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30-Second Classical Music: The 50 most significant genres, composers and innovations, each explained in half a minute
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...
Living with the Gods: On Beliefs and Peoples
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...
Pretty Patterns: Surface Design by 25 Contemporary Artists
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...
100 Curiosities & Inventions from the Collections of the National Trust
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....
The Quentin Blake Book
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...
Amy Winehouse - In Her Words
Author: Amy Winehouse Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Global icon Six-time Grammy winner Headline-maker The most talented recording artist of her generation Much has been said about Amy Winehouse...
The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures: A True Tale of Obsession, Murder and the Movies
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...
Wayne Quilliam: Culture is Life 2nd edition: WINNER OF THE 2022 NATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT PRIZE
Author: Wayne Quilliam Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Wayne Quilliam: Culture is Life is the new, large-format edition of this stunning photographic art book that celebrates the diversity of...
Diaghilev's Empire: How the Ballets Russes Enthralled the World
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...
Piet Mondrian: A-Z
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...
Seven Keys to Modern Art
Author: Simon Morley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 As artists push further and further beyond their, and our, comfort zones, this book aims to help decipher the bizarre and...
Portrait of an Artist: Georgia O'Keeffe
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...
Biomimetics for Designers: Applying Nature's Processes & Materials in the Real World
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...
When Marilyn Met the Queen: Marilyn Monroe's Life in England
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...
Surreal Spaces: The Life and Art of Leonora Carrington
Author: Joanna Moorhead Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 An illustrated biography of the remarkable and pioneering artist Leonora Carrington, told through the houses and locations that had meaning for...
Chair Anatomy: Design and Construction
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...
Dada: The Revolt of Art
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...
The Beloved Vision: Music in the Romantic Age
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,...
Belle and Sebastian: Illustrated Lyrics
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...
This is Tomorrow: Twentieth-century Britain and its Artists
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...
The Poetry of Spaces: A Guide to Creating Meaningful Interiors
Author: Sarah Andrews Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Beginning with the five foundational themes of: light, life, instrument, material and sense, Sarah explores the inspiration behind these lessons before...
The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures: A True Life Murder Mystery from the Birth of the Movies
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...
William Shakespeare x Rose Wylie: The Tempest
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,...
Charles III: The Making of a King
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...
The World According to Lee McQueen
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...
The New York Subway Map Debate: At Cooper Union April 20, 7:30 pm
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...
Tim Braden: Looking and Painting
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...
Natural Light: The Art of Adam Elsheimer and the Dawn of Modern Science
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...
Material Matters 03: Stone: Creative interpretations of common materials
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...
Paula Modersohn-Becker
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...
Hold Still: A Portrait of our Nation in 2020: Sunday Times Bestseller
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...
Make Believe: Erik Johansson
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...
Liam Wong: After Dark
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...
Who the Hell is Muller-Brockmann?: Conversations about the Swiss Style
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...
A German Life
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...
Daisy Chain
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...
Raphael
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,...