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The Europeans: Three Lives and the Making of a Cosmopolitan Culture
Author: Orlando Figes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 The acclaimed historical portrait of the love triangle between an opera star, a writer and an impresario - and...
Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia
Author: Orlando Figes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 768 From the award-winning author of The Whisperers, Orlando Figes Natasha's Dance- A Cultural History of Russia is a dazzling...
Lives of the Artists
Author: Giorgio Vasari Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 Penguin Classics relaunch Beginning with Cimabue and Giotto in the thirteenth century, Vasari traces the development of Italian art...
Warhol: A Life as Art
Author: Blake Gopnik Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 976 The definitive biography of one of the most famous and influential artists the world has ever seen When critics...
Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020
Author: Salman Rushdie Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A collection of the finest essays by the 'Best of the Booker' winner, following on from his much-acclaimed STEP...
Letters to Camondo
Author: Edmund de Waal Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 A haunting sequence of imagined letters to the Count de Camondo -- the owner of a Parisian palace filled with...
The Narrative of Trajan's Column
Author: Italo Calvino Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 When the last fire goes out, time too will be finished Taken from his Collection of Sand, these marvelous...
Design as Art
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...
Understanding a Photograph
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...
Tiepolo Pink
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...
On Architecture
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...
Ornament and Crime
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...
The Dance of Death
Author: Hans Holbein Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 This edition of The Dance of Death reproduces a complete set from the British Museum, with many details highlighted...
The Beauty of Everyday Things
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...
The Futurist Cookbook
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...
The Book in the Cathedral: The Last Relic of Thomas Becket
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...