Author: Desmond Morris

No other art movement in history has contained two artists as different as Magritte and Miró. This is because Surrealism was not in origin an art m...

A lavishly illustrated revised edition of the 70s cult book, updated by the author and with a bold new design and contemporary images. Before Fran...

The lives, loves and works of key British Surrealists revealed by one of the last surviving members of this movement, bestselling author and artist...

Examining the body language displayed in works of art is a whole new way of looking at art. The gestures portrayed can reflect the mores of a parti...

Bison once ranged across the Great Plains of North America in vast herds - early eighteenth century explorers described them as 'innumerable' - and...

The monkey has remarkable intelligence and adaptibility and has enjoyed a close relationship over millennia with human societies. Monkey deities fe...

The leopard is the ultimate cat. It makes the lion and the tiger appear overblown and all the other members of the cat family look puny. Whereas li...