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Within the pages of Juxtapoz Black & White an impressive list of artists expound upon the role monochromatic treatments play in their practice, with fascinating results.

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Here Juxtapoz curates a book representing a new generation of painters who have excelled at photorealism and hyperrealism, but have taken the mediums and injected them with new styles, techniques, ideas and individual personality.

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The richness of Wassily Kandinsky's life, work and thought make him one of the leading figures of 20th-century art. This book traces the chronological evolution of Kandinsky's art, making use of an unprecedented wealth of documents from the artist's own workshop, including autobiographical writings, correspondence and theoretical essays.

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Sunday Times Art Book of the Year The astonishing life of Kenneth Clark - the greatest British art historian of his time. As writer and presenter of the TV series Civilisation he was responsible for the greatest syntheses of art, music, literature and thought ever made - 'a contribution to civilisation itself'.

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Since the '90s, Sandro Vannini has created complete photographic reproductions of murals and artifacts in super high-resolution detail. Marking the centenary of Howard Carter's historic excavation and a series of international exhibitions, this thorough guide to the ancient Egyptian afterlife casts an enthralling light on the voyage the boy king was thought to make after death.

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Meet a giant of 20th-century modernism with this introduction to Paul Klee, the Swiss-born painter whose highly individual style combined Cubism, Expressionism, and Surrealism in sun-drenched landscapes, child-like figures, and enigmatic symbols. Though typically small in scale, Klee's works are remarkable for their sophisticated thought and meticulous nuances of line, color, and tonality.

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Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky, two of the most influential figures in the modernist movement are the subject of this illuminating book that opens a dialogue between their work, friendship and influence on each other.

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The first comprehensive survey to explore the rich and complex history of contemporary Korean art

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What does art tell us about ourselves John Berger on the politics and consolations of creativity.

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This is a biography of the New Zealand artist Len Lye, who became a leading modernist artist in London and New York, a major figure in experimental film, a kinetic sculptor and innovative theorist, painter and writer. The author was Lye's assistant in his later years.

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A single sketch becomes an all-consuming quest to understand and identify a work by Leonardo da Vinci himself-the first new drawing by the great master to have surfaced in over a century.

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From anatomical studies to architectural plans, complex engineering designs to pudgy infant portraits: discover the delicate finesse of one of the most talented minds, and hands, in history. This Bibliotheca Universalis edition presents more than 600 of Leonardo da Vinci's masterful drawings.

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Written by a noted artist and teacher, this well-illustrated guide introduces the basics of line drawing. Topics include third and fourth dimensions, formal perspective, shade and shadow, figure drawing, and other essentials.

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Introduces young readers to twenty of the greatest artists and presents a selection of their most amazing masterpieces. This book contains reproductions, side-features and reference material of these remarkable artists, with their remarkable life stories. It is of interest to art fans of ages seven or over.

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This book is a practical introduction to this ancient art form of leatherworking with 20 distinct projects to sink your awl into.

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Intricate patterns and mind-boggling graphics are trademarks of the fascinating creations of M.C. Escher. This set puts his magical visual world right at your fingertips with 17 easy-to-assemble paper sculptures, transforming his repeating patterns into three-dimensional polyhedra, while the book reviews the geometric principles and artistic invention underlying Escher's optical marvels.

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Focuses on the surrealist years of Rene Magritte, creator of some of the 20th centurys most extraordinary images. Bringing together nearly 80 paintings, periodicals and early commercial work, this title offers insight into Magrittes identity as a revolutionary painter and surrealist artist.

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Designed to equip the cultural tourist and art student with the means to interpret each painting, building, or artifact in terms of the iconography and symbolism of the Buddhist religion, this book deepens understanding not only of Buddhist art and architecture but also of Buddhism itself.

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"An extraordinary record of a great artist in his studio, it also describes what it feels like to be transformed into a work of art." ARTnews