Almost nine million people from all over the world flock to the Louvre in Paris every year to see its incomparable art collection. Yet few,...
A concise, accessible and up-to-date overview of the arts of Africa from prehistoric times to the present day. This indispensable introductory guide explores the art...
David Hockney is the most famous living British artist. And he is arguably one of the more famous American artists as well. Emerging from the...
An interpretation of the history of mural painting from ancient Egypt to the twentieth century by one of most eminent art historians of all time,...
An electrifying collection of essays from legendary cultural critic and Pulitzer Prize-winner Greg Tate‘Easily one of the greatest wordsmiths … [and] the best American writer...
If ever there were Satanic Majesties of rock their name was Led Zeppelin. The band that out-sold the Rolling Stones and made Robert Johnson's deals...
'A must-read for old-school hip-hop heads and burgeoning fans alike'Time'Hip Hip is not History, it's Our story. Brilliant book'Craig Charles'A detailed chronological retelling of the...
THE SUNDAY TIMES ART BOOK OF THE YEARChristie's Best Art Books of the Year 'Deft and richly detailed ... rescues the artist from John Bull...
Renowned art historian and pioneering feminist Linda Nochlin explores how, from the late 18th century, fragmented, mutilated and fetishized representations of the human body came...
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This book is an accessible introduction to the critical theories used in analysing art. It covers a broad range of approaches, presenting individual arguments, controversies...
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER‘His storytelling is vivid, humorous, and refreshingly honest' DUA LIPA'Compelling, wry, self-aware, genuinely endearing' THE GUARDIAN‘A ride you have to take’ ZANE...
Virgina Woolf's collection of writings on visual arts offer a whole new perspective on the revolutionary author. Despite wide interest in Woolf's writings, her circle,...
In Permanent Red, John Berger argues that the contemporary artist should strive for a realism that aims for hope, to transform the world. Surveying the...
His name was Prince, and he was funky. He was also inspiring, infuriating, visionary, secretive, seductive, contradictory. Especially contradictory. He channelled dualities as if doing...
Over 100 handwritten manuscripts of the Beatles' original lyrics, tracked down from friends of the band, museums, universities and collectors. Hunter Davies, author of...
A beautifully written and elegantly constructed narrative that explores the intense, complex and far-reaching female friendships among the Surrealists during the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s....
One morning in March 2021 with the second wave of infections ripping through Ireland where he was newly resident, Mark Lanegan woke up breathless, fatigued...