Art, Design & Performance

Author: Stefan Bollmann Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 168 From the best-selling author of Women Who Read Are Dangerous, here are portraits of vanguard women writers, past and present, from...

Author: Pete Prown Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Sure to strike a chord with guitarists and heavy metal fans, this authoritative and photo-filled volume surveys more than 80 of...

Author: Orange Hippo! Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 'Success is a state of mind... Success isn't about conquering something; it's being happy with who you are.' - Stylist Magazine,...

Author: Dave Karger Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 For almost a century, movie fans have been riveted by the Academy Awards and the stars who have won Oscars. 50...

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: 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: 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: Terry Jennings Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 In a signed copy of his autobiography, Waylon Jennings penned a personal note to his son, Terry Jennings, ending it with...

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: Oliver Soden Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 656 'This is the biography - truthful, sympathetic and thorough - that Coward deserves' DAILY TELEGRAPH The voice, the dressing-gown, the cigarette...

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: 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: Oasis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 'An entertaining first-hand account of pure rock 'n' roll madness.' The Daily Telegraph 'Hundreds of exclusive photos and brilliant one-liners make for...

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: 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: Felicity Green Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 The 'Swinging 60s' up close - 60s' style captured in a unique combination of words and pictures from award-winning journalist Felicity...

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: John Pile Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 A History of Interior Design tells the story of 6,000 years of domestic and public space. This fully updated fourth edition...

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: Natty Kasambala Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 A celebration of Lizzo's love and light. We all want a bit more Lizzo in our lives! A global superstar who...

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: Masahiro Miyake Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Almost every architect starts their career with the design of a residence. This fact alone helps to highlight the significant status...

Author: Max Brzezinski Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Today, Vinyl is shorthand for cool. Even with millions of songs available at the click of a mouse, music fans know...

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: Orange Hippo! Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Sir Elton Hercules John has enjoyed a phenomenal career filled with success, excess and achievement. His farewell tour was announced as...

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: Charlotte Jansen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 In the last century, photography was always novel. Now, it feels like our world is over-saturated with images. In the 21st...

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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,...

Author: Ian Volner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 During his campaign for the presidency, one of Donald Trump's signature promises was that he would build a "great great wall"...

Author: Jennifer Otter Bickerdike Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 With her canon of best-selling singles, electrifying stage performances and iconic music videos, Britney Spears is undoubtedly a...

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: Tim Bouverie Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 'Sharply insightful and vividly imaginative... the perfect Christmas gift for anyone asking: 'How do I get into classical music?'' - Rupert...

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: Peter Guralnick Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 784 From the author of the critically acclaimed Elvis Presley biography: Last Train to Memphis brings us the life of Sam Phillips,...

Author: Brad Weismann Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 232 Horror Unmasked offers a general introduction to the popular film genre, serves as a guidebook to its film highlights, and celebrates...

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: Matthew Rampley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 200 The surge of evolutionary and neurological analyses of art and its effects raises questions of how art, culture, and the biological...

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...