Art History

American artist Walter De Maria is associated with Minimal, conceptual, installation, and land art. He is best known for The Lightning Field, 1977,...

Now in its fourth edition, this classic bestselling book has been updated with brand new chapters and hand-drawn illustrations. Using a highly ac...

London Underground By Design is the beautifully illustrated new book from Mark Ovenden, the acclaimed author of Great Railway Maps of the World, pu...

Martin Lister, royal physician and fellow of the Royal Society, was an extraordinarily prolific natural historian with an expertise in shells and m...

What do they all mean - the lascivious ape, autophagic dragons, pot-bellied heads, harp-playing asses, arse-kissing priests and somersaulting jongl...

Examining the artistic development of Pablo Picasso and Diego Rivera, two towering figures in the world of modern art, this generously illustrated ...

Born in London and raised in Nigeria, Shonibare employs a diverse range of media - from sculpture, painting and installation to photography and fil...

Frieda Hughess poems and paintings reflect her early years in Devon and Yorkshire, and her later experiences when living in London, Australia, and ...

This is the first comprehensive study of the diverse role and impact of photography at the 1851 Great Exhibition in London, drawing together two de...

Savage Messiah collects the entire set of Laura Grace Ford's fanzine to date. Part graphic novel, part artwork, the book is both an angry polemic a...

For the artists, writers and musicians of the Symbolist Movement of the turn of the century, true art, an extension of ones soul or unconscious, wa...

There are no rules, and even less justice. Death takes everyone without discrimination. Sometimes it is accidental - like Signorelli, who fell from...