Art, Design & Performance

Author: Alastair Duncan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Six major design styles during 1880 - 1940 form the basis of the Modernist Movement which embraces a diverse range of...

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: 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 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: 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: 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: 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: 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...

Author: Brian Baumgartner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 New York Times Bestseller "The ultimate behind-the-scenes account." -Washington Post "The definitive history of the landmark TV show." -USA Today Join...

Author: Carolyn Tillie Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 0 Savour a taste of the edible alphabet, from A to Z. Throughout history, visual and performance artists of all stripes and...

Author: Benedicte Savoy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 A major new history of how African nations, starting in the 1960s, sought to reclaim the art looted by Western colonial...

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: Mark Asch Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 The indispensable, illustrated pocket guide to New York movies, from Martin Scorsese and Woody Allen to Lena Dunham and Noah Baumbach....

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,...

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: 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: Ronald G. Knapp Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 In Chinese Bridges, Ronald G. Knapp, one of the foremost experts on Chinese culture and historical geography, gives these under-regarded...

Author: Martin Scorsese Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 'As far back as I can remember, I've always wanted to be a gangster.' Henry Hill had always been a part...

Author: Alice Farnham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Writing with refreshing passion, and with her own personal story at its heart,Alice Farnham sets out to explore what it means...

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: 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: 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: Matthew Rice Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 Oxford is one of the jewels of European architecture, much loved and much visited. The city offers an unparallelled collection of...

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: Charlotte and Peter Fiell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Charlotte and Peter Fiell, 21st-century design experts and authors of such Taschen classics as Design for the 21st Century,...

Author: Ruzaimi Mat Rani Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 184 Put pen to paper and master the quality graphics and visual presentation techniques to create creative commercial and...

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: Joan Koenig Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 'Wonderful ... we need music in our lives now more than ever' HERBIE HANCOCK 'Joan Koenig is on a...

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...