Art and Design

A fashion icon in her own time, the dress and interiors adopted by Marie Antoinette in the final decades of the 18th century have had a lasting influence over 250...

A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR A unique, illustrated history of Tudor England told through its art and artefacts. The Tudor dynasty (1485-1603) gave England five monarchs and an age...

From the acclaimed author of The King's Painter, a vivid life-and-times biography of two unjustly neglected women artists, Angelica Kauffman and Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun. In the late autumn of...

In this theoretical tour-de-force, renowned scholar Ariella Aisha Azoulay calls on us to recognize the imperial foundations of knowledge and to refuse its strictures and its many violences. Azoulay argues...

Winner of the African Photobook of the Year Award A Choice Outstanding Title of the Year A USA Today "Must-Read for Black History Month" An NPR "Goats and Soda" Editors'...

What's so special about Dutch paintings of cheese? When does Art Nouveau become Art Deco? Why were the Pre-Raphaelites obsessed with gingers? Find out in one sentence with comedian and...

'Impressively original and ingenious . . . Brings the talented women of the Restoration Court gracefully to life' OPHELIA FIELD, author of The Favourite A spellbinding work of history 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...

Alcohol is a mood changer, pleasure of the flesh and metaphor for indulgence. It has enhanced European life, stimulated a flood of art, advertising and interior design, generated new objects...

Now Grayson Perry is a fully paid-up member of the art establishment, he wants to show that any of us can appreciate art (after all, there is a reason he's...

The beautifully illustrated and authoritative biography of Frida Kahlo 'Frida will hold its place as the first comprehensive biography of this most visceral of artists' Observer 'Mesmerizing' Time Frida is...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodShe was the most beautiful woman in the world — a tobacco farmer's daughter from North Carolina who became one of Hollywood's most luminous...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew books have shaped the art of reading and writing fiction as profoundly as The Craft of Fiction, a landmark text in literary...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom the golden age of the studio system to the seismic cultural upheavals of the 1960s and beyond, Hollywood and After: The Changing Face...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat drives a man to abandon everything — his career, his family, his comfortable life — in pursuit...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat happens when the most famous artist in America turns his unflinching, deadpan gaze upon the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageStep into the golden age of cinema with Barry Norman's The Hollywood Greats, a compelling tribute to the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew artists have shaped the visual identity of an entire era as decisively as Gian Lorenzo Bernini, the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOne of the most subversive masterpieces in the history of English theatre, John Gay's The Beggar's Opera has...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodWhat would the future look like if humanity lost the ability to use digital technology — and had to rebuild civilisation's knowledge through image and illustration...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew characters have captured the larrikin spirit of Australia quite like Ginger Meggs — the red-haired, freckle-faced street kid who first bounded onto the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew cartoonists have ever matched the anarchic genius of Don Martin, the self-proclaimed Maddest Artist of MAD Magazine,...

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Edition: No. 61 of 90 copies. Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Slipcase: WornPages: GoodMarkings: Signed,Signed with inscriptionCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. ** GERMAN TEXT ONLY**. Three softback catalogues in a...

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**Features over 100 sumptuous images** From the birth of the house of Windsor in 1917, its leading women - Queen Mary, the Queen Mother, the Duchess of Windsor and Queen...

Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the heart of one of the twentieth century's most radical and provocative artistic movements lies a question that The Imagery of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodBefore photography captured the Australian landscape, a generation of pioneering artists wielded brush and pen to document a continent utterly...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerFew figures in the history of decorative arts loom as large as William Morris, the Victorian...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingFew painters have captured the ephemeral beauty of leisure, love, and fantasy quite like Jean-Antoine Watteau, the eighteenth-century...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodIn an era when power was worn like a jeweled crown and magnificence was a political act, The Golden Age...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the crossroads of two of Western art's...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA gateway into the rich and boundless world of human creativity, The Visual Arts presents a comprehensive and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: YellowedMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imagePublished by the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), William Morris...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat happens when human ambition meets the sky? Skyscrapers – Skycities by Charles Jencks is a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingFew figures in Australian art history command the reverence accorded to Sir Hans Heysen, a painter whose luminous...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingOne of the world's most celebrated repositories of Western European painting, the National Gallery in London houses a collection that spans seven centuries...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the pantheon of Australian modernism, Fred Williams stands as one of the most visionary and technically accomplished...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedIn the darkest chapter of human history, art became an act of defiance — Art of the Holocaust presents over 350 works created by...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsFew institutions have shaped the cultural identity of a nation quite like the Queensland Art Gallery, and Queensland Art Gallery: Retrospect...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingFew institutions on earth have shaped the course of Western civilization — and its art — as profoundly...

Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the very heart of the twentieth-century art world stood one man whose vision, courage, and unwavering belief in the avant-garde...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the turbulent heart of the Parisian avant-garde stands Guillaume Apollinaire — poet, critic, provocateur, and the magnetic...