Art, Design & Performance

Author: Juan Pablo Reyes Lancaster Jones Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 The Art of Disney highlights the stunning artwork from the film's creation - including character designs, storyboards, colour...

Author: Marcus Berkmann Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Marcus Berkmann was for many years the pop critic of the Spectator, waiting like most freelances to get fired. He's also...

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: Brandi Amara Skyy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 Drag is a world of larger-than-life personalities, glamorous looks, and attitude to die for. When you feel lacking in confidence,...

Author: Megan Hess Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 From globally renowned illustrator Megan Hess, this special enlarged and updated edition of the bestselling sensation Paris: Through A Fashion Eye...

Author: Graham Hancock Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 112 LEGO (R) Heroes is a collection of twelve remarkable stories about everyday heroes using the LEGO (R) system in unique ways...

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: 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: Esther Zuckerman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 From the show-stoppingly elegant (Halle Berry winning the award for Monster's Ball in a breathtaking Elie Saab) to the decidedly kooky...

Author: Jesse Dayton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Jesse Dayton's story reads like a who's who of American music. In his debut memoir Beaumonster, Dayton reveals the stranger-than-fiction encounters...

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Margo Tasca Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 300 Who would have thought that a boy born in 1889 from the Victorian Mallee would become a successful artist on New...

Author: Jim Ruland Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 Greg Ginn started SST Records in the sleepy beach town of Hermosa Beach, CA, to supply ham radio enthusiasts with tuners...

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: 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: John Woolf Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 'A promising young historian with a taste for the exotic.' Stephen FryA radical new history of the Victorian age: meet the...

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: Kate Molleson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 The twentieth century was the century of modernity; in a world undergoing rapid transformation, musicians drew upon new technologies, social revolution...

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: 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: . Ciammitti Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 Dosso Dossi has long been considered one of Renaissance Italy's most intriguing artists. A wealth of documents chronicle his life, but...

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: Madeline Stuart Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Stuart is hailed as an icon in Los Angeles for her exceptional work. Architectural Digest wrote, "In a city driven by...

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: 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: 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: Caroline Bruzelius Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Friars transformed the relationship of the church to laymen by taking religion outside to public and domestic spaces. Mendicant commitment to...

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: 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: Ronald G. Knapp Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Over a period of several years, noted Chinese cultural historian Ronald G. Knapp traveled throughout Southeast Asia, searching out homes...

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: Brian Walker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 An exciting look at the artistic evolution of the iconic style of Doonesbury on the 40th anniversary of its publication. Best...

Author: The Daily Street Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 Once a functional piece of workwear, denim has long since taken its place as a global style icon - but...

Author: Anthony Decurtis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 The essential biography of one of music's most influential icons: Lou Reed. As lead singer and songwriter for the Velvet Underground...

Author: Allan Kozinn Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 720 In this first of a groundbreaking multivolume set, THE MCCARTNEY LEGACY, VOL 1: 1969-73 captures the life of Paul McCartney in...

Author: Caroline Vout Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 The Greek and Roman body is often seen as flawless - cast from life in buff bronze and white marble, to...

Author: Steve Davis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 No-one, least of all Steve Davis and Kavus Torabi themselves, expected the six-time former World Snooker champion and a British-Iranian underground...

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: 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: Jeff Koons Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 296 The most successful of living artists, Jeff Koons has been a focus of creative fascination and significance for more than thirty...