Art, Photography & Fashion

Over the past ten years the acclaimed sculptor Miroslaw Balka has been making concise and moving video works. Topography introduces this compelling and little known work and offers fresh insight into the work of one of the most important artists working today.Miroslaw Balka uses video as a repository ...

This new introduction to El Greco (1541-1614) follows the artist from his native island to Venice, Rome, Madrid, and then Toledo, the ecclesiastical capital of Spain. El Greco's ability to assimilate different artistic techniques and approaches to religion and philosophy enabled him to develop one of ...

Takes a look at the makings and meanings of shoes, cobblers, and barefootedness in Jewish experience. This book shows how shoes convey theological, social, and economic concepts, and as such are subjects for inquiry within a range of cultural, artistic, and historic contexts.

Last Gasp is proud to present this new book featuring the works of Los Angeles-based artist Stacy Lande.

An unmissable tour through Western art's avant-garde century

Art directors need to balance both the creative and business-oriented aspects of their role to be truly successful. As well as needing top-level visual and creative skills, art directors must also motivate, communicate with, and inspire their coworkers and clients. Art Directing Projects for Print provides ...

Shows fashion-forward and budget-conscious crafters how to reinvent their wardrobe using beginner-friendly sewing techniques. In this title, each project comes with step-by-step instructions for cutting, sewing, embroidering, or embellishing something truly unique and fabulous.

This innovative and exciting volume celebrates the career and influence of Janet Wolff who has been a highly influential voice in the literature of sociology, cultural studies, visual studies and art history

The quintessential British landscape - the seaside - is the subject of these nostalgic Polaroids taken by the acclaimed English photographer.

This groundbreaking book gets up close and personal to show how two urban styles have melded together.

The Ambassador has been described as 'probably the most daring and enterprising trade magazine ever conceived'. This book takes a detailed look at the background and impact of the magazine and the ambitious photo shoots that showcased the latest couture fashions.

From its foundation in 1768, the Royal Academy of Arts has had a long and illustrious association with the monarchy. This publication records the entirety of the Royal Academy's gift to Her Majesty The Queen to celebrate her Diamond Jubilee more than 100 works on paper by the Academicians, from traditional drawings to acrylics, and collages.

Everything you want to know about your favorite subject in one handy volume. Also available in the Little Book series: The Little Book of the Louvre The Little Book of Vermeer The Little Book of Chocolate The Little Book of Tea The Little Book of Coffee The Little Book of Wine The Little Book of Truffles ...

Kahnweiler was Picasso's lifelong dealer, a major figure in the development of modern art, and one of Cubism's earliest champions. This volume presents the conversations he had with Francis Cremieux, in which he discusses his life, beliefs, practices, friendships with the great artists and writers of ...

Covering the fun, often deliciously risqué, history of lingerie, you'll meet the first innerwear-as-outerwear model (a 5000 year old Snake Goddess in a corset!), take a peek beneath the astounding 11 pounds of underpinnings worn by our Victorian sisters, and discover the special sewing secret behind ...

Create gorgeous, one-of-a-kind outfits for kids of all ages from old clothes and thrift-store finds, using the techniques and inspiration in this book.

Comprising numerous works by important artists, this book includes sculptures, paintings, collages, watercolours and expansive installations from the 1940s.

In his popular "Strange Days, Dangerous Nights," Millett has delivered images of Midwestern noir from the photo files of the "St. Paul Pioneer Press." He returns with a focus on the "dangerous murder cases from the 1940s and 50s, memorialized in these telling photographs.