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

No group of artists or period of art history has inspired as much fascination and admiration as the Impressionist school. This book tells the story...

This book reveals a great untold story of enterprise and innovation based on the relationship between the Victoria and Albert Museum, and Elkington...

Pierre-Auguste Renoir's famous painting Luncheon of the Boating Party (1880-81) portrays an informal gathering of real people he knew: fellow artis...

This glorious gift book presents Van Gogh’s lifelong love affair with the garden. Illustrated with an extraordinary range of works, from iconic oil...

Arthur Melville was arguably the most innovative and modernist Scottish artist of his generation and one of the finest British watercolourists of t...

Egon Schiele left an enormous artistic legacy that is all the more powerful for the brevity of his career. Isabel Kuhl’s lively text follows Schiel...

A perfect gift for art lovers or anyone interested in Impressionism, this collection of 365 pictures gathers the best of the genre’s masterpieces f...

This enthralling and comprehensive new book on Henri Matisse is an eye-opener for all students and art lovers interested in early twentieth-century...

"Radical and inspiring ... Yanagi's vision puts the connection between heart and hand before the transient and commercial" - Edmund de WaalThe dail...

Accompanying a major exhibition, this book brings together around 120 of the most significant examples of Victor Hugo's works on paper. It features...

A groundbreaking new exhibition will be presented by the Het Noordbrabants Museum, focusing on the impact of Van Gogh's interpersonal relationships...

The heyday of the Art Nouveau style was relatively short, spanning the decades immediately before and after 1900. However it was a tremendously imp...

The Phillips Collection, America's first museum of modern art, was founded in 1921 by Duncan Phillips (1886-1966), a Washington DC collector who pl...

The joy that permeates Renoir’s paintings was created by a complicated person. Even close friends and family members were often baffled by the mult...

The painting Paris Street, Rainy Day by Gustave Caillebotte (1848–1894) is an icon of Impressionism.This volume presents the work in the context of...

A design monograph series on the most remarkable architects, designers, brands and design movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, ea...

‘My art is a self-confession – in it I seek to clarify my relationship with the world. But at the same time I have always thought and felt that my ...

A new appraisal of intriguing and meditative figural works by one of the 19th century’s great masters of landscape The women painted by Camille Cor...

ONE OF THE TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES' BEST BOOKS FOR 2022'Eye-opening and full of surprises . . . A treasure' Sunday Times'A biography as rich with co...

William Morris was an outstanding character of many talents, being an architect, writer, social campaigner, artist and, with his Kelmscott Press, a...

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...

'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...

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...

Embrace the not-so-small world of minis--and your own tiny book!From teeny burritos and miniscule Chanel handbags to furniture no larger than a qua...

A fascinating look at an extraordinary collection of ceramic masterpieces by celebrated French ceramicist Ernest Chaplet. Over the last forty years...

'A nourishing, occasionally provoking hybrid of group biography, cultural criticism and travelogue that seeks to restore to Romanticism its radical...

Thomas Sully (1783–1872) painted some of the most dynamic personalities of the 19th century, including Queen Victoria, Thomas Jefferson, and the Ma...