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This overview of the artist's life and work examines more than fifty years of painting and drawing.

An illustrated catalog of buildings that have won national architecture awards from the Royal Australian Institute of Architects.

Shortlisted for the 1999 William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award and voted one of the twenty-five "Books to Remember 2000" by the New York Public Library. In this...

Published to coincide with an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in September 2000, this book charts the relationship between women and gardens from the Elizabethan times to the present...

The definitive guide to Art Deco buildings in Britain. The perennially popular style of Art Deco influenced architecture and design all over the world in the 1920s and 1930s -...

Since its foundation in 1897, Country Life has consistently featured new British houses, thus building up an unrivalled photographic archive on 20th-century architecture, one that covers a much wider variety...

"London" and "Paris" are the first two titles in a unique new series of city guides focusing on modern and contemporary art - a genuine gap in the art and...

From Barnet to Richmond, explore the history of London's Metro-Land A Guide to Modernism in Metro-Land is your essential pocket guide to the modernist architecture of London's suburbs. Inspired by...

'Victoria Selman is an exciting and powerfully fresh voice' Patricia Cornwell 'Gravely compelling, sophisticated, terrifying' Chris Whitaker 'An absorbing and captivating read, this held me in its thrall from beginning...

Sir John Soane's Influence on Architecture from 1791: A Continuing Legacy is the first in-depth study of this eighteenth-century British architect's impact on the work of others, extending globally and...

Edward Thomas's death in the Second World War robbed the world of a great poet, a fine writer, and a pioneering environmentalist. Published in 1909, The South Country is the...

The follow-up to the 2 million-copy-selling Losing My Virginity, documenting the incredible last twenty years in Sir Richard Branson's life. PAPERBACK EDITION FULLY UPDATED WITH TWO NEW CHAPTERS After creating...

The pilgrimage of American writers to Paris began with Henry James over a century ago, and has continued in waves ever since. This book is not concerned with the "lost...

In the vein of Inside Out and Back Again and The War That Saved My Life comes a poignant, personal, and hopeful tale of India's partition, and of one girl's...

Devised as temporary housing after World War II, prefabricated homes fitted with all 'mod cons' represented the new way of living in post-war Britain. The fact that war-damaged aircraft were...

Using thousands of hours of previously concealed tapes, a stunning revelation into the infamous Nixon White House and how far the administration went to cover up the abuse of power....

In a series of essays by some of the most internationally acclaimed writers on art, the extraordinary artistic challenges of the twentieth century are introduced and discussed with unparalleled lucidity,...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history, from the author of The Wager and The...

A LIFE OF HENRI MATISSE- VOLUME ONE, 1869-1908 'Spurling's account of Matisse's first forty years is gripping, full of shocks and colour, judicious and informative' A.S. Byatt, Guardian 'A terrific...

Recapture the summer sunshine this autumn with the Sunday Times bestseller that readers are calling 'captivating' and 'a treasure of a read'... Love grows where you least expect it... July...

'Riveting, tragic tale' New Yorker 'Anna Pasternak has produced an irresistible account of joy, suffering and passion' Financial Times The heartbreaking story of the passionate love affair between Boris Pasternak...

The definitive history of Coronation and the Royal Family, from acclaimed writer Roy Strong. What is the finest sight in the world? A Coronation. What do people talk most about?...

The British Empire radically altered the modern world. At its height, it governed over a quarter of the human race and encompassed more that a fifth of the globe. As...

Considered internationally as one of the most beautiful avenue in the world, Paris's Champs-Elysees, extending from the Place de la Concorde to the Arc de Triomphe, has been the center...

Art Under Fire focuses on the wars that have been such an unrelenting feature of the past hundred years; showing how war changed art in the twetieth century and how...

Roy de Maistre left Australia and its lack of acceptance of his modernist style, and pursued a career in England. Although he never reached the forefront of the avant-garde, he...

Exploring a wide range of design experience, this publication is an investigation of design issues spanning almost 100 years of Australian history. The author draws on poets, painters, educators, critics,...

In fin-de-siecle Venice, the designs by Josef Hoffmann and Koloman Moser for the Wiener Werkstatten were informed by the intellectual movement of that time. In the following years, many of...

A richly illustrated publication about a unique art space in Paris, published on the thirtieth anniversary of the museum's opening Inaugurated on October 20, 1984, the Fondation Cartier pour l'art...

"Encounters with Australian Modern Art" represents a vital milestone in the presentation of Australian art to a world-wide readership. It is published in French and English, and lavishly illustrated with...

The book titled Race, Sex and Gender in Contemporary Art: The Rise of Minority Culture by the author Edward Lucie-Smith. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more...

This volume presents the history of the Archigram Group which revolutionized British and European architectural thinking in the 1960s. Peter Cook, Ron Herron, Warren Clark and Dennis Crompton proposed a...

Based on hundreds of interviews with senior Israeli and Palestinian officials, including Arafat himself, this book examines his once triumphant transition from terrorist to statesman, and his subsequent marginalization following...

In the crammed and dizzying space of two years, from June 1924 to June 1926, America was transfixed by three contrasting courtroom trials. Each was described as a 'Trial of...

The book titled Living Stones: St Swithun's Pymble 1901-2001: St Swithun's Pymble by the author Marcia Cameron. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

The World War One Diaries, Letters and Sketches of Harold Stephens and W 'Billy' O'Neil. Over 90 years ago two friends from the farming community of Cowra, New South Wales...

Mather's designs eschew ethnic reference to establish a family of coolly considered dining environments. John Welsh discusses Mather's three London-based restaurants -- ZenW3, Zen Central and Now & Zen --...

Sean O' Casey's Irish plays, among them "Juno and the Paycock", arguably place him amongst the great playwrights of the 20th century. This book explores the myth of O'Casey's slum...

Frances Burke was Australia's most influential and celebrated textile designer of the 20th century. From the late 1930s to 1970, her designs achieved a prominence unparalleled in Australia before or...

The first biography ever written of Australia's most eminent judge, Sir Owen Dixon (1886-1972). "I think that Owen Dixon is splendid. I couldn't put it down. The man and his...

Ten-year-old Jan Senbergs landed with his family in Melbourne in 1950, driven by tragic and violent events in the closing months of World War II from his native Latvia. His...

Much of the Gothic Revival's modern appeal derives from furnishings, liturgical metalwork and other arts and crafts, all of which are illustrated in this book.

For more than half a century John Wolseley has been widely acclaimed for the way his art practice engages with the environment and broader ecology. Working across several art mediums,...

Which were the books that shaped art history as it developed in the twentieth century? This pioneering book provides an invaluable roadmap of the field by reassessing the impact of...