January – June 2020
See the arts through expert eyes
We are relaunching our signature World of Art series in 2020 with the publication of twenty titles on art, architecture, design, photography and fashion. These include classic volumes in updated editions and never-before-published books. See the arts through expert eyes with the World of Art, which stands at the vanguard of art scholarship and remains a bedrock of knowledge for students and lovers of art and culture everywhere. See what Spring has in store inside.
‘The single most influential series of art books ever published’ Apollo ‘Through these books, art becomes more accessible’ David Hockney
Launching in March 2020
194 illustrations | 272pp ISBN 978 0 500 204450 | £14.95
150 illustrations | 216pp ISBN 978 0 500 204627 | £14.95
156 illustrations | 232pp ISBN 978 0 500 204375 | £16.95
218 illustrations | 304pp ISBN 978 0 500 293591 | £14.95
342 illustrations | 320pp ISBN 978 0 500 204498 | £16.95
227 illustrations | 272pp ISBN 978 0 500 204603 | £14.95
191 illustrations | 240pp ISBN 978 0 500 204580 | £16.95
159 illustrations | 224pp ISBN 978 0 500 204474 | £14.95
284 illustrations | 336pp ISBN 978 0 500 204535 | £16.95
176 illustrations | 216pp ISBN 978 0 500 204597 | £14.95
A contemporary new cover design based on classical principles The World of Art’s new cover design features fluid shapes based on a grid inspired by the Golden Ratio, the system of mathematical proportion believed for millennia to be the secret of aesthetic harmony in nature, art and design.
A fresh, modern page layout Every element of the page grid has been reworked to create dynamic layouts that enable the reader to focus on the text and the imagery at the same time. The images, reproduced in colour throughout, and as large as possible, allow the reader to study key works in detail. This versatile new design works for the varied subject matters throughout the series.
Coming in Autumn 2020 Art and Myth in Ancient Greece ISBN 978 0 500 204542 | £14.95 William Blake ISBN 978 0 500 204726 | £14.95 Contemporary Painting ISBN 978 0 500 294635 | £14.95 Gauguin ISBN 978 0 500 204719 | £14.95 Islamic Art and Architecture ISBN 978 0 500 204559 | £14.95 Modern Architecture ISBN 978 0 500 204443 | £14.95 The Photograph as Contemporary Art ISBN 978 0 500 204481 | £14.95 Scottish Art ISBN 978 0 500 204528 | £14.95 Viking Art ISBN 978 0 500 204641 | £14.95 Women, Art, and Society ISBN 978 0 500 204566 | £14.95
Contents Art
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The British Museum
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Illustration
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Victoria and Albert Museum
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Fashion
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Jewelry
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Design
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Popular Culture
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Photography
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Lifestyle & Travel
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Decorative Arts
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Ancient History
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Science
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General History
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Archaeology
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Architecture & Interiors
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Plants & Gardens
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Humour
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Recent Highlights
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Index
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Picture Credits
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Sales & Distribution Contacts
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Third edition
The definitive book on the much loved artist, fully revised and brought up to date Jacky Klein is an art historian specializing in 20th-century and contemporary art. In 2016 she co-presented ‘Britain’s Lost Masterpieces’ on BBC4 with Bendor Grosvenor.
434 illustrations 29.6 x 23.6cm 348pp paperback ISBN 978 0 500 295236 June £29.95
Grayson Perry Jacky Klein
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In this major monograph on Grayson Perry, now updated and expanded, writer and art historian Jacky Klein explores the artist’s work through a discussion of his major themes and subjects. This third edition not only has updates throughout, but also includes two new chapters, on the ‘House for Essex’, designed and built in 2015 with Living Architecture (the company founded by philosopher and writer Alain de Botton that aims to promote and enhance appreciation of modern architecture), and on ‘Identity Politics’, covering new work made since the previous edition of this book was published in 2013.
‘Clear, generous and insightful … In unravelling the mystique behind Perry, Klein shows why this unlikely artist is, in fact, most likely a national treasure’ Financial Times ‘A gorgeously splashy volume, spliced with sharp, sober commentary, and invaluable words from Perry himself’ World of Interiors
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The first book to concentrate on the early work of ‘Transvestite Potter’, bestselling author, broadcaster and social commentator Grayson Perry
Grayson Perry: The Pre-Therapy Years Edited by Catrin Jones and Chris Stephens Essays by Grayson Perry, Andrew Wilson and Catrin Jones Grayson Perry is one of a tiny group of artists whose names and reputations extend beyond the narrow fraction of gallery-goers into a wider public realm. He is now a household name as a result of his widely viewed television documentaries, numerous publications – including his critically acclaimed book about masculinity, The Descent of Man – and dazzling appearances dressed as his alter ego, Claire. More than simply a famous artist, Perry has become for many a national treasure. Perry first came to public attention in 2003 when he won the Turner Prize, the first ceramicist to do so, and rapidly established a unique brand as ‘the Transvestite Potter’. Ceramics are still central to Perry’s work as an artist, and this book examines the plates, pots and statues from the early 1980s to the mid-1990s that laid the foundations of his career. It traces his artistic development, examining the iconography and meaning behind these pieces and other early work, including films, placing his art in the context not only of his own psychological make-up in the period before he underwent therapy, but also of the various subcultures of the London art scene in the 1980s.
Catrin Jones is Curator, Holburne Museum, Bath, and Chris Stephens is Director of the same institution. Andrew Wilson is Senior Curator of Modern and Contemporary British Art at Tate Britain.
148 illustrations 24.5 x 21.0cm 176pp ISBN 978 0 500 094198 January £19.95
Accompanies an exhibition at the Holburne Museum, Bath, from 24 January to 25 May 2020, which will then show at York City Art Gallery, York, from 19 June to 20 September, and at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, from 18 October 2020 to 31 January 2021.
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Smart, playful and entirely free of ‘artspeak’: an accessible and irreverent introduction to the art and art world of today, written by two curators at the heart of the contemporary art scene Kyung An is Assistant Curator for Asian Art at the Guggenheim Museum, New York. Jessica Cerasi is Exhibitions Manager at Carroll/Fletcher, a contemporary art gallery in London.
40 illustrations 19.6 x 14.8cm 136pp flexibound ISBN 978 0 500 295731 March £9.95
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Who’s Afraid of Contemporary Art? Kyung An and Jessica Cerasi What is contemporary art? What makes it ‘contemporary’? What is it for? And why is it so expensive? The contemporary art world can be a baffling place, but Kyung An and Jessica Cerasi are on hand to bring you up to speed. From museums and the art market to biennials and the next big thing, Who’s Afraid of Contemporary Art? offers concise and pointed insights into today’s art scene, decoding art jargon, explaining what curators do, demystifying conceptual art, exploring emerging art markets and much, much more. A vibrant A–Z of themes takes readers through every aspect of contemporary art, from ‘Art, what is it?’, via ‘Money, money, money!!’, to art that exists outside the market with ‘Zoning out’. The authors’ playful explanations draw on key artworks, artists and events from around the globe, including Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s ‘Candy Spills’, extreme Chinese performances, Damien Hirst and Kanye West. Packed with behind-the-scenes information and mercifully free of ‘artspeak’, Who’s Afraid of Contemporary Art? is the perfect gallery companion and the go-to guide for when the next big thing leaves you stumped.
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An essential illustrated guide to the history of contemporary art from 1980 to the present Tony Godfrey, former Programme Director of the MA in Contemporary Art at Sotheby’s Institute, London, now lives in Manila, where he works as a curator with artists from South-East Asia. He has written for the Burlington Magazine and Art in America, and is the author of Conceptual Art and Painting Today, as well as numerous exhibition catalogues.
201 illustrations 26.0 x 20.0cm 280pp ISBN 978 0 500 239872 April £29.95
The Story of Contemporary Art Tony Godfrey Is it really art? What does it mean? Why does it cost so much? While these questions are perpetually asked about contemporary art, they are not the questions that E. H. Gombrich set out to answer in his seminal book The Story of Art. Contemporary art is very different from what came before. From the 1960s, where Gombrich’s account concludes, artists began to abandon traditional forms of art and started to make work that questioned art’s very definition. This is where Tony Godfrey picks up the story. Developments in contemporary art have followed no straightforward line of progress or sequence of movements. Recognizing this, Godfrey creates a narrative from a series of often dramatic creative conflicts and arguments around what art is or should be. From object versus sculpture and painting versus conceptual to local versus global, gallery versus wider world, The Story of Contemporary Art traces a history in terms of drastic changes in social and political life over the last sixty years. Key to the book is the story of how a perception that art was made almost exclusively by white men from North America and Western Europe has been radically overturned. Compelling and intelligent, but never academic, this book tells us how.
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A global survey of ninety artists at the forefront of contemporary ceramic art Charlotte Vannier is an editor, stylist and product designer. She is also the author of Threads and Unravelled, both published by Thames & Hudson. Véronique Pettit Laforet is a textile designer.
Illustrated throughout 28.0 x 22.0cm 360pp paperback ISBN 978 0 500 295786 April £35.00
Contemporary Ceramic Art Charlotte Vannier and Véronique Pettit Laforet Contemporary ceramicists are using cutting-edge technology, conceptual thinking and new platforms to push the boundaries of clay and broaden its appeal. A generation is emerging whose work is irreverent, playful and radical – but also beautiful – while established avant-garde ceramicists are gaining broader recognition. This book, a companion volume to Unravelled and Threads, explores the work of ninety artists at the vanguard of this movement. Their works range from monumental installations and imaginary bestiaries to abstract shapes or human-sized characters: Barnaby Barford taps into the heritage of porcelain with playful remakings of the kinds of figurines popular during the 18th and 19th centuries; Manoli Gonzalez’s delicate, translucent pieces are inspired by the vegetable world; Caroline Cheng’s Prosperity dress, adorned with more than 25,000 tiny porcelain butterflies, is the centrepiece of the British Museum’s 20th- and 21st-century collection of Chinese works. Spanning the world and the generations, the artists gathered in this book offer an exciting showcase of a booming practice.
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An inspiring selection of under-theradar stencil graffiti art from the new generation of street artists and provocateurs, curated by an expert in the field Tristan Manco’s books include Stencil Graffiti; Street Logos; Graffiti Brasil; Street Sketchbook; and Street Sketchbook: Journeys. He has also explored the world of ‘Urban Art’ in titles such as Raw + Material = Art; Big Art, Small Art; and Make Your Mark. Manco leads workshops on street art practices, and is a regular lecturer at schools and colleges as well as being a sought-after consultant and speaker at street art conferences. https://www.tristanmanco.com/lectures
430 illustrations 23.0 x 17.5cm 288pp paperback ISBN 978 0 500 022856 March £19.95
The Stencil Graffiti Handbook Tristan Manco
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A wave of protest is in the air and on the walls! A new generation of politicized artists, designers and communicators the world over is using stencil art as an accessible yet powerful means of giving voice to their ideas. The Stencil Graffiti Handbook sees Tristan Manco back on the streets. Through an incomparable network of street-art contacts, gained through over two decades of immersion in the scene, Manco has scoured the globe to find the most interesting street artists working today – those operating outside of the mainstream market of ‘Urban Art’ and beneath the radar of everyone but the true cognoscenti. Exploring the medium’s applications within grassroots activism as well as the contemporary craft scene, Manco brings this thriving artform to light, showing both process and results: • Dives into street art’s essential elements – place, space, technique and subject – before taking to the streets to see how, where and why stencil graffiti is king. • Features studio visits with artists and practical, step-by-step guidance via artist-led projects. • Includes specially commissioned instructional illustrations by the renowned Colombian collective Stinkfish. The Stencil Graffiti Handbook offers fledgling artists, designers, typographers and guerrilla marketeers an unmissable education and the wherewithal and inspiration to get their messages out there.
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The definitive overview of the life and work of acclaimed artist and filmmaker Derek Jarman (1942–1994), marking twenty-five years since his death Seán Kissane is a curator at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin. Karim Rehmani-White is a noted publisher and writer.
300 illustrations 34.0 x 24.5cm 320pp ISBN 978 0 500 971086 March £48.00
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Derek Jarman: Protest! Edited by Seán Kissane and Karim Rehmani-White Designed by Niall Sweeney Derek Jarman was a very English rebel, a maverick and radical artist whose unique and distinctive voice was honed protesting against the strictures of life in post-war Britain. In an innovative practice that roamed freely across all varieties of media, Jarman refused to live and die quietly. He defined bohemian London life in the 1960s, exploded into queer punk in the 70s and with unbounded creative rage, ingenuity and sheer personal charm, he triumphed over an atmosphere of fear and ignorance in the age of AIDS to produce timeless, eloquent works of art which resonate still more strongly today. This major new publication offers a definitive overview of Derek Jarman’s life and work. It covers all aspects of his oeuvre, from his features to his Super-8 films, his painting, design for theatre, poetry, gardening, memoir and political activism. Protest! also contains excerpts from Jarman’s own writings, short interviews with friends and collaborators and newly commissioned texts from a wide range of contributors including John Maybury, Philip Hoare, Sir Norman Rosenthal and Olivia Laing. Generously illustrated with previously unseen images drawn from Jarman’s personal archive and works from all stages of his career, this book brings the reader fresh and surprising insights into the world of this much-loved artist.
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remember meeting him in his studio for the very first time in 1969, by which point
he’d graduated from the Slade and had a studio in Bankside, just east of Tower Bridge.
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New format | Revised edition
A new, compact edition of David Hockney and Martin Gayford’s brilliantly original book, with a revised final chapter and three entirely new Hockney artworks
David Hockney is the world’s most popular artist. Martin Gayford’s books include Man with a Blue Scarf, A Bigger Message and The Pursuit of Art, all published by Thames & Hudson.
315 illustrations 24.0 x 16.5cm 368pp paperback ISBN 978 0 500 094235 April £19.95
A History of Pictures David Hockney and Martin Gayford
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‘I won’t read a more interesting book all year ... utterly fascinating’ A.N. Wilson, Sunday Times
‘A magic flight of a book … It’s a measure of Hockney’s vividness of perception that he can always put a cap on Gayford’s knowledge … Fabulous!’ Clive James, Guardian ‘Hockney asks big questions about the nature of picture-making and the relationship between painters and photography in a way that no other contemporary artist seems to do … Enormously good-humoured and entertaining … On almost every page, there is an interesting provocation’ Andrew Marr, New Statesman
‘An eloquent conversational testimony to the vividness of life lived through intelligent looking. You will see Caravaggio and ‘Citizen Kane’ with fresh eyes’ Daily Telegraph
A picture, says David Hockney, is the only way that we can give an account of what we see. But all picture-makers face a common problem: how to compress three-dimensional people, things and places onto a flat surface? The results are often pigeonholed as paintings, photographs or films. In fact, Hockney argues, whether they are made by brush, camera or digital program, and no matter if they are on cave walls or computer screens, first and foremost they are all pictures. And for us to understand how we see the world around us – and hence ourselves – what is needed is a history of pictures. This is that book. Informed and energized by a lifetime of painting, drawing and making images with cameras, Hockney, in collaboration with the art critic Martin Gayford, explores how and why pictures have been made across the millennia. What makes marks on a flat surface interesting? How do you show movement in a still picture, and how, conversely, do films and television connect with old masters? Juxtaposing a rich variety of images – a still from a Disney cartoon with a Japanese woodblock print by Hiroshige, a scene from an Eisenstein film with a Velázquez painting – the authors cross the normal boundaries between high culture and popular entertainment, and make unexpected connections across time and media. Building on Hockney’s groundbreaking book Secret Knowledge, they argue that film, photography, painting and drawing are deeply interconnected. Insightful and thought provoking, A History of Pictures is an important contribution to our appreciation of how we represent our reality. This new edition has a revised final chapter with some of Hockney’s latest works, including the stained-glass window in Westminster Abbey.
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An extraordinary window into the life and creative thinking of one of the world’s best loved artists Nienke Bakker, Leo Jansen and Hans Luijten are the original team who produced the acclaimed six-volume edition at the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, in partnership with Huygens ING, Amsterdam, published by Thames & Hudson in 2009.
c. 85 illustrations 23.4 x 15.3cm 400pp ISBN 978 0 500 094242 June £29.95
Vincent van Gogh: A Life in Letters Nienke Bakker, Leo Jansen and Hans Luijten
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Vincent van Gogh’s letters have long been prized as some of the most valuable documents in the world of art. Not only do they throw light on Van Gogh’s own complex and intriguing character, they enlighten the whole creative process as seen through his eyes. Illustrated with original manuscript letters, sketches and paintings, this selection provides a new and accessible edition of these intimate personal documents. Here we can observe Van Gogh’s thoughts and opinions at first hand, as well as his close ties with his brother Theo, his sometimes troubled relationships with friends and fellow artists, his personal doubts and fears, and above all his overriding passion for his art. This personal written testimony to a life consecrated to art will provide lasting pleasure to readers familiar with Van Gogh’s paintings, some of the most famous works of art in the world. Vincent van Gogh: A Life in Letters offers the definitive view of one of the greatest creative minds, in his own words.
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An artistic-literary journey through Vincent van Gogh’s favourite authors and reading inspiration Mariella Guzzoni is an independent scholar and translator living in Bergamo. She has been collecting editions of the books that Vincent van Gogh read and loved for many years, and curated the exhibition ‘Van Gogh’s Passion for Books’ at the Sormani Library, Milan, in 2015.
132 illustrations 22.9 x 15.2cm 232pp ISBN 978 0 500 094129 June £19.95
‘I have a more or less irresistible passion for books’ Vincent van Gogh
Vincent’s Books Van Gogh and the Writers who Inspired Him Mariella Guzzoni Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) was famously driven by his passion for God, for art – and for books. Vincent’s life with books is examined here chapter by chapter, from his early adulthood, when he considered becoming a pastor, to his decision to become a painter, right up to the end of his life. He moved from Holland to Paris to Provence; at each moment, ideas he encountered in books consistently defined and guided his thoughts and his life. Vincent’s letters to his brother refer to at least 200 authors. Books and readers – whether dreaming or deeply absorbed – are frequent subjects of his paintings. Vincent not only read fiction, he also knew many works of art from detailed descriptions and illustrations in monographs, biographies and museum guides. Always keeping up to date, he never missed the latest literary and artistic magazines. This original study takes the reader on an artistic-literary journey through Vincent’s discoveries, his favourite authors and best-loved books, revealing a continuous dialogue between his own work, the artists and the authors who inspired him, and giving life to his comment: ‘Books and reality and art are the same kind of thing for me.’
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An accessible introduction to Edvard Munch’s life and work Øystein Ustvedt has extensive personal and professional experience with the works of Edvard Munch, particularly as head of the Stenersen Museum and in his role as curator at the National Museum in Oslo, where he has been since 2004. He has published widely on Munch and has curated several exhibitions of his work.
130 illustrations 22.9 x 15.2cm 224pp paperback ISBN 978 0 500 295762 April £16.95
Edvard Munch An Inner Life Øystein Ustvedt
The Artistic Renewal (1900–1916) The years leading into the 1900s were the start of an interesting phase in Edvard Munch’s work, dominated by two conditions: a close connection to the era’s leading cultural activities on the continent, and an artistic renewal. These conditions were, of course, related – but there were also other reasons why Munch came to spend so much time abroad during this period, and especially in Germany. In the autumn of 1902, Munch had entered into an intimate but somewhat agonising love affair with Tulla Larsen, a wealthy woman six years his junior. The relationship came to an end with a pistol shot in Åsgårdstrand – nobody was killed, but the incident had a profound effect on the artist. But first, let’s take a brief look at Munch’s growing network and artistic renewal. The fact that Munch was attempting something different in his paintings is evident in his use of brighter colours and stronger luminous effects and brushwork. But his subject matter also changed to include fertility and the harvest, powerful male bodies, stalwart workers, sparkling winter landscapes and the radiant sun. As previously, the subject was still often depicted frontally, in a straightforward manner and with reduced spatial depth. But the soft, curving linear interplay of the 1890s tran-
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Walter Rathenau, 1907, oil on canvas, 220 x 110 cm.
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vulnerable and exposed. In the portrait Woman in Grey, she is portrayed on her way out, no longer just a model but an individual, with her own life and psyche. She stands at the border between being a model and being herself.
ART AND LIFE At Ekely Munch often painted outdoors, and many of the works he created were light, lucid and colourful. The lush garden in particular remains the quintessence of Munch’s unrelenting drive to create, and his undiminished skill. Munch himself referred to his works as his ‘children’, and they now swarmed forth in huge numbers. Often, the immediate surroundings served as the initiator of painterly explorations and analyses of the passing of the seasons. The view from the property was diverse: some green hills towards the west, the fjord to the south, the lights of the city to the north-east, and a small forest of old, knotted elm trees close by. The red servants’ quarters building was often used as a point of focus, painted from various angles, at different times of day, and in varying light. Munch shared this interest in gardens with several other modern artists, such as Claude Monet, who cultivated large gardens in Giverny. The garden was a place where the artist could become immersed in the instruments and possibilities of painting; explore light and the effects of colour, compositional approaches, and the expressive power of each brushstroke. But Munch often combined this with some kind of human presence: people at work, or simply outdoors, and most often women. Traces of people are present even in works where they are not visible. This reminds us of how Munch started out by describing himself as a painter of everyday life. During the period he spent in Kragerø, Munch had started painting scenes of animal husbandry, with horses and dogs being popular models. Two horses, one light and one dark, constitute a striking pair of contrasts in lavish depictions of
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Rugged Tree Trunks in Summer, 1923, oil on canvas, 100 x 125 cm.
Why does Edvard Munch still fascinate us? Our preoccupation with the artist has reached new heights in recent decades, as demonstrated by recordbreaking international auctions of his works and exhibitions at such prestigious institutions as the British Museum, Tate Modern, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. One reason is that Munch created a number of iconic modern paintings: The Scream, Madonna, The Kiss, Vampire and Melancholy – these are paintings many immediately recognise. This new, highly accessible introduction to the artist acquaints us with his portraits, landscapes, depictions of everyday life, large figure compositions, small colour sketches, images of animals and depictions of children. Munch’s works explore love, suffering and the human condition, as well as the lyrical beauty of both nature and the quotidian. Art historian Øystein Ustvedt tells the story of Munch’s life and art, setting his works in their social context and exploring why they have endured. Munch’s art bears witness to his multi-faceted and dramatically inclined nature and life; to an artist who was simultaneously a tradition-bound realist and an experimental modernist.
‘My art is a self-confession – in it I seek to clarify my relationship with the world. But at the same time I have always thought and felt that my art could also clarify other people’s quest for the truth’ Edvard Munch
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The first book devoted to Degas’s joyous depictions of the people and performances at the Opéra de Paris Henri Loyrette is the former director of the Louvre Museum (2001–2013). He is the author of nineteen books on various subjects, including Degas, Gustave Eiffel and Marcel Proust.
300 illustrations 30.0 x 25.0cm 320pp ISBN 978 0 500 023396 January £45.00
Degas at the Opéra Edited by Henri Loyrette Accompanies the exhibition at the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, from 24 September 2019 to 19 January 2020, and then at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, from 1 March to 5 July 2020.
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Edgar Degas Projet d’affichepour
Les Enfants terribles, 1852 Mine et pastel sur papier, 123 × 56,8 cm
An exuberant display of fecund imagination and keen observation, Edgar Degas’s renowned images of the Paris Opéra are among the most sophisticated and visually compelling works he ever created. Celebrating the 350th anniversary of the Opéra’s founding, Degas at the Opéra presents approximately 100 of the artist’s best-known and beloved works in a range of media, including paintings, pastels, drawings, prints and sculpture. Degas (1834–1917) is celebrated as ‘the painter of dancers’, a subject that dominated his art for nearly four decades. Although there have been many books and exhibitions celebrating his love of the ballet, this volume is the first to consider his enduring fascination with the Paris Opéra. A music lover and regular visitor to performances, Degas explored both the public spaces of the Opéra – auditorium, stage and boxes – as well as more private ones, including dance studios and backstage. He immortalized the players in this dazzling universe in such paintings as La Loge, La Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans and Le Foyer de la Danse. They and many other works are reproduced here, accompanied by texts by a distinguished team of art historians.
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Fifth edition
A new edition of this classic textbook, revised and updated throughout Stephen F. Eisenman is Professor of Art History at Northwestern University. He is the author of The Temptation of Saint Redon and Gauguin’s Skirt, and has curated numerous exhibitions. He conceived and edited this book, and is its principal author. Additional chapters were written by the distinguished art historians Thomas Crow, Brian Lukacher, Linda Nochlin, David Llewellyn Phillips and Frances K. Pohl. Linda Nochlin, widely acknowledged for having pioneered feminist art history, died in October 2017.
523 illustrations 27.5 x 21.2cm 528pp paperback ISBN 978 0 500 294895 March £40.00
‘Essential reading ... [it] will help to re-define the shifting boundaries of the art-historical survey’ Guardian 16
‘We emerge from the book with our appreciation of its visual subject matter immeasurably enriched’ London Review of Books ‘It should be compulsory reading’ Art Book Review Quarterly
Nineteenth-Century Art A Critical History Stephen F. Eisenman • With chapters by Thomas Crow, Brian Lukacher, Linda Nochlin, David L. Phillips and Frances K. Pohl Written by a group of highly respected art historians, the fifth edition of this classic book has been fully revised and is now in full colour throughout. Each chapter now begins with an introduction that previews and summarizes its themes, helping to orient readers, while new Discussion Questions at the end of every chapter facilitate classroom discussion and help focus students’ learning. Nine new box features provide both added depth and diversion, and highlight important aspects of nineteenth-century culture and thought, including madness, race, animals, ecology, evolution and utopianism; key concepts, such as the avant-garde and modernism; and important thinkers, including Marx, Ruskin and Baudelaire. Emphasizing the vitality of nineteenth-century art, the authors use evocative and lucid prose to demonstrate how paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings by David, Géricault, Turner, Homer, Cassatt, Rodin, Van Gogh and many others remain relevant today.
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Accompanies a once-in-a-lifetime exhibition of the work of Flemish master Jan Van Eyck, making the artist’s world more tangible than ever before Till-Holger Borchert is a German art historian and writer specialising in 14th- and 15th-century art. He has been artistic director of the Municipal Museums in Bruges since 2014. Jan Dumolyn is a Belgian historian and professor at Ghent University, where Maximiliaan Martens is also professor of art history.
Illustrated throughout 33.0 x 25.0cm 490pp ISBN 978 0 500 023457 February £60.00
Van Eyck Edited by Till-Holger Borchert, Jan Dumolyn and Maximiliaan Martens Accompanies the exhibition ‘Van Eyck: An Optical Revolution’ at the Museum of Fine Arts Ghent from 1 February to 30 April 2020.
Flemish painter Jan Van Eyck (c. 1390–1441) towered above his contemporaries. With his unprecedented technique, scientific knowledge and unparalleled powers of observation, Van Eyck lifted oil painting to previously unseen heights and helped determine the course of Western art. This catalogue accompanies the largest ever exhibition of Van Eyck’s work at the Museum of Fine Arts Ghent. As well as reproducing artworks by Van Eyck, it also includes several pieces from his studio and other international masterpieces from the late Middle Ages, making the world of Van Eyck more tangible than ever. It unravels some of the myths that surround Van Eyck and his technique while showing his complete oeuvre and his influence in a new perspective. Central to the exhibition are the eight restored exterior panels of the Ghent Altarpiece – the Adoration of the Mystic Lamb – an exceptional loan from St Bavo’s Cathedral in Ghent. Including essays by leading experts from around the world, this book will be an indispensable resource for Van Eyck fans and scholars alike.
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A new exploration of Piranesi’s work as a draughtsman Sarah Vowles is the Hamish Swanston Curator of Italian and French Prints and Drawings at the British Museum. Hugo Chapman is the Simon Sainsbury Keeper of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum.
100 illustrations 25.0 x 25.0cm 144pp paperback ISBN 978 0 500 480618 February £20.00
Piranesi visions of antiquity Sarah Vowles
Coincides with an exhibition at the British Museum from 20 February to 9 August 2020.
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Interior of a circular building with arches and flights of steps 1755-1762 Pen and brown ink 270 x 410 mm. 1908,0616.39 Provenance: Probably William Gott; and by descent to his son, John Gott, Bishop of Truro; his sale, Sotheby’s, London, 20 March 1908, part of lot 172. Exhibitions: London 1968, part of no. 27. Venice 1978, no. 28. Hull and London 1995, no. 163. Poole and elsewhere, 2016-18, no. 53. Literature: Thomas 1954, under no. 25.
Similar in spirit and motifs to no. 37 [1908,0616.6] and thus probably dating from the same period, although this drawing cannot be related to The Crossing of St Peter’s from the Vedute di Roma. The drawing has usually been described as a free adaptation of a design by Filippo Juvarra for Scene X of Filippo Amadei’s opera Teodosio il Giovane (published 1711), but the connection is loose at best. The style of the drawing, with its scribbled hatching and powerful ink lines, make it clear that it must date from the 1750s or 1760s. Although the residual influence of Juvarra cannot be discounted, it seems more likely that Piranesi conceived this composition as an independent fantasy, based around the play of curved forms.
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The Venetian-born artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778) is best known for his dramatic etchings of the architecture and antiquities of his adopted home city of Rome and for his extraordinary flights of spatial fancy, such as Le Carceri (‘Prisons’). Published to coincide with an exhibition at the British Museum, this volume explores Piranesi’s celebrated skill as a draughtsman. While many studies focus on Piranesi’s activities as a printmaker, this beautifully illustrated book explores new dimensions of his art by focusing on his drawings. Curator and author Sarah Vowles establishes a clear relationship between his drawings and prints, discusses the involvement of studio hands in his late works, and examines how his style as a draughtsman evolved. Piranesi: visions of antiquity reveals the quality and lasting impact of the pen and chalk studies by a remarkably talented artist, as demonstrated by the superb collection at the British Museum.
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A unique, practical manual that enables the reader to become an apprentice to one of the world’s greatest painters Tony Smibert is visiting artist researcher at Tate Britain, where he explores and demonstrates Turner’s technique. As an artist, he has had over fifty solo exhibitions around the world. His books include Tate Watercolour Manual: Lessons from the Great Masters.
250 illustrations 24.0 x 27.0cm 144pp paperback ISBN 978 0 500 294499 January £16.95
Turner’s Apprentice A Watercolour Masterclass Tony Smibert How can a modern painter go about learning the techniques and methods of a long-dead master? Drawing on years of research and practice, Tony Smibert brings us a virtual apprenticeship, sharing his own method and approach that emulates J. M. W. Turner yet is contemporary, original and innovative. Turner had an extraordinary capacity to paint in ways that confounded his contemporaries and still amaze us today; Smibert’s method of painting in Turner’s style ingeniously draws together ideas and principles from East and West to bring out an entirely new perspective on Turner’s practice. A working manual, Turner’s Apprentice brings together elements of practice from historic masters, including Claude Lorrain and Claude Monet: this is a book for anyone aspiring to learn from any master. Fully illustrated with works by Turner and other major artists, as well as practical, step-bystep demonstrations, it offers a perfect companion for anyone seeking to understand by doing. Even for those who may never paint, Turner’s Apprentice offers a tantalizing glimpse of the thrill of painting and learning.
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‘Magnificent … a minor modern classic, to my mind, uniting art history and landscape thought by means of dazzling, dancing, unsettling sentences’ Robert Macfarlane Christopher Neve is a painter and one of the leading experts on British art of the 20th century, and has written several books and numerous articles. For many years he was art critic on the staff of Country Life.
36 illustrations 19.8 x 12.9cm 248pp paperback ISBN 978 0 500 295472 April £10.99
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‘Outstanding. Christopher Neve writes beautifully, unaffectedly and with great attack’ Financial Times ‘It is that rare thing, a modern vade mecum’ Observer, Books of the Year
Unquiet Landscape Places and Ideas in 20th-Century British Painting Christopher Neve Christopher Neve’s classic book is a journey into the imagination through the English landscape. How is it that artists, by thinking in paint, have come to regard the landscape as representing states of mind? ‘Painting’, says Neve, ‘is a process of finding out, and landscape can be its thesis.’ What he is writing is not precisely art history: it is about pictures, about landscape and about thought. Over the years, he was able to have discussions with many of the thirty or so artists he focuses on, the inspiration for the book having come from his talks with Ben Nicholson; and he has immersed himself in their work, their countryside, their ideas. Because he is a painter himself, and an expert on 20th-century art, Neve is well equipped for such a journey. Few writers have conveyed more vividly the mixture of motives, emotions, unconscious forces and contradictions which culminate in the creative act of painting. Each of the thirteen chapters has a theme and explores its significance for one or more of the artists. The problem of time, for instance, is considered in relation to Paul Nash, God in relation to David Jones, music to Ivon Hitchens, hysteria to Edward Burra, abstraction to Ben Nicholson, ‘the spirit in the mass’ to David Bomberg. There are also chapters about painters’ ideas on specific types of country: about Eric Ravilious and the chalk landscape, Joan Eardley and the sea, and Cedric Morris and the garden. This new edition features a new preface and a new text on the artist Sheila Fell.
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The compelling story of over 5,000 years of Scottish art, told by renowned contemporary Scottish artist and broadcaster Lachlan Goudie Lachlan Goudie is a Scottish painter and arts broadcaster. He has presented many BBC TV programmes including ‘Mackintosh: Glasgow’s Neglected Genius’, ‘Painting the Holy Land’ and ‘The Story of Scottish Art’.
180 illustrations 24.6 x 18.6cm 384pp ISBN 978 0 500 239612 May £29.95
The Story of Scottish Art Lachlan Goudie This is the fascinating story of how Scotland has defined itself through its art over the past 5000 years, from the earliest enigmatic Neolithic symbols etched onto the landscape of Kilmartin Glen to Glasgow’s fame as a centre of artistic innovation today. Artist and BBC broadcaster Lachlan Goudie passionately narrates the joys and struggles of artists across the millennia striving to fulfil their vision and the dramatic transformations of Scottish society reflected in their art. The Story of Scottish Art is beautifully illustrated with the diverse artworks that form Scotland’s long tradition of bold creativity: Pictish carved stones and Celtic metalwork; Renaissance palaces and chapels; paintings of Scottish life and landscapes by Horatio McCulloch, David Wilkie, the Glasgow Boys and Joan Eardley; designs by master architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh; and collage and sculpture by Pop Art pioneer Eduardo Paolozzi. Lachlan Goudie tells the compelling story of how and why these and many other Scottish masterpieces were created, and the impact they have had on the world.
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The third book in the Francis Bacon Studies series, published under the aegis of The Estate of Francis Bacon Martin Harrison is the editor of Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné. He is also the editor of the Francis Bacon Studies series, and Head of Publishing for The Estate of Francis Bacon. Christopher Bucklow is an artist, photographer and art historian. Katharina Günther was recently awarded a PhD by Cologne University for her study of Bacon’s use of photographic materials. Francesca Pipe has transcribed and annotated all the extant diaries of Eric Allden dating from the period 1920 to 1946. Sophie Pretorius is Archivist of the Estate’s Bacon collection, and has transcribed all Bacon’s surviving medical records. Joyce H. Townsend is Senior Conservation Scientist at Tate, London. Sarah Whitfield is the author of the catalogue raisonné of William Scott’s oil paintings, and has published widely on modern art.
Illustrated throughout 26.0 x 20.0cm 192pp paperback ISBN 978 0 500 971062 May £28.00
Inside Francis Bacon Edited by Martin Harrison Essays by Martin Harrison, Christopher Bucklow, Katharina Günther, Francesca Pipe, Sophie Pretorius, Joyce H. Townsend and Sarah Whitfield 22
The third instalment in the Bacon Estate’s groundbreaking series discloses and analyses the most exciting new research and information to emerge in many years on this elusive artist. Three of the essays, by Francesca Pipe, Sophie Pretorius and Martin Harrison, are based on archives recently added to the collection of the Estate of Francis Bacon. Very little is known about Bacon’s early career, and the diaries of his two first patrons provide a far deeper understanding of his formative years than has been accessible hitherto. Especially revelatory are the extensive records kept over a long period by Bacon’s doctor, Paul Brass: what they reveal will revolutionise thinking on Bacon. Sarah Whitfield sheds new light on both Bonnard and Bacon; she has identified concerns the two artists shared that will surprise as well as enlighten. Katharina Günther’s essay examines the complex interplay between Bacon and his closest friend, the artist Denis Wirth Miller, as men but principally as artists. Joyce Townsend draws on her scientific and technical investigations into Tate’s most important Bacon paintings to advance significant new information about Bacon’s methods. Christopher Bucklow is an expert on Japanese art, which forms an important, if unexpected, aspect of his rethinking of the metaphor system in Bacon’s paintings.
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The definitive – and long overdue – illustrated biography of a key figure in mid 20thcentury British art Carol Jacobi is Curator of British Art at Tate Britain, and has published and broadcast widely on 19th- and 20th-century British art, most recently ‘Picasso’s portraits of Isabel Rawsthorne’ in the Burlington Magazine. She was co-curator of the major Tate exhibition Van Gogh and Britain.
Illustrated throughout 24.0 x 16.5cm 352pp ISBN 978 0 500 971055 March £25.00
Out of the Cage The Art of Isabel Rawsthorne Carol Jacobi Isabel Rawsthorne’s painting career at the centre of the Parisian and London avant-gardes was eclipsed by the many occasions on which her friends made her the subject of their art, notably Epstein, Derain, Giacometti, Picasso and Bacon. This pioneering, working-class painter exhibited from the early 1930s, was influential in the 1940s and well known in the 1960s, but in her later years Giacometti’s and Bacon’s blockbuster biographies made her famous as a muse. Rawsthorne’s work is now in major collections, and this beautifully illustrated book re-writes the pre- and post-war art history of which she was a part: it is traced through the upheavals of the 20th century and her singular relationships with some of its most fascinating figures. A decade of research into the period, Rawsthorne’s art and archives, and the memories of friends, has revealed for the first time her role in a rebel group at Liverpool School of Art; success and tragedy in the 1930s when she was studio assistant to Jacob Epstein; her life-long collaborations with Alberto Giacometti; and, after the war, with Francis Bacon and with African Modernism in the 1960s, as well as her exceptional late work. It also tells the full story of her break from art during the Second World War, when she worked for the government in black propaganda – and may have been a spy.
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The definitive anthology of Linda Nochlin’s writings on women in art
Women Artists The Linda Nochlin Reader Edited by Maura Reilly Linda Nochlin (1931–2017) was one of the most pioneering art historians of our time. Her groundbreaking article ‘Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?’ was an impassioned feminist rallying cry that called traditional art historical practices into question and led to a major revision of the discipline. Women Artists brings together thirty essential essays from throughout Nochlin’s career, including two written specially for this collection, and an opening interview in which she reflects on her life’s work and the position of women artists today. Her major thematic texts, such as ‘Women Artists After the French Revolution’ and ‘Starting from Scratch: The Beginnings of Feminist Art History’ appear alongside the landmark 1971 essay and its rejoinder, ‘“Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?”: Thirty Years After.’ Other entries focus on a selection of major women artists, followed by biographies of all the artists discussed in the book and a bibliography of Nochlin’s publications.
‘Nochlin reminds us of the necessity of subversion’ Times Literary Supplement
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Maura Reilly is the founding curator of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum, where she organized the critically acclaimed Global Feminisms: New Directions in Contemporary Art, co-curated with Linda Nochlin.
230 illustrations 23.5 x 17.0cm 472pp paperback ISBN 978 0 500 295557 January £28.00
Celebrated abstract painter Bridget Riley in conversation with some of the world’s leading art historians and artists
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Edited by Robert Kudielka On the occasion of a major exhibition of Bridget Riley’s work at the Hayward Gallery, London, in 1992, BBC Radio broadcast an illuminating series of five dialogues, each one between Riley and a personality from the art world. These talks are collected in this volume, expertly edited by the art historian Robert Kudielka. With Neil MacGregor, art historian and former director of the British Museum, Bridget Riley discusses the art of the past in relation to the present; with the celebrated art historian and theorist Ernst Gombrich she explores the perception of colour in painting; with the artist Michael Craig-Martin, she addresses the theory and practice of abstraction; and with the critics Bryan Robertson and Andrew Graham-Dixon she talks about the events and travels that have shaped her life as an artist. The publication of this newly revised edition coincides with Bridget Riley’s major retrospective exhibition at the National Galleries of Scotland and the Hayward Gallery, London (2019–2020). Robert Kudielka is Professor of Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art at the Hochschule der Künste, Berlin.
Illustrated throughout 23.0 x 17.0cm 128pp paperback ISBN 978 0 500 971048 January £19.95
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‘A more novel and compelling book about art’s version of the afterlife, and how it is inflected by worldly politics and reality, can hardly be imagined’ Observer, Books of the Year 2018
Heaven on Earth Painting and the Life to Come T.J. Clark The idea of heaven on earth haunts the human imagination. The day will come, say believers, when the pain and confusion of mortal life will give way to a transfigured community. Such a vision of the world seems indelible. Even politics, some reckon, has not escaped from the realm of the sacred: its dreams of the future still borrow their imagery from the prophets. In Heaven on Earth, T.J. Clark sets out to investigate the very different ways painting has given form to the dream of God’s kingdom come. He goes back to the late Middle Ages and Renaissance – to Giotto in Padua, Bruegel facing the horrors of religious war, Poussin painting the Sacraments, Veronese unfolding the human comedy. Was it to painting’s advantage, is Clark’s question, that in an age of enforced orthodoxy (threats of hellfire, burnings at the stake) artists could reflect on the powers and limitations of religion without putting their thoughts into words? At the heart of the book stands Bruegel’s ironic but tender picture of The Land of Cockaigne, and also Veronese’s inscrutable Allegory of Love. The story ends with Picasso’s Fall of Icarus, made for UNESCO in 1958, which already seems to signal – perhaps to prescribe – an age when all futures are dead.
T.J. Clark is Professor Emeritus of the History of Art at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of The Painting of Modern Life and Farewell to an Idea. He writes art criticism regularly for the London Review of Books. His other publications include Image of the People, also published by Thames & Hudson.
101 illustrations 23.4 x 15.3cm 288pp paperback ISBN 978 0 500 295540 February £18.95
‘Utopian modernism has been Clark’s lifetime study, to which this book is an imaginative, heartfelt coda’ Financial Times ‘Remarkable … You don’t have to be religious to get it. You just have to have faith in the force of belief’ New York Times, Best Art Books of 2018
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Small, smart, essential... Art is at the centre of human experience, and an essential part of the cultural landscape for engaged citizens of the 21st century. Yet, for many, it can seem tantalizingly beyond reach. That doesn’t need to be the case. ART ESSENTIALS , Thames & Hudson’s new art series, presents need-to-know expertise that will provide the keys to a richer understanding of art of all kinds. From a no-nonsense guide to how to look at pictures to an illuminating introduction to modern art, ‘A really terrific series, providing a truly first-class introduction to fromand a revealing many of the fundamental ideas, individuals artworks overview that have of the art of the Impressionists to the shaped the way we see our world’ all-you-need-to-know guide to Street Art, the series will build Will Gompertz, BBC Arts Editor
into a set of must-have companions for every curious enquirer and gallery visitor, making it possible for everyone to enjoy the experience of the visual arts, whatever their prior knowledge of art.
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Art Essentials are for everyone who loves the arts and wants to know more. Each book in the series gives readers all the background knowledge they need for their enjoyment and understanding, whether they’re avid gallery-goers, armchair enthusiasts or curious observers. • An affordable set of must-have introductions • Accessible and engaging, allowing the reader either to read the book from start to finish, or to locate and focus on topics of particular interest • Richly illustrated for ease of understanding • Expertly written and conceived, building on the strength and authority of Thames & Hudson’s reputation in the visual arts • Practical – includes summaries of key information on every topic, and a glossary of art terms
Other titles in the Art Essentials series Street Art Impressionism Surrealism Women Artists Key Moments in Art Pop Art Looking at Pictures Modern Art
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‘A crisp, clear and, above all, highly enjoyable guide to Greek and Roman art, from the evolution of sculpture to the detailed techniques of vasepainting and fresco’ Natalie Haynes
Greek and Roman Art Susan Woodford For more than 2,000 years the art of Greece and Rome has lain at the heart of western civilization. This book recaptures the excitement of the artists who first created it. It traces the daring innovations of those who, defying traditional wisdom, explored new ideas; it describes the valiant struggles of sculptors and painters to portray – for the first time – both the complexities of the human form and the richness of human emotions. So much has been destroyed by the ravages of time that Greek and Roman art seems to consist only of impressive ruins and broken fragments. Yet the creative achievements of the Greeks and their legacy, as adapted by the Romans, have never lost their power.
Susan Woodford was born and educated in the USA (BA Harvard; MA and PhD Columbia). Since moving to London, she has taught art history and lectured at the British Museum. She has published many books and articles on Greek and Roman art and has also written Looking at Pictures in the Art Essentials series.
124 illustrations 21.6 x 13.8cm 176pp paperback ISBN 978 0 500 295250 April £10.95
‘A wonderfully illustrated and vividly written corrective to the assumption that radical art is the preserve of the West’ Jennifer Higgie, Frieze 27
Global Art Jessica Lack Jessica Lack introduces fifty pioneering modern and contemporary art movements born out of political engagement, decolonization, marginalization or conflict. These movements have aimed to revitalize society by challenging the status quo. While not as well known as Pop Art, Dada and Futurism, these associations of artists – such as the Saqqakhaneh artists of Iran, the Stridentists of Mexico, Jikken Kobo of Japan or America’s AfriCobra – have empowered and given voice to their members. Global Art brings unfamiliar material to life by exploring the unique historical context for each art movement, key cultural events and interconnections, and the key protagonists in the movement’s evolution.
Jessica Lack is a writer with a focus on modern and contemporary art. She was a correspondent for the Guardian and is the author of several books, including Why Are We ‘Artists’?: 100 World Art Manifestos.
108 illustrations 21.6 x 13.8cm 176pp paperback ISBN 978 0 500 295243 April £10.95
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Created in collaboration with celebrated illustrator Quentin Blake (Series Consultant) and Claudia Zeff, Deputy Chair of the House of Illustration (Series Editor) ‘Shines a welcome spotlight on the world of illustration and illustrators … they are at last beginning to receive attention and recognition for their important contribution to visual culture’ Professor Martin Salisbury
‘Long live the illustrators! Hurrah for their work!’
Philip Pullman
‘It is wonderful to see these celebrations of our greatest illustrators and visual story tellers. They will be an inspiration to future generations’ Chris Riddell
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A fascinating introduction to the art and techniques of the illustrator who, in Miffy, ‘created one of the most recognizable characters in the world’ (The New York Times)
Bruce Ingman is an internationally exhibited and published illustrator, as well as Lecturer in Illustration at Goldsmiths, University of London, and at Belfast School of Art, Ulster University. Ramona Reihill worked for many years as a children’s book editor, looking after a list that included Miffy.
80 illustrations 24.5 x 18.7cm 112pp ISBN 978 0 500 094136 April £18.95
Dick Bruna Bruce Ingman and Ramona Reihill This latest volume in the successful Illustrators series examines the life and work of Dutch artist Dick Bruna (1927–2017), creator of the world-famous children’s character Miffy. However, as this book shows, Bruna’s work extends beyond the thirty-two Miffy books, including not only more than ninety other illustrated books but also around 2,000 book covers for the family publishing firm of A. W. Bruna & Zoon. These covers, many for well-known detective stories, revealed Bruna’s eye for colour and ability to achieve immediate visual impact, which also made him an outstanding poster and stamp designer. Ingman and Reihill show how the simple complexity of Bruna’s work appeals to children, artists and designers alike, capturing the imagination across ages and artistic disciplines. The book includes previously unpublished drawings and paintings from Bruna’s personal archive, dating from when he began sketching and painting as a boy in wartime Holland. The development of the character of Miffy is illustrated and there are photographs of Bruna from throughout his life and of his studio in Utrecht.
‘For millions of children, Dick Bruna’s books are the first they will encounter. They don’t know how lucky they are, for his stories are a wonderful window on the world; a world of colour and shapes and words, put together in a form that will stay with them for the rest of their lives’ Michael Bond
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VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM
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Two beautiful gift books that draw on the unparalleled collections at the Victoria and Albert Museum
Aubrey Beardsley Decadence and Desire Jan Marsh Aubrey Beardsley (1872–1898) was only twenty-five when he died from tuberculosis, but in his short life he established a reputation as one of the most accomplished – and controversial – illustrators of his day. Astonishingly, all his work was created in the course of only six years, yet his contribution to the visual language of Art Nouveau was profound; today, his work is instantly recognizable for its use of black ink and flowing lines on white paper, along with its erotically charged subject matter. Not all his work was sexually provocative – much was satirical, attacking the decadent mores of the time – but some was and remains shocking, taking its stylistic inspiration from Japanese shunga and Greek vase painting and its thematic inspiration from mythology, history, poetry and drama. This book offers a wealth of illustrations by Beardsley, and introduces his exquisitely crafted drawings and prints to a new audience. Including a text by Jan Marsh, Aubrey Beardsley brings together a carefully curated selection of works from Beardsley’s tragically short but highly productive life. Jan Marsh is the author of biographies of Christina and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, coeditor of the letters of Jane Morris, former president of the William Morris Society, and curator of ‘Black Victorians in British Art’ (Manchester Art Gallery, 2005) and ‘Pre-Raphaelite Sisters’ (National Portrait Gallery, London, 2019).
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c. 100 illustrations 19.0 x 17.0cm 144pp ISBN 978 0 500 480595 February £14.95
Voysey’s Birds and Animals Karen Livingstone Charles Francis Annesley Voysey (1857–1941) is one of the most enduringly popular designers of the Arts and Crafts Movement. A practicing architect, Voysey also designed a broad range of applied arts objects, from furniture, ceramics, and metalwork to wallpaper, carpets, tiles and fabrics. His wallpaper and textile designs are characterized by simple, stylized, rhythmic patterns that base their motifs on forms found in the natural world. Plants abound, but so too do birds and animals, represented as silhouettes or in soft pastel shades. This elegant, accessibly priced volume offers a wealth of colourful designs by Voysey in which birds and animals are the principal motifs. Written by Karen Livingstone, a published expert on Voysey and the Arts and Crafts Movement, this book brings together not only completed patterns but also working drawings in pencil and watercolour. Karen Livingstone is Director of Masterplan and Estate at the Science Museum and a former curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Her previous publications include Essential Arts and Crafts and C.F.A. Voysey: Arts & Crafts Designer.
c. 100 illustrations 19.0 x 17.0cm 144pp ISBN 978 0 500 480601 February £14.95
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A perfect resource for all those who appreciate one of the most popular art forms and means of communication: the poster Gill Saunders is Senior Curator of Prints in the Word & Image Department of the V&A. Margaret Timmers is the former Senior Curator of Prints in the Word & Image Department of the V&A. Catherine Flood and Zorian Clayton are Curators of Prints in the Word & Image Department of the V&A.
300 illustrations 29.8 x 24.0cm 304pp ISBN 978 0 500 480380 March ÂŁ45.00
The Poster A Visual History Edited by Gill Saunders and Margaret Timmers With Catherine Flood and Zorian Clayton Even in the digital age, the printed poster has continued to be one of the most influential and well-loved ways of informing and entertaining audiences. A powerful means of mass communication, posters are an invaluable resource for understanding the time periods in which they were produced and distributed and have often played key roles in shaping society. Organized into seven thematic chapters, The Poster brings together more than 300 examples that offer a comprehensive history of the poster as a medium that has been used to share, sell or incite political and social change. The text traces the poster through innovations in design, illustration, typography and printing, as well as movements in art, including Art Nouveau, modernism, Art Deco, psychedelia and punk. Featuring works by A. M. Cassandre, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Alphonse Mucha, Milton Glaser, Paula Scher and Peter Gee, and many more, this book is an essential resource for graphic designers, illustrators and anyone interested in social and political history.
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With exquisite close-up photography of some of the most fascinating pieces in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, this book reveals the full scope of Japanese dress over the past three centuries Josephine Rout is a Project Curator in the Asian Department at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Anna Jackson is Keeper of the Asian Department at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
198 illustrations 29.0 x 20.5cm 208pp paperback ISBN 978 0 500 480571 April £24.95
Coincides with the exhibition ‘Kimono: Kyoto to Catwalk’ at the Victoria and Albert Museum from 29 February to 21 June 2020.
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Japanese Dress in Detail Fashion in Detail series Josephine Rout with Anna Jackson A unique insight into the history and key themes of Japanese dress from the eighteenth century to the present, Japanese Dress in Detail reveals the elaborate embroidery, precise folds and sophisticated dyes that form some of the most beautiful garments in the Victoria and Albert Museum’s unparalleled Japanese dress collection. This book provides readers with the rare opportunity to examine historical clothing, from breathtaking Edo-period kimono, court robes and No theatre costumes to indigo-dyed utilitarian garments and exciting contemporary designs. Featuring both garments and accessories, this book is an extraordinary exploration of the beauty and complexity of Japanese fashion. Specially commissioned close-up photography and authoritative texts accompany each garment, and front-and-back line drawings make this publication an invaluable resource for students, collectors, designers, fashion lovers and Japanophiles.
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A lavish survey of the Khalili Collection’s world-renowned holdings of traditional Japanese kimono Anna Jackson is Keeper of the Asian department at the Victoria and Albert Museum, and Honorary Curator of the Khalili Collection.
400 illustrations 30.0 x 24.0cm 320pp paperback ISBN 978 0 500 294017 February £39.95
‘Charming details abound’
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‘Dazzling … offers fascinating examples of East/West dialogue’ World of Interiors ‘A joy to behold’
Kimono The Japanese Art of Pattern and Fashion Edited by Anna Jackson The Khalili Collection of kimono comprises over 200 garments and spans 300 years of Japanese textile artistry. The form of the T-shaped, straight-seamed, front-wrapping kimono has changed very little over the centuries, yet the collection reveals an astonishing variety of designs, including formal, semiformal and informal kimono, undergarments and jackets, worn by women, men and children. Represented are the sophisticated garments of the imperial court, samurai aristocracy and affluent merchant classes of the Edo period (1603– 1868), the shifting styles and new colour palette of Meiji-period dress (1868– 1912) and particularly the bold and dazzling kimono of the Taisho (1912–26) and early Showa (1926–89) eras, which utilized innovative techniques and drew fresh inspiration from both past traditions and the modern world. Here, an international team of authors – including the former curator of textiles, Tokyo National Museum – examines the art and evolution of the kimono in the historical context of the 17th to the 18th centuries, under the editorship of Anna Jackson, Keeper of the Asian Department at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
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An elegant collection of legendary designer Coco Chanel’s maxims on style, women and life, presented in a fashionable gift format Patrick Mauriès is a writer and publisher of many notable titles on fashion and design, including Jewelry by Chanel, Cabinets of Curiosities, The World According to Karl and Chanel: The Karl Lagerfeld Campaigns, all published by Thames & Hudson. Jean-Christophe Napias’s recent publications include Fashion Quotes, The World According to Karl and Choupette: The Private Life of a High-Flying Fashion Cat, all published by Thames & Hudson.
50 illustrations 17.0 x 12.0cm 176pp ISBN 978 0 500 023488 April £10.00
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French couturière Coco Chanel has achieved legendary status across the world and continues to captivate young generations of fashion fans who eagerly collect and share her quotes, creations and insights. A close friend of some of the leading wits and writers of her days, from Jean Cocteau to poet Pierre Reverdy, Coco Chanel was fierce and uncompromising in her pronouncements on fashion, women and life. Much like her successor, Karl Lagerfeld, she never shied away from controversy, declaring one day of her detractors: ‘I don’t care what you think about me. I don’t think about you at all’. Presented in a beautiful package and accessible format, The World According to Coco is the perfect gift for fans of fashion in general and Chanel in particular.
‘The best things in life are free. The second-best are very expensive’ ‘Elegance is refusal’ 978 0 500 293935 £10.00
‘Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity’
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The first book to reveal Jean-Paul Goude’s previously unseen drawings and sketches for his iconic Chanel perfume campaigns Jean-Paul Goude has worked at the forefront of commercial art, advertising and illustration for over three decades. Patrick Mauriès is a writer and editor of many important titles on fashion and design, including Jewelry by Chanel, Cabinets of Curiosities, The World According to Karl, Chanel: The Karl Lagerfeld Campaigns, So Far So Goude and The Goude Touch, all published by Thames & Hudson.
169 illustrations 22.0 x 22.0cm 204pp ISBN 978 0 500 023389 February £35.00
Goude: The Chanel Sketchbooks Jean-Paul Goude • Texts by Patrick Mauriès For the first time, Chanel and Jean-Paul Goude reveal the unseen drawings, collages and sketches that have inspired Goude’s advertising campaigns for Chanel’s world famous fragrances, from ‘Egoïste’ and ‘Coco’ to ‘Chanel No. 5’ and ‘Chance’. Inspired by a small gold birdcage in Coco Chanel’s Paris apartment, Goude cast a young Vanessa Paradis as a Chanel ‘Tweety Pie’ bird, swinging on a trapeze to promote Chanel’s ‘Coco’ perfume. He went on to make Estella Warren the face of his Chanel No.5 campaign, and called for the entire façade of a Riviera Palace to be built in Rio de Janeiro for the first ‘Egoïste’ film, before capturing Karl Lagerfeld, Lily-Rose Depp and the ghost of Coco Chanel herself. A must-have for Chanel lovers, the book also allows creatives and advertising enthusiasts to discover the imagination and creative process at work behind these unforgettable images.
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A major retrospective of the work of Gabrielle Chanel Miren Arzalluz is the Director of the Palais Galliera, Musée de la mode de la Ville de Paris.
250 illustrations 31.0 x 24.5cm 304pp ISBN 978 0 500 023464 April £45.00
Accompanies the exhibition at the Palais Galliera, Musée de la mode de la Ville de Paris, opening in April 2020.
Gabrielle Chanel General Editor: Miren Arzalluz With contributions by Claude Arnaud, essayist and biographer Miren Arzalluz, Director of Palais Galliera Véronique Belloir, Palais Galliera Laurent Cotta, Palais Galliera Amy de la Haye, London College of Fashion Julie Deydier, Chanel Caroline Evans, Central Saint Martins Sophie Grossiord, Palais Galliera Marie-Laure Gutton, Palais Galliera Marion Langlois, Cinémathèque de Paris Sylvie Lécallier, Palais Galliera Alexandra Palmer, Royal Ontario Museum Régis Robert, Cinémathèque de Paris Olivier Saillard, former director of the Palais Galliera
Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel is an icon of fashion, and can lay claim to having invented the look of the 20th century. At the height of the Belle Époque, she liberated women from their corsets, bobbed their hair, put them in bathing suits and sent them out to get tanned in the sun. She introduced the little black dress; trousers for women; costume jewelry; the exquisitely comfortable suit that became her trademark. Early in the Roaring Twenties, Chanel made the first ever couture perfume – No. 5 – presenting it in the famous little square-cut flagon that, inspired by Picasso and Cubism, became the arch symbol of the Art Deco style. No. 5 remains the most popular scent ever created. This volume, published to accompany a landmark exhibition in Paris, traces the birth and evolution of Chanel’s timeless style. Specially commissioned photographs showcase the clothing, while essays by fashion historians illuminate events, themes and the spirit of the age. Rare archival documents and portraits of Gabrielle Chanel herself make this an indispensable volume for fashion historians and connoisseurs of style.
‘Fashion changes, but style endures’ Gabrielle Chanel
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New edition
The ultimate guide to who’s who in the world of fashion design Marnie Fogg is a fashion expert and media consultant whose experience of the fashion industry means that she is uniquely placed to access original material. She is the best-selling author of Fashion: The Whole Story, The Fashion Swatch Book and Why You Can Go Out Dressed Like That, all published by Thames & Hudson. Jonathan Saunders is a Scottish fashion designer, known for his work with prints and use of traditional silk screening techniques.
Over 800 illustrations 21.0 x 17.5cm 352pp flexibound ISBN 978 0 500 295724 May £19.95
The iconoclastic designer Alexander McQueen (1969– 2010) – who tragically took his own life at the height of his global success – reconstituted perceptions of bodily form and beauty through eloquent and theatrical layers of culture. His dark imagination was bolstered by widely admired technical skills of cut and construction, which gave his less extravagant output a refined wearability. McQueen left school at sixteen and took up an apprenticeship in Savile Row with bespoke tailors Anderson & Sheppard and then with Gieves & Hawkes. His next employment was with theatrical costumiers Angels & Bermans, where he was introduced to the historical methods of cut and make. He worked briefly with Koji Tatsuno and then Romeo Gigli, before being accepted on the Master’s of Arts in fashion at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design. His graduate
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collection was bought by the stylist Isabella Blow. In 1996, McQueen replaced John Galliano (see p.172) as head designer at Givenchy (see p.132), and in 2000 the Gucci Group took over the majority shareholding of McQueen’s own label, retaining the designer as director. McQueen’s achievements were recognized by numerous awards, including British Designer of the Year in 1996, 1997, 2001 and 2003, and International Designer of the Year from the Council of Fashion Designers of America in 2003. The label is now under the creative direction of Sarah Burton, who was appointed in 2011 to design the wedding dress of Prince William’s bride Catherine Middleton.
McQueen’s posthumous A/W 10/11 collection references Byzantine art and religion.
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The ‘Highland Rape’ scene uses the most recognized tartan – Royal Stewart.
Notorious for its ambiguous presentation of ‘tartaned’, dishevelled and violently disrobed models – allegedly as a metaphorical indictment of the English subjugation of Scotland – the ‘Highland Rape’ collection was successfully controversial. Tartan is sculpted into bodices and tailored into flared or pencil mid-calf skirts. Lowrise trousers are partnered with cropped chiffon tops with high tartan collars.
Elements of bondage appear in this wide-ranging collection.
A perforated-leather sheath dress features in a collection that makes unfettered play with transparency and perforation, and with tailored or metal-cast exoskeletons. There are sartorial experiments that reveal exquisite cutting techniques: the revers that never stops until it has draped and reversed back up to the waist, or the rigid geometry of intercut fabrics that sit with the precision of a falling shadow.
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With the ‘bumster’ – a designer act of sartorial daring that escalated to a global phenomenon – McQueen exhibited his creative authority.
Although antecedents of McQueen’s low-rise trousers are seen in ranges dating back to 1992, it is only in the context of his S/S 96 collection, ‘The Hunger’, that they take a greater significance. Taking the graphic clarity of exotic plumage in a contained palette of red, black, inky navy, white and silver grey, garments are formed into new constructions with an incisive slash, chop or flash of the designer’s shears. Satin, brocade, lace, leather, metallic tulle and linen are interlinked in a range of outfits – feathered, tufted and occasionally be-tailed with magpie panache or geisha fragility. A skullencasing oval mask in metallic voile resonates with the delicate transparency of devoré feather prints. There is a suggestion of the threat of predation in the dress with a claw-wielding leopard printed in sinister chiaroscuro or from the dresses overlaid with a trapper’s mist net.
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The iconic jersey wrap dress, first produced by US-based designer Diane von Furstenberg in 1973, has continued to be a fashion staple in the contemporary woman’s wardrobe. Constantly updated in various materials and dominated by bold print designs, the label produces a comprehensive highend ready-to-wear line.
Dries van Noten’s aesthetic is sustained by the use of opulent materials with complex, rich and textured surfaces. These are fashioned into loose, draped, multi-layered and sculptural pieces utilizing printed and embroidered embellishment. He characteristically combines colours, fabrics and forms into an eloquent, painterly composition.
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Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana have assimilated the glamour of the Sicilian femme fatale into contemporary fashion. Utilizing underwear as outerwear and combining elements of masculine tailoring and lush floral imagery with their signature use of leopard-skin, the label represents assured red-carpet glamour.
The Eley Kishimoto label is hard core, print-based fashion, using the power of cleverly constructed repeat print designs to energize complementary garment shapes. The designs are emphatic, using strong colours and motifs to draw the eye around the fabric-clothed figure or accessory. Their hallmark design ‘Flash’ is as recognizable as any logo.
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The Fashion Design Directory Marnie Fogg • Foreword by Jonathan Saunders Written by an expert whose fashion knowledge extends around the globe, The Fashion Design Directory presents an enticing panorama of more than 100 of the most influential players in the world of fashion from the beginning of the 20th century to the present day – the people and companies who have shaped contemporary fashion and defined the modern perception of style. This new edition has been thoroughly revised throughout, with updated designers’ biographies, up-to-date images and nearly twenty new designers or brands. Engaging, informative text sets the scene for each designer – their origins, their ethos and their pathway to success – while striking runway images showcase statement looks and pieces from each designer’s career. Finally, a fabric swatch directory shows a range of the most arresting, important and memorable prints from forty key designers. With its expert and perceptive overview of ‘anyone who’s anyone’ in the realms of fashion, The Fashion Design Directory will satisfy even the most discerning of fashionistas, transporting them into a world of beauty, creativity, sophistication, eccentricity and captivating catwalk glamour.
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A dawn-to-dusk instruction manual for living effortlessly and elegantly in the modern world Mr Porter is the global online retail destination for men’s style and partner to Net-a-Porter, the first fashion site to prove that high fashion can successfully be sold over the internet.
160 illustrations 24.0 x 17.0cm 348pp paperback ISBN 978 0 500 295700 March £30.00
The Mr Porter Guide to a Better Day Mr Porter The Mr Porter Guide To A Better Day covers all aspects of a man’s daily life, from morning rituals, to flawless grooming to handy tips for taking the work out of your working and social life. Compiled by Mr Porter’s Editors and featuring wisdom from Messrs Tom Ford, Laird Hamilton and more, this volume is packed with expert advice, helpful illustrations and full-colour photography that explores the habits and routines of the world’s most stylish men. Of course, it’s also got the wardrobe side of things covered: between each chapter, a dedicated section on ‘How To Dress’ offers a deep dive into the ins and outs of contemporary menswear, offering rules and guidelines on what to wear and how to wear it, whether you’re heading out for a fancy dinner, or spending a weekend recovering from just such a thing. Drawing on Mr Porter’s unparalleled experience of dressing discerning gentlemen across the globe, it is the definitive volume that every man of taste should have on his bookshelf this season.
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JEWELRY
Presented in a luxurious slipcased package, the first book dedicated to tiaras created by the high-end Parisian jewelry house Chaumet
Clare Phillips is curator in the sculpture, metalwork, ceramics & glass department at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Her publications include Jewelry: From Antiquity to the Present and Jewels and Jewelry. Natasha Fraser-Cavassoni is the author of numerous books, including Vogue on Yves Saint Laurent and After Andy: Adventures in Warhol Land. She was the European editor for Harper’s Bazaar from 1999 to 2004.
250 illustrations 33.0 x 25.0cm 256pp slipcased ISBN 978 0 500 210284 January £80.00
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Chaumet Tiaras Divine Jewels With texts by Clare Phillips and Natasha Fraser-Cavassoni Founded in 1780 in Paris, the Maison Chaumet became the most prestigious and sought-after jeweller in Europe under the patronage of the Empress Joséphine, wife of Napoléon. For nearly 250 years, Chaumet has specialized in tiaras of dazzling craftsmanship for powerful women including royalty, heiresses, celebrities, artists and modern businesswomen. The spectacular and rarely seen tiaras in this book are presented thematically – Nature, Sky, Freeform and Power – accompanied by essays from V&A jewelry curator Clare Phillips and fashion journalist Natasha Fraser-Cavassoni examining the history of tiaras and the role they play in fashion. Featuring more than 200 illustrations, including specially commissioned photographs, this is a stunning tribute to an enduring symbol of feminine majesty.
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An accessible collector’s guide to the world of unusual, rare and dazzlingly retro watches Josh Sims is a design writer based in Margate. He is the editor of social trends journal Viewpoint and author of several books on menswear, including Icons of Men’s Style. Mitch Greenblatt is the co-owner and founder of Xeric Watches, Horolovox and watches.com.
286 illustrations 19.7 x 21.5cm 256pp ISBN 978 0 500 022962 May £19.95
Retro Watches The Modern Collector’s Guide Josh Sims and Mitch Greenblatt • Photography by Tyler Little What you wear on your wrist can be more than merely functional. Eschewing the common categories of the ‘classics’, the ostentatiously high-priced, and the ‘blingy’, Retro Watches brings together individualist pieces that few have seen and even fewer own. A collector’s guide for those who want to make a statement with the watch they wear, but who are looking for something a little different, it collects the most intriguing, visually striking and out-there watch designs from little-known but influential watch brands, along with overlooked but brilliant pieces from the major players. Over 100 watch models are featured, specially photographed for the book and accompanied by accessible, informative texts discussing the watch’s design, history and intriguing features, as well as info panels detailing rarity, value, and other key attributes. Additional breakout spreads dive into the cultural and fashion history of watch design and the many innovations of the ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s. Beautifully presented, Retro Watches is the volume for the watch wearer who wants to stand out from the crowd.
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The ultimate in nerd nostalgia: a loving overview of the home computer revolution of the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, told through rich anecdote and exquisite industrial-design photography Alex Wiltshire is a writer and consultant for videogames, design and technology. He is the author of the bestselling book Minecraft Blockopedia, and the editor of Britsoft: An Oral History. Previously editor of Edge, he has also written for Rock, Paper, Shotgun, PC Gamer and Eurogamer. John Short is best known for his still life, interiors and landscapes. His work is regularly published in Wallpaper*.
350 illustrations 24.6 x 21.0cm 256pp ISBN 978 0 500 022160 April £24.95
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It is all too easy to forget, as we go through life with computers in our pockets, that the digital revolution started at home. Home Computers showcases the quirky and characterful beginnings of a commercial product that would come to unite the globe: the personal computer. As so much technology is forgotten once it is superseded, this is a celebration of industrial design and techno-utopianism from the not-so-distant past. Conceived as a visual sourcebook of the most popular, most powerful and most idiosyncratic computers to grace our workspaces, this timely publication offers a reflection on how far we’ve come and a nostalgic look at a time when digital worlds could be contained in a box and turned off, rather than everpresent in our lives. Home Computers opens with a scene-setting retrospective by computer and gaming writer Alex Wiltshire. The book’s heart is a series of commissioned photographs that capture details of early user-interface design, letterforms and logos. Images are enlivened by a potted history of each device, the inventors or personalities behind it, and its innovations and influences. These wonderful machines offered a bridge from the analogue to the digital. As such, we would do well to reflect on, and celebrate, the profound changes they have brought.
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Virgin at 50: the official anniversary volume, celebrating half a century of one of the world’s most famous brands Virgin was founded in 1970 by Richard Branson and Nik Powell. Today, the Virgin group consists of more than sixty companies operating in thirty-five countries with nearly 70,000 employees. Virgin’s total social media audience is over 35 million users. Previously the editor of Computer Arts magazine, Nick Carson is an experienced copywriter, design journalist and consultant. Formerly editor of Computer Arts, he launched and chairs the Brand Impact Awards to reward the world’s best branding.
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c. 315 illustrations 24.5 x 21.0cm 376pp (inc 4 x 6pp gatefolds and 10 x 4pp inserts) ISBN 978 0 500 022931 March £39.95
01 CHEEKY START-UP
Succeeding against the odds
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Virgin Blue: How one of Virgin’s scrappiest upstarts gained traction against stiff competition.
When Richard suggested launching a budget domestic airline in Australia, he was met with little enthusiasm within Virgin Group. His instinct to push ahead was proved right, however: Virgin Blue became the fastest-growing Virgin company of all time. Fittingly for such a no-frills brand, the idea was pitched to Richard over drinks, with ideas sketched on to beer mats. “No business case, no thesis, just big-ticket thoughts,” recalls Virgin Blue co-founder Brett Godfrey. “From those beer coasters we agreed five points on one page that I had to secure for the investment to occur.” A huge boost came when Ansett Australia – the main competitor to the dominant airline, Qantas, with a third of the market – went bust shortly after 9/11. “We bet the shop by buying every single aircraft we could get our hands on,” Brett reveals. “The market crashed, and we saw a oncein-a-generation opportunity to pick up a new fleet for prices I’d never seen before, and never since.”
OPPOSITE, TOP No-frills airline Virgin Blue played on the Australian slang for a redhead: a ‘bluey’.
OPPOSITE, BOTTOM Virgin Blue co-founder Brett Godfrey (centre) with some of the airline’s fun-loving crew.
To save money, Virgin Blue launched as the world’s first online-only airline. It relied on media coverage rather than advertising and attracted attention however it could. “We emblazoned our phone number and website across the hull of the aircraft,”
Brett explains. After its initial press conference, the cheeky start-up became the lead story on every major Australian news network and took over the front pages the next day too. The name ‘Blue’, at first glance a strange choice for a famously ‘red’ brand, is an in-joke: in Aussie slang, ‘bluey’ means a redhead. Crew were encouraged to have fun, and antics ranged from hiding in overhead lockers to organising races between passengers, passing toilet paper over their heads down the seat rows without breaking it. Instead of having ‘baggage handlers’ hidden behind the scenes, Virgin Blue proudly named them its ‘pit crew’ and gave them bright red uniforms. “Australia had been a graveyard for startup airlines, but the Virgin brand and our cheeky attitude was our ‘shield’ – coupled with a value-based model that resonated with irreverent Australians,” adds Brett. “We didn’t try to compete with the big guys: we created a new market. Within three years we were one of Australia’s most trusted and respected brands.”
Virgin by Design Virgin and Nick Carson Virgin by Design is the official, anniversary volume celebrating 50 years of daring innovation and creativity at Virgin, presenting the stories, the people and the work that went into the building and shaping of a much-loved and globally respected brand. More than a retrospective, it gets to the heart of the values that make the Virgin brand so unique, communicating how those values resonate with people today – and will continue to do so in the future. Based on in-depth research and interviews with all the key people who have played a part in Virgin’s companies past and present, Virgin by Design is organized into ten chapters – each with fully illustrated case studies – that provide a sense of how hard work and brilliant ideas have resonated with audiences worldwide. Spanning the full 50-year chronology from Virgin’s beginnings as a record store to its bold future in space tourism with Virgin Galactic, the book also embraces Virgin’s broad diversity in terms of its global presence as a brand, its mission and purpose to change business for good, and its offerings across multiple sectors, including travel, banking, health and fitness, communications, and entertainment. Virgin by Design is packed with the wit, verve, spirit of adventure and ‘how it was done’ insights that will make it a must-have publication.
DESIGN
Seventh edition
A new edition of the market-leading practical book for both students and small businesses David Dabner teaches at the London College of Communication and is an experienced industry professional. Sandra Stewart is the Associate Dean for Academics at Drexel University’s Westphal College of Media Arts & Design. Abbie Vickress teaches BA Graphic Communication Design at Central Saint Martins in London.
Over 400 illustrations 22.2 x 22.2cm 208pp paperback ISBN 978 0 500 295595 March £16.95
Graphic Design School Principles The first part of this book is concerned with design principles, the building blocks that connect the basics of all good design. Every discipline has its own set of rules, methods, technical requirements and specialised technologies. Each one is rooted in the interactions of its history, theory and practice, but unlike learning law or biology, the language of design is visual. It involves the need for a highly developed awareness of visual relationships, proportion, the perceptions of visual principles, and of the modern world and its complex events and practices. A good designer can filter this information and create relevant, engaging, visually eloquent design that responds to multiple problems, needs and contexts. While a design student needs to develop the research, conceptdevelopment, compositional and organisational skills associated
with design, he or she also needs to be engaged with the world, and interested, aware and sensitive to the changing contexts in which design plays a part. Chapter 1 introduces the primary and secondary research skills needed by designers, followed by an introduction to theories of image, the importance of audience, and of organising your work and time. In Chapter 2, the idea of form is spotlighted. Form involves composition of the fundamentals of design (text, image, proportion, space, colour, scale) and requires an understanding of the visual dynamics created by combining them with intent. Understanding form comes from the ability to see intrinsic and subtle qualities in the various design elements, and the observation of, and sensitivity to, the changing relationships between them. Chapter 3 introduces
typography, a core skill for all designers that is layered with complexity, and cannot be understated for its beauty, history, versatility and ability to influence an audience. Developing a deep understanding of typography is of critical importance. Chapter 4 introduces colour as one of the primary tools in the language of design, including theory, terminology, associations, issues of legibility and emotional response. Managing colour and understanding its ability to communicate are skills that also evolve with greater understanding of its influences. Whatever design discipline you ultimately pursue, from editorial art direction to web and motion graphics, these basic principles will give you a solid foundation and serve as the groundwork for further exploration and understanding of design and the role of the designer.
A Foundation Course for Graphic Designers Working in Print, Moving Image and Digital Media
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Fundamentals of colour
A thorough understanding of colour is essential to expert design, and is one of the most important tools in graphic design. There are infinite variations of colours at the designer’s disposal, and endless ways of combining them across many media, from printed inks to screen-based colours, each with their own characteristics. colour has a unique, complex language, and the ability to change its meaning when partnered with other colours. When choosing colours to incorporate into your design, you will need to
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Colour terminology
To understand how to choose or assign colour for a specific purpose, designers must first develop knowledge of how colour works, how colours are classified, and the terms used to describe them. colour is differentiated in three main ways: hue, tone and saturation. ‘hue’ refers to the colour’s generic name – for example, red, yellow or blue. A single hue will have many variations ranging from light (tint) to dark (shade). This is called tone or value. A single hue will also vary according to its saturation or chroma (also known as intensity). saturation ranges from full intensity to low intensity, or from brightness to greyness. colour can also be described by its temperature and movement. hues in the red spectrum appear warmer and closer to the viewer than hues in the blue spectrum, which appear colder and further away. complementary colours, such as red and green, lie opposite each other on the colour wheel, whereas analogous colours, such as green and blue, lie adjacent to each other. The former are associated with contrast; the latter are linked to harmony. certain colours have a profound effect on each other when combined. They can vibrate or blend, appear vibrant when partnered with one colour and muted when placed with another. The more you experiment with colour, the more you will understand how to select and group various hues for meaning.
consider issues of contrast and harmony, and how these might affect legibility in typography. You can also set the mood of a design by using the psychology of colour, but you must be sure your selected colours convey the correct message at an unconscious level, and that they are suitable
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R Hue distinguishes one colour from another. it is the generic name of the colour – red, say, as opposed to blue.
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equivalent to brightness. A line of high intensity is a bright colour, whereas one of low intensity is a dull colour. Two colours can be of the same line but have different intensities.
GLOSSARY Additive colour: System used on monitors and televisions, based on RGB (red, green, blue). When combined, these form white light. Analogous colour: Colours that lie adjacent to each other on the colour wheel – for example, blue and green. CMYK: Cyan, magenta, yellow, key (black): the four colours that make up the full-colour printing process. Complementary colour: Colours that lie opposite each other on the colour wheel – for example, red and green.
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of pigment are shown on the wheel. The primary colours are red, yellow and blue. secondary colours are made by mixing any two primary colours together, producing orange, green and violet. A tertiary colour is produced by mixing a primary colour with the secondary colour nearest to it on the wheel. The tertiary colours here are red-orange, yellow-orange, yellow-green, blue-green, blue-violet, and red-violet.
R Subtractive colour An acetate envelope printed
with transparent primary colours transforms the cover of a publication and creates multiple triangles in varying hues and tones as it is removed. This same effect can be viewed digitally by working with transparencies and adding layers to your file. experimenting with colour will help you learn to control the hierarchy in page design, create readability in typography, and set the mood and pace.
Gamut: The complete range of colours available within one system of reproduction – for example, CMYK or RGB gamut. Primary colour: Red, yellow or blue. Secondary colour: A mix of any two primaries: orange, green or violet. Spot colour: Any flat colour, like Pantone or Toyo colours, printed as a solid, and not made up of CMYK. Subtractive colour: System used in printing, based on CMYK colours. Tertiary colour: A mix of a primary colour with the secondary colour nearest to it on the colour wheel.
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Graphic Design School is an essential coursebook for all graphic design students. It is organized into two main sections, ‘principles’ and ‘practice’. The first section deals with the fundamentals of design, such as composition, hierarchy, layout, typography, grid structure, colour and so on. The second section puts these basics into practice, and gives information about studio techniques and production issues relevant to a number of different graphic design disciplines. The last part of the second section provides an overview of some of the different career choices open to students entering the graphic design field. This seventh edition of Graphic Design School features all-new assignments and fully updated reading lists. Over a third of the images are entirely new, and include a mix of professional work and outstanding student pieces. In addition, Part II: Practice Plus features new software and revisits old print technologies – for example, risograph printing and screen printing – which are becoming increasingly popular forms of production again.
‘Image-packed … authoritative yet practical’ Computer Arts ‘Exemplifies its own principles … Dabner subscribes to the virtues of elegance, clarity and freedom from clutter’ Times Higher Education
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The Big Idea
Introduction
A primer for the 21st century Innovative and informative, provocative and persuasive, The Big Idea series looks at the fundamental ideas that make such a big impact on our lives and our world today. The unique visual approach and intelligently layered text make complex concepts easy to understand and give you all the tools you need to join the debate.
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But the cause of the anxiety is unacknowledged by those who do not know how technology is progressing. Unless they understand what the machines are actually doing to them and their society, they can only blame partially grasped developments for their own feelings, and that can never result in the kind of reasoned analysis that Glendinning believes is the way to build a healthier society. It can only lead to fear and uncertainty.
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Almost all of technological progress has happened in the last lifetime or two, especially since the invention of the computer, and the time between someone having an idea and that idea being disseminated around the world has shrunk so much that we have future shock. Alvin Toffler mapped out human history in terms of 800 lifetimes. Invention up until the last one or two spans of 80 years or so took place slowly over centuries. The developments of the wheel, fire, pottery, language, agriculture, the cart, even steam engines did not appear over a few years but took lifetimes to become widely adopted.
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Things started to accelerate when the scientific method was developed by French philosopher René Descartes (1596–1650) in the 17th century, building on ideas by the 10th-century IraqiEgyptian astronomer and mathematician Ibn Al-Haytham (965–1040) and the 16th-century British philosopher Francis Bacon (1561–1626).
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• Opinionated reference books: Each can be read as a narrative that explains the principles and concisely evaluates the arguments relevant to each subject. • Quick-recognition text hierarchy: Paragraphs are prioritized using different font sizes – the larger the font size, the more fundamental the paragraph is to the understanding of the overall concept or general argument. • Provocatively illustrated: Juxtaposes historical gems with the latest visual images. • Milestones: An extended back cover flap folds out to reveal a timeline, providing an at-a-glance overview of the topic’s key concepts and events. • Expert authors: High-quality narrative text provides a comprehensive introduction to, and concise analysis of, each subject. • Top-ranking general editor: Matthew Taylor, Chief Executive of the RSA, ensures consistency of quality and approach and most apposite question formulation across the whole series.
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Ecosystem services A term used to describe the various benefits humans get for free from the natural environment: clean drinking water and the pollination of crops, for example.
Environmentalists are sometimes mocked for shouting about current and impending crises, but this really is one. In fact, it is several. It is the seas, the air and the soil, with global warming cooking it all, threatening not only the safety of humans, but also that of hundreds of thousands of other species.
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A lucid analysis of the impact on society of the individual use of digital technology in everyday life
Is Technology Making Us Sick? A primer for the 21st Century Ian Douglas Modern technology has enhanced our lives in numerous ways – but, as digital technology crowds further into our personal lives, is it doing us more harm than good? Are we becoming more anxious, depressed and socially isolated, unaware of the manipulating influence of algorithms designed to keep us engaged and to filter the picture of the world we see? Has our online gaming or gambling unwittingly developed into a disturbing addiction? This rigorous and insightful volume assesses the impact of our increased screen time and daily interactions with personal technology on our individual choices, our relationships, and our mental and physical health, and suggests how best to mitigate any adverse effects. Ian Douglas has written widely on science, technology, health, child development and the ways in which they all collide. He spent many years at the Telegraph writing on these topics and as digital development editor. He also ran the website for the British Library and was head of digital at the Spectator.
150 illustrations 22.9 x 15.2cm 144pp paperback ISBN 978 0 500 295311 March £12.95
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A primer for the 21st century Alice Bell Climate change is wreaking havoc around the world; our oceans are choking with plastic; the earth’s natural ecosystems have been decimated; and up to one million species are at risk of extinction. In response, governments, corporations and individuals are beginning to change their policies and behaviour – but is it too little, too late? Is it possible to reverse the damage we have done to the planet, or have we reached the point at which we are only able to manage the problems and devastation caused? This astute and disquieting volume offers insightful analysis of a range of key issues including deforestation, global warming, pollution and single-use plastics, and evaluates whether – and how – we can build a planet on which every species can survive. Alice Bell is co-director at climate change charity Possible. She has also worked as an academic and journalist, establishing an interdisciplinary course on climate change at Imperial College London and writing for a range of publications including the Guardian, the Observer and The Times.
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A vibrant and timely photo anthology that reimagines a continent Ekow Eshun is a writer, curator, journalist and broadcaster based in London, whose writing has appeared in publications including The New York Times, the Financial Times, the Guardian and Vogue. Director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, from 2005 to 2010, and a frequent contributor to BBC radio and television programmes, his previous books include Black Gold of the Sun: Searching for Home in England and Africa, published in 2005.
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A major touring exhibition, also curated by Ekow Eshun, has already successfully shown in Nottingham and Bradford.
With over 300 photographs by more than fifty photographers, Africa State of Mind is a mesmerizing introduction to the creative figures at the heart of one of the world’s most dynamic photography scenes. Gathering together the work of an emergent generation of photographers from across Africa and its diaspora, Africa State of Mind is both a summation of new photographic practice from the last decade and an exploration of the ways in which contemporary photographers from the continent are exploring ideas of ‘Africanness’ to reveal Africa to be a psychological space as much as a physical territory – a state of mind as much as a geographical place. Dispensing with the western colonial view of Africa in purely geographic or topographic terms, Ekow Eshun presents Africa State of Mind in four parts: Hybrid Cities; Zones of Freedom; Myth and Memory; and Inner Landscapes. Each theme, introduced by a text by Eshun, presents selections of work by a new wave of African photographers who are looking both outward and inward: capturing life among the sprawling cities and multitudinous conurbations of the continent, turning the legacy of the continent’s history into the source of resonant new myths and dreamscapes and exploring questions of gender, sexuality and identity. Each of the photographers seeks to capture the experience of what it means, and how it feels, to live in Africa today.
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A new collection of work by photographer Bill Henson, one of Australia’s best-known artists
Bill Henson: The Light Fades but the Gods Remain Bill Henson Bill Henson: The Light Fades but the Gods Remain celebrates an extraordinary artist at two stages in his career. Over thirty years have passed since Henson made his iconic Untitled 1985/86 series. Those mesmerizing photographs cast a hazy procession of people and places from Melbourne’s suburb of Glen Waverley, interspersed with dreamlike vignettes of Egyptian structures. Now, Henson has revisited his home suburb. While these photographs return to Glen Waverley, they show an environment that appears to have slipped out of linear time. Henson’s new images are sumptuous and resplendent in their grandeur, but seem to come from another age. Together, the two series provide a glimpse into Henson’s brilliant mind as he ponders the passing of time. Illustrated throughout 32.7 x 27.0cm 168pp ISBN 978 1 760 760434 January £49.95
Bill Henson (b. 1955) is one of Australia’s leading contemporary artists. He has exhibited extensively all over the world, and represented Australia at the Venice Biennale in 1995. In 2006, Henson exhibited a major body of work in Twilight: Photography in the Magic Hour at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
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In an Australian Light Photographs from across the country Edited by Jo Turner • Introduction by Dr Rebecca Allen Imagined as a celebration of the particular beauty of Australian light, this generous publication roams the country, from rugged coastline to arid outback, to reveal how its distinctive light shapes the wide, brown land. Wind-etched rocks, patterns in sand; surfers, slick in their wetsuits against the morning sun; a beach filled with people; high-rise buildings against sand and sea, and sunsets over city skylines… The variation in the fall of light on Australia’s landscape seems limitless. With an introduction by a galactic astrophysicist, In an Australian Light reminds us of the myriad ways light is experienced in that diverse land.
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Dr Rebecca Allen is an astrophysicist. Her research focuses on understanding the evolution and growth of galaxies over time. She is now part of Swinburne’s Space Office and the manager of Swinburne Astronomy Productions.
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A photographic road trip through film director Wim Wenders’ life, featuring nearly 250 polaroids taken over five decades between 1968 and 2017 Wim Wenders is an award-winning filmmaker, writer and photographer. He was appointed president of the European Film Academy in 1996, and was awarded the Honorary Golden Bear of the Berlin International Film Festival.
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5) NEW YORK, FIRST IMPRESSIONS Thanks to THE GOALIE, I made it to New York for the first time. I got invited in early 1972 by the Museum of Modern Art to an event called ‘New Directors, New Films’. This is now in its 47th year, but I was lucky to be in the first bunch of 10 films of that series. I arrived late in the afternoon in the Warwick Hotel across the street from MOMA. It was rainy and dark, so I only caught a glimpse of the city. The Chrysler Building! Radio City Music Hall!
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As well as being an acclaimed filmmaker and a member of the New German Cinema movement, Wim Wenders (b. 1945) has also made an international name for himself as a photographer, with shows all over the world. He now opens a treasure chest of Polaroids taken during the 1970s and 1980s. Here are portraits of friends, actors and personal heroes; souvenirs of places and events from the life of a young travelling filmmaker; impressions of his first trips to the US, shots of movie icons on American TV screens, the cinemas of provincial Germany in the 1970s, and much more. The adventure of shooting films around the world becomes an almanac of adventure, curiosity and tranquillity. Wenders’ instant photographs are interwoven with his own stories, memories and flights of fancy that weave the images into an intimate and poetic journey. Instant Stories is a photographic road movie of the director’s early years, as he rose to global fame with films such as The Scarlet Letter, Alice in the Cities, Wrong Move, Kings of the Road and The American Friend.
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An exploration of Jacques Henri Lartigue’s early photography and a vivid portrayal of Belle-Époque France Louise Baring has written for The Economist, the Independent on Sunday Review, Vogue and the Daily Telegraph. She is the author of several books on photography: Martine Franck; Norman Parkinson: A Very British Glamour; Emmy Andriesse: Hidden Lens; and Dora Maar: Paris in the Time of Man Ray, Jean Cocteau, and Picasso.
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‘The other day Mr Szarkowski of the Museum of Modern Art in New York showed me your photographs. It was one of the most moving experiences of my life…. You brought me into your world, and isn’t that, after all the purpose of art?’ Richard Avedon, writing to Lartigue in 1963
Lartigue The Boy and the Belle Époque Louise Baring As a little boy of seven or eight, Jacques Henri Lartigue was given his first camera, and soon was developing his own photographs. Born into a prosperous family, from childhood Lartigue acutely observed the social rituals of the upper echelons of society through his photography. The hand-held Kodak camera, first introduced in 1888, granted the young photographer flexibility to capture the fine details of eccentric family members at home, the elaborate social parade in the Bois de Boulogne, on the beach in Normandy and beyond. Classic images of motor cars and high fashion sit alongside previously unpublished photographs from the Lartigue archive. These images of family beau-monde and demi-monde life are not only evidence of a prodigious talent, but also offer an intimate, adolescent perspective of Belle-Époque Paris, the world of Proust, Debussy and the Nabis, before the outbreak of the First World War. Bonnard and Vuillard used the camera as a reference point for painting, while Eugène Atget documented the architecture of the old Paris ahead of its developers; but Lartigue was the first to harness the immediacy of the snapshot, often capturing his subjects mid-gesture as in real life, creating a new visual language for the 20th century.
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A record of Magnum photographer Josef Koudelka’s grand tour around ancient Mediterranean sites Alain Schnapp is a French historian and archaeologist. Héloïse Conésa is the curator of contemporary photography at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Bernard Latarget is president of the Association des Centres Culturels de Rencontre.
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‘As relics surviving the destruction of time, they have a power that must be present, that must be “represented” … I don’t take archaeological photographs. I photograph the landscape, which appears or disappears depending on time, which is always there’ Josef Koudelka
Josef Koudelka: Ruins Josef Koudelka Texts by Alain Schnapp, Héloïse Conésa and Bernard Latarget Since 1991, Josef Koudelka has been on an epic journey in determined pursuit of the ruins and traces left by ancient Mediterranean civilizations. Featuring panoramic photographs of 200 Greek and Roman archaeological sites, Josef Koudelka Ruins provides a haunting record of these ancient sites, many now damaged or destroyed by war. This book shows that in the lands of antiquity through which he travels with his amazing urge to see, Koudelka’s own particular talent has been affirmed and expanded.
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An extraordinary body of work capturing the poignancy and universality of everyday lives in Central and Eastern Europe and the Caucasus before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall Fabio Ponzio was born in Milan in 1959. His interest in photography began in 1976, during a trip to the Balkans. Europe, travel and photography have formed the three main threads of his life in the decades since. In 1991 he was awarded the Grand Prix Européen de la Photographie de Arles in France, in 1993 the Mother Jones Foundation Award for Documentary Photography in the United States, and in 1998 the Leica Oskar Barnack Award in Germany. Herta Müller is a Romanian-born German novelist, poet, essayist and recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature.
80 illustrations 27.5 x 21.4cm 156pp ISBN 978 0 500 545201 February £38.00
East of Nowhere Fabio Ponzio • Foreword by Herta Müller In 1987 Fabio Ponzio embarked on what was to become a photographic odyssey through Eastern Europe. Starting out in Istanbul, he continued into Poland, where he met a people who had lived through the mines, the war and the gulags. There was little food in the shops and queues for bread were long. In Ceausescu’s Romania, people’s lives were reduced to a succession of dark days; the Securitate wielded absolute control and used informants, bribery and violence to beat the instinct for freedom out of individuals. In Yugoslavia, the beginnings of what was to become the catastrophe of successive years were being laid out, while the West looked on in supreme indifference. In the autumn of 1989, the Wall fell and everything changed. The various regimes of the communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe began to collapse in Budapest, Berlin, Warsaw, Prague, Sofia and Bucharest, in a domino effect that continued in Albania and ended two years later in the Soviet Union. Ponzio continued his travels with a Leica, three Nikons and 100 rolls of film, documenting the lives of the people of the East, fortified through pain and sacrifice and now joined by a new energy, full of hope. Year after year, Ponzio returned to capture the many faces of Eastern Europe, in search of the elements that make up the shared destiny of its peoples. Collected here is his stunning vision of their world: of traditions and faith, humility and courage, vulnerability and survival.
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A comprehensive showcase of Makoto Azuma’s astonishing flower art and botanical sculpture Makoto Azuma co-founded the floral atelier JARDINS des FLEURS in 2002 with Shunsuke Shiinoki. Azuma has since become internationally renowned for his extraordinary ‘botanical sculptures’, which he has exhibited extensively in New York City and Europe – and even shot into space.
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he delights in blurring the boundaries between nature and artifice. Azuma founded the floral atelier JARDINS des FLEURS in 2002, taking commissions from private clients as well as brands and corporations, both in Japan and all over the world. His parallel career as an artist began in 2005 and involves creating and exhibiting artworks that turn flowers and plants into a medium for self-expression. In 2008, Azuma founded AMKK (Azuma Makoto Kaju Kenkyujo), a group specializing in experimental floral creation, with the aim of seeking new forms of botanical beauty and new ways to exhibit them. His works have travelled the globe and beyond, from barren deserts to frozen expanses, from thousands of feet below the sea to the very edge of space; they have adorned Rihanna’s head on the cover of Vogue and appeared on catwalks all over the world. Featuring more than sixty projects captured in breathtaking photography, this beautiful book is the most comprehensive showcase of Azuma’s art ever published.
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A visual cultural history of Ireland over the last 70 years, as seen by the world’s most prominent photographic agency, Magnum, and commented on by leading figures of the Irish literary scene Brigitte Lardinois was Special Projects and Cultural Director at Magnum Photos for over ten years, and is now Director of the Photography and Archive Research Centre at the London College of Communication. Val Williams is Professor of the History and Culture of Photography at the London College of Communication. John Banville is the author of seventeen novels, including The Book of Evidence, The Untouchable and The Sea, which won the Man Booker Prize in 2005.
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Available for the first time in an updated, compact paperback format, this book offers a stunning photographic survey of Ireland over the last seven decades, from the 1950s to the present day. Organized decade by decade, the images show the lingering influence of rural life in the 1950s; the hidden story of ordinary Irish men and women, living in a divided society during the troubled years of the sectarian conflict; the South’s huge economic growth at the end of 1990s, baptised the ‘Celtic Tiger’, and Ireland’s perpetual quest for identity, from the 1950s to the present day. Each decade is commented on by a notable contemporary Irish literary figure: Anthony Cronin, Nuala O’Faolain, Eamonn McCann, Fintan O’Toole, Colm Tóibín, Anne Enright and Kevin Barry invite the reader to dive into the social and political context of each period, providing a textual backdrop to the photographers’ work.
‘A kaleidoscope of wisdom and heartfelt realities’ RA Magazine ‘A vibrant survey of Ireland in all its beauty, pain, comedy and complexity’ Sunday Telegraph
‘Hits the very highest note … this collection is so good that I wanted to linger over every picture’ The Wall Street Journal
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An essential overview of the most dynamic form of photography, updated with the work of new artists David Gibson is one of the founder members of In-Public, the first modern international collective of street photographers. In-Public, which began in 2000, has been a pivotal influence worldwide on the growing popularity of street photography. David has taken street photographs since the early 1990s and is now a highly respected photography tutor, running workshops in London and other cities worldwide.
Over 100 illustrations 22.9 x 17.7cm 192pp paperback ISBN 978 0 500 545263 February £14.95
The Street Photographer’s Manual David Gibson • Foreword by Matt Stuart The Street Photographer’s Manual celebrates the spirit of street photography with inspiring instructions to help you capture the perfect urban moment. Through twenty simple project tutorials on subjects such as ‘Sequences’, ‘Shadows’ and ‘Objects’, as well as illustrated profiles of twenty internationally acclaimed street photographers, including Bruce Gilden, Nils Jorgensen and Trent Parke, author David Gibson gives you a visual tour of the medium – perfect for the aspiring street photographer. This new edition showcases captivating work by emerging artists on the street photography scene, updated advice on Instagram, and a foreword by leading street photographer Matt Stuart.
‘Excellent’ Amateur Photographer ‘Exceptional ... a fascinating read for any photographer. Its variety of imagery, Gibson’s intelligent writing and quotes from other renowned photographers make it one of the best publications of its type I’ve seen’ Black and White Photography
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Blake Andrews Narelle Autio Melissa Breyer Elliott Erwitt David Gaberle Bruce Gilden Michelle Groskopf Troy Holden Nils Jorgensen Jesse Marlow
Johanna Neurath Shin Noguchi Trent Parke Gueorgui Pinkhassov Maria Plotnikova Marc Riboud Merel Schoneveld Jack Simon Matt Stuart Craig Whitehead
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A celebration of the endlessly fascinating and culturally rich country of Japan by the lifestyle magazine and media brand Monocle Monocle is a global affairs and lifestyle magazine, 24-hour radio station, website, retailer and media brand. Tyler Brûlé was its founder, and is now its Editor-in-chief; Andrew Tuck is Editor; Fiona Wilson is Bureau Chief of its Tokyo office; and Joe Pickard is Books Editor.
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JAPAN The Monocle Book of Japan Tyler Brûlé, Andrew Tuck, Fiona Wilson and Joe Pickard Photographs by Taro Terasawa, Kohei Take, Yoshitsugu Fuminari and Arata Suzuki Ever since it launched in 2007, Monocle has had a rich and deep connection with Japan. From day one the magazine has had a Tokyo bureau – which today also encompasses a Monocle shop and radio studios – run under the watchful eye of Asia Bureau Chief Fiona Wilson. Over the past decade the magazine has built up a unique understanding and passion for the nation. It has covered everything from a live journey on the Emperor’s jet and the tastiest places to eat in Kagoshima to the fashion designers crafting new levels of excellence and the businesses with remarkable stories untold outside Japan. This new book reveals the best of the nation in the run up to the 2020 Olympics. Complete with stunning photography and intriguing essays, it is a unique showcase of a country that for many still remains a mystery.
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Europe’s historic cycling climbs captured from the perspective of a former professional cyclist-turned-photographer, updated with sixteen new climbs Michael Blann is a former elite cyclist turned photographer who works for the world’s leading creative agencies.
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‘Combines breathtaking landscape shots with personal recollections from leading road-racing cyclists’ Independent
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Epic Cycling Climbs Michael Blann The mountains of Europe have many different meanings to many different people. For the locals they are a way of life; for visitors they represent breathtaking beauty, active holidays and peaceful moments. For cyclists, however, the dramatic landscapes mean something quite different: suffering, pain, agony – and glory. From the Ardennes to the Alps, the mountains have provided the setting for the greatest cycling contests for over a century, where human determination and willpower triumph over nature and opponents. In recent years, as cycling’s popularity has changed our cities, made us more active and taken us down less-travelled roads, the mountains of Europe have become the primary destination for everyday riders who want to challenge themselves, experience storied roads and escape everyday life. This book is aimed at all who wish to be inspired by those challenges or celebrate those personal victories. With tributes and personal recollections from leading road cyclists, the photographs and words coalesce into a visual depiction that transcends any single perspective and will inspire awe and wonder in anyone who wishes to confront the power of the mountains.
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Following New Map Italy, the second book in Herbert Ypma’s series is the ultimate visual guide to the finest hotels and experiences France has to offer Herbert Ypma is a bestselling author and photographer whose ground-breaking HIP Hotels series inspired an entirely new genre of travel publishing. His many other books include RSVP: Simple Sophistication, Effortless Entertaining and Amazing Places Cost Nothing, both published by Thames & Hudson.
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Marseille | Côte d’Azur | Arles | Avignon | Aix-en-Provence Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes & Burgundy | The Alps | Côte d’Argent Bordeaux & Île de Ré | Paris | Normandy & Brittany | Corsica 978 0 500 292884 £29.95
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A photographic voyage to the remote studios of Japan’s most fascinating contemporary craftspeople
Uwe Röttgen is a product designer and Katharina Zettl is a graphic designer. They are both based in Germany. Kengo Kuma is one of Japan’s leading architects and is the designer of the stadium for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
583 illustrations 24.0 x 17.2cm 288pp paperback ISBN 978 0 500 295342 April £24.95
Craftland Japan Uwe Röttgen and Katharina Zettl • Foreword by Kengo Kuma In Japanese life and culture, there has never been a clear distinction between art, craft and design. For centuries, generations of artisans have forged and refined their crafts, which have become the envy of the modern world. Regions of Japan are renowned for specific traditions, many of which are born of local materials and the natural settings in which they are produced. Visitors and craft and design enthusiasts have long known about the high quality of craftsmanship and the unique quality of these makers and the objects they create, though few are taken outside the country. Spurred by an awareness of the unseen treasures produced by these craftspeople, Uwe Röttgen and Katharina Zettl set out across the country to find the finest examples, to document the makers and their workshops and the rural landscapes that surround them. The result is a breathtaking odyssey into the heart of Japanese culture, featuring portraits of twenty-five artisans who work with natural materials to produce objects that are intended for everyday life but are worthy of museum display. Photographs and texts, drawn from close collaboration with each maker or studio, depict ancient techniques that continue to flourish, however much the world around them has changed. Craftland Japan is not merely a book about Japanese crafts: it is a glimpse into centuries of tradition and wisdom through the prism of contemporary makers. It celebrates the union of craft, design, materiality and landscape in a manner that most cultures can only hope to emulate.
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From the origins of the Arctic to its contemporary life, this book is an intriguing survey of human achievement in a place relatively unknown to the rest of the world Amber Lincoln is Curator of the Americas and Jago Cooper is Head Curator of the Americas; both in the Department of Africa, Oceania and the Americas at the British Museum. Peter Loovers is Project Curator for the Arctic exhibition at the British Museum.
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Arctic Published to accompany the exhibition at the British Museum from 28 May to 24 August 2020.
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culture and climate Edited by Amber Lincoln, Jago Cooper and Peter Loovers For more than 25,000 years, Arctic peoples have made warm and hospitable homes in diverse and innovative ways out of ecosystems of ice. For the first time in their long history, however, Arctic communities are facing the real possibility that the foundations of their way of life – sea ice and permafrost – will soon disappear. Published to coincide with a major exhibition at the British Museum, Arctic: culture and climate presents the history of the Arctic through the lens of climate and weather, and features a variety of fascinating objects, many of which are published here for the first time, including sealskin kayaks, drums used by shamans, traditional costumes and contemporary art. This remarkable book explores the origins of Arctic peoples, early trade relationships between cultural groups, and relationships with animals, weather and their environments. It examines the strategies that indigenous people have used to deal with rapid transformations brought about by European explorations and colonial governments and sheds light on how these same strategies are being utilized today to mitigate the global effects of climate change. Bringing together indigenous and non-indigenous interdisciplinary scholars, this book is an arresting insight into the ways of life and material culture of Arctic peoples.
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A captivating study of the ancient Indian movement that has influenced and intrigued the world for more than a millennium Imma Ramos is a curator of the South Asia collections at the British Museum.
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Published to accompany the exhibition at the British Museum from 23 April to 26 July 2020.
Tantra enlightenment to revolution Imma Ramos The Tantras, a set of sacred manuscripts that emerged in India from around the sixth century CE, detail rituals for attracting spiritual, worldly and supernatural power. These rituals, which focus on the power of fierce gods and goddesses and centre around yoga, self-deification, sexual rites and the consumption of intoxicants, became an integral part of the meditations and philosophical practices of Tantric Hinduism and Buddhism. This book examines the philosophies, core beliefs and artistic expressions of Tantra, and its impact on religious, cultural and political landscapes across the globe. In tracing the history of the movement, author Imma Ramos reveals Tantra’s origins and continued relevance in India, as well as its redefinition as it was adopted by Western popular culture during the 1960s. Tantra: enlightenment to revolution accompanies a major exhibition at the British Museum, and is illustrated extensively with masterpieces of sculpture, painting, print and ritual objects from India, Nepal, Tibet, China, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States, dating as far back as the eighth century CE.
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A remarkable collection of textiles made in Islamic lands and traded along the Silk Road; most of them are published here for the first time
Formerly a curator at the Museum of Islamic Art in Berlin, Friedrich Spuhler is the author of numerous books on Islamic textiles and carpets, including Carpets from Islamic Lands and Pre-Islamic Carpets and Textiles from Eastern Lands.
500 illustrations 27.6 x 21.9cm 400pp ISBN 978 0 500 970843 January ÂŁ50.00
Early Islamic Textiles from Along the Silk Road The al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait Friedrich Spuhler The al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait, holds a spectacular array of ancient textiles that were made in Islamic lands and traded along the Silk Road, the network of ancient trade routes that linked China, Central Asia and Byzantium for more than 1500 years. The majority range in date from the 9th to the 15th centuries CE and were reportedly found in the caves of Samangan province in northern Afghanistan. They are accompanied by a smaller group of Chinese textiles, of similar date and provenance. Presented as a whole, this extraordinary collection, which has remained largely unpublished until now, is a rich source of information not only for the history of textiles, but also for the history of the Silk Road itself. Scientific analysis has allowed a number of these textiles to be dated with precision for the first time, making the collection an especially valuable scholarly resource. The textiles display an astonishing range of motifs, patterns and calligraphic designs. The exceptional beauty and variety of the c. 400 garments and textile fragments vividly evokes the lives of merchants, pilgrims and travellers, as well as the inhabitants of countries linked by the Silk Road.
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ANCIENT HISTORY
An illuminating guide to the lost peoples and cultures who flourished and fought for survival alongside the Egyptians, Greeks and Romans
Philip Matyszak has a doctorate in Roman history from St John’s College, Oxford. He is the author of numerous books on the ancient world, including the highly successful Thames & Hudson titles Ancient Rome on Five Denarii a Day, Legionary: The Roman Soldier’s (Unofficial) Manual, The Greek and Roman Myths and Ancient Magic, all of which have launched ongoing T&H series.
200 illustrations 24.0 x 17.0cm 288pp ISBN 978 0 500 052150 April £24.95
Forgotten Peoples of the Ancient World Philip Matyszak
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What do we know of the Bactrians, apart from their two-humped camels? Or of the Samaritans, other than that one of them was good? We call an uncultured lout a Philistine, but were the Philistines really ‘philistines’, and come to that, were the Vandals ‘vandals’? This book is about such peoples who, though largely forgotten, have directly or indirectly affected us today. Philip Matyszak brings these lost peoples out of the shadows to highlight their influence and achievements, and to explore the ways in which they helped to lay the foundations of our modern world. Forty-five entries span the birth of civilization in Mesopotamia to the fall of the Roman Empire in the West, offering an alternative history focusing on the names we aren’t familiar with, from the Hurrians to the Hephthalites, as well as the peoples whose names we know, such as the King Midas and the Goths. Each entry charts their rise and fall, and how their culture echoes through history into the present. Important ancient artefacts are illustrated throughout and fifty specially drawn maps help orientate the reader within this tumultuous period of history. Philip Matyszak brings to life the rich diversity of the peoples founding cities, inventing alphabets and battling each other in the ancient world, and explores how and why they came to be forgotten.
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Christina Riggs brings the world of Egyptian magic to life for the 21st century Christina Riggs is chair in the history of visual culture, Durham University, and a fellow of All Souls College, University of Oxford. She is the author of six books, including Ancient Egyptian Art and Architecture: A Very Short Introduction. She writes for a range of newspapers and magazines and has appeared in radio and TV shows for the BBC, National Geographic, and the History Channel.
79 illustrations 19.8 x 12.9cm 224pp ISBN 978 0 500 052129 March £14.95
Ancient Egyptian Magic A Hands-On Guide Christina Riggs
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‘It’s funny, it’s interesting and it’s informative … thoroughly entertaining’ The Secret Library
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Egypt was famed throughout the ancient world as the homeland of magic – or heka. Sacred spells to help the spirits of the dead travel safely to the afterlife were inscribed on the walls of pyramids and tombs, and Pharaoh’s magicians turned sceptres into snakes. Whether you needed a love charm, a chat with your dead wife, or the ability to fly like a bird, an Egyptian magician had just the thing. Christina Riggs explores how the Egyptians thought about magic, who performed it and why, and also helps readers understand why we’ve come to think of ancient Egypt in such a mystical, magical way in the first place. This book takes Egyptian magic seriously, using ancient texts and images to tackle the blurry distinctions between magic, religion and medicine. Along the way, readers will learn how to cure scorpion bites, why you might want to break the legs off your stuffed hippopotamus toy, and whether mummies really can come back to life. Readers will also (if so inclined) be able to save a fortune on pregnancy tests by simply urinating on barley seeds, and learn how to use the next street parade to predict the future – or ensure that annoying neighbour gets his comeuppance.
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World-renowned astronomer Paul Murdin tells the stories of nearly seventy key astronomical discoveries
Paul Murdin, OBE, has worked as an astronomer in the UK, the USA, Australia and Spain, and discovered the first stellar black hole, Cygnus X1. He is a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, former president of the European Astronomical Society and Senior Professor Emeritus at the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Cambridge. In 2012 Asteroid 128562 was named ‘Murdin’ by the IAU in honour of his contributions to the field.
30 illustrations 19.8 x 12.9cm 288pp paperback ISBN 978 0 500 295199 February £10.99
Secrets of the Universe How We Discovered the Cosmos Paul Murdin 72
How did our universe come to exist? Why do stars shine? Is there life beyond the Earth? For millennia, humans have looked to the celestial sphere to explain the cosmos, first recording the movements of the Moon 25,000 years ago. Since the Enlightenment and the dawn of the space age, scientists have been unravelling cosmic mysteries, and raising astonishing new questions for future generations to answer. Today we live in an age of unprecedented astronomical revelation, from the discovery of water on Mars to the detection of gravitational waves and the first photograph of a black hole. Paul Murdin explains the science behind these discoveries, along with the passions, struggles and quirks of fate that made them some of the most intriguing dramas of their times, demonstrating how human ingenuity and technological innovation have expanded our knowledge of the Universe beyond anything our ancestors – even as recently as a generation ago – could ever have imagined.
‘Crammed with fascinating facts and figures’ Observatory Magazine ‘This is the book to reignite your sense of wonder’ National Space Society ‘Good reading … I can do no more than strongly recommend it’ Astronomy Now
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An illuminating enquiry into the idea of utopia, from classical mythology to contemporary science fiction and our modern world
Gregory Claeys has been Professor of the History of Political Thought at Royal Holloway since 1992. His main research interests lie in the fields of social and political reform movements from the 1790s to the early 20th century, with a special focus upon utopianism and early socialism.
23 illustrations 19.8 x 12.9cm 224pp paperback ISBN 978 0 500 295526 January £9.99
Utopia The History of an Idea Gregory Claeys Aspirations for a better – even a perfect – society have existed throughout history, often imagined in intricate detail by philosophers, poets, social reformers, architects and artists. This book explores a perennially powerful idea: the quest for the ideal society. Gregory Claeys surveys the influence of the idea of Utopia on history. Central to his exploration of ideal worlds are creation myths; archetypes of heaven and the afterlife; new worlds and voyages of discovery; ages of revolution and technological progress; model communities and kibbutzim; political and ecological dystopias; space travel and science fiction. The most significant utopias throughout history – whether envisaged or attempted – are covered, including visions of the ideal society in the West as well as American, Asian, African and the Arab worlds. This edition has been updated with a new preface exploring recent developments on the impact of climate change. From classical times to the present day, this compelling book traces the enduring human need to imagine and construct ideal worlds.
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‘Excellent … magisterial’ BBC History magazine
‘A compelling exploration of the rich diversity of the utopian imagination’ The Historical Association
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The story of thirteen Empires, showing their key role in the foundation of today’s global civilization Robert Aldrich is Professor of European History at at the University of Sydney. He is the author of several other books, including (as editor) Gay Life and Culture: A World History and Gay Life Stories, both published by Thames & Hudson.
34 illustrations 19.8 x 12.9cm 352pp paperback ISBN 978 0 500 295496 January £12.99
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The Ottoman Empire Spain Portugal The Netherlands Scandinavia Britain France Tsarist and Soviet Russia The Austro-Hungarian Empire Belgium Germany Italy The United States
The Age of Empires Edited by Robert Aldrich Empires evoke potent images: Stanley, Livingstone and the colonial gallery of great explorers; the Spanish Conquistador’s quest for gold and silver; and the Dutch heritage of trade in the East Indies. For over 500 years empires have been a feature of the political landscape and – a generation or more after the final collapse of most of the European Empires – the subject is still a major issue for historians. For some countries – Germany and Italy – overseas dreams were shortlived; for others – the United States and the Soviet Union – imperialist activity existed but was never accepted as an official state policy; and the disappearance of the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires has obscured some of the imperial dimensions of these states. This book shows how the maps of explorations, the chronologies of conquests, the records of settlers and administrators, the balance sheets of commerce and all else that made up the Age of Empires play a key role in explaining the global civilization of today.
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An original and irreverent retelling of overlooked stories from Irish history Turtle Bunbury is the author of The Irish Pub, Vanishing Ireland (with photography by James Fennell) and 1847: A Chronicle of Genius, Generosity and Savagery.
37 illustrations 19.8 x 12.9cm 224pp ISBN 978 0 500 022535 March £14.95
Ireland’s Forgotten Past A History of the Overlooked and Disremembered Turtle Bunbury • Illustrations by Joe McLaren Why did the Romans never try to conquer Ireland? Why did the King of Spain give his name to an Irish county? And how did brandy change the course of Irish history? Turtle Bunbury explores unexpected corners of the past to offer an informative and entertaining glimpse into thirty-six lesser-known tales from Irish history, from the eruption of a massive volcano in County Armagh sixty million years ago to more recent events that have made Ireland the vibrant place it is today. In his inimitable style, Bunbury explores the people and events from high to low that played major roles in Ireland’s fascinating past but have since been overlooked. These alternative annals include tales of spymasters and scientists, battlefields and brothels, tailors and traitors. Ireland’s Forgotten Past paints a surprising, witty and engaging new portrait of an Ireland you thought you knew.
Nearly three thousand winters after the death of the bear, a band of humans made a clearing in a primitive forest between Creadan Head and Dunmore East in County Waterford. They constructed what is believed to be the oldest settlement in Ireland; thousands of stone knives, scrapers and tiny blades made from chert pebbles have been found at the site. At about this time, similar settlements sprang up at Ballyferriter, near Dingle, County Kerry, and at Mount Sandel, near Coleraine, County Derry. Our knowledge of what Ireland was like during the Mesolithic period remains profoundly vague. These people were shorter than us, and shorter-lived, too, with lifespans perhaps half the length of our own. They may have been dark-skinned and blue-eyed, like England’s ten-thousand-year-old Cheddar Man is thought to have been. They would have spoken their own fully-fledged language, incomprehensible to modern ears. Excavations at Mount Sandel suggest they lived in egg-shaped, dome-roofed structures, constructed of timber posts, saplings, hide, bark, thatch and reeds. Perhaps a dozen people could comfortably fit into each hut; the inhabitants snoozed around a central hearth that afforded them a holy trinity of heat, light and a place to cook. The flint-smith was of pivotal importance, crafting arrowheads, hide scrapers and spears with razor-sharp blades, as well as polished stone picks and axes. Women played a key role in the quest for food. During the summer, these plucky souls foraged for crab apples, lily seeds, berries and protein-rich hazelnuts that could be kept in storage for the leaner months. Taking to the water in dug-out log canoes, they trapped and speared the migrating salmon, sea bass, plaice, flounder and autumnal eel that swam in and around the estuaries and coastline; the fish were smoked or dried on wooden racks just beside their huts. 16 It Starts with a Bear
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‘A brilliant cultural history … Scull’s book fills a gap in the literature and deserves to be widely read … outstanding’ The Times Andrew Scull is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Science Studies, University of California, San Diego. He is the author of many books, including Masters of Bedlam; Madhouse: A Tragic Tale of Megalomania and Modern Medicine; and Madness: A Very Short Introduction.
128 illustrations 19.8 x 12.9cm 448pp paperback ISBN 978 0 500 295632 January £14.99
Madness in Civilization A Cultural History of Insanity Andrew Scull 76
This ambitious volume, worldwide in scope and ranging from antiquity to the present, examines the human encounter with Unreason in all its manifestations, the challenges it poses to society and our responses to it. In twelve chapters organized chronologically from the Bible to Freud, from exorcism to mesmerism, from Bedlam to Victorian asylums, from the theory of humours to modern pharmacology, Andrew Scull writes compellingly about madness, its meanings, its consequences and our attempts to understand and treat it.
‘Perhaps the most comprehensive account of the history of psychiatry that has yet appeared in a single volume’ The Times Literary Supplement ‘A milestone text … No other monograph has accomplished such scope, perception and balance in covering madness’s haunting, shifting presence in civilization’s psyche’ BBC History Magazine ‘Powerful and disturbing … a panoramic survey’
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‘Learned, liberally humanitarian and wryly witty’
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ARCHAEOLOGY
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‘If you want to know how we know what we know about dinosaurs, read this book!’ Steve Brusatte Michael J. Benton is Professor of Vertebrate Palaeontology and head of the Palaeobiology Research Group at the University of Bristol, which was identified by the Center for World University Rankings as the top palaeontology research group in the world. He has written more than fifty books, including the standard textbooks in palaeontology and When Life Nearly Died (published by Thames & Hudson), and regularly offers media comment on new dinosaur discoveries.
120 illustrations 19.8 x 12.9cm 320pp paperback ISBN 978 0 500 295533 February £10.99
‘I defy anyone who is, like me, a nonscientist to read it and not feel a sense of wonder’ Tom Holland, Guardian
The Dinosaurs Rediscovered
‘Mike Benton has brought together all the latest information in this succinct and well illustrated book to challenge previously accepted ideas, and succeeds in bringing [the dinosaurs] back to life for another generation’ Richard Fortey
Startling new fossil finds are the lifeblood of modern palaeobiology. Giant sauropod dinosaur skeletons from Patagonia, dinosaurs with feathers from China, and even a tiny dinosaur tail in Burmese amber – complete down to every detail of its filament-like feathers, skin, bones and mummified tail muscles – inspire awe in a global audience enthralled by the idea of these great creatures walking the earth. Dinosaurs are of perennial interest to all ages, as illustrated by the huge range of dino-themed films, books and live attractions, from the enduring popularity of the Jurassic Park franchise to the success of London’s immersive ‘Dinosaurs in the Wild’ experience. In the past twenty years, dinosaur study has changed from natural history to testable science. New technologies have revealed secrets locked in the bones in a way nobody predicted – we can now work out the colour of dinosaurs, their bite forces, speeds and parental care as well as how they came to die out. This groundbreaking book illustrates how science has replaced speculation and how our understanding of dinosaurs and their world has completely changed. The subject has never been so vigorous, has never changed so fast, and has never been so attractive to so many.
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ARCHAEOLOGY
Eighth edition
‘As indispensable to an archaeology student as a trowel … every student, or indeed any interested amateur, should really find a space on their shelf for this useful book’ Minerva Colin Renfrew is Disney Professor Emeritus and former Director of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge. Paul Bahn is the author or editor of numerous books, including the standard introduction to cave art, Images of the Ice Age, as well as The First Artists (with Michel Lorblanchet).
c. 800 illustrations 22.9 x 18.7cm 656pp paperback ISBN 978 0 500 294246 April £40.00
‘Popular with students … immaculately factchecked and proofed … a book that anyone with a strong curiosity about the world around them can enjoy’ Mike Pitts, British Archaeology
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Archaeology Theories, Method and Practice Colin Renfrew and Paul Bahn Since its first edition, Renfrew and Bahn’s Archaeology: Theories, Methods, and Practice has been the leading educational source on what archaeologists do and how they do it. The text is organized around the key questions that archaeologists ask about the past and details the practical and theoretical ways in which answers to those questions are sought. The eighth edition has been thoroughly revised and updated, with an overhauled book design, including, for each chapter, distinct introductions that offer a general overview of each topic covered. It also provides a more inclusive picture of archaeology, raising the profile of women in the discipline’s history, describing the development of archaeology in China and Japan, and updated critique of postcolonial approaches. There is also updated coverage of the ontological turn in archaeology, and new examples of community archaeology in southern Africa and Australia. New discoveries and research across the globe – such as archaeological evidence of social hierarchies at the ancient city of Liangzhu, China, and recent evidence of Neanderthal art in France and Spain – have also been added. Hailed as ‘a student essential’ by Current Archaeology, this book remains the standard textbook on archaeology courses all over the world.
ARCHAEOLOGY
A groundbreaking new textbook that brings a highly topical, environmental perspective to the story of how humans have shaped the world
Joy McCorriston is Professor of Anthropology at The Ohio State University. She researches food production, landscape and paleoenvironments in the ancient Near East and co-directs field research in Arabia. Julie Field is Associate Professor of Anthropology at The Ohio State University. Her research focuses on the archaeological detection of human–environmental interaction, in particular the colonization and transformation of islands by Pacific Island voyagers.
301 illustrations 22.9 x 18.7cm 376pp paperback ISBN 978 0 500 052143 April £29.95
Anthropocene A New Introduction to World Prehistory Joy McCorriston and Julie Field Since taking their first steps on this planet, humans have changed the environment around them. Anthropocene: A New Introduction to World Prehistory tells the comprehensive story of human prehistory through the lens of anthropogenic environmental change. Each chapter explains how and why ancient humans transformed the Earth, linking prehistory to today’s greatest global challenge. As they explore this record of the world’s early people and societies, Joy McCorriston and Julie Field reject the traditional account of cultural evolution, instead presenting a thematic organization that highlights our Anthropocene narrative. Chapters are devoted to cities and agriculture, but also to such topics as technology, extinction, food production, writing, extractivism, and human identity and agency in more recent eras. Supported by unmatched digital learning resources, this book engages and inspires students to understand how we got here and how we can draw on the past to make better choices in the future.
‘I love the inclusive nature of its content in terms of global prehistory – it covers geographies and cultures that are often neglected in the teaching of archaeology’ James Taylor, University of York
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A new history of Roman art and archaeology, from its very beginnings in Etruscan art to the adoption of Christianity Mark D. Fullerton is Professor of History of Art and Classics at The Ohio State University. He has held positions in the Archaeological Institute of America and the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, and has served as a staff member of several archaeological excavations in both Italy and Greece. He is the author of Greek Sculpture, Greek Art and The Archaistic Style in Roman Statuary, and co-editor of Ancient Art and Its Historiography.
490 illustrations 27.6 x 21.5cm 408pp ISBN 978 0 500 051931 January £45.00
Art & Archaeology of the Roman World Mark D. Fullerton
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Mark D. Fullerton blends the art of the Roman period with its history of political intrigue, military and religious ideologies, and intercultural interaction. The book not only explores the art of Rome itself but also that of the Roman provinces, including Syria, Egypt, Algeria, Greece and the British Isles, showing how Roman art drew from and influenced the wider ancient world. Each of the book’s four parts opens with a timeline and historical overview, allowing the reader to better understand how the art relates to the political and social lives of the people of ancient Rome. Individual chapters begin with a map of Rome, illustrating how the city changed over centuries of rebuilding and reimagining. With an introduction, ‘What Is Roman about Roman Art?’, and ‘Materials and Techniques’ features on the artistic innovations introduced by the Romans, such as concrete, linear and atmospheric perspective, and mosaic, the book explores how Roman influences still affect the art and architectural world today.
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A landmark publication, presenting a world panorama of raw earth structures from ancient times to the present day Jean Dethier has dedicated his life to the research, safeguarding and development of raw earth architecture around the world. Winner of the prestigious ‘Grand Prix d’Architecture’ in 1987, Dethier also sat on the jury of the 2016 international TERRA Award, the first international prize for contemporary earthen structures.
700 illustrations 31.0 x 24.0cm 512pp ISBN 978 0 500 343579 February £98.00
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‘A landmark publication’ Aesthetica 978 0 500 343241 £98.00
Edited by Jean Dethier For almost 10,000 years mankind has built with unbaked earth, not only simple dwellings but also palaces, temples and fortresses of the utmost grandeur and durability. The Art of Earth Architecture shows the extreme diversity of this type of architecture from a technical, cultural and historical point of view. After presenting the various types of raw earth constructions (adobe and rammed earth, wattle and daub and more), Jean Dethier reveals some of the raw earth masterpieces scattered across five continents, many listed as UNESCO world heritage sites. From the creations of antiquity to those of today, as well as vernacular heritage and modernist works, the book surveys a multitude of building types: monumental structures – the temples and palaces of Mesopotamia, the Great Wall of China, the Great Mosque of Djenné in Mali, large urban developments – the city of Tenochtitlan in Mexico, the medinas of Morocco; housing in Marrakech, Bogota and various European cities; the tower-houses of the Batammariba people in Togo; Martin Rauch’s villas in Austria; and public amenities – a high school in Bangladesh, a museum in Australia, a market in Koudougou, Burkina Faso, and many more. The culmination of a lifetime’s work, this definitive book is illustrated with around 700 photographs and about 100 drawings and architectural plans.
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Kengo Kuma, architect of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics stadium, takes readers on a personal tour of his city’s key buildings Kengo Kuma is one of Japan’s leading architects and a professor in the Department of Architecture at the University of Tokyo. He is widely known as a prolific writer and philosopher and has designed many buildings in Japan and around the world, notably the Suntory Museum of Art in Tokyo, LVMH Group’s Japan headquarters, Besançon Art Center in France and the V&A Dundee in Scotland.
50 illustrations 18.5 x 13.5cm 128pp ISBN 978 0 500 343616 June £12.95
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‘You could say that my aim is “to recover the place”. The place is a result of nature and time; this is the most important aspect. I think my architecture is some kind of frame of nature. With it, we can experience nature more deeply and more intimately’ Kengo Kuma
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It was around his tenth birthday that Kengo Kuma came into contact with Kenzo Tange’s fishlike Yoyogi National Gymnastics building, completed for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, and determined that he would become an architect. In the intervening five or so decades, he has become one of the world’s most fascinating and influential architects. His design of the National Stadium for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics provides a poetic circularity to his career as an architect, and an opportunity for him to reflect on his own development. Kuma is known throughout the world for his formally daring and materially expressive buildings, recognized for his inventive use of traditional materials, and his use of innovative materials in vernacular forms. He is perhaps less known for his work inside his native Japan, where he works actively towards the preservation of ancient building techniques and craft. A keen curiosity for all forms of building and a wealth of knowledge about the world acquired through expansive travels make Kuma a unique commentator on Tokyo’s dynamic architecture. Through twenty-five stories, this intimate publication paints a picture of how a building inspired a boy to become an architect, how Japan’s national heritage helped form his thinking, and how his professional experience has made him one of the most successful architects of his generation. This book contains something for everyone: design acumen, insights into Japanese culture, a tour of Tokyo and the heartfelt commitment to producing buildings that have meaning and longevity.
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The collected early works of Sir David Adjaye, one of the most important architects at work in the world today David Adjaye’s most recent and forthcoming projects include Sugar Hill Housing in New York, USA (2015), the National Museum of African American History and Culture at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C., USA (2016) and the National Cathedral of Ghana in Accra. His previous books published by Thames & Hudson are David Adjaye: Houses, David Adjaye: Making Public Buildings, David Adjaye: Living Spaces and Adjaye • Africa • Architecture. Peter Allison is a London-based exhibition curator and teacher.
c. 800 illustrations 25.8 x 25.8cm 300pp ISBN 978 0 500 343517 April £60.00
David Adjaye – Works Houses, Pavilions, Installations, Buildings, 1995–2007 Edited by Peter Allison David Adjaye, the son of a Tanzanian diplomat, spent his childhood moving between international cities before settling in London, where he was educated. Fresh out of the Royal Academy of Art at the turn of the millennium, his early commissions and collaborations with an influential generation of artists set the stage for the young architect’s spatial and material explorations. His artistic sensitivity, deft use of space and inexpensive, unexpected materials resulted in a number of iconic projects. With the hindsight of almost twenty years of practice and a raft of highprofile projects around the world – perhaps best symbolized by his National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. – the significance of Adjaye’s earlier projects is clear. Never shying away from a challenge, Adjaye used his first projects as testbeds for what would become his unique, acclaimed and sought-after brand of ‘critical regionalism’. This monograph presents all the first projects of Adjaye’s corpus, many little documented. From London’s West End to Brooklyn, clever urban interventions and pavilions to private houses for artists and public buildings for the many. These early projects, brought together and presented with new analyses and recently uncovered archival material, testify to the originality of an architect at the height of his talents who is changing the face of our built world.
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The first monograph on Mok Wei Wei, Singapore’s most inventive, thoughtful and respected architect As managing director of W Architects Pte Ltd, Mok Wei Wei’s numerous architectural projects have received critical acclaim around the world. In recognition of his contributions to Singapore’s architectural development, he received the 2007 President’s Design Award, the nation’s highest honour for design. In 2014, he was awarded the Public Service Medal (PBM). Justin Zhuang is a Singaporean editor who writes on design, architecture, culture and history.
600 illustrations 26.0 x 22.0cm 352pp ISBN 978 0 500 343456 March £45.00
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During a career spanning over three decades, award-winning architect Mok Wei Wei has designed numerous large- and small-scale projects in Singapore with his practice W Architects. From apartment complexes and museums to houses and community centres, each project reveals the architect’s wideranging inspirations and ingenious solutions to the challenges of building in the tropical city-stage. Produced in close collaboration with the architect, this book presents the full span of Mok Wei Wei’s career. The works are presented in three themed chapters – Refract, Respond, Reflect – and move through Mok Wei Wei’s career from the early 1980s to the present, from his first Frank Gehry-inspired experiments to his highly innovative green apartment buildings and private residences. Singapore, one of the world’s most dynamic and evolving cities and architecture scenes, provides the backdrop for most of the featured work, making the book as much a survey on the rich possibilities of tropical architecture as an expression of the fundamental role architecture plays in the history of a modern city-state. W Architects illustrates a unique approach to designing buildings for a dense city environment, working in the context of a diverse multicultural society facing up to the challenges of climate, heritage preservation, globalism and national identity.
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A major monograph on one of the world’s leading interior designers
André Fu is an internationally acclaimed designer of interiors, furniture, lighting and homeware whose clients range from hotels and restaurants to fashion brands and art galleries. In 2015 he launched his successful André Fu Living lifestyle brand. Catherine Shaw is an independent critic and writer focusing on architecture, design and art. A regular contributor to such leading magazines as Interior Design, Wallpaper* and Vogue, she is also the author of several city design guides.
400 illustrations 30.0 x 25.5cm 272pp ISBN 978 0 500 022849 February £48.00
André Fu Crossing Cultures with Design Catherine Shaw • Foreword by Paddy McKillen Based in Hong Kong, André Fu is an internationally acclaimed interior designer. When his design for the Upper House hotel in Hong Kong opened ten years ago, he became an overnight sensation around the globe. As one of the world’s most widely sought-after interior designers, Fu has gone on to create highly sophisticated interiors for other major hotels, restaurants and leading brands, including Louis Vuitton, The Berkeley (London) and Waldorf hotels. This showcase of his works to date features eighteen recent projects around the world and provides fresh insights into Fu’s creative process, including his hand-drawn sketches, as well as an introduction by design writer Catherine Shaw that explores Fu’s key influences and the importance of his unique and refined East-meetsWest aesthetic. With the descriptions of each project given in Fu’s own voice, this rich overview presents the award-winning vision of interior design’s rising star, not only in Asia but across the world.
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The first survey of the work of Luke Hughes & Company, which has been described as embodying ‘a craft-led renaissance in British manufacturing’ Aidan Walker is an experienced cabinetmaker, editor of The Encyclopedia of Wood, and former editorial director of most of the UK’s professional design journals. Tanya Harrod is one of the most highly regarded craft historians working today. Her book The Crafts in Britain in the Twentieth Century (1999) won the Historians of British Art book award in 2000.
400 illustrations 28.0 x 25.0cm 256pp ISBN 978 0 500 022542 April £48.00
Furniture in Architecture The Work of Luke Hughes Aidan Walker • Foreword by Tanya Harrod 86
Luke Hughes & Company’s enduring and meticulously engineered furniture, an eloquent response both to the architecture it inhabits and to the true Arts and Crafts spirit, has been placed at the forefront of the ‘craft-led renaissance in British manufacturing’. Flexible in use, commercially viable and environmentally sustainable, the work furnishes many of the world’s most distinguished buildings, from Westminster Abbey, the Tower of London and most of the Oxford and Cambridge university colleges to the Keystone Academy in Beijing and one of New York City’s most vibrant synagogues. Through an introduction to the studio and more than twenty-five case studies, Furniture in Architecture explores the company’s place in the Arts and Crafts tradition and examines the philosophy and work of its founder, Luke Hughes. Aidan Walker sheds light on how the studio balances modern manufacturing technologies with abiding craft values, rendering the small furniture workshop a profitable and environmentally sustainable proposition even when fulfilling largescale commissions. This fascinating survey defines the elements of successful design and addresses the meaning of craft and craftsmanship in the digital age.
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The story of one of London’s most famous landmarks and the people who built it James W. P. Campbell is Fellow in Architecture and History of Art, Queens’ College, Cambridge, and Director of Conservation with Finch Forman Architects, London. He has appeared on a number of television and radio programmes including Divine Designs (Channel 5), Modern Marvels (the History Channel), Making History (Radio 4), the Today Programme (Radio 4), the Robert Elms show (Radio London) and The One Show (BBC1). He is the author of several books, including (with Will Pryce) The Library and Brick, both published by Thames & Hudson.
52 illustrations 19.8 x 12.9cm 176pp paperback ISBN 978 0 500 295502 January £8.99
Building St Paul’s James W. P. Campbell Building St Paul’s tells the story of the cathedral that has dominated London’s skyline for 300 years and of those responsible for its construction from the time of the disastrous Great Fire to final completion in 1708. The figure of Sir Christopher Wren is well known, but this book also considers those ordinary craftsmen, the contractors and overseers, the quarrymen on the Isle of Portland, the humble stonemasons and carpenters who shaped the materials. James W. P. Campbell is the first historian to plough through the documents in search of these people: he describes life on a seventeenth-century building site, the workers’ day-to-day responsibilities, how some were poorly paid while others became millionaires. He also unravels the struggles for money that at one time threatened to undermine the whole enterprise. Campbell’s account reaffirms St Paul’s not only as one man’s masterwork, but as an incredible collaborative achievement.
‘A taut study … Campbell provides a wealth of detail about Wren’s construction methods … lively and informative’ Daily Telegraph
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100 of the world’s most important and influential interiors, by some of the great talents of the 20th and 21st centuries Dominic Bradbury is a journalist and writer specializing in architecture and design. He is the author of many books on the subject, including Mountain Modern, New Brazilian House, Vertical Living, Mid Century Modern Complete, Mediterranean Modern, New Natural Home and The Iconic House, all published by Thames & Hudson. Richard Powers specializes in interiors, architecture and the built environment. His books include Beyond Bawa and New Natural Home, both published by Thames & Hudson.
571 illustrations 22.4 x 20.8cm 368pp ISBN 978 0 500 023334 February £24.95
The Iconic Interior 1900 to the Present Dominic Bradbury • Photographs by Richard Powers This compact volume features over 100 of the most spectacular interiors from across the world, spanning the entire 20th century to the present day. It includes interiors assembled by artists and fashion designers, architects, interior and set-designers, bringing together diverse design talents from Piero Fornasetti to Alvar Aalto, Marc Newson and Matthew Williamson. Twenty short profiles are presented in the introduction, with a single iconic photograph and a concise, informative text; the interiors are arranged by chronological order, with superb colour photography and texts recounting the stories of these remarkable designs. Representing every style from minimalism and Art Nouveau to Gesamtkunstwerk creations that defy definition, these interiors are elegant compositions that will endure.
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‘A pretty much definitive guide to the houses that have come to define “modern architecture”’ Wallpaper* 978 0 500 293942 £24.95
‘The Iconic Interior really does live up to its billing … these homes are bona fide standard bearers for the styles they represent, whether it’s Oscar Niemeyer cresting a wave of West Coast Modernism, Marcel Wanders launching himself into Futurism with his Mallorcan casa, or Coco Chanel tooting the horn for Art Deco in her Paris apartment’ World of Interiors ‘Compelling ... no serious interiors enthusiast should be without it’ Sunday Telegraph
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A new interiors bible of tips and techniques for restoring design confidence in an image-saturated world, from design stars Russell Whitehead and Jordan Cluroe, also known as Two Lovely Gays
Jordan Cluroe and Russell Whitehead’s London-based interior design practice 2LG Studio was founded in 2013, following Jordan’s appearance as a contestant on the BBC’s Great Interior Design Challenge. The studio’s designs have been featured in Casa Vogue, Elle Decoration, Harper’s Bazaar, Living Etc, Grand Designs and on Channel 4 and ITV. Jordan and Russell have also collaborated with a number of leading brands, including Ligne Roset, Natuzzi, Secret Linen Store, Brintons Carpets, Floor Story and Graham & Brown. Their column ‘The House Doctors’ appears in London’s Metro. 250 illustrations 25.0 x 19.5cm 208pp ISBN 978 0 500 022696 April £19.95
Making Living Lovely Free Your Home with Creative Design Russell Whitehead and Jordan Cluroe, AKA Two Lovely Gays Making interior design choices can be daunting in a world flooded with trend-setting Instagram posts and Pinterest boards. Russell Whitehead and Jordan Cluroe specialize in designing homes for clients who know what they love but struggle to know where to start. Their fresh approach will empower everyone to create interiors that express their personality and address their needs. In eight chapters, Russell and Jordan cover everything from how to handle original features, use colour, pattern and texture, choose materials and curate objects. Focusing on people and how we use our spaces, this book also covers cohabiting and design compromises, exploring one’s creativity and rediscovering the fun in interior design. Box-outs and tips throughout offer practical guidance, as well as a range of examples from the duo’s own work and that of key designers around the world. Interior design is about much more than just redesigning rooms. It has the power to change lives. This richly illustrated guide offers a fresh approach to interior design based on understanding individuals and creating homes that bring joy, rather than slavishly following rules and trends.
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Australia Modern Architecture, Landscape & Design 1925–1975 Hannah Lewi and Philip Goad
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From the Sydney Opera House and the National Gallery of Victoria to soughtafter homes across the country, the pervasive presence of modernism is inescapable in Australia. Led by the likes of Robin Boyd, Harry Seidler and Walter Burley Griffin, modernist architects and designers set out to rebuild at all scales, from vast infrastructure projects, to public health and education institutions, to new centres of culture, consumption and leisure. Australia Modern vividly captures this architectural legacy with a survey of 100 significant modern sites, richly illustrated with archival images and newly commissioned photographs. Showcasing projects from the iconic and the urban to the everyday, Australia Modern celebrates the modern architects and buildings that will increasingly constitute the heritage of tomorrow.
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Illustrated throughout 30.5 x 24.1cm 336pp ISBN 978 1 760 760151 April £39.95
Hannah Lewi is a professor of architecture at the University of Melbourne. Philip Goad is Chair of Architecture, Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor and co-director of Australian Centre for Architectural History, Urban and Cultural Heritage.
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CONCRETE HOUSES: JOE ROLLO
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CONCRETE HOUSES THE POETICS OF FORM JOE ROLLO
Illustrated throughout 29.9 x 23.8cm 304pp ISBN 978 1 760 760410 January £39.95
Surveys the use of concrete in landmark contemporary residential architecture
Concrete Houses The Poetics of Form Joe Rollo Concrete Houses explores the sculptural possibilities of concrete as the material of choice in landmark contemporary houses across Australia, Brazil, Portugal, Japan, Sweden, the Netherlands and the USA, from the hands of major international architects including Sou Fujimoto, Tom Kundig, Valerio Olgiati and Marcio Kogan, and Australians such as Peter Stutchbury, Alex Popov, Ian McDougall and Neil Durbach. Illustrated throughout with exceptional colour photography, and selected plans and drawings, Concrete Houses celebrates the incontrovertible fusion of concrete’s versatility and brute force to make timeless architecture of lyrical beauty.
Joe Rollo is an architecture writer and editor. He is the founding editor of C+A, a magazine of concrete architecture, and the author of four previous books, including Concrete Poetry: Concrete Architecture in Australia.
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A tour through the homes of twenty of Australia’s leading interior designers
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is the creator of the blog in which she writes about her CHARLOTTE love ofCOOTE interiors, gardens and gardening. Rose-Innes BARBJenny BROWNLOW LISA The BURDUS Lime Walk, BRIONY FITZGERALD DARRYL GORDON IAIN HALLIDAY THOMAS HAMEL
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Illustrated throughout 29.0 x 21.5cm CORNELIUS HORGAN 256pp LYNDA KERRY CAMERON ISBN KIMBER 978 1 760 760137 MICHAEL LOVE February CHRISTIAN LYON £29.95 WALTER HERMAN
Australian Designers at Home
Top Australian designers invite you into their own homes, reveal the thinking behind their design and decoration, and let you into a few trade secrets along the way.
Photography by Simon Griffiths
Australian Designers at Home Jenny Rose-Innes Find out what ‘home’ means to the people who create them for a living. Australian Designers at Home invites readers into the homes of twenty of the country’s leading names in interior design. With unfettered access to their most private retreats, we see where the best of the industry express their true, unfiltered selves. Jenny Rose-Innes celebrates the designers who have inspired her, sharing their histories and houses, as well as professional insights and practical tips on decorating. Richly illustrated throughout with stunning photography by Simon Griffiths, Australian Designers at Home takes readers on an intimate journey, and will be an invaluable resource for designers, decorators and interiors enthusiasts alike.
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Plants for the People
Published by Thames & Hudson Australia
A Modern Guide to Plant Medicine
A 21st-century Herbal: a modern approach to an ancient wisdom
Erin Lovell Verinder Plants for the People is an exploration of the plant world through the eyes of a master herbalist, weaving ancient traditional knowledge with a modern approach to plant medicine. This is an easy guide to forty everyday herbs and flowers, their history, therapeutic applications, health and healing benefits. Topics covered include: choosing the plant path; returning to our roots; whole plant medicine; the wild healers; and recipes for teas, infusions, decoctions, syrups, balms and much more. Throughout there are golden tips and tonics for addressing common ailments such as bloating, bad skin, lack of energy, winter coughs and colds, jangling nerves and many other modernworld complaints. An evolution of herbal-medicine books of the past, Plants for the People is a modern presentation of an ancient wisdom. This visual plant safari will encourage readers to reconnect with nature’s bounty and to be their own alchemist in a well guided manner.
Erin Lovell Verinder is a herbalist, nutritionist, energetic healer, mentor, wellness expert and writer. She has spent more than eighteen years walking the plant path, working with natural medicine to promote health and wellbeing. Erin teaches regularly on topics such as plant medicine and healing, and has written for multiple online platforms and magazines, including The Planthunter and Vogue Australia.
80 illustrations 23.0 x 18.0cm 208pp ISBN 978 1 760 760465 March £19.95
PLANT PROFILE
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Deep ruby jewels emerging from forest-green foliage in the autumnal months, rosehips are most commonly harvested from the beautiful dog rose, Rosa canina, often found growing wild and free. Native American tribes wove rosehips into their medicinal repertoire, as did the Europeans in the World War II era, when the hips warded off scurvy with their supercharged vitamin C content. The fresh raw fruit offers a world of antioxidant goodness. Abundant bioflavonoids and Vitamin C enhance immunity and address a Vitamin C deficiency, blurring the line between food and medicine beautifully. Rosehips address the underlying stressors that often contribute to a lowered immune defense, they usher in warmth, and are completely delightful for sore throats, colds and flu. The heart responds well to rosehips; unsurprisingly, as the rose holds strong medicine akin to the heart. The antioxidants within the hips support the cardiovascular system and overall work to reduce systemic chronic inflammation, great for varicose veins and all sorts of venous insufficiency. The hips are gently astringent, helpful in cases of diarrhoea and acting to cool overheated states of the body. Rosehips are often prescribed for arthritic conditions, to prevent further degeneration and offer relief from joint pain, stiffness and aches. The sweet and sour fruits also show promising antiaging and anticancer affects. A floral superfood, fresh rosehips make the most excellent medicinal jam, fortifying immunity through the winter months!
GOLDEN TIP Rosehip powder is a delicious addition to smoothies. The powder is a freezedried form of the fruit, maintaining all the medicinal bounty yet in a much more accessible form.
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Elderberry elixir I called upon the queen of the elderberry elixir herself, my mentor and friend, the wonderfully wise naturopath Kira Sutherland, to share this winter warmer. Kira has been making this uplifting recipe for years and I am thrilled to share it with you all.
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200 g (7 oz) fresh elderberries or 100 g (3.5 oz) dried elderberries 60 g (2 oz) dried rosehips 40 g (1.5 oz) echinacea roots/leaves/flowers 30 g (1 oz) cinnamon chips 15 g (0.5 oz) licorice root 2 litres (2 quarts / 8 cups) apple juice, or 1.5 litres (1.5 quarts / 6 cups) apple juice and 500 ml (1 pint / 2 cups) pomegranate juice (be sure to use sugar-free fruit juices) 300 ml (10 fl oz / 1¼ cups) raw honey EQUIPMENT
Place all of the herbal ingredients into the saucepan, and add the 2 litres (2 quarts / 8 cups) of juice. Mix gently. Bring to the boil over a medium heat, then simmer for around 1 to 1.5 hours, stirring occasionally. Remove from the heat and allow to cool. Strain out the herbs through a fine mesh sieve.
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Large saucepan Fine mesh sieve Sterilised glass bottles and lids METHOD
Put the liquid back on the stove and add the raw honey. Stir over very low heat until the honey has melted through (avoid overheating the honey so as to preserve its enzyme-rich properties). Allow the mix to cool completely and decant into sterilised glass bottles or jars. Seal well and store in the fridge for up to a month.
This mix is delicious straight off the spoon! Take 1 tablespoon daily for wellness and increase up to 3 tablespoons daily if immunity is feeling a little depleted.
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Fully endorsed by the Royal Horticultural Society, a practical reference guide that will help readers to create mood, proportion and scale in the garden Jack Wallington studied at the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh, where he gained an RHS Certificate in Horticulture. He now has a flourishing garden design business based in London, and writes regularly for RHS The Garden, Gardens Illustrated, Daily Telegraph, Garden News, the Guardian and Gardeners’ World Magazine.
Illustrated throughout 24.6 x 19.0cm 224pp ISBN 978 0 500 023273 April £19.95
The Gardener’s Book of Patterns A Directory of Inspiration, Presentation and Repetition Jack Wallington
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A GREAT GARDEN IS HELD TOGETHER BY A SERIES OF PATTERNS THAT ARE WEAVED AND BLENDED TOGETHER. PLANTING FOR BEDDING, BORDERS AND CONTAINERS ARE KEY TO THE DEFINITION OF GARDEN DESIGN, WHETHER IT’S A FORMAL PLAN OR SOMETHING MORE NATURALISTIC.
Flat surfaces: tiles TILES ARE OFTEN SEEN IN CONTINENTAL EUROPE AND OFFER THE OPPORTUNITY TO INTRODUCE PATTERNS ON THE TILES THEMSELVES OR BY BEING CREATIVE WITH HOW THEY ARE SET. IN A WORLD WHERE HOMES AND GARDENS ARE SEAMLESSLY JOINED, TILES OFFER THE OPPORTUNITY TO LINK THE SPACES.
PAT TE R N S Entrances to Victorian properties traditionally use a mosaic of small black and white squares in diamond formation. Outdoor tiles these days come in as wide a selection of patterns and designs as those indoors.
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There is something about pattern that sets our minds alight. Pattern serves many purposes: it instantly gives a design or space order and structure; it creates rhythm and it can make a garden or area feel unified and complete. Pattern in gardens can be blatant as well as designed in such a way the pattern becomes subconscious. Fully endorsed by the Royal Horticultural Society, Jack Wallington’s practical reference guide shows readers how to choose and use plants with pattern, and transform their gardens with texture, shape and flair. The book is packed with photographs, drawings and illustrated planting plans featuring ‘patterns’ that can be scaled up or down to fit the area being planted. Case studies demonstrate the principles presented in the book, with examples including patterns for ‘natural’ designs as well as more formal approaches that create a stronger sense of order and detail. Exploring how to bring pattern into every aspect of the garden, from lawns and borders to paving and water features, this book is the perfect resource for the reader looking to revitalize their garden, large or small.
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A quirky gift book for cat-loving art buffs everywhere Susan Herbert (1945–2014) was the author and illustrator of The Cats Gallery of Art, The Cats History of Western Art, Diary of a Victorian Cat, Medieval Cats, Pre-Raphaelite Cats, Shakespeare Cats, Opera Cats and Movie Cats, all published by Thames & Hudson.
Illustrated throughout 23.0 x 19.0cm 64pp 0 paperback ISBN 978 0 500 295571 February £7.95
Praise for Susan Herbert
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‘Captures the mood of each of the original works so eloquently that we can’t help but be enamoured’ artnet.com
Impressionist Cats Susan Herbert Cats playing a quiet game of cards, cats at the ballet, cats having a leisurely lunch on the grass, cats boating on the river… Here are the quintessential Impressionist cats, painted with vivid, joyous colours in their favourite haunts, at their ease in various ordinary activities. With their pensive, brooding expressions, cats lend themselves perfectly to reimagining the great works of the Impressionist masters, whether strolling among Monet’s wild poppies, sitting in Mary Cassatt’s loge at the opera, or even enjoying a Sunday dance at Renoir’s Bougival. They can be charming or steeped in mute despair, vulgar or lovingly maternal, bourgeois or intellectual – but they are always Impressionist cats, caught as if by the camera, spontaneous and unprepared.
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The sequel to the Sunday Times bestselling Cold War Steve Presents... The Festival of Brexit: an absurdist journey through a world that seems to have slipped the moorings of reality Christopher Spencer – aka @ColdWar_Steve – has been acclaimed as the Brexit Bruegel and a modern-day Hogarth. His Twitter feed, McFadden’s Cold War, has become a cult phenomenon. With over 190,000 followers (and counting) his Twitter following is greater than the membership of the Conservative Party. His first book, Cold War Steve Presents…The Festival of Brexit was a top ten hit in both the Sunday Times and The Bookseller bestseller list.
87 illustrations 15.7 x 17.2cm 128pp ISBN 978 0 500 023426 Published October 2019 £12.95
Cold War Steve Presents… A Prat’s Progress Cold War Steve As the UK takes the leap into the dark with Boris Johnson as Prime Minister, Cold War Steve Presents… A Prat’s Progress takes you on a coach trip from hell that trundles through a dystopian wasteland under Boris’s rule. A pitch-perfect and timely piece of satire, it will provide a much needed escape from a world that seems to have not only slipped its moorings from reality but is being steered recklessly towards a ‘No Deal’ precipice.
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‘Apocalyptic but side-splitting’ Financial Times
‘Therapy for those beaten down by political despair’ Guardian ‘No one has caught the mood of Brexit Britain as acutely as Cold War Steve’ 978 0 500 022894 £12.95
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‘Makes contemporary some of the most ancient and formidable landmarks of the British Isles … stunning paintings’ Wildlife
Tracks Walking the Ancient Landscapes of Britain Philip Hughes • With an introduction by Kay Syrad In over 140 superbly reproduced artworks, the artist Philip Hughes records eleven iconic walks across the length and breadth of Britain, from Allt Coire Pheiginn in Scotland to Zennor Head in Cornwall. Hughes’s clean, spacious artworks, with their arresting blocks of colour, make contemporary some of the most ancient and formidable landmarks of the British Isles, including Neolithic settlements such as Maes Howe in Orkney, standing stones such as Stonehenge, the Three Peaks in Yorkshire, or places of particular mystery and beauty such as Silbury Hill. Complete with an enlightening introduction by writer Kay Syrad and short prefaces to each of the sections by Hughes himself, this beautiful, reflective book will resonate with artists, walkers and anyone who shares a love of ancient sites in the landscape. Philip Hughes is a widely exhibited artist. Thames & Hudson published his previous collection, Patterns in the Landscape, in 1998.
148 illustrations 27.0 x 24.0cm 192pp paperback ISBN 978 0 500 295366 Published April 2019 £24.95
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‘Excellent … an A-Z of Tsarism’s last, magnificent flowering of the arts’ Independent on Sunday
Moscow and St. Petersburg in Russia’s Silver Age John E. Bowlt
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Imperial Russia’s twilight years witnessed a renaissance that left a profound imprint on the visual, literary and performing arts: here was a Silver Age as luminous as the Golden Age of Russian literature many decades before. Advancing in roughly chronological sequence, Moscow and St. Petersburg in Russia’s Silver Age highlights the essential social and political developments of this turbulent era, which the arts both reflected and affected. A dazzling array of artists, writers, composers, actors, singers, dancers and designers are presented in context, including Tolstoy, Pasternak, Gorky, Akhmatova, Rimsky-Korsakov, Rachmaninov, Nijinsky, Scriabin, Karsavina, Meyerhold, Chaliapin, Stanislavsky, Diaghilev, Roerich, Repin, Serov, Somov, Vrubel, Bakst, Kandinsky, Malevich, Mayakovsky and many more. With a clear narrative supported by a rich repertoire of images and vintage photographs, this volume will appeal both to the specialist and to the general student of Russian history and culture. John E. Bowlt is Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Southern California, and Director of its Institute of Modern Russian Culture.
650 illustrations 23.8 x 16.5cm 396pp paperback ISBN 978 0 500 295649 January £24.95
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Fra Angelico and the rise of the Florentine Renaissance
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Bruegel
Carl Brandon Strehlke & Ana González Mozo Illustrated throughout 30.0 x 24.0cm 256pp 978 0 500 970997 £29.95 hb
Books and Painting Edited by Didier Ottinger 200 illustrations 30.0 x 23.0cm 242pp 978 0 500 239988 £39.95 hb
Painting, Philosophy, Psychoanalysis Edited by Ben Ware 100 illustrations 26.0 x 20.0cm 176pp 978 0 500 970980 £28.00 pb
The Complete Graphic Works Bassens, Watteeuw, Van Grieken, Van Der Stock Illustrated throughout 30.0 x 27.0cm 250pp 978 0 500 239995 £49.95 hb
Cézanne
The Letters of Paul Cézanne
Yayoi Kusama
Drawings and Watercolours William A. Ewing and Holly Roussell 226 illustrations 22.9 x 15.2cm 320pp 978 0 500 295212 £18.95 pb
Alex Danchev 75 illustrations 24.0 x 16.5cm 392pp 978 0 500 295175 £19.95 hb
All About My Love Yayoi Kusama and Akira Shibutami 350 illustrations 21.0 x 26.5cm 264pp 978 0 500 295427 £25.00 pb
Lee Krasner
The Drawings of Rembrandt
Paula Rego
The Eye’s Mind: Bridget Riley
Hannah Ryggen
Seymour Slive 267 illustrations 25.0 x 20.3cm 264pp 978 0 500 295359 £29.95 pb
The Art of Story Deryn Rees-Jones and Marina Warner 330 illustrations 30.8 x 24.0cm 376pp 978 0 500 021378 £85.00 slipcased hb
Collected Writings 1965–2019 Robert Kudielka 92 illustrations 23.0 x 17.0cm 472pp 978 0 500 971017 £24.95 pb
Threads of Defiance Marit Paasche 122 illustrations 24.0 x 16.5cm 288pp 978 0 500 094099 £24.95 hb
Living Colour Eleanor Nairne 214 illustrations 28.0 x 22.0cm 240pp 978 0 500 094082 £35.00 hb
ART HIGHLIGHTS
How Turner Painted
William Morris’s Flowers
Materials & Techniques Joyce H. Townsend 200 illustrations 22.0 x 19.0cm 168pp 978 0 500 294833 £14.95 pb
Rowan Bain 120 illustrations 19.0 x 17.0cm 144pp 978 0 500 480458 £14.95 hb
Pushing paper
Postures: Body Language in Art
Contemporary drawing from 1970 to now Isabel Seligman 126 illustrations 25.0 x 22.0cm 128pp 978 0 500 480540 £18.95 pb
Desmond Morrisl 300 illustrations 24.0 x 16.5cm 320pp 978 0 500 022610 £24.95 hb
The Pursuit of Art Travels, Encounters and Revelations Martin Gayford 54 illustrations 21.6 x 13.5cm 192pp 978 0 500 094112 £16.95 hb
Impressionist & PostImpressionist Drawings
Ways of Drawing
Christopher Lloyd 224 illustrations 24.6 x 21.2cm 288pp 978 0 500 021231 £35.00 hb
Artists’ Perspectives and Practices Royal Drawing School • Bell, Balchin, Tobin 308 illustrations 28.0 x 21.0cm 272pp 978 0 500 021903 £29.95 hb
100 Sculptors of Tomorrow
Threads
Kurt Beers 273 illustrations 32.0 x 24.0cm 288pp 978 0 500 021477 £39.95 hb
Contemporary Embroidered Art Charlotte Vannier Illustrated throughout 28.0 x 22.0cm 368pp 978 0 500 295458 £35.00 hb
Voyaging Out
Antony Gormley on Sculpture
Eileen Gray
British Women Artists from Suffrage to the Sixties Carolyn Trant 120 illustrations 23.4 x 15.3cm 304pp 978 0 500 021828 £24.95 hb
Antony Gormley and Mark Holborn 119 illustrations 22.9 x 15.2cm 248pp 978 0 500 295229 £16.95 pb
Her Life and Work Peter Adam 162 illustrations 24.0 x 16.2cm 360pp 978 0 500 343548 £29.95 hb
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Archipelago: An Atlas of Imagined Islands
Quentin Blake and Will Self 46 illustrations 20.0 x 15.3cm 112pp 978 0 500 022733 £16.95 hb
Stanley Donwood: There Will Be No Quiet
Tarantino
Stanley Donwood 389 illustrations 24.0 x 20.5cm 384pp 978 0 500 021880 £28.00 hb
A Retrospective Tom Shone 250 illustrations 29.2 x 24.8cm 272pp 978 0 500 023174 £24.95 pb
Supreme Glamour
Great Cycling Climbs The French Alps Graeme Fife 61 illustrations 22.4 x 17.0cm 352pp 978 0 500 022719 £29.95 hb
Model City Pyongyang
Mary Wilson with Mark Bego 338 illustrations 30.5 x 19.5cm 240pp 978 0 500 022009 £29.95 hb
Shared Living
The Land Gardeners
Courtyard Living
Interior design for rented and shared spaces Emily Hutchinson 160 illustrations 24.0 x 18.5cm 176pp 978 1 760 760168 £19.95 pb
Cut Flowers Bridget Elsworthy and Henrietta Courtauld 440 illustrations 33.0 x 26.0cm 256pp 978 1 760 760380 £39.95 hb
Contemporary Houses of the Asia-Pacific Charmaine Chan 276 illustrations 29.0 x 23.0cm 272pp 978 0 500 519202 £35.00 hb
Huw Lewis-Jones and Chris Riddell 91 illustrations 26.0 x 20.0cm 192pp 978 0 500 022566 £24.95 hb
Cinema: The Whole Story 100
Moonlight Travellers
Philip Kemp and Christopher Frayling 1,100 illustrations 24.5 x 17.2cm 576pp 978 0 500 295274 £24.95 flexi
Cristiano Bianchi and Kristina Drapic 200 illustrations 18.5 x 21.0cm 224pp 978 0 500 343531 £19.95 hb
New Nordic Houses Dominic Bradbury 400 illustrations 29.0 x 23.0cm 400pp 978 0 500 021552 £35.00 hb
ARCHITEC TURE, DESIGN & FA SHION HIGHLIGHTS
White Houses
A Chronology of Architecture
The Tile Book
Sean Godsell: Houses
Philip Jodidio 268 illustrations 26.0 x 23.0cm 288pp 978 0 500 519837 £35.00 hb
A Cultural Timeline from Stone Circles to Skyscrapers John Zukowsky Over 300 illustrations 24.5 x 21.6cm 272pp 978 0 500 343562 £24.95 hb
History • Pattern • Design Terry Bloxham 397 illustrations 17.0 x 17.0cm 304pp 978 0 500 480250 £19.95 hb
Sean Godsell and Philip Goad 284 illustrations 26.0 x 30.0cm 228pp 978 0 500 343524 £50.00 hb
Arcade Game Typography
Takenobu Igarashi: A to Z
Type Directory
Graphic Art of Tattoo Lettering
The Art of Pixel Type Toshi Omagari 408 illustrations 23.0 x 17.0cm 272pp 978 0 500 021743 £19.95 pb
Sakura Nomiyama and Haruki Mori Illustrated throughout 25.0 x 20.0cm 384pp 978 0 500 023068 £45.00 hb
Peter Dawson • Foreword by Toby Frere-Jones Over 2,000 illustrations 22.9 x 21.6cm 672pp 978 0 500 0241547 £35.00 hb
A Visual Guide to Contemporary Styles & Designs B.J. Betts and Nick Shoenberger 350 illustrations 20.9 x 16.4cm 272pp 978 0 500 241530 £19.95 hb
Prada Catwalk
John Galliano for Dior
The Italian Gentleman
Fashion Central Saint Martins
The Complete Collections Susannah Frankel 1,300 illustrations 27.7 x 19.0cm 632pp 978 0 500 022047 £48.00 hb
Photographs by Robert Fairer 320 illustrations 36.0 x 27.0cm 432pp 978 0 500 022405 £98.00 slipcased hb
Hugo Jacomet and Lyle Roblin 504 illustrations 25.9 x 20.6cm 304pp 978 0 500 022863 £29.95 hb
Cally Blackman and Hywel Davies 700 illustrations 30.0 x 22.0cm 272pp 978 0 500 0293713 £29.95 pb
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FA SHION & PHOTOGR APHY HIGHLIGHTS
1950s in Vogue
Henry Poole & Co.
Diamond Jewelry
Tim Walker 238 illustrations 32.4 x 24.8cm 340pp 978 0 500 545027 £85.00 pb
The Jessica Daves Years 1952–1962 Rebecca C. Tuite 280 illustrations 36.5 x 28.0cm 256pp 978 0 500 294376 £65.00 hb
The First Tailor of Savile Row James Sherwood 150 illustrations 25.9 x 20.6cm 256pp 978 0 500 021958 £35.00 hb
700 Years of Glory and Glamour Diana Scarisbrick 311 illustrations 30.5 x 22.5cm 256pp 978 0 500 021507 £49.95 hb
Magnum Streetwise
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How to Read a Photograph
The Ultimate Collection of Street Photography Stephen McLaren 329 illustrations 24.2 x 19.0cm 384pp 978 0 500 545072 £28.00 hb
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Ian Jeffrey and Max Kozloff 400 illustrations 24.0 x 17.0cm 448pp 978 0 500 295380 £24.95 flexi
The World According to Roger Ballen
Tim Walker: Shoot for the Moon
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Henri Cartier-Bresson China 1948 -1949, 1958
Michel Frizot
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Ying-lung Su
Colin Rhodes 168 illustrations 30.5 x 24.5cm 208pp 978 0 500 545218 £35.00 hb
Henri Cartier-Bresson China 1948-1949, 1958 Michel Frizot • Ying-lung Su
Henri Cartier-Bresson travelled to China in December 1948 at the request of Life magazine. He stayed for ten months and captured some of the most spectacular moments in the country’s history, photographing Beijing in ‘the last days of the Kuomintang’ and bearing witness to the new regime’s takeover in Shanghai. Then, in 1958, Cartier-Bresson was one of the first Western photographers to go back to China to record the changes that had taken place over the preceding decade. The ‘picture stories’ he sent to Magnum and Life played a key role in Westerners’ understanding of Chinese political events. Many of these images are among the best-known and most significant photographs in Cartier-Bresson’s oeuvre: his empathy with the populace and sense of responsibility as a witness make them an important part of his legacy.
Henri Cartier-Bresson China 1948 -1949, 1958
Henri Cartier-Bresson: China 1948-1949, 1958 allows these photographs to be re-examined along with all of the documents that were preserved: the photographer’s captions and comments, contact sheets and abundant correspondence, as well as the published versions that appeared in both American and European magazines. A welcome addition to any photography lover’s bookshelf, this is an exciting new volume on one of the twentieth century’s most important photographers.
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Henri Cartier-Bresson: China 1948–1949, 1958 Michel Frizot and Ying-lung Su 120 illustrations 29.0 x 24.0cm 288pp 978 0 500 545188 £50.00 hb
Bruce Gilden: Lost & Found
Harry Gruyaert: Last Call
Bruce Gilden and Sophie Darmaillacq 80 illustrations 23.5 x 29.5cm 176pp 978 0 500 545270 £45.00 hb
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Koudelka Gypsies Josef Koudelka 109 illustrations 20.5 x 16.5cm 236pp 978 0 500 545041 £22.50 pb
HISTORY HIGHLIGHTS
Joseph Banks’ Florilegium
Remarkable Trees
Charles Booth’s London Poverty Maps
An Underground Guide to Sewers
Mary S. Morgan and Iain Sinclair 1,231 illustrations 36.5 x 26.5cm 288pp 978 0 500 022290 £49.95 hb
Stephen Halliday; Foreword Peter Bazalgette 494 illustrations 24.0 x 17.0cm 256pp 978 0 500 252352 £19.95 hb
World War II: Infographics
Timelines
Troy
Lopez, Bernard, Aubin, Guillerat Illustrated throughout 29.5 x 23.5cm 192pp 978 0 500 022924 £29.95 hb
The Events that Shaped History William A. Ewing and Holly Roussell 40 illustrations 17.8 x 23.6cm 256pp 978 0 500 022573 £19.95 hb
myth and reality Villing, Fitton, Donnellan, Shapland 300 illustrations 28.0 x 25.0cm 272pp 978 0 500 480557 £40.00 hb
Botanical Treasures from Cook’s First Voyage Gooding, Mabberley, Studholme 181 illustrations 27.0 x 20.2cm 320pp 978 0 500 022870 £29.95 hb
Christina Harrison and Tony Kirkham 180 illustrations 24.6 x 18.6cm 256pp 978 0 500 021927 £24.95 hb
Silk Roads Peoples, Cultures, Landscapes Edited by Susan Whitfield 491 illustrations 28.6 x 22.5cm 480pp 978 0 500 021576 £49.95 hb
Roman Mythology
Digging up Britain
The Land of the White Horse
A Traveller’s Guide from Troy to Tivoli David Stuttard 70 illustrations 21.6 x 13.5cm 272pp 978 0 500 252291 £14.95 hb
Ten discoveries, a million years of history Mike Pitts 79 illustrations 23.4 x 15.3cm 304pp 978 0 500 051900 £24.95 hb
Visions of England David Miles 85 illustrations 23.4 x 15.3cm 304pp 978 0 500 519936 £24.95 hb
Great Cities Through Travellers’ Eyes Edited by Peter Furtado 39 illustrations 23.4 x 15.3cm 368pp 978 0 500 021651 £19.95 hb
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B - FO R M AT PA PER BAC K S H I G H L I G H TS
Man with a Blue Scarf
Modernists & Mavericks
Lee Krasner
Living with Leonardo
On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud Martin Gayford 192pp 978 0 500 295182 £10.99
Bacon, Freud, Hockney & the London Painters Martin Gayford 392pp 978 0 500 294703 £12.99
A Biography Gail Levin 272pp 978 0 500 295281 £12.99
Martin Kemp 336pp 978 0 500 292693 £12.99
India
Food
Design for the Real World
A Short History Andrew Robinson 256pp 978 0 500 295168 £8.99
The History of Taste Edited by Paul Freedman 368pp 978 0 500 295373 £12.99
Victor Papanek 416pp 978 0 500 295335 £14.99
The Origins of the Anglo-Saxons
Searching for the Lost Tombs of Egypt
Histories of Nations
History Day by Day
Gail Levin 240pp 978 0 500 295434 £10.99
Chris Taunton 304pp 978 0 500 295441 £12.99
How Their Identities Were Formed Edited by Peter Furtado 272pp 978 0 500 293003 £9.99
366 Voices from the Past Peter Furtado 488pp 978 0 500 294963 £10.99
The Great Empires of Asia
The Great Naturalists
Akhenaten
Scotland
Edited by Jim Masselos 256pp 978 0 500 294420 £9.99
Edited by Robert Huxley 272pp 978 0 500 294796 £10.99
Egypt’s False Prophet Nicholas Reeves 224pp 978 0 500 294697 £10.99
A Concise HIstory Fitzroy Maclean 176pp 978 0 500 294727 £9.99
Renaissance People Lives that Shaped the Modern Age Robert C. Davis, Beth Lindsmith 376pp 978 0 500 293805 £10.99
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Index David Adjaye – Works 83 Africa State of Mind 48 The Age of Empires 74 Aldrich, Robert 74 Allen, Rebecca 50 Allison, Peter 83 An, Kyung 4 Ancient Egyptian Magic 71 Anthropocene 79 Archaeology 78 Arctic 66 Art & Archaeology of the Roman World 80 The Art of Earth Architecture 81 Arzalluz, Miren 37 Australia Modern 90 Australian Designers at Home 91 Azuma, Makoto 57 Bahn, Paul 78 Bakker, Nienke 12 Banville, John 58 Baring, Louise 53 Aubrey Beardsley 30 Bell, Alice 47 Benton, Michael J. 77 Blann, Michael 62 Bochert, Till-Holger 17 Bowlt, John E. 96 Bradbury, Dominic 88 Brûlé, Tyler 60 Dick Bruna 29 Bucklow, Christopher 22 Building St Paul’s 87 Bunbury, Turtle 75 Campbell, James W. P. 87 Can We Save the Planet? 47 Carson, Nick 44 Cerasi, Jessica 4 Gabrielle Chanel 37 Chapman, Hugo 18 Chaumet Tiaras 40 Claeys, Gregory 73 Clark, T.J. 25 Clayton, Zorian 31 Cluroe, Jordan 89 Cold War Steve 95 Cold War Steve Presents… A Prat’s Progress 95 Concrete Houses 90 Conésa, Héloïse 54 Contemporary Ceramic Art 6 Cooper, Jago 66 Craftland Japan 65 Crow, Thomas 16
Dabner, David 45 Degas at the Opéra 15 Dethier, Jean 81 The Dinosaurs Rediscovered 77 Douglas, Ian 47 Dumolyn, Jan 17 Early Islamic Textiles from Along the Silk Road 69 East of Nowhere 55 Eisenman, Stephen F. 16 Eshun, Ekow 48 The Fashion Design Directory 38 Field, Julie 79 Flood, Catherine 31 Flower Art: Makoto Azuma 57 Fogg, Marnie 38 Forgotten Peoples of the Ancient World 70 Fraser-Cavassoni, Natasha 40 André Fu 85 Fullerton, Mark D. 80 Fuminari, Yoshitsugu 60 Furniture in Architecture 86 The Gardener’s Book of Patterns 93 Gayford, Martin 10 Gibson, David 59 Global Art 27 Goad, Philip 90 Godfrey, Tony 5 Goude, Jean-Paul 35 Goude: The Chanel Sketchbooks 35 Goudie, Lachlan 21 Graphic Design School 45 Greek and Roman Art 27 Greenblatt, Mitch 41 Günther, Katharina 22 Guzzoni, Mariella 13 Harrison, Martin 22 Harrod, Tanya 86 Heaven on Earth 25 Bill Henson: The Light Fades but the Gods Remain 50 Henson, Bill 50 Herbert, Susan 94 A History of Pictures 10 Hockney, David 10 Home Computers 42 Hughes, Philip 96 The Iconic Interior 88 Impressionist Cats 94 In an Australian Light 50
Ingman, Bruce 29 Inside Francis Bacon 22 Ireland’s Forgotten Past 75 Is Technology Making Us Sick? 47 Jackson, Anna 32, 33 Jacobi, Carol 23 Jansen, Leo 12 Japanese Dress in Detail 32 Derek Jarman: Protest! 9 Jones, Catrin 3 Kimono 33 Kissane, Seán 9 Klein, Jacky 2 Koudelka Ruins 54 Koudelka, Josef 54 Kudielka, Robert 24 Kengo Kuma 82 Kuma, Kengo 65, 82 Lack, Jessica 27 Lardinois, Brigitte 58 Lartigue 53 Latarget, Bernard 54 Lewi, Hannah 90 Lincoln, Amber 66 Livingstone, Karen 30 Loovers, Peter 66 Lovell Verinder, Erin 92 Loyrette, Henri 15 Luijten, Hans 12 Lukacher, Brian 16 Madness in Civilization 76 Magnum Ireland 58 Making Living Lovely 89 Manco, Tristan 8 Marsh, Jan 30 Martens, Maximiliaan 17 Matyszak, Philip 70 Mauriès, Patrick 34, 35 McCorriston, Joy 79 McKillen, Paddy 85 McLaren, Joe 75 The Monocle Book of Japan 60 Moscow and St Petersburg in Russia’s Silver Age 96 Mountains 62 Mr Porter 39 The Mr Porter Guide to a Better Day 39 Müller, Herta 55 Munch Edvard 14 Murdin, Paul 72 Napias, Christophe 34
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Neve, Christopher 20 New Map France 63 Nineteenth-Century Art 16 Nochlin, Linda 16 Out of the Cage 23 Grayson Perry 2 Perry Grayson: The Pre-Therapy Years 3 Perry, Grayson 3 Pettit Laforet, Véronique 6 Phillips, Clare 40 Phillips, David L. 16 Pickard, Joe 60 Pipe, Francesca 22 Piranesi 18 Plants for the People 92 Pohl, Francis K. 16 Ponzio, Fabio 55 The Poster 31 Powers, Richard 88 Pretorius, Sophie 22 Ramos, Imma 67 Rehmani-White, Karim 9 Reihill, Ramona 29 Reilly, Maura 24 Renfrew, Colin 78 Retro Watches 41 Riggs, Christina 71 Bridget Riley: Dialogues on Art 24 Rollo, Joe 90 Rose-Innes, Jenny 91 Röttgen, Uwe 65 Rout, Josephine 32
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Saunders, Gill 31 Saunders, Jonathan 38 Schnapp, Alain 54 Scull, Andrew 76 Secrets of the Universe 72 Shaw, Catherine 85 Short, John 42 Sims, Josh 41 Smibert, Tony 19 Spuhler, Friedrich 69 The Stencil Graffiti Handbook 8 Stephens, Chris 3 Stewart, Sandra 45 The Story of Contemporary Art 5 The Story of Scottish Art 21 The Street Photographer’s Manual 59 Stuart, Matt 59 Suzuki, Arata 60 Sweeney, Niall 9 Syrad, Kay 96
Take, Kohei 60 Tantra 67 Terasawa, Taro 60 Timmers, Margaret 31 Townsend, Joyce H. 22 Tracks 96 Tuck, Andrew 60 Turner, Jo 50 Turner’s Apprentice 19 Two Lovely Gays 89 Unquiet Landscape 20 Ustvedt, Øystein 14 Utopia 73 Van Eyck 17 Vannier, Charlotte 6 Vickress, Abbie 45 Vincent van Gogh: A Life in Letters 12 Vincent’s Books 13 Virgin 44 Virgin by Design 44 Vowles, Sarah 18 Voysey’s Birds and Animals 30 Walker, Aidan 86 Wallington, Jack 93 Mok Wei Wei 84 Wei Wei, Mok 84 Wim Wenders: Instant Stories 51 Wenders, Wim 51 Whitehead, Russell 89 Whitfield, Sarah 22 Who’s Afraid of Contemporary Art? 4 Williams, Val 58 Wilson, Andrew 3 Wilson, Fiona 60 Wiltshire, Alex 42 Women Artists 24 Woodford, Susan 27 The World According to Coco 34 Ypma, Herbert 63 Zettle, Katharina 65 Zhuang, Justin 84
Picture Credits On the cover Front: Athi-Patra Ruga, Night of the Long Knives III (detail), 2013. Image courtesy of Athi-Patra Ruga and WHATIFTHEWORLD. Photographer: Hayden Phipps Back: from East of Nowhere. Fabio Ponzio, Romania, 1998 © 2020 Fabio Ponzio p6, Contemporary Ceramic Art. © Cheryl Ann Thomas. p29, Dick Bruna. Illustrations Dick Bruna © copyright Mercis bv, 1953-2019. pp36–37, Gabrielle Chanel. p36 © Julien T. Hamon; p37 © Henry Clarke, Musée Galliera / ADAGP, Paris 2019. p49, Africa State of Mind. Top to bottom, left to right: Lina Iris Viktor, Eleventh, 2018; © Lina Iris Viktor, 2018. Courtesy the Artist and Marianne Ibrahim Gallery, Chicago; Zanele Muholi, Bhekezakhe, Parktown, 2016; © Zanele Muholi. Courtesy of Stevenson, Cape Town/Johannesburg and Yancey Richardson, New York; Eric Gyamfi, Ama and Shana at lunch, 2016; © Eric Gyamfi; Leonce Raphael Agbodjélou, untitled (Egungun Project), 2012; Courtesy the Artist and Jack Bell Gallery, London. p54, Josef Koudelka: Ruins © Josef Koudelka/Magnum Photos. p57, Flower Art. © Makoto Azuma, AMKK (Azuma Makoto, Kaju Kenkyujo). p66, Arctic. Main image: Unknown artist(s), mask and pegs, c. 1940–1949. Wood, dog tooth, sinew and root, 53 x 46 x 22 cm. British Museum Am1976,03.79.a © The Trustees of the British Museum; below left: Andrew Qappik, Hunter’s Dream, 2012. Linocut print, 35 x 31.5 cm. British Museum, 2016,2015.1. Reproduced by permission of the artist. Image © The Trustees of the British Museum. p67, Tantra. Top: Detail of Four Mandalas featuring Hevajra and Nairatmya, 16th century, British Museum 1944,0401,0.5 © The Trustees of the British Museum; bottom left:, Kali, late 19th century. Painted and gilded clay, 55 x 45 x 28 cm. British Museum 1894,0216.10.
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