Art

The way our environment looks, the appearance of everything from housing estates to newspapers, is partly the result of a school of art and design founded in Germany in 1919...

The boundless and miraculous is what Vincent van Gogh believed we should all seek - and to be satisfied with nothing less. This is exactly what he achieved in his...

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) created many of the most beautiful and important drawings in the history of Western art. Many of these were anatomical and became the yardstick for the...

Forty five key women of the Bauhaus movement.Bauhaus Women: A Global Perspective reclaims the other half of Bauhaus history, yielding a new understanding of the radical experiments in art and...

This is an easy to use guide to a wide range of art 'isms'. From the isms of the Renaissance to the isms of the present day, it gives a...

George Stubbs: 'all done from Nature' presents the first significant overview of Stubbs's work in Britain for more than 30 years and brings together 80 paintings, drawings and publications from...

Philipp Rudolf Humm is a German/Belgian artist living in London. Humm started out to become an artist, yet got rejected by the Berlin Akademie. After completing a BA in Philosophy...

A window into the lives and work of some of the biggest arts names of the 20th century, including Henry Moore, Salvador Dali, Alexander Calfer, L.S Lowry, Picasso, John Piper,...

First English Language monograph on this distinguished French artist.

Art history has been given a fun feline makeover. Discover the basics of important art movements through a host of beautifully illustrated cats, each one inspired by a specific period...

Draw, colour and create your own modern art in this creative activity book. From Impressionism to Pop Art, and Cubism to Surrealism, you can find out about many different art...

Photography: The Whole Story is a celebration of the most beautiful, meaningful and inspiring photographs that have arisen from this very modern medium. The book begins with a succinct overview...

This visually stunning and timely book reveals how leading artists of the twenty- first century are reinvigorating the still life, a genre previously synonymous with the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Old...

Drawing on the immense popularity and the timeless appeal of Celtic ornaments, author David Balade, an acclaimed artist who created many drawings and paintings in the Celtic style, has chosen...

John Vernon Lord is a master illustrator of children's and adult books. His famous book The Giant Jam Sandwich has been in print for over forty years. This collection presents...

Entertaining and provocative in equal measure, Allen Jones RA was at the forefront of the British Pop Art movement in the early 1960s, alongside Royal College of Art contemporaries David...

Wherever she is working outside, from the remote coastline of her native Scotland to the mountains of Andalucia and the Arizona desert, Barbara Rae responds to what she sees in...

Accompanying a major exhibition at Compton Verney, Warwickshire, this book examines the innate human desire to transcend the limitations of physiology and gravity - and to fly. Through an intriguing...

Millions of artists worldwide explore fantasy worlds through their art, and many more fans of fantasy genres enjoy the imaginative visions they come up with. Whether inspired by myth, literature,...

2014 marks three hundred years since the arrival of the Hanoverians to the throne of Great Britain and Ireland. The Georgian Revolution examines the period from their succession in 1714,...

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (1609-64) was perhaps the most innovative and technically brilliant Italian draftsman of his time.Working in oils on paper he produced large, vibrant compositions as works of art...

Barbara Rae RA is renowned for her vivid, expressionistic paintings and graphic works. In this book, the first comprehensive study of Raes prints, Andrew Lambirth charts her development as a...

This doodle book will spark your artistic imagination! The Art Doodle Book will inspire you to create masterpieces like those of the great artists, from Cezanne, Monet and Rembrandt to...

Glasgow's rapid industrial development in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries left a legacy of unemployment and cramped housing. Nowhere was this more apparent than in the Gorbals area, just...

'A Time & a Place: Two centuries of Irish social life' focuses, through the art of their time, on Irish people engaged in recreational activities across the last two centuries....

Philip IV of Spain (ruled 1621-1665) was known as the 'Planet King', shining brightly in the universe of the arts even if the Golden Age of Spanish painitng coincided with...

The important collection of Italian Renaissance drawings in Sir John Soane's Museum, London has for many years remained one of the hidden treasures of the Museum. Fully illustrated throughout, the...

Adapted from the Messenger series 'A Place Apart' this is the first time a selection of Sr Maureen MacMahon's articles have been produced in book format. The articles span a...

Jack is one of the UK's most popular, and yet most controversial, contemporary artists. His pictures sell for a record amount of money, the paintings in his exhibitions are always...