History of art Books

Expand your aural and sensory experiences with Extreme Music. An exploration of tomorrow's sounds (and silences) today. is the culmination of decades of research into the sounds (and silences) that comprise the outer limits and conceptual expressions...

An entertaining and informative read, The Joy of Art offers the reader:A working art vocabulary to help you identify and explain what you're looking at Answers to many of the questions you may have about visual art in general A summary of the basic...

An accessible compendium of the most important aspects of Japanese arts, culture and history, for quick reference or a longer, in-depth read, for actual and armchair travellers alike..This friendly guide offers concise but detailed demystifications of...

La Dolce Vita University 2nd Edition should be a book of broad and perennial interest both domestically and overseas (particularly in the U.K., Canada, Japan and China). It could sell as either an impulse or planned purchase to any of these prospects:...

This collection brings together for the first time many of the influential Marxist art-historian Andrew Hemingway's most important works on Romantic landscape painting. With a careful eye for both the ideological and aesthetic aspects of a wide range of...

Mystic Parallax is the first major monograph by rising interdisciplinary artist Awol Erizku.Working across photography, film, video, painting, and installation, his work references and re-imagines African American and African visual culture, from hip hop...

Tommy Kha: Half, Full, Quarter weaves together self-portraits and classically bucolic landscapes punctuated by the traces of East Asian stories embedded in the topography of the American South.In this first major monograph, featuring almost a decade of...

Delegation is the first comprehensive monograph by Apsalooke/Crow artist Wendy Red Star, whose photography recasts historical narratives with wit, candor, and a feminist, Indigenous perspective.Red Star centers Native American life and material culture...

In The New Black Vanguard: Photography between Art and Fashion, curator and critic Antwaun Sargent addresses a radical transformation taking place in fashion and art today.The featuring of the Black figure and Black runway and cover models in the media...

Seeing Science offers an insightful and reader-friendly collection of essays and pictures about photography's role in visualizing science and building human knowledge-from micro to macro levels and everything in between.Photography and science have long...

Looking Again is as much about photography, in a broader sense, as it is about the specific photographs reproduced within it. It is designed to provide the reader with a glimpse into both the collection at the New Orleans Museum of Art and into...

Deana Lawson is one of the most intriguing photographers of her generation. Over the last ten years, she has created a visionary language to describe identities through intimate portraiture and striking accounts of ceremonies and rituals. Using medium-...

Newly revised histories of photography as recorded via the photobook have added enormously to our understanding of the medium's culture, particularly in places that are often marginalized, such as Latin America and Africa. However, until now, only a...

Why did Henri Cartier-Bresson nearly have a posthumous exhibition while still alive? What led Stephen Shore to work with color? Why was Sophie Calle accused of stealing Vermeer's The Concert? And what is Susan Meiselas's take on Instagram and the future...

In the 1970s, from his base in Los Angeles, artist Robert Cumming (born 1943) made functional-looking but ultimately useless constructions, created primarily to be photographed with his 8 x 10 camera. Playing with props, proportions, unusual angles,...

A growing appreciation of the photobook has inspired a flood of new scholarship and connoisseurship of the form-few as surprising and inspiring as The Latin American Photobook, the culmination of a four-year, cross-continental research effort led by...

Discover the power, names, and virtues of 224 angels Angelology is a pop-illustrated encyclopedia that presents angels in way they've never been presented before - in the style of a superhero comic book. Readers will discover the names, powers, and...

Like a long, funny letter from an old friend, an album of drawings by the legendary singer and activist for social justice, Joan Baez.Since retiring from active performing, Baez has focused her formidable talents on painting and drawing. This collection...

The first book on a fascinating mysterious death with art as big business at the center. Indiana's work is loved even by those unfamiliar with his name. Expect major review attention from mainstream and art news media. Robert Indiana's life, work and...

This volume sets out to challenge and ultimately broaden the category of the 'photobook'. It critiques the popular art-market definition of the photobook as simply a photographer's book, proposing instead to show how books and photos come together as...

As one of the people who defined punk's protest art in the 1970s and 1980s, Gee Vaucher (b. 1945) deserves to be much better-known. She produced confrontational album covers for the legendary anarchist band Crass and later went on to do the same for...

Since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998 - the formal end-point of the thirty-year modern 'Troubles' - contemporary visual artists have offered diverse responses to post-conflict circumstances in Northern Ireland. In Ghost-Haunted Land -...

The book examines how increasing engagement with the rest of the world transformed European art, architecture and design. It considers how commercial activity and colonial ventures gave rise to new and diverse forms of visual and material culture across...

Inspired by recent approaches to the field, the book reexamines the field of Renaissance art history by exploring the art of this era in the light of global connections. It considers the movement of objects, ideas and technologies and its significance...

An examination of Japanese contemporary art through the lens of ecocriticism and environmental historyCollectively referred to by the word tsuchi, earthy materials such as soil and clay are prolific in Japanese contemporary art. Highlighting works of...

Tracing the evolution of the Italian avant-garde's pioneering experiments with art and technology and their subversion of freedom and controlIn postwar Italy, a group of visionary artists used emergent computer technologies as both tools of artistic...

A radical proposal for how a tiny organism can transform our understanding of human relationsServing as both a guide and companion publication to the conceptual art project of the same name, The Lichen Museum explores how the physiological...

Two favourite art forms are together at last! Chalk art is beloved by both kids and adults, and manga is a worldwide comic book phenomenon coming from Japan. As the first book of its kind, Chalk Art Manganot only reveals the secrets to creating cute and...

Bring your own manga characters to life!With millions of fans around the world, manga is a beloved art form. Now you, too, can learn how to draw your favourite characters from Japanese comics and anime! Manga Art for Everyone shows you how to draw...

In this new edition of A Short History of the Middle Ages, Barbara H. Rosenwein offers a panoramic view of the medieval world. Volume II ranges from England to China and from West Africa to the Baltic, while never losing sight of the main contours of the...

In this beautifully illustrated overview, Rene Worringer provides a clear and comprehensive account of the longevity, pragmatism, and flexibility of the Ottoman Empire in governing over vast territories and diverse peoples. A Short History of the Ottoman...

Original book of photographs and text by the noted director/writer/producer Brian Levant, presenting his extraordinary collection of animated feature and comic toys, including hundreds of iconic characters represented in figures, banks, games,...

Unanticipated is a career retrospective monograph that includes 248 images of both painting and drawing, along with 17,500 words of text. In 1964, Janet Alling studied among a legendary generation of artists, including Chuck Close, Jennifer Bartlett,...

Do You Compute? is a broad survey featuring the very best of computer advertising in the 20th century. From the Atomic Age to the Y2K bug, this volume presents a connoisseur's selection of graphic gems culled from museums, university archives, and...

"Cadavers, camera, action!" (The New York Times Book Review). From the advent of photography in the 19th and into the 20th century, medical students, often in secrecy, took photographs of themselves with the cadavers that they dissected: their first...

The triumphs and tragedies of growing up as the son of a famous Beat artist.Tosh is a memoir of growing up as the son of an enigmatic, much-admired, hermetic, and ruthlessly bohemian artist during the waning years of the Beat Generation and the heyday of...

Create exquisite, long-lasting quilled paper flowers with this step-by-step detailed guide!With the help of Japanese quilling expert Motoko Maggie Nakatani, you can create breathtaking quilled flowers with just a few inexpensive tools and paper quilling...

Utagawa Hiroshige was one of the most prominent Japanese ukiyo-e artists. He is best known for his series of prints The 53 Stations of the Tokaido (1832 - 1833). Hiroshige's work influenced Europe's Impressionists and...

Shibori is a traditional tie-dyeing craft characterized by its indigo colour and elaborate patterns. It is known as a Japanese craft, but can actually be traced back to 5th century China. Shibori is created by using a myriad of resist-dyeing techniques...

Journal about the ebb and flow of your day to day in this sophisticated journal.Water symbolizes life. It's unpredictable, purifying, strong and flexible, a force that can both heal and sink you. The colour gold is often associated with wealth,...

Batik is an ancient handmade dyeing technique from Indonesia. It involves applying wax to fabric, and then soaking that fabric in a colour. The cloud design is a common batik motif and is referred to as megamendung.

Reflect on your daily life and rejuvenate your spirit in this healing journal.This soft cover journal features turn of the century botanical watercolours from Compendium of Materia Medica of the Ming Dynasty. Healing mushrooms have been used in...

Traditional Japanese toys, Kokeshi are handmade wooden dolls with no arms or legs made from scraps of wood. Each doll's gorgeous features and dress are painted to reflect a region of origin or the artist's style. Modern Kokeshi may...

Utagawa Hiroshige was one of the most prominent Japanese ukiyo-e artists. He is best known for his series of prints The 53 Stations of the Tokaido (1832-1833). Hiroshige's work influenced Europe's Impressionists and Post-Impressionists,...

Utagawa Hiroshige was one of the most prominent Japanese ukiyo-e artists. He is best known for his series of prints The 53 Stations of the Tokaido (1832-1833). Hiroshige's work influenced Europe's Impressionists and Post-Impressionists,...

1000 pieces Finished size is 61 x 46 cm Quality design & easy to handle pieces Features a beautiful, full-colour photograph of Gyeongbok Palace in Seoul, Korea Commonly referred to as the Northern Palace, Gyeongbok Palace was built in 1395 in the...

These beautiful note cards feature 16 woodblock prints by master artist Utagawa Hiroshige. With detailed scenes showcasing traditional life in Japan, receiving one of these cards will make your friends and family smile.Blank inside, these cards will...

High-quality painting of Japanese geishas with 1,000 pieces, designed for adults.