Art, Design & Performance

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Frances Ambler Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 112 'Creative people are curious, flexible, persistent and independent with a tremendous spirit of adventure and a love of play.' - Matisse...

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: 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: 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: Anna Ziegler (Author) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 80 'The instant I saw the photograph my mouth fell open and my pulse began to race' Does Rosalind Franklin know...

Author: Jacques Henry Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 An exploration of Mozart's strong ties to Freemasonry and how its principles profoundly shaped his musical work * Reveals how Mozart...

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Jason Derulo Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 In his page-turning and inspiring first book, legendary songwriter and recording artist Jason Derulo shares his 15 rules for finding success...

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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,...

Author: Fi Glover Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'Joyous, wise, reassuring and laugh-out-loud funny. I love these two women so much.' Elizabeth Day 'The two funniest women on planet...