Art & Photography Books

Book SynopsisA journey through M+'s collection and Hong Kong's cultural spaces, telling the story of the city's past and present through its works of art and key landmarks. Key to the M+ collections are objects made in or associated with Hong Kong, from neon signs and advertising ephemera to architectural plans, photographs and artworks, all of which offer new perspectives on contemporary life in the city. Hong Kong Visual Culture: The M+ Guide takes the reader on a journey through the city's modern and contemporary visual culture. The book is arranged into three main sections, with the first focusing on artworks and objects that reflect daily life in Hong Kong; the second documenting the urban environment; and the final section concentrating on artistic perspectives and approaches that demonstrate the city's unique outlook. Also included is a fold-out map by artist Don Mak and a specially commissioned cover. From Cantopop and Zaha Hadid's man-made polished granite mountain to masterpiec

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Book SynopsisA Financial Times Book of the Year: An intimate exploration of Yves Saint Laurent's creative world, captured by photographer and son of the couturier's right-hand woman, Anne-Marie Muñoz Carlos Muñoz-Yagüe. Yves Saint Laurent: Inside Out presents an extraordinarily intimate insight into a fascinating world of creativity in the latter, sumptuous phase of Saint Laurent's career, between 1989 and his final collection in 2002. The book offers a comprehensive and multi-faceted exploration of the life of an haute couture house: from informal, atmospheric portraits of Yves Saint Laurent at work in his studio, drawing and creating, to the behind-the-scenes work of the petites mains' in the ateliers, the skilled army of artisans whose activity is rarely documented. The house's world-famous models also feature, captured during pre-collection fittings in the house's grandiose salons and in electric backstage moments before the shows. Private archive materials letters, documents, drawings, and ephemera that situate the protagonists and give context to the unique position that the young Carlos enjoyed as a fly on the wall' in this rarefied universe are also included in the book, and published here for the first time. A moving and visually stunning tribute to the iconic Yves Saint Laurent house as you've never seen it before, Yves Saint Laurent: Inside Out will be a must-have for fashion and photography fans.

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Book SynopsisThe first survey in nearly two decades of the work of John McAslan + Partners. Making Architecture both provides an up-to-date account of the work of John McAslan + Partners, one of Britainâs most respected and dynamic architectural practices, and analyses the culture of a studio that has made a remarkable contribution to architecture, place-making and the lives of individuals for four decades. A series of thematic chapters includes detailed, fully illustrated descriptions of many recent and ongoing international projects, from Central and Waterloo stations in Sydney and ten new stations for Delhi Metro to the transformation of Kingâs Cross station in London; from the sensitive restoration of the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, to the new Doha Mosque and nearby Msheireb Museums in Qatar. It also includes the pioneering initiatives for which the McAslan studio has become well known and that underline the practiceâs humanity and sense of social responsibility: Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Architecture Matters (Initiatives) 2. Modern Masters 3. Culture 4. Education 5. Working/ Living 6. Living Cities Conversation Piece

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Book SynopsisIn this highly illustrated volume, Serge Fauchereau presents the modern art scene of the Baltic countries, showing how artists from Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia created their own art movement rooted in Baltic life. By the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, Baltic artists and writers were starting to reclaim and promote their artistic heritage as radically distinct from that of the invading nations, with pioneers such as M. K. Ciurlionis and Vilhelms Purvitis demonstrating rare originality in their work. Focusing on the modern era, Fauchereau tackles a broad range of artistic fields such as painting, sculpture, photography, and art criticism and includes works by Petras Kalpokas, Aleksandra Belcova, and Eduard Ole, among many others.Art of the Baltic State

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Book SynopsisPaul McNeil is a graphic designer, writer and educator, and was formerly Course Director of MA Contemporary Typographic Media at the London College of Communication. In 2009 he co-founded MuirMcNeil with Hamish Muir, a design practice whose activities are focused on exploring systematic methods in design for visual communication. Seven years in the making, The Visual History of Type, McNeil's definitive survey of type and typography from 1450-2015, was published in 2017.

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Book SynopsisA Financial Times Book of the Year 2022A penetrating analysis of the work of one of the most influential painters in the history of modern art by one of the worldâs most respected art historians. For more than a century the art of Paul CÃzanne was held to hold the key to modernity. His painting was a touchstone for Samuel Beckett as much as Henri Matisse. Rilke revered him deeply, as did Picasso. If we lost touch with his sense of life, they thought, we lost an essential element in our self-understanding. If These Apples Should Fall: CÃzanne and the Present looks back on CÃzanne from a moment â our own â when such judgments may seem to need justifying. What was it, the book asks, that held CÃzanneâs viewers spellbound? At the heart of CÃzanne lies a sense of disquiet: a homelessness haunting the vividness, an anxiety underlying the appeal of colour. T. J. Clark addresses this strangeness head-on, examining the art of Pissarro, Matisse and others in relation to it. AboTrade Review'An electrifying account of looking intently to fathom Cézanne’s pictures: what makes their beauty still so uncanny, precarious, visionary. Stalking his subject with a hawk’s eye, a philosopher’s mind and an open heart, Clark unfolds both the artist at work and his own evolving responses ... The best book on Cézanne since Meyer Schapiro’s in 1952 … an electrifying companion' - Jackie Wullschlager, Financial Times, Books of the Year'A book that shows how this great artist is still stretching minds' - Jonathan Jones, Guardian'Characteristically brilliant and provocative … fascinating' - Gabriel Josipovici, TLS'Clark is an astonishingly good judge. He can bend language around an image until the two are only millimetres apart ... there are bold observations on almost every page of this book' - Jackson Arn, Art in America'Fans of T. J. Clark will be fascinated by this latest stop on his sometimes unexpected intellectual journey' - Tom Stammers, Literary Review'Clark writes beautifully … [he] is still the most careful and perceptive of art critics writing today. Even when one diverges from Clark’s conclusions, one never feels in the presence of someone who does not look, think and write without the utmost attention and seriousness' - The Jackdaw'It is the boldness of the book that is exhilarating, the author taking interpretive gambles … brims with memorable insights and aphorisms' - Literary Review'One of the most exciting books on art I have read' - Gabriel Josipovici, Times Literary Supplement Books of the Year'A very generous text. Clark invites us in on his reflexive meditations – a welcome relief from academic arguments that are almost paranoically designed to be bulletproof from first sentence to final footnote' - Hal Foster, London Review of Books'What drives If These Apples Should Fall is less the task of scholarly exposition than the swelling momentum of interpretation itself... Clark’s observations can be unforgettable... In Clark’s hands, Cézanne’s practice is at once singular and a paradigm for an art history that lets in the world only when it needs to' - Artforum'Clark writes in the tradition of Lukács, Adorno and Debord ... His prose is full of leaping, dramatic comparisons, flashes of detournement ... The book flicks between registers, from doubt to certainty, from prose to verse' - Saul Nelson, New Left Review'A great book ... deeply original ... it will inspire readers to rethink fundamentals ... [a] madly suggestive, wildly adventuresome book ' - The British Journal of AestheticsTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Pissarro and Cézanne 2. Cézanne’s Material 3. Cézanne and the Outside World 4. Peasants 5. Matisse in the Garden Conclusion

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Book SynopsisA unique look at the visionary artist, educator and activist Ruth Asawa (1926â2013). âI state, without hesitation or reserve, that I consider Ruth Asawa to be the most gifted, productive, and originally inspired artist that I have ever known personallyâ R. Buckminster Fuller, 1971 Although less known outside North America, Japanese-American artist Ruth Asawa is an artist of vital importance to modern art. Ruth Asawa: Citizen of the Universe, which accompanies the first exhibition of Asawaâs work to be staged in public galleries in Europe, introduces European audiences to both Asawaâs powerful art - including her signature hanging sculptures in looped and tied wire - and her pioneering education practice. It positions her expansive ethos â her self-identification as âa citizen of the universeâ and belief that art education can be life enriching for everyone - as a catalyst for creative forward-thinking in the 21st century. Focusing on a dynamic and formative period in her lTable of ContentsDirector's Foreword Introduction A Citizen of the Universe EMMA RIDGWAY Art as an approach to living SIGRUN ÅSEBØ AND VIBECE SALTHE Camouflaging Asawa JOHN R. BLAKINGER Asawa as a Life Long Learner EMILY PRINGLE Interviews FRIENDS AND FAMILY OF RUTH ASAWA (ALVARADO WORKSHOPS AND ASAWA SCHOOL OF THE ARTS) TIMELINE EXHIBITION CHECKLIST

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Book SynopsisA down-to-earth, visual guidebook that shows how to âreadâ, understand and get the most out of art. For beginners, art history might seem a daunting subject with complex rules and impenetrable technical language. Even for more seasoned art lovers the question of how to think about art is a perennial riddle. Art Unpacked is the perfect resource for both audiences: an engaging, visual primer for the general reader, as well as educators. Designed like an instruction manual, fifty key artworks from around the world are deconstructed with pithy explanations, diagrams and close-ups, in order to reveal the elements that make up a masterpiece. Dating from the earliest times to the present, the artworks under analysis are drawn from many cultures, and cover all forms of visual media including: drawing, illustration, photography, prints and sculpture. Matthew Wilsonâs simplicity of approach, using established art historical methods, enables the reader to discover the fundamentals of art Table of ContentsIntroduction: How Art Works 1. The Roots of Art: 30,000 BCE to 1399 CE 2. The Growth of Knowledge: 1400–1599 3. The Expansion of Vision: 1600–1799 4. The Modern World: 1800–1945 5. New Practices and Beyond: 1945–onwards

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Book SynopsisThe first book dedicated to Picasso's self-portraits, many held in private collections and published here for the first time. Much has been said and written about Picasso's life and art, but until now his self-portraits have never been studied and presented in a single book, perhaps because the artist always left many doubts about his work. However, there is no doubt that Picasso represented himself ceaselessly, whether in a dashed-off pencil sketch, as a flourish at the bottom of a letter, or on a giant canvas. At the suggestion of Picasso's widow Jacqueline, the distinguished art historian Pascal Bonafoux began researching Picasso's self-portraits more than forty years ago. This meticulously researched book presents the fruits of his decades-long project. From the first attributed painting in 1894 as a thirteen-year-old boy, until Picasso's final self-portrait in 1972, a year before his death, Bonafoux charts the evolution of the artist's life and art. Here is Picasso as Trade Review'Fascinating … an invaluable resource' - Literary Review'An attractive volume that brings together the artist's 170 self-portraits in various mediums, including photography' - The New York Times

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Book SynopsisFabienne Reybaud is a journalist and an expert on luxury goods. She was editor of watchmaking and jewelry at Le Figaro for twenty-five years and now writes widely on the subject for the French media, including Paris Match and Numéro. She is the author of a dozen books, including Watches: The Ultimate Guide (Assouline, 2010), Effortless Style: Casa Lopez with Pierre Sauvage (Flammarion, 2018), Rolex: The Impossible Collection (Assouline, 2018) and Chanel: Jewelry and Watches (Assouline, 2020).

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Book SynopsisGamesMaster: The Oral History charts the highs and lows of Channel 4's iconic and anarchic UK videogames entertainment show. First broadcast in 1992 amid a brash youth television takeover, the ambitious and sometimes chaotic production of GamesMaster is as much a story of the 1990s, set against a backdrop of videogame console wars, Britpop and a curious new thing called the World Wide Web. This definitive retrospective is guided by show host Dominik Diamond and features over 40 contributors, including production crew, celebrity guests and the games-playing members of the public who became either playground heroes or defeated outcasts vying for the iconic Golden Joystick prize.Trade Review'Any fan of GamesMaster should come away from this book having learned something new, but it would be an interesting read even for those who never saw the show. In any case, we can’t imagine any way to have done it better' - Retro Gamer'Superb' - Time Extension

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsForeword Introduction Projects Mai Mai, 2017, Auckland Local Rock, 2010, Waiheke Maungakawa, 2011, Maungakawa Paoneone, 2017, Kare Kare Bethalls Beach, 1996, North Auckland Discus, Conceptual, East Auckland Namssosso, 2016, Naiso Island, Fiji Parihoa, 2009, Muriwai Millbrook House, 2014, Queenstown Seascape Retreat, 2014, Banks Peninsula Park Point, 2017, Waiheke Scrubby Bay, 2013, Banks Peninsula Pines House, 2005, Matarangi St Stephens, 2014, Auckland Ravenscar, 2022, Christchurch Cliff Top House Boat Shed Bay Black Peak

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Book SynopsisA captivating photographic odyssey spanning fashion, Hollywood and travel, this is the first publication in almost 40 years on the work of George Hoyningen-Huene, the photographer whose images defined an era. Baron George Hoyningen-Huene (19001968), known simply as Huene, worked during the golden age of couture fashion and Hollywood cinema. He was born in St Petersburg to a wealthy family, but they had to flee their home during the Russian revolution in 1917. Huene spent time in England before moving to Paris, where he was employed to create photographs for Vogue and Vanity Fair and rapidly established himself as a visual innovator, fusing elements of neoclassicism and surrealism to create chic, arresting images. In 1935, Huene joined Harper's Bazaar magazine, where he remained a contributor until 1946, following which he settled in California and embarked on a second career as a colour coordinator for Hollywood films. Supported by an international exhibition opening at Chanel Nexus Hall in Tokyo, this book combines elegant design and production values with rigorous new research and scholarship. Organized into eight chapters, each supported by texts by contributing writers from the worlds of fashion, cinema and photography, and featuring names and faces that have defined our view of style, glamour and grace in the 20th century, it reminds us of Huene's position among the greats of photography.

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Book SynopsisEster Coen is an expert on Italian Futurism and the international avant-garde. She has been Associate Professor at the University of Florence and Professor at the universities of Udine and L'Aquila. Richard Cork is an art historian, critic, curator and broadcaster. He has been an art critic for the Evening Standard, The Listener, The Times and the New Statesman, and is a past Turner Prize judge.

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Book SynopsisA landmark publication tracing the final months of Van Gogh's life. Van Gogh in Auvers-sur-Oise: His Final Months offers a unique and impressive overview of the paintings and drawings that Vincent van Gogh created during the last seventy days of his life. He produced no fewer than seventy-four paintings and over thirty drawings in the course of the intense, productive period leading up to his self-inflicted death on 29 July 1890. While the Portrait of Dr Gachet, The Church at Auvers and Wheatfield with Crows are numbered among his greatest masterpieces, this part of his oeuvre is otherwise less known - unfairly so - than the sunny landscapes he painted in the south of France. The book follows the artist from his arrival in Auvers-Sur-Oise, where he set to work full of hope and with fresh ambitions, through to his final weeks. Essays by leading Van Gogh specialists highlight his artistic ambitions and mental state during this final phase; his exploration of the Auvers landscape

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Book SynopsisA major reassessment of Germaine Richier's work and impact on 20th-century sculpture. Germaine Richier (1902-59) occupies a central position in the history of modern sculpture. Predominantly working in bronze, her art revitalized the form of the figure, forging radical new images of men and women in the post-war period which blended the human body and natural forms in a hybrid of abstraction and figuration. As the first woman artist to have a solo exhibition in her own lifetime at the Musee National d'Art Moderne, Paris, she held a unique position in the 1940s and 50s as a successful female career artist, exhibiting internationally and developing a style that has been largely overshadowed by the predominant male canon. This major reassessment of Richier's complete oeuvre establishes her key position within the artistic context of her time and, more broadly, her influential impact on 20th-century sculpture. Writers including Mika Biermann, Marie Darrieussecq, Maryline DesbioTable of ContentsIntroduction Six Essays Catalogue of Works The Artist in Her Own Words

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Book SynopsisThe second book in the 'My Life as an Architect' series, looking at the Seoul buildings that have shaped the practice and outlook of the celebrated Korean architect Byoung Cho. Since founding his practice BCHO Architects Associates in Seoul in 1994, Byoung Cho has built a reputation as the key architect driving the expansion of one of the worldâs most densely populated cities. Influenced by Koreaâs rich aesthetic tradition, Cho utilizes understated forms to create serene buildings that yield powerful and subtle experiences for their inhabitants. His work focuses on seemingly simple structures and has a strong regard for nature and sustainability. This companion to Kengo Kuma: My Life as an Architect in Tokyo presents twenty-nine portraits of the buildings and districts of Seoul that have most influenced Cho, from a 12th-century shrine to a 14-metre-square concrete box, and includes a number of his own designs. Lively texts are interspersed with the architectâs own drawings and elTable of ContentsIntroduction 29 buildings and districts Directory Buildings by BCHO Architects Buildings by other architects Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisA new selection from Philip Hughes' unpublished notebooks going back over twenty-five years. In an astonishing collection of twenty-seven notebooks created over a quarter of a century, Philip Hughes has sought to capture the spirit of a place: its geological structure, its relationship with the surrounding landscape, and its occasional signs of human intervention. These painterly but topographically precise notebooks record moments when the artist has been moved to draw what he can see, whether from the shelter of a standing stone in Orkney, Scotland, from the air over the Simpson desert in Australia, or from a postal boat sailing through the Norwegian fjords. Pieced together by Hughes himself from over a thousand drawings, this is a logbook of momentary observations. Some are swift sketches of fields or horizons, others are slower studies of lichen and flowers in Antarctica, or lines of quartz in granite in Cornwall. The depth of feeling and knowledge Hughes has for differ

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Book SynopsisExcerpts from art critic, historian, lecturer and broadcaster James Hall's lively and comprehensive cultural history of self-portraiture, including such artists as Dürer, Gentileschi, Van Gogh and Kahlo. Surprising, questioning, challenging, enriching: the Pocket Perspectives series celebrates writers and thinkers who have helped shape the conversation across the arts. Mixing classic and contemporary texts, reissues and abridgements, these are bite-sized, fully illustrated reads in an attractive, affordable and highly collectable package.

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Book SynopsisThe ultimate typographic experiment 7,762,392 typefaces from one of the world's foremost typography studios. System Process Form is a detailed survey of MuirMcNeil's Two type system, an extensive collection of geometric alphabets in which every stroke, shape, letterform and word is designed to correspond and collaborate in close harmony. The methodologies demonstrated transcend the short-term limitations of single solutions to single problems, revealing the ways in which system, process and form constitute the bedrock of a successful design practice. Using a combination of algorithm, chance and deliberation, a core database of 23 type systems and 198 individual fonts is interpolated to generate millions of hybrid forms in which every dot, line, space and letter is designed to correspond and collaborate in close harmony. The showcased examples, selected for their distinctively abstract and striking qualities, are printed in three vibrant neon inks and metallic black. The re

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Book SynopsisAn interpretation of the history of mural painting from ancient Egypt to the twentieth century by one of most eminent art historians of all time, who wielded huge influence over both his professional peers and a vast popular readership. Surprising, questioning, challenging, enriching: the Pocket Perspectives series celebrates writers and thinkers who have helped shape the conversation across the arts. Mixing classic and contemporary texts, reissues and abridgements, these are bite-sized, fully illustrated reads in an attractive, affordable and highly collectable package.

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Book SynopsisAn exhilarating and eclectic volume on the social, cultural and technological history of interior design from prehistory to the present day, revealing how spaces shape our lives and why it matters. From traditional nomadic dwellings to state-of-the-art airports, through monumental temples and Baroque palaces to high-rise apartments and high-fashion boutiques, The Story of the Interior explores an exciting array of inside spaces from around the world to reveal how the fundamental elements of a room have evolved and endured. Organized in three parts The Room, The Private Interior and The Public Interior the book presents a fascinating account of how the interior has been conceived and thought of from antiquity to the present day. By calling attention to the most basic elements of inside space walls, doors, windows, furniture, ambience to name a few this engaging exploration delves into how private and public interiors actively shape the way we live, work, learn and play. The book spans a wide range of iconic and offbeat examples drawn from the world of architecture, urbanism and furniture design, as well as art installations and imagined spaces. Brooker deftly guides us through interiors as diverse as Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater, Olafur Eliasson's The Weather Project, the Prada store in Marfa, Texas, and Sou Fujimoto's NA House, as well as the rock-cut Buddhist temples of India, medieval European castles and ancient Egyptian tombs, to unveil the drastically different and surprisingly similar spaces that surround us. The result is a fascinating tour of global interiors, tracing the genesis and evolution of these places and how they help us understand human presence and behaviour.

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Book SynopsisIn this thought-provoking anthology, the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum has partnered with the Prix Pictet, the world's leading prize for photography and sustainability, to show a different side to humanitarian photography. Co-editors William A. Ewing and Elisa Rusca decided to select thirty photographers from the 3,000 or so artists who have been nominated since the award was founded in 2008. Adopting a broad definition of humanitarian photography, they looked for work with a visible humanitarian impulse and attributes such as care, dignity and empathy. The result is a diverse, stimulating and, at times, surprising visual display that is very different from the breaking news' images we often associate with humanitarian action. What sets these photographs apart? An unerring sense of compassion. This compelling collection underlines the power of contemporary photography to move us and inspire positive change in the world.

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Book SynopsisGriselda Pollock, feminist art historian and longstanding advocate of gender and racial inclusivity, unpacks the racist, sexist and imperialist underpinnings of works by Gauguin and others as they competed for pre-eminence in the European avant-garde of the 1880s and 90s. Surprising, questioning, challenging, enriching: the Pocket Perspectives series celebrates writers and thinkers who have helped shape the conversation across the arts. Mixing classic and contemporary texts, reissues and abridgements, these are bite-sized, fully illustrated reads in an attractive, affordable and highly collectable package.

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Book SynopsisThe companion volume to Matt Black's critically acclaimed American Geography presents a deeper view of his six-year odyssey documenting poverty in the United States of America. During his six-year journey across the United States creating the project that became American Geography, Matt Black collected objects in the locations he visited. Each location is designated as an area of concentrated poverty' a US Census definition for places with poverty rates of 20% or higher. Over time, the objects he found and collected began to take on symbolic significance. As Black crisscrossed the United States, his collection grew into the thousands: plastic spoons and forks, lottery tickets, liquor bottles, lighters and matchbooks. Some items were important, like job applications, medical paperwork, driver's licenses; some were lost personal effects, like family photographs, bracelets, eyeglasses, notes and letters. And there was the detritus of labour: work gloves, broken tools and supplie

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Book SynopsisImmerse yourself in the wit and wisdom of Coco and Karl: two elegant collections of the legendary designersâ maxims on style, creativity and life. Chic, sharp and always on point, Coco Chanel and Karl Lagerfeld continue to captivate young generations of fashion fans. Chanel was fierce and uncompromising in her opinions on fashion, women and life, while Lagerfeldâs famously controversial pronouncements were seized upon by fashionistas, acolytes and sages around the world. Cultivated, surprising and sometimes shocking, their âbons motsâ are always impossible to ignore. This elegant box set contains two slim volumes of their pithiest, wittiest and most provocative quotations, and will be required reading for us all today as we negotiate the trickiest curves of modern life. âFashion changes, but style enduresâ Coco Chanel âPeople who tell all appal meâ Karl Lagerfeld âThe best things in life are free. The second-best are very expensiveâ Coco Chanel âYou must never be afraid ofTable of ContentsA box set containing: The World According to Karl 9780500293935 The World According to Coco 9780500023488

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Book SynopsisChanel. The Allure of Makeup31 Le RougeWith unprecedented access to the Chanel archives, this book presents a wealth of visual material from historic images of Gabrielle Chanel and seldom-seen early product shots, to cinematic campaigns starring legendary women.

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Book SynopsisThe debut monograph from renowned pixel artist Waneella, showcasing a decade of her distinctive pixelated landscape compositions. This compelling monograph documents Waneella's journey from novice pixel-pusher to world-renowned artist, indisputably the leading name in this new reinvention of the once-retro pixel-art aesthetic. The book takes us from her early experiments with the pixel art form creating pseudo-videogame visuals, through to the years where her unique style crystallized, fusing sci-fi-tinged architecture, cinematic hints of narrative, and masterful deployment of light sources and shadow. Alongside this complete catalogue of Waneella's works are several Process' sections, walking the reader through Waneella's working style, which often initially draws influence from Japanese streets found via Google Streetview. Her creative process is explored step by step, detailing the underlying structure, rigorous perspective work and experimentation that goes into every piece

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Book SynopsisThames & Hudson's new, affordable, covetable Pocket Perspectives': beautifully illustrated essays by canonical writers' Financial Times Explore the dynamic world of 1960s Pop Art through Lucy Lippard's insightful analysis in this new addition to the Pocket Perspectives series. Pop Art epitomized the free spirit of the 1960s, blending carnival-like qualities with bold colours and monumental scale, but based on a tough, no-nonsense, no-refinement standard appropriate to its time. Renowned art critic and curator Lucy Lippard's classic, contemporaneous study enriches our understanding of this groundbreaking art movement. Across three chapters, the author first outlines the phenomenon of Pop Art, its antecedents and related styles ranging from folk art, Surrealism and Dada as well as the work of key artists such as Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns. She then focuses on Pop Art in New York, discussing key iconic figures including Claes Oldenburg, Jim Dine, Roy Lichtenstein, Jame

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Book SynopsisA deluxe large-format edition of this beautifully illustrated introduction to Katsushika Hokusai, the most prolific artist of Japan's Edo period, and master of ukiyo-e images of the floating world'. Hokusai: the blue, foam-crested wave rearing above Mount Fuji; the celebrated volcano idealized and reinvented by the artist in every nuance of view, season and painting; extraordinary bridges, the waterfalls of Japan, the contortions, costumes, gestures the very breath of men, women, peasants, townsmen, warriors, artisans, leaping horses, birds, insects, fish, almost live on the ground on which they are painted the countless imaginative drawings or the lively sketches done on the spot for the Manga, Hokusai's record of shapes and forms drawn from life or imagined over time. With a body of work comprising more than 30,000 drawings and paintings, Hokusai (17601849) was the most prolific, varied and indisputably the most creative artist of old Japan. A universal genius in everything th

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Book SynopsisIconic and rarely seen images retrace the story of Robert Capa's extraordinary life and work. Photographer and war reporter Robert Capa (191354) is a legend of photojournalism, and his work, widely recognized and sometimes controversial, shaped the history of the medium. Born Endre Friedmann to Jewish parents in Budapest, he left Hungary in the early 1930s and took the pseudonym Robert Capa, believing that it was easier to sell his work with an American-sounding name. He went on to cover the major events of the mid-20th century: from the rise of Front Populaire in France to the Spanish Civil War, the Second World War and Indochina, where he was killed by a landmine. This retrospective uses both iconic and rarely-seen images to retrace the story of Capa's life, delving into archives and presenting not only the original photographs but also the magazine features in which they first appeared, to offer valuable context and connection. Charismatic and committed, Capa redefined what

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Book SynopsisBill Viola began producing video works in the early 1970s, and since then has captivated audiences with his poignant and beautifully wrought interpretations of human experience. He is considered among the most celebrated proponents of the medium of video art. This book gives an account of one of contemporary art's most powerful creative minds.Trade Review'One of the most exhaustive books about Viola ever published … unravels the artist’s mind by sharing his inner dialogues with the reader' - Artdependence'Highly readable and fascinating … there is no question that this is an important publication that is not only long overdue but also deeply insightful and thoroughly comprehensive' - Cellophaneland'This book, the first complete monograph, richly and dramatically illustrated, does him proud' - Mature TimesTable of ContentsIntroduction: Thought, Reflection, Belief • Chapter 1: The Discovery of Video • Chapter 2: 1970s: Reflections on Nature and Time • Chapter 3: 1980s: Expanded Visions of Life and Memory • Chapter 4: 1990s: The Joining of the Spiritual to the Aesthetic • Chapter 5: 1900s: Embodying Emotion on Video • Chapter 6: 2000s: A Humanism for Our Time • CODA: The Martyrs

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Book SynopsisA dazzling celebration of one of the most acclaimed illustrators working today, available in a limited, slipcased edition.Trade Review'Buy a slice of design brilliance ... Don't wait until Christmas. This is a coffee table book that you need now' - StylistTable of ContentsIntroduction • Less More • Pretty Ugly • In Out • Life Death

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Book SynopsisA major publication on Hokusai's remarkable late work, incorporating fresh scholarship on the sublime paintings and prints the artist created in the last thirty years of his life.Trade Review'The most important publication for years on Hokusai … a uniquely valuable overview of the artists’ late career' - Asian Art Newspaper

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Book SynopsisA fascinating introduction to the art and techniques of the illustrator who, in Miffy, created one of the most recognizable characters in the world' (The New York Times).Table of ContentsIntroduction • Birth and early days • War years • London and Paris • The return • Influences • A new beginning and… • …A happy ending • Emerging artist • Publishing The Black Bear • Posters • Picture books • All change • Miffy returns • Writer and illustrator • The studio life of the artist

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Book SynopsisRichard Calvocoressi is currently a director at Gagosian Gallery, and is a former Director of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. He wrote the catalogue text for Baselitz's first exhibition in a commercial gallery in London, and in 1983 was author of the main catalogue essay for his first retrospective in Britain at the Whitechapel Gallery. As curator responsible for German art at Tate, Calvocoressi was instrumental in the acquisition of his works for the UK national collection.Trade Review'Brilliantly illustrated and documented by the fine narrative provided here by esteemed author and interlocutor Richard Calvocoressi' - The World of Interiors'Beautifully written with revealing insight into the artist’s motivations at each stage, it is the most authoritative work on Baselitz to date' - The Art Newspaper'Beautifully illustrated' - The Telegraph'Elegantly written and splendidly illustrated, this is by far the best study of Baselitz in English' - The Spectator'Meticulous … With its grasp of the relevant art-historical readings and cultural-historic issues, and its compelling readings of so many individual works, this new, definitive publication is a masterclass' - The Times Literary Supplement'Sumptuously illustrated … Calvocoressi’s achievement is to blend art and biography into what will prove to be a useful first monograph in English on this major German artist' - The Burlington MagazineTable of ContentsIntroduction • 1. Early Years: Third Reich and East Germany 1938 – 1956 • 2. West Berlin: Finding a Voice 1957 – 1965 • 3. Rural isolation: Osthoven and Forst 1966 – 1974 • 4. Schloss Derneburg: from New York to the Venice Biennale 1975 – 1980 • 5. International recognition: from A New Spirit in Painting to the fall of the Wall 1981 – 1989 • 6. Reunification and reassessment 1990 – 2004 • 7. Remix: mortality and later work 2005 –

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Book SynopsisThe first book to concentrate on the early ceramic work of Transvestite Potter', bestselling author, broadcaster and social commentator Grayson Perry.Table of ContentsForeword by Chris Stephens • Towards a Pre-History of Grayson Perry by Andrew Wilson The Iconography of Grayson Perry’s Pre-Therapy Years by Catrin Jones • The Pre-Therapy Years by Grayson Perry • The Works

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Book SynopsisDavid Hockney reflects upon life and art as he journeys through lockdown in rural Normandy.Trade Review'Hockney and Gayford … make a good double act: Hockney’s questing vision, Gayford’s clear-eyed prose. They share an irrepressible interest in just about everything ... This book is not so much a celebration of spring as a springboard for ideas about art, space, time and light ... scholarly, thoughtful and provoking' - The Times'Gloriously illustrated … It’s a book about many things – Hockney’s love of France and French painting, his reflections on many other artists among them. But at its heart is this octogenarian’s adoration of nature, his belief that art is rooted in love, and a restless gusto for life' - Andrew Marr, The Spectator'Hockney and Gayford’s exchanges are infused with their deep knowledge of the history of art … This is a charming book, and ideal for lockdown because it teaches you to look harder at the things around you' - Lynn Barber, The Spectator'Designed to underscore [Hockney’s] original message of hope, and to further explore how art can gladden and invigorate ... meanders amiably from Rembrandt, to the pleasure principle, andouillette sausages and, naturally, to spring' - Daily Telegraph'Lavishly illustrated… Gayford is a thoughtfully attentive critic with a capacious frame of reference' - Guardian'A burst of springtime joy ... delightfully unfocused, a wide-ranging ramble through art, history, culture and food' - Daily Telegraph'Peppered with his colourful work and insightful conversations with art critic Martin Gayford, this book shows that, though the pandemic cancelled many things, spring cannot be stopped – and neither can David Hockney' - Daily Mail'A warm and candid peek into Hockney’s thought process and the friends’ relationship, visually peppered with hundreds of images... Overall the book acts as Hockney’s manifesto for how a reconnection with art and nature could get society through much of its tribulations' - It's Nice That'A series of conversations punctuated with pictures that you can dip into as you please. There are fascinating discursions about studios, about line, about art outbidding photography, about colour – he’s interesting on the varieties of black, for instance. Gayford talks about Hockney turning up the colour dial in his works during his career; right now, it’s high volume' - Evening Standard'Optimistic … demonstrate[s] the artist’s constant fascination with the world around him' - The Arts Society'Beautifully written. Just the tonic for the lockdown blues' - Jessica Fahy, RTE Arena radio'A highly personal and engaging insight into the latest stage of Hockney’s life and work' - The Art Newspaper'What emerges from the writing, snippets and sketches is a manifesto of sorts: a paean to the promise of art and the capacity of nature to heal, renew and offer answers in difficult times… The subjects on every page burst forth like spring bulbs, covering everything from the sight of raindrops on a pond to the work of great artists and the rhythm of daily life' - Monocle Weekend'Ranging across subjects, from colour and perspective, to sunsets, fame and the effects of aging, the book amounts in the end to something between a memoir and a collection of musings from a man who thinks deeply and widely, and communicates with ease. Whether he is talking about drawing, or Proust or Wagner, Gayford writes that it is “with such simplicity and ease that almost everything he says, journalistically speaking, is highly quotable' - The New European'Hockney’s amanuensis provides the framework and armature for Hockney’s discussion of his own painting … In these trying times, Hockney, in recharging his own art in such persuasive ways, conveys somehow a belief in the power of hope and the inevitability of recovery' - Artlyst'Lushly illustrated … the talk flows effortlessly. The conversations take in everything from Hockney’s fondness for tripe and cigarettes, and Van Gogh and Monet, to music and iPad pictures. Hockney is always interesting on art, possibly because he is both unusually thoughtful and exceptionally lucid, so the chats, seamlessly directed by Gayford, are full of fascinating detail about a range of painters rather than just this displaced Yorkshireman' - New Statesman'Reveals – and this lies behind the pictures and their apparently effortless clarity – Hockney as the broad-ranging intellectual … When Hockney talks, for example, of his admiration for Ad Reinhardt’s blacks in the same breath as Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales and his own 1981 Metropolitan Opera designs for The Nightingale, you understand the Moon pictures as enchanted stage-sets informed by modern abstraction' - Financial Times'Gayford records what the artist saw, thought, read, remembered, during lockdown in his French cottage, as reported by email and phone; their conversations read easily and optimistically, spanning nature, food, art, opera, fairy tales' - Jackie Wullschlager, Financial Times'My recommendation would be - because we all need some cheering up - that bright, colourful, informative and intriguing book Spring Cannot be Cancelled. It’s full of Hockney’s musings on art, as well as being gorgeous to look at' - Andrew Marr, The Art Newspaper'The conversation between painter and critic with reference to his work and the work of other artists is always absorbing and invaluable for all admirers of his drawings and paintings' - Mature Times'Far more than an accompaniment to the lovely exhibition at the Royal Academy in the summer, this is an engaging record of life and thought during Hockney’s lockdown year' - Financial Times'Hockney’s palette is always vibrant with the glorious, acid promise of fresh new leaves. If you love his work, this set of uplifting ‘conversations’ between artist and critic-friend will rekindle your passion; if you are indifferent to the Hockney style, you will surely find yourself converted … A feast for eye, mind and soul' - Daily MailTable of Contents1 An unexpected move 2 Studio work 3 La vie française: French life in a Bohemian style 4 Lines and time 5 A merry Christmas and an unexpected New Year 6 Locked down in paradise 7 A house for an artist and a painter’s garden 8 The sky, the sky! 9 Sumptuous blacks and subtler greens 10 Several smaller splashes 11 Everything flows 12 Rippling lines and musical spaces 13 Lost (and found) in translation 14 Picasso, Proust, and pictures 15 Being somewhere 16 Full moon in Normandy

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Book SynopsisChronicling forty years of luxury architecture and design by Steve Leung, founder of one of Asia's most successful design studios. This major design monograph represents a comprehensive overview of 35 years of architectural, interior- and product-design work by Steve Leung, founder of Hong Kong-based Steve Leung Design Group (SLD). Spanning luxury residential developments and hotels to high-end restaurants and resorts, SLD's work extends from Hong Kong to China and across Asia. This book - organized by themes that reflect periods in Leung's life and work - captures the essence of one of Asia's most successful and entrepreneurial practices. Introductory texts frame projects presented in each chapter, based on interviews with Steve and other influential creative and cultural figures, and are followed by illustrated project spreads that place each theme in context.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Spirit of the City 2. Redefining Tradition 3. In Harmony 4. Adaptable Creativing 5. Art of Hospitality 6. Business of Design 7. Enduring Legacy

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Book SynopsisAn examination of the architectural world and its theories since the late 1960s in the context of social and political issues. It looks at a broad survey of buildings, but focuses on specific megaprojects as examples for discussion. It also considers the work of lesser-known designers.Trade Review'A wonderful world-wide survey' - ChoiceTable of ContentsPublic space; domestic space; reconfiguring the urban sphere; biographical notes on architects.

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Book SynopsisOffers an interpretive history of Mexican art and architecture from the Spanish Conquest to the early decades of the 21st century. The author shows how artists in Mexico participated in local and international developments, and highlights the important role played by Mexicans in the art world of the last five centuries.Trade Review'A sweeping panorama of five rich and diverse centuries of Mexican art and architecture. The best and most up-to-date survey of its kind' - Alan Knight, Oxford UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction • Chapter 1: Conquest and Negotiation 1520–1600 • Chapter 2: Art for the New Cities 1550–1700 • Chapter 3: Baroque Splendor under the Bourbons 1700–1810 • Chapter 4: From Neoclassicism to Romanticism 1750–1850 • Chapter 5: National Identity: History, Landscape, Citizens 1840–80 • Chapter 6: From the Porfiriato to the Revolution 1880–1920 • Chapter 7: From Revolution to Renaissance 1920–34 • Chapter 8: Political and Personal Dreams 1934–46 • Chapter 9: Construction and Rebellion 1946–72 • Chapter 10: From the Olympics to Neo-Mexicanism 1968–94 • Chapter 11: Contemporary Art

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Book SynopsisA guide to graffiti and street art. It explains the terms and language of graffiti and street art from tags and throwies to culture jamming and subvertising as well as their multiple influences and sub-genres. It traces the origins and evolution of graffiti and street art, and explores the motivations and practices of the leading exponents.Table of Contents1. From Graffiti to Post-Graffiti • 2. Graffiti’s Genealogy • 3. Street Art and the City • 4. Site and Space • 5. Urban Visual Culture

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Book SynopsisA dictionary that contains around 750 entries offering information on every important graphic designer, movement, agency, practice and publication from 1840 onwards. It presents definitions, from technical minutiae of typography to computer-aided design and printing.Trade Review'Should be read from cover to cover' - Lithoweek'Covers everything from airbrush to Hermann Zapf' - Communication Arts

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Book SynopsisNicholas Thomas is Professor of Historical Anthropology, University of Cambridge. Among his previous books are Oceanic Art in the World of Art series and Islanders: the Pacific in the Age of Empire, which won the Wolfson History Prize in 2010.Table of ContentsIntroduction – What is ‘body art’? • 1. Humanity • 2. Society • 3. Theatricality • 4. Beauty • 5. Criminality • 6. Identity • Afterword

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Book SynopsisPresents an overview that helps you make coherent sense of the often-bewildering diversity of styles, forms, media, techniques, and agendas that proliferate in contemporary art. This edition includes a new chapter on developments in contemporary art since 2000. It offers information on the evolution of art over the decades.Trade Review'Archer’s admirable overview treats the history of art of this period in a manner which does justice to its diversity and its complexity of inter-relations, between different aspects of artistic practice and the actualities of the world in which they operate... a?brave and intelligent attempt to live up to its implications' - Art Monthly

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