(Hardback)

The first full-length critical study of the British television director Alan Clarke, whose varied career included the gritty social realism of the banned 'Scum', the fantasy 'Penda's Fen' and the influential terrorist short, 'Elephant'. -- .

(Hardback)

George Webber's latest book of photography focuses on the vernacular architecture, abandoned townscapes and fading commercial signage from 1950s and 1960s rural Alberta.

(Paperback, 2nd edition)

In this revealing study, now available in a revised and expanded new edition, Christopher Wood shows how Altdorfer prised landscape out of its subsidiary role as background for narrative history painting and devotional works to give it a new, independent life of its own.

(Hardback)

Brings together more than thirty years of photography from the streets of Mexico by Alex Webb, spanning 1975 to 2007. This book presents a commemoration of the Mexican street as a sociopolitical bellwether-albeit one that has undergone significant transformation since Webb's first trips to the country.

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

Contains original artwork and the development stages - from sketches to character studies, different techniques and media - involved in creating humans, aliens, strange and wonderful creatures and out of this world landscapes. Featuring useful design tips, this book is suitable for design students, artists and lovers of artwork.

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

(Hardback)

By creating a snapshot of the Ghent community during its bicentennial year, this collection of portraits provides a record for the future.

(Hardback)

A new voice and vision for art as comics and comics as art -- and poetry.

(Paperback)

All the Queens Men is a decades-long photographic project that explores the rites, rituals, and relationships of men.

(Hardback)

All Walks of Life offers a unique opportunity to get to know the eighteenth-century people through the Meissen porcelain sculpture of The Alan Shimmerman Collection.

(Paperback)

Examines the centrality of Cinema Novo to film-making in Brazil. Focusing on film makers' use of narrative allegories for the "conservative modernization" Brazil and other nations underwent in the 1960s and 1970s, the author asks questions relating to the connection between film and history.

(Paperback)

The story of the influences - human, political and artistic, which shaped the life of Harry Seidler, disciple of Bauhaus architecture. Spans seccessionist Vienna and the years of Anschluss to Sydney in the 1990s, his introduction to architecture as a schoolboy in England internment in Canada and as a student of Gropius and Marcel Breuer.

(Paperback)

Almost, Not: The Architecture of Atelier Nishikata is the story of a remarkable architecture practice in Tokyo.

(Hardback)

(Hardback)

A study of non-professional film making using regional archive sources and oral history. The book traces the rise of Britain's amateur cine photography from its early pioneers, through its years of peak popularity to its adjustment to wider societal and technological changes. -- .

(Paperback)

Chris Achilleo's science fiction/fantasy artwork ranges from his acclaimed Doctor Who and Star Trek covers to the erotic pin-ups that made him famous. In "Amazona", Achilleos brings together previously uncollected and unseen artwork.

(Hardback)

Describes the transformation of Italian sculpture during the neglected half-century between the death of Michelangelo and the rise of Bernini. This book follows the Florentine careers of three major sculptors - Giambologna, Bartolomeo Ammanati, and Vincenzo Danti - as they negotiated the politics of the Medici court and eyed one another's work.

(Paperback)

(Hardback)

(Paperback)

A classic of American architectural and urban planning history