The Arts: Treatments & subjects Books

Italian court culture of the fifteenth century was a golden age, gleaming with dazzling princes, splendid surfaces, and luminous images that separated the lords from the (literally) lackluster masses. In Brilliant Bodies, Timothy McCall describes and...

In a completely unexpected way, Aurelio Amendola, a world-renowned photographer, goes beyond his consolidated practice of printing on paper to take up the challenge of the contemporary medium par excellence, digital, exhibiting his shots dedicated to...

'One should try to see health and disease in light of the theory of colour.' -- Rudolf Steiner This book is the result the of the author's adventure in painting and work with Liane Collot d'Herbois (1907-1999), the well-known artist and therapist who...

The exhibition at the Hungarian National Gallery presents the visions and attitudes towards nature that have appeared in art from the second half of the nineteenth century to the present. The climate crisis, the problem of the exploitation of natural...

Lucio Fontana (1899-1968), is universally acknowledged as one of the foremost figures in the generation of artists who, in the 1950s and '60s, helped bring about a radical conceptual and linguistic change in contemporary art. The role he played was...

Gyula Czimra is one of the most unique and distinctive artists in the history of Hungarian painting. In 2025 the Hungarian National Gallery will present a full retrospective exhibition at the 120th anniversary of the artist’s birth. The exhibition...

Jozsef Nemes Lamperth (1891-1924) was a key figure in the avantgarde art movements that emerged in the early twentieth century. The fact that no comprehensive exhibition of modern Hungarian art could open today without featuring at least one of his works...

Lipchitz. A Cubist Sculptor and His Legacy in Hungary will showcase the sculptor of Lithuanian origin (1891 1973), who became famous in Paris, selected from a private collection in Hungary.The exhibition, which includes sculptures, drawings, and prints,...

Based on Rudolf Steiner's indications, Gerard Wagner shows a wholly new approach to the human form in art. The Art of Colour and the Human Form presents the seven motif sketches concerned with the "spirit form of the human being," as well as numerous...

It’s difficult to pinpoint the origins of cruising. While the term was used by men seeking casual encounters with other men in the parks and streets of New York City as early as the 1920s, historical records show the practice is much older. Cruising has...

Revised edition with over 60 colour illustrations: The first study of Margaret Preston's life in Berowra, north of Sydney, from 1932 to 1942, fully illustrated with her woodcuts, paintings and monotypes showing that area of the Hawkesbury River. Written...

Elsa Beskow is one of Swedens best-known authors and illustrators. Her picture books have been loved for more than a century. This month-to-view calendar is beautifully illustrated with Elsa Beskows characteristic seasonal artwork, which features joyful...

New York's Fifth Avenue, America's 'Street of Dreams', is one of the most remarkable thoroughfares in the world. Shown on the Commissioners' map of 1807 emerging from a country road, then in the proposed grid plan of 1811 as one of the major boulevards,...

'The Keeper of All The Secrets': Ceramic Art, Botanicals and the Caribbean Market Woman centres around a new work in ceramic by contemporary artist and writer Jacqueline Bishop. Featuring original essays, poetry by Bishop and an extensive interview with...

Enjoy an elegant anatomical atlas of the human body. This beautiful luxury second edition of Anatomy in Black features a deluxe black slipcase with gold foil motif and ribbon pull, encasing a gold foil-embossed hardback cover, with black sprayed edges,...

Addison Mizner's Mediterranean-style mansions are much-admired Florida icons, where even today you can find many homes modeled with stucco walls and tiled roofs. In the paperback release of Boca Rococo, Caroline Seebohm's successful biography on the...

Louis I. Kahn: The Nordic Latitudes is a new and personal reading of the architecture, teachings, and legacy of Louis I. Kahn from Per Olaf Fjeld's perspective as a former student. The book explores Kahn's life and work, offering a unique take on one of...

A spirited memoir by artist Aviva Rahmani, offering a relatable narrative to discuss trigger point theory and the importance of eco-art activism. Divining Chaos is an intimate personal memoir of unparalleled transparency into the moments in Rahmani's...

Margaret Randall reveals personal stories and profound insights about the artists who most influenced her life. Artists in My Life is a collection of intimate and conversational accounts of the visual artists that have impacted the renowned poet activist...

Preaching Magazine Book of the Year (2022) Hearts & Minds Best Books List (2022) Christianity Today Award of Merit in Church & Pastoral Leadership (2023) It's time to give pastors permission to read books besides the Bible. Six months into his first...

How do the arts in worship form individuals and communities? Every choice of art in worship opens up and closes down possibilities for the formation of our humanity. Every practice of music, every decision about language, every use of our bodies, every...

No single figure has been featured with greater frequency in Western art than Jesus Christ. Sculptures, particularly - though they have received less notice than paintings - provide some of the most moving representations in their capacity to show Christ...

"What is prayer? It's not a passport to heaven. If anything, it's a way of seeing here, a way of being here." In Being Here, acclaimed poet and theologian Padraig O Tuama offers a thoughtful collection of prayers and essays to focus attention in a world...

With this stunning collection of images of the Southern Appalachians, James Valentine presents an enduring portrait of the region's unique natural character. His compelling photographs of ancient mountains, old-growth forests, rare plants, and powerful...

Born just nine years apart in Ukraine and Siberia, respectively, Louise Nevelson and Esphyr Slobodkina were both children of Jewish families who fled Russian governmental repression and conflict. Both made early marriages of convenience or convention...

Dedicated to an articulation of the earth from broadly ecological perspectives, eco art is a vibrant subset of contemporary art that addresses the widespread public concern with rapid climate change and related environmental issues. In Landscape into Eco...

The latest in the perennially popular line of Studio Ghibli artbooks, which includes interviews, concept sketches, and finished animation cels from classics such as Spirited Away and My Neighbor Totoro.The Wind Rises is Miyazaki’s love letter to the...

As one of Currier & Ives's leading artists, Frances (""Fanny"") Bond Palmer (1812-1876) was a major lithographer whose prints found their way into homes, schools, barns, taverns, business offices, yacht clubs, and elsewhere, reaching a mass audience...

Early in his career, critics and collectors widely recognized that Harold Weston (1894-1972), was capturing and saying something unusual in his paintings. ""There is a young American painter,"" wrote Duncan Phillips, ""who stirs in me the hope for a...

What is it about puzzles that drives us to figure them out? In this unique and innovative book, Bret L. Rothstein explores how mechanical problems delight and frustrate us, distracting our attention from recognizably “useful activities and directing it...

John Davies began photographing both the rural and urban landscape in the 1970s and this book brings together his early images alongside new contemporary works evisiting the same landscapes - mapping both equilibrium and change. These pairs of images are...

Memory formation, memorialization, collective history, and knowledge of the known world are guided by individuals and their cultures. Collecting Memories: Treasures from the Library of Congress explores the ways people have preserved their history,...

Memory formation, memorialization, collective history, and knowledge of the known world are guided by individuals and their cultures. Collecting Memories: Treasures from the Library of Congress explores the ways people have preserved their history,...

Shortly after the end of the Second World War, and following the success of its paperback rebranding, Penguin Books made the bold decision to completely redesign its publications. Their subsequent choice of designer would not only lead to the...

A celebration of The Henry Moore Foundation's Collection, this book explains the history of the Foundation and its Collection and examines Moore's somewhat haphazard way of working. It contains over 250 reproductions of his works, and offers an analysis...

Drawing on documents, interviews and archives, this title tells the story of the rise and fall of the Art Czar: his development from a small voice published in periodicals of marginal circulation, to a towering figure whose views influenced artists and...

Anthony Caro is internationally recognised as one of the greatest modernist sculptors. His radical approach heralded a revolution in sculpture. Through his work and teaching he freed sculpture from 'the monolith'. This landmark publication is the first...

Eric Ravilious (1903-1942) died at the age of 39, when the Air Sea Rescue mission, which he was accompanying in his capacity as Official War Artist, failed to return to its base in Iceland. This book examines his landscape painting in watercolour and is...

Breon O'Casey, artist and craftsman, had an early introduction to artistic brilliance as colour reproductions of works by Europe's modern masters filled his childhood homes. This study examines the connections between family, Celtic culture and modernism...

Elizabeth Blackadder has been respected as a printmaker for over five decades and has experimented with a range of diverse media including etching, aquatint, monoprint and lithography. This book illustrates and catalogues every published print made by...

A comprehensive record of Henry Moore's life and work, of the influences that shaped his vision, and of his reactions to the work of other artists, periods and cultures. Spanning some 70 years, Moore's writings and conversations collected here include...

This book documents the production of Pacheco's suite of polychrome sculpture, entitled Dark Night of the Soul, which was made during her time as the fourth Associate Artist at the National Gallery, London, in 1999.

William Roberts was a key player in the development of Cubism in England before the First World War and the longest surviving member of Wyndham Lewis' Vorticist movement. When he died in 1980, however, he was unfairly thought of as an artist whose...

A comprehensive survey of the work of Hans Schleger which includes drawing, painting and photography, as well as the graphic-design work for which he was best known: posters, symbols, advertising and corporate design and packaging.

A dazzling collection of quotations from the modern American artist whose mobiles are beloved worldwide.Calder-isms is a collection of fascinating, irreverent, and often profound quotations from the influential modern American sculptor Alexander Calder...

This officially-licensed journal has a tactile, sculpted cover featuring the Trilogy icon and flower motifs from the bestselling Powerless trilogy of novels by Lauren Roberts.This eye-catching, stylish journal is sure to delight any fan of the Powerless...

Relive a full century of artistic innovation, iconic moments, and technological advancements in this gorgeously illustrated definitive history of anime.Paying tribute to a century of one of the world’s most popular and enduring genres, 100 Years of Anime...