Art

A selection of stunning poster paintings from the celebrated Tolkien artist Alan Lee - the man behind many of the striking images from The Lord of The Rings movie. The...

'The Medieval World Complete' re-creates one of the great ages of European civilization through a sequence of spectacular images accompanied by a lively, informed commentary. Ingeniously organized by topic and...

Generational dialogues between 40 world-renowned creatives exploring how the creative legacy of previous generations is being reinterpreted over time. What is this phenomenon we call `legacy'? This intangible inheritance that...

Photographer Paul Barbera presents his next volume in the Where They Create series - this time with a different approach, by exploring the theme of his series through geographical locales...

Digital technology has irreversibly changed how we see, think and act. A staggering number of us spend as much as half our waking hours online. Right now, more people are...

In October 2010, Ai Weiwei's Sunflower Seeds appeared in the Turbine Hall in the Tate Modern. Six months later, he was arrested in China and held for over two months...

The definitive biography of J.M.W. Turner.'A pleasure to read'.' A.S. BYATT'With splendid clarity and shrewd humour, James Hamilton evokes the visceral world of a great artist and a fascinating character.'...

'A riveting tale, brilliantly told' Philippe Sands The little-known story of Hitler's war on modern art and the mentally ill. In the first years of the Weimar Republic, the German...

People who are good at creating ideas are good at seeing connections. Could teaching people to see connections be a way to help them be more creative?Over the years, there's...

RAE MARTINI. 24 CARAT DIRT Rae Martini, a prominent figure on the international street scene, comes face to face with painting and artistic expression for the first time in the...

400 years after the death of Caravaggio, some of the world's most illustrious art historians comment on an extraordinary collection of 25 of his works. How is it possible that...

This extra big coloring poster is an illustration inspired by the delightful universe of our first coloring bestseller, Hidden Nature. Toc de Groc, a design studio created by a team...

What is behind the tidal wave of street art that is sweeping through the cultural scene today? What are its artistic features, its codes, and its language? How has its...

A gorgeous collection of delightful portraits of the people you love from the world of music, fashion and the movies by the artist you will recognize from Vanity Fair, The...

Sketchbooks often reveal fascinating aspects of an artist's perspective. Charting the development of an artwork, they trace back to both an original idea and preceding compositions. Spontaneous first sketches contain...

With the eye of a painter, Guy Bourdin created images that contained fascinating stories, compositions and colors. He radically broke conventions of commercial photography with a relentless perfectionism and sharp...

One was a famous artist, the other an ardent collector of photography, a curator and author. Man Ray (1890-1976) and L. Fritz Gruber (1908-2005) nurtured professional and personal contact for...

Tony Cragg was born in Liverpool, UK in 1949 and has lived and worked in Wuppertal, Germany since 1977. He has a BA from Wimbledon School of Art (1973) and...

"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." -Albert EinsteinOur everyday lives are filled with a massive flow of information that we must interpret in order...

When Benedikt Taschen asked the most important portrait photographer working today, Annie Leibovitz, to collect her pictures in a SUMO-sized book, she was intrigued by the challenge. The project took...

Oscar-winning French director/performer Jacques Tati (1907-1982) was a fiercely innovative and original filmmaker who found inspiration in the observation of life around him. By creating and playing unassuming characters thrown...

Few devotees of the form can approach Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn's radical contributions to the art of the self-portrait. Challenging the conventions enshrined by his predecessors, Rembrandt transformed self portraiture...