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Frida Kahlo created a natural paradise in her home at Casa Azul in Mexico City. The plants cultivated there were vital components of some of her mo...

Parrots, trees, deer, family members, friends, flowers, the sun and the moon-Frida Kahlo's use of symbolism and colour wonderfully lends itself to ...

The perfect subject for a graphic novel, Frida Kahlo's brief life was dramatic and romantic, tragic and painful. In this illustrated biography, Van...

Children will be utterly absorbed by this journey through the history of architecture, from the earliest mud huts to today's soaring towers. Chrono...

High up in the treetops strange birds are hatching from their eggs, craning their necks toward their mothers, and exploring their new environment. ...

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Filled with the vibrant color that is the hallmark of Munters oeuvre, this dynamic consideration of the German painter offers a lively and detailed...

This dynamic new appraisal of the painter Gabriele Munter looks beyond her association with Wassily Kandinsky and completely reevaluates her art on...

For eight years before the First World War, a young Georges Braque and his friend Pablo Picasso shaped what was perhaps the most revolutionary stag...

Few creative alliances flourished as productively as that of the artist Georgia O'Keeffe and the photographer Alfred Stieglitz. Author Peter-Cornel...

Richly illustrated with images of her art and views of the two homes she designed and furnished in New Mexico, the book also includes never before ...

Georgia O'Keeffe's bold and colorful depictions of flowers, New York skylines, and desert landscapes are easily recognizable to most adults and end...

This publication is the first to focus solely on the abstract strategies and processes contained in Gerhard Richters body of work. In the early 196...

One of the worlds most revered visual artists, Gerhard Richter embraces many concepts in his work and continually thwarts categorisation. In this e...

Following the arc of Bellinis career, from his early devotional paintings to his later, occasionally secular works, this book offers an in-depth ap...

At times regarded as the first modern artist, Goya was both a court painter to the Spanish Crown and a commentator on the tumultuous events of his ...

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...

Utagawa Hiroshige holds an assured place in the history of art as one of the greatest and best-loved masters of the woodblock print. His immensely ...

Roughly twenty-five years after Hokusai released his series of ukiyo-e prints depicting Japans most recognisable symbol, Hiroshige took on the subj...

Artist, filmmaker, and writer Hito Steyerl is an acute observer and interpreter of globalized and digital cultures. This book examines three of Ste...

The Japanese artist Hokusai spent the second half of his life sketching and painting with tremendous energy nearly everything he saw, and this book...