Art

Botanical illustration and flower painting are perhaps two of the most skilled and captivating forms of expression in the history of art and Irish artists have excelled in these fields....

A non-specialist introduction and work of reference to the fine arts, covering artistic endeavour through all time and throughout the world.

Nigel Coates is the name behind such work as the futuristic Oyster House, the National Centre for Popular Music in Sheffield and the giant "Body" in London's Millennium Dome. He...

This book is a collection (curated by John Foster) of the best hand-crafted design out there from all corners of the globe. The collection connects with designers on a gut...

Once upon a time in a land not so far away...Though it lies just across the Mediterranean from Europe, barely a stone's throw from Spain's southernmost tip, Morocco couldn't possibly...

A new generation of female artists is emerging who have grown up in a culture saturated with social media and selfies.This book looks at how young women are using photography...

James Lord's elegant, moving book is the first to show the private Dora Maar. PICASSO & DORA sheds new light both on the greatest of modern artists, and on the...

In the years following World War I the way we perceive the world was turned upside down by a group of writers, painters and film-makers: the surrealists. Their aim was...

Of all the great paintings in the world, Guernica has had a more direct impact on our consciousness than perhaps any other. In his new book the acclaimed biographer of...

Pablo Picasso turned the ephemera of everyday life into pioneering cubist collage, and reinvented the paintings of old masters for the 20th century. Does this make him an artistic genius?...

Containing previously unpublished, uncensored and on-the-spot observations of Picasso at home and in company, "Visiting Picasso" is a wonderfully vivid, spontaneous and lively record of Roland Penroses' many encounters with...

Why are we so fascinated by ruins? Do we see them as jig-saws and riddles or romantic evocations of the damage of Time, complete with crumbling stone and ivy? Do...

The World's Greatest Art covers the entire range of painted art from the mid-1200s to the modern day, reaching through the cradle of European discovery and the dynamo of North...

Writing in the same tradition as renowned artist Robert Henri in his classic book The Art Sprit, Deborah J. Haynes looks at the value of art and making art in...

In today's art world many strange, even shocking, things qualify as art. In this Very Short Introduction Cynthia Freeland explains why innovation and controversy are valued in the arts, weaving...

'Great art has dreadful manners...' Simon Schama observes at the start of his epic exploration of the power, and whole point, of art. 'The hushed reverence of the gallery can...