The Visual Arts: A History, Hardcover

Reducere. Art: A Visual History is the complete visual guide to Western art, now updated and repackaged in a themed slipcase.How to tell Impressionism from E...

Reducere. WHO YOU GONNA CALL? The Ghostbusters saga has been thrilling fans around the world for over three decades, from the original movies to the animated...

DescriptionChelsea and Westminster Hospital and its charity, CW+, have been pioneers at the intersection of art and healthcare for more than twenty...

Close Encounters of the Third Kind will be back in domestic theaters for a one-week run beginning September 1, presented in a 4K restoration of Spi...

'Friday the 13th' introduced moviegoers to a new kind of cinematic terror - shocking, visceral, and graphic. Spawning ten sequels, the series has b...

Handsomely repackaged edition of this definitive story of Savile Row - a rich, visual history of high-end tailoring with many rare archival illustr...

Reducere. Analyzing the modernist art movement that arose in Cairo and Alexandria from the late nineteenth century through the 1960s, Alex Dika Seggerman rev...

Reducere. One Fine Stooge, "" the life of Larry Fine?the original frizzy-haired member of the classic comedy team?reveals the charming and poignant life of t...

Reducere. Infographics and data visualization are graphic visual representations of information, data or knowledge intended to present information quickly, e...

A consistent vision pervades the design endeavors of Philippe Apeloig. Over time, he as crafted a visual language strongly connected to rhythm, str...

Investigating the concepts and material realities of energy coursing through the arts: a foundational text.This book investigates energies--in the ...

DescriptionAn elaborately illustrated A to Z of the face, from historical mugshots to Instagram posts.By turns alarming and awe-inspiring, Face off...

This stunning book charts the rich history of the blues, through the dazzling array of posters, album covers, and advertisements that have shaped i...

Reducere. The only book of its kind, Saturday's Kids is a visual history book tracking and defining UK subcultures, rendered by minimalist illustrator Marcus...

Foreword by Michael J. Fox Preface by Christopher LloydGreat Scott Go Back to the Future with Doc Brown and Marty McFly and celebrate the film's 35...

Reducere. DescriptionAn authoritative, richly illustrated history of six centuries of global protest artThroughout history, artists and citizens have turned ...

A logo should be distinctive, memorable and clear. To be great, it should do those things better than the rest. - Michael Evamy This bestselling br...

The San Quentin Project collects a largely unseen visual record of daily life inside one of America's oldest and largest prisons, demonstrating how...

Reducere. DescriptionA handsome monograph on beloved self-taught Brazilian artist Djanira da Motta e Silva, whose paintings depict religious themes and every...

Reducere. A Companion to Renaissance and Baroque Art provides a diverse, fresh collection of accessible, comprehensive essays addressing key issues for Europ...

In his major new history, Paul Greenhalgh tells the story of ceramics as a story of human civilisation, from the Ancient Greeks to the present day....

Reducere. An art form unique in the world, tattoos are as varied in style and form as the living bodies they adorn. Under the Skin examines tattoos from thre...

DescriptionInsiders/Outsiders, published to accompany a UK-wide arts festival of the same name in 2019, examines the extraordinarily rich and perva...

From a carved mammoth tusk (ca. 40, 000 BCE) to Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights (1505-1510) to Duchamp's Fountain (1917), a remarkable lexicon o...

An epic exploration of the artist internationally renowned for his unique gunpowder artThis is the first publication to synthesize the fundamental ...

Reducere. A visual history of the founding, construction and early days of Honey Hollow Camp, a U.S. National Historic Landmark located 1800 feet up the nort...

DescriptionWritten by renowned modelling expert and TV visual effects designer Mat Irvine, the Model Builders' Manual provides a practical guide fo...

DescriptionCovering the history and context of tattoo design, as well as offering a comprehensive instruction in hand lettering, this guide is pack...

Tattoos have played an important role in human culture for thousands of years. Ideal for the tattoo artist, anthropologist, or tattoo fan, this vis...

A visual exploration of the Paris dining scene, with stories, guides, and recommendations from everyday patrons and famous aficionados alike Paris ...

DescriptionThe work of black writers, editors, publishers, and librarians is deeply embedded in the history of American print culture, from slave n...

The Venetian painter known as Giorgione or "big George" died at a young age in the dreadful plague of 1510, possibly having painted fewer than twen...

Reducere. Comprehensive visual history of the "World's Greatest Rock & Roll Band" as told through the recording of their monumental catalog, including 29 stu...

Loving: A Photographic History of Men in Love, 1850-1950 portrays the history of romantic love between men in hundreds of moving and tender vernacu...

DescriptionBorn out of a union of club bands on the burgeoning Austin bohemian scene and a pronounced taste for hallucinogens, the 13th Floor Eleva...

Paris, Capital of Fashion accompanies a major exhibition at The Museum at FIT, New York's only museum dedicated solely to the art of fashion. This ...

Reducere. From Giotto to David Hockney, this invaluable A-Z reference guide introduces some of the most celebrated artists in history. 100 Great Artists show...

Hardback volume showcasing the diverse work of one of Star Trek's most talented alumni, Dan Curry, whose contributions to the TV shows and movies i...

The intimate relationship of Japanese tattooing with the dark world of the yakuza has helped cover this form of artistic expression with an aura of...

Reducere. Quilts and Color presents more than 60 graphically bold American quilts from the Pilgrim/Roy Collection, one of the finest and largest collections ...

DescriptionThe first comparative history of African American and Black British artists, artworks, and art movements, Stick to the Skin traces the l...

Reducere. When Buffalo Bill's Wild West show traveled to Paris in 1889, the New York Times reported that the exhibition would be "managed to suit French idea...

DescriptionFor over a decade, Simon Roberts has photographed events and places across Britain that have drawn people together in public, communal e...

A year before 1967's famed Summer of Love, documentary photographer William Gedney set out for San Francisco on a Guggenheim Fellowship to record "...

DescriptionSavor a taste of the edible alphabet, from A to Z. Throughout history, visual and performance artists of all stripes and degrees of reno...

Reducere. As a part of the New Deal that offered hope during the Great Depression, scores of public art projects were commissioned around the country. Now th...

DescriptionHaving worked with The Cure for over 20 sessions across 3 decades, legendary music photographer Tom Sheehan's archive offers a stunning ...

Reducere. Go behind the scenes of some of Disney's classic films with this collection of concept art starring some of the studio's most iconic villains, incl...

From the best-selling author of Skyscrapers comes the much-anticipated revised edition of her magnificent chronological tour of the world's most si...

Reducere. The international design firm Kartell is especially known for successful product collaborations with stars of contemporary design such as Ron Arad,...

Images of the Ice Age, here in its third edition, is the most complete study available of the world's earliest imagery, presenting a fascinating an...

In this follow-up to his hugely popular The Book of Trees and Visual Complexity, Manuel Lima takes us on a lively tour through millennia of circula...

For over two decades visual artist and historian Brenton Hamilton has created a sustained body of work, mostly concentrated within the historic pro...

Reducere. An authoritative look at William Blake's life and enduring relevance as a prophetic artist, poet, and printmakerWilliam Blake (1757-1827) created s...

"Being Kevin Smith is my favorite thing in the world. . . . I don't have a job. I don't even have a career anymore. I'm just me for a living." Maki...

This is the definitive study of American artist Dorothea Tanning (1910-2012), positioning her as one of the most fascinating and significant creati...

DescriptionA visual delight, and a designer's dream--the decorative details of great European paintings transformed into beautiful two-dimensional ...

How cubism and Dada radically reimagined the social nature of language, following the utopian poetic vision of St phane Mallarm .At the outset of t...

Description"It is a thing as rare as it is welcome--an authoritative book about a visual artist that is both well written and jargon free, and that...

Bringing a poet's perspective to an artist's archive, this highly original book examines wordplay in the art and thought of American artist Gordon ...

Reducere. A stunning visual exploration of Canada's most recognized building accompanied by a comprehensive study of its history, in a coffee-table worthy vo...

The shrines, gardens, tea houses and sacred sites of Korea, as portrayed by architectural photographer Hélène BinetIn The Intimacy of Making, Londo...

DescriptionHow contemporary photographers have subverted the constructions and complicities of whitenessFrom the advent of early colonial photograp...

Reducere. The poodle as emblem in the subversive multimedia works of the influential Canadian collectiveFounded in Toronto in 1969 by AA Bronson, Felix Partz...

Reducere. Representations of first contact--the first meetings of European explorers and Native Americans--have always had a central place in our nation's hi...

Reducere. Through Blossfeldt's lens, plants and flowers become gorgeous formal gesturesKarl Blossfeldt was a pioneer of botanical photography, though his int...

DescriptionAubrey Beardsley (1872-1898) was only twenty-five when he died from tuberculosis, but in his short life he established a reputation as o...

Reducere. For more than a century, American communities erected monuments to western pioneers. Although many of these statues receive little attention today,...

DescriptionOver the course of his three-decade career, Thomas Ruff has taken up many approaches to photography in his investigation into the status...

The all-American spirit of midcentury modernism, in three US State Department-sponsored exhibitionsThis revelatory volume recovers and presents the...