Art and Design

Author: Rosie Sanders Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Rosie Sanders, often described as the best painter of the world's most famous fruit, has devoted years to researching this book...

Author: Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: Answers many questions about art by looking at 50 key works from Western art. Each entry can be digested in just 30...

Author: Andre Leon Talley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'Honestly and candidly captures fifty sublime years of fashion' Manolo Blahnik Discover what truly happens behind the scenes...

Author: Chu-Sok O Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272

Author: Sam Taylor Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 56 Every week, the comic book artist Riad Sattouf has a chat with his friend's daughter, Esther. She tells him...

Author: Gary Carrion-Murayari Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 280 In 2018, the New Museum in New York presents its fourth Triennial, the museum's signature survey of emerging artists from around...

Author: Rebecca Arnold Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 The 50 key modes, garments, and designers, each explained in half a minute! Even if you' re not a...

Author: Michael Bird Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Artists' Letters is a treasure trove of carefully selected letters written by great artists, providing the reader with a unique insight...

Author: Nina Kozel Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 This latest volume in Prestel's Groundbreaking Moments series explores great ideas and turning points in the history of design....

Author: Tania Fares Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 280 New York, London, Milan, Paris ... and now, Los Angeles. Thanks to its unique blend of cultural influences and artistic industry,...

Author: Andy Warhol & Pat Hackett Format:Paperback Number of Pages: A cultural storm swept through the 1960s - Pop Art, Bob Dylan, psychedelia, underground movies - and at its centre...

Author: Bruno Munari Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Bruno Munari was among the most inspirational designers of all time, described by Picasso as 'the new Leonardo'. Munari...

Author: John Berger Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 John Berger's writings on photography are some of the most original of the twentieth century. This selection contains many...

Author: Roberto Calasso Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 New to Penguin Modern Classics- a captivating exploration of the work of one of Italy's most influential - and...

Author: Betty Edwards Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 From the author of the world's most popular drawing instruction manual Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, this new...

Author: Caroline Young Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Fully illustrated, it delves into the stories behind the styles, what sets each of them apart, and looks at the influence...

Author: Editors of Chartwell Books Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 For thousands of years, cities built by humans have reflected their beliefs, their power, their needs, and their desires....

Author: Vitruvius Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 The writings of the architect and engineer Vitruvius (c. 90-c. 20 BC) provide a fascinating picture of how the Romans...

Author: Adolf Loos Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Revolutionary essays on design, aesthetics and materialism - from one of the great masters of modern architecture 'But art...

Author: Simon Murray Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 The 20th century marked a turning point in spectacle design. Eyewear, which had previously been classed as purely functional, was transformed...

Author: Soetsu Yanagi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 The Japanese philosopher and aesthete's definitive, hugely influential exposition of his philosophy of folkcrafts, setting out the hallmarks of...

Author: Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Part manifesto, part artistic joke, Fillippo Marinetti's Futurist Cookbook is a provocative work about art disguised as an...

Author: Christopher de Hamel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 64 The best-selling historian of medieval manuscripts discovers the most intimate surviving relic of Thomas Becket The assassination of Thomas Becket...

Author: Steven Heller Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 347 In Free Hand: New Typography Sketchbooks, Steven Heller, respected graphic-design commentator, and Lita Talarico, design educator, offer glimpses inside the personal...

Author: Bradbury Thompson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 248 A revered classic of American design delights anew with the freshness and ingenuity of its approach Bradbury Thompson (1911-1995)...

Author: Carol Bishop Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 Carol Bishop made a pilgrimage across the United States in search of a way to express her deep connection to the...

Author: Jessica Morgan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 The World Goes Pop explores the contemporaneous engagements with a spirit of pop throughout the globe, concentrating not only...

Author: Wendy Wick Reaves Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Ballyhoo! looks at the poster as a form of popular portraiture. These celebrity likenesses are dramatic--and often enormous--but...

Author: Peter Hamilton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 132 In 1949 the Englishman George Rodger, one of the founding members of the Magnum photo agency, learned of the Nuba tribe...

Author: Elizabeth T. Gilbert Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 Artist Toolbox: Surfaces & Supports explores a wide range of drawing and painting surfaces and the unique effects...

Author: Caroline Bruzelius Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Friars transformed the relationship of the church to laymen by taking religion outside to public and domestic spaces. Mendicant commitment to...

Author: Arnold Schwartzman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Art deco is the 20th century's most glamorous architectural style, and the one that shaped popular ideas of modern luxury. With...

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Author: JR Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 JR is a groundbreaking figure in contemporary art. His oversize black-and-white portraits adorn walls, pavements, and rooftops from the suburbs of Paris...

Author: Jenny Rose-Innes Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 For anyone interested in interiors, there is so much inspiration available online and in magazines these days of carefully curated spaces...

Author: David Douglas Duncan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: The legendary photographs of David Douglas Duncan explore the broad range of human nature, from the most quiet notes of life...

Author: Andre Leon Talley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'Honestly and candidly captures fifty sublime years of fashion' Manolo Blahnik Discover what truly happens behind the scenes in the...

Author: Greg Bailey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Alright Darling? is a visual celebration of the uninhibited, unapologetic and unafraid wonderland of contemporary drag. Showcasing the world's...

Author: Done Ken Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 112 As one of the country's favourite cultural icons, Ken Done requires no introduction. Straddling the worlds of design, illustration and fine...

Author: Kathryn B. Hiesinger Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 The Philadelphia Museum of Art was founded in 1876, after its home city hosted the Centennial, with the primary goal...

Author: Scott Nethersole Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 In this vivid account Scott Nethersole examines the remarkable period of cultural, artistic and intellectual blossoming in Florence from ca.1400 to...

Author: Megan Wells Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Acrylic Animals (Colorways) teaches artists of all skill levels how to paint vibrant, colorful renditions of animals from around...

Author: Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Written by Brian K. Vaughan Art by Tony Harris & Tom Feister and Chris Sprouse & Karl Story Cover by Tony...

Author: Tim Flach Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 We can't save the world if we don't care about the world. Visual imagery plays a huge role in helping us...

Author: Yoshiko Tsukiori Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 88 Here Yoshiko Tsukiori turns her attenti on to clothes for little girls. She offers a complete wardrobe of 28...

Author: Eamonn McCabe Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Since the birth of photography, photographers have been taking images of the earth from the air - with spectacular visual results....

Author: Peanuts Global Artist Collective Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 152 A gorgeous, coffee-table collection that captures the energy, excitement and, of course, the love, behind Peanuts's first-ever partnership and...

Author: Reader in Classical Art Michael Squire (King's College London UK) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 The classical human body is perhaps the single most important and...