Art Forms

A fascinating look at how Mapplethorpe and Munch, although separated by many years, shared certain affinities in their lives and artwork This revel...

For a long time only slightly noticed, modernist movements in Chinese art history are gaining more and more recognition. One of its key fi gures is...

First published in 2005. The seals collected by Captain Timins of Cairo are here catalogued, reproduced and described by Professor Newbery to make ...

A groundbreaking study of textiles as transcultural objects in the Qing court that provides a new understanding of the interconnectedness of the ea...

Diversifying the current art historical scholarship, this edited volume presents the untold story of modern art by exposing global voices and persp...

Focusing on the creation of the concept of Whiteness, this study links early photographic imagery to the development and exploitation that were com...

Black Acting Methods seeks to offer alternatives to the Euro-American performance styles that many actors find themselves working with. A wealth of...

A concise and informative introduction to airbrushing methods for modellers, which contains a number of useful, graded projects which enable the be...

Angels from Infinity: The Sculptures of Chi Wing Lo explores and interprets Chi Wing Lo’s sculpture art. His works remind us that art is, among oth...

The catalogue, divided into two volumes, follows chronologically the development of Gauguin's work. Each painting is reproduced in color and is fol...

It’s difficult to pinpoint the origins of cruising. While the term was used by men seeking casual encounters with other men in the parks and street...

For most of human history, all pottery was what we would now consider traditional folk pottery. Not all artifacts go beyond the basic requirements ...

The saw is one of the most basic tools and tends to be taken very much for granted. Many hours and much effort can be saved, and more accurate work...

Personal Narrative Performance and Storytelling: A Method of Composition from Action to Text offers a practical method for composing and performing...

The increasing appearance of vertical milling machines in model engineers' and other small workshops has brought the versatility of this type of ma...

Henry Darger (1892–1973) was a hospital janitor and an immensely productive artist and writer. In the first decades of adulthood, he wrote a 15,145...

Artistic genius, political activist, painter and decorator, mythic legend or notorious graffiti artist? The work of Banksy is unmistakable, except ...

In less than two decades, Jacoba van Heemskerck (1876–1923) created a powerful oeuvre comprising paintings, woodcuts, glass works and mosaics. Her ...

Creator of such acclaimed works as the performance Meat Joy and the film Fuses, for decades the artist Carolee Schneemann has saved the letters she...

The centre-lathe is by far the most versatile machine tool in the workshop, but as soon as you depart from plain turning between centres, the quest...

One of the premier sculptors of her generation in the Northwest, Hilda Morris (1911-1993) lived her artistic life in the center of the region's cir...

Two series of small, colourful paintings by Birmingham (UK) based artist Ben Sadler, inspired by a curious cast of imaginary visitors to an imagina...

The Great Landscape with a Tempest in Vienna is one of Peter Paul Rubens’s largest and most dramatic landscapes. Starting from the far-reaching dis...

In this valuable book Tubal Cain takes the reader beyond the superficial or the simply practical with explanations of the composition of steel, its...

Almost a century ago, Annette McConnell Anderson, a New Orleans society woman, vowed that her three sons would become artists. Turning her back on ...

This book explores the origins of Butoh in post-war Japan through orality and transmission, in conjunction with an embodied research approach.The b...

Wield your pencils or stylists and learn how to draw 51 of your favorite fantasy characters!The amazing and prolific artist, Naomi Lord, is here to...