The legendary Brooklyn Rail has been a platform for artists, academics, and writers in New York and abroad for almost twenty years. No other publication...
A richly illustrated sourcebook of two-dimensional pattern and three dimensional ornamentation, presenting more than 1,000 historic and contemporary examples from around the world. The wealth...
A thought-provoking exploration of Bruce Springsteen's iconic album, Born in the U.S.A.-a record that both chronicled and foreshadowed the changing tides of modern AmericaOn June...
Artist Joe Roberts has spent more than a decade honing a deeply unique and unapologetically hallucinogenic style of art. Through paintings, drawings and mixed-media works,...
Linda Nochlin (1931-2017) was one of the most pioneering and provocative art historians of our time. In 1971 she published her groundbreaking article, 'Why Have...
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Uplifting and engaging, this story recounts the life and career of a rebellious 20th-century British artist...
From The Phantom of the Opera and The Sound of Music to Les Misérables, Musicals: The Definitive Illustrated Story brings the world's best-loved productions to...
Life’s ironies are easier to take in with a sugar coating. This coating entertains, and acts as a remedy for the bitter truth while you...
The revelation of a misidentified face in a photograph-once thought to be Vincent, now known to be Theo van Gogh-leads to a novelesque story of...
In the last few decades, the world of contemporary art has become more globalized and visible than ever before. And yet this world has long...
The guide trough the European art world – short and concise.Contemporary Europe: Art Guide is a concise, up-to-date, and insightful presentation of European museums, art...
A folk-art movement emerges in the face of unchecked consumerism and waste management Dressed in masks and costumes made from garbage, a generation of Congolese...
This book investigates the stardom of Lady Gaga within a cultural-sociological framework. Resisting a reductionist perspective of fame as a commodity, Mathieu Deflem offers an...
Inventor, painter, sculptor, scientist, architect, and engineerLeonardo da Vinci(1452–1519) was nothing short of a quintessential Renaissance genius. No other artist of his generation has left...
Picasso's ceramics express the restless, fluid ease of his late yearsIn 1946, Pablo Picasso visited an exhibition of ceramics in Vallauris, an area in southeastern...
Showcases the work of 38 truly innovative and inspirational artists who use low-cost, low-tech media and often totally original techniques to produce work that defies...
From Bessie Smith and The Supremes to Joan Baez, Madonna, Beyonce, Amy Winehouse, Dolly Parton, Sleater-Kinney, Taylor Swift, and scores more, women have played an...
With his colourful spaceships, intricate machines and futuristic cities, Chris Foss revolutionised the science fiction book covers of the 1970s and the 1980s. This is...
Divided into three: 'Draw', 'Paint', 'Make', this book celebrates and discusses the work of forty-five urban artists, extraordinarily diverse but united by one basic principle:...
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