Arts, Architecture & Design Books

The extraordinary twentieth-century writer Barbara Comyns led a life as captivating as the narratives she spun. This pioneering biography reveals the journey of a woman who experienced hardship and single-motherhood before the age of thirty but went on...

Like her much-loved heroine Emma Woodhouse, Jane Austen 'played and sang'. Music occupied a central role in her life, and she made brilliant use of it in her books to illuminate characters' personalities and highlight the contrasts between them.Until...

A comprehensive and richly illustrated publication celebrating the timeless art of Emily Kam Kngwarray - a pre-eminent Australian artist and one of the most significant painters of the 20th century.Emily Kam Kngwarray celebrates the timeless art of a...

This guide, written for artists who have minimal or no working knowledge of Procreate, is a knowledge-packed resource for using Procreate to draw and paint portraitsDedicated chapters cover using Procreate software, facial anatomy, drawing portraits, and...

The highly anticipated second volume to the widely acclaimed and celebrated self-portrait series, Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness.In Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness, Volume II, Zanele Muholi explores and expands upon new personas and...

Golden Hour: The Art of Raide is the debut art book from popular self-taught digital illustrator Raide. This unique book allows readers behind-the-scenes insight into the artist's creative process, including the tools and techniques she uses to create...

Wales boasts a stunning array of castles, the most per square mile of any country in Europe, from the earliest stone fortifications at Chepstow to the 19th-century folly of Castell Coch and from the splendor of Caernarfon, Beaumaris, Conwy and Harlech,...

This is the story of an emancipation, that of a young black and poor woman living in an America marked by segregation.This is the story of a fierce battle, that of a musician involved in the civil rights movement.This is the story of a long career, that...

One of the founders of the Impressionist movement while also one of its most ruthless critics, too bohemian for the bourgeois and too bourgeois for the artists, Edgar Degas was a man of paradoxes. A loner, he only loved one woman without ever courting...

"Grease, Tell Me More, Tell Me More is a fabulous rockin' and rollin' origin story with every juicy inspiration that went into creating it. . . .A must read for all Grease fans." -Didi Conn, Grease's "Frenchy" What started as an amateur play with music...

A new edition of this extensive visual analysis of horror tropes and their architectural analoguesHorror in Architecture presents an unflinching look at how horror genre tropes manifest in the built environment. Spanning the realms of art, design,...

The One World Family Calendar is full of colourful images from around the world and is designed to organise the whole family throughout the year. With space for entries by up to five people, it is the ultimate calendar for you to plan your family's year.

This month to-view calendar features 12 inspirational recipes from across the globe to inspire you in the kitchen and impress your friends and family. This calendar is beautifully illustrated on every page with unique and exclusive artwork. Each recipe...

The complete guide to mastering your drone! David Busch's DJI Mini 3/Mini 3 Pro Guide to Drone Photography is your comprehensive resource and reference guide to capturing high quality photographic still images and high-definition video with the...

This book is a four step method to develop the skills and concepts needed to play contemporary jazz guitar.To listen to any of the top jazz guitarist today , it is easy to hear a blending of guitar styles and techniques that include blues, jazz, rock and...

Neshat-isms is an exciting collection of quotations from award-winning Iranian-American visual artist and filmmaker Shirin Neshat. Her experiences of loss and grief as an Iranian woman living in exile are central themes of her work in photography, video,...

Embrace the dark and conquer landscape photography at night!In the past, landscape photography largely ended when the last light of dusk faded from the sky. Today it's only beginning. The latest digital cameras have made it much easier to create images...

A photographic guide to the many statues that line the streets and parks through out New York City. There are over 300 Statues through out New York City. This book captures but a small amount in beautiful color pictures. Each accompanied with a...

A selection of incredible artists pay tribute to Frank Frazetta by creating new art inspired by his work, accompanied by in-depth interviews with members of the Frazetta family.Frank Frazetta is often referred to as the 'Godfather of Fantasy...

Featuring a foreword from Annie MacIn Welcome to the club, Manchester legend DJ Paulette shares the highs, lows and lessons of a thirty-year music career, with help from some famous friends.One of the Hacienda's first female DJs, Paulette has scaled the...

An insightful and comprehensive guide to mastering the art of drawing and illustrating architecture.Inspiring architecture and beautiful buildings are all around us. Artists often gravitate toward building facades, doors, windows, and roofs that tell a...

A fresh, research-based look at how companies can better compete, on their own terms, with tech giants from a Harvard Business School professor and a former Bloomberg journalist.Companies are fighting the wrong battle. The consensus has been to learn the...

A handy guide with essential info for sewing beginners.Quickly learn and reference the basic skills of sewing and apply them to garment making and crafting.Designed for sewists and DIY crafters who need a guide to the many common stitches, fasteners,...

Quickly learn the basics of the many different kinds of fabrics commonly used for sewing projects so you can pick the perfect material for your project!Designed for sewists and DIY crafters who need a guide to the many common fabrics used for sewing...

Popular artist Gretel Lusky welcomes readers into her fantastical world in this high-quality art book.This is an artist who loves fantasy and all things magical: fairies, mermaids, mythical creatures, knights, and more. She creates characters that are...

The need to categorise and communicate colour has mobilised practitioners and scholars for centuries. Color Charts describes the many different methods and ingenious devices developed since the fifteenth century by doctors, naturalists, dyers, and...

Character Design Quarterly (CDQ) is a lively, creative magazine bringing inspiration, expert insights, and leading techniques from professional illustrators, artists, and character art enthusiasts worldwide.Each issue provides detailed tutorials on...

Character designers take inspiration from beautiful botany and, in this project-focused title, each create a brand-new character based on nature, with step-by-step tutorials allowing readers to follow along.From mushroom fairies to swamp-dwelling beasts,...

The White Stripes Complete Lyrics is a deluxe new 300+ page hardbound book documenting all of Jack White's original words written for the 6x Grammy Award-winning duo he and Meg White formed in 1997 through the release of their final album in 2007. The...

'Kevin does what I pretend to do. Kevin's a proper musician.' David Bowie'Kevin Armstrong has been around, and around.' Iggy PopGrowing up in a world of punk squats and the London pub-rock scene, suburban rookie guitarist Kevin Armstrong found himself...

Collecting Art Deco highlights the beauty, flamboyance and the variety of Art Deco design in all its iterations and from around the world, with unique individual pieces complemented by exceptional assemblages of rarely-seen sets and groupings.The...

Accidental Geniusfeatures intimate and laugh-out-loud commentary from The Room cast and crew, including interviews from its star Greg Sestero.What a story indeed! A rollicking recollection of experiences from the legendary "so bad it's good" film. This...

On December 8, 1980, twenty-something rock journalist Laurie Kaye entered the legendary Dakota apartments in New York to interview her longtime idol John Lennon. It was the last interview Lennon would ever give- just hours later, outside that same...

The most comprehensive publication of Kodojin beautiful and mysterious a collection of more than 100 paintings with the English translations of his inscribed Chinese poems. The Art and Life of Fukuda Kodojin is the first publication in English to offer...

Reading Room: New and Reimagined Libraries of the American Westdocuments a new generation of regional libraries that are redefining public space in the 21st century. Through text and photography, the book examines the libraries' place and function in...

An inspiring and beautifully produced series of photo-portraits of LGBTQ Russians living in an increasingly homophobic RussiaDo we want children from elementary school to be imposed withthings that lead to degradation and extinction? Do we want them to...

Aperture magazine releases winter issue, Desire, featuring an expansive interview with renowned fashion photographer Juergen Teller'Photographs can abet desire in the most direct, utilitarian way,' Susan Sontag observed. Hers was a...

One of the twentieth century's most influential texts on philosophical aestheticsPainting as an Art is acclaimed philosopher Richard Wollheim's encompassing vision of how to view art. Transcending the traditional boundaries of art history, Wollheim draws...

An illuminating look at the iconography of the early church and its important place in the history of Christian artIn this book, historian Andr Grabar demonstrates how early Christian iconography assimilated contemporary imagery of the time. Grabar looks...

The first publication of photographs taken by Ernest Cole in the United States during the turbulent and eventful late 1960s and early 1970s.After fleeing South Africa to publish his landmark book House of Bondage (1967) on the horrors of apartheid, Cole...

How the creative use of pop music in film-think Saturday Night Fever or Apocalypse Now-has shaped and shifted music history since the 1960s Quick: What movie do you think of when you hear "The Sounds of Silence"? Better yet, what song comes to mind when...

THIS IS THE GUIDE TO CLASSIC SUPERHERO MOVIES YOU NEVER KNEW YOU NEEDED.If you mention the word 'superhero' these days, the mind is immediately bombarded by visions from the MCU, DCU and all the numerous phases, extended TV series and...

SPACE. THE FINAL FRONTIER. THESE WERE ALMOST THE VOYAGES OF THE STARSHIP ENTERPRISE.We think we know the history of Star Trek. Born at the height of 1960s popular culture, the five-year mission of Captain James T. Kirk and his crew faced early...

Climate Inheritance is a speculative design research publication that reckons with the complexity of world and heritage in the Anthropocene. The impacts of climate change on heritage sites - from Venice flooding to extinction in the Galpagos Islands -...

David Busch's Canon EOS R8 Guide to Digital Photography is your all-in-one comprehensive resource and reference for the exciting new Canon EOS R8, which is aimed squarely at enthusiasts looking for an affordable full-frame entry to mirrorless...

Cast Mates is a group biography of Australian acting giants across the ages.Australia has a long cinema history - starting with the world's first feature film, The Story of the Kelly Gang, made in Melbourne and released in 1906. Today, much of...

With color photographs and artwork, Sisters in Art is the first biography to capture the lives and works of Margaret, Esther, and Helen Bruton, three exceptionally talented sisters whose mark on the California modernist art scene still impacts our world...

This exhibition catalogue for a show at the Neue Sammlung (Design Museum) in Munich documents the first solo show by Swiss jewellery artist Therese Hilbert, former student of Max Frehlich in Zurich and Hermann Jnger in Munich. It features 250 works,...