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Author: Simon Murray Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Vintage glasses of all shapes, styles and sizes - the very best of 20th- and 21st-century spectacle design for fashion designers,...

Author: Rupert Christiansen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Serge Diaghilev was the Russian impresario who is often said to have invented the modern art form of ballet. Commissioning such...

Author: Paul Fischer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 In 1888 Louis Le Prince shot the world's first motion picture in Leeds, England. In 1890, weeks before the public unveiling...

Author: James Hamilton-Paterson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 An ode to Beethoven's revolutionary masterpiece, his Third Symphony In 1805, the world of music was startled by an avant-garde and...

Author: James Cahill Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 The latest addition to the 'Lives of the Artists' series: highly readable short biographies of the world's greatest artists David Hockney...

Author: Manushree Mishra Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 Explore the basics of color theory and color mixing, and then apply your new skills to create your own beautiful floral...

Author: Elizabeth T. Gilbert Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 112 Artist Toolbox: Drawing Tools & Materials covers all drawing media, from graphite and colored pencils to crayons and pastels, as...

Author: Paul Hendrickson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 624 Frank Lloyd Wright has long been known as a rank egotist who held in contempt almost everything aside from his own...

Author: John Woolf Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 'A promising young historian with a taste for the exotic.' Stephen FryA radical new history of the Victorian age: meet the...

Author: Norbert Wolf Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 96 Reaching its peak in the 11th and 12th centuries, the Romanesque movement was marked by a peculiar, vivid, and often monumental...

Author: Paul Gunther Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 This magical volume presents the startling world of illusion in design as employed by today's architects, interior designers, furniture designers, and...

Author: Alistair Hicks Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 In the past, writers and critics from Goethe to Clement Greenberg perpetuated particular ideas about art and even dictated them to...

Author: Amber Jane Butchart Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 From Chanel's coastal couture to McLaren and Westwood's punk-fuelled pirates, from Jean Paul Gaultier's beefcake camp to Tommy Hilfiger's preppy...

Author: Irving Singer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 An exploration of the sensuous and the passionate, as expressed in operas by Mozart and Beethoven. Music, language, and drama come...

Author: Sophie Bush Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 A global overview of the most contemporary and ingenious - and comfortable - former light-industrial spaces transformed into stylish modern residences....

Author: Katie Knowles Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 The National Trust looks after one of the largest and most significant holdings of fine-art and heritage objects in the world....

Author: Megan Hess Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 From globally renowned illustrator Megan Hess, this special enlarged and updated edition of the bestselling sensation Paris: Through A Fashion Eye...

Author: Lorna Scobie Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 Featuring 101 art activities that encourage engagement with the natural world, Lorna shows you that creating art with animals as subjects...

Author: James Clarke Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 The Year of the Geek is a fascinating look into geek culture. Each day will tell a different story from the...

Author: Format: Hardback Number of Pages: Architecture and civil engineering have long been central elements in China's external image and national party propaganda. When it comes to technological superiority in...

Author: Mike Reiss Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Semi-Finalist for the 2019 James Thurber Award * One of Vulture's Top-10 Comedy Books of 2018 * A "Must"...

Author: Michelle Morgan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'England? It seemed to be raining the whole time . . . Or maybe it was me' MARILYN MONROE In July...

Author: MinaLima Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 A full-colour illustrated compendium chronicling the magical twenty-year journey of acclaimed art and design studio, MinaLima, the creative genius behind the graphics...

Author: Philip Hoare Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR AN OBSERVER BEST ART BOOK OF 2021 SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2022...

Author: Joan Armatrading Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Since the release of her debut album Whatever's For Us in 1972, Joan Armatrading has, across a fifty-year career, traversed styles...

Author: Jenny Uglow Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 In 1922, Cyril Power, a fifty-year old architect, left his family to work with the twenty-four year old Sybil Andrews. They...

Author: Marylou Luther Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 A collection of witty and sometimes wry quotes, inspiring edicts, and philosophies about fashion and style by celebrated fashion designers-from Coco...

Author: Allan Marett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Aboriginal musicians receive songs both from an eternal realm known as The Dreaming and from the ghosts of deceased ancestors. Songs,...

Author: Bob Stanley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 656 Let's Do It is the definitive history of the birth of Pop, from 1900 to the mid-fifties. The story begins in...

Author: Meryle Secrest Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The never-before-told true account of the design and development of the first desktop computer by the world's most famous high-styled typewriter...

Author: Jenny Hyatt Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Explores the lure of the countryside: the wide open spaces and starry skies, the lack of neighbours, noise and pollution, the...

Author: Ezinma Mbeledogu Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Every fashion collection begins with research. But how do you start? How do you use that research? Fashion Design Research answers...

Author: Veronika Kapsali Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Biomimetics - imitating life's natural processes - is one of the hottest areas of design research and inspiration. The natural world...

Author: Sarah Teasley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 From cars to cameras, design from Japan is ubiquitous. So are perceptions of Japanese design, from calming, carefully crafted minimalism to...

Author: Barney Hoskyns Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'Present Tense is an anthology to savour . . . giving you as sharp a portrait of this unknowable band as...

Author: Erik Hornung Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 This volume accompanies an exhibition of the same name, which includes artefacts from nearly 2000 years before the Christian era. Objects...

Author: Daniel Arsham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 300 Featuring never-before-seen drawings by the renowned contemporary artist, a beautiful facsimile edition that reveals the working process of an extraordinary creative...

Author: Tamara Schenkenberg Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 252 One of the most groundbreaking artists to emerge in American art in the 1960s, Hannah Wilke consistently challenged the prevailing narratives...

Author: Estudio Joso Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 80 A collection of eye-catching images to color that capture the diversity of the manga universe and the unique personalities of its...

Author: Hal Rubenstein Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 From longtime fashion director, consultant, media personality, and author, Hal Rubenstein, comes a lush, full color, illustrated guide to the most...

Author: Alison M. Gingeras Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 This definitive book on the renowned post-war avant-garde artistic movement offers a comprehensive insight into Cobra's history and achievements, and...

Author: Dita Amory Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 A new account of Cezanne's complex relationship with his wife, who served as the subject of some of his most iconic...

Author: Gary Giddins (The Leon Levy Center for Biography) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 418 In his illuminating new work, Gary Giddins explores the evolution of film, from the first...

Author: Joe Greer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 A spiritually uplifting and beautiful designed visual memoir by the hugely popular photographer on Instagram, Joe Greer, combining thoughtful essays and...

Author: Nola Anderson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 'It is always based on what I see, what is touching me.' For more than fifty years, Klaus Moje devoted his...

Author: Edit Sasvari Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 The international significance of the art produced in Hungary in the 1960s and 1970s has come to the fore in recent...

Author: Pete McBride Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 We tend to think of silence as the absence of sound, but it is actually the void where we can hear...

Author: Xanthe Brooke Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 96 Hans Holbein's portrait of Henry VIII perished in fire in 1698, yet has remained the definitive image of the English monarch,...