Art

This interpretive study of the artistic culture of the Dutch Republic in the 17th century describes the art of the period as it was experienced by the people of the...

Nature and Its Symbols is the fifth volume in the series A Guide to Imagery, reference guides whose goal is to explain the symbols used in art. This volume includes...

For readers who have little time to spare and are averse to art-world jargon, this series aims to provide an entertaining guide to individual artists and pop culture. Each volume...

Considered by many critics and artists to be the greatest comic strip of all time, Little Nemo in Slumbe rland was cherished in its day and honoured through the year...

An original and breathtakingly beautiful perspective on how art developed through the ages, this book reveals how new materials and techniques inspired artists to create their greatest works.The Story of...

This beautiful book brings you the very best of art throughout history - using a truly innovative timeline-led approach. Savour iconic paintings such as Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper and...

This volume reproduces 139 Japanese woodblock colour prints by 43 famous masters of ukiyo-e, the popular art of the 17th to the 19th century. The originals are in the Riccar...

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...