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Structure, Space and Skin

K. Powell R. Moore

This book features Grimshaw’s work from the late 1980s onwards, which has included some of Europe’s most prestigious commissions; in Berlin he is planning a new Stock Exchange, while in London he has built on the...

Tadao Ando

Francesco Dal Co

Tadao Ando (b. 1941) is Japan’s leading architect and a designer with a dazzling international reputation. This complete catalogue of Ando’s work examines in detail over one hundred buildings and projects, illustrated...

Tanaka Ikko. Graphic Master

Gian Carlo Calza

Tanaka Ikko (b. 1930) is one of the established masters of Japanese graphic design. His work draws together influences from East and West, acknowledging the vocabulary of European Modernism while remaining...

Tapestry

B. Phillips

This book, now available for the first time in paperback, traces the history of tapestry from early examples to modern pieces. The different forms of tapestry associated with tribal and nomadic life are discussed, as...

The Art of Lord Leighton

Christopher Newall

The Artist`s Body

Tracey Warr

The artist’s body has throughout history been the subject of art – primarily through painted self-portraiture. In the post-war period, however, artists began using their bodies as the subject and the actual material...

The Chinese Potter

Margaret Medley

China has the longest and most highly developed ceramic tradition in the world, encompassing early Neolithic earthenwares, the finely glazed stoneware pieces of the Song period – widely regarded as among the greatest...

The Impressionists

M. Wilson

The Impressionists need little introduction. The names of Pissarro, Manet, Degas, Sisley, Cezanne, Monet and Renoir are familiar to everyone and their paintings remain highly popular over a hundred years after they...

The Story Of Art

Ernst Gombrich

The Story of Art, one of the most famous and popular books on art ever written, has been a world bestseller for over four decades. Attracted by the simplicity and clarity of his writing, readers of all ages and...

To Sleep, Perchance to Dream

Ferdinando Scianna

Ferdinando Scianna has always been fascinated by the sight of figures wrapped in sleep. In over thirty years of photography he has captured images of people and animals sleeping in the most diverse places on earth: in...

Twentieth-Century Houses

Robert McCarter Richard Weston James Steele

Fallingwater, the Villa Mairea and the Eames House – by Frank Lloyd Wright, Alvar Aalto and Charles and Ray Eames respectively – represent pinnacles of modern residential design. Fallingwater is one of Wright’s most...

Twentieth-Century Museums I

Maritz Vandenberg Michael Brawne

The New National Gallery, Berlin, Kimbell Art Museum and Museum fur Kunsthandwerk in Frankfurt are striking examples of modern museum design, built in three different decades. The Berlin Gallery was Mies van der...

Twentieth-Century Museums II

Philip Drew David Jenkins Adrian Dannatt

The Museum of Modern Art in Gunma, surrounded by parkland, is the most complete realization by Isozaki of a conceptual approach to museum design. The Clore Gallery, London, was built to house the Tate Gallery’s superb...

Twentieth-Century Classics

D. Sharp David Jenkins James Steele

Walter Gropius, Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn are among the twentieth century’s most renowned and influential architectural figures. The Bauhaus Building, the Marseilles Unite d’Habitation and the Salk Institute are...

Understanding Hypermedia 2.0

B. Cotton

Understanding Hypermedia, first published in 1993, firmly established itself in the design and media community as the definitive introduction to this exciting new communications medium. Understanding Hypermedia 2.0...

Van Gogh (Colour Library)

Yayoi Kusama

Laura Hoptman Akira Tatehata Udo Kultermann Ishikawa Takuboki

Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama has pursued her principal themes of infinity, self-image, sexuality and compulsive repetition since she took the New York art world by storm in the late 1950s with her Infinity Nets –...