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The main character of this extraordinary graphic novel is not a person but an idea - the school of Bauhaus, which arose in the wake of World War I, and...

In this highly engaging and empowering book, Michael Findlay, an internationally respected art dealer, urges museum goers to unplug from the audio tour, ignore those information labels, and really see...

Olive Pink: Artist, Activist & Gardener presents a superb selection of original paintings of the iconic flowers of the Central Australian region, alongside a fascinating biography featuring beautifully reproduced memorabilia...

Since the early years of the 20th century, Western abstract art has fascinated, outraged and bewildered audiences. Its path to acceptance within the artistic mainstream was slow. Anna Moszynska traces...

In 2006 journalist Joanna Moorhead discovered that her father's cousin, Prim, who had disappeared many decades earlier, was now a famous artist in Mexico. Although rarely spoken of in her...

A selection of seventy exceptional seventeenth-century Dutch drawings. This beautifully illustrated catalog presents a selection of exceptional seventeenth-century Dutch drawings from the Peck Collection in the Ackland Art Museum at...

This volume explores the rich diversity of Asian art. The range of subjects examined includes silk in China under the Northern Song, Indonesian royal and ethnic gold, Islamic arhcitecture in...

From London to China to New York, art sales are booming like never before, and the art world receives the sort of breathless media attention once reserved for celebrities and...

Arts & Crafts is a celebration of the design movement that started in Britain and spread around the world at the end of the nineteenth century. Depicting both well-known and...

For the first time, exquisite and rarely seen ancient Hebrew manuscripts are presented in this stunning volume as "encounters", highlighting their similarities and differences in a striking, visual conversation between...

Abstract painting and abstraction can be a daunting and frustrating genre of art. How should you approach a surface? How can you use colour effectively? How can you make better,...

Profiles botanical artists

Drawing on contributions from remaining members, contemporaneous musicians, critics, filmmakers, and the generation of artists who emerged in their wake, this "monumental origin story" celebrates the legacy of the Velvet...

In this petite, exquisite book, globetrotting artist Shirin Sahba sweeps readers away on a journey around the world. Taking classical Persian miniatures as her inspiration, Sahba has painted scenes and...

The Silk Route was an ancient caravan route that began at the Golden Horn in present-day Istanbul and extended through the Caucasus, Iran, Afghanistan, and Central Asia to China and...

A richly illustrated history of embroidery and needlework, showcasing the glorious range of styles, motifs, and materials used around the world. Embroidery is one of the world's most widely shared...

Assuming no previous knowledge on the part of the reader, this is a straightforward introduction to Western art, from the cave paintings of Lascaux to Damien Hirst's pickled ruminants. It...

The Everfresh studio is an explosive hub of creation and activity, inconspicuously located in Melbourne's inner-city suburb of Collingwood. Behind an unmarked factory door, Everfresh artists conceive, develop and collaborate...

This is the story of Faberge's Imperial Easter eggs - of their maker, of the tsars who commissioned them, of the middlemen who sold them and of the collectors who...

The world's greatest masterpieces explored and explained From works by Botticelli and Raphael to Salvador Dali and Frida Kahlo, discover the paintings that have shaken the art world through the...

Rachelle Bergstein brings readers along on a unique and delightful romp through the history of shoes, the women who wear them, and the profound impact they have on our lives....

A visual journey through the state of Rajasthan in India to explore and awaken your creativity in the arts and crafts. Artist Debra Luker, on her first trip to India,...

The Short Story of Contemporary Art is a must-read introduction to this exciting and important period, from bestselling author and art historian Susie Hodge. This fascinating pocket guide explains the...

Nuvolo ( ne Giorgio Ascani, 1926-2008) was born in Citta di Castello, in the province of Perugia. In 1950 Nuvolo moved to Alberto Burri's studio in Rome. After World War...

The book titled Images of Music by the author E. Auerbach. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Kandinsky by the author Ulrike Becks-Malorny. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Art Nouveau developed a new, international style in architecture and handicrafts from the 1880s onward, which sought to replace the forms of historicism with plant ornamentation and functional construction. This...

This final entry in Arnie and Cathy Fenner's Frazetta trilogy features 150 full-color paintings by the renowned artist and illustrator, ranging in subject matter from barbarian battles to erotica to...

The Short Story of Queer Art offers a fuller picture of the history of art - from the barriers broken and breakthroughs that queer artists have made, to the important...

Salvador Dali (1904-89) was one of the most controversial and paradoxical artists of the twentieth century. A painter of considerable virtuosity, he used a traditional illusionistic style to create disturbing...

The whiplash curves of art nouveau have enchanted generations of art lovers for over a century. This is a collection of 80 masterworks which will ignite the reader's passion for...

"Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable..." - Cesar A. CruzAcross the centuries, art has held up a mirror to humanity's evolving culture and creativity. Ancient civilizations left...

Artists, like astronauts, are constantly probing into the unknown. It is fitting that, shortly after the establishment of NASA in 1958, the NASA Art Program was created on the principle...

Erwin Mitsch's authoritative study of Egon Schiele's paintings and drawings includes a careful and representative selection of his nudes, portraits, allegories and landscapes, in order to provide a thorough overview...

Step into Robert Ingpen's magical world with this book of wonderful images that have made Robert a worldwide household name for children's illustration. Here you will find his own autobiographical...

Art Nouveau is characterized by its love affair with lavish design: sheer sensuality of line and delicate interplay of colour are the hallmarks of this popular style which dominated the...

The painting The Golfers by the Scottish artist Charles Lees is one of the greatest icons of the game of golf. It was painted in the 1840s when the game...

During the Renaissance, artists and illustrators developed the representation of truthful three-dimensional forms into a highly skilled art. As reliable illustrations of three-dimensional subjects became more prevalent, they also influenced...

- What is an Apollo knot? - Who wore a Welch wig? - When were Zouave jackets the height of fashion? This new edition of The Dictionary of Fashion History...

Icons, symbols and artefacts of the way of life traditionally associated with the American West.

Norman Rockwell's son, Tom, has put together the absolute finest collection of his father's bounteous body of work, illustrations that bespeak the golden glow of pre- and post-WWII Americana. Rockwell...

The Lindisfarne Gospels is an eighth-century masterpiece of Celtic illumination. After careful study, Aidan Meehan has beautifully redrawn more than fifty designs that appear on its pages. Each one has...

This text provides an accessible historical progression through the attempting to draw out more general issues and implications. The discussion of key figures such as Picasso, Matisse, Pollock and Warhol,...

Herbert Bayer was one of the most extraordinary artists associated with the Bauhaus school. A true multimedia artist, he united graphic design, art, and architecture in a unique style that...

21st March 1945. 1530 hours. Bursting through a hazy sky, dozens of Allied fighters and bombers sweep over German-occupied Venice. Their mission - destroy Germany's strategic outposts nestled along the...

A reappraisal of the position and work of women artists from the Middle Ages to the present. It examines the way in which women's work has been perceived in the...

Art Nouveau was a phenomenon with many faces. Between 1890 and 1910, artists developed a variety of styles from the plant-like forms of the Belgian-French Art Nouveau to the ornamentation...