Art, Photography & Fashion

Recounts the brief life and career of the Italian painter, with a detailed anaylsis of his religious drawings, nudes, and portraits.

Why is everything that compromises greatness in art coded as 'feminine'? Has the feminist critique of Art History history yet effected real change? With a new preface by Griselda Pollock, this edition of a truly groundbreaking book offers a radical challenge to a women-free Art History. Parker and Pollock's ...

Provides a thoughtful and comprehensive account by renowned writer Christina Lanzl, on Richard Bertman's intersection of art and life, sculpture and architecture.

Michael Levey, former Director of the National Gallery in London, traces the major trends of European painting in the eighteenth century, taking as his theme the exciting evolution--and revolution--that took place in art from Watteau's birth to the death of Goya. 154 illus., 22 in color.

Evocative images from those who witnessed the fighting in Afghanistan first hand. Features the works of three war artists from their time in Afghanistan.

Traces the development of British art and examines the careers of influential artists such as John Singer Sargent, Vanessa Bell, and David Hockney.

Index of work - Childhood - At The Academy - The Neukunstgruppe - Krumau - His time in prison - The successful years - His return to Vienna.

"An excellent picture of a movement which...has had a profound effecton the arts of the twentieth century."--The Times EducationalSupplement

The latest title in Thames & Hudson's World of Art series surveys the extraordinary diversity and creativity of global body art, past and present.

Artists, architects, art historians, critics, and curators explore the work of Donald Judd as both artist and critic in essays spanning all of Judd's career. Donald Judd (1928-1994) is one of the most influential American artists of the postwar era. Beginning in the 1960s, he developed new ideas about ...

A comprehensive exploration of one of the world's most dynamic and unique design cultures.

The international literary icon opens his eclectic closet: Here are photographs of Murakami’s extensive and personal T-shirt collection, accompanied by essays that reveal a side of the writer rarely seen by the public. Many of Haruki Murakami's fans know about his massive vinyl record collection (10,000 ...

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 ...

A renowned scholar's reflections on the romantic period, its disparate participants, and our unacknowledged debt to them

Incorporating a series of 32 lessons, this book illustrates the art of watercolour painting. The course is designed to be progressive in outlay as one lesson follows onto the next. The book begins with simple lessons on brush control and progresses to more complicated watercolour techniques.

Part of the "Learn to Draw" series, this book looks at drawing buildings. All the basics are covered, to provide a sound foundation in drawing techniques, and numerous illustrations and step-by-step drawings show how these are put into practice.

Extraordinary Sketchbooks takes the reader through different themes and
functions for sketchbooks, including drawing to collect visual research,
course work, developing concepts and suggestions for making simple and
quick visuals into exciting images.

Show me your t-shirts and I ll tell you who you are. Today s t-shirts are projection screens for styles, thoughts, and attitudes; they are wearable calling cards. Wearers and designers of t-shirts define themselves through the featured visual codes and messages and are constantly trying to outdo each ...