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The Ten: The stories behind the fashion classics
Author: Lauren Cochrane Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 White T-shirt, Miniskirt, Hoodie, Jeans, Ballet flat, Breton top, Biker jacket, Little black dress, Stiletto, Trench. What are you wearing? In...
The Chiffon Trenches
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...
The Eternal Letter: Two Millennia of the Classical Roman Capital
Author: Paul Shaw Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 270 A generously illustrated examination of the enduring influence of and many variations on the classical Roman capital letter.The fiftieth anniversary of...
Songs for Sabotage: New Museum 2018 Triennial
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...
User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design are Changing the Way We Live, Work & Play
Author: Cliff Kuang Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 A fascinating look at the secrets of user experience and how brilliant design changes everything, by Robert Fabricant, one...
Camera Lucida: Vintage Design Edition
Author: Roland Barthes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 An inquiry into a very modern art form - photography. Barthes personal investigation into the meaning of photographs is...
Popism
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...
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...
World's Greatest Cities: A Journey Through the Most Dynamic and Fascinating Cities in the World
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....
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...
Fashion Spectacles, Spectacular Fashion: Eyewear Styles and Shapes from Vintage to 2020
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...
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...
On Photography
Author: Susan Sontag Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Susan Sontag's groundbreaking critique of photography asks forceful questions about the moral and aesthetic issues surrounding this art form....
Ways of Seeing
Author: John Berger Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Based on the BBC television series, John Berger's Ways of Seeing is a unique look at the way we...
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 World Goes Pop
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...
Ballyhoo!: Posters as Portraiture
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...
Preaching, Building, and Burying: Friars in the Medieval City
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...
Seven Keys to Modern Art
Author: Simon Morley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 As artists push further and further beyond their, and our, comfort zones, this book aims to help decipher the bizarre and...
Arthur Elgort: I Love...
Author: Arthur Elgort Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 212 Arthur Elgort has always loved women. When he realized that striking up a conversation with them was easier with a camera...
Antony Gormley on Sculpture
Author: Anthony Gormley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 248 Antony Gormley occupies an unusual position as a highly popular sculptor - known chiefly for his Angel of the...
Razzia: 25 Years of Poster Art
Author: Mickey Ross Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 204 Over the past twenty-five years, French poster artist Razzia has created some of the most memorable graphic images to...
Judith Kerr
Author: Joanna Carey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 112 An overview of the life and work of much-loved children's illustrator and author Judith Kerr, creator of classics such as The...
100 Ideas that Changed Fashion
Author: Harriet Worsley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 216 Charting the movements, developments and ideas that transformed the way women dress, this book gives a unique perspective on...
Furniture in Architecture: The Work of Luke Hughes - Arts & Crafts in the Digital Age
Author: Aidan Walker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Luke Hughes & Company's enduring and meticulously engineered furniture, an eloquent response both to the architecture it inhabits and to the...
From Above: The Story of Aerial Photography
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....
Women Artists: The Linda Nochlin Reader
Author: Maura Reilly Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 472 Linda Nochlin (1931-2017) was one of the most pioneering and provocative art historians of our time. In 1971 she...
Man with a Blue Scarf: On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud
Author: Martin Gayford Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Lucian Freud (1922-2011), widely regarded as the greatest figurative painter of our time, spent seven months painting a portrait...
Contemporary African Art
Author: Sidney Littlefield Kasfir Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Contemporary African art has grown out of the diverse histories and cultural heritage of the African continent and...
The Art of the Body: Antiquity and Its Legacy
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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...
Out of Town the Country House
Author: Jenny Hyatt Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Explores the lure of the countryside: the wide open spaces and starry skies, the lack of neighbours, noise and pollution, the ability...
Walk this Way: Sign Graphics Now
Author: Matteo Cossu Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Walk This Way: Sign Graphics Now, like its successful predecessor Sign Graphics, delves into the realm of graphic signage and way-finding,...
Material ConneXion: The Global Resource of New and Innovative Materials for Architects, Artists and Designers
Author: George M. Beylerian Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Materials are the single most important element underpinning all that is most innovative in 21st-century architecture, interior, product, industrial and...
Eclectic: The Robert and Julia Breckmann Collections at the V&A
Author: Gill Saunders Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 The Julie and Robert Breckman Print Fund has enabled purchases by such art world stars as Damien Hirst, Julian Opie, Chris...
Nails: The Story of the Modern Manicure
Author: Suzanne E. Shapiro Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 This lively, colourful, and wide-ranging exploration of the evolution of the painted nail places a fascinating aspect of...
Musings on Fashion and Style: Museo de la Moda
Author: Jorge Yarur Bascunan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 International fashion icon Kate Moss and the premier South American fashion museum Museo de la Moda meet in this undeniably...
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Author: Brian K. Vaughan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Written by Brian K. Vaughan; Art by Pia Guerra & Jose Marzan, Jr.; Cover by Massimo Carnevale The...
Nature: Collaborations in Design
Author: Caitlin Condell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 An exploration of the ways in which designers are striving to transform our relationship with the natural world. Designers today are...
Medieval Ornament/Ornement Medieval/Mittelalterlich Ornamente
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Author: Florence Curt Format: Mixed media product Number of Pages: 123 Covering the 17th through the early 20th centuries, each title in this renowned series concentrates on a specific theme...
Doonesbury and the Art of G.B. Trudeau
Author: Brian Walker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 An exciting look at the artistic evolution of the iconic style of Doonesbury on the 40th anniversary of its publication. Best...
Front Roe: How to Be the Leading Lady in Your Own Life
Author: Louise Roe Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Louise Roe,internationally renowned fashion journalist, TV host, and makeover guru,knows style. It's not about trends but about being your own person...
Fashion and Lifestyle Photography
Author: Dixie Dixon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Only a few years ago, fashion photography used to be a stuffy world for a tiny elite. Now an...
Photographing Fashion: Art and Techniques
Author: Leigh Keily Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 ***AUSTRALIAN AUTHOR*** A successful fashion photographer has to be passionate and to believe in their concept, but they must...