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In the final decades of the nineteenth century, the Glasgow Style introduced Art Nouveau in Britain and helped transform an industrial city into Sc...

For decades, anyone who cared about product design looked to the Braun label when choosing their appliances, radios, and other consumer items. Diet...

Donald Judd remains an important artist, whose radical ideas and work continue to provoke and influence the fields of art, architecture, and design...

The perfect fun and relaxing art project for adults and children, this activity pack includes everything needed for readers to make their own Point...

The buildings constructed in East Germany after the Second World War are often dismissed as drab, Soviet-style, prefabricated blocks of cement. But...

Meike Peters's site, Eat In My Kitchen, captures the way people like to eat now: fresh, seasonal food with a variety of influences. It combines a n...

In her celebrated drawings, tapestries, and sculptures, Ebony G. Patterson incorporates glitter, appliqués, pins, embellishments, fabric, tassels, ...

This book traces the phenomenon of ecstasy in art and cultural history. Accompanying an exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart and Zentrum Paul Kl...

Known for his unconventional technique and gritty, evocative images of people and places, Ed van der Elsken was a self- taught photographer whose w...

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

From his images of deserted small towns and solitary figures in empty offices to his cheerfully tranquil New England landscapes, Hopper's most famo...

This groundbreaking graphic novel delves into the life of the acclaimed artist Edward Hooper, whose iconic works depict quintessentially American s...

Widely acknowledged as the world's leading authority on Edward Curtis, Christopher Cardozo draws on his deep understanding of the photographer and ...

Best known for his depictions of the human form, Schiele was also interested in portraying the beauty and structure of the world he inhabited. In f...

Egon Schiele (1890-1918) was one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century. A superb draftsman and colourist, he produced images of startlin...

This book traces Schiele''s development as a portraitist through four principal chronological phases, from 1906 to 1918. Starting with the artist''...

El Anatsui: Art and Life by Susan Mullin Vogel is the essential resource on the Ghanaian artist known worldwide for spectacular tapestries of recla...

Sime''s brightly-colored sculptural tableaus feature found objects including thread, buttons, electrical wires, and computer detritus. This book hi...

Widely considered to be the foundational text of the American landscape tradition, Ralph Waldo Emersons Nature urges Americans to value and immerse...

Is there such a thing as Impressionist sculpture ? Since 1881 when Edgar Degas presented Little Dancer Aged Fourteen at the Sixth Impressionist Ex...

Ernst Haass color works reveal the photographers remarkable genius and remind us on every page why we love New York. When Haas moved from Vienna to...

Perfect for display or close observation, the posters in this elegantly produced collection of Ernst Haeckel's exquisite illustrations of natural f...

Throughout his career, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner employed a highly inventive and original use of colour. He favoured novel applications of paint in unu...

Throughout Ernst Ludwig Kirchners career, one unifying theme emergesthe search for what he saw as unadulterated and primal. This volume explores th...

For decades, women have been overlooked in the cultural history of photography, especially Black female and gender- fluid artists of African descen...

This fascinating sourcebook presents the most remarkable, beautiful, and innovative building fa ades in contemporary architecture. A building's fa ...

This beautifully illustrated vegetarian cookbook by bestselling author Hetty McKinnon features modern, easy, and healthy recipes for a new generati...

What did Vogue's first cover look like? When did film stars become part of the fashion industry? What led to the development of ready-to-wear cloth...

Candid and personal, dazzling with color and immediacy, this first and only monograph of a rising star of the photography scene features work from ...

Historically, women have been depicted as a projection of male fantasies, prejudices, and relationships. However in the 1970s, there was a tectonic...

Olaf Hajeks fantastical and mesmerising art is familiar to many adults. Now young readers can enjoy his work while learning about the fascinating h...

This fascinating and beautifully illustrated book on the work of Francis Bacon, one of the 20th century s greatest painters, takes an in-depth look...

When they were first exhibited in the late 1960s, Frank Bowling's immense map paintings were widely celebrated for their vibrant color and subtle m...

Arranged chronologically, this book follows the arc of Gehry's later career, during which he has focused mainly on public and cultural facilities. ...

During the five years Franz Marc and August Macke knew each other, the two men carried on an artistic and personal friendship that had an immense i...

This new edition of the wildly popular cocktail book features revised and updated texts and a bold new cover. Sixty of the world's coolest and mos...

Lucian Freud dedicated his life to portraying the people in his world without flattery or refinement. Although his technique and style evolved trem...