Why do we need art? What Art Does is an invitation to explore this vital question. It is a chance to understand how art is...
Eric Clapton is acknowledged to be rock's greatest virtuoso, the unrivalled master of its most essential tool, the solid-body electric guitar. Clapton transfigured three of...
Deep underground, hidden from view, some of humanity’s earliest artistic endeavours have lain buried for thousands of years. The most ancient artworks were portable objects,...
Brimming with upbeat guidance, this accessible handbook shows how anyone can use art to enlighten, uplift, calm and ease stress and anxieties. Visual art is...
Marina Abramović has truly pioneered performance as a visual art form. Her work - notorious for its feats of endurance, pain and intense physical encounter...
Sonia Delaunay made enormous contributions to the development of abstraction in the early 1900s. Sonia Delaunay: Art Is Life introduces young audiences to her art...
The Sunday Times bestseller: David Hockney reflects upon life and art as he experiences lockdown in rural Normandy On turning eighty, David Hockney sought out...
Your voice is a powerful instrument, as individual as a fingerprint. You use it every single day, but do you know how to look after...
Few British artists have ever achieved such a wide range of style in oil painting, watercolour, drawing and engraving as J. M. W.Turner. He had...
A passionate advocate of craftsmanship over mass-production, William Morris (1834- 1896) designed a huge variety of objects, but it is his highly original carpet, fabric...
The biggest collection of manga clip art ever brought together on one disc is now at your disposal with 500 Manga Characters.Now you can create...
Discover the gentler face of modernism in this introduction to Alvar Aalto, the Finnish architect who defied the slick geometries set by the International Style...
Let's get abstract Making sense of revolutionary new forms Abstraction shook Western art to its core. In the early part of the 20th century, it...
From vast, splattered canvases to quiet pools of color, enter the world of Abstract Expressionism, the movement which put feelings into paint and turned New...
A stylish gift and inspirational self-purchase that distills Van Gogh's extraordinary writings, artistic talent, creative insight and ambition.With a flexibound cover and gold...
What do we mean when we claim affinity with an object or picture, or say affinities exist between such things? Affinities is a critical and...
'Clemency Burton-Hill makes classical music absolutely accessible, magical and medicinal. Another Year of Wonder is, indeed, another wonder.' Dolly Alderton, broadcaster, writer and bestselling author'Clemmie's...
Provides a tool kit for understanding the world around us. This book is about our obsession with collecting, the quest for authenticity and the creation...
A concise and gripping encounter with Francis Bacon, one of the most individual, powerful, and disturbing painters of the 20th century. Emerging into notoriety in...
From the streets of New York to the walls of its most prominent galleries, follow the short, prolific, and politicized career of Jean-Michel Basquiat, a...