(Hardback)

A Hulk-sized tome spanning eight decades of the heroic rise of Marvel as it magically mutated from 1939s four-color upstart to a 1960s pop-culture dynamo to current Hollywood heavy hitter. With essays by comics historian Roy Thomas and a huge fold-out timeline that chronicles the entire Marvel history

(Hardback, Multilingual edition)

Art meets science in this far-reaching catalogue of botanical illustration. Drawn from the vaults of the National Library of Vienna, these exquisite color reproductions range from 6th-century manuscripts to 19th-century masterpieces and celebrate both the skill of botanical artists and the abundance of natural flora.

(Hardback, Multilingual edition)

Renowned for his politics as much as for his art based on social intervention, a new approach to the readymade, and Chinese traditional crafts, Ai Weiwei's fame extends beyond the art world. This monograph explores 30 years of work, from his exile in 80s New York to the art as social campaign that led to his detention.

(Hardback, Multilingual edition)

Meet the full range of Albert Oehlen's artistic approaches from his early work to the present day. Whether paintings with mirrors, in primary colors or only in gray, heavily pixelated computer paintings or garish poster ads on canvases: more than 400 featured works attest to the audacious and innovative strategies that have secured Oehlen's place as the "most resourceful abstract painter alive."

(Hardback, Multilingual edition)

American pioneer Alfred Stieglitz defined early 20th-century photography, creating the school of "Photo Secessionism" and founding cult art, literature, and avant-garde photo journal Camera Work. This beautiful book reproduces the entire 50-issue run, originally published between 1903 and 1917-a benchmark of photography as art form.

(Hardback, Multilingual edition)

Find yourself up close and personal with the King. This collection brings together over 300 photographs of Elvis from the legendary portfolio of Alfred Wertheimer. Extraordinary in their intimacy and unparalleled in scope, these pictures immortalize a young man in the very process of making history.

(Hardback, Multilingual edition)

A plethora of 1950s ads covering just about anything the dollar could buy, from Las Vegas vacations to cigarettes as healthy mood enhancers. More than a record of bygone products and campaigns, these colorful ads provide an evocative record of everyday American life when McCarthyism was rife and capitalism was king.

(Hardback, Multilingual edition)

America of the 1960s exuded optimism and a bright economic future. Advertisers seduced Americans to indulge in a giant consumer binge. This collection of ads features stars such as Sean Connery, Woody Allen, Salvador Dal, and Sammy Davis Jr. endorsing everything from bourbon to suits in an era known for extremes.

(Hardback, Multilingual edition)

This volume delivers a complete and nostalgic overview of 1970s advertising. As television and other media began to compete for advertising dollars, new ideas were incorporated into a post-hippie world where disco clashed with punk, and social consciousness, health and environmental awareness went head-to-head with the Me Generation.

(Hardback, Multilingual edition)

The emergence of the digital world signaled a looming change in the advertising industry. Still cash, cocaine, and Calvins were the staples of flagrant consumerism. With cell phones just around the corner and the death of print in the air, advertisers were still devoting substantial dollars to one of the most outrageous, flamboyant, and prosperous decades of the 20th century.

(Hardback, Multilingual edition)

Revisit the 1990s in a massive compendium of advertising gems that sold Generation X and baby boomers everything from Game Boys to Boyz II Men. Featuring six chapters spanning food, fashion, entertainment, and cars, page after page of ads remind us how sex and blockbusters led the way to a decade's worth of ironic, cool, and classic visuals, which closed one century and took us to the next.

(Hardback, Multilingual edition)

Produced by the Detroit Photographic Company between 1888 and 1924, these rediscovered Photochrom and Photostint postcard images are the very first color pictures of North America. An unparalleled voyage across peoples, places, and time unfolds in this sweeping panorama that ranges from Native American settlements to New York's Chinatown, from the Grand Canyon to Atlantic City.

(Hardback, Multilingual edition)

Andy Warhol's 1950s hand-drawn books, created during his pre-fame years, are much-coveted jewels in the Pop art master's crown. This XL volume contains meticulous reprints of all seven books. Completed with introductions contextualizing his life alongside his unique creations, this edition offers an unparalleled glimpse of Warhol's budding genius.

(Hardback, Multilingual edition)

The first woman to use the fledgling medium of photography for scientific purposes, Anna Atkins captured the delicacy of algae and ferns in her albums: pioneering examples of photographic practice in their own right. For the first time, this edition reprints her works British Algae and Cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns in their entirety.

(Hardback, Special anniversary ed)

The best-selling series of Architecture Now! celebrates its tenth edition with a neat new format and thematic organisation. The book brings together the most remarkable new construction work from all over the world into one definitive overview of the latest trends in architectural practice.

(Hardback)

Explore the turbulent times and revolutionary ideas of 20th-century art. From Surrealism to Land Art, Fluxus to Bauhaus, this comprehensive survey is your be-all, end-all guide to the people and works that redefined art as we knew it. This encyclopedic masterwork ranges across the full spectrum of disciplines, including photography and new media.

(Hardback)

Racinet's Costume History is a landmark in the study of clothing and style. From Eskimo attire to high French couture, this unrivalled encyclopedia is an invaluable reference for students, designers, artists, illustrators, and historians, and anyone interested in style.

(Hardback)

According to legend, he was discovered by Cimabue as a boy, sketching his father's sheep. Giotto di Bodone (1266-1337) was the most famous and influential painter of his generation in Italy.

(Hardback, Numbered edition)

First published in 1963, James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time stabbed at the heart of America's so-called "Negro problem." As remarkable for its masterful prose as it is for its frank and personal account of the black experience in the United States, it is considered one of the most passionate and influential explorations of 1960s race relations.

(Hardback)

Between two world wars, the Bauhaus School of Art and Design changed the face of modernity. Realized with the Bauhaus-Archiv in Berlin, this updated edition celebrates the school's centennial, gathering 550 illustrations across 400 pages, including architectural plans and biographies of key figures like Walter Gropius, Paul Klee, and Marianne Brandt-the ultimate guide.

(Hardback, Multilingual edition)

As vibrant as her unique visual language, this monograph presents the work of Beatriz Milhazes, the Brazilian painter who fuses modernist abstraction with the colors and light of her native country. This edition explores all of the artist's creative phases in over 300 works from her beginnings to the present day.

(Paperback)

Through scorching heat to unforgiving chills, BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group presents a dazzling round-up of adaptive architecture in extreme environments around the world. Sixty case studies show how structures can become holistic ecosystems of both economic and environmental profit.

(Hardback)

Dig it! showcases buildings from the past millennia that integrate the ground and the structure. From African churches chiseled from rock and Chinese villages dug into the terrain to a villa built into the cliffs of Capri, this global survey by Bjarne Mastenbroek features analytical drawings by SeARCH and the photography of Iwan Baan.

(Hardback, Multilingual edition)

Bruce Weber describes this first career-spanning collection of his famed photographs portraying his golden retrievers as his most personal book. It celebrates the human-animal bond, illuminating how connection to one's pets can fuel creativity, provide companionship, and foster an abundance of joy. Also available in two Art Editions with prints, each limited to 100 copies.