The Art Book: New Edition
Phaidon Editors
Phaidon, HB, 9780714864679
Winner of the Illustrated Book of the Year award in 1994, the first edition of the The Art Book has been an outstanding success and has become a well-known landmark in the art book world. Now published in over 20 different languages and in mini, midi, and hardback formats, The Art Book has received rave reviews from numerous newspapers and magazines ... More/Buy
Art Theft and the Case of the Stolen Turners
Sandy Nairne
Reaktion Books, PB, 9781780230207
The theft of high-profile works of art is not new and recurs on a fairly regular basis. In 1994 two important paintings by J.M.W Turner (then valued at £24 million) were stolen from a public gallery in Frankfurt while on loan from the Tate in London. Sandy Nairne, who was then Director of Programmes at the Tate, became centrally involved in ... More/Buy
Best In Show: 25 More Dogs to Knit
Sally Muir, Joanna Osborne
Anova, HB, 9781843406648
BEST IN SHOW was an outstanding global success. Sally Muir and Joanna Osborne are back with 25 more fabulous dog designs. You can knit your own precious pet, reproduce your favourite breed, or even knit the dog you have always desperately wanted. The dogs are surprisingly easy to make. It will only take a few evenings to create a covetable companion ... More/Buy
Carnal Knowledge
Barbara Bolt
I B Tauris, PB, 9781780762661
Carnal Knowledge is an outcome of the renewed energy and interest in moving beyond the discursive construction of reality to understand the relationship between what is conceived of as reality and materiality, described as the 'material turn' It draws together established and emerging writers, whose research spans dance, music, film, fashion, design, photography, literature, painting and stereo-immersive VR, to demonstrate how ... More/Buy
Concrete
Leonard Coren
Phaidon, HB, 9780714863542
Concrete presents a visual exploration of the aesthetics of concrete architecture through 180 structures from ancient Rome to the present day Includes innovative and inspirational projects from monuments and churches to stations and cultural spaces, by some of the best architects of the last 100 years. Each project features a carefully selected photograph accompanied by an engaging extended caption. A fresh look ... More/Buy
Creative Arts in the Lives of Young Children: Play Imagination and Learning
Robyn Ewing
Acer Press, PB, 9781742860237
This book is grounded in current research and practice about the importance of the Arts in young children's lives. Written explicitly for early childhood pre-service and in-service teachers, parents and caregivers, it includes a range of engaging and practical creative arts activities and suggested experiences for children from birth to eight years of ... More/Buy
Dickens and the Artists
Mark Bills (ed)
Yale University Press, HB, 9780300176025
A remarkably visual writer, Charles Dickens emerged from a tradition where illustrations formed a significant part of both serial & book publishing. This book explores Dickens’ artistic opinions & connections. His tastes are manifest in his novels, his magazine Household Words & his journalism. Dickens engaged with the art of the Old Masters, commenting on the latest changes at the National ... More/Buy
Eduardo Souto de Moura
Antonio Esposito, Giovanni Leoni
Phaidon, HB, 9781780750071
Revised and expanded monograph of the work of acclaimed Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto de Moura (b.1952), winner of the prestigious 2011 Pritzker Architecture Prize and one of the leading figures on the international contemporary architecture scene. Features approximately 100 projects completed over 35 years including his best-known projects such as the stadium in Braga, Portugal (2004) and the Paula Rego Museum, ... More/Buy
Girl in a Green Gown: The History and Mystery of the Arnolfini Portrait
Carola Hicks
Vintage, PB, 9780099526896
The Arnolfini portrait, painted by Jan van Eyck in 1434, is one of the world's most famous paintings. It intrigues all who see it. Scholars and the public alike have puzzled over the meaning of this haunting gem of medieval art, a subtle and beautiful double portrait of a wealthy Bruges merchant and his wife. The enigmatic couple seem to be ... More/Buy
Hockney: The Biography
Christopher Simon Sykes
Arrow, PB, 9780099543473
In this astounding first volume of his authorised biography, Christopher Sykes explores the fascinating world of the most popular living artist in the world today. David Hockney's career has spanned and epitomised the art movements of the last five decades. His story is one of precocious achievement at Bradford Art College, the Swinging 60s in London where he befriended many of ... More/Buy
Memory
Ian Farr (ed)
MIT Press, PB, 9780262517768
This anthology investigates the turn in art not only towards archives and histories, the relics of modernities past, but toward the phenomena, in themselves, of "haunting" and the activation of memory. It looks at a wide array of artistic relationships to memory association, repetition and reappearance, as well as forms of "active" forgetting. Its discussions encompass artworks from the late 1940s ... More/Buy
Milos Sobajic
Edward Lucie-Smith
I B Tauris, HB, 9780856676628
Milos Sobajic's work is a torrential outpouring of images in a wide variety of forms - paintings, sculptures, installations, and works that combine both painting and sculpture. These have gained him recognition as the leading Serbian artist of his generation.By its very nature, Sobajic's work is difficult to classify. It has links to Francis Bacon, to the classical surrealism of Salvador ... More/Buy
New Games: Postmodernism After Contemporary Art
Pamela M Lee
Routledge, PB, 9780415988803
Pamela M. Lee's New Games revisits postmodernism in light of art history's more recent embrace of "the contemporary." What can the theories and practices associated with postmodernism tell us about the obsession with the contemporary in both the academy and the art world? In looking at work by Dara Birnbaum, Oyvind Fahlstrom and Richard Serra, among others, Lee returns to Jean-Francois ... More/Buy
Oblique Drawing: A History of Anti-Perspective
Massimo Scolari
MIT Press, HB, 9780262017749
For more than half a century, Erwin Panofsky's Perspective as Symbolic Form has dominated studies of visual representation. Despite the hegemony of central projection, or perspective, other equally important methods of representation have much to tell us. Parallel projection can be found on classical Greek vases, in Pompeiian frescoes, in Byzantine mosaics; it returned in works of the historical avant-garde, and ... More/Buy
'Pataphysics: A Useless Guide
Andrew Hugill
MIT Press, HB, 9780262017794
Of all the French cultural exports over the last 150 years or so, 'pataphysics--the science of imaginary solutions and the laws governing exceptions--has proven to be one of the most durable. Originating in the wild imagination of French poet and playwright Alfred Jarry and his schoolmates, resisting clear definition, purposefully useless, and almost impossible to understand, 'pataphysics nevertheless lies around the ... More/Buy
The Sartorialist: Closer
Scott Schuman
Penguin, PB, 9780718194390
After the enormous success of The Sartorialist, Scott Schuman is back with a completely new collection of beautiful images of the men and women who have caught his attention. His much-loved blog, thesartorialist.com, remains one of the most-read in the fashion world and continues to grow in popularity as Scott travels further and more widely. This book encompasses the diverse style ... More/Buy