Art and Design

This, the newest title in the highly acclaimed Design Series focuses on the work of John Piper (1903 - 1992). Piper remains something of an enigma: an antiquarian who was...

'This forensic study of the Renaissance banking dynasty conjures up a world of art, literature, philosophy - and brutality' Telegraph 'Likely to become the standard work of reference on the...

*** '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....

It is a story I have been wanting to write for a long time, telling it as it really was before that whole world that I shared with Francis vanishes......

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...

An edgy, lavishly visual survey that shows the best work of the best street artists working in Melbourne, Australia. Bansky, the well known British stencil artist, after a visit to...

The interpretation of contemporary art has always presented the critic with the hardest challenge; yet today, as new and often bewildering trends and movements come to the fore with dizzying...

This unique series of paintings takes the viewer on a graphic, visionary journey through the physical, metaphysical, and spiritual anatomy of the self. From anatomically correct rendering of the body...

Futurism was Russia's first avant-garde movement. Gatecrashing the Russian public sphere in the early twentieth century, the movement called for the destruction of everything old, so that the past could...

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...

Up until now, a veil of mystery surrounded the techniques used to create great abstract paintings. ABSTRACT PAINTING TECHNIQUES AND STRATEGIES lifts that veil to reveal the exact methods behind...

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,...

Willem de Kooning was a leading exponent of Abstract Expressionism. MoMA's 2011 de Kooning retrospective drew record crowds, and his prodigious achievements continue to provoke and inspire subsequent generations of...

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...

What is art? Must it be a unique, saleable luxury item? Can it be a concept that never takes material form? Or an idea for a work that can be...

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...

A powerful and illuminating biography - the first in English for two generations - of one of the most popular painters of all time. Of all Italian painters, Caravaggio (C....

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...

Anne Hollander begins with the great masters of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries-Van Eyck, Durer, Bruegel-and progresses through the history of European art to the advent of film in the...

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 human body, particularly the female body in the nineteenth-century, is central to Western painting. Images such as Delacroix's Liberty on the Barricades and Manet's Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe are...

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...

Steven Heller, the world's foremost graphic-design commentator, and Lita Talarico, design educator, open up designers' personal sketchbooks to provide an intimate look at the creative processes behind typefaces, word-images and...

Have you ever wondered which typeface is used for airport signs? Or about the history behind the Times New Roman font? We are constantly engaging with type, yet many of...

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...

A remarkable, heartfelt, beautifully written analysis of the late work of 19 major artists that Max Porter describes as 'completely and utterly marvellous'. 'Painting ... exists and exults in immortal...

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...

Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) was a man of many talents-a sculptor, painter, architect, writer, and scholar-but he is best known for Lives of the Artists , which singlehandedly established the canon...

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...

A portrait of the artists who created the Montemartre era of art history chronicles the unconventional life of Maurice Utrillo's mother, a fine artist in her own right, who was...

A revelatory exploration of Mark Rothko's paintings on paper that transforms our understanding of a preeminent twentieth-century artist Mark Rothko (1903-1970) is renowned for his towering abstract paintings on canvas;...

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...

Beginning in 1800, Looking at Men explores how the modern male body was forged through the intimately linked professions of art and medicine, which deployed muscular models and martial arts...