Art, Photography & Fashion

"100 Best Paintings in New York is an essential guide to the best of the great collections of art open to the public in New York." "Each of the 100 chosen paintings is reproduced in full color with a vivid description that provides both appreciation and analysis and includes fascinating details of how ...

Following the success of his On Creativity, John Tusa's new book draws on his acclaimed BBC Radio 3 series of interviews with a range of internationally distinguished artists.

This volume presents Mark Dion's work on "digs" he has been concerned with in Italy, Switzerland, and London. The book provides a preface to each of project by the artist. A text frames his ongoing projects. Further texts from the lecture programme in the Tate Gallery elucidate the artist's work.

Takes a critical look at public sculpture and the author's place within, and outside of, its limits. This book examines the psychological and physical origins of the author's practice, and relates her work to the history and meaning of public sculpture.

Dutch artist Marcel van Eeden has completed a drawing a day since 1993. This book features a collection of approximately 140 virtuoso drawings, in which he provides a fictitious biography of K M Wiegand, who, history verifies, was actually a botanist.

At last, the broader movements of twentieth-century Swiss art--and the individual artists behind them--are tracked through the present day in one standard-setting publication. Swiss Made: Precision and Madness sets the famous Swiss tendency toward precision and order alongside the tendency toward obstinacy ...

Chieflt pictorial work.

This is the author's first book focusing on those who see the Web as a blank canvas for creativity. It aims to provide a deeper understanding of the work they do in both the commercial and non- commercial sectors and provides a showcase for artist mediums overlooked in terms of what is generally considered good art design.

The various environments of modern science -- genetic engineering, atomic energy, pathology, and animal testing -- are the subjects of Hans Danuser's austerely beautiful black-and-white photographs. His images depict in clinical detail the research labs and factories, inaccessible to most of us, where ...

Futurism, invented in 1909 by the Italian writer and cultural impresario, F.T. Marinetti, was the defining avant-garde movement of the early twentieth century. Inspired by the cities, technology, speed, and latent violence of the world around them, the Futurists created an art and ideology for their ...

The eminent art critic and author always managed to catch the unexpected angle when he interviewed or analysed his contemporaries.

A companion to England's national collection of public sculptures and monuments.

The fourth and final part of a four-volume set of art criticism by Richard Cork, written over a 30-year period. It offers a chronicle of a turbulent period as well as an overview and survey of British art and its reception at this time. This particular work addresses the art of the year 2000.