Art & Photography Books

Book SynopsisRevised and redesigned for the first time since 2001, this standard introduction to visual art in the postwar era examines the movements, trends, and artists from abstract expressionism to the present day.Writing with exceptional clarity and a strong sense of narrative, Edward Lucie-Smith demystifies the work of dozens of artists and reveals how the art world has interacted with social, political, and environmental concerns. This book includes detailed coverage of major developments within the artistic community, such as pop art, conceptual and performance work, neo-expressionism, and minimalist art across the globe, including Asia, Africa, and Latin America. A new chapter on art since 2000 includes discussions of work by Banksy and Ai Weiwei, as well as recent trends in art from Russia and Eastern Europe.Movements in Art Since 1945Trade Review'Highlights how a plethora of new realities – born from the digital age and advancements in Artificial Intelligence – enliven our wider explorations of displacement, identity and the human condition' - AestheticaTable of ContentsIntroduction • 1. Abstract Expressionism • 2. The European scene • 3. Post-painterly abstraction • 4. Pop, Environments and Happenings • 5. Abstract sculpture, Minimal art, Conceptual art • 6. An age of pluralism • 7. Neo-Expressionist tendencies • 8. The USA – 1970s to 1990s • 9. Issue-based art and globalization • 10. The rise of video 11. The photographic medium • 12. Post-Pop blues • 13. The present and the future

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Book SynopsisThis introduction to the art of California focuses on the distinctive role the state played in the history of American art, from early twentieth-century photography and Chicanx mural painting to the fiber art movement and beyond. Shaped by a compelling network of geopolitical influences?including waves of migration and exchange from the Pacific Rim and Mexico, the influx of African Americans immediately after World War II, and global immigration after quotas were lifted in the 1960s?California is a center of artistic activity whose influence extends far beyond its physical boundaries. Including work by artists Yun Gee, Helen Lundeberg, Henry Taylor, Richard Diebenkorn, Albert Bierstadt, Chiura Obata, and Judith Baca, among many others, art historian Jenni Sorkin tells California?s story as a place at the forefront of radical developments in artistic culture.Art in CaliforniaTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Picturing Identity in Landscape 2. Los Tres Grandes in California: Establishing a Mural Tradition 3. Abstraction as a Framework, 1945–1965 4. Art as Power: Social Movements and Aesthetic Politics, 1968–1978 5. The “isms” Go to School: Conceptualism, Feminism, Post-Modernism 6. Spaces and Places: the Alternative Space Movement and the Marketplace 7. Disaster Fueling Culture: the 1990s and 2000s 8. Biennialism

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Book SynopsisAn updated edition of this classic survey, a thorough overview of Paul CÃzanneâs life and work. For Picasso he was âlike our fatherâ; for Matisse, âa god of paintingâ. Paul CÃzanne (1839â1906) is widely regarded as the father of modern art. In this authoritative and accessible study, Richard Verdi traces the evolution of CÃzanneâs landscape, still-life and figure compositions, from the turbulently romantic creations of his youth to the visionary masterpieces of his final years. The painterâs biography â his fluctuating reputation and strained relations with his parents, wife and close friend Emile Zola â is vividly evoked using excerpts from his own letters and from contemporary accounts of the artist. CÃzanne was torn between the desires to create art and to seek inspiration â to master the themes of the past, through his copying sessions in the Louvre, and to explore the eternal qualities of nature in the countryside of his native Provence. In this way the artist sought â

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Book SynopsisAn updated edition of a classic volume and thorough overview of William Blake's life and work.Trade Review'A unique and valuable guide' - The Times'Gracefully written and generously illustrated' - Times Literary Supplement'A thing of joy. Warmly recommended' - GuardianTable of ContentsPreface • Introduction • 1. Apprentice to Antiquity • 2. ‘The lost art of the Greeks’ 3. A New Mode of Printing • 4. ‘Lovely Lambeth’ • 5. Night Thoughts • 6. Natural Friends • 7. The Line of the Almighty • 8. Spiritual Enemies • 9. Visions of Albion 10. The Interpreter • 11. King and Priest in his own Household

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Book SynopsisAn authoritative introduction to one of the most influential painters in the history of art, written by the pre-eminent authority on the subject and informed by the latest research. More versatile and less idiosyncratic than Michelangelo, more prolific and accessible than his mentor Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, though he died at only thirty-seven, is considered the single most influential artist of the Renaissance. Here, art historian Paul Joannides explores the different social and regional contexts of Raphael's work and discusses all aspects of his artistic output. He traces Raphael's career from his origins in Urbino, through his altarpieces made in Umbria in the shadow of Perugino, to the first flowering of his genius in Florence where he painted a series of iconic Madonnas that are among the most beloved images in Western art. Raphael's employment by the dynamic and demanding Pope Julius II gave him opportunities without parallel and encouraged the full expansion of his

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Book SynopsisA revised and updated edition of a bestselling introduction on one of the leading architects of the 20th century. Le Corbusier is probably the most famous architect of the 20th century. The richness and variety of his work and his passionately expressed philosophy of architecture have had a gigantic impact on the urban fabric and the way we live. Weaving through his long and prolific life are certain recurrent themes his perennial drive towards new types of dwelling, from the early white villas to the Unité d'Habitation at Marseilles; his evolving concepts of urban form, including the Plan Voisin of 1925 with its cruciform towers imposed on the city of Paris and his work at Chandigarh in India; and his belief in a new technocratic order. The distinguished critic and architecture historian Kenneth Frampton re-examines all the facets of his artistic and philosophical world-view in light of recent thinking, and presents us with a Le Corbusier for the 21st century. This revised edition features a new introduction; some illustrations have now been replaced with colour.

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Book SynopsisExplores the connections between modern and premodern art, offering a radical reading that reveals the underlying patterns and ideas traversing centuries of artistic practice. This book reconsiders from a double perspective some key issues in the history of art, from iconoclasm and illusionism to the status of painting, and installation.Trade Review'Brilliant, original and provocative' - Linda Nochlin'Alexander Nagel reminds us, throughout the skilful weave of his argument, that there is much more medievalism in the art of the present, and much more contemporaneity in the art of the distant past, than we often realise' - Independent'A wide-ranging bravura display of intellectual erudition and exemplary curiosity' - The Spectator'A rich and important contribution to modernist studies, amply demonstrating that our age has got the medievalism it deserves' - The Art Newspaper

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Book SynopsisToday's artists have an unprecedented level of choice with regard to materials and methods available to them, yet the processes involved in making artworks are rarely addressed in books or exhibitions on art. This title sets out a history of trends in artistic production and the possible catalysts for the proliferation of production strategies.Trade Review'Full of very good surprises, unusual suspects and unexpected perspectives … illuminating and thought-provoking' - we-make-money-not-art.com'After reading this book I won’t ever look at an artwork in the same way again' - CraftsTable of ContentsIntroduction • 1. Painting • 2. Woodworking • 3. Building Out • 4. Tooling Up 5. Cashing In • 6. Digitization • 7. Fabrication • 8. Performing • 9. Outsourcing

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Book SynopsisOrganized chronologically by publication, this book showcases a carefully curated selection of the most exceptional illustrations from couture albums and magazines. It offers a unique chance for illustrators, artists, designers and fashion enthusiasts to discover the rarely seen images that defined a short but magnificent golden age.Trade Review'Stunningly beautiful' - Sewing World'This beautiful book captures the mood of a great period of fashion illustration at its stylish and wittiest best. I loved it' - The Business of FashionTable of Contents1. The Art of Dress • 2. Poiret’s New Kingdom • 3. Queen of the Rue de la Paix • 4. Marin and the Modiste • 5. Stylizing ‘La Femme’ • 6. Opulence Resurrected • 7. Art, Fashions, Frivolities • 8. The Follies of Fashion • 9. In Style • 10. The Artist of Luxury

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Book SynopsisGiorgio Vasari's Lives of the Most Famous Painters, Sculptors and Architects (1550 and 1569) is a classic of cultural history. A monumental assembly of artists' lives from Giotto to Michelangelo, it paints a vivid picture of the progress of art in the hands of individual masters. No Life is more vivid than that of Leonardo, a near-contemporary of Vasari not even Vasari's account of Michelangelo, whom he knew and idolized. This beautiful edition offers a literary translation that respects the 16th-century Italian, transposing Vasari's vocabulary into its modern equivalent. Martin Kemp is an eminent scholar, who has written on the vocabulary of Renaissance writings on art, and has co-translated Leonardo on Painting and Leonardo's Codex Leicester. Translated in partnership with Lucy Russell, the text will be the first to cover both the 1550 edition and the expanded version of 1568, and the first to integrate the texts of the two editions on the page. Discreet endnotes will provide succin

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Book SynopsisThe definitive catalogue of one of the most important collections of Byzantine decorative art in private hands, which is not open to the public.Trade Review'Authoritative, erudite … brims with surprises and visual delights' - The Burlington MagazineTable of ContentsForeword • Preface • Notes to Reader The Catalogue i Enamels, Catalogue numbers 1–11 ii Late Roman Vessels, Catalogue numbers 12–31 iii Byzantine Vessels, Catalogue numbers 32–44 iv Sasanian and Early Islamic Vessels, Catalogue numbers 45–63 v Liturgical and Paraliturgical Objects, Catalogue numbers 64–85 vi Devotional Objects, Catalogue numbers 86–95 vii Furnishings and Architectonic Sculptures, Catalogue numbers 96–118 viii Varia, Catalogue numbers 119–127 ix Later Objects, Catalogue numbers 128–130 Between Byzantium and Persia: The Wyvern Peacock Plate Marco Aimone Byzantine Inlaid Enamels Jack Ogden The Silver Vessels: Analyses and Technical Reports Peter Northover Silver Objects with Stamps Erica Cruikshank Dodd with Marco Aimone Concordance, Epigraphic Conventions, Units of Weight, Notes, Bibliography, Profiles Map of the Mediterranean Area, the Middle East and Central Asia

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Book SynopsisExactly 500 years after its first publication by the great Venetian printing house Aldus Manutius, Francesco Colonna's weird, erotic, allegorical antiquarian tale, Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, was translated into English and reprinted in full, together with all of its 174 original - and enchanting - woodcut illustrations.Trade Review"'Joscelyn Godwin, whose translation is a masterpiece of clarity and scholarship, has achieved something truly remarkable with this beautiful edition. It is unquestionably one of the publishing events not just of the year but of the century' - Andrew Graham-Dixon, The Daily Telegraph; 'A mammoth task of inestimable value, carried out with learning, elegance and wit' - International Herald Tribune; 'An extraordinary and exceptional book' - The Architects' Journal; 'Adds a fresh dimension to our understanding of the Renaissance' - The Times; 'Joscelyn Godwin has proven that a desiccated rose can not only live again, but may also, with the help of fantasy, grow vivid as never before' - The New York Review of Books; 'Should undoubtedly find a place in every serious English-speaking academic library' - The Art Book"

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Book SynopsisProvides technical tips, practical exercises, contemporary images and step-by-step guidance for all aspiring photographers. This title introduces the technical and creative aspects of commercial as well as fine art photography.Trade Review'Incredibly readable and pleasingly visual … a great buy for anyone just starting off in photography' - Amateur PhotographyTable of Contents1. Getting the Most from Your Digital Camera; 2. Using Manual Camera Settings; 3. Working with Film and Darkrooms; 4. The Basics of Digital Capture; 5. Reviewing and Downloading Digital Images; 6. The Pixel Story; 7. Digital Output; 8. Still Life in the Studio and on Location; 9. Landscape and Cityscape Photography; 10. Portrait, Fashion and Beauty Photography; 11. Photojournalism, Reportage and Documentary Photography; 12. Altered Images

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Book SynopsisPacked with works that show how the continents rich array of craft traditions are being preserved and revived with an exciting contemporary twist, this book identifies the sophistication, vitality, diversity and soulfulness of the past that is now being harnessed to develop a contemporary African identity.Trade Review'African design is garnering ever-greater attention in the West and now new book 'Contemporary Design Africa' … celebrates the best' - Elle Decoration'Offering an inspirational challenge to rigid perceptions of what design from Africa looks like' - New DesignTable of ContentsIntroduction; Design Africa; Africa’s Creative Skills; Design Showcase: Basketry, Ceramics, Furniture, Lighting and Decor, Textiles; Glossary, Map, Further Reading, Notes, Picture Credits, Index

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Book SynopsisModern Art takes the reader through individual movements from Impressionism to Conceptual Art, situating these within five broader chronological themes. Starting with Impressionism in 1860, Dempsey proceeds through the essentials of Modernism, the post-war New Disorder and beyond. The material is arranged with great care to lead the reader through over seventy essential topics of modern art in a practical and easy-to-navigate structure. Each boldly designed feature includes a clear definition of the theme, a list of key artists, features, media and collections, and expertly curated illustrations with explanatory captions. A reference section includes a useful glossary of modern art terms, an easy-to-navigate timeline and suggestions for further reading.Trade Review'The ideal companion for anyone wishing to understand the key developments in western art over the last century and a half' - Caroline Douglas, Contemporary Art SocietyTable of ContentsIntroduction • 1. Rise of the Avant-Gardes 1860–1900 • 2. Modernisms for a Modern World 1900–18 • 3. Search for a New Order 1918–45 • 4. A New Disorder 1945–65 • 5. Beyond the Avant-Gardes 1965–today

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Book SynopsisContemporary African art has grown out of the diverse histories and cultural heritage of the African continent and its diaspora. It is not characterized by one particular style, technique, or theme, but by a bricolage-like attitude toward art making, incorporating and building upon the structures from which older, pre- colonial and colonial genres were made.Contemporary African ArtContemporary African ArtTrade Review'‘An engaging, cogent, and thought-provoking book’' - African ArtsTable of Contents1. New Genres: Inventing African Popular Culture • 2. From Africans Photographed to African Photographers • 3. Transforming the Workshop • 4. Patrons and Mediators 5. Art and Commodity • 6. The African Artist: Shifting Identities in the Postcolonial World • 7. The Idea of a National Culture: Decolonizing African Art • 8. Migration and Displacement • 9. The Global Contemporary Art World and Africa

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Book SynopsisSmall, smart, essential an easy-to-read, straightforward and entertaining introduction to art history via fifty pivotal moments from antiquity to the 21st century.Trade Review'A wonderful addition to the excellent Art Essentials series' - Choice

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Book SynopsisA celebration of the craftsmanship and elegance behind the timeless French brands whose rich heritage is the cornerstone of men's style.Trade Review'Sheds light on the histories of famous bespoke houses and little-known studios alike' - The RakeTable of ContentsPreface • Introduction • 1. The Parisian Bespoke Tailoring: Cifonelli; Camps de Luca; Francesco Smalto; Berluti Atelier Arnys • 2. Of Men and Shoes: Men and Shoes, a contemporary love story: John Lobb; Berluti; Corthay; Aubercy; J.M. Weston; Dimitri Gomez • 3. Chemisiers in Paris: Charvet • 4. The Art of Travelling: Louis Vuitton special orders; Moynat Paris • 5. Parisian Haute Parfumerie: Guerlain; Caron • 6. Gentlemen’s Requisites: Cartier; St Dupont • 7. One of a Kind Houses: Maison Bonnet, the only bespoke eyewear maker in the world; Marc Guyot, the spirit of Apparel Arts in Paris; Simonnot Godard (estd 1787), the most beautiful handkerchieves in the world; Mellerio (estd 1613), the most ancient jeweler in the world.

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Book SynopsisWe find ourselves square in the middle of one of the greatest periods in music packaging. Events such as Record Store Day have pushed collectible packaging back to the cultural forefront; millennials have started buying physical records; and hip clothing outlets devote massive amounts of space to record players and racks of LPs. The designers collected here are at the forefront of this movement. Some have been working in the music industry for decades, while others are fresh on the scene. They all share a desire to elevate the simple record cover and the wrapping that surrounds these products into something more, something special, something unique, something memorable. Lifelong music fans, they pour every ounce of creative energy into coming up with solutions worthy of the music inside. They also need to be inventive in how they accomplish this. Coming up with a great concept in a sketch during a meeting and actually seeing it to fruition and sitting on a shelf in a record store are two different things. As Paula Scher details in her interview, today's designers are faced with a very different task than the record sleeve designers of the past. Outside of the mega stars, budgets are more or less non-existent, yet the pressure to deliver something jaw-dropping and mind-blowing remains. Packed with innovative artworks by one-of-a-kind designers, this is the definitive guide to album cover design in the 21st century.Trade Review'A must for audiophiles and design fans alike' - StuffTable of ContentsIntroduction • Braulio Amadao, Portugal/USA • Bad People Good Things, USA • Jonathan Barnbrook, UK • Robert Beatty, USA • Chris Bigg, UK • Interview with Stefan Sagmeister • Featured: Dean Blackwood & Susan Archie • Daniel Castrejon, Mexico • Michael Cina, USA • Jacob Escobedo, USA • Jad Fair, USA • Feld, Germany • Interview with Art Chantry • Featured: Eric Carlson • Oliver Hibert, USA • Jacob Gronbech Jensen, Denmark • Mario Hugo, USA • Hvass & Hannibal, Denmark • Invisible Creature, USA • Morning Breath, USA • Interview: Paula Scher • Featured: Ben Newman • Non-Format, Norway/USA • Darren Orloff, Australia • Leif Podhajsky, Australia/Germany • Brian Roettinger, USA • Sam Ryser, USA • Interview: Spencer Drate & Judith Salavetz • Featured : Henry Owings • SchultzSchultz, USA • Sonnenzimmer, USA • Sub Pop Design Department, USA • Featured: Stijn Anseel • Featured: Agi Morawska • Featured: Heike-Karin Foll

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Book SynopsisStreet Art is a phenomenon and subcultural movement that reaches from the darkest urban backstreets to the most glamorous international art fairs. Simon Armstrong examines how it evolved from its origins in the 1970s New York graffiti scene to embrace many new materials, styles and techniques along the way, tracing how this marginal art form graduated into art galleries and the art market, while also heavily influencing design, fashion, advertising and visual culture. Despite having earned a place in the canon of 20th-century art history, Street Art's qualifications are often disputed both by the art establishment and practitioners themselves, all concerned with notions of authenticity. Examining Street Art's controversial history in detail, this book provides a full-colour worldwide journey, taking in all of the movement's significant artists and artworks, styles, materials and methods, and showcasing the works that have come to define it more than any other. It also examines its close relationship to Pop Art and Digital Art, and explores possible futures for Street Art.

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Book SynopsisThe first in the new series Pocket Photo Books – attractive, immersive, compact photo guides – in which Harry Cory Wright explores one of the most beautiful libraries in the world.Trade Review'A beautifully illustrated pocket-sized tribute … a bibliophile’s dream' - The LadyTable of ContentsIntroduction • The Photos • The Library, Trinity College Dublin: A Brief History

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Book SynopsisFascinating essays Nochlin is a woman of learning and accomplishment' Andrea DworkinTrade Review'Fascinating … Nochlin is a woman of learning and accomplishment' - Andrea Dworkin'A joy to read … blunt, funny, mischievous, learned, anything but dull and dogmatic' - London Review of Books'Outstanding … rich and methodologically sophisticated' - Art in America'Invaluable' - Art Journal'If you care about the representation of women, you need to read this … Nochlin’s direct, provocative and personal tone is a radical rewriting of women in art history' - ElephantTable of ContentsIntroduction: Memoirs of an Ad Hoc Art Historian • 1. The Myth of the Woman Warrior • 2. Géricault: The Absence of Women • 3. The Image of the Working Woman • 4. Courbet’s Real Allegory: Rereading The Painter’s Studio • 5. A House Is Not a Home: Degas and the Subversion of the Family • 6. Mary Cassatt’s Modernity • 7. Body Politics: Seurat’s Poseuses

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Book SynopsisAn extraordinary monograph by one of the most revered and original image-makers at work today, now expanded and updated to include previously unpublished work.Trade Review'Provocative, graphic, and unlike anything else you’re likely to have seen' - British Journal of Photography'Ballen is a true original who not only defies genres, but defines his own artistic space' - Hungry Eye'A culmination of Ballen’s previous works and a step further forward (or downward, if we use his analogy) in his exploration of the deepest, most confusing parts of his existence' - Daily Telegraph'A truly unique artistic vision. Highly recommended' - Lens CultureTable of ContentsIntroduction by Roger Ballen; Plates; List of Works; Biography

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Book SynopsisDescribed by an admirer as the High Druidess of fashion, the Supreme Pontiff, Perpetual Curate and Archpresbyter of elegance, the Vicaress of Style', Diana Vreeland is the cloth from which 21st-century fashion editors are cut. Diana joined Harper's Bazaar in 1936, where her pizzazz and singular point of view quickly made her a major creative force in fashion. During her time at Harper's Bazaar and later as the editor-in-chief of Vogue, the self-styled Empress of fashion' launched Twiggy's career, advised Jackie Kennedy, and enjoyed the full swing of sixties' London. In Diana's Vogue, women were encouraged to resist fashion orders from on high, and to use their own imaginations in re-creating themselves much as Vreeland spent her own life doing. In this book, Amanda Mackenzie Stuart portrays a visionary: a fearless innovator who inspired designers, models, photographers and artists. Diana Vreeland reinvented the way we think about style and where we go to find it. As an editor, curator and wit, she made a lasting mark and remains an icon for generations of fashion lovers.Trade Review'A stylish, funny, fond and vivid book' - Sunday Times'The research for this book has been exhaustive, but Mackenzie Stuart wears it lightly … she writes movingly about Vreeland's marriage without any intrusive psychoanalysis, and her warmth, enthusiasm and particular genius come through in entertaining anecdotes and marvellous quotes' - Spectator'Paints an enthralling picture of a mesmerising character who left an indelible print on 20th-century fashion' - Hello!

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Book SynopsisA new way of appreciating art that puts the artwork front and centre, brought to us by one of the freshest and most exciting voices in cultural criticism. What makes great art great? Why do some works pulse in the imagination, generation after generation, century after century? From Botticelli's Birth of Venus to Picasso's Guernica, some paintings and sculptures have become so famous, so much a part of who we are, that we no longer really look at them. We take their greatness for granted; our eyes have become near-obsolete. We need a new way of seeing. Unsatisfied with traditional interpretations of masterpieces, which are so often interested only in learning about art, and not from it, Kelly Grovier combed the surface of revered works from the Terracotta Army to Frida Kahlo's self-portraits, in a quest to find the key to their lasting power to move and delight us. He discovered that every truly great work is hardwired with an underappreciated detail that ignites it from deTrade Review'Finally, a book that asks, with a restless and sensitive eye, what it is that makes masterpieces sing across the centuries. A highly enjoyable history of art that is also a fascinating meditation on excellence' - Jonathan Jones, art critic'Grovier makes the case for the endless depths of interpretative potential in any great work of art. There is, indeed, always more to see' - Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsIntroduction: A Touch of Strangeness Ashurbanipal Hunting Lions (c. 645–635 BC) Parthenon Sculptures (c. 444 BC) Terracotta Army of the First Qin Emperor (c. 210 BC) Villa of the Mysteries murals (c. 60–50 BC) Laocoön and his Sons (c. 27 BC–AD 68) Trajan’s Column (AD 113), Apollodorus of Damascus The Book of Kells (c. AD 800) Travellers among Mountains and Streams (c. 1000), Fan K’uan Bayeux Tapestry (c. 1077 or after) The Universal Man (c. 1165), Hildegard of Bingen The Expulsion from the Garden of Eden (c. 1427), Masaccio Ghent Altarpiece (1430–32), Jan van Eyck The Descent from the Cross (1430–32), Rogier van der Weyden The Annunciation (c. 1438–47), Fra Angelico The Lamentation over the Dead Christ (c. 1480), Andrea Mantegna The Birth of Venus (c. 1482–85), Sandro Botticelli Mona Lisa (c. 1503–6), Leonardo da Vinci The Garden of Earthly Delights (1505–10), Hieronymus Bosch Sistine Chapel ceiling frescoes (1508–12), Michelangelo The School of Athens (1510–11), Raphael Isenheim Altarpiece (1512–16), Matthias Grünewald Bacchus and Ariadne (1520–23), Titian Self-Portrait (1548), Catharina van Hemessen Crucifixion (1565–87), Tintoretto The Supper at Emmaus (1601), Caravaggio The Ecstasy of St Teresa (1647–52), Gian Lorenzo Bernini Las Meninas (1656), Diego Velázquez Girl with a Pearl Earring (c. 1665), Johannes Vermeer Self-Portrait with Two Circles (c. 1665–69), Rembrandt van Rijn An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump (1768), Joseph Wright of Derby The Nightmare (1781), Henry Fuseli The Third of May 1808 (1814), Francisco Goya The Hay Wain (1821), John Constable Rain, Steam, and Speed - The Great Western Railway (1844), J. M. W. Turner Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1 (Portrait of the Artist’s Mother) (1871), James Abbott McNeill Whistler The Thinker (1880–1904), Auguste Rodin A Bar at the Folies-Bergère (1882), Édouard Manet Bathers at Asnières (1884), Georges Seurat The Scream (1893), Edvard Munch The Large Bathers (1900–6), Paul Cézanne Group IV, No. 7, Adulthood (1907), Hilma af Klint The Kiss (1907), Gustav Klimt Dance (1909–10), Henri Matisse Water Lilies (1914–26), Claude Monet Fountain (1917), Marcel Duchamp American Gothic (1930), Grant Wood The Persistence of Memory (1931), Salvador Dalí Guernica (1937), Pablo Picasso L’Égypte de Mlle Cléo de Mérode: cours élémentaire d’histoire naturelle (1940), Joseph Cornell Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird (1940), Frida Kahlo One: Number 31 (1950), Jackson Pollock Study after Velázquez’s Portrait of Pope Innocent X (1953), Francis Bacon Brillo Boxes (1964), Andy Warhol Backs and Fronts (1981), Sean Scully Betty (1988), Gerhard Richter Maman (1999), Louise Bourgeois The Artist is Present (2010), Marina Abramovic Sources and Further Reading Acknowledgments Picture Credits Index

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Book SynopsisAn affordable, accessible introduction to artworks in the global landscape, including land art, site-specific art and sculpture parks.Trade Review'A perfect gazetteer for adventurous lovers of contemporary art' - Martin Gayford'All the artworks in this book are worth making the journey for … a welcome addition to any armchair explorer’s bookshelf' - Studio International'An immersive journey through landscapes across the world ... it is hard to imagine the appeal of Destination Art diminishing any time soon. The projects showcased in this book offer us the chance of immersive, multi-sensory encounters with place, of a kind that will have an increasingly rare and precious appeal' - AestheticaTable of ContentsIntroduction • 1. Personal Visions & the Rise of Land Art • 2. Monumental Art & the Environment • 3. Destination Art Comes of Age • 4. Destination Art Around the World

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Book SynopsisStephanie Straine is Senior Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the National Galleries of Scotland in Edinburgh. She was previously Curator of Exhibitions and Projects at Modern Art Oxford and has worked at Tate Liverpool and The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh. She publishes widely on modern and contemporary art, with a focus on artists working with drawing.Table of ContentsIntroduction • Multiple Beginnings • Constructing an Abstract Vocabulary • Abstract Expressionism and its Legacies • Global Geometries • Minimal, Conceptual and Process Art • Abstraction in the Digital Age

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Book SynopsisThe ultimate aerial tour of creative drone photography, brimming with remarkable images from around the globe and selected from the world's leading drone photography website.Trade Review'The best drone photography you'll see all year' - Daily Telegraph'Gorgeous' - BBC Focus'A refreshing photobook … Never thought you’d be impressed at the sight of Christ The Redeemer’s scalp or a Korean car park, did you? But you will be. Oh boy, you will be' - ShortlistTable of ContentsIntroduction: Look Up • 1. Drones Are Us • Profile: Ludovic Moulou • 2. Close • 3. Urban 4. Fauna • Profile: 2DroneGals • 5. Probe • Profile: Alexandre Salem • 6. Space • Profile: Romeo Durscher • 7. Pattern / Shadow • Profile: Karolis Janulis • 8. Move • Profile: Maxim Tarasov • 9. I Do • User Guide, Biographies, Index of Photographers/Websites, Index of Locations

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Book SynopsisThe Lives of the SurrealistsUnlike the impressionists or the cubists, the surrealists did not obey a fixed visual code, but rather the rules of surrealist philosophy: work from the unconscious, letting your darkest, most irrational thoughts well up and shape your art. An artist himself, and contemporary of the later surrealists, Morris illuminates the considerable variation in each artist?s approach to this technique. While some were out-and-out surrealists in all they did, others lived more orthodox lives and only became surrealists at the easel or in the studio.Focusing on the thirty-two artists most closely associated with the surrealist movement, Morris lends context to their life histories with narratives of their idiosyncrasies and their often complex love lives, alongside photos of the artists and their work.Trade Review'A delight ... Morris writes with a pleasingly conversational tone and a dry humour and affection that undercuts the more preposterous behaviour described here … Juicy little nuggets litter the book' - The Times'Gossipy, waspish, biased, score-settling and very entertaining' - Literary Review'Uproariously funny … [Morris’s] anecdotes are all told with a dry but good-natured humour … these figures make for highly entertaining company' - The Spectator'An exceptionally lively, crisply written, independent-minded survey of one of the most bizarre groups of misfits who ever lived' - Mail on Sunday'A carnival of wackiness' - Big Issue'A compelling compendium of all the major players … page-turning … The book strikes the right balance between recognizing the artistic achievements of the milieu, as well as their colourful personal lives' - ArtnetTable of ContentsForeword Introduction Eileen Agar Jean (Hans) Arp Francis Bacon Hans Bellmer Victor Brauner André Breton Alexander Calder Leonora Carrington Giorgio de Chirico Salvador Dalí Paul Delvaux Marcel Duchamp Max Ernst Leonor Fini Wilhelm Freddie Alberto Giacometti Arshile Gorky Wifredo Lam Conroy Maddox René Magritte André Masson Roberto Matta Edouard Mesens Joan Miró Meret Oppenheim Wolfgang Paalen Roland Penrose Pablo Picasso Man Ray Yves Tanguy Dorothea Tanning Major Surrealist Group Exhibitions

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Book SynopsisA celebration of a graphic design genius, published to mark what would have been his 80th birthday. The Wild World of Barney Bubbles celebrates the graphic design genius whose work linked the underground optimism of the 60s to the sardonic and manipulative art that accompanied the explosion of punk. Barney Bubbles remains a powerful influence on contemporary artists four decades after his death, having encompassed designs for Sir Terence Conran and underground magazines Oz and Friends as well as remarkable record sleeves and posters for Billy Bragg, Elvis Costello, Depeche Mode, Ian Dury, Hawkwind, The Damned and Nick Lowe. He also collaborated with artists and photographers, including Derek Boshier and Brian Griffin, and produced paintings, furniture, set designs and promo videos, not least the era-defining clip for The Specials' 80's hit, Ghost Town'. This revised edition of Paul Gorman's definitive Barney Bubbles monograph contains hundreds of rare and previously unpublished photographs, working sketches, notebooks and original artwork. It includes a new essay by American designer Clarita Hinojosa and sixteen extra pages of rare ephemera painstakingly collected by the author over the years.Trade Review'Fascinating, definitive' - Sunday Times'Sumptuous, stylish, informed' - Mojo'A chance to appreciate this remarkable legacy' - Creative Review'Joyous, playful and rich in meaning' - International Herald Tribune'A rare insight into the legendary offering of the designer … viewers can marvel at the far-reaching practice of Bubbles while gaining insight into his life and career' - Creative Boom'All but bursts apart with delight … [Gorman’s] knowledge of the English music, fashion and art scene of the second half of the 20th century is authoritative' - Pop Matters

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Book SynopsisA unique portrait of one of the creative geniuses of the 20th century, by the distinguished critic David Sylvester. Controversial in both life and art, Francis Bacon was one of the most important painters of the 20th century. His monumental, unsettling images have an extraordinary power to disturb, shock and haunt the spectator, to unlock the valves of feeling and therefore return the onlooker to life more violently'. Drawing on his personal knowledge of Bacon's inspirations, intentions and working methods, David Sylvester surveys the development of the work from 1933 to the early 1990s, and discusses critically a number of its crucial aspects. He also reproduces previously unpublished extracts from his celebrated conversations with Bacon in which the artist speaks about himself, modern painters and the art of the past. Finally, Sylvester gives a brief account of Bacon's life, correcting certain errors that elsewhere have been presented as facts. Divided into the sectTrade Review'Highly enjoyable, and sealed with insider authority … a primary document of Baconology … Sylvester brings out what was lovable in his great friend' - Julian Bell, London Review of Books'A measured look at the legacy of a great artist … Sylvester is Bacon's representative on this earth, a Boswell to his talk, a cicerone to his paintings' - Richard Shone, Guardian'Reading David Sylvester on art is like being provided for a while with the ideal companion in one's gallery of choice' - The Art Newspaper'An extended rumination on Bacon which throws a great deal of light, not only on what made the painter so good, but also on what makes Sylvester so good … as it is, it seems most unlikely that any text will ever get closer than this to the truth about Francis Bacon, as man and artist' - Martin Gayford, The Spectator'A triumphant distillation of Sylvester’s views on a painter he so rightly prized … Sylvester’s ability to make illuminating comparisons is superb, and he never forgets that Bacon was also nourished by photography, film and poetry. Above all, though, Sylvester focuses on the paintings themselves. No writer on art scrutinizes the work itself more closely, intently and thoughtfully. He never loses sight of his own, deeply felt response, and conveys it in words that recreate the intensity of looking at Bacon’s fierce, profoundly troubled paintings' - Richard Cork, The Times'[Contains] long stretches of gossipy intellectual sustenance' - RA Magazine'Every page offers something valuable. The reproductions are the best there are … anyone interested in Bacon will want this book' - Tom Lubbock, Evening Standard'A very interesting volume, full of useful and illuminating reflections and personal reminiscences' - William Packer, Literary Review'The best of the critic’s studies of the artist … It’s personal, retrospective and gloomy, combining art criticism with biography' - Tim Hilton, Independent on Sunday'Mr Sylvester’s book is an open invitation to look and look again … There is in Mr Sylvester’s writing this complete simplicity that succeeds in placing an idea, not so much in the mind, as in the heart, and thereby frees the reader to have his or her own experience of Bacon … Of most books on Francis Bacon, Mr Sylvester’s book stands head and shoulders above the rest' - Beate Perrey, The Art Newspaper

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Book SynopsisA lavishly illustrated look at the sources behind the paintings of Francis Bacon. Francis Bacon famously found inspiration in photographs, film-stills and mass-media imagery. In this new, updated edition of In Camera, Martin Harrison reveals how these sources informed some of Bacon's most important paintings and triggered decisive turning points in the artist's stylistic development. Key influences, including the masters Velázquez, Poussin and Rodin, the photographer Eadweard Muybridge and the film director Sergei Eisenstein, are given close consideration. Bacon's work is examined in relation to the precedents set by other artists working in the tradition of making use of mechanical reproductions, including Pablo Picasso and Walter Sickert, and in the context of his contemporaries Lucian Freud, Mark Rothko, Graham Sutherland and Patrick Heron. With the aid of over 270 illustrations, including valuable source images and documents, In Camera is a bravura accomplishment ofTrade Review'An indispensable work of reference for anyone wishing to follow the protracted dialogue that Bacon conducted with photography – and through photography with the art of the past,his own work and real life' - Art Newspaper'Scrupulous and well-balanced…crammed with information and illuminating speculation' - Literary Review'Bacon's working documents [are] painstakingly retrieved and analysed by Martin Harrison… an opulent, paradoxically beautiful book' - Observer'A revelation' - Daily TelegraphTable of ContentsIntroduction • After Picasso • Michelangelo and Muybridge • Raw Material • In Camera • Skin/Flicks

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Book SynopsisThe story of the nude in art in our times, told by a popular art historian with a rare gift for sharing her passions and ideas. The representation of the nude in art remained for many centuries a victory of fiction over fact. Beautiful, handsome, flawless - its great success was to distance the unclothed body from any uncomfortably explicit taint of sexuality, eroticism or imperfection. In this newly updated study, Frances Borzello contrasts the civilized, sanitized, perfected nude of Kenneth Clark's classic, The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form (1956), with today's depictions: raw, uncomfortable, both disturbing and intriguing. Grittier and more subtle, depicting variously gendered bodies, the new nude asks awkward questions and behaves provocatively. It is a very naked nude, created to deal with the issues and contradictions that surround the body in our time. Borzello explores the role of the nude in twentieth- and twenty-first-century art, looking at the work of a wide range oTrade Review'A thoughtful, highly intelligent book, tracking the newly frank, newly naked nude' - RA Magazine'Titillating, embarrassing and sometimes outright disgusting: here we find art holding a mirror up to our troublesome human nature' - Observer'A fascinating, often humorous overview of our obsession with the naked body' - Daily TelegraphTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Recycled Nude 1. The Nude: Its Life, Death and Resurrection 2. Body Art: The Journey into Nakedness 3. The Changing Room: Female Perspectives 4. Forgive me, I’m a Painter 5. The Naked Portrait 6. After Rodin, Is There Anything Left To Say? 7. Going to Extremes

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Book SynopsisThe compelling story of over 5,000 years of Scottish art, told by Lachlan Goudie, renowned contemporary Scottish artist, broadcaster and presenter of BBC Four's 'The Story of Scottish Art'. This is the story of how Scotland has defined itself through its art over the past 5000 years, from the earliest enigmatic Neolithic symbols etched onto the landscape of Kilmartin Glen to Glasgowâs fame as a centre of artistic innovation today. Lachlan Goudie brings his perspective and passion as a practising artist and broadcaster to narrate the joys and struggles of artists across the millennia striving to fulfil their vision and the dramatic transformations of Scottish society reflected in their art. The Story of Scottish Art is beautifully illustrated with the diverse artworks that form Scotlandâs long tradition of bold creativity: Pictish carved stones and Celtic metalwork; Renaissance palaces and chapels; paintings of Scottish life and landscapes by Horatio McCulloch, David Wilkie Trade Review'An exhilarating, big-picture, and often surprising account of Scottish art' - Andrew Marr'Even more of a joy than the glorious Scottish art it celebrates … A feast for the mind’s eye' - Simon Schama'Moving and personal … the definitive guide to Scottish art' - Bendor Grosvenor'Not only does this book prove that few people know more about Scottish art than Lachlan Goudie, but that no one else cares more. A masterful panorama of art history, and an utterly compelling account of how a nation has seen, and continues to see, itself' - Sathnam Sanghera

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Book SynopsisA wide-ranging and engaging introduction to the place and power of colour in life and art by John Gage, author of the award-winning Colour and Culture. The complex phenomenon of colour has received detailed attention from the perspectives of physics, chemistry, physiology, psychology, linguistics and philosophy. However, the people who work most closely with colour â artists â have rarely been canvassed for their opinions on this mysterious subject. John Gage sets out to address this omission by focusing on the thoughts and practices of artists. Colour in Art is concerned with the history of colour, but is not itself a history; instead each chapter develops a theme from a different scientific discipline, as seen from the viewpoint of such diverse artists such as Wassily Kandinsky, Vincent van Gogh, Sonia Delaunay, Bridget Riley and Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri. Drawing on examples through the ages, from ancient times to the present, the many topics covered include flags, synaesTrade Review'A brilliant account ... The text is staggeringly erudite but accessible, and the illustrations are as varied as they are informative' - Sunday TimesTable of ContentsForeword Introduction 1. Light from Colour – Colour from Light 2. A Psychology of Colour? 3. The Shape of Colour 4. The Health of Colours 5. Languages of Colour 6. Can Colours Signify? 7. The Union of the Senses 8. Colour Trouble Glossary Bibliography Illustration list Index

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Book SynopsisOur fast-changing world seen through the lenses of 140 leading contemporary photographers around the globe. With close to 500 images, many previously unpublished, this landmark publication takes stock of the material and spiritual cultures that make up civilization'. Ranging from the ordinary to the extraordinary, from our great collective achievements to our ruinous collective failings, Civilization: The Way We Live Now explores the complexity of contemporary civilization through the rich, nuanced language of photography. Featuring images by some 140 photographers from Reiner Riedler's families at leisure parks, Raimond Wouda's high schools, Wang Qingsong's Work, Work, Work and Cindy Sherman's Society Portraits, to Lauren Greenfield's displays of ostentatious wealth, Edward Burtynsky's oil fields, Pablo Lopez Luz's views on a sprawling contemporary megalopolis, Thomas Struth's images of high technology, Xing Danwen's electronic wastelands and Taryn Simon's Contraband, CivilizTrade Review'Through the work of top photographers, split into themed chapters (hive, flow, control), the editors have created a fascinating, amusing, disturbing picture of the world we have created' - A Photography Book of the Year, The Times'Part a Who’s Who handbook for the photographically astute, part documentary of everything ... The 352 pages zing with 500 photographs, many previously unpublished, from 140 leading photographers. A global family photo album, a memory book of personal stories that patchwork to form a rounded impression of humanity ' - Wallpaper*'The most ambitious stock-taking of our world since Edward Steichen's 'Family of Man' in the 1950s' - World of Interiors'An admirable and ambitious undertaking ... a compelling collection of photographs ' - Geographical MagazineTable of ContentsIncludes work by: Max Aguilera-Hellweg • Andreia Alves de Oliveira • Evan Baden • Murray Ballard • Olivo Barbieri • Mandy Barker • Olaf Otto Becker • Valérie Belin • Daniel Berehulak • Peter Bialobrzeski • Florian Böhm • Michele Borzoni • Priscilla Briggs • Alexa Brunet • Markus Brunetti • Paul Bulteel • Edward Burtynsky • Alejandro Cartagena • Philippe Chancel • Che Onejoon • Olivier Christinat • Lynne Cohen • Lois Conner • Jojakim Cortis & Adrian Sonderegger • Raphaël Dallaporta • Gerco de Ruijter • Richard de Tscharner • Sergey Dolzhenko • Natan Dvir • Roger Eberhard • Mitch Epstein • Andrew Esiebo • Adam Ferguson • Vincent Fournier • Andy Freeberg • Lee Friedlander • Matthieu Gafsou • Gabriele Galimberti & Paolo Woods • Andreas Gefeller • George Georgiou • Christoph Gielen • Ashley Gilbertson • Katy Grannan • Samuel Gratacap • Lauren Greenfield • Han Sungpil • Nick Hannes • Sean Hemmerle • Mishka Henner • South Ho Siu Nam • Candida Höfer • Dan Holdsworth • Hong Hao • Pieter Hugo • Jo Choonman • Chris Jordan • Yeondoo Jung • Nadav Kander • KDK • Mike Kelley • Kim Taedong • Alfred Ko • Irene Kung • Rosemary Laing • Benny Lam • An-My Lê • Gjorgji Lichovski • Michael Light • Mauricio Lima • Pablo López Luz • Christian Lünig • Vera Lutter • Alex MacLean • David Maisel • Ann Mandelbaum • Edgar Martins • Jeffrey Milstein • Mintio • Richard Misrach • Andrew Moore • David Moore • Richard Mosse • Michael Najjar • Walter Niedermayr • Jason Sangik Noh • Noh Suntag • Simon Norfolk • Hiroshi Okamoto • Trevor Paglen • Neil Pardington • Trent Parke • Cara Phillips • Robert Polidori • Sergey Ponomarev • Cyril Porchet • Mark Power • Giles Price • Reiner Riedler • Simon Roberts • Andrew Rowat • Victoria Sambunaris • Sato Shintaro • Dona Schwartz • Paul Shambroom • Sheng-Wen Lo • Cindy Sherman • Toshio Shibata • Taryn Simon • Alec Soth • Henrik Spohler • Will Steacy • Thomas Struth • Larry Sultan • Shigeru Takato • Eric Thayer • Danila Tkachenko • Eason Tsang Ka Wai • Andreas Tschersich • Amalia Ulman • Brian Ulrich • Penelope Umbrico • Carlo Valsecchi • Reginald Van de Velde • Cássio Vasconcellos • Massimo Vitali • Robert Walker • Dougie Wallace • Richard Wallbank • Wang Qingsong • Patrick Weidmann • Thomas Weinberger • Damon Winter • Michael Wolf • Raimond Wouda • Xing Danwen • Anne Zahalka • Ahmad Zamroni • Luca Zanier • Zhang Xiao • Robert Zhao Renhui • Francesco Zizola

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Book SynopsisClaire Wilcox is Senior Curator, Department of Furniture, Textiles and Fashion at the V&A and Professor in Fashion Curation, London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London. Elizabeth Currie is a lecturer and author specializing in fashion and textiles. She was formerly a research fellow at the Royal College of Art and an assistant curator in the Fashion, Textiles and Furniture Department of the V&A.

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Book SynopsisCatrin Jones is Chief Curator, The V&A Collection at the World of Wedgwood. Chris Stephens is Curator, Holburne Museum, Bath.

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Book SynopsisAn authoritative analysis of the drawings (including watercolours and pastels) of twenty leading Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artists in one magnificent volume. Manet, Pissarro, Morisot, Cézanne, Seurat, Gauguin, Van Gogh and their colleagues made some of the most beautiful drawings in the history of art. This book sets drawings by the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists in the context of late 19th-century France and explains why these particular works are as important as their paintings in the representation of modernity. A new approach to materials and a wholly inclusive attitude to exhibitions gave drawings a more elevated status in this period than ever before, which avant-garde artists welcomed in their preference for scenes from contemporary life. For the first time also, painting and drawing shared the same stylistic principles of spontaneity, freer handling and lack of finish. Pastels by Degas, watercolours by Cézanne, pen-and-ink drawings by Van Gogh and mixed media works by Toulouse-Lautrec have an autonomy of their own, which proved instrumental in the development of modern art. The distinguished art historian Christopher Lloyd examines the drawings of twenty of the leading Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artists, highlighting an aspect of French avant-garde art that remains relatively unexplored and was of immense importance for the art movements that followed.

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Book SynopsisTaking content as a guide to form, this important survey on abstract art breaks open the canon to make room for artists from across the globe. Abstract art is always rooted in experience of the real world.' So begins art historian Pepe Karmel's exploration of the origins and evolution of abstract art. Traditional histories of the subject have concentrated on formal innovations abstraction as a sequence of isms' with less interest in how the art relates to the world around us. At the same time, they have tended to privilege a core group of European and North American artists considered central to the subject's discussion. Moving well beyond the established figures and movements usually associated with abstract art, and focusing on subject matter and content rather than simply colour and form, Karmel reconsiders the history of abstraction from a global perspective, showing us how artists from all parts of the world have used abstract imagery to convey personal, social and political experience. Following an introductory account of the pioneers of abstraction, including Piet Mondrian, Kazimir Malevich and Jackson Pollock, the book forgoes a standard chronological structure to explore the subject through five eclectic, theme-based chapters: Bodies', Landscapes', Cosmologies', Architectures' and Signs and Patterns'. Taking a figurative artwork as the starting point for each chapter, the author ranges across a wide array of topics embryos, star charts and calligraphy among them all the while clearly demonstrating the link between abstraction and the real world. Complementing the text throughout are groups of carefully selected artworks, paired to reveal surprising affinities and significant differences. At the heart of the book is a desire to demonstrate new ways of looking at abstract art through the prism of a broader, more inclusive mix of artists, from Vasily Kandinsky to Ibrahim El-Salahi, Carlos Cruz-Diez to Bridget Riley, Anni Albers to Sean Scully, and Julie Mehretu to Wu Guanzhong.

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Book SynopsisA unique combination of photography and illustration reveals an extraordinary variety of floral motifs in the historical buildings of India: 'A jewel of a book' Embroidery magazine Following the success of Pattern and Ornament in the Arts of India, Henry Wilson has turned, for this companion volume, to a single theme. But what a theme: the variety of floral motifs in the exquisitely wrought details of India's architectural wonders is boundless, and one can only marvel at the way in which the basic elements of wood, stone and plaster have been transformed into masterworks of decorative art. From the illustrious Mughal Empire during its greatest period of monument-building and artistic creativity to the time of British rule, which brought with it an unprecedented period of peace that allowed great wealth to be concentrated on the arts, the richness of India's architecture is overwhelming. Henry Wilson's fine photographs reveal the skill, patience and imagination of the many thousands of craftsmen who have turned to floral motifs and rendered them with precision and life-enriching creativity. Juxtaposed with the photographs are Wilson's own detailed drawings, all created by hand but with a stencil-like clarity that helps us understand the original historical patterns. The result is an invaluable sourcebook that will appeal not only to those interested in one of the world's oldest civilizations and greatest cultures, but also to anyone seeking inspiration for their own creations.

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Book SynopsisAn account of the life of Leonardo da Vinci, from his birth to his apprenticeship in Florence and work in Milan, Rome and Amboise. A self taught intellectual, he was endlessly curious about the physical world and his notebooks reveal a breadth of research, and anticipation of modern technology.

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Book SynopsisDocuments fifty of the most important buildings of the last decade through architectural photographs that highlight their exceptional detail, attention to context and material experimentation.Trade Review'Offers a detail-oriented appraisal of inventive structures and their novel take on traditional Swiss materials and techniques' - Aesthetica'A unique photographic survey of the best Swiss architecture of a new generation' - New Design

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Book SynopsisA collection of nine contemporary houses designed by one of the most influential and exciting architects of his generation.Table of ContentsForeword: David Adjaye : Living Spaces • Pitch Black, New York, USA, 2003–2006 • Sunken House, London, UK, 2003–2007 • LN House, Denver, USA, 2005–2007 • Silverlight, London, UK, 2002–2009 • Seven, New York, USA, 2004–2010 • Asem Pa, Make It Right, New Orleans, USA, 2007–2011 • Nanjing House, Nanjing, China, 2004–2012 • Nkron, Ghana, 2008–2012 • Hill House, Trinidad, 2008–2014

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Book SynopsisOver the course of a career spanning more than fifty years, Seattle-based architect Jim Olson, of Olson Kundig, has made his name designing a broad range of buildings that sensitively respond to their environment. Initially drawing from his close connection to the nature and culture of the Pacific Northwest, he has attracted an international reputation for designing houses for art collectors around the world. Considered together, his buildings reveal an exceptional interplay between art, light, nature, craft and architecture, which can be experienced in a range of projects that span the globe, from Mexico to South-East Asia. This complete overview of many decades of carefully considered buildings begins with an extended essay by Aaron Betsky, who considers the intimate relationship between Olson's natural surroundings and love of art and his design process over the course of his career. This is followed by a selection of twenty-eight of Olson's recent projects, interspersed with privatTrade Review'A finely photographed survey' - Monocle

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Book SynopsisFrom cabins to containers, this international overview showcases a new generation of innovative homes that save space, are kinder to the planet and cost less to build.Trade Review'Richly illustrated with photography and drawings, 'Pre-Fab Living' tells a rich and destigmatised story of the factory made house' - Architectural Review'Comprehensive' - The Times'A beautiful and inspirational collection, and highly recommended for anyone struggling to reconcile prefabricated construction with appealing modern homes and environmentally sensitive design' - SanctuaryTable of ContentsIntroduction: Pre-fabrication: Types and Methods • New Design Trends • Net-zero Homes • Innovative Communities • Japanese Homes • Narrow Designs • Country Dwellings • Plug-and-Play • Apartment Buildings • Shipping Containers • Adaptable Interiors • Additions

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