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The director of the Design Museum defines the greatest artefact of all time: the city

We live in a world that is now...

The behind-the-scenes story of the making of The Godfather, fifty years after the classic film's original release.

The story...

This wildly entertaining and educational tome is a journey through the history of British comics - from the birth of the 20th...

An Artist’s Insights on Art Appreciation

Written by a practicing artist, this book decodes and maps the basic elements of...

This lavishly illustrated hardback presents the life and work of Paul Klee - a gifted artist whose experimentation with colour...

Our towns and cities are saturated with the imagery of commerce and advertising, but alongside it a new creative phenomenon is...

Claude Monet was the leading French Impressionist landscape painter. His work featured in the groundbreaking Impressionist...

The Austrian symbolist painter Gustav Klimt is perhaps best known for his works The Kiss and the Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer...

Paul Cezanne's immersive approach to art resulted in a new kind of analytical discipline where the canvas becomes a screen...

This beautifully illustrated full-color hardback explores the life and work of Paul Gauguin, one of the leading lights of...

This lavishly illustrated full-colour hardback explores the life and work of French modernist painter Eduard Manet.

Manet was...

This introductory series to the great artists of the past 150 years looks at their lives and inspirations, and showcases a...

From Giotto to David Hockney, this invaluable A-Z reference guide introduces some of the most celebrated artists in...

This introductory series to the great artists of the past 150 years looks at their lives and inspirations, and showcases a...

Painstakingly researched over 25 years, this incredible resource brings together the world’s rich heritage of mythology.
These...

A perfect introduction for students and laypeople alike, A Degree in a Book: Art History provides you with a fascinating...

This adaptation of Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Painters, Sculptors and Architects (1568) focuses on the three giants of Italian...

A glorious illustrated history of sixteen of the world's greatest cathedrals, interwoven with the extraordinary stories of the...

Wit, dandy, literary anarchist, self-publicist, and homosexual martyr, Oscar Wilde achieved fame and notoriety at a time when...

Baxter... , Baxter...

Whether you are learning to play a piano, blow a trumpet, conduct an orchestra or sing, the essentials of music notation are the...

Dorothy Parker, Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag, Joan Didion, Nora Ephron and Janet Malcolm are just some of the women...

Since its publication in 1925, The Great Gatsby has become one of the world's best-loved books. Careless people tells the true...

Funny Weather brings together a career's worth of Laing's writing about art and culture, examining their roles in our political...

I hadn’t opened the towel that contained her gum since 2013. The last person to touch it was Nina Simone, her saliva and...

When David Thomson took a journey to the sea coasts of Scotland and Ireland to seek out the legend of the selchies - mythological...

What do we mean when we claim affinity with an object or picture, or say affinities exist between such things? Affinities is a...

What makes great art great? Why do some works pulse in the imagination, generation after generation, century after century? From...

Phaidon's 'Vitamin' series has long proved an extraordinarily accurate predictor of tomorrow's stars. This paperback edition of...

The Secret Lives of Colour tells the unusual stories of the 75 most fascinating shades, dyes and hues. From blonde to ginger, the...

Breuer’s Bohemia explores a vibrant period of midcentury modern design and culture as seen through the influential New England...