History of Art & Design Styles: c 1800 to c 1900

Most art historians agree that the modern art adventure first developed in the 1860s in Paris. A circle of painters, whom we now know as Impression...

A FLAME TREE NOTEBOOK. Beautiful and luxurious the Slimline Journals combine high-quality production with magnificent art. Perfect as a gift, and a...

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

**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...

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,...

This is an illustrated account of the artist, his life and context, with a gallery of 300 paintings and drawings. This beautifully illustrated book...

This beautiful book, companion publication to the exhibition of the same name, presents a complex overview of the life and career of the pioneering...

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,...

This fascinating new book looks in detail at Renoir's influences, life and works. The first part begins examines his style; it covers Renoir's tech...

The first half of this fascinating book contains a detailed exploration of Van Gogh's life, including his background, early career, influences and ...

This is an expert and detailed account of the painter Claude Monet, one of the key founders of the Impressionist movement and arguably the most inf...

William Morris Textiles was the first comprehensive survey of the many hundreds of original, colourful textiles produced by William Morris and the ...

Arts & Crafts: Masterpieces of Art is a celebration of the design movement that spread rapidly around the world at the end of the nineteenth ce...

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. Edgar DegasCovering every era and over 650 artists, this comprehensive, illustrated guide of...

The long-awaited reprint of an important illustrated reference work on the general history of the watch from 1500 to 1980. When Watches was first ...

An original and breathtakingly beautiful perspective on how art developed through the ages, this book reveals how new materials and techniques insp...

What is modern art? Why do we either love it or loathe it? And why is it worth so much damn money? Join Will Gompertz on a dazzling tour that will ...

Despite his posthumous fame as a painter of flowers, still-lifes, gardens, landscapes and city scenes, during his lifetime Vincent van Gogh believe...

Learn about key movements like impressionism, cubism and symbolism in The Art Book.Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tric...

First study of the role of architecture in the work of Thomas Cole, founder of the Hudson River School of American painting At the height of his ca...