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Writers on Howard Hodgkin gathers together for the first time the responses of major contemporary writers to the work of Howard Hodgkin. Through the variety of voices it features and the range of lite

The Tate Essential Artists Series aims to present individual artists in attractively designed books with excellent reproductions and engaging text. The prolific and innovative Turner (1775-1885) is gi

A beautifully and faithfully reissued edition of William Blake's revolutionary publication Songs of Innocence and of Experience, a rare and wonderful collection of poetry from one of Britain's most important artists. Widely recognised as a masterpiece of English literature, Songs of Innocence and of Experience also occupies a key position in the history of Western art. This authentic and unique edition of the work allows William Blake to communicate with his readers as he intended, reproducing his own illumination and lettering from the finest existing example of the original work.In this way, readers can experience the mystery and beauty of Blake's poems as he first created them, discovering for themselves the intricate web of symbol and meaning that connects word and image. Each poem is accompanied by a literal transcription, and the volume is introduced by the renowned historian and critic, Richard Holmes. This beautiful edition of Songs of Innocence and of Experience is both essent

Mark Rothko was one of the greatest painters of the twentieth century. The Rothko Book explores his artistic development, the evolution of his artistic philosophy and the importance of his relationsh

Tracey Emin first came to public attention in the early 1990s and has gone on to achieve a level of visibility unparalleled for an artist in recent times. Her use of intensely personal, everyday mate

In 2000, the first edition of the Tate Modern Handbook introduced readers to the startling architecture of the brand-new modern art museum on London's south bank, now the most visited modern art muse

Writers on Howard Hodgkin gathers together for the first time the responses of major contemporary writers to the work of Howard Hodgkin. Through the variety of voices it features and the range of lit

Bruce Nauman is regarded as one of the most important artists working today. His pioneering explorations of sculpture, video, performance and environments have influenced artists internationally for

John Everett Millais (1829-1896) was a founding member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the quintessential English gentleman artist. A Baronet and president of the Royal Academy, Millais produce

Accompanied by more than four dozen full-color reproductions, a close-up look at the unusual artworks of the enigmatic Henri Rousseau offers a study of the artist's life, his unique style of painting,

Martin Kippenberger's premature death in 1997 at the age of 43 brought to an end one of the most prolific and controversial careers in 20th-century art. While some critics dismissed the German painte

"To make a sculpture in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern is an enormous challenge. The space is like no other-gargantuan and enveloping. I hope to challenge the space by developing a degree of intimac

In the late 19th century, the exploding populations and hectic speed of life in London and Paris fascinated artists on both sides of the English Channel. French artists Edgar Degas and Henri Toulouse-

The world of British-born artist Richard Wilson is a strangely disorientating one, in which gallery spaces are flooded with highly reflective oil, airplanes are crushed and then unfurled like newly h

Examines the development of pop art from its roots to its rise in popularity, and discusses how it was once considered outside the limits of art but is now celebrated in the Western world.

Born in 1946 in Vancouver, Canada, Jeff Wall is one of the most intriguing and influential artists working in photography today. His signature works are large-scale transparencies mounted in light-bo

'A is for Artist' is a contemporary take on the traditional ABCs. A combination of photographs and graphics feature beautiful and inspirational images of a wide-range of activities, animals and object

Open Systems examines how international artists rethought the object of art in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Connecting with the increasingly urgent political developments of the decade, artists be

In this incisive study, the curator and writer Debra Bricker Balken examines the work of the leading artists associated with Abstract Expressionism, including Willem de Kooning, Lee Krasner, Robert M

Summer of Love presents a wide range of visual works by an international selection of artists, all influenced by the aesthetics of psychedelia, alongside a wealth of posters and other ephemera. Conce

For well over a hundred years artists have blurred the boundaries between art and design, creating works for which Alex Coles, has coined the term 'DesignArt'. From Matisse to Murakami, ranging acros

The American printmaker Kenneth E. Tyler collaborated with many of the most celebrated artists of the twentieth century, including Helen Frankenthaler, David Hockney, Ellsworth Kelly, Roy Lichtenstei

Anthony Caro is widely regarded as Britain's greatest living sculptor and has enjoyed an international reputations since the early 1960s. Although best known for his work in steel, Caro has also work

Art and the 60s presents a comprehensive cultural history of the period, exploring a wide range of visual media, including fine art, architecture and photography, examining works in the context of su

Edward Hopper (1882-1967) made the visual iconography of the American city his own. All-night diners, filling stations, motel rooms and office interiors take on the foreboding atmosphere of abandoned

This catalogue was published to accompany the exhibition held at the Tate Modern in London and the Guggenheim Museum in New York in 2004. The five essays, which are well- illustrated with historical p

Rachel Whiteread has expanded the parameters of contemporary sculpture with her casts of the outer and inner spaces of familiar objects, sometimes in quiet monochrome, sometimes in vivid jewel-like c

In its brief history Internet art has moved from being the concern of a few brilliant amateurs to a position of prominence on the art scene. While much material art seen in conventional galleries feel

Barbara Hepworth was one of the most significant sculptors of the twentieth century and one of the most successful women artists of her time.Published to commemorate the centenary of her birth, this

Wolfgang Tillmans (b. 1968) is one of the most significant European artists at work today. His informal and apparently spontaneous photographs of gay pride activists, ecowarriors, and clubbers brough

Modern Artists are an essential reference for all those interested in contemporary visual art. Each volume offers 100 colour illustrations, new interviews with the artist and detailed commentary on ke

During a career that has brought her controversy and acclaim in equal measure, Sarah Lucas has made art from the discarded and the unexpected, incorporating such diverse materials as cigarettes, food

John Constable (1776-1837) is best known for his idyllic pictures of the English countryside. Yet he was also a brilliant innovator who brought a new vivacity to the observation of nature. He practice

Patrick Heron was one of the first British artists to embrace abstraction in the 1950s, absorbing and distilling a wide range of influences, particularly those of Matisse and Braque, to create works t

J.M.W. Turner is one of the greatest artists the world has ever known, his output prolific and extraordinarily varied. Focusing on 125 paintings in the Tate collection, this lavishly illustrated book

At Trewyn in St Ives, Barbara Hepworth created a unique combination of sub-tropical garden and sculpture park. This book is a record of the plants and sculptures at Trewyn throughout the seasons, expl

This work examines the ways in which the term Postmodernism has been used and abused within the contemporary art world. It explores the paradox at the heart of Postmodernism and considers some of the

Francis Bacon, acknowledged as one of the most important painters of the figure in the second half of the twentieth century, was tenacious in keeping his working drawings secret. When asked, he simply

Alfred Wallis spent most of his life in the Cornish ports of Newlyn, Penzance and St Ives, and went to sea as a young man. His main occupation was as a dealer in marine supplies and he was in his seve

Futurism, brainchild of the Italian writer and impresario, F.T. Marinetti, was the defining avant-garde art movement of the 20th century. This book traces it from its origins in dissident underground