Art, Design & Performance

Author: Dr. Joanne Cormac Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Do you know a capella from zarzuela, or your major from your minor? Can you distinguish between a...

Author: Chronicle Books Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 108 This beautiful gift book features gorgeous patterns from top indie artists and designers, including Julia Rothman, Jill Bliss, Junzo Terada, Rifle...

Author: Dr Neil MacGregor Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 The panoramic new history of belief from the celebrated author of A History of the World in 100 Objects. No...

Author: Luigi Amara Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 A witty, eloquent, and curious history of the wig Whether in a court room or a dressing room, wigs come in...

Author: Jenny Uglow Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 A fully illustrated overview of the life and work of the universally loved Quentin Blake, released ahead of the artist's 90th...

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: 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: Henry-Jean Servat Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 88 Featuring rare images from Pierre Passebon's personal collection, this volume celebrates Marlene Dietrich, Hollywood's iconic femme fatale, as immortalized by master...

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: 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: Alice Wietzel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 Georgia O'Keeffe is known as the Mother of American Modernism, discover why in this first story book about Georgia O'Keeffe. From...

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: Ulf Kuster Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 120 Pivotal in modern art's move towards abstraction, Piet Mondrian's oeuvre is extraordinarily versatile and complex. Not only did he paint and...

Author: Romaine Brooks Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 Most known for her bold and darkly painted portraits, Brooks was revolutionary in her feminist renderings of women in resistance. Openly...

Author: Professor Stephen Walsh Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 Everyone loves romantic music: the sweet melody of a Schubert song, the heroine dying for love in an Italian opera,...

Author: Quentin Blake Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 32 Heaven knows how I thought of a mouse on a tricycle -it's just there in one of my notebooks somewhere. Of...

Author: David Levi Strauss Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 104 In this exploration of contemporary photography, David Levi Strauss questions the concept that "seeing is believing." Identifying a recent shift...

Author: James Orrom Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 A comprehensive design resource that reveals how the iconic chairs of the 20th and 21st centuries have been designed for mass...

Author: Chris van Uffelen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Architecture involving and consisting of bamboo has developed into one of the most fascinating areas of global building culture. A...

Author: Sheila R. Canby Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 This stunning book offers an introduction to and an exceptional view of an imposing collection of arts from across the...

Author: Stuart Murdoch Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 A beautiful collaboration between Belle and Sebastian frontman Stuart Murdoch and illustrator Pamela Tait: a unique visual reinterpretation of Murdoch's favourite...

Author: Michael Bird Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 A compelling and lively history that examines the lives of British artists from the late-19th century to today. In This is...

Author: Paul Fischer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 'This extraordinary tale of rivalry and celluloid . . . has fascinated cineastes for years.' - Kathryn Hughes, Sunday Times'Illuminating and...

Author: Jean-Francois Chevrier Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 Brooklyn-born photographer Helen Levitt (1913-2009) was an assistant to Walker Evans and a friend of Henri Cartier-Bresson, but forged her own...

Author: Prix Pictet Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 The breadth of the human experience We quite rightly celebrate human creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship, but too often our triumphs in...

Author: Gary Hustwit Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 140 The New York Subway Map Debate documents a pivotal event in design history: the 1978 debate between designer Massimo Vignelli and...

Author: William Shakespeare Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 Likely the last play written entirely by Shakespeare, The Tempest brings together various themes the bard explored in his prior plays,...

Author: Gwen Allen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Part of the acclaimed 'Documents of Contemporary Art' series of anthologies . Intrinsically collaborative, the magazine is an inherently 'open' form,...

Author: 0 Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 Materials have the power to affect human experiences and emotions by helping us build intimate connections with inanimate objects through touch and...

Author: Alison Smith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 Charles III: The Making of a King highlights the most important portraits of King Charles III from the National Portrait Gallery's...

Author: Marc Dachy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 The word 'Dada' was chosen at random by a group of young artists and writers from a dictionary in the Cabaret...

Author: The Duchess of Cambridge Patron of the National Portrait Gallery Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 168 A unique collective portrait of the United Kingdom during the national lockdown of...

Author: Louise Rytter Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 'When times are hard, fantasy and escapism are crucial' Alexander McQueen Having grown up in London's East End, Alexander McQueen left...

Author: Liam Wong Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 An intimate, one-of-a-kind photographic journey that documents Liam Wong's nocturnal wanderings through the world's most captivating cities. In this singular photographic...

Author: Christopher Bedford Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 The first monograph on this British painter in a decade, coinciding with a period of important international exhibitions. Constantly shifting between...

Author: Paula Modersohn-Becker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 72 When Paula Modersohn-Becker's artistfriends examined her extensive estate afew weeks after her death, they were overwhelmed. They only gradually realised thatin...

Author: Demian Conrad Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 How can typesetting or a grid have such a strong and long-time impact on a global community and emotionalize it to...

Author: Marina Carr Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 80 Winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, 1997. 'Carr's harrowing play has the scale and anguish of myth, and the immediacy...

Author: Christopher Hampton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 48 I had no idea what was going on. Or very little. No more than most people. So you can't make me...

Author: Erik Johansson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 The photographer and visual artist Erik Johansson creates surreal worlds through his own unique method. It often takes him months just...

Author: Andrea Fraser Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 96 Immersing the audience in sound and light Nikita Gale's END OF SUBJECT subverts understandings of viewership by prompting spectators to question...

Author: Julian Bell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 A brand-new perspective on early modern art and its relationship with nature as reflected in this moving account of overlooked artistic...

Author: Phillip Bogart Duncan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 Daisy Chain is the new platform from Phillip Bogart Duncan and Charles Daigrepont Desselle. Published by Damiani, it is a...

Author: Julia Gat Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 48 Khamsa, the number five in Arabic, a reference to the five fingers of the hand, is repeated three times as a...

Author: Nicoletta Baldini Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 96 Skira Mini ARTbooks is a pocket-sized series, conveniently priced, very practical and with lots of images dedicated to single international artists,...