015
Author: Ian HallFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 304 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2015Number 31 Squadron RAF will celebrate its centenary in 2015; a pivotal milestone for...
Secrets of a German POW: The Capture and Interrogation of Hauptmann Herbert Cleft
Author: Brian BrinkworthFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 256 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2014This is the riveting and extraordinary story of Kapitan Herbert Cleff, presented here for...
Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties
Author: Mike DavisFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 235mm, 1074g, 800 pagesPublished: Verso Books, United Kingdom, 2020Histories of the US sixties invariably focus on New York City, but Los Angeles was an...
Children of Marx and Coca-Cola: Chinese Avant-garde Art and Independent Cinema
Author: Xiaoping LinFormat: Hardback, 670g, 320 pagesPublished: University of Hawai'i Press, United States, 2009Children of Marx and Coca-Cola affords a deep study of Chinese avant-garde art and independent cinema from...
Goldstar Century: 31 Squadron RAF 1915-2015
Author: Ian HallFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 304 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2015Number 31 Squadron RAF will celebrate its centenary in 2015; a pivotal milestone for...
Men Who Gave Us Wings: Britain and the Aeroplane 1796-1914
Author: Peter ReeseFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 272 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2014Why did the British, then the leading nation in science and technology, fall far...
Secrets of a German POW: The Capture and Interrogation of Hauptmann Herbert Cleft
Author: Brian BrinkworthFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 256 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2014This is the riveting and extraordinary story of Kapitan Herbert Cleff, presented here for...
The Profits of Nature: Colonial Development and the Quest for Resources in Nineteenth-Century China
Author: Peter B. LavelleFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 229mm, 304 pagesPublished: Columbia University Press, United States, 2020In the nineteenth century, the Qing empire experienced a period of profound turmoil caused by...
The Mosques of Colonial South Asia: A Social and Legal History of Muslim Worship
Author: Sana HaroonFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 534g, 248 pagesPublished: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2021In a series of legal battles starting in 1882, South Asian Muslims made up of...
Blackout
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Al Taylor: Druckgrafik
Author: Michael SemffFormat: Hardback, 240mm x 300mm, 1800g, 272 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2012The present publication is the catalogue raisonne of Al Taylor's graphic works and introduces a previously nearly...
The Euro: And its Threat to the Future of Europe
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John Baldessari: The Stadel Paintings
Author: Martin EnglerFormat: Hardback, 280mm x 280mm, 1510g, 176 pagesPublished: Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2016John Baldessari is an important American conceptual artists and the last member of the American postwar avant-garde....
Werner Graeff: Ein Bauhauskunstler berichtet / Recollections of a Bauhaus Artist
Author: Eveline BergerFormat: Hardback, 196mm x 250mm, 1180g, 288 pagesPublished: Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2017Werner Graeff - painter, graphic artist, typographer, photographer and sculptor - is an important Bauhaus artist and...
Endless Enigma: Eight Centuries of Fantastic Art
Author: Nicholas HallFormat: Hardback, 1580g, 248 pagesPublished: David Zwirner, United States, 2019Endless Enigma takes as its point of departure Alfred H. Barr Jr.'s legendary 1936 exhibition at The Museum of...
QSL? (Do You Confirm Receipt of My Transmission?): A Visual Language of Two-way Radio Communication
Author: Marc DaCostaFormat: Hardback, 203mm x 279mm, 1540g, 276 pagesPublished: Standards Manual, United States, 2022Communications between amateur radio (AKA ham radio) operators and citizen band stations have been crowding the...
Twentieth-Century Fabrics: European and American Designers and Manufactures
Author: Doretta Davanzo PoliFormat: Hardback, 240mm x 280mm, 2070g, 304 pagesPublished: Skira, Italy, 2007Following the publication of Italian Ceramic Art, Skira presents a compilation devoted primarily to the modern decorative...
Dorothy Meserve Kunhardt: Collected Works
Author: Peter W. KunhardtFormat: Hardback, 240mm x 290mm, 1880g, 304 pagesPublished: Steidl Publishers, Germany, 2022Celebrating one of the most dynamic forces in American children's literature, Dorothy Kunhardt's Collected Works is...
Bernard Plossu: Western Colors
Format: Hardback, 270mm x 220mm, 910g, 144 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2016Bernard Plossu has been called 'the most American of French photographers' by his friend and colleague...
Dorothy Meserve Kunhardt: Collected Works
Author: Peter W. KunhardtFormat: Hardback, 240mm x 290mm, 1880g, 304 pagesPublished: Steidl Publishers, Germany, 2022Celebrating one of the most dynamic forces in American children's literature, Dorothy Kunhardt's Collected Works is...
Battle for the Big Top: P. T. Barnum, James Bailey, John Ringling, and the Death-Defying Saga of the American Circus
Millions have sat under the "big top," watching as trapeze artists glide and clowns entertain, but few know the captivating stories behind the men whose creativity, ingenuity, and determination created...
Einstein: The Man and his Mind
Author: Gary BergerFormat: Hardback, 254mm x 330mm, 1980g, 212 pagesPublished: Damiani, Italy, 2022"This visual - and artistically beautiful - format differentiates Einstein: The Man And His Mind from all previous...
Diane Arbus Documents
Author: Diane ArbusFormat: Hardback, 216mm x 279mm, 2100g, 496 pagesPublished: David Zwirner, United States, 2022Known for her evocative portraits, Diane Arbus is a pivotal figure in American postwar photography. Undeniably...
Andre Marfaing: Paintings 1948-1986
Author: Christophe AvertyFormat: Hardback, 248mm x 330mm, 2000g, 288 pagesPublished: Editions Skira Paris, France, 2023Andre Marfaing (1925-87) was a French non-figurative painter and printmaker associated with abstract art and informalism....
Eyewitness 1917: The Russian Revolution through Eyewitness Accounts
Author: Mikhail ZygarFormat: Hardback, 220mm x 290mm, 880g, 304 pagesPublished: Fontanka, United Kingdom, 2019A dramatic account of a year of two revolutions in Russia, told through extracts from contemporary diaries,...
Jean Pigozzi: The 213 Most Important Men In My Life
Author: Jean PigozziFormat: Hardback, 173mm x 230mm, 1960g, 600 pagesPublished: Damiani, Italy, 2021Collector and photographer Jean Pigozzi is renowned for his eclectic art collection and for his social circle, which...
Tomas Esson: THE GOAT
Author: Gean MorenFormat: Hardback, 203mm x 254mm, 1400g, 296 pagesPublished: Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2022Tomas Esson: The GOAT is the first monograph of Afro-Cuban artist Tomas Esson. It features paintings created...
The Curtain and the Wall: A Modern Journey Along Europe's Cold War Border
Author: Timothy PhillipsFormat: Hardback, 153mm x 234mm, 695g, 480 pagesPublished: Granta Books, United Kingdom, 2022The Iron Curtain divided the continent of Europe, north to south, with the Berlin Wall as...
Kinship
Author: Dorothy MossFormat: Hardback, 178mm x 229mm, 540g, 120 pagesPublished: Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2022Recent events have pushed artists to visualize ideas of closeness in a new light. Kinship, published on...
Conrad Felixmuller
Conrad Felixmuller (1897-1977) is regarded as one of the most important representatives of the Second Generation of German Expressionism. He celebrated initial major successes with his art during the Weimar...
Free as they want to be: Artists Committed to Memory
Author: Deborah WillisFormat: Hardback, 203mm x 203mm, 660g, 176 pagesPublished: Damiani, Italy, 2022'Free as they want to be': Artists Committed to Memory is the companion publication to the FotoFocus biennial...
America Declares Independence
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The Future of Iraq: Dictatorship, Democracy, or Division
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Deanna Bowen
Author: Crystal MowryFormat: Hardback, 248mm x 305mm, 1700g, 234 pagesPublished: Steidl Publishers, Germany, 2022This black-on-black book brings together over 20 years of Deanna Bowen's commitment to the excavation and recontextualization...
Humankind: Ruskin Spear: Class, culture and art in 20th-century Britain
Author: Tanya HarrodFormat: Hardback, 185mm x 245mm, 1340g, 320 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2022Humankind: Ruskin Spear is the first book on the painter Ruskin Spear RA (1911-1990)...