Journals offer their makers a safe place to dream, doodle, rant, and reinvent themselves. They offer viewers rich, visual inspiration. There is a fascination with these revealing and often beautiful pages of self-exp

"30,000 Years of Art" presents 1000 great works of art from all periods and regions in the world, arranged in chronological order for a general readership. Breaking through the usual geographical and cultural boundaries of a

Profiles 50 major artists alongside their representative works. This work includes brief biographies, time lines, and critical analyses. It offers additional information to help readers locate the artist's work online and in

This beautifully produced, richly detailed and comprehensive survey of fifty influential women artists from the Renaissance to the Post-Modern era details their vast contributions to the art world. From the Early Baroqu

Plates and chargers can serve as more than just places to put your food: they can be glorious art to show off on a table, sideboard or dresser. These 500 spectacular pieces range from the utilitarian yet beautifully glazed plate t

Showcases a collection of tiles. Some of the larger displays were made to decorate public and private spaces; others use single tiles to interpret nature, tell a story, or make cultural observations.

The best full-scale biography of this intellectually restless, deeply committed artist.. As the Washington Post says, "Dore Ashton brings the reader to the very core of Mark Rothko'

Long recognized for its preeminent Abstract Expressionist works, "The Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman Collection" collection includes major canvases by the great painters of the movement, among t

Art of Jackson Pollock from the Beyler Fondation.

Though very much an individual and spiritual artist, Alfonse Mucha was a defining figure of the Art Nouveau era and is loved for his distinctive lush style and images of beautiful women in arabesque poses among the plethor

Best known for his distinctive paintings and sculptures, Modigliani drew obsessively and considered this skill vital to his development as an artist. His proficiency, ease, and delight in drawing are clearly in evidence in t

English & German

In the five years during which Warhol worked intensively as a filmmaker, he produced 472 portrait films called "Screen Tests". In this book, the author illustrates and describes the 189 people who were captured by Warhol's le

Since the 1970s Anish Kapoor has been creating sculptures and installations from a variety of materials such as wood, stone, metal, wax, and resin. His use of bright pigments and archetypal forms enables his audience

A retrospective volume of Anselm Kiefer's work, this catalogue addresses the artist's entire career through the lens of one theme. This catalogue of more than sixty reproductions includes Kiefer's first work, "Heaven", as wel

Art interprets the visible world, physics charts its unseen workings?making these two realms seem in complete opposition. But in Art & Physics, Leonard Shlain tracks their development side by side throughout the centuries to reveal an astonishi

The most comprehensive multimedia reference on the art of the 20th century. Over 3500 high quality images, many in high resolution zoom, including painting, sculpture and photography.

Presents a survey of international contemporary art from the 1980s. This title addresses themes such as art and popular culture, art and its institutions, and art and globalism.

A reference book of artist's materials and methods including the latest advances in new materials.

Offers an intimate perspective on the work and studios of over 100 significant American artists from the late 19th century to the 1970s. This book shows the evolution of studio spaces and by extension the public/private perso

Jean Baptiste Marc Bourgery's "Atlas of Anatomy", was a massive event in medical history. The four parts of Bourgery's treatise cover descriptive anatomy, surgical anatomy and techniques (covering in detail the major operatio

This work is dedicated to Bacon's stylistic distortions of classicism and his famous deformations. It sets his work in the context of his life and influences and explains his approach to portraiture.

This volume is the catalogue to an exhibition to be held at the Staedtische Galerie Dresden, which will feature Penck's works from a large private collection. It features nearly 500 illustrations from the 1950s when

From the world's great collections of ornithological art, this giant book showcases 150 exquisite and vibrant images of nature's most beautiful birds. From intricately detailed drawings of well-known birds, to vivid repr

Through an examination of a broad range of contentious imagery in art, this book questions the status of blasphemy in a world ever more divided in its views of what is acceptable, and aims to provide a vantage point from whic

This succinct catalogue features wonderful cover and interior spread reproductions of a selection of the most important and influential artist's books of the twentieth century. Beginning with Stephane Mallarme's 1914

"The Book of Kells" is the richest and most copiously illustrated book in the Celto-Saxon style that still survives. However, despite its rarity and fame, there is little that is known about it. Reproducing over sixty of

Includes an essay by popular writer and journalist Lynne Truss and an illustrated article by Toby Wiggins, the travel-award winner 2006.

The sensuously undulant lines of Bruno Mathsson's furniture designs made him one of the leading figures of Swedish modernism in the 1930s. This book surveys

Almost from the beginning of art, humans have portrayed cats. Throughout history, cats have been a beautiful vessel for symbolic meanings, ranging from dark unruly sensuality to perfect domestic tranquillity. T

An artist of the 20th century, Marc Chagall (1887-1985) created a world full of pathos, poetry, humor, and enchantment, drawing on vivid memories of his Jewish upbringing in Russia. This title covers various as