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The Empord triangle, like its notorious sister the Bermuda Triangle, outlines a space where unusual things happen. In this case, that space is the land surrounding three major landmarks of...

Cult classic and collector's item, Dali's Mustache is the result of the astonishing artistic collaboration between surrealist Salvador Dali and experimental photography pioneer Philippe Halsman. Dali and Halsman were friends...

This book, with nearly 200 colour plates, aims to introduce the major themes and practices of art in Asia over the years 1900-2000. While national art histories have been written,...

This in-depth investigation into the art, politics and murderous cynicism of Renaissance Milan is is an academic detective story sketched out with erudition and journalistic panache. Debunking the outrageous claim...

The Modern Art Activity Book is jam-packed full of illustrations, activities and information on artists from 1900 to today. This gorgeous book contrains a fun variety of colouring, drawing, creative...

Contemporary Art: World Currents argues that, in recent decades, a worldwide shift from modern to contemporary art has occurred. This has not, however, been a uniform change from one phase...

Frida Kahlo (1907-1958) is an artist with a unique international appeal. Her instantly recognizable work draws extensively on her life and her extraordinarily personal reflections upon it. On Kahlo's death,...

A fascinating insight into the lives and work of a remarkable range of contemporary artists Conducted by Richard Cork, one of the UK's most distinguished art writers, these intimate and...

John Berger, one of the world's most celebrated storytellers and writers on art, tells a personal history of art from the prehistoric paintings of the Chauvet caves to 21st century...

The Great Moghuls presents for the first time the opulent, internationalist culture of Moghul Hindustan in the age of its greatest emperors: Akbar (r. 1556-1605), Jahangir (r. 1605-1627) and Shah...

"The pots in this book are snapshots of time, thought and emotion that have endured through thousands of years of human progress. It's mind-blowing, don't you think?" - Keith Brymer-Jones...

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Featuring beautiful color reproductions and enlightening descriptions, this is the definitive guide to one of the largest, and most beloved, collections of art in the world More than a simple...

Every year the US National Endowment for the Arts presents its National Heritage Fellowship to America's best practitioners of time-honoured crafts and arts. The volumes celebrate the lives and achievements...

Books orient, intrigue, provoke and direct the reader while editing, interpreting, encapsulating, constructing and revealing architectural representation. Binding Space: The Book as Spatial Practice explores the role of the book...

The American art community had its first glimpse of Surrealism in 1932. Its revolutionary art galvanised an emerging avant-garde. New galleries opened to exhibit the works of Surrealist artists, and...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024 A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR A vital re-examination of the trailblazing and controversial artist Paul Gauguin - and the first...

*** 'An indispensable volume' Vogue 'As rabid admirers and collectors of contemporary art and photography we wholeheartedly recommend this passionate and joyous book. Without art the human soul is unfulfilled....

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...

The resonant ruins of Pompeii are perhaps the most direct route back to the living, breathing world of the ancient Romans. Two million visitors annually now walk the paved streets...

A unique book that combines an appreciation of Aboriginal art with contemporary theoretical concerns. On one level it is a beautifully illustrated book about contemporary Aboriginal art from the Central...

Since the 1960s, a number of artists have challenged the image of the lonely artist by embarking on long term collaborations that dramatically altered the terms of artistic identity. In...

The wealth of rock art that proliferates in Western Arnhem Land in the northern part of Australia is of immense significance as evidence of the world's oldest continuous culture, featuring...

This text reviews feminist art strategies as they emerged in the late 1980s and early 1990s in America and the UK. It draws together the views of prominent practitioners, critics,...

Now available in paperback, this book provides an in-depth portrait of designer and architect Eileen Gray (1878-1976) as a significant contributor to the Modern Movement. Her highly innovative and influental...

The Story of Modern Art is firmly established as an outstanding introduction to the subject. Writing in a clear and direct style, Norbert Lynton aims at helping the reader to...

The book titled Beautiful Loot: The Soviet Plunder of Europe's Art Treasures by the author Sylvia Hochfield. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

Since his death in April 1992 Francis Bacon has been acclaimed as one of the very greatest of modern painters. Yet most analyses of Bacon actually neutralize his work by...

Desert Lake is a book combining artistic, scientific and Indigenous views of a striking region of north-western Australia. Paruku is the place that white people call Lake Gregory. It is...

Gold and the Incas: Lost worlds of Peru reveals the splendour of ancient pre-Hispanic cultures of Peru. Art made of gold, silver, turquoise, shell, stone, textile and ceramic is shown....

Since it was first published in 1992, this book has become one of the leading anthologies of art theoretical texts in the English-speaking world. This expanded edition includes the fruits...

The book titled Calligram: Essays in New Art History from France by the author Norman Bryson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This book had its provenance in the late 1920s, when Erle Loran, then a young artist who wanted to fathom the mysteries of Cezanne's structural form, took up residence in...

In this generously illustrated book, Anne Hollander examines the representation of the body and clothing in Western art, from Greek sculpture and vase painting through medieval and renaissance portraits, to...

Lucian Freud (1922-2011), widely regarded as the greatest figurative painter of our time, spent seven months painting a portrait of the art critic Martin Gayford. The daily narrative of their...

An art critic confronts the current art milieu, characterizing it as being without purpose or moral authority, and questions whether allegedly radical artists now reflect the culture of consumerism more...

As artists push further and further beyond their, and our, comfort zones, this book aims to help decipher the bizarre and often intimidating aspects of modern and contemporary art by...

Great 1593 work codified and developed symbolism of baroque and rococo periods. This royalty-free volume reprints 200 plates from rare 18th-century edition, Hertel s Historiae et Allegoriae, with English translations...

Landscape painter J.M.W. Turner was reticent about his private life. In this blend of biography and art history, the author introduces Turner to a new generation, scotches many Turner myths,...

Originally published in 1983, this book tells the story of the two Moscow merchants, Sergey Shchukin and Ivan Morozov, who between them amassed the greatest collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist...

Sixteenth-century Roman presses turned out hundreds of technical treatises and learned discourses written in the vernacular. Covering topics as diverse as the cultivation of silkworms, the lives of the saints,...

The American realist artist John Sloan (1871-1951) is best known for his portrayals of daily life in early 20th-century New York and as a member of The Eight and the...

A profound, witty, and informative account of the lives of the saints depicted in the devotional art of the Renaissance This book offers a powerful and searching meditation on the...

Drawing upon the latest discoveries and research, leading scholars unravel the complex stories behind the phenomenal artistic activity of the Middle Ages and into the Reformation across all media, including...

Medieval Christians knew the past primarily through what they saw and heard. History was reenacted every year in ritual observances particular to each place and region and rooted in the...

In The Return of the Real Hal Foster discusses the development of art and theory since 1960, and reorders the relation between prewar and postwar avant-gardes. Opposed to the assumption...

Surrealism has long been seen as its founder, Andre Breton, wanted it to be seen: as a movement of love and liberation. In "Compulsive Beauty", Foster reads surrealism from its...