History of Art & Design Styles: from c 1900

Examining colonial art through the lens of transculturation, the essays in this collection assess painting, sculpture, photography, illustration an...

This summer 2016 publication brings together the recent body of work by David Hockney, perhaps the most popular and versatile British artist of the...

The perfect introduction to the life and art of Joseph Beuys.

Having travelled extensively throughout his life, Grant has drawn inspiration from landscapes from Antarctica to the tropics, While attracted to no...

Hughie ODonoghue (b. 1953) explores themes of universal human experience, ideas of truth and the relationship between memory and identity. Often st...

God's Little Artist is a biography in verse of Welsh painter Gwen John (1876 - 1939). As with many female painters of the time, John's work was oft...

Renowned for his paintings of the industrial towns of North West England, Lancashire born Lowry had a distinctive and enchanting style, depicting t...

Gustav Klimt, well known for his sensual, arresting depictions of women (The Kiss, Fulfillment, The Tree of Life), was a founder of the Viennese Se...

Just open the box and start some art! Let nothing get in your way... Making art doesn't have to be about technically brilliant painting, sculpting ...

Leading art critic and writer Richard Cork tells the stories of his personal encounters with some of the worlds most influential modern and contemp...

This beautiful, fully illustrated book presents a compendium of artworks throughout history which have been inspired by myth, fantasy and the unrea...

Art and photography have played a key role in capturing and reflecting on the conditions for the Brexit referendum. Illustrated by a range of work ...

The inspiration behind William Morris's Earthly Paradise, the muse for J.M.W. Turner's superlative seascapes, a home to hardy fishermen and the top...

Reveals how American art in the 1930sintertwined with the political, social, and economic tumult of an era not so unlike our ownengaged with the pu...

Embrace the iconic 60s counterculture movement with 14 large-scale psychedelic black-light posters.Hippy & Trippy Art is filled with mind-bendi...

A visual history of the spaceships, alien landscapes, cryptozoology, and imagined industrial machinery of 1970s paperback sci-fi artIn the 1970s, m...

Exploring the development of Elizabeth Blackadders art in all its richness, this revised edition of Duncan Macmillan's 1999 book expands the accoun...

When the visual artist H.R. Giger, best known for his biomechanical creature and set design for seminal 1979 sci-fi-horror film Alien, encountered ...

A compelling and lively history that examines the lives of British artists from the late-19th century to today. In This is Tomorrow Michael Bird...

Published to accompany an exhibition at MK Gallery, this is the first major survey of the work of contemporary British artist and photographer Ingr...

Geoffrey Garnier was the only Newlyn artist to devote himself entirely to the art of print-making. After a spell in Canada he studied at the Bushey...

In Japanese life and culture, there has never been a clear distinction between art, craft and design. Generations of artisans have for centuries fo...

Gerhard Richters oeuvre embraces in excess of three thousand individual works. Over a period of five decades he has created a stylistically heterog...

The second installment in Dietmar Elger's ambitious six-volume Gerhard Richter publishing project The oeuvre of Gerhard Richter (born 1932) embrace...

Alfredo Boulton (19081995) is considered one of the most important champions of modern art in Venezuela and a key intellectual of twentieth-century...

Life and work of the artist and style icon Frida Kahlo in a compact overview. Frida Kahlo has become an icon of art with her powerfully expressive...

In a fleeting 14-year period between two world wars, Germanys Bauhaus School of Art and Design changed the face of modernity. With utopian ideas fo...

In 1962, Ernst Scheidegger published his first book using his own name as an imprint. This book was the German edition of Jean Genet's essay on Alb...

This first biography of the Kettle's Yard artists reveals the life of a visionary who helped shape twentieth-century British art and explores a thr...

Anomie Collections 1 is a publication accompanying the first edition of Anomie Collections a London-based initiative that supports the work of con...

Holly Addi is a U.S.-based artist who creates abstract paintings focused on the philosophy of beauty in imperfection. With a background in psycholo...

Bridget Riley has made screenprints throughout her career, extending the principles of her paintings into a new, reproducible medium. Bringing toge...

New scholarship on a little-known decorative commission undertaken by Pablo Picasso offers insight into the artists painting process and the evolut...

* A Times and New Statesman Book of the Year ** BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week ** Illustrated with over 130 colour photographs and drawings *'A maste...

Explores and theorises the modern and contemporary art of Iran from the mid-twentieth century to the present Critically rereads the concepts of mo...

Christine Rebet is fascinated by sleight of hand and optical illusions, the principal forms of entertainment before the invention of motion picture...