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This publication illuminates the various aspects of the work of the German glass artist Florian Lechner, comprising architecture, sculptural objects and performances.

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From farming, cooking and feasting scenes depicted in the Middle Ages in books of hours to the fish and fruit of ancient frescoes and mosaics, Food in Art gives fresh insights into how food items were cultivated, hunted, trapped, stored, traded, prepared and served throughout the ages.

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For centuries artists and designers have recorded places, people, and life in travel sketchbooks. Over a period of fifty years, Laurie Olin, one of America's most distinguished landscape architects, has recorded aspects of France: its cities and countryside, streets and cafes, ancient ruins, vineyards, and parks.

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In his unique works Franz Josef Altenburg realised in clay the process of reduction and simplification that he had been pursuing systematically throughout his career. Text in English and German.

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The National Gallery of Art houses one of the most important collections of French old master paintings outside France. This book catalogues nearly one hundred paintings of the collection, from works by Francois Clouet in the sixteenth century to paintings by Elisabeth Louise Vigee Le Brun in the eighteenth.

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A collection of essays by Michael Fried on important French painters and writers.

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As archaeologists unearth the past, they seek meaning or purpose for the objects they uncover by looking at the objects themselves and their archaeological context. Art historians, on the other hand, primarily focus on aesthetics, asking why a particular object stimulates our senses, and what that tells us about ourselves. From Ancient to Modern of

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A reference work for collectors and enthusiasts of 18th-century object d'art, featuring essays by leading specialists in the fields of European applied arts.

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Brimming with personality, the travel cats each have a story to tell and a journey to embark on.

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Situationist Funhouse is a joyride through the history of G. H. Hovagimyan is an absurdist, a strategist, a serial collaborator in the arts.

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Spoons - the most elementary cultural object worldwide - transformed into art as Gabi Veit explores the possibilities of design. Text in English, German and Italian.

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A theoretically astute overview of key developments in art and its contexts since the 1990s. -- .

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The first monograph published on the work of this groundbreaking glass artist features Koss's most important achievements and, through insightful essays by curators and critics, places them in historic perspective.

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Catalogue of exhibition that pays tribute to the unprecedented bequest by Orde Poynton to the international prints, drawings and books department of the National Gallery of Australia.

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Gitte Jungersen (b. 1967) has gained much attention for her innovative work with ceramic glazes. She experiments with extremely active glazes that melt and run during firing.

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"An illuminating reassessment of the architect whose innovative drawings of ruins shaped the enduring image of ancient Rome"--

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Gunnar S. Gundersen (1921-1983) was one of the most important Norwegian artists of the post-war period. Together with several other artists, he was part of a modernist breakthrough. Text in English and Norwegian.

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The first comprehensive monograph on Huganrian-born textile artist and sculptor Gyngy Laky, offering insight into her studio practice, activism, and teaching philosophy, which champions sustainable art and design, original thinking, and the value of the unexpected.