Prestel

3D Art Book

Since he was a kid, artist, designer, and vinyl toy impresario Tristan Eaton has been obsessed with the nostalgic look of 3D imagery. In The 3D Art Book, he parlays this fascination into a carefully curated selection...

50 Artists You Should Know

This vibrant reference guide profiles 50 major artists alongside their representative works. The entries are presented in an eye-catching format that includes brief biographies, time lines, and critical analyses....

50 Contemporary Artists You Should Know

Artists working after the Second World War faced a confounding array of challenges, as stylistic barriers were broken, technology advanced, and issues of sexuality and race came to the forefront. From painters and...

50 Contemporary Fashion Designers You Should Know

Today`s young designers are savvier and more daring than ever before. Happy to exist within or outside of the established houses of haute couture, their reputations are cemented by savvy consumers who are willing to...

50 Designers You Should Know

They`ve shaped our modern age, whether it`s the chair we`re sitting in, the computer we`re reading on, or the house we`re living in. Design is everywhere, and this volume profiles fifty of the most influential figures...

50 Fashion Designers You Should Know

The latest volume in Prestel`s most successful series profiles the world`s top 50 designers, including Armani, Balenciaga, Dior, Galliano, Givenchy, Lacroix, McCartney, McQueen, Quant, Versace and Westwood. Their...

50 Modern Artists You Should Know

Starting with James Abbott McNeill Whistler and ending with Matthew Barney, nearly every prominent figure in Modern art is represented in vibrant double-page spreads that show how these artists continued to redefine...

50 Photographers You Should Know

This dynamic introduction to the world`s greatest photographers from the inception of photography to today bears proof of the magic of the camera. From Felix Nadar to Nan Goldin, each of the photographers featured...

50 Sculptures You Should Know

For centuries artists have been expressing their ideas, faith, passion, and rage in three-dimensional works that reflect historical eras, tell stories, reveal mysteries, and even create scandals. Starting from ancient...

Alfons Mucha

Alfons Mucha is known largely for having originated Art Nouveau, when his poster of the actress Sarah Bernhardt became a legendary icon of the movement. Mucha went on to design hundreds of pieces in the decorative...

Andy Warhol:Last Decade

In the last decade before his death in 1987, Warhol continued to produce mesmerizing works at an astounding pace. Influenced by the most prominent artists of the 1980s, including Basquiat, Haring, Schnabel, and...

Art Forms In Nature Mini

Art Nouveau

Big art for little hands, this enchanting activity book allows young artists to explore the world`s Art Nouveau masterpieces on their own terms and with plenty of space to colour outside the lines.

Art Nouveau

The Art Nouveau movement became an international phenomenon at the beginning of the twentieth century that ushered in the era of modernity in almost every aspect of cultural life. For decades critics have argued that...

Art of the Salon

The Paris Salons of the mid-nineteenth century are famous today above all for the paintings that were rejected more than for those that were actually shown. The rejected works form today`s canon of art history and are...

Art of Romance

Since 1908 readers have been finding respite from the vagaries of everyday life in the pages of novels published by Mills & Boon. Now part of the Harlequin group, the world`s largest romance publisher, the company has...

Berlin Street Art

Street art is a phenomenon which exists across the world`s urban centers. What was once regarded as a nuisance at best or vandalism at worst, is now increasingly being recognized as an important art form. This book...

British Watercolours, 1750-1880

This beautiful volume documents an important moment in the history of the watercolour, as its practitioners moved from the tinted drawings to the creation of fully fledged works of art that rivaled oil paintings in...

Buildings That Changed The World

Fab Gear: The Beatles and Fashion

The Beatles knew how much image mattered in the 1960s, and whether it was Nehru jackets, skinny ties, granny glasses, or the Cuban heel boot-if John, Paul, George, or Ringo wore it, the rest of their millions of fans...

Fashionista: Century of Style Icons

Instead of focusing on the designers that have made their marks in the past decades, this original and inspiring portrayal of style icons features the unforgettable faces and bodies that helped propel designers into...

Fashionisto: Century of Style Icons

What makes a man a fashionisto? Swagger, elegance, daring, perhaps a really well cut suit. The actors, designers, crooners and legends portrayed in this collection are fashion forward men who possess some or all of...

Fashion for Jewels: 100 Years of Styles and Icons

C. Woolton

In this lavishly illustrated book, a renowned editor at British Vogue examines the links between fashion and jewelry.For as long as we`ve been dressing ourselves, we`ve been adorning ourselves with embellishments for...

Frederic Lord Leighton

Painter and sculptor Frederic, Lord Leighton is one of the foremost artists of the Victorian classical school. His masterpieces featuring mythological subjects are thought to be the inspiration behind the...

Frida Kahlo Mini