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This guide explores ways in which graphic designers can successfully collaborate with other creative professionals and sectors, whether it be a mor...

There is nothing that has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern, wrote Samuel Johnson. Three cent...

Where along the Rhine does the Nibelung Treasure lie? What river helps mark the prime meridian? Why do people make pilgrimages to the Indian city o...

Now available again, this visually stunning collection of Gustav Klimt''''s landscape paintings brings to light a lesser-known aspect of the Vienne...

Haegue Yang is renowned for her multifaceted works that vary in form from collage to kinetic sculpture, perceptively evoking historical and contemp...

During the Rococo period, wealthy women tucked shells, necklaces, fruit, and flowers into their hair, which was styled into towers that reached as ...

This generously illustrated volume examines Hammershoi's work as a whole and in relation to the artists of his generation. Hammershoi's enigmatic p...

Hannah Ryggen created numerous monumental tapestries in her lifetime. Originally trained as a painter, Ryggen began weaving on a standing loom on h...

Contemporary British artist Heather Phillipson works across video, sculpture, online projects, music, drawing, and poetry. She will be the next art...

Reproduced in exquisite black and white, the images in this book range from Henri Cartier-Bressons earliest work in France, Spain, and Mexico throu...

For Henri Matisse, drawing was an exercise as personal as it was essential to his art. These black and white and gently colored sketches allow the ...

Now available again in a new format, this lavishly illustrated volume presents the iconic American outsider artist in a new critical light, locat...

Self-taught and working in isolation until his death in 1973, Henry Darger realized an elaborate fantasy world of remarkable beauty and strangeness...

Shadows and light, high drama and the supernatural, these elements are hallmarks of Henry Fuseli''s paintings. Accom- panying a long-overdue show o...

Henry Moore is most celebrated for his monumental outdoor sculptures in many major cities around the world. Lesser known are the sculptor's plaster...

Big art for little hands, this enchanting activity book allows young artists to explore the world's masterpieces on their own terms and with plenty...

Few paintings inspire the kind of intense study and speculation as Garden of Earthly Delights, the world famous triptych by Netherlandish master Hi...

Bosch''s elaborate paintings have always been hugely popular and are well known for their use of fantastic imagery. Bosch''s best-known painting re...

The last great master of the ukiyo-e tradition, Hiroshige produced works of subtle yet intense color. This collection of prints, first published in...