An exciting new music center designed by the celebrated architectural firm Foster + Partners brings the best in music, architecture, and design to Northeast England. Visited by half-a-million people
Surveys the growing street art scene in New York City through color photographs of artwork displayed in public spaces that were made using different materials and techniques.
This generously illustrated monograph on Otto Dix presents the work of the controversial German artist renowned for his unflinching portrayal of life during war time and the aftermath of violence. The
A retrospective of installations, sculptures, prints, drawings, and watercolors by German artist Schutte from the 1970s to the present is illustrated in sections on models, monuments, and memorials. T
Recent work of one of China's most important and outspoken contemporary artists is featured in this book. One of China's most controversial artists, Ai Weiwei is also one of the world's most prominent
A retrospective volume of Susan Rothenberg s work, this book addresses the artist s entire career to date, focusing on her unique methods and themes. Full-colour illustrations and foldouts of Rothenbe
Features profiles of the most influential sculptures in history, accompanied by a timeline of notable events that happened in each sculptor's lifetime and reproductions of the masterpieces.
This magnificent volume showcases the highlights from a world-renowned collection of African textiles, ceramics, jewelry, masks, and figures from more than fifty different cultures. The Brooklyn Museu
Now available in a paperback edition, this sumptuous survey of Cuban art reveals the development of a distinct national identity and serves as an illustrated narrative of the country s colorful past a
Throughout the ages, from Sappho to Mary Wollstonecraft, extraordinary women have exposed other women to the world of letters and the freedom it brings. This unique cross-cultural account highlights t
Botticelli is one of the most beloved figures of the Renaissance period and his seductive Venus and graceful Primavera are among the world's most recognizable works of art. Now available in an attract
This new volume in the successful series is an introduction to one of the most influential movements in modern architecture, art and design.50 Bauhaus Icons you should know Founded by Walter Gropius i
First published in 1947, Henri Matisse's collection of paper cutouts represented a culmination of the artist's striving to combine his love of form and colour. To create Jazz, Matisse carefully arrang
New York City is home to more skyscrapers than any other city in the world. Iconic in stature, they tell the story of the city's commercial and architectural history. The buildings pictured here stret
Nearly twenty acres in suburban Toronto are being transformed to create a showplace Islamic art and culture that will be uinlike anything in the Western Hemisphere. This volume explores the concept an
Number 9 tells the story of Enjil, a boy mathematician who is challenged by a spirit to solve the riddle, What is the fixed point of the wind? As Enjil searches for the answer, he and the reader embar
Shonibare employs a wide range of media - sculpture, painting, photography, video, and installation pieces - to explore matters of race, class, cultural identity, and history. The artist is best-known
Contemporary Chinese Art has exploded onto the international scene, attracting intense critical attention and soaring market responses. The fast-paced social and economic transformation of the People'
Highlighting recent projects, Norman Foster: Catalogue traces the development of the Foster studio from its formation in the 1960s to the present. More than 120 buildings and projects are featured in
Next to New York and London, Paris has always been a major destination for street artists and aficionados. Multicultural and sophisticated, it is a city made for art of all kinds. Nowhere is the pulse
"This illustrated book introduces readers to the remarkable world of the painter and sculptor Pablo Picasso, one of the most recognized and important figures of modern art. An artist who became a lege
This volume explores Russian painter and theorist Wassily Kandinsky's (1866-1944) life and career, from his radical work as the founder of the Blue Rider group and his escape from Weimar Germany to Pa
The full range of one of today s most versatile artists is on vivid display in this heavily illustrated, lavishly produced and comprehensive monograph on the art of Annette Messager. From her earliest
Shows how pop art works to transform ordinary or found objects into works of art, and how the movement grew out of post-war Europe into the powerful American statement of the 1960s.
Graffiti is as old as cave paintings. So the title of this book, as author and photographer Naar admits, is not strictly accurate. What he has documented is the beginnings of a form of public expressi
Chronicles the life of the famous Mexican painter, detailing her work, her marriage to artist Diego Rivera, and her struggle to overcome several personal tragedies.
The book includes one hundred colour plates accompanied by in-depth descriptions, as well as numerous black-and-white photographs of the masks as they are used in religious and secular ceremonies. An
Francis Bacon is given a piercing re-examination through critical commentary, brilliant reproductions, and private photographs in this beautifully produced flexi edition. The existential anxiety of mo
This volume, which includes a number of Haeckel's drawings and watercolours which have never been published before, is the first detailed overview of the scientist and artist's vast output and provide
Rare and intimate works by one of the art world's masters are beautifully presented in an exquisite book that allows readers the feeling of looking over Rembrandt's shoulder. A painter celebrated for
Traces the avant-garde artist, sculptor and set designer, Robert Wilson to his studio, looking at his creative processes and unconventional techniques.
Cultural Writing. Art. Essays. MAGICAL SECRETS ABOUT THINKING CREATIVELY: THE ART OF ETCHING AND THE TRUTH OF LIFE by Kathan Brown is a new volume in the Magical Secrets series published by Crown Poin
Spirits Speak presents a selection of the most important African masks found in major museums and renowned private collections around the globe: an overview such as has never been compiled in this way
The poster art of Niki de Saint Phalle and Jean Tinguely is the last body of work of both artists that remains largely unknown to the general public. Shown here for the first time, in magnificent colo
