The Arts: General Issues

'To create today is to create dangerously'Camus argues passionately that the artist has a responsibility to challenge, provoke and speak up for tho...

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Anatomy for Artists is an extensive compendium of high quality, detailed photography and drawings, showing the human figure in a variety of shapes,...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrid, and drea...

'Incisive and provocative ... a sensitive and probing critique' The New York Times'Essential reading ... gripping, inspirational, beautifully writ...

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Elegant representations of nature and the four seasons populate a wide range of Japanese genres and media-from poetry and screen painting to tea ce...

Winner of the Apollo Book of the Year Award 2024 Drawing is at the heart of human creativity. The most democratic form of art-making, it requires n...

A stunning art gallery in a book, art, annotated spans more than 3,000 years of paintings, sculptures, and prints.Combining reproductions of each w...

Exquisite cloth-bound edition of the classic art-history text – the ideal gift for every art connoisseur and student For more than 70 years Sir E...

Character Design Collection is the dynamic new series from the character-design experts, 3dtotal Publishing. With 50 projects by industry professio...

Thanks to Procreate, designing characters for the entertainment industry can be done on the iPad. In this book for newcomers to the software, sever...

In the course of a career thinking and writing about art, Martin Gayford has travelled all over the world both to see works of art and to meet arti...

History didn’t listen to women, but that never stopped them from speaking out …A lot of history is made up of speeches. Speeches about big ideas, c...

Film is considered by some to be the most dominant art form of the twentieth century. It is many things, but it has become above all a means of tel...

Since first published in 1983, Manga! Manga!: The World of Japanese Comics has been the book to read for all those interested in Japanese comics. I...

An authoritative history of art history from its medieval origins to its modern predicamentsIn this wide-ranging and authoritative book, the first ...

The visual arts enrich our lives in many ways: bringing innovative ideas and the pleasures of beauty and emotion, but they can also confound. How T...