Art History

The Japanese phrase hodo-hodo originates in ancient times. When contemporary designer Taku Satoh applies it to his work, it means just enough. Hodo...

*One of The Times Best Art Books of the Year*'Looking to Sea is a remarkable and compelling book... I loved it.' Edmund de Waal'In her first, tran...

For nearly two decades, Jose Pepe Gonzalez was hailed as the premierVampirella artist, drawing the fiery vixen for Warren Publishing in theSeventi...

Record of Agarest War is an epic, multi-generational RPG where yourdecisions affect the power of future generations of heroes. Record of AgarestWa...

Showcasing the grim and chilling artwork behind the fan-favorite DarkSouls game in a gorgeous hardcover collection, Dark Souls: DesignWorks feature...

Since its small screen debut in 1982, Macross has remained one of most influential mecha anime of all time. Longtime franchise illustrator Hidetaka...

A polymath of the German Renaissance, Albrecht Dürer (14711528) was a prolific artist, theorist, and writer whose works explored everything from re...

The male form is the focus heretwisting, leaping and tumbling in dramatic action sequences!Master manga and anime artist Kyachi shows you the secre...

Chronicling an extraordinary decade in Italys history as a creative hub for some of the 20th centurys greatest artists Conceived of as a chronolog...

The last work of Burne-Jones: a series of woodcut illustrations to the first chapters of Genesis, making a perfect epitome of his art. Reprinted fr...

Celebrating 50 years of Vampirella! Dynamite continues to roll out amazing tributes to everyones favorite babe with bite!This breathtaking tome rep...

'One of the very few necessary and inevitable utterances of the century.' William Morris, in the Preface. The Nature of Gothic started life as a ch...

Presenting the second in a seven-volume library of works by master illustrator Sergio Toppi. The second volume, North America, contains eleven tale...

Geniale Dilletanten (Brilliant Dilletantes) was the deliberately misspelled title of a music festival that took place at the Tempodrom in Berlin in...

Henri Rousseau (1844-1910), known as Le Douanier (the Customs Officer) after his day job, was the first outsider or naïve artist in the history of ...

Degas was a celebrity in Britain in his lifetime, thanks originally to George Moore's pioneering essay, The Painter of Modern Life. When Degas died...

This accessible book demonstrates how ideas influenced and defined graphic design. Lavishly illustrated, it is both a great source of inspiration a...

As this volume opens we find our hero at age 46, solidly into the midlife crises years. Crumb has lived his entire life in anxious, introspective, ...

Titian (c. 1488-1576) was recognised very early on as the leading painter of his generation in Venice. Starting in the studio of the aged Giovanni ...

Raphael (1483-1520) was for centuries considered the greatest artist who ever lived. Much of what we know about him comes from this biography, writ...

I recall the long hours I sat for him... From time to time, as I posed, half-asleep, I looked at the artist standing at his easel, with features dr...