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The Artist's Way Toolkit: How to Use the Creative Practices
Hailed as the Queen of Creativity, Julia Cameron is the authority on artistic life and has brought her wisdom to millions around the world. The four essential, accessible tools she...
Create Dangerously
Fifty new books at e1 each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry 'To create today is to create...
The World According to Colour: A Cultural History
A beguiling, human history of colour by one of art history's most exciting voices The world comes to us in colour. But colour lives as much in our imaginations as...
100 Artists' Manifestos: From the Futurists to the Stuckists
A new anthology of 100 years of artists', film makers' and architects' manifestos In this remarkable collection of 100 manifestos from the last 100 years, Alex Danchev presents the cacophony...
I'm Not an Artist: Reclaiming Creativity in the Age of Infinite
Romanticized notions of how one becomes an "artist" have long been questioned, so why do we still fetishize them in popular culture, turning a blind eye to the politics of...
Ornament and Crime
Revolutionary essays on design, aesthetics and materialism - from one of the great masters of modern architecture 'But art has nothing to do with forgery, with lies. The paths of...
Blueprints: How mathematics shapes creativity
*A Financial Times and Waterstones Book of the Year 2025* Many artists are unaware of the mathematics that bubble beneath their craft, while some consciously use it for inspiration. Our...
What Art Does: An Unfinished Theory
Why do we need art? What Art Does is an invitation to explore this vital question. It is a chance to understand how art is made by all of us....