The Arts books

Intended for the dance novice, this book presents the history of various forms of dance. It offers a biography of the notable dancers and choreographers who have contributed to various forms of dance. It also details the...

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Guides readers through a number of classic films from the 1930s and '40s and investigates why films featuring Irish American characters were so popular among American audiences during a period when the Irish were still stereotyped...

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This book will introduce you to traditional woodturning techniques and describe step by step how raw wood may be turned into beautiful, elegant shapes. Each technique is illustrated with many pictures showing every step from the...

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What does it mean to be in the studio? What is the space of the studio in the artist's practice? How do studios help artists envision their agency and, beyond that, their own lives? This title locates the studio both spatially and...

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The brilliant age of Louis XIV saw the creation of a collection of unusually large prints - some of which measure as much as fifteen square feet when assembled. This title presents a survey of the print works of Charles Le Brun,...

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A catalogue of the works by Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) in the Metropolitan Museum. Comprising thirty-four paintings, fifty-nine drawings, a dozen sculptures and ceramics, and more than four hundred prints, it reflects the full...

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R B Kitaj (1932-) is recognized as a modern master whose paintings pastels and drawings reflect his unfashionable commitment to the human figure as a subject, and his complex involvement with the art of the past, with political...

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Presents a sequence of photo-stories from pioneering photo agency VII, documenting world history as we have experienced it since the end of the Cold War. It features photographers' personal material, including journals and project...

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Offers an overview of Helen Binet's career, bringing together black and white and color work. This book is divided into thematic sections highlighting specific architects and designers as well as a particular aspect of their work...

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A survey of the developments in contemporary architectural practice in Latin America. It offers a reflection on the conditions of architectural production in Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, and Chile, as well as the relations between...

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In the pre-modern age in Europe, the architect built not with imagination, brick and mortar, but with time, using vast quantities of duration as the means to erect monumental buildings that otherwise would have been impossible to...

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A guide to John Brett (1831-1902) that investigates the painter who was seen as the leader of the Pre-Raphaelite landscape school. It offers information on his early works, including The Val d'Aosta and The Stonebreaker , and...

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For this new book David Trumper has again teamed up with Shropshire postcard collector extraordinaire, Ray Farlow. Here they present a feast of photographs that illustrate bygone days in Whitchurch and Market Drayton, and also the...

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Makes the case for landscape as an art. This book presents the author's most complete vision yet of the theory and practice of urban landscape design as a discipline that combines the science of ecology with the formal aspects of...

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What does it mean to be in the studio? What is the space of the studio in the artist's practice? How do studios help artists envision their agency and, beyond that, their own lives? This title locates the studio both spatially and...

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Featuring 100 of the film directors from around the world, this title also includes film stills, on-set photographs, and posters.

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In the fifth century BCE, an artistic revolution occurred in Greece, as sculptors developed the ways of representing bodies, movement, and space. This title tells the story of Greek sculpture. It provides the ways to understand...

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This volume catalogues 137 drawings by nearly one hundred artists active in the Netherlands, Germany, France, Switzerland, and Spain from the very end of the fifteenth century through 1600. Compiled by a team of twenty-two...

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Features images of the everyday, visual representations of daily experiences, which show the authors subjective vision of the world surrounding him and includes more than 1350 pictograms ideograms logos and symbols designed by LSD...

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Suitable for the heavyweight Berry fans, this title provides various things you wanted to know about Chuck Berry. It is comprehensively annotated, with dozens of illustrations of rare record labels and sleeves. It contains: Cover...

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Clarice Cliff is one of the most important and well-known Art Deco ceramic designers in Britain and abroad. This book focuses on collecting Clarice Cliff pottery highlighting the development of her patterns and shapes. It includes...

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Visiting Portobello for the first time the photographer, John Petty recognized that here was an opportunity to record street life at its most colorful. Abounding in characters, his camera captures a series of telling moments in...

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Presents a comprehensive survey of Ottoman Architecture. Illustrated with over 1000 fabulous illustrations, plans of buildings, maps and drawings, this work seeks to survey the extensive building works of the Ottomans throughout...

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Defying the widely prevailing opinion that design is about furniture, lifestyle accessories or things that are not really necessities of life, this book shows solutions to problems to helps ensure improvements and advances above...

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Explains pure creativity techniques in connection with artefacts that are as far as possible non-utilitarian and free of associations. This book presents a systematic methodology for breaking out of the usual creativity patterns...

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