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Isamu Noguchi was one of the most prolific yet enigmatic figures in the history of twentieth-century American art. This book features his biography. It draws on Noguchi's letters, his reminiscences, and interviews with his friends and colleagues to cast light on his youth, his creativity, and his relationships.

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Edward Lear, known as an author of nonsense verse, was also an artist and natural history illustrator.

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The traumatic surreal is the first major study to examine the leading role Germanophone women artists have played in deploying surrealism to respond to the traumatic events and legacies of the Second World War.

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The first major study of Dalziel Brothers, a Victorian image-making firm that made a phenomenal contribution to mass visual culture.

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Through essays on some of the world's greatest artists and thinkers and in-depth analysis of over forty manuscripts and books, 'Thinking 3D' tells the story of the development of the techniques used to communicate three-dimensional forms on the two-dimensional page and contemporary media.

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Takes you on a journey through Tracey Emin's life using photographs from her personal collection. This title features photographs of Tracey Emin sharing a pram as a baby with her twin Paul, her bus-pass photo aged fourteen, a glamour shoot as a semi-naked art student, and her early successes as an artist.

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An updated version of the classic volume on the beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete. Every book about wabi-sabi is based on the paradigm introduced in the original edition of this book.

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The author is a rising star in the field of aviation art. Moving away from traditional approaches to the subject matter, he uses computer technology to produce both technically accurate and visually dynamic images of some of the greatest military aircraft in history.

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A collection of quotes that demonstrates the simplicity of the author's thoughts on key aspects of his art, politics, and life. It is organized into six categories: freedom of expression; art and activism; government, power, and moral choices; the digital world; history, the historical moment, and the future; and personal reflections.

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In this provocative book, Timms asks confronting questions. Why is contemporary art so in thrall to spruikers and promoters, and why do their extravagant claims so rarely match the reality Why does the market have such power, and how does it dictate the sort of art we are allowed to see

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A renowned authority on the history of color and the author of celebrated volumes on blue, black, green, and red now traces the visual, social, and cultural history of yellow. Focusing on European societies, with comparisons from East Asia, India, Africa, and South America, he tells the intriguing story of the color's evolving place in art, religion, fashion, literature, and science.

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For 150 years Auckland Museum has been a storehourse of New Zealand's and the Pacific's treasures, in addition to arts from around the world. This text displays 150 pieces of Auckland Museum's collection, with each piece accompanied by an account of its origins and significance.

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It was the decade of Coco Chanel, Josphine Baker, Art Deco, Surrealism, caf culture and cabarets. American luminaries mingled with European artists like Dal and Picasso in Montparnasse's bohemian arts scene, while Brassa captured the vibrant dance halls of Montmartre. Explore anew the annes folles of 1920s Paris through this vibrant portrait.

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Covers the fundamental events and pivotal works of international art in the 20th century. This book relates how artists reacted to the greatest tragedy of the 20th century and responded to the advent of the society of mass communication and consumption, to the moulding of the world.

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Winchester College was founded in 1382 and is one of England's oldest schools. This publication includes essays on fifty objects from across these collections, each written by a member of the school community.