(Hardback)

Awe-inspiring classics become accessible, captivating stories thanks to this investigation into the covert world of Renaissance masterpieces. From Botticelli to Michelangelo, delve into the works of Italian masters like never before. Rose-Marie and Rainer Hagen meticulously dissect 12 key pieces alongside analytical essays and enlarged details...

(Paperback)

Explores the evolution of a relatively new field of art restoration through critical contributions. This volume, culled from the lectures held in Turin at Castello di Rivoli in 1987 and in 2012, reveals the inner fragility of a modern work of art.

(Hardback)

(Hardback)

A true outback adventure with vivid characters, both equine and human, and lots of humour. A personal story of Lizzie's determination to achieve something that many people would have thought was simply mad, or worse, very dangerous.

(Paperback)

Billy Wilder (USA, 1906-2002) is an undisputed master of American comedy, taking situation comedy to the edge of the absurd in Some Like it Hot (1959). But he also made pessimistic melodramas such as Sunset Boulevard (1950), in which Gloria Swanson gives a moving performance as a fallen star, and a few fine examples of film noir, such as Double Ind

(Hardback, Multilingual edition)

Discover William Blake's complete 102 illustrations for The Divine Comedy, with excerpts from Dante's epic poem. Featuring an intimate reading of Blake's extraordinary works, this is a breathtaking encounter with two of the finest artistic talents in history, as well as with such universal themes as love, guilt, punishment, revenge, and redemption.

(Hardback)

Two creative masterminds and universal themes of love, guilt, revenge, and redemption come together in this exceptional edition of William Blake's 102 illustrations for Dante's The Divine Comedy. The XL-sized volume includes 14 fold-out spreads, two introductory essays tracing Dante's legacy in the visual arts, and excerpts from the Commedia itself.

(Hardback)

(Paperback)

The paintings of Paolo Veronese (c.1528-88) embody the mid-sixteenth-century age of Venetian art. This film analyses his technical achievements in perspective and group compositions.

(Paperback, Illustrated edition)

Will create a portrait of Proctor, painter, printmaker and teacher, through a series of objects - paintings, drawings, magazines and personal items and a re-creation of her Burdekin House exhibit of 1929 - which was a hospital fund raiser of beautiful things - both antique and modern.

(Hardback)

(Paperback)

All textiles epitomize the cultures that make them, from the silk brocade saris of India to North American patchwork quilts. Interestingly, societies separated by vast distances have developed similar solutions to design and construction while producing a dazzling diversity of styles.

(Paperback, Media tie-in)

World War Z is a film starring Brad Pitt. This illustrated companion to the movie features a wealth of production art, design sketches and storyboards, alongside the full shooting script.

(Hardback)

An artist's obsession with Gericault's monumental painting The Raft of the Medusa, and an intensely personal reckoning that delves deep inside the making of an artwork.

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In this fourth installment of her best-selling pictogram series, award-winning graphic designer Yang Liu distills all the little joys and aches of childhood and parenting. Big meets Little takes on the daily happenings of family life through tongue-in-cheek irony and incisive observations, bringing fresh awareness to our different perspectives and shared growing pains.

(Hardback)

How do people respond to "how are you" on opposite sides of the pond Do lunch breaks change over distant longitudes Is the boss bigger in London or L.A. In volume five of her best-selling series, Yang Liu distills the obvious and not-so-obvious contrasts between the European and U.S. experience into clever, crisp pictograms.

(Hardback)

A monograph on one of the most important figures in the history of modern Japanese photography. It contains works ranging from kaiga shugi shashin (pictorial photography) to shinko shashin (new/straight photography) of the early twentieth century.

(Hardback)

(Hardback)

Featuring a selection of photographs taken over the course of three years in Amsterdam, Berlin, Copenhagen, New Orleans, Willemstad, Prague, Cape Town and Paris, this book presents an eclectic mix of all sorts of different stories and people, joined together in a pattern that is the author's incomparably raw and emotional sense of photography.

(Hardback)

Far from current trends, the painter and graphic artist Zoran Music (1909-2005), a native of Slovenia, created an oeuvre that is as moving as it is unusual and that evokes in radical manner a reflection on the inner essence. With 68 works from the Swiss Collection of Gabriele e Anna Braglia, this volume offers insight into Music's oeuvre.

(Hardback)

For women, by women, and about women, this is an empowering and effortlessly cool collection of images taken by a new generation of female photographers and Instagrammers.

(Hardback)

The book showcases 100 projects by contemporary designers that practice the Ten Principles of Good Design.

(Paperback)

Draw a range of 50 beautiful botanical subjects, including flowers, plants and fruits, in just 10 simple steps each!

(Paperback)

Learn to draw over 50 fabulous felines in an illustrated style, with just 10 simple visual steps.