Art, Design & Performance

Author: Dave Davies Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The all new, must-read memoir by legendary Kinks guitarist Dave Davies Dave Davies is the co-founder and lead guitarist of epoch-defining...

Author: Mandy Sayer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 ** Shortlisted, The Age Book of the Year Award 2023, Non-fiction ** The trailblazing McDonagh sisters were the first women in...

Author: Tom Doyle Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Kate Bush: the subject of murmured legend and one of the most idiosyncratic musicians of the modern era. Comprising fifty chapters...

Author: Harry Margalit Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 This book tells the story of the architects and buildings that have defined Australia's architectural culture since the founding of the...

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: Nick Trend Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 When was art's first kiss? Who painted the first ever smile and the first self-portrait? When did Western art first depict...

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: 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: Jerome Soligny Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 704 'This is a book unlike any other, the definitive analysis of David's music, told in a quiet natural way, but with...

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: 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: Clayton Schuster Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Why is there so much bad blood involved in the stories of artists and their artworks? Immerse yourself in 18 infamous...

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: Clemency Burton-Hill Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'Clemmie writes about each piece of music with such energy and passion that you can't help but immediately want to stop...

Author: Dave Rimmer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 A story of money, sex, stardom, screaming fans and forgotten ideals, Like Punk Never Happened is Dave Rimmer's witty, authoritative, fast-moving...

Author: Russell Tovey Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 *** 'An indispensable volume' Vogue 'As rabid admirers and collectors of contemporary art and photography we wholeheartedly recommend this passionate and...

Author: Margherita Cole Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 Learn to illustrate cartoon-inspired people, places, things, and more using simple geometric shapes! In Cartooning Made Easy: Circle, Triangle, Square, professional...

Author: Suzanne Preston Blier Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 In Picasso's Demoiselles, eminent art historian Suzanne Preston Blier uncovers the previously unknown history of Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon,...

Author: Jonathan Pieslak Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Radicalism and Music offers a convincing argument for music's transformational impact on the radicalization, reinforcement, and motivational techniques of violent political...

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: Reader in Classical Art Michael Squire (King's College London UK) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 The classical human body is perhaps the single most important and wide-ranging legacy...

Author: Jon Niccum Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Whether a stage riot, snowstorm, or a deranged fan, rock stars tell the tale. What is the worst show you've ever...

Author: Anna Todd Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 Fall in love all over again in volume one of the graphic novel adaptation of the global phenomenon AFTER! Uncover Tessa...

Author: Christopher Breward Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 The Suit unpicks the story of this most familiar garment, from its emergence in western Europe at the end of the...

Author: Vernon Kerr Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 40 Featuring the artwork of Vernon Kerr, Oil & Acrylic: Land and Sea includes a variety of easy-to-follow, step-by-step projects that are...

Author: Mark P Mcdonald Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Ferdinand Columbus, son of Christopher Columbus and author of the first published account of a voyage to the New World,...

Author: Rachael Taylor Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 152 In Power Up Your Creativity, author Rachael Taylor-successful artist and pattern designer and the co-founder of the Make It in Design...

Author: Charlie English Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'A riveting tale, brilliantly told' Philippe Sands The little-known story of Hitler's war on modern art and the mentally ill. In...

Author: Andrew Britton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Of all the major Hollywood stars, Katharine Hepburn was the least conventional, conforming to none of the stereotypes of female superstardom....

Author: Bruce Norris Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Clybourne Park spans two generations fifty years apart. In 1959, Russ and Bev are selling their desirable two-bedroom at a bargain...

Author: Darla-Jane Gilroy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 200 Fashion Bags and Accessories explores fashion bags and related accessories, such as purses, wallets, clutches, cases, gloves and belts, through various...

Author: Alex Fowkes Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 Learn what type can say about a brand or product. Expressive Type showcases the work of major international designers working with...

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: 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: 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: David Watkin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 736 In this highly acclaimed reference work David Watkin traces the history of western architecture from the earliest times in Mesopotamia and...

Author: Julie Rodrigues Widholm Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Mexico City has emerged as a thriving center of contemporary art. Escultura Social features recent work by a group of...

Author: Mark Cooper Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 'You never knew what you were going to be confronted with when you went on Later...' Nick Cave 'Later... is a...

Author: Robert Schnakenberg Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 The New York Times Best Seller. Part biography, part critical appreciation, part love letter-and all fun-this enormous full-color volume, packed with...

Author: Matt Pritchett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 80 The latest - superb - collection from everyone's favourite cartoonist! 'The master of the pocket cartoon. You can't be better than...

Author: Warner Bros. Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 80 Experience the valiant spirit of Rohan's warriors defending their homeland against the forces of darkness as you colour these breathtaking scenes...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERThis is a self-help book like no other. Because you are not helping yourself, James Acaster is helping you.In 2019, James quit all forms of social media...

Author: John Fairleigh Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Containing six award-winning plays by contemporary Irish writers, this is an exciting collection of the best writing to come out of...

Author: Jennifer Keishin Armstrong Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 People Best New Book The inside story of the making of Mean Girls - and our enduring 20-year obsession with...

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: David Humphrey Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 239 The art criticism of the painter David Humphrey merits an anthology. But neither Humphrey nor Periscope wanted to present his writing...

Author: Florian Zeller Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 80 Pierre finds himself at a turning point, tormented by the conflicting demandsof family, career and sexual desire. His struggle to resolve...