Art, Design & Performance

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: Mike Reiss Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Semi-Finalist for the 2019 James Thurber Award * One of Vulture's Top-10 Comedy Books of 2018 * A "Must"...

Author: Robin Petravic Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 "beautiful, richly photographic lifestyle book on interior design using tile from Heath Ceramics" "Heath Ceramics is an incredibly well-regarded, iconic housewares...

Author: Ben Eastham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 How to cut through the labyrinthine contemporary art world - from the complex and animated process starting in the mind of...

Author: Francesca Sterlacci Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Draping is the art of manipulating fabric directly on the dress form. It is the most creative way for...

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: Jenny Uglow Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 In 1922, Cyril Power, a fifty-year old architect, left his family to work with the twenty-four year old Sybil Andrews. They...

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: 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: 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: Ruth Matthews Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Own Your Zone helps you to create a multifunctional, calm space that works for you and strikes the perfect balance between...

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: Philip Hoare Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR AN OBSERVER BEST ART BOOK OF 2021 SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2022...

Author: MinaLima Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 A full-colour illustrated compendium chronicling the magical twenty-year journey of acclaimed art and design studio, MinaLima, the creative genius behind the graphics...

Author: Meryle Secrest Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The never-before-told true account of the design and development of the first desktop computer by the world's most famous high-styled typewriter...

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: 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: Olinka Vistica Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 What to do with the fragments of a love affair? A postcard from a childhood sweetheart. A wedding dress in a...

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: 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: Daniel Arsham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 300 Featuring never-before-seen drawings by the renowned contemporary artist, a beautiful facsimile edition that reveals the working process of an extraordinary creative...

Author: Tamara Schenkenberg Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 252 One of the most groundbreaking artists to emerge in American art in the 1960s, Hannah Wilke consistently challenged the prevailing narratives...

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: 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: 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: Dita Amory Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 A new account of Cezanne's complex relationship with his wife, who served as the subject of some of his most iconic...

Author: Pete McBride Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 We tend to think of silence as the absence of sound, but it is actually the void where we can hear...

Author: Edit Sasvari Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 The international significance of the art produced in Hungary in the 1960s and 1970s has come to the fore in recent...

Author: Barney Hoskyns Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'Present Tense is an anthology to savour . . . giving you as sharp a portrait of this unknowable band as...

Author: Nola Anderson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 'It is always based on what I see, what is touching me.' For more than fifty years, Klaus Moje devoted his...

Author: Joe Greer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 A spiritually uplifting and beautiful designed visual memoir by the hugely popular photographer on Instagram, Joe Greer, combining thoughtful essays and...

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: Tracey Thorn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 In her bestselling autobiography Bedsit Disco Queen, Tracey Thorn recalled the highs and lows of a thirty-year career in pop music....

Author: Simu Liu Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 The star of Marvel's first Asian superhero film, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, tells his own origin story...

Author: Erik Hornung Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 This volume accompanies an exhibition of the same name, which includes artefacts from nearly 2000 years before the Christian era. Objects...

Author: Joanna Wood Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 ***DELAYED PUBLICATION NEW JACKET*** With a reputation built over 25 years, Joanna Wood is recognised as one of Britain's leading figures...

Author: Jessica Morgan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 The World Goes Pop explores the contemporaneous engagements with a spirit of pop throughout the globe, concentrating not only...

Author: John J. Curley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 In this readable and highly original book, John J. Curley presents the first synthetic account of global art during the...

Author: Charlotte Fiell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 This is the first definitive book on contemporary Chinese furniture, introducing the work of leading designers and design studios, including Chen...

Author: Wendy Wick Reaves Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Awarded the Washington DC Book Publishers' design and effectiveness competition Honorable Mention in the category of Illustrated Text...

Author: John Bidwell (Curatorial Chair, The Morgan Library) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 264 The great painter Henri Matisse was also a great book illustrator. A pioneering member of the...

Author: Peter Watts Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 Julio Mario Santo Domingo (1957-2009) was a collector and visionary who filled his homes and warehouses with the world's greatest private...

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: 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: Jennifer Higgie Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Until the twentieth century, art history was, in the main, written by white men who tended to write about other white...