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Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art
A landmark feminist intervention- a dazzlingly original reassessment of women's stories, bodies and art - and how we think about them. 'Destined to become a new classic' Chris Kraus A...
Ways of Seeing
Based on the BBC television series, John Berger's Ways of Seeing is a unique look at the way we view art, published as part of the Penguin on Design series...
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Collins Classics)
Author: Oscar Wilde Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'The only way to get rid of a temptation is...
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...
Monsters: What Do We Do with Great Art by Bad People?
'H ow rare and nourishing this sort of roaming thought is and what a joy to read' MEGAN NOLAN, Sunday Times 'An exhilarating, shape-shifting exploration of the perilous boundaries between...
Vermeer: A Life Lost and Found
A revelatory new biography of the enigmatic Dutch artist, published to coincide with the 350th anniversary of his death The paintings of Johannes Vermeer of Delft are some of the...
The Big Anxiety: Taking Care of Mental Health in Times of Crisis
Author: Jill Bennett (University of New South Wales, Australia) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 This book takes a creative approach in examining one of the biggest crises of our...
Camille Henrot: Milkyways
Author: Camille HenrotFormat: Paperback, 120mm x 190mm, 120g, 132 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2023Milkyways is a collection of essays by artist Camille Henrot, exploring the ambivalence of motherhood and the...
Those Passions: On Art and Politics
'The decade's most stimulating art book' Financial Times A Guardian History Book of the Year 'For those, though, who relish brilliant analysis of painting - as well as former students...
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...
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....
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...
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...
Speculation
Engaging with the question of speculation in ways that encompass the artistic, the economic and the philosophical, with excursions into the literary and the scientific, this collection approaches the theme...
Andras Szanto: Imagining the Future Museum: 21 Dialogues with
Following on the widely-read The Future of the Museum: 28 Dialogues , which explored how museums are changing through conversations with today's generation of museum directors, New York-based author and...
What is Art?
Tolstoy's controversial treatise on the purpose of Art During his decades of world fame as a novelist, Tolstoy also wrote prolifically in a series of essays and polemics on issues...
Precolumbian Art and the Post-Columbian World: Ancient American
An original study of the influence of American art on art of the 20th century and the works of such people as Paul Gauguin, Frank Lloyd Wright, Diego Rivera, Henry...