Art, Photography & Fashion

Against the background of rising mass-transit fares and an unhealthy planet, the liberation and efficiency of getting around by bike has made city cycling one of the most popular pursuits in urban life. This title presents charismatic combinations of individual style and practical function and shows how far cycle attire has moved beyond lycra.

In interpreting its own age art often turns to the past. At the beginning of the twentieth century one of these encounters between present and past was prompted by the interest a major figure in German modernism, the sculptor Ernst Barlach, came to take in the medieval epic The Song of the Nibelungen.

This is a series of short nearly wordless comics, arranged chronologically, that form a biography of the caricaturist best known for his visualization of the Weimar Republic. George Grosz (1893–1959) was a German fine artist, cartoonist, and teacher who drew from pop culture, was active in the Dada ...

A matchbook folder that contains 25 temporary tattoos.

'The age-old art of drawing is one of the most important foundations of all the visual arts—and it’s also a relaxing and enjoyable pastime! This book offers a simple, step-by-step approach to learning the fundamentals of sketching—from starting with basic shapes to rendering accurate still lifes, ...

From the co-author of the brilliant How to Sound Cultured, a wry and incisive guide to the people and ideas that have defined cool.

In January l999 we are relaunching the bestselling Learn to Draw series of beginners' drawing books with bright, modern covers.

Explaining the particular challenges of drawing horses, David Brown provides a simple guide to anatomy and proportions, the distinguishing features of various breeds, and techniques of composition, depicting movement and working from photographs.

This popular title is relaunched in June 2006 with a fresh new cover design. Packed with two-colour step-by-step illustrations, this comprehensive guide provides all the techniques needed to master the art of drawing animated cartoons.

Learn to Draw Comics is a new title in the successful Learn to Draw series of instructional step-by-step books for beginners. It covers the basic techniques of drawing comic strips and graphic stories in a lively and accessible way.

Annibale Carracci was the great genius of early Baroque painting in Italy, blighted by melancholia at the end of his life but full of promise and invention in his prime. This book concentrates on one of his most ambitious early works, the Venus, Adonis and Cupid in the Prado Museum, Madrid. This is the ...

This study of a pivotal work in the troubled painter's oeuvre reveals his pioneering genius and the modernity of his search to capture a distillation of life in his own time.

How does a photographer learn to see? How does he create his own visual language-as unique as a fingerprint and as inimitable as the voice of a great writer?

Invented around AD 1000, it soon achieved a dominant position in the arts of the Middle Ages, not only in churches but also in secular contexts.

Learn to draw cute artwork from countries around the globe with Kawaii Doodle Cuties.

Art/Histories sets out to broaden our understanding of history by looking at it through artefacts and their histories and works of art and the histories they tell. It takes a broad perspective, looking at art that reflects on history and contemporary events as well as its own involvement. The works examined ...

Drawing your own comics has never been easier! Create Comics: A Sketchbook gives you all the tools to get started creating your own comic world by combining helpful tips and tricks with sketchbook pages with panels. Whether you prefer to draw single-panel comics or a graphic novel, the 58 pages of helpful ...

Drawing its inspiration from the ground-breaking book Art in a City by John Willett, which surveyed the condition of the visual arts in Liverpool in 1967, this collection of essays explores the art scene in contemporary Liverpool, engaging with views from within and beyond the city.

This study assesses the development and significance of the writer and painter Wyndham Lewis.