Art, Photography & Fashion

This beautiful coloring book - designed especially for grown-ups - features more than 120 gorgeous patterns. It's the perfect way to unleash your inner artist.

An exhilarating tour through Western artistic tradition

Best known as a printmaker, Chris Orr RA is also a prodigious draughtsman. His drawings introduce a cast of characters, artefacts and symbols which appear and reappear against fictional and real backdrops, whether river, street or skyline. This title presents 238 of Orr's drawings.

The definitive collection of art by Jim Moir, aka Vic Reeves, with a foreword by Grayson Perry.

This beautifully illustrated, meticulously researched book is a must-have for admirers of Van Gogh's work. Vincent Van Gogh is famous as much for his tortured life as for his remarkable paintings. This large, beautiful book offers unique insight into the solitary genius--from his difficult childhood ...

Vincent Van Gogh is famous as much for his tortured life as for his remarkable paintings. "The Treasures of Vincent Van Gogh" offers unique insight into this solitary genius--from his difficult childhood to his inspiring artistic struggles to his tragic suicide. Ten items of rare facsimile memorabilia--including ...

A glimpse inside the mind and artistic process of a fascinating contemporary cartoonist

In 2008, Christopher Niquet, a well-known French stylist, spotted the 1960s supermodel Peggy Moffit in a Beverly Hills restaurant. Never an autograph chaser, he nonetheless felt compelled to ask for hers. This candid moment ignited an obsessive, ongoing quest. Niquet began to reach out to the models ...

How is one to write about a man who was himself a legend? Pablo Picasso - no artist's name is more famous today, no artist's work more widely known. To do him full justice would require volumes; on the other hand, a mere sketch reduces an Olympian to a stick figure.
This book is neither a compendious ...

SuperTrash is the mutagenic sequel to Trash: The Graphic Genius of Xploitation Movie Posters (2002, Chronicle), the book that became a prophecy of the lasting influence of grindhouse and a model describing the shared evolution between art and trash. Now, original Trash author and curator Jacques Boyreau ...

Elspeth H. Brown traces modeling's history from the advent of photographic modeling in the early twentieth century to the rise of the supermodel in the 1980s, showing how it is both the quintessential occupation of a modern consumer economy and a practice that has been shaped by queer sensibilities.

The first book to tell the inspiring story of one of the most important contemporary artists.

"Published in conjunction with the exhibition Looking East, organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, Tennessee, January 31-May 11, 2014; Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan, June 28-September 15, 2014; Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Japan, September 30-November ...

A groundbreaking work of striking originality that charts a young artist's life through her own drawings-from toddlerhood to motherhood.

Shows how the window has provided photography with one of its richest and most enduring themes. By bringing together key works, arranged thematically rather than chronologically, and presenting pairings within broader stylistic movements, this volume examines the motif of the window as a symbol of photographic vision.

Every creative brief requires its own unique typographic solution to achieve both individuality and visual harmony. This is why the question "what's the best typeface combination?" is impossible to answer succinctly. Typefaces are a bit like people; their personalities can alter ever so slightly when ...

Which contemporary artworks best capture the zeitgeist of the late 20th and early 21st centuries? This book, written by one of the freshest and most exciting voices in cultural criticism, predicts which artists and artworks from the past two decades will come to define our age through their power to question, provoke and inspire.

This richly illustrated survey, bound in an elegant portable format, profiles the most architecturally distinguished new houses from around the globe. Features 300 color photographs and 150 black-and-white architectural drawings. The diversity of the fifty-five houses featured in this photo-packed volume, ...

With their seventieth anniversary approaching in 2017, Magnum Photos has entered into an exclusive agreement with Thames & Hudson for the creation of a range of paper-based gift products. Suitable for the active photographer or those who simply love great photography, this title intends to connect the Magnum brand with a greater global audience.

Discover the compelling story of the evolution of contemporary art, its state today, and where it's headed, through a sample of ten artworks created by ten artists over a span of fifteen years.