Phaidon

500 Self-Portraits

J. Bell

"The mirror, above all - the mirror is our teacher," wrote Leonardo da Vinci. Portraits are an endless source of fascination, responding as they do to the basic human impulse to look at faces and try to see into the...

Aboriginal Art

Howard Morphy

For thousands of years Australian Aborigines have been making art. A manifestation of the creative forces of the Dreamtime, art is also a means of expressing individual and group identity. Howard Morphy surveys the...

Achille Castiglioni. Complete Works, 1938-2000

This is a comprehensive monograph on the work of Achille Castiglioni, one of the most important designers of the second half of the 20th century. Architect and designer of lighting, exhibitions, and a variety of...

Adam Style

Steven Parissien

In the mid-Georgian era, between 1750 and 1785, a delightful form of domestic Neo-Classicism arose that came to be named after the outstanding architect of the period, Robert Adam. This fascinating book takes the...

American Art Book

American Art Book is a vibrant guide to the most influential and best-loved American artists from Colonial times to the present. Covering three centuries, the art ranges from Puritan portraits to the luminous...

Architecture. Industry And Innovation. The early work of Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners

Colin Amery

Nicholas Grimshaw is one of the pre-eminent figures of the British architectural scene, responsible for some of the outstanding buildings of the last decade. This volume covers the years 1965–88, a period which saw...

Arikha

Duncan Thomson

In 1965, at the height of a successful career as an abstract painter in Paris and New York, Avigdor Arikha (b. 1929) suddenly stopped painting to return to drawing from life. When he returned to painting in 1973 it...

Art and Feminism

Helena Reckitt

Feminism has had a crucial impact on late twentieth-century art, inspiring some of the most pioneering developments in sculpture, painting, performance, photography, film and installation. The art world has been...

Art Deco Style

Bevis Hillier Stephen Escritt

The dominant style in architecture, jewellery and interior decoration of the 1920s and 1930s, Art Deco was an exuberant reaction to the austerity and functionalism of the war years. Interest in the style was revived...

Art Nouveau

Stephen Escritt

At the turn of the nineteenth century, Art Nouveau was both Europe and America’s boldest and most fashionable style. It could be seen in the sinuous ironwork of the new Paris Metro stations, the curving asymmetry of...

Arts And Crafts Style

Isabelle Anscombe

The Arts and Crafts movement flourished in the 1870s and 1880s. At its heart was a search for a return to simplicity, quiet beauty and honesty of construction – artists and craft workshops produced textiles,...

Arts And Crafts Houses I

Dr James Macaulay Wendy Hitchmough Edward Bosley

These houses are beautiful studies in Arts and Crafts design. The influential Red House, designed for William Morris in 1859, is a seminal ‘modern’ building, conceived as a whole both inside and out. Melsetter House...

Arts And Crafts Houses II

Dr James Macaulay Wendy Hitchmough Edward Bosley

These houses are masterpieces of domestic Arts and Crafts architecture and among the best preserved examples. Hill House is a unified aesthetic conception – combining Arts and Crafts honesty with Art Nouveau...

Arts And Crafts Masterpieces

Trevor Garnham Dr James Macaulay Edward Bosley

Three outstanding "public" buildings from different countries demonstrate how Arts and Crafts architects worked within varying environments. St Andrew’s Church, Roker, is a striking creation – a collaboration of work...

Atkinson Grimshaw

Alexander Robertson

Baroque Baroque. The culture of excess

Stephen Calloway

Now available for the first time in paperback, this extraordinary book examines the ‘culture of excess’ in all its twentieth-century manifestations. Fashion, film, photography, design and decoration: all feature in...

Beware Wet Paint

Jeremy Myerson

A founder partner of the leading design firm Pentagram, Alan Fletcher is considered by many in the graphic design world to be a contemporary master, known for his sharp and unerring sense of style. From the initial...

Bill Jacklin

J. Taylor

Bill Jacklin is one of the most exciting and individual artists of the generation that first came to prominence in the 1960s. From the start, he seemed destined to swim against the stream. In an era of Pop Art he...

Bloomsbury Portraits

Richard Shone

Breuer Houses

Joachim Driller

The Hungarian-born architect Marcel Breuer (1902–81) rose to prominence as a student under Walter Gropius at the Bauhaus, and became a master as head of the furniture workshop. He emigrated to the United States in...

Caravaggio

Catherine Puglisi

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610) was one of the most innovative painters of his time, and one of the greatest artists of any age. Rescued from neglect, he has become a cultural icon in the late twentieth...

Chinoiserie

D. Jacobson

Chinoiserie – the taste for decoration and architecture based on Chinese design – has its origins in the age-old fantasy of ‘Cathay’, the mysterious land of the East. This beautifully illustrated book shows the...

City Icons

Mark Burry Philip Drew K. Powell

Antoni Gaudi’s Expiatory Church of the Sagrada Familia, the Grand Central Terminal by Whitney Warren and Charles Wetmore and the Sydney Opera House by Jorn Utzon are all instantly recognizable buildings and symbols of...

Contemporary California Houses

Aaron Betsky James Steele

Frank Gehry’s Schnabel House, the Lawson-Westen House by Eric Owen Moss and the Drager House by the late Franklin D Israel are three key buildings in the development of a recognized style of Californian residential...

Dada & Surrealism

Matthew Gale

This stimulating introductory survey traces the origins and development of these two revolutionary twentieth-century art movements, exploring the full range of artistic production, including ?lm, photography, collage,...