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Nancy Lancaster, who was born in 1897 into a wealthy Virginian family, became one of the greatest influences on interior decoration and garden design in Great Britain and America in...

Country house visiting is one of Britain's favorite leisure activities. For more than five centuries, historic buildings have opened their doors, inviting the tourist to step inside. Elizabethans strolled around...

Within the historical context of twelfth-century France, a period rich in artistic transformations, this book reconstructs and evaluates two major but virtually unstudied collections of stained glass that function as...

The book titled Campagna Romana: The Countryside of Ancient Rome by the author Joel Sternfeld. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

First of the widely celebrated and sumptuously illustrated series, this book reveals in intimate detail what life was really like in the ancient world. Behind the vast panorama of the...

Paris, the City of Light. We think of it as the city of the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre, of white facades, discreet traffic and well-mannered exchanges. But there was...

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...

This book is the first general history of Roman painting written specifically for English-language readers. Large numbers of wall-paintings have survived from the Roman world, and particularly from Rome itself...

How were the architectural ideas behind great Roman building projects carried out in practice? Roman Builders is the first, general interest book to address this question. Using the Baths of...

The architectural historian James Ackerman discusses villas from ancient Rome to 20th-century France and America. Unlike farmhouses, castles or manors, villas usually belong to city dwellers. The villa provides a...

At the turn of the twenty-first century, many felt sceptical or confused about painting's on-going cultural relevance. In this context, Julian Bell's What is Painting? provided an accessible and inspired...

The book titled The Musee Picasso, Paris: v. 2: Drawings, Watercolours, Gouaches, by the author Michele Richet. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

The colonial architecture of the 19th century has much to tell us of the history of colonialism and cultural exchange. Yet, these buildings can be read in many ways. Do...

The book titled Suburban Style: The British Home, 1840-1960 by the author Helena Barrett. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The extraordinary story of St. Paul's Churchyard-the area of London that was a center of social and intellectual life for more than a millennium St. Paul's Cathedral stands at the...

In the city of Ferrara, a major cultural and artistic centre of Renaissance Italy, Cosme Tura (c. 1430-1495) came to prominence as painter to the Este court. This book offers...

The book titled Modern Painters by the author John Ruskin. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Above Paris by the author Pierre Salinger. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled The Roman Forum Site in London: Discoveries Before 1985 by the author Museum of London. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

"Stephanie's Australia" is an account of Stephanie Alexander's personal odyssey around Australia looking at tastes, places, stories and people. It offers a portrait of the country and its emerging culinary...

Though he often wrote in matchless prose, Ruskin's thought developed slowly and sometimes repetitively. His ideas, if we come to them unprepared, can seem obscure, confused, and difficult to grasp....

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...

The book titled Dance with Archigram by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

As part of the year in honour of Poland, the Louvre displays, from 5 October 2004 to 10 January 2005 a number of works depicting the city of Warsaw by...

This is the first compilation of this kind in the recent years, focusing on the wide spectrum of quality design opportunities Rome presently offers. On top of architects of international...

The book titled In Search of Piero: Guide to the Tuscany of Piero Della Francesca by the author Attilio Brilli. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more...

Colour does not have to mean gaudy the publication. "In Full Colour" demonstrates the different functions of colour in an architectural design. By the different ways architects use colour as...

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...

Organized as a series of tutorial-based workshops backed up by practical assignments, this new series of digital photography titles will guide readers through the key techniques of each genre or...

Technical information covered includes: methods of metering light and achieving correct exposure, and why reflectors are so important; the use of natural daylight, both indoors and out; the use 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...

The text traces the development of the city through its architecture and urban planning, starting from the first few European settlers through to the year 2000 and its four million...

"Enthralling ... A great read."- Philippe de Montebello, former director, Metropolitan Museum of Art October 16, 1943, inside the Vatican as darkness descends upon Rome. Having been alerted to the...

Formation is ideal and utopian thinking, whereas Transformation is the adaptation of the ideal to the real or existing conditions. Are the two mutually exclusive? Or do they exist in...

T.J. Rohleder (a.k.a. America's Blue Jeans Millionaire) gives you 34 little-known marketing secrets that were first introduced on a very special 10-hour audio program called 'Ruthless Marketing!' This audio program...

The book titled Kings as Collectors: Paintings, Sculpture, and Decorative Arts from by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Eve Sylvester is young and broke and needs a job fast. After years of foster homes, backpacking and a sailing trip across the Pacific Ocean, she has lost contact with...

From the Man Booker-shortlisted author of Mister Pip comes a poetic, dreamlike novel for fans of Max Porter's Lanny and the works of George Saunders. Then she lifts the Fish...

Facing Fear is the inspiring true story of Lisa Blair who sailed into the history books on 25 July 2017 by becoming the first woman to sail solo around Antarctica....

Catalogue of an exhibition held at Art Gallery of South Australia, 29 October 2010-26 January 2011.

Danila Vassilieff, a passionate, freedom-loving Cossack who burst upon the Australian art scene in the mid-1930s is, in this book, posited as the missing link in the story of 20th-century...

"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...

Les Kossatz's career as an exhibiting artist can be traced back to as early as 1963. This significant, richly illustrated monograph is published to coincide with a major retrospective exhibition.