Thames & Hudson Autumn 2025 Catalogue

Art Slow Looking The Art of Nature

Olivia Meehan

Contributions by Harriet Baker, Lizzie Marx, Alice Vincent and Miya Tokumitsu

An astounding visual compendium of artworks that illuminates the deep connection between artistic expression and the natural world, leading to a heightened individual experience of both art and nature

Slow Looking: The Art of Nature is a unique celebration of the relationship between art and nature across millennia. Eschewing a linear narrative of art, this inspirational collection of global artworks makes connections between the nature that surrounds us and the vision of a dazzlingly wide range of artists. Readers will encounter motifs, colours and subjects that have mesmerized artists – and viewers – throughout history, and in the process, develop their own understanding of how they see the natural world.

Olivia Meehan has mixed paintings, drawings, sculpture, textiles and decorative arts from across the entire period of human creation and territory in thoughtprovoking juxtapositions. On every page, she invites us to find something new in a familiar landscape and to experiment in the observation of nature’s wonders.

Exploring the various intersections between artistic techniques and thematic elements, across land, sea and sky, she reveals the deep-rooted connections between humans beings and our natural world: the forms and colours of a Georgia O’Keeffe painting of a shell echo a carved fossil from 500,000–300,000 bce; Van Gogh’s olive trees (1889) are juxtaposed with Ancient Egyptian carved limestone dated between 1353–1323 bce; and while waterlilies captivated Claude Monet, their allure also travelled as far as Japan to Kawase Hasui (1929).

Following nature’s patterns, this guided observation of nature offers a novel way of contemplating the world.

Olivia Meehan is an art historian. She has worked as Assistant Curator of Asian Art, National Gallery of Australia, at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection Venice, and at the Archivio Luigi Nono Venice, and is a regular contributor to World of Interiors Harriet Baker is a writer and critic, and recent winner of the Sunday Times’ Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award. Lizzie Marx is the Curator of Dutch and Flemish Art at the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin. Miya Tokumitsu is an art historian and contributing editor at The Public Domain Review. Alice Vincent is a internationally published writer and author of the bestselling Why Women Grow

300 illustrations

27.5 x 21.5cm

320pp hardback

ISBN 978 1 760 764739

September £40.00

Doug Woodham is the Managing Partner of Art Fiduciary Advisors, a New York-based firm focused on providing advice on the financial aspects of owning and selling fine art. He most recently served as President of the Americas for Christie’s and is the author of the bestselling book Art Collecting Today: Market Insights for Everyone Passionate about Art

60 illustrations

23.4 x 15.6cm

272pp hardback

ISBN 978 0 500 030691

October

£30.00

Jean-Michel Basquiat

The Making of an Icon

Doug Woodham

With dozens of new interviews that not only delve into previously undiscussed elements of Basquiat’s life, but detail his posthumous fall and rise, this unprecedented insider’s account explores how the art world selects and treats its icons

Jean-Michel Basquiat is currently possibly the most recognizable artist in the world, his work not just headlining major museums and private collections but, with his image, on T-shirts, tattoos and accessories from Rio to Singapore. Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Making of an Icon not only delves into previously undiscussed elements of the artist’s life via dozens of new interviews, but also details his posthumous fall and rise – which has ultimately been so powerful – in this unprecedented insider’s account of how the art world selects and treats its icons.

Doug Woodham, an art advisor and former president at Christie’s who conducted more than 100 interviews for this book, delves into significant elements of Basquiat’s life: his childhood trauma, his sexuality, his cultural identities and his addiction, that were long rarely – or only superficially – discussed in a museum and art world context, due to pressure from the estate. He also lends his expertise to a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at how a few against-the-grain collectors – an ambivalent but uniquely skilled father able to outmanoeuvre all comers, the band U2 and the young director of the Beyeler foundation, in addition to a bestselling children’s book –began to bring what Basquiat accomplished back to the centre of the conversation nearly a decade after his death, helping to open the door to a new era in contemporary art.

Banksy

The Prints

Roberto Campolucci-Bordi

Introduction by Paul Coldwell

An unparalleled catalogue of Banksy’s print editions from 2002 to 2022

Roberto Campolucci-Bordi is an art collector and street art enthusiast with an extensive knowledge of Banksy artworks. Paul Coldwell is Professor of Fine Art at the University of the Arts London and a practising artist.

181 illustrations

30.6 x 26.3cm

140pp hardback

ISBN 978 0 500 028582

October

£40.00

Banksy has been creating work for over three decades and is one of the best-known artists of our age. While Banksy has always believed the best place for his work is on the street, where it is free and accessible to everyone, since 2002 he has also created and sold approximately fifty-one print editions, equating to an estimated 30,000 artworks. This unauthorized guide to Banksy’s print editions meticulously documents and reproduces over 170 unique prints, offering an unparalleled visual catalogue of these hugely collectable works.

Banksy initially offered his prints – both signed and unsigned – for modest prices, democratizing fine art and making it widely available. Crucially, his prints often expand on themes seen in his wider oeuvre, making them essential in understanding his artistic trajectory.

Organized by release year, with perceptive commentary, essential details about each edition, and faithful and high-quality reproductions, Banksy: The Prints is the ultimate resource for collectors, fans of Banksy and street art enthusiasts.

Claudia Schmuckli is Chief Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Known for coining the term ‘New Queer Cinema’, B. Ruby Rich is a Professor of Film and Digital Media at University of California, Santa Cruz. Hilton Als is a staff writer and theatre critic for The New Yorker Dan Hicks is Professor of Contemporary Archeology at the University of Oxford.

300 illustrations

23.5 x 19.0cm

360pp Swiss bound paperback ISBN 978 0 500 298893

August £60.00

Isaac Julien: I Dream a World

Edited by Claudia Schmuckli

Contributions by B. Ruby Rich, Hilton Als and Dan Hicks

Published in association with the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Catalogues the first thorough exhibition of Julien’s work in the USA, and the largest to date on his film and video installations

Sir Isaac Julien (b 1960) is one of the UK’s leading artists working in film and video, celebrated for his poetic yet astutely political films and video installations that reflect on the intersection of power, politics and personal experience through the lens of identity, race and sexuality.

Published to accompany the first comprehensive survey of Julien’s work in a US museum setting, and the largest exhibition focusing on Julien’s film and video installation works to date, Isaac Julien: I Dream a World charts the artist’s evolution from a filmmaker working in a single-channel cinematic context to an artist redefining the possibilities of the filmic experience through spellbindingly beautiful and complex choreographies of image, movement and sound. It emphasizes Julien’s shared concerns across the Black diaspora with the inclusion of works shot in and across the Americas and the Caribbean that situate his work in a global dialogue. By addressing the pressing social and political issues of our time, in particular the movement of peoples and ideas across different continents, times and spaces, Julien asks viewers to reconsider the grand historical narratives of the global north anew.

Accompanies the exhibition at de Young, San Francisco, from 12 April to 27 July 2025

This luxurious catalogue features newly commissioned essays and archival materials, many previously unpublished, that relate to the works in the exhibition and give important insight into the artist’s working process.

Comrades in Art

Artists Against Fascism 1933–1943

Andy Friend

Foreword by Frances Spalding

A compelling group biography exploring the legacy of the Artists International Association, tracing the story of the European artistic resistance to the rise of fascism before and during the Second World war

Andy Friend is an author and curator who turned to writing after a long career leading major public and private organizations. His celebrated artist biographies, Ravilious & Co: The Pattern of Friendship (2017) and John Nash: The Landscape of Love and Solace (2020), are both published by Thames & Hudson. Frances Spalding is an art historian, critic and leading authority on 20thcentury British art. She is the author of the critically acclaimed The Real and the Romantic: English Art Between Two World Wars (Thames & Hudson, 2022).

202 illustrations

24.6 x 18.6cm

360pp hardback

ISBN 978 0 500 027417

September

£40.00

From the Great Depression to the Second World War, the lives and work of British artists intersected with a world in crisis. Comrades in Art explores the political forces that shaped the development of modern art in Britain, tracing how artists set aside aesthetic differences to mobilize on an unprecedented scale to resist fascism and to campaign for cultural freedom and democracy.

Featuring some of the best-known names in British, European and American art, such as Barbara Hepworth, Paul Nash, David Bomberg, Pablo Picasso, Oskar Kokoschka, Henry Moore, Stuart Davis and Diego Rivera, Comrades in Art explores the lives of its diverse and talented protagonists. Taking the first ten years of the Artists International Association (AIA) as his point of focus, Andy Friend brings to life the captivating drama of the organization as it rapidly expanded to attract the support of a majority of Britain’s aspiring and established artists, offering new insights into art and culture during this decade of political extremes.

By situating the AIA within a global context, and uncovering connections with Moscow, New York, Paris, Barcelona and elsewhere, including the US Federal Arts Project, this impressive work is a revelatory read for anyone seeking to understand the dynamic interplay of politics and art during one of the most turbulent periods in modern history.

‘The rise of the far right and authoritarianism in our own time makes this book vital reading for everybody concerned with visual culture’ Peter Kennard, Professor Emeritus of Political Art, Royal College of Art

Museums and Social Justice Towards Reckoning and Change

Maura Reilly

Contribution by Liisa-Rávná Finbog

Maura Reilly, one of our most influential art critics and museum directors, examines the future of museums at a time when acquisitions policies, permanent collections and exhibitions are becoming important battlegrounds

Maura Reilly is director of the Zimmerli Art Museum and Professor of Art History at Rutgers University. She is the founding curator of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum, where she launched the first public programming space devoted to feminist art in the US. Reilly is the author of a number of books on contemporary art, including Curatorial Activism: Towards an Ethics of Curating, and the editor of Women Artists: The Linda Nochlin Reader, both published by Thames & Hudson. Liisa-Rávná Finbog is a Sámi museologist, scholar, duojár, writer, curator and artist from Oslo, Vaapste and Skánit.

19 illustrations

23.0 x 17.5cm 208pp hardback

ISBN 978 0 500 024591

August

£25.00

Museums face a reckoning. Thrust to the forefront of difficult conversations around toxic philanthropy, increased corporatization, decolonization, repatriation, and legacies of theft and looting, many of our cultural institutions are undergoing a period of radical transformation, seemingly redefining their very function and mission to address new public concerns, such as: Who owns the past? How bloody is too bloody? And whose museum is this, truly?

Museums and Social Justice addresses these questions and more, shedding light on pressing issues such as why an oil giant attempted to sponsor an Arctic exhibition at the British Museum; why Berlin’s Humbolt Forum is exhibiting British looted objects from Benin; and why the Baltimore Museum of Art has made a public commitment to acquire more works by women artists. Using such events as case studies, Maura Reilly engages with trenchant arguments in and around matters of diversity, access to heritage, decolonization, patrimony and racial equality, and outlines specific action plans to confront these challenges, avoid reputational controversy and maintain confidence in our public institutions.

The result is a provocative book by a leading voice within the museum community addressing the defining issues facing these institutions today and in the years to come.

Creative Demons and How to Slay Them

Richard Holman

Illustrated by Al Murphy

Compact edition

Bedevilled by the demons of self-doubt, fear of failure or lack of inspiration? Lay waste to your mind-forged monsters with the help of Creative Demons and How to Slay Them

Richard Holman is a creative specialist, with a background in design and advertising. He runs workshops on creativity all over the world, to inspire people and brands to make better ideas. He also hosts the podcast ‘The Wind Thieved Hat’, where he interviews leading artists and creators, and is a regular contributor to Creative Review and Creativepool. Al Murphy is an illustrator whose clients include the BBC, MTV, Newsweek, the Guardian and Faber & Faber. He has inspired many to pursue a career in illustration, confident they can do better.

45 illustrations

17.8 x 11.0cm

168pp hardback

ISBN 978 0 500 029626

July

£12.99

If you’ve ever embarked on a creative endeavour, then there’s a good chance you’ll have been bedevilled by self-doubt, fear of failure or a lack of inspiration at some point along the way. This book will help you to banish those mind-forged monsters one by one, no matter how grotesque or scary they may be.

Drawing on inspirational anecdotes from art, philosophy, neuroscience, nature, music and contemporary culture, creativity expert Richard Holman provides you with your very own mental armoury to see you through every stage of the creative process. By learning through the experiences of such creative luminaries as Leonardo da Vinci, Marina Abramović, J.K. Rowling, Dr Seuss and Herbie Hancock, you’ll find out how best to overcome the perils of procrastination, the sting of criticism, the seductive tug of convention or the gnawing feeling that you’re not up to it.

It’s time to say farewell to your demons and make your next creative project the very best it can be.

Advice to Young Artists

Creatives on Art, Life and Survival

Lydia R. Figes

An inspiring guide, weaving artists’ reflections and anecdotes about success in the art world and their words of advice to younger, aspiring creatives

Lydia R. Figes is a writer, editor and art historian. After graduating from the University College London and the Courtauld Institute she worked for several galleries before becoming Art UK’s Content Editor. She has interviewed many well-known artists, and her writing has appeared in the Guardian, Artsy, The Critic, Apollo (Art news daily) and others. She has contributed to several books on art history, and also co-founded the women’s history Instagram account @radicalwomenshistory.

10 illustrations

21.6 x 13.5cm

192pp hardback

ISBN 978 0 500 297919

July

£14.99

Offering a glimpse into the unique careers of established artists from the 20th and 21st centuries, such as Anish Kapoor, Jesse Darling, Tracey Emin, Ryan Gander and Shirin Neshat, Advice to Young Artists features direct quotes and counsel on how to enter and thrive in this highly competitive creative profession. By mapping the origin stories of well-known practitioners, Lydia Figes highlights the practical realities of the art world and demystifies the route to professional success.

Thematic chapters offer essential guidance for emerging artists on how to negotiate the complexities of the art world, with discussions relating to self-discipline, mental well-being, education, commercial representation, and other relevant topics. Artist profiles not only outline the origins of famous practitioners but also offer key elements of advice, often in the artist’s own words.

In a climate where younger generations feel less empowered than ever, this book provides a hopeful message about perseverance and perspective. It advocates for resisting narrow measures of success and challenges the limitations faced by emerging artists today, encouraging readers to pursue more autonomy in their creative endeavors. Brimming with unique insights and exclusive interviews with internationally acclaimed artists, Advice for Young Artists is key reading for anyone working to establish themselves in the art world.

Great Art Explained

The Stories Behind the World’s Greatest Masterpieces

James Payne

Art appreciation made accessible, relevant and entertaining: writer, curator and YouTuber

James Payne demystifies great works of art

James Payne is a writer, curator and educator, as well as the creator of popular YouTube channels Great Art Explained and Great Books Explained Payne’s videos have been shown at museums and galleries such as the Albertina Museum in Vienna, and he has given talks in several countries, including South Korea, Portugal and Italy. Payne was also co-owner and Head Curator of PayneShurvell gallery (2010–14).

250 illustrations

24.5 x 21.0cm

320pp PLC

ISBN 978 0 500 025956

October

£30.00

Based on the popular and enormously successful YouTube channel of the same name, Great Art Explained unveils the fascinating stories behind some of the world’s most iconic paintings and sculptures, proving that there’s more to art than just watching paint dry. It can be thrilling, if you give it a chance. It is how you view the work, place it in context and understand its history that makes an artwork truly come alive.

A fresh approach to a classic subject, James Payne’s no-nonsense analysis sheds new light on thirty different masterpieces from around the globe and reveals what makes them truly timeless works of art. Each chapter delves into not only the art itself but also the artist’s life, as well as the work’s place in their wider oeuvre; in other words, what makes it ‘great’. From Hilma af Klint’s occult altarpieces to Claude Monet’s Water Lilies, Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus to Georgia O’Keeffe’s Jimson Weed, each artwork is explored with clarity and passion. Whether a seasoned art enthusiast or a curious newcomer, this book promises to deepen your appreciation and enrich your understanding of some of the world’s greatest treasures.

Immortal Thoughts

Late Style in a Time of Plague

Christopher Neve

Foreword by John Banville

New in B-format paperback

A remarkable, heartfelt and beautifully written analysis of the late work of nineteen major artists that Max Porter describes as ‘completely and utterly marvellous’

Christopher Neve was a painter and writer. His book Unquiet Landscape: Places and Ideas in 20th-Century British Painting arose out of long talks with his friend Ben Nicholson and other artists, and is also published by Thames & Hudson. John Banville is an acclaimed novelist and journalist. His book The Sea won the 2005 Man Booker Prize.

29 illustrations

19.8 x 12.9cm

160pp paperback

ISBN 978 0 500 298244

July

£10.99

‘Painting … exists and exults in immortal thoughts’ William Blake

In 2020, an elderly artist returns to his childhood home to watch the transcendent beauty of the seasons and reflect on the final work of the artists he most admires. It seems to him that in their final art works – their late style – that they have something remarkable in common. This has more to do with intuition and memory than with rationality or reason and comes from trying to write about painting itself.

Immortal Thoughts: Late Style in a Time of Plague is an anthology of these reflections. In this personal and moving account, nineteen short essays on artists are interspersed with short accounts of the cataclysmic progress of a global pandemic in poignant contrast to the beauty of the seasons in the isolated house and garden, narrative strands that are closely intertwined. From Cézanne’s last watercolours to Michelangelo’s final drawings, Rembrandt and suffering to Gwen John and absence, Christopher Neve dwells on artists’ late ideas, memory and places, in the terrible context of Time and mortality.

As much art history as a discussion of great art in the context of the Dance of Death, Neve writes with renewed passion about Bonnard, Michelangelo, Morandi, Poussin, Soutine and many others in his distinctive style.

‘A beautiful book of essays about the late style of major artists’ Ben Okri

Closer to Vermeer

New Research on the Painter and His Art

Ige Verslype, Abbie Vandivere and Dorothy Mahon

Designed by Irma Boom

The successor to the international bestseller Vermeer, featuring groundbreaking research on the Dutch master

Also available

Ige Verslype has been working as a paintings conservator at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, since 2004. Abbie Vandivere is a paintings conservator at the Mauritshuis, and from 2018 to 2020 was head researcher for the technical examination of Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring Dorothy Mahon is Walter Burke Conservator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Irma Boom is a Dutch graphic designer who specializes in bookmaking. Often described as the ‘Queen of Books’, she remains the youngest ever recipient of the Gutenberg Prize.

200 illustrations

26.5 x 21.5cm

320pp hardback

ISBN 978 0 500 030660

July

£60.00

Even 350 years after his death, Johannes Vermeer remains an inexhaustible source of fascination for art lovers and researchers alike. Closer to Vermeer provides a captivating analysis of research conducted during and after the Rijksmuseum’s blockbuster 2023 Vermeer exhibition.

The book reveals new insights into Vermeer’s creative process, materials and painting techniques, exploring the meaning of his works and his evolving fame. It also addresses intriguing questions about the maps in his interiors, the role of the camera obscura, his choice of materials and newly discovered documents about his patrons.

Richly illustrated, this book offers both art historians and passionate art lovers a unique glimpse into Vermeer’s life and work and serves as an essential reference for future research on Vermeer.

‘Proust was once so excited to see a Vermeer show that he collapsed … I got chest pains merely leafing through the catalogue’ Jonathan Jones, Guardian

‘One of the Best Art Books of 2023 … This is armchair museum-going at its finest’ Walker Mimms, The New York Times

Italy: In the Footsteps of the Great Artists

Art of Travel

Nick Trend

Illustrated by Cassandre Montoriol

The Art of Travel series showcases the world’s greatest artists, and the cities in which they lived and worked. See the sights through their eyes. Watch their masterpieces come to life

Nick Trend is an art historian and journalist. As Chief Culture Editor for the Daily Telegraph, he has spent nearly three decades writing about the world’s art treasures and has produced guides to many of the greatest museums and art collections. He has also worked on the curatorial staff at the National Gallery in London. His latest book, Art Firsts, was published in 2023.

450 illustrations

30.8 x 24.0cm

352pp hardback

ISBN 978 0 500 027530

September

£50.00

Coming in Autumn 2026

Art of Travel: France

978 0 500 027547

Imagine navigating the backstreets of 17th-century Rome in the dazzling but dangerous company of Caravaggio. Who will you meet as you drop in at the fabulous Villa Borghese – its owner, Cardinal Scipione Borghese, nephew of the pope, or Fillide Melandroni, well-known courtesan and occasional artist’s model? Or fast-forward to the 18th century, to the Venice of Canaletto, Casanova and carnevale.

Wherever you're heading, the Art of Travel series takes you on a journey into the heart of Italy’s great cities, with its best-loved artists as your tour guides. With twelve chapters, each devoted to an artist or group of artists, and a dozen itineraries to choose from, you can immerse yourself in their world, wandering in and out of churches, palaces and grand residences to admire their work in situ –all from the comfort of your armchair. Each chapter begins with an illustrated map, featuring hand-drawn vignettes that bring to life episodes from the artists' often turbulent lives, as well as key landmarks and local colour. Set off on your own Grand Tour for the 21st century.

Vincent Namatjira

With essays by Lisa Slade, Nici Cumpston, Gloria Strzelecki, Bruce Johnson McLean, Ben Quilty and Tony Albert

Reframing Australian history through the eyes of a prolific Indigenous artist, this is the first major monograph on Vincent Namatjira

Vincent Namatjira is one of Australia’s most witty and subversive portraitists, with his paintings offering a wry look at the politics of history, power and leadership from a contemporary Aboriginal perspective. Vincent was the winner of the 2019 Ramsay Art Prize at the Art Gallery of South Australia, and in 2020 he was the first Indigenous artist to win the Archibald Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. He received the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in 2020 in honour of his contribution to Indigenous visual arts.

240 illustrations

32.0 x 24.0cm

256pp hardback

ISBN 978 1 760 763978

July

£45.00

‘Welcome to the past, present and future. I stand side-byside with my great-grandfather, who I never met – two painters from the centre of this country, standing up and making our voices heard. I believe in the power of art, the power of the paintbrush. I know that art can change lives. It changed mine and I hope that art can change the world too.’

Vincent Namatjira is an astute observer of life, of power, of popular culture. To be in the presence of a Vincent Namatjira painting is like being on the edge of a portal into another world. From the first page of this monograph, Vincent takes us on a journey through his artwork, contextualizing his iconic series on Indigenous soldiers, Indigenous leaders, power and the Royal Family, giving us an insight into his world view. The book includes essays by Lisa Slade, Nici Cumpston and Gloria Strzelecki from the Art Gallery of South Australia; Bruce Johnson McLean from the National Gallery of Australia; and Vincent’s great friends and artistic collaborators Ben Quilty and Tony Albert. But most importantly, it is Vincent’s voice as much as his artwork that resonates in high definition on the page.

Wifredo Lam

Jacques Leenhardt

A beautifully illustrated monograph on Wifredo Lam, providing a comprehensive retrospective of the Cuban artist’s life and work

Jacques Leenhardt is Director of Studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris, France); Honorary Chairman of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA); and a founding member of the Archives de la Critique d’Art (GIS, Rennes). A curator, he is also the author of numerous essays on modern and contemporary artists. The Les Amis de Wifredo Lam association, which he has chaired since 1989, has published a catalogue raisonné of Wifredo Lam’s paintings and engravings.

300 illustrations

23.0 x 19.5cm

320pp hardback

ISBN 978 0 500 030608

September

£50.00

With the quasquicentennial of his birth approaching, recent research and cataloguing have deepened our understanding of Wifredo Lam (1902–1982) and his multifaceted contributions to 20th-century art and politics.

Following a long journey that began in Spain, where Lam studied the great European painters, Bosch, Dürer, Velázquez and Goya, this book traces defining moments in his artistic evolution. Encounters with Picasso and Breton in Paris shaped his distinctive style, which existed at the heart of modernity, distinguished also by the influences of surrealism, Matisse and African art.

Born in 1902 to a Chinese father and an African mother, Lam’s work draws from both European and Afro-Caribbean visual culture in a unique synthesis of his multicultural heritage and formulative studies. Forced to flee Paris in 1940 by the Nazi occupation, Lam took refuge in Marseilles before returning to Cuba, where his visual language evolved into a powerful tool for confronting the social and political injustices of the newly globalized world.

Through thoughtful interpretation of Lam’s œuvre, author Jacques Leenhardt sheds light on the originality of his language, both symbolic and pictorial, and the evolution of visual art in the 20th century.

The Prado Masterpieces

Featuring works from one of the world’s most important museums

Museo Nacional del Prado

Updated compact edition

A chronological journey through the Museo del Prado collection comprising masterpieces by some of the greatest figures in art history

The Museo Nacional del Prado is the main Spanish national art museum, located in Madrid. It features one of the world’s finest collections of European art from the 12th century to the early 20th century, and one of the largest holdings of Bosch, Titian, El Greco, Rubens, Velázquez and Goya.

385 illustrations

27.7 x 24.0cm

496pp hardback

ISBN 978 0 500 966433

July

£50.00

The Museo Nacional del Prado, Spain’s national art museum, features one of the world’s finest collections of European art, and is unquestionably the best single collection of Spanish art.

This volume is the definitive reference to the Museo del Prado and the first work of its kind to be published by the museum itself. It presents the globally renowned collection in chronological order, from Roman statues through to the nineteenth century, using the tastes of the Spanish royal family to tell the story of the evolution of Western art.

The Prado’s most seminal works are showcased here, including Velázquez’s Las Meninas, El Greco’s

The Nobleman with his Hand on his Chest and Goya’s

The Third of May 1808, along with some of the museum’s most recent acquisitions. This updated edition includes twenty-five new images.

The book creates a fascinating dialogue between the greatest artists and their works, showing how painters have always reflected the influences of their predecessors and peers. An indispensable resource for anyone who loves art history, this is a richly illustrated record of one of the world’s greatest collections of European art.

Art of the Nordic Nations

Modernism in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, 1870–1950

Serge Fauchereau

A lavishly illustrated reference on the art of the five Nordic nations, covering a wide range of mediums, movements and styles

Serge Fauchereau is a scholar and art critic. He was a professor of American literature at New York University, and has curated major exhibitions at the Pompidou Centre. He has published over twenty books, including a dozen monographs on such artists as Braque, Jean Arp, Kupka and Malevich, as well as Art of the Baltic States, the latter published by Thames & Hudson in 2022.

300 illustrations

25.5 x 19.5cm

384pp hardback

ISBN 978 0 500 029565

October

£45.00

Modern art from the Nordic countries – Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Iceland – tends to be represented by a few famous artists, and an aesthetic known for combining originality and continuity of tradition. Nevertheless, the region is far from homogeneous. Each country has its own artistic language, culture and history, sometimes co-existing with its neighbours in harmony, sometimes engaging them in hard-fought conflict.

This extensively illustrated survey offers a new history of Nordic art, from the emergence of Impressionism in the 1870s, through the avant-garde experiments of the early decades of the 20th century and onward to the Second World War and beyond. A broad range of artists are featured, some familiar and others less renowned: Anders Zorn and Hilma af Klimt, Vilhelm Hammershøi and Franciska Clausen, Edvard Munch and Harriet Backer, Akseli Gallen-Kallela and Fanny Churberg, Finnur Jónsson and Öyvind Fahlström. Each artist’s work is vividly placed in the context of their homeland as well as the international art movements of the time. The significant role of women artists is also showcased, chronicling their artistic legacy as well as their broader social contributions. The result is a comprehensive account of modern Nordic art in one impressive volume that is sure to become a definitive account.

Pepe Karmel received his B.A. from Harvard College and his Ph.D. from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and now teaches in the Department of Art History, New York University. He is the author of Picasso and the Invention of Cubism, and has written for publications including Art in America and The New York Times Karmel has also curated or co-curated numerous exhibitions.

256 illustrations

26.2 x 20.4cm

344pp paperback

ISBN 978 0 500 298381

September

£40.00

Abstract Art

A Global History

Pepe Karmel

New in paperback

Taking content as a guide to form, this important survey on abstract art –a Sunday Times Best Art Book of the Year – breaks open the canon to make room for artists from across the globe

‘Abstract art is always rooted in experience of the real world.’ So begins Pepe Karmel’s bold exploration of the origins and evolution of abstract art. Traditional histories have focused on formal innovations and a core group of European and North American artists, often treating abstraction as a series of ‘isms’ detached from real-world experience. Karmel moves beyond established movements, shifting attention to subject matter and content rather than solely colour and form. Taking a global perspective, he explores how artists have used abstract imagery to convey personal, social and political experiences.

This wide-ranging study foregoes standard chronology to explore themes as diverse as bodies, landscapes, cosmologies, architectures and signs. Alongside detailed analysis of established figures including Piet Mondrian, Hilma af Klint, Jackson Pollock and Anni Albers, Karmel highlights lesser-known artists such as Wu Guanzhong, Laura Lim and Odili Donald Odita, offering a truly inclusive view of abstract art.

‘Karmel approaches the field ... as something more dynamic – and much less white, Western and male’ Vogue.com

‘Brimming with scholarship and insight, this survey is a network of linked fragments, a rhizome, a Wunderkammer – in short, a book for our times’ Art in America

Bryan Organ

Charlotte Mullins and Chris Stephens

The first and only book to provide an overview of one of the world’s great portrait painters

Charlotte Mullins is an art critic, writer and broadcaster. She has contributed to the Telegraph, Financial Times, Independent and specialist art titles for many years, and is the author of several books, including Picturing People, also published by Thames & Hudson. Chris Stephens has been Director of the Holburne Museum in Bath since 2017. Prior to that he worked at Tate for over twenty years, as Head of Displays, Tate Britain, and as Head of Modern British Art.

250 illustrations

29.0 x 24.5cm

264pp hardback

ISBN 978 0 500 029831

August

£45.00

This book tells the story of Bryan Organ, whose works have been commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery more than any other 20th-century painter. It is itself a portrait, one that draws on his beginnings on the school cricket pitch and at art college as well as his time sketching others in recording studios, on the polo field and at the Elysée Palace. It tells the stories of his most important paintings, his friendship with Graham Sutherland, and his endless experimentation with movement, space and form. For the first time, it offers a contextual overview of his paintings, drawings, prints and sketches from the 1950s to today.

Whether painting Prince Charles, Sir Harold Macmillan, Elton John, President Mitterrand or pigeon fanciers Mr and Mrs Sharples, Organ’s strategy is to find a point of contact with his sitters and get to know them. As this beautiful book illustrates, his acute powers of observation, his facility as a draughtsman and meticulous painting technique enable him to create a psychological likeness that feels like a real human encounter.

Despite his success, Organ has always shunned the limelight. When his controversial 1970 portrait of Princess Margaret hit the front pages, he found it difficult to cope with the uproar and retreated to France. Some ten years later, his portrait of Princess Diana was slashed by an anti-monarchist, and Organ decided that enough was enough. Since then, he has continued to work quietly, but refuses to be involved in any exhibitions and avoids all press coverage.

Organ provided unprecedented access to his entire archive for this book, the only overview of his illustrious career.

New Deal Art

John P. Murphy

A fresh and vibrant account of the New Deal art programmes, highlighting the diversity of artists and activists, and the enduring legacy of the artwork from the period

John P. Murphy is the Philip and Lynn Straus Curator of Prints and Drawings at The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College. He received his PhD in Art History from Northwestern University, where he co-curated the exhibition The Left Front: Radical Art in the ‘Red Decade’, 1929–1940 at the Mary and Leigh Block Museum. Murphy curated Flesh: Ivan Albright at The Art Institute of Chicago; the accompanying digital catalogue received an Award of Excellence from the Association of Art Museum Curators. He is also a leading scholar on the Black artist Charles White.

254 illustrations

21.0 x 15.0cm

328pp paperback

ISBN 978 0 500 205020

August

£19.99

Franklin D. Roosevelt’s landslide victory in the USA’s 1932 presidential election gave him a mandate to institute a ‘New Deal’ for US citizens, and by doing so offer them ‘a more abundant life’. For a decade between 1933 and 1943, the New Deal art programmes marked the largest federal investment in the arts in the history of the country. Tens of thousands of artists and artisans across the country produced some 2,500 murals, 100,000 easel paintings, 17,000 sculptures and 200,000 prints.

How should we understand the history and legacy of the New Deal art programmes today? Marshalling new scholarship and original research, New Deal Art highlights the contributions of a diverse range of women, immigrant, working class, Indigenous, Black, Asian, Jewish, Latino and LGBTQ+ artists. While previous studies have focused on the personalities and politics of government administrators, this book offers a ‘history from below’ that stresses the role of artists as activists through collective efforts such as the Artists Union and the American Arts Congress. It explores topics that traditionally fall outside the purview of art history: art as therapy in prisons and hospitals; children’s art; community art centres and art education; and the place of handicrafts and applied arts.

Above all, New Deal Art explores the question of art and democracy: What if art was treated as a natural resource to which all citizens had an equal right?

Performance Art

RoseLee Goldberg

Fourth edition

‘It’s my Bible’ D J Spooky

The Body in Contemporary Art

Sally O’Reilly New edition

A thorough international survey of the body’s role in contemporary art, fully revised and updated

The standard reference since its first publication in 1979, Performance Art continues its authoritative chronicling of one of the most important art forms to emerge in modern times. As the medium has developed across Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas it has become one of the most popular art forms for articulating ‘difference’, whether dealing with issues of identity, politics, race or historical background. Marina Abramović, Matthew Barney, Sanford Biggers, Tania Bruguera, Patty Chang, Rashid Johnson, Autumn Knight, Pierre Huyghe and Jacolby Satterwhite are among the many artists whose work can now be seen in the context of other innovators in the field from the Futurists and Dadaists to Yves Klein and Laurie Anderson. Goldberg explores contemporary artists’ approaches to performance, while evaluating its changing status.

This fourth edition includes an updated foreword, an expanded reading list, and a new chapter outlining developments in the second decade of the 21st century in the fields of dance, technology and virtual performance.

RoseLee Goldberg is an art historian, author, critic, curator and founder of Performa, an arts organization dedicated to the research, development and presentation of 21st-century performance.

237 illustrations

21.0 x 15.0cm

392pp paperback

ISBN 978 0 500 204689

August £18.99

The Body in Contemporary Art presents a global survey of art made since 2000 that takes the body as its focus. Examining such areas as nature and technology, identity politics and the grotesque, Sally O’Reilly traces the body’s movement from a subject to a live medium of art, and highlights how socio-political and cultural developments, from contemporary scientific breakthroughs to the Russian-Ukrainian war, have all had a profound influence on representations of the human form. Featuring the work of both renowned and up-andcoming figures, including Marina Abramović, Hew Locke, Jenkin van Zyl, Shirin Neshat, Sarah Lucas and Shawanda Corbett, the book shows how the human form continues to be pivotal to our understanding and expression of our place in the universe.

International in scope with colour illustrations throughout, this edition has been thoroughly revised, with an updated selection of artists and five new chapters on such topics as clothing, work and economics, the nude and illness.

Sally O’Reilly is a regular contributor to various journals, including Art Monthly, frieze, Art Review and Time Out. She was Writer in Residence at the Whitechapel Art Gallery and Modern Art Oxford, and is one of the founders of Brown Mountain College of the Performing Arts.

198 illustrations

21.0 x 15.0cm

272pp paperback

ISBN 978 0 500 0205044

August £19.99

Hokusai beyond the Great Wave

Edited by Timothy Clark and Roger Keyes

Compact

edition

An important publication on Hokusai’s remarkable late work, originally published to accompany the acclaimed retrospective at the British Museum and now available in a compact edition

Timothy Clark is Head of the Japanese Section in the Department of Asia at the British Museum. Roger Keyes is a leading Hokusai scholar.

286 illustrations

25.2 x 22.5cm

352pp hardback

ISBN 978 0 500 481189

July

£25.00

Hokusai created sublime works during the last thirty years of his life, right up to his death at the age of ninety. Publications have hitherto presented his long career as a chronological sequence. This book takes a fresh approach based on innovative scholarship: thematic groupings of works are related to the major spiritual and artistic quests of his life.

Hokusai’s personal beliefs are studied here through major brush paintings, drawings, woodblock prints and illustrated books. The book gives due attention to the contribution of Hokusai’s daughter Eijo (Oi), an accomplished artist in her own right. Hokusai continually explored the mutability and minutiae of natural phenomena in his art. His late subjects and styles were based on a mastery of eclectic Japanese, Chinese and European techniques and an encyclopaedic knowledge of nature, myth and history. Mount Fuji was the most significant model for the artist in his quest for immortality. This collection of Hokusai’s works draws on the finest to be found in Japan and around the world, making this a uniquely valuable overview of the artist’s late career.

‘The most important publication for years on Hokusai … a uniquely valuable overview of the artist’s late career’ Asian Art Newspaper

‘A comprehensive exploration of Hokusai’s life and works’ Pacific Citizen

Hiroshige

Henri-Alexis

Baatsch

A deluxe, large-format edition of this beautifully illustrated introduction to Utagawa Hiroshige, thought to be the most successful ukiyo-e artist of Japan’s Edo period

Henri-Alexis Baatsch is a writer and translator who lived in Tokyo in 1981 and again from 1984 to 1986, during which time he wrote the essay that became Hokusai: A Life in Drawing. He is the author of several plays and numerous books, including Henri Michaux: Painter and Poetry and Questions of Style

150 illustrations

36.8 x 28.8cm

224pp hardback

ISBN 978 0 500 030585

August

£95.00

From the author of Hokusai: A Life in Drawing comes an illuminating account of Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858), the last great artist of the ukiyo-e tradition. Ukiyo-e, meaning ‘images of the floating world’, was a ubiquitous genre of Japanese woodblock prints during Japan’s Edo period, often depicting popular actors, sumo wrestlers, beautiful women and majestic landscapes. Hiroshige’s serene, atmospheric prints stood out from his predecessors, capturing the essence of the world around him, and eventually gained widespread acclaim in Europe and America, influencing western European artists like Manet, Monet and van Gogh.

Offering a fascinating look at Hiroshige’s life and work, Henri-Alexis Baatsch traces the journey of a fire warden who turned to printmaking later in life. He invites readers to follow in Hiroshige’s footsteps through 19thcentury Tokyo, discovering the iconic landscapes he immortalized while traveling the famed Tōkaidō and Kiso Kaidō roads. This book features an exceptional selection of works accompanied by vivid text, drawing from Hiroshige’s diaries, his talent for humorous poetry, taste for travel (with all its pleasures and challenges), and deep affinity for the natural world.

This volume makes accessible a deep understanding of Hiroshige’s body of work, and transports readers to Edo, Japan, via his timeless prints.

Japan Art Revolution

The Japanese Avant-Garde from Angura to Provoke

Amélie Ravalec

An examination of the avant-garde art scene in Japan in the 1960s and 70s and the revolutionary Japanese artists who made it a creative force in the country and around the world

Amélie Ravalec is a Parisian film director, producer and colourist. She directed her first documentary, Paris/Berlin: 20 Years of Underground Techno (2012), at the age of sixteen, winning the Festival Pick Award at the Sydney Fringe Festival. She went on to direct multiple films on underground arts, including two documentaries on the Japanese avant-garde. Her films have been shown at cinemas, festivals, museums and cultural institutions across fifty countries, and acquired by TV networks including ARTE, Sky Arts UK and ORF Austria.

400 illustrations

26.4 x 20.4cm

320pp hardback

ISBN 978 0 500 029107

September

£40.00

The 1960s in Japan were a time of profound social change, political unrest and student protests. The turbulent years of the post-war era inspired an artistic explosion, with the emergence of a revolutionary scene of avant-garde artists who pioneered many disciplines: experimental and erotic photography, ‘Angura’ theatre and underground street performances, apocalyptic Butoh dance, surreal illustrations and seminal graphic design.

Taking design cues from Japanese luminaries Tadanori Yokoo and Kiyoshi Awazu, Japan Art Revolution features 400 captivating artworks, encompassing photographs, film stills, theatre posters and illustrations by visionary artists including Eikoh Hosoe, Nobuyoshi Araki, and seminal photographers connected with the Provoke movement, Miyako Ishiuchi, Keiichi Tanaami, Tatsumi Hijikata, Kazuo Ohno, Shūji Terayama, Tenjō Sajiki, Kikuji Kawada, Neo-Dada Organizers, Hi-Red Center, Mitsutoshi Hanaga, Takuma Nakahira and Santaro Tanabe, to name a few.

Drawing on extensive interviews with these iconic artists, this comprehensive publication offers readers a nuanced understanding of the thriving world of Japanese avant-garde art, complemented by insightful texts and quotes from esteemed experts, curators, academics and archivists.

Popular Culture Ultimate Anime

100 Essential Films and Series

Joe O’Connell

A genre-killer guide to the world of anime featuring 100 movies and television series, from all-time classics to cult favourites and under-the-radar gems

Ultimate Anime is for newcomers and anime aficionados alike, not reviewing but instead celebrating the medium’s most incredible achievements to date. Packed with specially commissioned artworks, film stills and essays on directors and Japanese pop culture, Ultimate Anime is an irresistible ‘way in’ to the art form for newcomers as well as an essential purchase for even the most hardcore anime otaku.

Whether looking at the ephemeral arthouse tragedy of Belladonna of Sadness, the iconic legacy of Cowboy Bebop or the genre-busting touchstone of Haruhi Suzumiya, there are worlds beyond worlds worth exploring once a new fan has finished their first Ghibli binge.

Each featured property is supported by an in-depth commentary and branching recommendations to other movies and series that may overlap with viewers’ tastes. Every entry is richly illustrated by stills from the films and series themselves.These celebrations explore the titles’ creation, from the minds that brought them to life to the thoroughly Japanese culture and themes woven throughout, all while breaking down what makes each of them such enduring classics. By building a library of recommendations around such well-known works, fans old and new will quickly be able to find a new favourite to check out.

Built from the ground up to be a ‘genre-killer’ title, Ultimate Anime is the defining guide to anime for established fans and curious newcomers alike.

Joe O’Connell is the founder of the popular YouTube channel ‘Beyond Ghibli’, offering recommendations, reviews, video essays and cultural commentary on the world of anime and manga to his many subscribers.

Over 900 illustrations

28.0 x 21.5cm

304pp hardback

ISBN 978 0 500 028087

October £40.00

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Popular Culture

Sega Mega Drive/Genesis: Ultimate Works

Keith Stuart New edition

The official retrospective of the world-conquering 90s videogame console, featuring original artworks, concept illustrations, game development materials, pixel graphics, developer interviews and a complete guide to first-party hardware

Keith Stuart is a veteran technology, arts and media writer with over 20 years experience covering videogames and game culture. He started out on industry bible Edge magazine as features editor, covering the dawn of the PlayStation era; he has since written for GamesMaster, PC Gamer, T3, Official PlayStation Magazine, Eurogamer and Official Xbox Magazine. Stuart is the author of the bestselling novel A Boy Made of Blocks and is Games Editor at the Guardian

1,200 illustrations

26.7 x 21.6cm

396pp hardback

ISBN 978 0 500 028964

September

£45.00

This is the ultimate retrospective of the console, featuring development and concept illustrations for Sega’s best-loved game franchises, original developer interviews and previously unseen hardware production plans. Much of the visual material – drawn from the Sega of Japan archives – has never been released before.

Alongside the illustrated history is ‘Arcade Perfect’, a written history of the iconic console and its legacy by Guardian Games Editor Keith Stuart, which features the voices of Sega executives and industry luminaries – including the company’s founder David Rosen, its president Hayao Nakayama, Sega of America CEO Tom Kalinske and many more. The book opens with a foreword by legendary developer David Perry, on the console that catalysed his career.

Concluding the book are 28 specially conducted interviews with original Sega developers and team members, including Naoto Ohshima (Sonic The Hedgehog), Yu Suzuki (Space Harrier), Greg Johnson & Mark Voorsanger (ToeJam & Earl), Makoto Uchida (Golden Axe) and Yuji Naka (Sonic The Hedgehog).

New to this expanded edition are a raft of newly discovered box art paintings, including Alien Soldier, Kid Chameleon, The Super Shinobi II, Sonic The Hedgehog, Phantasy Star: The End of the Millennium and many more. Also new to the book are the original design documents for iconic brawler Streets of Rage 2/Bare Knuckle II and Treasure’s unique platformer Dynamite Headdy, both translated from the original Japanese.

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HUXLEY

The Oracle Ben Mauro

The new prequel in the sci-fi universe HUXLEY, this spellbinding visual storybook is a unique vision of a post-apocalyptic future from leading game and film designer Ben Mauro

HUXLEY’s original run of six digital-first comics took the internet by storm and changed the landscape of graphic novels forever. But it was just the beginning. Ben Mauro’s epic decade-long franchise quickly expanded into prequels that build out the universe’s deep lore and rich history further. Its next step is taken here in HUXLEY: The Oracle. Delve into the people, politics and horrors of FURY-7, a scorching desert planet that humanity abandoned to an empire of sacred machines known as Oracles after a devastating nuclear holocaust. These powerful machine emperors control the planet’s resources and have genetically engineered human clones to serve their needs. The most advanced of these soldiers are the Ronins – elite enforcers who maintain order for the Oracles in Machine City. Among them, Max – one of the heroes from the original graphic novels – discovers a conspiracy that threatens to upend the empire and his own understanding of the world. This brand-new entry in the HUXLEY series features a captivating storyline with richly woven characters – some fan-favourites and others that are new to the saga – and presents another fascinating chapter in the franchise’s sprawling lore. Ben Mauro brings the burgeoning universe to life with hundreds of pages of characteristically intricate artwork.

Get ready to embark on an epic new expedition in the HUXLEY universe, where every page promises adventure, intrigue and breathtaking artistry.

Ben Mauro is a luminary in the world of concept art and visual design. He has contributed to blockbuster hits such as Elysium, Chappie, Valerian, Lucy, The Amazing Spiderman 2 and the iconic The Hobbit Trilogy, working with directors Peter Jackson, Guillermo Del Toro, Luc Besson and Neill Blomkamp to help bring their visionary films to life. His personal IP, HUXLEY®, showcases his prowess as a storyteller and creator, blending captivating visuals with compelling narratives.

100 illustrations

26.7 x 29.2cm

160pp hardback

ISBN 978 0 500 029473

October

£35.00

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Iron Maiden: Infinite Dreams

The Official Visual History

Celebrating 50 years of Iron Maiden, this magnificent visual presentation, incorporating commentary by band members past and present, chronicles the evolution of heavy metal’s most prestigious band

Iron Maiden vocalist Bruce Dickinson, founder Steve Harris, and band members past and present come together to tell the story of their legendary band. Founded in December 1975, Iron Maiden have released 17 studio albums, 13 live albums, four EPs and seven compilations. Their third album, 1982’s The Number of the Beast, is one of the most popular heavy metal albums of all time, having sold 20 million copies worldwide.

600 illustrations

31.9 x 24.3cm

352pp hardback

ISBN 978 0 500 029602

October

£50.00

Iron Maiden is an institution. Hailed as pioneers of a new wave of British heavy metal in the 80s, the band has come to embody a spirit of fearless creative independence and ferocious dedication to their fans that has won them a huge following around the world and across the generations. Iron Maiden: Infinite Dreams traces the creative evolution of heavy metal’s most influential and enthralling band, from 1975 to 2025.

Presenting iconic album and single artworks, photographs of the band’s instruments past and present, stage props, hand-written lyrics and artefacts from the archive and the band’s personal collections, as well as landmark photographs by Ross Halfin and John McMurtrie, Iron Maiden: Infinite Dreams is rife with revelatory stories and intriguing insights from pivotal band members and management. It is bookended by a foreword from band founder Steve Harris and an afterword by vocalist Bruce Dickinson.

Organized chronologically, this supremely visual volume tells the entire story of the band from their first pub gigs in 1975 and their first record deal in 1979 through the recording and reception of the landmark third album The Number of the Beast in 1982 to their most recent ever-growing global tour. It traces the evolution of their iconic Eddie mascot, reproducing original sketches and artworks, and documents the band’s spectacular and complex stage productions and extensive live tours, including the Somewhere Back in Time Tour of 2008, which made headlines around the world as Bruce Dickinson piloted the band’s very own Ed Force One 757.

Iron Maiden: Infinite Dreams is the definitive legacy volume, celebrating the band’s creativity, dedication, personality and success.

Oasis

Trying to find a way out of nowhere

Jill Furmanovsky and Noel Gallagher

Iconic photos by Jill Furmanovsky chart the dramatic career of Oasis –on stage, backstage, in the studio and at play – paired with exclusive commentary by Noel Gallagher

500+ illustrations

32.0 x 24.0cm

304pp hardback

ISBN 978 0 500 030646

October

£50.00

Jill Furmanovsky’s unparalleled work with Oasis stretches from the end of 1994 – when the band’s debut album, Definitely Maybe, became the fastest-selling debut album in British chart history at the time – to their last tense shows in 2009, which culminated in their split. Jill was given unprecedented access to countless worldwide performances and many recording sessions. In this single, beautiful volume, overseen and edited by Noel Gallagher, award-winner Furmanovsky presents, for the first time, her complete Oasis archive, which she describes as her best body of work, as well as insightful observations taken from notes she made at the time.

Organized chronologically, the book depicts more than 500 photographs, contact sheets and sequenced film strips of the band on stage, backstage, on the road, in the studio and behind the scenes. She captured the drama of the band’s lifestyle during the 1990s when, as Jill said, ‘they were on a comet, hanging on for dear life’. The access she was given allowed closeness, and she was able to document the competitive and at times volatile relationship between Noel and Liam Gallagher up to their split in 2009, creating a poignant visual diary that is more than the sum of its parts.

Accompanying the images is illuminating commentary by Noel Gallagher, who relates the inside stories of the events pictured in many of the shoots and demonstrates an honest and touching relationship between band and photographer. Three essays by music journalists provide context to the band’s story, and an introduction by Jill celebrates the supreme significance of Oasis in her 50+ years photographing musicians.

Jill Furmanovsky has photographed legendary rock musicians for more than 50 years, including Pink Floyd, Bob Dylan, Blondie, The Clash, The Ramones, The Pretenders, Joy Division, Leonard Cohen, Amy Winehouse and Oasis. In 2024 she received a Lifetime Achievement award from Amateur Photography magazine; the Legend of the year award from So.Co for Image of Music Awards; and the Abbey Road ICON award. Noel Gallagher is the primary songwriter, lead guitarist and co-lead vocalist of Oasis, the band that defined the era of Cool Britannia. In August 1994 Oasis’s first album, Definitely Maybe, entered the UK charts at number one and received widespread critical and commercial success, as did their next two albums, (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? (1995) and Be Here Now (1997). The band split in 2009 but are reforming for a worldwide tour in 2025.

‘It’s been an honour to have been associated with her for 30 years’

Noel Gallagher

‘The iconic images by Furmanovsky capture the glorious madness of it all’

Rolling Stone

‘If you look at her Oasis photographs it is one of the great essays in the history of photography’

Gail Buckland, author, curator, photo-historian

Popular Culture

Henry Carroll is the author of fourteen books, including the Read This if You Want to Take Great Photographs series, which has sold over one million copies across 22 languages. He is also the author of Photographers on Photography, the Photographs That Make You Think series and The 1980s: Image of a Decade Originally from London, Henry now lives in Los Angeles.

350 illustrations

29.0 x 22.0cm

336pp hardback

ISBN 978 0 500 027370

November

£45.00

The 1990s Image of a Decade

Henry Carroll

An exploration of history, art, film, music and culture in a unique, immersive and visual narrative of a conflicted and momentous decade

As the Cold War ended and a new millennium approached, grunge, hip-hop and rave exploded in popularity as teenagers and twenty-somethings searched for something real, something more meaningful. Ostentation was out. Authenticity was in. The 1990s had arrived.

And so we had the first flashes of reality TV, the O.J. Simpson trial, the rise of surveillance culture and the internet. We had early wake-up calls to the world of social media as The Truman Show and The Blair Witch Project exploited the emerging visual language of DIY video content. We heard the rallying call of ‘Girl Power!’ from riot grrrls and the Spice Girls. We argued over East Coast versus West Coast rap and Biggie versus Tupac. Ice-T went from ‘Cop Killer’ to TV detective and Will Smith went from the Fresh Prince to a man in black. Cults, crop circles and conspiracy theories spread, and The X-Files and The Matrix pulled back the curtain on fictional hidden truths. It was the end of history and it was print’s last hurrah – or so we thought.

A fascinating ecosystem of influence between high and low culture, this stimulating volume makes sense of the decade’s recurring motifs, trends and themes, from supermodels to airport style and from the fall of the Soviet Union to the end of the world.

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Laird Borrelli-Persson is Vogue.com’s Archive Editor. She is the author of many books, including Fashion Illustration Now, Fashion Drawings by Fashion Designers, Bags: A Lexicon of Style (co-authored with Valerie Steele) and Marimekko: The Art of Printmaking, all published by Thames & Hudson.

c. 1,100 illustrations

27.7 x 19.0cm

632pp hardback

ISBN 978 0 500 025765

October

£60.00

Jean Paul Gaultier Catwalk

The Complete Collections

Laird Borrelli-Persson

The tenth volume in the bestselling Catwalk series offers the first ever comprehensive overview of Jean Paul Gaultier’s womenswear collections, from his debut in the late 1970s to his farewell show in 2020

Often introduced as French fashion’s ‘enfant terrible’, Jean Paul Gaultier radically refreshed, re-energized and re-imagined the possibilities of high fashion from the 1980s onwards, blurring boundaries between masculine and feminine, high and low culture and celebrating models of all ages and ethnicities – even drawing icons such as Madonna and Björk onto his runway.

This definitive publication opens with a concise history of the house, followed by a brief biographical profile of Jean Paul Gaultier, before exploring the collections themselves, organized chronologically. Each collection is introduced by a short text unveiling its influences and highlights, and illustrated with carefully curated catwalk images that showcase hundreds of spectacular clothes, details, accessories, beauty looks and set designs – and, of course, the top fashion models who wore them on the runway, from Linda Evangelista and Kate Moss to Gigi and Bella Hadid. A rich reference section, including an extensive index, concludes the book.

After Chanel, Dior, Louis Vuitton, Yves Saint Laurent, Prada, Vivienne Westwood, Versace, Chloé and Givenchy, Jean Paul Gaultier is the tenth Catwalk volume, the renowned series of high-end, cloth-bound books that offer an unrivalled overview of the collections of the world’s top fashion houses through original catwalk photography.

The Catwalk Series

Also available

Chanel 978 0 500 023440

Dior 978 0 500 519349

Louis Vuitton 978 0 500 519943

2.5 million copies in print

Each high-end, cloth-bound volume in this bestselling series features over 1,100 looks as they originally appeared on the catwalk, styled as the designer intended, and sported by the world’s top models. These treasure troves of inspiration are must-have references for all fashion fans and professionals.

Yves Saint Laurent 978 0 500 022399

Prada 978 0 500 022047

Vivenne Westwood 978 0 500 023792

Versace 978 0 500 023808

Chloé 978 0 500 023839

Givenchy 978 0 500 024904

Vivienne Westwood Jewellery

Alexander Fury

The first book dedicated to Vivienne Westwood’s jewellery creations, published in close collaboration with the house and written by fashion – and Westwood – expert Alexander Fury

Alexander Fury is a fashion journalist, author and critic. He is the fashion features director of AnOther Magazine, and the men’s critic of the Financial Times newspaper. Previously he was made the first chief fashion correspondent at T: The New York Times Style Magazine. He is the author of Vivienne Westwood Catwalk.

160 illustrations

28.5 x 24.0cm 216pp hardback

ISBN 978 0 500 028438

October

£50.00

This lavish survey of Vivienne Westwood jewellery evokes the heady blend of luxury and rebellion that is the house’s signature style. Whether a skilfully rendered safety-pin brooch, a hand-strung ‘broken’ pearl necklace or the iconic Westwood orb in crystal, these are pieces that define the house’s codes.

Following an introduction by renowned fashion journalist Alexander Fury, who acquaints readers with the recurring motifs, techniques and inspirations of the world of Vivienne Westwood jewellery, the book presents almost two hundred pieces arranged by theme. From punk masterworks, such as the ‘Hardcore Paperclip Earrings’ and ‘Chaos Necklace’, through the pastel-toned ‘Flower Skull Necklace’ and ‘Nymph Earrings’, to the recycled can ‘Simone Earrings’ and the pagan ‘Conkers Necklace’, contemporary creations mingle with reimagined classics. A full range of jewellery is included: necklaces, pendants and chokers; earrings, brooches, pins, badges and nose rings; metal masks; tiaras and coronets; bejewelled sunglasses; cuffs and bangles. Each piece is indexed with its name, fashion season, and what is often an extraordinary range of materials.

Through evocative still life vignettes and close-ups, images of catwalk models and stunning portraits of Vivienne Westwood herself, this glittering volume welcomes readers to a vibrant world that draws on the house’s rich heritage.

Rebecca C. Tuite is a fashion historian and writer. She is the author of 1950s in Vogue: The Jessica Daves Years 1952–1962 and Seven Sisters Style: The All-American Preppy Look. She is a doctoral candidate at the Bard Graduate Center. Susanna Brown is a curator and writer specializing in photography, fashion and portraiture. She was Curator of Photography, and later Senior Curator, at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. She is the author and editor of numerous acclaimed books, including the V&A’s Tim Walker, Cecil Beaton and Horst P. Horst monographs.

400 illustrations 36.5 x 28.0cm

448pp in 2 paperback volumes

Slipcased ISBN 978 0 500 025772

November £125.00

Chanel in Vogue

Rebecca C. Tuite and Susanna Brown

The first publication dedicated to the house of Chanel and its creations as reported in Vogue, featuring classic illustrations and photography from throughout the magazine’s history and across its international editions

Vogue talent-spotted the work of a young Gabrielle Chanel as early as the 1910s and continued to report on the designer through the decades, from her seminal ‘little black dress’ to the most luxurious haute couture creations. From 1983, Karl Lagerfeld’s re-imagining of the brand also found pride of place in the lauded magazine, inspiring some of the world’s greatest stylists and photographers across the international editions of Vogue.

Chanel in Vogue includes two volumes: the first volume is dedicated to the era of Gabrielle Chanel, and the second focuses on the work of her successors, Karl Lagerfeld and Virginie Viard, and up to the present day. This beautifully produced publication gathers together the inspirational editorials dreamt up by world-famous fashion illustrators and photographers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, from Edward Steichen, Horst P. Horst, George Hoyningen-Huene, Irving Penn and Helmut Newton, to Peter Lindbergh, Ellen von Unwerth, Annie Leibovitz, Steven Meisel and many more. Featuring iconic images as well as lesser-known photography and illustration, this book is a trove of stunning visual material, granting readers unparalleled access to the more than a century’s worth of fashion imagery.

Published as two volumes in a slipcase, this high-end, large-format package is the definitive book on the fashion of Chanel as seen through the pages of the world’s most influential fashion magazine.

Fashion: The Whole Story

Marnie Fogg

Updated edition

A global history of fashion that traces the evolution of fashion design period by period and trend by trend

Also available

Architecture: The Whole Story

978 0 500 291481

Art: The Whole Story 978 0 500 294468

Design: The Whole Story

978 0 500 296875

Photography: The Whole Story

978 0 500 296103

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 bestselling author of The Fashion Swatch Book and Why You Can Go Out Dressed Like That, both published by Thames & Hudson.

1,000 illustrations

24.5 x 17.2cm

576pp flexibound

ISBN 978 0 500 030677

November

£30.00

This ambitious and fascinating book traces the history of fashion in every part of the world, from Greco-Roman woven-cloth clothing and the silk court dress of the Chinese Tang dynasty to contemporary sportswear designers and Japanese street culture.

Organized chronologically, it traces the evolution of fashion period by period and trend by trend, while detailed timelines provide historical and cultural context. This new edition has been updated to include fifteen new key events, ten updated essays, and three new recent case studies.

Fashion: The Whole Story is indispensable for everyone who loves the line of a superb suit or knows the joy of wearing a great pair of shoes.

‘A serious yet readable history that takes the reader from the togas and tunics of early civilizations to the age of ASOS’ Daily Telegraph

‘An epic narrative … the format makes for a handy dip-in guide without losing out on the details’ Dazed Digital

‘Lavishly and handsomely illustrated … provides encyclopaedic, frequently surprising and enlightening information’ Prospect Magazine

Adam Murray is a curator, researcher and lecturer at Central Saint Martins, London. A respected authority on photography and the fashion image, he regularly contributes to AnOther Magazine and has curated exhibitions at Somerset House, London, and Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool. Murray lives in northwest England.

147 illustrations

25.8 x 20.9cm

224pp hardback

ISBN 978 0 500 028445

September

£40.00

The Domestic Stage When Fashion Image Comes Home

Adam Murray

A bold interpretation of contemporary fashion photography, this book explores the role of the domestic interior in fashion photography and its importance in defining a new kind of fashion image

For three decades, the fashion image has shifted its focus from high-end shoots to the idiosyncratic, Instagram-style practice of pictures taken at home. That home may be a house, apartment or room – often, though not always, the antithesis of glamour and gloss. The Domestic Stage captures this fascination with the home as an ‘uncurated’ setting for presenting an individual’s private life and relationships, and for professional commissions with edge. Those behind the camera come from very different places, but all celebrate a sense of inventiveness and empowerment from working in the domestic space.

How this space merged with the fashion image is revealed through the words and work of twenty-two such image-makers, most of whom talked personally to author Adam Murray. They include the pioneering Nigel Shafran; International Magic, who created virtual fashion shows with Martine Rose during the pandemic; and Carrie Mae Weems, whose 2024 Bottega Veneta campaign truly came ‘home’ – to show A$AP Rocky enjoying time with his children. Each and every contributor’s commentary is candid and revealing, their images even more so. The result is a provocative new take on fashion photography and its transformation in recent years.

Zofia Kulik (b 1947) is a Polish conceptual artist, best known for her black-and-white photomontages that approach political criticism through a feminist lens. She has exhibited at the 47th Venice Biennale (1997), documenta 12 (2007) and Les Rencontres d’Arles (2023), and is represented in major museum collections including Tate Modern, MoMA, The Pompidou Centre and The Moderna Museet.

150 illustrations

30.8 x 24.5cm

224pp hardback

ISBN 978 0 500 030301

November

£50.00

Zofia Kulik

Zofia Kulik

Edited

by Asia Zak Persons

The first large-scale English language retrospective of one of Poland’s leading contemporary artists, arriving at a transformative moment in her career

Zofia Kulik’s photographs are a psychic collage of the self. Inspired by eroticism, feminism, and the political and social developments of post-war Poland, her expansive work offers a radical critique of not only what it means to be an artist and a woman, but of what it means to be human. Featuring her most pivotal series – including The Splendor of Myself – this expansive publication charts her rich and varied career, journeying from her earlier collaborations as KwieKulik to the development of her solo work.

Shortly after graduating from the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts in 1971, Kulik formed the artistic duo KwieKulik with her then partner Przemysław Kwiek. Running the Studio of Documentation and Propagation Activities (PDDiU) from their home in Warsaw, the pair created avant-garde films, photographs and objects, as well as performances, installations and interventionist texts. After splitting in 1987, Kulik expressed a newfound desire for her work to be present in museums and institutions. Subsequently developing the black-and-white photomontages for which she is now most famous, Kulik would combine complex patterns with often hundreds of images. Painstakingly detailed and often physically imposing, these images reflect an artist committed to exploring the murky terrains of the psyche.

Bringing together these pivotal works alongside Kulik’s lesser-known but no less radical projects, this book features comprehensive yet accessible texts from leading writers to provide a much needed introduction to one of Poland’s most important living artists.

300 illustrations

24.0 x 27.0cm

256pp paperback ISBN 978 0 500 297230

August

£25.00

Firecrackers Contemporary Female Photographers

Fiona Rogers and Max Houghton

New in paperback

A vivid showcase of work by more than thirty of the world’s leading contemporary female documentary photographers

Fiona Rogers is the inaugural Parasol Foundation Curator of Women in Photography at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, a major new international curatorial program that supports women in photography across the museum’s acquisitions, commissions, research, education, displays and events. Max Houghton runs the MA in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography at London College of Communication, University of the Arts London.

Firecracker, established in 2011 by Fiona Rogers, is a platform dedicated to supporting female photographers worldwide by showcasing their work. Building upon Firecracker’s foundations, this book brings together photography that encompasses an eclectic variety of styles, techniques and locations, from Alma Haser’s futuristic series of portraits that use origami to create 3D sculptures within the frame, to Laura El-Tantawy’s filmic and intensely personal series on political protest in Cairo. There is a recurring theme throughout the book that serves to unite these extraordinary women and their work: the exploration of individual stories and under-discussed subjects, seen by fresh eyes.

‘A contemporary cross-section of subject matter and aesthetic styles … powerful concepts and supreme technical artistry’ Aesthetica

‘An intriguing, varied and thought provoking book’ Royal Photographic Society Journal

‘Beautifully compiled … intelligent commentary’ Black & White Photography

Roger Ballen

– Spirits and Spaces

Roger Ballen

Introduction by Colin Rhodes

A visual revelation that remains grounded in the chaotic, absurd psychological space of the Ballenesque, this monograph presents Roger Ballen’s first forays into colour

Roger Ballen is one of the most important and distinctive photographers working today. His previous books with Thames & Hudson include Asylum of the Birds, The Theatre of Apparitions, The World According to Roger Ballen and Ballenesque.

91 illustrations

30.0 x 28.0cm

144pp hardback

ISBN 978 0 500 028926

September

£40.00

Having previously expressed no interest in colour photography, Roger Ballen was inspired to engage with the medium after receiving a Leica SL camera as a gift in 2016. Opening up to the potential of colour in his work, he used light in creative ways, exploring new avenues of experimentation. Spirits and Spaces eloquently captures the absurd and bizarre world of Roger Ballen, where animals and Art Brut-like drawings dominate, and humanity is reduced to obscure figures or fragmented body parts.

The colour images in Spirits and Spaces, created in conjunction with Ballen’s artistic director, Marguerite Rossouw, were produced in a claustrophobic space, constructed of worn, wallpapered wooden panels and with minimalistic lighting. Here, in this dense, oppressive environment, Ballen gives rise to what might be seen by many as a world that cannot be explained in words – one in which absurdity, chaos, comedy and tragedy apparently exist side by side.

Both a visual revelation and an artistic evolution by one of contemporary photography’s most unique voices, Spirits and Spaces will be an essential and much-anticipated photobook for all Roger Ballen fans.

Moriyama: Quartet

Edited by Mark Holborn

An anthology of the four seminal photobooks that form the foundation of Daido Moriyama’s career as a photographer: an essential publication for all Moriyama aficionados

Mark Holborn is an internationally recognized editor and designer of illustrated books working with a diverse range of artists, from William Eggleston to Lucian Freud. He is also a curator, author and specialist on Japanese culture. His books as an editor with Thames & Hudson include Antony Gormley on Sculpture, Susan Meiselas: On the Frontline, Daido Moriyama: Record and Daido Moriyama: Record 2

250 illustrations

29.5 x 21.7cm

440pp slipcased hardback

ISBN 978 0 500 027882

August

£65.00

Regarded as the most challenging and radical photographer to emerge from Japan in the post-war period, Daido Moriyama is now accepted as an important international figure in the history of photography. Moriyama’s stream of publications, most notably his ongoing magazine Record, have enabled his original vision, born out of the backstreets of Tokyo, to be cast worldwide.

In this anthology, renowned author, curator and editor Mark Holborn presents the four books that underpin Moriyama’s artistic journey, with the photobook at the very core of his creative practice. The featured photobooks –Japan: A Photo Theater, A Hunter, Farewell Photography and Light and Shadow – span the fifteen years during which Moriyama honed his techniques and unveiled his distinctive vision, and stand as exemplars of some of the most daring photographic publishing ventures in the history of the medium. Rooted in the complexities of Japan during a transformative era from 1968 to the early 1980s, they offer profound insights into its evolving landscape. Harmonizing seamlessly with Moriyama’s own aesthetic sensibilities, the book includes excerpts from Moriyama’s diaries, journals and memoranda, providing intimate glimpses into his creative process.

As with all Moriyama publications, this photobook is eagerly anticipated by a devoted following, reflecting the enduring importance of his work.

David Drake is a curator, writer and producer. He is founder and director of Diffusion: Wales International Festival of Photography, and co-director of Caerbladon gallery. Fanella Ferrato and Katherine Holden are the daughters of Philip Jones Griffiths and trustees of his eponymous Foundation. Donna Ferrato is a photographer and activist. Her previous books include Living With The Enemy. Nguyěn Phan Quě Mai is a novelist, poet and author of The Mountains Sing and Dust Child

250 illustrations

30.5 x 24.5cm

288pp hardback

ISBN 978 0 500 545485

October

£60.00

Philip Jones Griffiths A

Call to Action

The Philip Jones Griffiths Foundation

Edited by David Drake, Fanella Ferrato and Katherine Holden

An in-depth retrospective of the work of Phillip Jones Griffiths, one of the most influential photojournalists of the 20th century, who shaped our view of history and changed our perception of the Vietnam War

A comprehensive retrospective of Philip Jones Griffiths’s work and life, this publication offers a vital reappraisal of his humanist, socially engaged photography. Bringing together images from across his celebrated and lesserknown series, including his pioneering work focusing on Vietnam, this volume offers fresh insight into his process, practice and philosophy.

David Drake journeys through Jones Griffiths’s Welsh childhood to capture the development of his political and photographic sensibilities, evident in key early images of antinuclear protests, 1960s Beatlemania and the war for Algerian independence. Moving to his entirely self-initiated documentation of the Vietnam War, carefully selected plates present Jones Griffiths’s long-term commitment to shining a light on the realities of conflict and recovery.

This passion for truth-telling saw Jones Griffiths embark on assignments across the globe. Following him from Northern Ireland to Mongolia and the United States, this book captures not only Jones Griffiths’s skill as a documentarian, but his commitment to the wider photographic community. As president of the renowned photo collective Magnum Photos, Jones Griffiths’s devotion was deeply felt.

Featuring texts by David Drake and contributions from photographer Donna Ferrato and novelist Nguyěn Phan Quě Mai, this is an essential photobook for all who value documentary photography created with principles, passion and integrity.

Photography

Gypsies

Josef Koudelka

Fifty years after first publication, one of the most important photobooks of the 20th century returns, offering an intimate glimpse into the daily lives of the Roma community in the 1960s and 1970s

Josef Koudelka was born in Moravia in 1938. In 1968, he photographed the Soviet invasion of Prague, for which he was awarded the Overseas Press Club’s Robert Capa Gold Medal. One of the greatest photographers of his generation, he has published over a dozen books, including Exiles, Chaos and Invasion 68: Prague

109 illustrations

32.0 x 24.1cm

192pp hardback

ISBN 978 0 500 029251

July

£50.00

Josef Koudelka’s Gypsies remains one of his best-known series, offering a unique survey of the lives of the Roma community across then-Czechoslovakia, Romania, Hungary, France and Spain between 1962 and 1971. Originally published in 1975, five years after Koudelka left Prague following the Soviet Union’s invasion, Gypsies is a classic of documentary photography. Now returning in its original, hardback format, this timely edition is as much a pioneering photoessay as it is a lesson in book making.

Carrying only his equipment, a rucksack and sleeping bag, Koudelka journeyed between different villages and encampments. His nomadic existence, defined by a sense of displacement, allowed him to gain the trust of the Roma communities he encountered. The resulting series eschews the often-derogatory depictions of the community to instead provide unparalleled insight into their world, shining a light on their traditions, struggles and routines.

The Roma in these images were photographed mostly in a state that no longer exists, ruled by a regime that dissolved in 1989. With such few historical depictions, Gypsies is not only a testament to the beauty of photography, but a vital historical document of a community often relegated to the shadows. Arriving at a moment of contemporary unrest and social marginalization, Gypsies is a poignant reminder of the often bleak reality of the disenfranchised, and the power of photography to bear witness.

‘A classic of documentary photography’ Observer

Reuters is the world’s largest international text, photography and television news agency. Its award-winning photographers have captured the defining moments of our times, from war zones and protests to sporting events and culture. Alexia Singh is a Senior Lecturer in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography at the London College of Communications. She worked as a picture editor for Reuters for twenty years. In 2010 she was appointed Editor-in-Charge of Reuters’ Emmy award-winning website ‘The Wider Image’. She has worked with clients such as Magnum Photos, WaterAid, Disasters Emergency Committee and Save the Children.

500 illustrations

29.5 x 24.5cm

320pp hardback

ISBN 978 0 500 029138

September

£50.00

In the Moment

40 Years of Reuters Photojournalism

Reuters Edited by Alexia Singh

Surveying forty years of news photography at Reuters, this publication captures the very best of photojournalism, bringing together pictures and texts to tell the stories behind iconic news imagery

Founded in London in 1851, Reuters mission is to present to the world the news that matters. Its photographers deliver over 1,500,000 photographs every year, priding themselves on being first on the scene. For close to four decades, Reuters photographers have captured evocative images to document events at speed. They have received numerous awards over that time, including a 2024 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography of the Israel–Hamas war.

Extensively illustrated with around 500 photographs, and divided by decades starting from the 1980s, In the Moment weaves together timelines and stories offering a visual account of 40 years of Reuters photography. Reuters photographers dedicate themselves to covering major news events around the world, often at enormous personal sacrifice. At a time when trust in journalism is eroding, their role is more important than ever. This timely publication draws on revelatory first-person texts from the photographers themselves, capturing not simply life behind the lens, but what it means to bear witness to history.

Offering an unrivalled insight into the workings of an agency that has long been at the centre of global events, In the Moment is a testament to the power and value of news photography.

Louis Stettner

Virginie Chardin

Photofile

New in the Photofile series, the perfect primer on American photographer

Louis Stettner

Recent titles in the Photofile series

Virginie Chardin writes widely on photography and is the author of Elegance: The Seeberger Brothers and the Birth of Fashion Photography

74 illustrations

19.0 x 12.5cm

144pp paperback

ISBN 978 0 500 411322

July

£12.99

Brooklyn-born Louis Stettner (1922–2016) first took up a camera as a teenager and went on to establish an extraordinary career that lasted almost eighty years. After photographing life on the streets of New York, he joined the famous Photo League and befriended Sid Grossman and Weegee. In the Second World War he served as a combat photographer, and the fight against fascism strengthened his faith in Marxism and the working class.

Living between New York and Paris, he amassed a huge body of work that combined elements of New York street photography with lyrical humanism in the French style. His subjects were many and varied: passengers on the subway and tourists in the streets, Spanish fishermen and American beatniks, protests and demonstrations, landscapes and trees. But no matter where he found himself, he looked for beauty in the everyday and never lost his fundamental compassion and solidarity with ordinary people.

Henri CartierBresson

Here and Now

Clément Chéroux

Forewords by Alain Seban, Kristen van Riel and Alfred Pacquement

New in paperback

Described as ‘magnificent’ by the Good Book Guide, this lavishly illustrated monograph traces CartierBresson’s development as a photographer, activist, journalist and artist

Clément Chéroux is senior curator of photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He was formerly head curator of photography at the Centre Pompidou, Paris.

500 illustrations

29.5 x 24.5cm

400pp paperback

ISBN 978 0 500 298015

October

£45.00

This is an indispensable work for lovers of photography and admirers of Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908–2004), whose influence continues to endure so powerfully today. In addition to some of his best-known photographs, here are many seldom seen or unpublished images, and some rarities in colour as well as black and white. His work embraced art, politics, revolution and war. But more powerful than any of these overarching themes was his evident concern for the human individual at every social level. Cartier-Bresson’s observations of the effects of poverty and revolution around the world led directly to his pioneering photojournalism, and his co-founding of Magnum Photos. He also became renowned for his penetrating portraits of the most prominent figures of his time: Cartier-Bresson’s biographer Pierre Assouline called him ‘the eye of the century’.

‘One of the most comprehensive studies of the man and his work … informative and completely captivating.… this is not just a biography and exploration of the work of a profoundly great photographer but also a social history, a revelation of humanity through politics, war, work and play’ Black & White Photography

‘A must for lovers of photography’ Mail on Sunday

Aviary

The Bird in Contemporary Photography

Danaé Panchaud and William A. Ewing

A thought-provoking overview of contemporary bird photography, featuring the work of more than 50 internationally recognized photographers in an enthralling odyssey that both captures the splendour of birds and highlights the complex relationship between humans and animals

Danaé Panchaud is a curator and lecturer specializing in photography. She is the director of the Centre de la Photographie Genève and co-author of Flora Photographica: The Flower in Contemporary Photography

William A. Ewing has been an author, lecturer, curator of photography and museum director for more than fifty years. His many publications on photography include The Body, Civilization: The Way We Live Now, Edward Burtynsky: Essential Elements and Flora Photographica: The Flower in Contemporary Photography, all published by Thames & Hudson.

224 illustrations

29.5 x 24.5cm

272pp hardback

ISBN 978 0 500 029084

September £50.00

Photographs of birds feature rarely in the early decades of photography: birds were too fast to be captured in flight, and could not be depicted in colour, issues that took many years to rectify. Today, however, with superb technical means at their disposal, photographers have taken to the subject with great enthusiasm, inspired by our ever-increasing understanding and appreciation of avian complexity.

Aviary features the work of more than fifty internationally recognized photographers who explore our relationship with birds, questioning how we observe them and respond to their presence – and vice versa. Taking an eclectic curatorial approach, Danaé Panchaud and William A. Ewing weave together photography from the diverse fields of art, documentary, fashion, portraiture, ornithology and wildlife photography, proposing intriguing new dialogues and visual theatre between these different modes of photographic expression. Rather than being organized by field of study or species, Aviary surveys the symbiotic relationship between animals and humans through six thematic chapters imagined as ‘acts’ in a theatrical pageant.

Both a visual celebration of the wonders of nature and a stark reminder of its fragility, Aviary presents a compelling portrait of our relationship with birds through the work of contemporary photographers such as Leila Jeffreys, Sarah Moon, Roger Ballen, Charles Fréger, Vik Muniz, Tim Flach, Viviane Sassen, Robert Clark and Nadav Kander, among many others.

Natural History Ocean From the Shore to the Abyss

Asha de Vos Foreword by Peter Godfrey-Smith

Contributions by Anthony J. Martin, Rebecca Helm, Helen Scales and Andrew Thaler

A colourful visual journey from the shoreline to the ocean’s depths celebrating the sheer diversity of life beneath the waves

Water covers more than 70 per cent of the earth, but three quarters of the ocean has never been seen by humans. This stunning book explores our still little-known and littleexplored oceans, taking readers on a deep dive through the different depth zones – from the shoreline and surface, via the sunlight zone, the twilight and midnight zones and into the deep of the great abyss – to chart the richness and diversity of life found in our seas.

Each chapter, centred on a different depth zone, begins with a comprehensive introduction, before exploring 15–25 visual themes, from the smallest living things to the largest and from the familiar to the unknown. A final chapter on the oceans and us reveals the visual history of human interaction with the deep blue, from discovery and mapping to current issues of the environment and preservation.

The book brims with glorious photographic content throughout – from microscopic images of tiny individual critters to corals of every hue and the abstract patterns of fish scales – shown along with a wide range of archival illustrations and specially commissioned infographics that convey complex data in a simple and elegant way.

With frequent news stories about the threat to marine life posed by climate change and human behaviours, the oceans are worthy of our study, and the preservation of biodiversity is crucial for the future of our planet. This book draws attention to the importance of life in our oceans to provide a positive message about the need to preserve it.

Asha de Vos is an award-winning marine biologist, ocean educator and pioneer of long-term blue whale research. A National Geographic Explorer and Senior TED Fellow, she is also founder of Oceanswell. Peter Godfrey-Smith is a philosophy professor at the University of Sydney. He has written six books, including the bestselling Other Minds Anthony J. Martin is a paleontologist and geologist, and Professor of Pedagogy at Emory University. Rebecca Helm is a marine biologist and Assistant Professor of Environmental Science at Georgetown University. Helen Scales is a marine biologist, and author the Guardian bestseller Spirals in Time. Andrew Thaler is a deep-sea ecologist and founder of Blackbeard Biologic.

412 illustrations

28.0 x 23.0cm 288pp hardback

ISBN 978 0 500 027554

September £45.00

Natural History

Hope Werness is an art historian specializing in non-Western and modern European art. She has taught for over twenty years at California State University, Stanislaus. She is the author of, among other books, The Continuum Encyclopedia of Native Art (2000) and The Encyclopedia of Animal Symbolism in World Art (2006).

400 illustrations

22.2 x 16.8cm

240pp hardback

ISBN 978 0 500 028179

August

£25.00

The Secret Language of Plants

Art, Nature & Symbolism

Hope Werness

An elegant reference guide to the meaning of plants in art and life

From early Egyptian reverence for the acacia and the lotus, to the Victorian language of flowers and the works of Vincent Van Gogh and Georgia O’Keeffe, we have long sought meaning in nature. Significance has often been ascribed to particular plants, referencing their uses as food or medicine, their associations with saints and heroes, or more abstract or aesthetic qualities like fortitude, beauty and strength.

Weaving together botany, mythology, folklore, religious texts and centuries of art and literature, this richly illustrated, elegant reference guide engages the cultural significance and underlying meanings of over fifty plants. Each entry is accompanied by works of art and botanical illustration, bringing together the world of art and plants in an elegant and seamless fashion and deepening our understanding of how plants have been used by artists in the past and what they mean to us today.

This is the ideal reference volume for the artistically inspired botanist as well as a pleasure to read and leaf through.

Natural History

Tibetan Yoga Principles and

Practice

Ian A. Baker

New in paperback

A visual presentation of the origins, principles and practices of Tibetan yoga, the hidden treasure at the heart of the Tibetan Tantric Buddhist tradition

Ian A. Baker is a cultural historian and the author of seven books on Tibetan Buddhism and Himalayan art and culture, including The Dalai Lama’s Secret Temple and The Tibetan Art of Healing. He was joint curator of the 2016 exhibition ‘Tibet’s Secret Temple: Body, Mind and Meditation in Tantric Buddhism’ at the Wellcome Collection, London. He leads travel seminars in Tibet and Bhutan and was named by the National Geographic Society as one of the seven ‘Explorers for the Millennium’ for his groundbreaking field research in Tibet’s Tsangpo Gorges.

396 illustrations

23.2 x 18.5cm

292pp paperback

ISBN 978 0 500 298664

July

£25.00

Tibetan yoga is the hidden treasure at the heart of the Tibetan Tantric Buddhist tradition: a spiritual and physical practice in pursuit of an expanded experience of the human body and its energetic and cognitive potential.

Ian A. Baker progressively introduces the core principles and practices of Tibetan yoga in this pioneering overview. In addition to meditations, visualizations and practices for the breath and body, these include elements rather less familiar to yoga initiates in the West, including sexual yoga; dream yoga or lucid dreaming; and yoga practices enhanced by psychoactive plant or mineral substances. Such techniques facilitate the individual’s journey towards transcendence of the human self and suffering, and ultimately to Buddhist enlightenment.

Baker draws on contemporary scientific research and contemplative and humanitarian traditions to enable the reader to understand these practices. Tibetan Yoga includes contemporary ethnographic photography and works of Himalayan art that have never been published before, as well as illustrations of yogic practice and theory from historical books of instruction. It will appeal to students and practitioners of Tibetan Buddhism, as well as anyone interested in mind–body medicine, Tantric art and the ethnography and cultural traditions of the Himalayas.

‘A rare glimpse into a world that has traditionally been kept secret in Tibet … beautifully illustrated with colour photographs of yogis, landscapes and Buddhist art’ South China Morning Post

Max Carocci is a cultural and social anthropologist and is currently adjunct professor in Art History and Visual Cultures at the American University in London. He designed and taught the World Arts programme for Birkbeck College, London, in partnership with the British Museum. He is the co-editor of Art, Shamanism and Animism, and has curated numerous exhibitions and collections for institutions, including the British Museum, the Horniman Museum, the Weltkulturen Museum in Frankfurt, Germany, and the Musée du Nouveau Monde in La Rochelle, France.

450 illustrations

24.0 x 17.0cm

256pp hardback

ISBN 978 0 500 028681

August

£25.00

Shamans

The Visual Culture of Animism, Healing and Journeys to other Planes

Max Carocci

This copiously illustrated book brings to life and carefully analyses the ritual artefacts and visionary imagery of shamanism in one beautiful and intelligent volume

Entering trance states, healing body and soul, invoking animals as spirit guides and journeying to incorporeal realms – these skills have been central to shamanism over thousands of years and across much of the world, from the Evenk shamans of Siberia to contemporary Neo-Shamans of the West.

Join cultural and social anthropologist Max Carocci as he explores an eclectic array of shamanic artefacts and images, decoding the symbolism and explaining the extraordinary shamanic ritual practices. Marvel at the adornments of a Siberian shaman’s coat; examine the prehistoric rock art that depicts mystical transformations of shamans into animals; and discover the psychotropic plants that open the shaman’s mind to interdimensional journeys of healing, wisdom and spiritual battles. Carocci makes clear the manifold meanings encoded in the forms, colours and purposes of shamanic images and objects, painting a vibrant and in-depth picture of shamanic cultures past and present.

The Slavic Myths

Noah Charney and Svetlana Slapšak

New in B-format paperback

‘A welcome entree into the intricate world of Slavic mythology, with plenty of esoteric facts to get your teeth into, stories to be read aloud at the witching hour, and memorable blackand-white woodcut illustrations’

Sir Christopher Frayling, author of Vampyres

Noah Charney is an art historian and internationally bestselling author of fiction (The Art Thief ) and non-fiction (The Art of Forgery, The Collector of Lives and The Museum of Lost Art). Svetlana Slapšak is a leading specialist in Balkan studies and award-winning essayist who has published more than eighty books. She won the American PEN Freedom of Expression Award in 1993 and was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005. Both Charney and Slapšak live in Slovenia.

38 illustrations

19.8 x 12.9cm

240pp paperback

ISBN 978 0 500 298626

August £12.99

As night draws in, a werewolf stalks the hills, a rusalka emerges from a shimmering lake and the feathers of a firebird glow, flicker and burst into flames…

Slavic cultures are far-ranging, yet they are connected by tales of adventure and magic with deep roots in a common lore. In this collection of Slavic myths, Noah Charney and Svetlana Slapšak expertly weave together a retelling of the ancient stories with nuanced analysis that not only illuminates their place at the heart of Slavic tradition, but also draws out the universalities that cut across cultures in the stories we tell ourselves.

Within the myths we find a cast of characters to rival Greek and Roman mythology, from the divine lovers Rozanica and Rod, who created the world, to the supreme god Perun, who summons the power of storms to hurl lightning bolts from the sky. Here are the origins of the vampire and the werewolf, and the sinister veštica, or witch – the most famous of whom, Baba Yaga, prowls the plains in her chicken-footed house, spoiling crops and stealing children.

The Maya Myths

A Guide to the Gods, Heroes and Ancestors

Mallory E. Matsumoto

The perfect introduction to the myths of the great Maya civilization in one compelling and readable volume

Mallory E. Matsumoto is assistant professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research, which draws on text, image and archaeological remains, engages questions of language, material culture and identity in indigenous Maya communities in colonial Mexico and Central America. Her books include Land, Politics, and Memory in Five Nija’ib’ K’iche’ Títulos: “The Title and Proof of Our Ancestors” (2017).

103 illustrations

19.6 x 12.9cm

224pp hardback

ISBN 978 0 500 026540

September

£14.99

Mallory Matsumoto skillfully evokes the enduring vibrancy of Maya culture, from the peak of the Maya hieroglyphic tradition in the eighth century ad, through the invasions of the Spanish conquistadors up to the present day. The book draws on texts, images and Maya oral histories, reflecting a history of contact and change, rather than a sealed-off past. The Maya region has always been fragmented, leading to a unique cultural and linguistic diversity resulting in a varied and intriguing mixture of stories. Here are well-known texts like the Books of Chilam Balam and the Popol Vuh, as well as lesser-known sources.

Illustrated throughout, this book highlights the richness and varied nature of Maya myths, offering readers a deeper understanding of the communities that produced these captivating stories. These myths formed the foundation of their culture, weaving together their ancestral and primordial pasts into a cohesive and meaningful narrative. Also available

Graveyards A

History of Living with the Dead

Roger Luckhurst

An arresting and poignant cultural history of graveyards, from early burial sites to now

Roger Luckhurst is Professor of Nineteenth-Century Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London and has written for the Financial Times, Guardian and London Review of Books, as well as being a regular contributor for the BBC. His books include Gothic: An Illustrated History (T&H, 2021), Zombies: A Cultural History (2015) and editions of novels by Bram Stoker, Robert Louis Stevenson and H. P. Lovecraft.

324 illustrations

26.0 x 18.0cm

240pp hardback

ISBN 978 0 500 027707

October

£30.00

Why, how and where do we inter our dead? How do we set out to remember them? The Pyramids of Giza, the catacombs and columbaria of Rome and the cenotaphs erected to the world’s war dead are but some of the answers. In inimitable style, Roger Luckhurst probes the often moving, sometimes contested ways in which people throughout history have responded to the ‘problem’ of laying the dead to rest.

Blending history, art, literature and popular culture, Graveyards explores the various different aspects of the treatment of the dead. Chapters range from early burials and the emergence of necropolises and catacombs, to graverobbing, garden cemeteries and the perilous overcrowding of the urban dead, to monuments for deceased heroes and rulers and the development of modern memorial culture. The products of our persistent fascination with graveyards are everywhere in literature, art, film and television, and Luckhurst engages these cultural afterlives alongside grave sites’ particular social and historical contexts.

Illustrations throughout offer insights into the rich and unusual visual culture of the grave: helpful guides and provisions for the afterlife, tender dedications, gravestones and effigies sit with memento mori paintings, artistic visions of the underworld and stills from classic horror. Beautifully designed and carefully researched, this book takes a lyrical, unexpected look at graveyards as both site and symbol.

Extinctions How Life Survives, Adapts and Evolves

Michael J. Benton

New in B-format paperback

A journey through the great mass-extinction events that have shaped our Earth

Michael J. Benton is professor of Vertebrate Palaeontology and head of the world-leading Palaeobiology Research Group at the University of Bristol. He has written more than fifty books, including Dinosaurs: New Visions of a Lost World, The Dinosaurs Rediscovered and When Life Nearly Died, all published by Thames & Hudson. He was awarded an OBE for services to Palaeontology and community engagement and regularly appears in the media to discuss dinosaurs and understanding the history of life.

70 illustrations

19.8 x 12.9cm

304pp paperback

ISBN 978 0500 298633

July

£12.99

In this vast sweep of our Earth’s history, Michael Benton brings the deep past to life as never before. Deploying the cuttingedge tools in biology, chemistry, physics and geology that are transforming our understanding of previous environmental cataclysms – including the incredible new discovery of a hitherto unknown extinction event – he uncovers not only their lethal effects but also the processes that brought about such large-scale destruction.

Beginning with the oldest extinction, Benton investigates the Late Ordovician, which set the evolution of the first animals on an entirely new course; the late Devonian, brought on by global warming; the cataclysmic End-Permian, which wiped out over 90 per cent of all life on Earth; and, book-ending the age of the dinosaurs, the newly discovered Carnian Pluvial Event and the End-Cretaceous asteroid. He examines how global warming, acid rain, ocean acidification, erupting volcanoes and meteorite impact have affected conditions on Earth, the drastic consequences for global ecology, and how life in turn survived, adapted and evolved.

This expert retelling of scientific breakthroughs allows us to link long-ago upheavals to our modern crises. As today’s climate scientists and political leaders grapple to understand these processes and our planet enters the sixth great extinction, these insights from the past may hold the key to survival.

‘A meticulously researched work’ Observer

‘Deeply informed and readable’ Nature

Forgotten Peoples of the Ancient World

Philip Matyszak

New in B-format paperback

An overview of 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, The Gods and Goddesses of Greece and Rome and Ancient Magic in Greece and Rome.

90 illustrations

19.8 x 12.9cm

320pp paperback

ISBN 978 0 500 298268

July

£12.99

Who were the Philistines? What was a Pyrrhic victory? Were the Vandals really vandals? Why should you speak to a Samaritan?

Beyond the Greeks, Romans and Hebrews of the Classical and biblical eras, a rich diversity of peoples helped lay the foundations of the modern world. Philip Matyszak brings to life the cultures and individuals that made up the busy, brawling multicultural mass of humanity that emerged from the ancient Middle East and spread across the Mediterranean and Europe. He explores the origins of forty forgotten peoples, their great triumphs and defeats, and considers the legacy they have left to us today, whether it be in fine art or everyday language.

This carefully researched and illuminating history is the perfect introduction for the modern reader, packed with surprising facts and fascinating stories, detailed maps and illustrations of artefacts. Forgotten Peoples of the Ancient World offers a new understanding of these important civilizations that have been obscured by the passage of time.

‘A compelling narrative of displacement and power at the edges of human knowledge’ The Spectator

‘Immersive, thought-provoking and entertaining’ Timeless Travels

Bruno Tertrais is deputy director of the Foundation for Strategic Research and the Associate Expert at the Institut Montaigne. He specializes in geopolitics and international relations, and he has written numerous books on these subjects. Delphine Papin works at the French Institute of Geopolitics. She is the head of the Infography and Cartography department at Le Monde newspaper. Xemartin Laborde is a cartographer and infographic designer at Le Monde

200 illustrations

25.3 x 24.2cm

200pp

ISBN 978 0 500 030493 October £30.00

Atlas of Borders

Conflict, Movement and Unity in 70 Maps

Bruno Tertrais and Delphine Papin

Cartography by Xemartin Laborde

Through 70 stunning infographics and maps, this exciting and timely book looks at the borders that define our current world

There are borders that are easily crossed and borders that are entirely impassable; there are visible borders –sometimes demarcated by fences, walls, flags and posts – and invisible borders – not seen on a physical map and oftentimes restrictive of access to targeted populations; there are land borders, maritime, political and cultural borders…

Presenting 70 case studies through maps and infographics, two experts in geopolitics reflect on the modern world through the lens of border lines, helping the reader make sense of a complex world. Atlas of Borders addresses the conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East, the repercussions of Brexit, the Covid-19 pandemic, and the migration of peoples around the globe. Featuring up-todate maps, the book also covers the aquatic borders of the Svalbard Islands, the borders of the eastern Mediterranean and the Blue Line dividing Lebanon and Israel.

In a confusing and at times chaotic world that seemingly defies interpretation, this atlas sheds light on larger issues behind the lines that separate or connect us.

THE FUTURE OF EUROPE

of independence

City Cats of Istanbul

Marcel Heijnen

For cat lovers everywhere, these wonderful photographs highlight the felines who inhabit the streets of Istanbul, a city famous for its love of cats

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Marcel Heijnen ihas lived in Asia for over half of his life. After long periods in Singapore and Hong Kong, he is now living in Amsterdam.His previous books include Shop Cats of China and Shop Cats of Hong Kong

90 illustrations

19.6 x 15.2cm 160pp paperback

ISBN 978 0 500 298411

October

£12.99

This stunning photobook delves into the lives of the thousands of cats that roam the streets of Istanbul. The photographs show the unique personalities of these street cats, each with its own story and charm. From lounging on cobblestones and shop fronts, to perching on colourful market stalls, the cats appear in a variety of urban settings, offering a glimpse into the vibrant spirit and culture of Istanbul and its local inhabitants. The book explores how the feral cats of Istanbul are represented in various media, with social media, notably TikTok and Instagram, a particular medium through which Istanbul’s cats have gained widespread popularity.

The historical and contemporary cultural significance of cats in Turkish society is presented in essays by the photographer Marcel Heijnen, haiku by Ian Row, and even first-person accounts written from the perspectives of the cats themselves – all interwoven with Marcel’s beautiful photography.

Cat Tales: A History

The origins of how we learned to live with them, and they learned to live with us

Jerry D. Moore

‘Moore’s eminently readable book explores the wonderful world of felines, tracing their relationship with humans worldwide, from when we were their prey to the present, when, as any cat-owner knows, we are enslaved by them, catering to their every whim’ Salima Ikram, Distinguished University Professor of Egyptology, The American University in Cairo

Jerry D. Moore is an archaeologist, writer, editor and Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at California State University Dominguez Hills. His books include The Prehistory of Home (2012, winner of the Society for American Archaeology Popular Book Award) among many others. He has also written for Archaeology Magazine and he was the editor of Ñawpa Pacha: Journal of Andean Archaeology in 2011–2014 and 2017–2022. Moore lives in Long Beach, California, where he provides food service to two cats.

76 illustrations

23.4 x 15.3cm

272pp hardback

ISBN 978 0 500 029534

September

£30.00

Feared, revered, respected and beloved, cats have left an indelible pawprint on the histories and civilizations of humankind. Here, for the first time, the path from deadly enemy to improbable housemate is set out through an archaeological lens by leading anthropologist Jerry Moore. Starting with the terrifying prehistorical scimitartoothed cat of the Pliocene age and the lion drawings of the Palaeolithic Chauvet caves, Moore journeys through our complicated history with these charismatic creatures. He travels along the Nile and across the Mediterranean, sailing on to South America, exploring pet cemeteries, cat mummies and exquisite statuary across continents and centuries. While cats are now loved members of families across the world, our attempts to bring cats in from the cold have not always had happy endings, as Moore explores through such famous feline fanciers as Joe Exotic, Siegfried Fischbacher and Roy Horn. From incredible archeological finds to cave paintings, and from classical statues to contemporary social media, Cat Tales surveys ancient and modern interactions between humans and cats, wild and domestic, to ask a simple question: who domesticated whom?

‘An eloquent, yet learned, technically accurate excursion into the feline world that is destined to become a classic. Read parts of the book to your own cats, and they will ignore you, even if they meow at the beautiful, wellchosen pictures’ Brian Fagan

Lifestyle

Amber Guinness is an English cook and food writer who lives in Florence, Italy. She was born in London but raised at Arniano, the Tuscan farmhouse her parents restored near Siena. She has a first class Masters degree in History and Italian from the University of Edinburgh, and has worked as a cook in both London and Italy. Amber’s first book, A House Party in Tuscany, featured recipes and stories from her internationally acclaimed residential painting school at Arniano. Her second book, Italian Coastal, was a journey in food along the Tuscan coast. Amber is married with a son.

120 illustrations

27.5 x 21.5cm

240pp hardback

ISBN 978 1 760 764753

September

£29.99

Winter in Tuscany

Amber Guinness

Amber Guinness brings the heart of Tuscany’s cosy autumnal and wintry flavours to your kitchen

Following the success of A House Party in Tuscany and Italian Coastal, Amber Guinness invites you on an artful tour through her beloved Southern Tuscany and favourite pockets of Florence. Winter in Tuscany celebrates the region’s rich culinary and cultural traditions with a quanto basta approach – the intuitive, Italian method of ‘just enough’ – and brings the heart of Tuscany’s cosy autumnal and wintry flavours to your kitchen.

But quanto basta is more than just a philosophy for cooking; it’s a metaphor for life. This book celebrates life in the off-season; an ode to exploring Tuscany’s villages and countryside when the crowds have thinned, allowing for a deeper, more intimate connection with the culture, food and landscapes. In discovering treasures off the beaten path, Amber highlights the richness of exploring at a gentler pace, when Tuscany truly reveals itself.

The book is filled with an array of hyper-local, traditional recipes for the home cook: from antipasti, zuppe – thick, hearty Tuscan soups – and brodo, brothy concoctions that bring comfort on colder days, to rustic pasta, rice and secondi – meat and vegetable mains that celebrate the season.

Whether you’re strolling beneath Della Robbia’s cherubs or simmering a hearty soup on a cold winter’s night, Winter in Tuscany is an invitation to slow down and appreciate the beauty in small moments and big flavours.

Mountaineering Women

Climbing Through History

Joanna Croston

Foreword by Jasmin Paris

Illustrated by Tessa Lyons

A lively celebration in text and photographs of the remarkable stories and achievements of twenty of the most daring women mountaineers from around the globe

Joanna Croston moved to the Canadian Rockies in 1998, where she is currently the Director for the Banff Centre Mountain Film and Book Festival and World Tour. She has climbed many of the classic 11,000-ft peaks in the area. Her writing has appeared in Highline Magazine, Gripped, The Canadian Alpine Journal, The Canadian Rockies Annual, Mountain Life and Alpinist.

160 illustrations

24.6 x 18.6cm

256pp PLC

ISBN 978 0 500 027172

August

£30.00

From the Amazigh (Berbers) of the Atlas Mountains in Morocco to the Inca Empire, high in the Andes, women have long traversed the world’s most forbidding peaks. When, many centuries later, mountaineering took off as a sporting activity in the West, it was plucky Victorian women who defied convention to tackle the fabled summits of the European Alps. Yet despite the fact that women have a pronounced and rich history in the sport, they are conspicuously underrepresented in the mountaineering literature.

Mountaineering Women is a richly illustrated collection of the awesome and oft-surprising stories celebrating the achievements of twenty women climbers from across the globe. Seeking to redress a narrative that frequently focuses on the exploits of white, male explorers, the climbers come from a wide range of nationalities. Each of their compelling stories is accompanied by a specially commissioned ink illustration and evocative black-andwhite photographs. Meanwhile, three 16-page, full-colour photographic sections reveal the mountaineers in action and the mountainscapes in all their grandeur.

Bookending the main chapters is a comprehensive introduction by Nandini Purandare and a closing essay by Ashima Shiraishi, looking towards the future of the sport.

Switzerland: The Monocle Handbook

Tyler Brulé and Andrew Tuck

The fifth edition in Monocle’s bestselling travel handbook series, with everything you need to plan a short trip, or a longer stay, in Switzerland

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-inchief; Andrew Tuck is its Editor.

350 illustrations

25.0 x 19.0cm

224pp hardback

ISBN 978 0 500 966419

October

£35.00

This practical and inspirational guide takes you on a tour of Monocle’s most cherished Swiss spots. It takes you from stunning medieval villages to the renowned galleries and contemporary architecture in Basel, Geneva and Zurich, and beyond to the lakes, rivers, vineyards and Alpine peaks, introducing Monocle’s favourite places to stay, eat, shop and visit across Switzerland. Discover traditional mountain cuisine as well as great music venues, cool bars and the best luxury pitstops. You’ll also find out about a new generation of food and wine producers upholding ancient traditions and creating the best produce from local ingredients, as well as contemporary artisans creating great fashion, jewelry and leather accessories.

For those looking to spend more time, or even put down roots in Switzerland, the book also profiles the cltles, towns and cantons where you could make a home, and the architects and designers to commission. So, whether you are putting together an itinerary for a summer hiking break, a winter snowboarding escape, a culinary and winetasting tour, or planning to stay a little longer, Switzerland: The Monocle Handbook makes the perfect companion.

Architects on Sofas

Edited by Virginia McLeod and Nic Monisse

The first title in a new series from tastemakers Monocle, this is a fun, informative collection of portraits and biographical interviews with 50 architects from all over the world sitting on their sofas revealing their style, wit, personality – and sofa choices

Virginia McLeod is head of book publishing at Monocle. Nic Monisse is design editor at Monocle.

200 illustrations

24.0 x 19.0cm

240pp hardback

ISBN 978 0 500 966426

September £35.00

Bringing architects and their sofas together in a lighthearted way, this book aims to find out what makes some of the world’s most famous architects and designers tick. Each of its fifty entries features a portrait of an architect on their sofa, taken at their own home or workplace, sometimes with their family, their pets or with other possessions, each photograph capturing essential details about the architect’s life, work and style.

An in-depth interview accompanies each entry, so that readers find out not just about their sofa (for example whether or not they designed it, and if not why they chose it, and who it was designed by) but also about their life, their work, what they’re passionate about and what they struggle with.

Taken together, this collection of photographic portraits and interviews provides unique insights into the minds and lives of some of the greatest architects of our time. In addition, a special foldout presents 100 architectdesigned sofas from the last century with designs by Le Corbusier, Alvar Aalto, Charlotte Perriand, Verner Panton, Cini Boeri, Zaha Hadid, John Pawson, and many more.

Floral Patterns of India

Henry Wilson

New in paperback

A unique combination of photography and illustration reveals the extraordinary variety of floral motifs in the historical buildings of India

Henry Wilson is known for his photographs of India, which have appeared in many magazines and books, including Benares, India Contemporary and Pattern and Ornament in the Arts of India, all published by Thames & Hudson. His drawings of Indian motifs inspired Osborne & Little to commission the Sariskar Collection of wallpapers from him.

202 illustrations

29.6 x 20.0cm

272pp paperback

ISBN 978 0 500 298596

July

£25.00

Following the success of Pattern and Ornament in the Arts of India, Henry Wilson turned, for this companion volume, to a single theme. And what a theme: the variety of floral motifs in the exquisitely wrought details of India’s architectural wonders is boundless, and one can only marvel at the way in which the basic elements of wood, stone and plaster have been transformed into masterworks of decorative art.

From the illustrious Mughal Empire during its greatest period of monument-building and artistic creativity to the time of British rule, which brought with it an unprecedented period of peace that allowed great wealth to be concentrated on the arts, the richness of India’s architecture is overwhelming.

Henry Wilson’s fine photographs reveal the skill, patience and imagination of the many thousands of craftsmen who have turned to floral motifs and rendered them with precision and life-enriching creativity.

Juxtaposed with the photographs are Wilson’s own detailed drawings, all created by hand but with a stencil-like clarity that helps us understand the original historical patterns. The result is an invaluable sourcebook that will appeal not only to those interested in one of the world’s oldest civilizations and greatest cultures, but also to anyone seeking inspiration for their own creations.

‘A jewel of a book’ Embroidery

Anna Spiro A Life in

Pattern

Anna Spiro

Compact edition

A celebration of the work of Anna Spiro, master of the showstopping interior

Anna Spiro is the founder of Anna Spiro Design and cofounder of Anna Spiro Textiles, and has been working as an interior designer for more than two decades. Her distinctive style and approach were launched onto the world stage with her highly lauded re-design of the boutique hotel, Halcyon House. In 2014 Anna published her first book, Absolutely Beautiful Things.

194 illustrations

26.4 x 20.0cm

260pp hardback

ISBN 978 1 760 764975

July

£30.00

Anna Spiro has long been hailed as Australia’s most original and creative interior designer. Her globally adored aesthetic is unapologetically maximalist and a paean to comfort; her devotion to the craft of working with pattern on pattern on pattern – combined with her intuitive layering of colours, objects old and new, art, books and foraged treasures – creates spaces that sing with individuality.

In this standout design monograph, Spiro offers up a lifetime of hard-earned wisdom, showing how the very best interiors come from following your own path. From mood boards to fabric suggestions, furniture ideas to room layouts, A Life in Pattern includes more than 250 photographs from twenty different interior design projects.

This is a sourcebook of inspiration and joy, showcasing a bold and visually complex style that can only come from an interior designer at the height of their powers.

The Story of the Interior

How We Have Shaped Rooms and How They Shape Us

Graeme Booker

An exhilarating and eclectic volume on the social, cultural and technological history of interior design from prehistory to the present day, revealing how spaces shape our lives and why it matters

Graeme Brooker is an interior designer with extensive experience in practice, education and research. He is Professor and Head of Interior Design at the Royal College of Art in London. He has taught at institutions in America, Europe and Asia, and is the author of numerous books on the histories, theories and processes of the interior.

500 illustrations

28.0 x 21.5cm

400pp PLC

ISBN 978 0 500 027592

September

£60.00

From traditional nomadic dwellings to state-of-the-art airports, from monumental temples and Baroque palaces to high-rise apartments and high-fashion boutiques, The Story of the Interior explores an exciting array of inside spaces from around the world to reveal how the fundamental elements of a room have evolved and endured.

Organized in three parts – The Room, The Private Interior and The Public Interior – the book offers a fascinating account of how the interior has been conceived and thought of from antiquity to the present day. By calling to attention the most basic elements of inside space – walls, doors, windows, furniture, ambience to name a few – it delves into how interiors actively shape the way we live, work, learn and play.

Using a thematic approach, Graeme Brooker digs into the elements of the interior found in both historic spaces and cutting-edge contemporary interiors. He presents a wide range of iconic and offbeat examples drawn from the world of architecture, urbanism and furniture design, as well as art installations and imagined spaces. Brooker deftly guides us through interiors as diverse as Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater, Olafur Eliasson’s The Weather Project, the Prada store in Marfa, Texas, and Sou Fujimoto’s NA House, as well as the rock-cut Buddhist temples of India, medieval European castles and ancient Egyptian tombs, to unveil the drastically different and surprisingly similar spaces that surround us.

The result is a fascinating tour of global interiors, tracing the genesis and evolution of these places and how they help us understand human presence and behaviour.

The V&A Book of Colour in Design

Tim Travis

New in paperback

A beautifully presented survey of design and the applied arts, explored not by use, material, form or date – but by colour

Tim Travis is a curator in the Word & Image Department at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

450 illustrations

26.0 x 20.0cm

304pp paperback

ISBN 978 0 500 298671

July

£25.00

The V&A Book of Colour in Design is attractively simple: a celebration and exploration of colour, as revealed through objects in the world-class collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Structured by colour, it offers fascinating insights into the choices made by designers and makers from across the world and throughout history.

Each chapter begins with a brief introduction that considers the history, symbolism, and use of an individual colour. Objects – from items of jewelry, textiles, glassware and ceramics to furniture and more – are reproduced in a visual selection that explores the varied hues of every colour. However different objects within each section may be in their detail and meaning, they are united by their common colour, revealing surprising connections between them. Throughout, narrative captions bring together disparate items from across the V&A’s collection to explore the universal significance of colour in art and design.

Beautifully designed, this highly visual, colour-led survey of design and the applied arts is a compelling sourcebook with broad appeal for anyone interested or involved in all aspects of visual culture.

‘Wonderfully arranged into colour-coded chapters ... an interesting and scholarly study’ Homes & Antiques

‘Drawing from a deep well of scholarship, this rich book shows that nothing under the rainbow is fixed’ World of Interiors

Lives of the Great Makers

Edited by Rebecca Knott and James Robinson

A series of fascinating, well-illustrated biographies that offer insights into the women and men whose work in the applied arts represents the very pinnacle of their craft

Rebecca Knott is Curator of Metalwork 1900–Now at the V&A and was formerly Lead Curator of the V&A East Storehouse. James Robinson is Keeper of Decorative Art and Sculpture at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. He was formerly Director of Renaissance Collections at the Burrell Collection, Glasgow, Senior Curator of Late Medieval Collections at the British Museum and Keeper of Art and Design at the National Museum of Scotland.

282 illustrations

24.6 x 18.6cm

384pp hardback

ISBN 978 0 500 481042

September £35.00

This fascinating, richly illustrated anthology of the lives and careers of some of the most accomplished craftspeople represented in the V&A’s collection celebrates the pinnacle of creative accomplishment. Their pioneering designs, technique and aesthetic flair resulted in masterpieces that changed the nature and direction of the decorative arts forever. Arranged chronologically from the Renaissance to now, the makers’ biographies are contextualized by thematic introductions to the history of the decorative arts.

The book features forty illustrated biographies, ranging from furniture makers such as Thomas Chippendale to woodcarvers such as Grinling Gibbons, textile artists including Gunta Stölzl and ceramicists such as Lucie Rie, alongside goldsmiths, enamellists and many more. It also explores less familiar names who made a significant contribution to their field, brought together by their extraordinary skill and innovative use of technology and materials. While maintaining a focus on makers in Europe and North America, the book surveys a range of international influences in the biographies and thematic introductions. These thematic introductions also explore important moments in the history of the decorative arts, ranging from early modern craft and industrialization through to the Arts and Crafts Movement, modernism and the post-war craft revival.

This beautiful, expertly written book will appeal to anyone interested in visual culture.

Design

William Morris: Pattern & Design

Jenny Lister

A fabulous visual reference of William Morris’s extensive range of textile and wallpaper designs and a covetable gift book for all Morris aficionados and anyone with a love of exquisitely designed patterns

William Morris (1834–1896) was a pioneer of the Arts and Crafts Movement and one of the most influential designers of all time. This exquisitely designed and richly illustrated book brings together more than 400 of William Morris’s ingenious textile and wallpaper designs in a fascinating chronological sequence, offering a comprehensive overview of his work and an eye-catching glimpse into his life. It will be an invaluable visual reference for designers and Morris admirers, and a covetable gift book that is perfect for museum stores.

The book begins with an introductory overview of textile and wallpaper design, and of Morris’s life and work. It goes on to explore how these iconic designs and patterns were created and printed in the late 19th century, and then shows the patterns in chronological order, grouped according to their different colourways. The decade of each pattern is revealed on each spread, and the vertical captions give as much uninterrupted space to the patterns as possible. Featured designs include the famous Trellis (1862), St James’s (1880–81) and Strawberry Thief (1883), alongside lesser-known patterns.

The book’s engaging design features a William Morris-inspired green text, and the portable medium-sized square format, with a paperback cover and a jacket, allows readers to flip through the book with ease.

In association with

Jenny Lister is a curator of textiles and fashion at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, specializing in the 19th century. She was a contributor to the highly acclaimed book May Morris: Arts & Crafts Designer, published by Thames & Hudson in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum (2022).

395 illustrations

23.4 x 19.8cm

328pp paperback

ISBN 978 0 500 481165

October £25.00

The Modern Japanese Garden

Stephen Mansfield

Foreword by Pico Iyer

Contributions by Kengo Kuma, Mira Locher, Tim Richardson and Masuno Shunmyo

The definitive overview of the most iconic and influential Japanese gardens of the 20th century and beyond

Stephen Mansfield is a British photojournalist and author, based in Japan and specializing in Japanese garden design. Stephen’s work has appeared across various magazines, newspapers and journals world-wide, including The Geographical, South China Morning Post and The Japan Times. He is author of Japan: Islands of the Floating World and the Insight Pocket Guide to Tokyo. Pico Iyer is the author of seventeen books, three of which describe his life in Japan over the past 37 years: The Lady and the Monk, Autumn Light and A Beginner’s Guide to Japan

400 illustrations

28.0 x 23.0cm

352pp hardback

ISBN 978 0 500 026243

September £50.00

A major survey and the first book of its kind, The Modern Japanese Garden is set to become the definitive book on the subject. Featuring gardens from Tokyo, Kyoto and Fujisawa to Osaka, Okayama, Fukuoka and beyond, this impressive overview includes major analysis of key works of interest through detailed garden profiles; insights into some of the most renowned Japanese garden designers across history; and a thoughtful exploration of the essential themes and developments in Japanese garden design.

Roughly divided between pre- and post-1945 Japanese garden design, the book examines post-war shifts in attitudes towards the contemporary garden as they moved from status symbols and expressions of influence to spaces of healing and mediation. A short history of the Japanese garden, from pre-Shinto stone arrangements to the last years of the 19th century, sits alongside analysis of the contemporary gardens of Japan’s corporate buildings, museums, hotels and public spaces. Garden profiles – offering a comprehensive overview of the most iconic and influential gardens in Japan – include a mix of landscape- and smaller-scale gardens, including many recently completed examples.

Interspersed throughout are short interludes, covering everything from the ancient garden of Ryoan-ji in Kyoto to the aesthetic lexicon of Japanese garden design, while essays from a number of high-profile contributors –Kengo Kuma, Mira Locher, Tim Richardson and Masuno Shunmyo – meditate on particular themes.

MAKI OPUS

Maki & Associates

A richly illustrated, comprehensive career retrospective of Fumihiko Maki (1928 –2024), the master of Japanese m odernist architecture

Fumihiko Maki, who died last year at the age of 95, was the leading Japanese architect of his generation, with six decades of celebrated work at home and abroad. He was awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1993.

c. 1,000 illustrations

28.0 x 23.0cm

400pp hardback

ISBN 978 0 500 024409

November

£60.00

MAKI OPUS is the definitive book on the life and work of Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki (1928–2024), known for designing understated yet boundary-pushing buildings in Japan and worldwide. At 400 pages and with 1,000 illustrations, it is the biggest survey of Maki’s work to date, and was compiled in close collaboration with his studio both before and after his death. MAKI OPUS brings together the architect’s own selection of the buildings that best exemplified his career, and saw him pave the way for the next wave of superlative Japanese architects, such as Kengo Kuma and SANAA.

Featuring fifty buildings from 1960 right up to the present day – including MIT Media Lab, the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto and 4 World Trade Centre – the book reconsiders Maki’s work in light of his use of materials, changes in building technology and his relationship with the world outside Japan. His team has dug into the practice’s archives to find photographs and drawings that have never been seen in print before, allowing the reader a fresh look at his best-known projects.

Maki was truly an architect’s architect, respected throughout the industry for his technical innovation and his deep understanding of how buildings are experienced and used. Architecture students will find inspiration in his early years starting out under the tutelage of Kenzo Tange, while a general architecture-interested audience will enjoy vibrant full-colour photography of his lauded, understated and much copied style, described by many as the ‘architecture of simplicity’.

Aaron Betsky is a critic and teacher living in Philadelphia. Previously, he was Professor and Director of the School of Architecture and Design at Virginia Tech and, prior to that, President of the School of Architecture at Taliesin. A critic of art, architecture and design, Betsky is the author of over twenty books on those subjects, including 50 Lessons to Learn from Frank Lloyd Wright (2021), Making It Modern (2016), Architecture Matters (2017) and The Monster Leviathan: Anarchitecture (2024).

300 illustrations

27.0 x 21.5cm

352pp hardback

ISBN 978 0 500 027004

September

£45.00

Assemble

Building Collective

Aaron Betsky

The long-awaited monograph on the Turner Prize-winning architecture collective Assemble, gathering more than a decade of their groundbreaking collaborative work

Architecture collective Assemble has transformed the definition of a successful young practice by working on temporary, small-scale, community-based projects, often reusing sites and materials. Described by architecture critic Edwin Heathcote as ‘young, widely admired and increasingly influential’, they are the future of architecture and the antithesis of the faceless, corporate juggernaut.

This retrospective of the first decade or so of Assemble’s dynamic work, organized roughly chronologially and according to project type, highlights how their methods, working practices, interest in craft and building, and focus on reuse and material choices set them apart from other architecture practices. Based on extensive interviews with partners, the group’s archives and documentation of their projects, the book is itself a collaborative labour of love, drawing together through photography, drawings and text their most important work to date. Their projects range as widely as Granby Four Streets – a community-led project to rebuild a derelict neighbourhood in Liverpool – to a brewery in rural Japan and a train depot renovation in Arles.

Providing an essential overview of the group, from their self-initiated temporary projects to their meteoric rise to international acclaim, Aaron Betsky explores how Assemble’s playful and subversive buildings have forged a pioneering new model of progressive architecture that continues to challenge the establishment.

The Iconic House

Richard Powers and Dominic Bradbury

New in paperback

A handy resource for all lovers and enthusiasts of house design, featuring over 100 of the world’s most significant residential buildings

Dominic Bradbury is a journalist and writer specializing in architecture and design. He is the author of many books on these subjects, including The Iconic American House, Modernist Design Complete, The Iconic House and The Iconic Interior, all published by Thames & Hudson. Richard Powers is a photographer who specializes in interiors, architecture and the built environment. His books include The Iconic American House, The Iconic House and The Iconic Interior, all published by Thames & Hudson.

638 illustrations

22.4 x 20.8cm

376pp paperback

ISBN 978 0 500 298602

July

£25.00

The Iconic House features over 100 of the most important and influential houses designed and built since 1900. International in scope and wide-ranging in style, the houses share a remarkable sensitivity to site and context, an appreciation of local materials and building traditions, and a careful understanding of clients’ needs. Each, however, has a unique approach that makes it groundbreaking and radical for its time. Concise, informative texts and fresh, vibrant illustrations, including specially commissioned photographs, floor plans and drawings, offer detailed documentation, while architect biographies, a bibliography, a gazetteer and list of houses by type provide further information.

Whether Arts and Crafts or Art Nouveau, Modernist or Minimalist, high tech or new vernacular, these unforgettable buildings from around the world will inspire and delight students and professionals, design aficionados and anyone who dreams of building a house of their own.

‘A pretty much definitive guide to the houses that have come to define “modern architecture”’ Wallpaper*

‘The ultimate handbook for those wanting to delve into the evolution of 20th-century architecture’ House & Garden

The Iconic Tropical House

Patrick Bingham-Hall

Expressive, thrilling tropical houses – big and small – from across a culturally diverse but climatically connected region

Patrick Bingham-Hall is based in Sydney, Singapore and Oxford, and has published over fifty books on architecture, design, landscape and urban planning, including WOHA: New Forms of Sustainable Architecture

300 illustrations

28.0 x 26.0cm

304pp PLC

ISBN 978 0 500 027011

September

£45.00

This stunningly illustrated volume presents forty-five of the most interesting tropical houses of the last fifty years, surveying India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam, Singapore, Indonesia and northern Australia.

Patrick Bingham-Hall sets the houses in context arguing that climate, colonization and modernism, as well as geo-political events, increasing prosperity and even airconditioning since the end of World War II, have created a very specific set of circumstances and therefore houses. These are buildings with pitched roofs, broad overhangs and eaves, verandas, big doors and windows, that optimize airflow and solar orientation. Larger-than-life, open to the elements, this is soaring architecture with a strong sense of place.

Bingham-Hall shows us that this is architecture that’s inherently environmentally attuned and innately sustainable. It’s also a book of lush, jaw-dropping houses that seamlessly blend indoor and out, in locations anyone would want to visit.

Mediated Matter

Design & Invention in the New Biological Age

Neri Oxman

An ambitious monograph presenting one of the most inventive minds of our time, whose interdisciplinary design work blends, transcends and redefines the practices of computer science, digital fabrication, material science and synthetic biology

Neri Oxman has forged a singular career across design, science and technology for over twenty years. She defines her work at the MIT Media Lab, which approaches nature as processes and substances to be molded to design ends, as ‘material ecology’. Using this method, products and buildings are designed as interactive entities that are environmentally informed, biologically augmented, computationally grown and digitally manufactured.

Oxman’s work is at the edge of many interrelated –and unexpected – practices. From using silkworms’ thread to generate a cocoon-like construction to a synthetic apiary, and a water-based fabrication platform that prints structures made out of biopolymers, to automated microrobots that can build their own structure, Oxman and her teams are producing an entirely new vocabulary for designers with far-reaching implications.

Mediated Matter is the first comprehensive overview of Oxman’s work. Six central chapters – Biopolymers, Organic Comb, Natural Fibers, Vitreous Solids, Programmable Matter and Pigments – present the thinking behind the key projects and the process of their creation as well as their potential for use in the built environment, all shown in detail through diagrams, explanatory texts, process documents and breathtaking photographs. Through its scientific rigour, sheer imagination and design innovation, this book, like its author, is a future-facing manifesto for a true symbiosis of nature, humans and design.

Architect, scientist, engineer and inventor, Neri Oxman leads the creation of scientific research on technology with a focus on integrative design across scales and disciplines. In 2009, she made the list of the 20 Most Influential Architects Who Are Shaping Our Future (ICON Magazine). With Material Ecology, Oxman has pioneered a field that advances previously impossible design possibilities; informing how buildings and products are made and how their shape and composition of materials can harmonize with the ecosystems they inhabit.

910 illustrations

30.2 x 20.8cm 600pp hardback

ISBN 978 0 500 024416

November

£65.00

Alive

Synthetic cells, feral robots, rebellious AI and the design of radical life

Madeline Schwartzman

A timely examination of a wide range of projects exploring the boundaries of what it means to be alive, speculating on what 'life' is, and how humankind will (or will not) fit into a new order of hybrid species: a sort of sci-fi guidebook to lab-built humans

Madeline Schwartzman is an artist, writer, filmmaker, architect and educator who explores human narratives and the human sensorium through all the above. She has published two books with Black Dog Press, See Yourself Sensing and See Yourself X

400 illustrations

28.0 x 23.0cm

256pp hardback

ISBN 978 0 500 026861

August

£35.00

A silicone jellyfish with a rat’s heart, a drone that smells using the antenna of a moth, wearables made from cultured human skin, an AI-populated digital snack bar in the metaverse. These projects and many more offer a mind-bending, head-turning vision of the future that Madeline Schwartzman demonstrates is just around the corner.

Curated from new developments in synthetic biology, artificial intelligence, robotics, engineering, biology and art, this broad-ranging survey demonstrates the myriad ways in which our perception of what it means to be alive has dramatically changed. Where do we draw the new lines? Are there any boundaries we should not cross? And what if… ?

By examining these new ‘beings’, Alive maps out a vision of new partnerships, uncanny hybrids and collaborative intelligences, as science fiction rapidly becomes science fact.

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Mountaineering Women 84

Mullins, Charlotte 25

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Reuters 60

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Sega Mega Drive/Genesis: Ultimate Works 34

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Slow Looking 2

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Spiro, Anna 89

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Louis Stettner 62

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Strzelecki, Gloria 20

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Switzerland: The Monocle Handbook 86

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Tibetan Yoga 70

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Trend, Nick 19

Tuck, Andrew 86

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Verslype, Ige 17

Werness, Hope 68

Vivienne Westwood Jewellery 47

Wilson, Henry 88

Winter in Tuscany 83

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