Non-Secondhand Books

Author: Martin Gayford Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 In the course of a career thinking and writing about art, Martin Gayford has travelled all over the world both to...

Author: Musa Mayer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 120 Written by Musa Mayer - Philip Guston's daughter and President of The Guston Foundation - this book brings Guston's life and...

Author: Wally Herbert Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 On 21 February 1968, Wally Herbert and his team of three companions and forty huskies set out from Point Barrow, Alaska,...

Author: Lori Zimmer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Paris is the city of light, the city of love, and the city of more art than you could possibly explore...

Author: Marcus Berkmann Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Marcus Berkmann was for many years the pop critic of the Spectator, waiting like most freelances to get fired. He's also...

Author: Wu Hung Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 456 From its underground genesis during the Cultural Revolution, contemporary Chinese art has become a dynamic and hugely influential force in a...

Author: Jeff Koons Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 296 The most successful of living artists, Jeff Koons has been a focus of creative fascination and significance for more than thirty...

Author: Bob Stanley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 656 Let's Do It is the definitive history of the birth of Pop, from 1900 to the mid-fifties. The story begins in...

Author: Tony Seddon Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 Have you ever wondered which typeface is used for airport signs? Or about the history behind the Times New Roman font?...

Author: Tracey Thorn Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 In her bestselling autobiography Bedsit Disco Queen, Tracey Thorn recalled the highs and lows of a thirty-year career in pop music....

Author: Michka Assayas Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Bono is one of the most influential musicians at work today. Over the past twenty-five years his band, U2, have sold...

Author: Stephanie Phillips Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Growing up in the shadow of her superstar sister Beyonce, and defying an industry that attempted to bend her to its...

Author: Edit Sasvari Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 The international significance of the art produced in Hungary in the 1960s and 1970s has come to the fore in recent...

Author: Edward Dusinberre Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 How does music heard and played over many years inform one's sense of home? In Distant Melodies, Edward Dusinberre, the English...

Author: Cameron Bruhn Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 MMXX tells the story of architecture in Australia in the first two decades of the 21st century. Shaped by unprecedented prosperity,...

Author: Robert Fairer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 A Financial Times Book of the Year 2022 A glamorous tribute to Karl Lagerfeld's highly influential creations for Chanel captured behind...

Author: Rob Gregory Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 This survey of over twenty examples of India's finest contemporary residential architecture gives exclusive, and often unprecedented, insight into private houses...

Author: Classic FM Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Celebrating 30 years of broadcasting, Classic FM returns with a new collection of mindful puzzles to de-stress and unwind with. Blending...

Author: Fiona Sampson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 'A nourishing, occasionally provoking hybrid of group biography, cultural criticism and travelogue that seeks to restore to Romanticism its radicalism, and...

Author: Mary Wilson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Marrying sumptuous fashion with insightful biography, Supreme Glamour charts the glittering story of Motown's most successful act and original pop fashionistas...

Author: Alfons Kaiser Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 A revelatory biography of Karl Lagerfeld, introducing readers to the public and private life of the charismatic designer Karl Lagerfeld lived...

Author: Susie Hodge Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 Brimming with upbeat guidance, this accessible handbook shows how anyone can use art to enlighten, uplift, calm and ease stress and...

Author: Karla Cavarra Britton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 The evolution of modern architecture has been inextricably entangled in issues of politics, nationalism, and the environment, creating a tension...

Author: Peter Allison Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 300 The second volume in Thames & Hudson's monographic series on global architect Sir David Adjaye, winner of the 2021 RIBA royal...

Author: Michael Bird Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 A compelling and lively history that examines the lives of British artists from the late-19th century to today. In This is...

Author: Stuart Murdoch Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 A beautiful collaboration between Belle and Sebastian frontman Stuart Murdoch and illustrator Pamela Tait: a unique visual reinterpretation of Murdoch's favourite...

Author: Qiyao Deng Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Aesthetic influences drawn from China have long resonated throughout Western art, design and thought. China Adorned challenges the monolithic idea of...

Author: Yuki Kihara Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Interdisciplinary artist Yuki Kihara's work interrogates and dismantles gender roles, (mis)representation, and colonial legacies in the Pacific. Kihara is the first...

Author: Rachel Kent Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Art is one of the tools we have to sculpt time and create experiences that are highly concentrated, or open and...

Author: Jo Turner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Water features prominently in the collective memory and national identity of Australia. From long summers spent building sandcastles and learning to...

Author: Matthew Abbott Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 If this book is about the events of Australia's Black Summer bush fires, it is also about the nature and resilience...

Author: Richard Verdi Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 276 A comprehensive introduction to Velazquez's life and art which includes a discussion of all his major works. Diego Velazquez (1599-1660) was...

Author: Christiane Paul Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 360 The fourth edition of the essential introduction to digital art, one of contemporary art's most exciting and dynamic forms of practice....

Author: Alan Turnbull Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Fact or fiction? An imaginative collection of statements about Vincent van Gogh that challenges what we think we know about the...

Author: Charles Darwent Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 264 An absorbing group biography revealing how exiles from war-torn France brought Surrealism to America, helping to shift the centre of the...

Author: Tim Blanks Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 632 'There comes a moment in one's life or career when in order to evolve, you need to draw a line and...

Author: Michael Webb Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Building Community is an in-depth, wide-ranging survey of contemporary apartment buildings, not as raw canvases for interior decoration but as a...

Author: Shannon Jackson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 The first in a series of four thematic volumes devoted to the world-class Kramlich Collection, the largest and most significant private...

Author: John Ridley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 96 0

Author: Michael Peppiatt Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Engaging encounters, personal anecdotes and jargon-free critical insights into some of the liveliest creative minds in modern art, by an international...

Author: S. H. Fernando Jr Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 This is the definitive biography of rap supergroup, Wu-Tang Clan (WTC). Widely regarded as one of the most influential...

Author: Joel M Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 My name is Joel Mawhinney, though I go by the name Joel M. You might know me from TikTok as @joelmagician....

Author: Philip Hoare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR AN OBSERVER BEST ART BOOK OF 2021 SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO...

Author: Victoria Emes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 The real guide to pregnancy, birth and beyond. I'm assuming you've picked up this book because you're either curious...

Author: Barney Hoskyns Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'Present Tense is an anthology to savour . . . giving you as sharp a portrait of this unknowable band as...

Author: Bob Stanley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 656 Let's Do It is the definitive history of the birth of Pop, from 1900 to the mid-fifties. The story begins in...

Author: David Blond Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 264 If you've seen images of the biggest entertainers - Beyonce, Miley Cyrus, Katy Perry, Lil Kim, Britney Spears, Rihanna, J. Lo,...

Author: Roland Beaufre Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 French photographer Roland Beaufre's debut monograph showcases some of the most exclusive, elegant properties under the sun, offering a glimpse into...