Art, Photography & Fashion

Kids can design a pair of matching lockets, draw a companion for a teddy bear, create a home for an adorable puppy, and fill in the details of other friendship-related illustrations.

Taking readers behind the scenes of one of the world's most exciting dance companies, this richly illustrated book also tells the incredible back story of its famed creator and his brilliant vision to weave Cuban culture and history into classical and contemporary dance.

As a troubled teenager, Carlos ...

A renowned Berlin-based painter captures the renaissance of one of his city's most important landmarks.

Every few years since 1955, the creators of documenta set themselves the task of providing an insight into current trends in art and of capturing the zeitgeist of recent art production.

A revelatory collection of behind-the-scenes photographs of celebrities and cultural icons--from Joan Didion to the Rolling Stones to Nancy Pelosi. Featuring short essays from Fran Lebowitz, Harrison Ford, and more.

"A treasure trove of celebrities at play in the 1960s, '70s and '80s."
--PEOPLE
Camilla ...

The first monograph to date on the work of Heather Phillipson, one of the UK's most exciting contemporary artists.

An international coterie of contemporary female artists give form to the political and aesthetic facets of our interior lives.

Two of the world's ancient traditions come alive for young readers in this fascinating book that proves the most interesting distance between two points is never a straight line.

This groundbreaking book focuses on contemporary memorial poles, one of the
most unique forms of contemporary Aboriginal Australian art.

Renowned contemporary artists and writers address the intersection of art, global politics, and emerging technologies.

Rather than concentrating on techniques, here Mackie breaks down the different sub-genres of landscape photography and examines the challenges and particular processes involved with each specific environment - from the white sand beaches of Aruba, to the snow-capped peaks of the Alps.

How cubism and Dada radically reimagined the social nature of language, following the utopian poetic vision of Stéphane Mallarmé. At the outset of the twentieth century, language became a visual medium and a philosophical problem for European avant-garde artists. In Total Expansion of the Letter, art ...

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"Wise and ebullient." - Dwight Garner, The New York TimesNow in paperback, the first definitive biography of Richard Avedon, a monumental photographer of the twentieth century, from award-winning photography critic Philip Gefter.In his acclaimed portraits, Richard Avedon captured the iconic figures of ...

The vast array of sculptural work made by Andy Warhol between 1954 and 1987 reveals a major, but overlooked aspect of his oeuvre.

Born to Polish parents, the first 11 years of Andrzej Jackowski's life were spent in a post-war refugee camp, and The Remembered Present delves into the resulting themes of alienation, family, childhood and nationality that are ever-present in the artist's work.

This book provides original grounds for integrating the bodily, somatic senses into our understanding of how we make and engage with visual art. Rosalyn Driscoll, a visual artist who spent years making tactile, haptic sculpture, shows how touch can deepen what we know through seeing, and even serve as ...

In exploring how artworks present themselves as a means by which to navigate and plot the city for a writing interlocutor, Nicolas Whybrow discusses diverse examples, representing three key modern modalities of urban arts practice.

Gone are the days when fashion relied on a runway launch with coinciding press promotions to show a couturier's new range. Today, design houses are thinking beyond traditional methods of display to stimulate interest in their collections, such as to the internet, fashion film and, more recently, fashion ...