Art History

The first book to survey the works of 38 contemporary painters who are disrupting figurative painting with technology- and memory-inspired alterati...

In an increasingly polarized world, with shifting and extreme politics, Social Forms illustrates artists at the forefront of political and social r...

The story of dealers of Old Masters, champions of modern art, and victims of Nazi plunder.   Since the late-1990s, the fate of Nazi stolen art has ...

The House of Chanel is synonymous with not one, but two, iconic designers. First there was Gabrielle, and then there was Karl. Chanel is a house kn...

This book presents a complete survey of one of the key moments in the history of the Spanish court portrait, a period spanning the years 1650 to 16...

Focussing on the period from 1930 to 1960, this fascinating publication considers the transition of Victor Pasmore (1908-1998) from one of Britain'...

A dazzling celebration of the clothes that made Americas favorite doll and the incredible woman behind them, timed to the movie release of Barbie, ...

A stunning atlas of the present and future.Rebecca Solnit, author of several books including Infinite Cities: A Trilogy of AtlasesSan Francisco, Ne...

The Soviet Union has left a vast heritage in interior design that is largely unknown in the West. Other than architecture and graphic or product de...

The ultimate introduction to art and culture presents 3,000 years of fashion in one gorgeous coffee table book. This is the definitive visual guide...

Caravaggio, or more accurately Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (15711610), was a legend even in his own lifetime. Notorious bad boy of Italian pa...

The greatest moments in sporting history in inglorious technicolour, from the artists known as NO SCORE DRAWS Gen...

The scandalous love triangle at the heart of the Victorian art world. Effie Gray, a Scottish beauty, was the heroine of a great Victorian love stor...

Discover Japanese art like no other. Originally created by the artists of the ukiyo-e school of the floating world to advertise brothels in 17th-ce...

Never before published, this self-curated, intensely personal collection of travel notes and sketches by the world's most revered performance artis...

Essential to art libraries and art historians who study Leonardo and the Renaissance. The first book to have the photos of the restored masterpiec...

Celebrated for his use of expressive brush marks, which filled his paintings with dynamism, light and colour in a way not seen before in Renaissanc...

The Routledge Handbook of Early Christian Art surveys a broad spectrum of Christian art produced from the late second to the sixth centuries. The f...

Artemisia Gentileschi was the greatest female artists of the Baroque age. In Artemisia Gentileschi, critic and historian Jonathan Jones discovers h...

The animals in Beth Cavener's work are better described as avatars, embodiments of persons or emotions that disguise her subjects. In this way she ...

Discover the history of design with this gorgeous visual celebration of key pieces, movements, and designers, from the Arts and Craft movement to t...

The Sketchbook of Loish offers readers a unique look into Loishs creative processes and idea generation, providing an insight into the role her ske...

Simon Schama brings Britain to life through its portraits, as seen in the five-part BBC series The Face of Britain and the major National Portrait ...

The most wide-ranging and up-to-date volume available on the enigmatic and controversial graffiti artist, this deeply researched and highly persona...

**A brilliant new history of Georgian Britain through the eyes of the artists who immortalised it, by one of the UK's most exciting young historian...

Michelangelo Buonarrotti (1475-1564) is perhaps the greatest artist in the entire Western tradition. In painting, sculpture and architecture he cre...

A sumptuous survey of over 300 women painters and their work spanning almost five centuries Great Women Painters is a groundbreaking book that rev...

Art Essays is a passionate collection of the best essays on the visual arts written by contemporary novelists. This vibrant and diverse selection i...

Starry Night is a fascinating, fully illustrated account of Van Gogh's time at the asylum in Saint-Remy, during which he created some of his most i...

No other artist, apart from J. M. W. Turner, tried as hard as Claude Monet (18401926) to capture light itself on canvas. Of all the Impressionists,...

After Egon Schiele (18901918) freed himself from the shadow of his mentor and role model Gustav Klimt, he had just ten years to inscribe his signat...

Whats at the circus show, whirling and twirling? Whats in this picture made of squiggles and spots? Whats on the table, laid out for a fabulous fea...