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Michael Atavar Softcover | 11.5 x 1.1 x 14.8 cm | 128 pp Kiosk Publishing | 2013 | 9780953107353 Looking At Art (With Your Eyes Closed) contains Michael Atavar's teaching from his three courses at Tate. The book helps you to build a relationship with...

Justin Sutcliffe Hardcover | 16.2 x 1.4 x 21 cm | 80 pp Unicorn Press | 2024 | 9781916846012 The phenomenon of recognising faces in everyday objects, called face pareidolia, is experienced widely. Once thought of as a symptom of psychosis, it is increasingly understood...

Edward Morris & Dmitri Siegel Softcover | 24.1 x 1.3 x 31.8 cm | 128 pp Metropolis | 2010 | 9781935202240 This book brings together the strongest contemporary graphic design promoting sustainability and the fight against climate change. Featuring 50 tear-out posters by leading and emerging...

Hardcover | 20.83 x 1.52 x 28.96 cm | 144 pp Constable | 2023 | 9781408719770 Cold War Steve aka Christopher Spencer is an artist from Birmingham, England who has been making surreal, satirical and hilarious photomontage since 2016. Enclosed in this esteemed tome you...

Gail Mallatratt Hardcover |  30.4 x 2.2 x 25.8 cm | 128 pp Unicorn Press | 2022 | 9781838395339 This vibrant book celebrates the printmaking works of Gail Mallatratt. Making Nowhere Somewhere takes us through Mallatratt's reactions to her family background and formative years,...

Softcover | 22.23 x 1.52 x 19.69 cm | 128 pp Unicorn | 2018 | 9781911604914 Coinciding with the iconic magazine’s fiftieth anniversary, Time Out: 50 years, 50 covers draws on Time Out’s incredible archive of front pages and the stories behind them. Via 50 stunning, arresting, beautiful...

Hardcover | 22.2 x 1.9 x 25.4 cm | 96 pp Hayward Gallery Publishing | 2012 | 9781853322990 British artist Gary Hume first found international fame in the early 1990s, with his series of bold, abstract door paintings. As one of the YBAs, his work was featured...

Clarrie Wallis Softcover | 21 x 0.9 x 27 cm | 128 pp Tate Publishing | 2014 | 9781849762250 Deacon's sculptures employ curvilinear forms made from a wide range of materials that are more traditionally associated with the manufacturing of industrial and domestic products. The works...

Emily Rapp Black Hardcover | 11.89 x 1.3 x 18.97 cm | 156 pp Notting Hill Editions | 2021 | 9781912559268 New York Times-bestselling author Emily Rapp Black here offers a personal examination of how the experiences, art, and disabilities of Frida Kahlo shaped...

Philippa Bernard Hardcover | 16.21 x 1.4 x 23.8 cm | 144 pp Unicorn Press | 2023 | 9781739164010 In 1972 Leo and Philippa Bernard bought Chelsea Rare Books, a small antiquarian bookshop in the King’s Road, Chelsea, advertised for sale in The Times....

Stéphane Aquin & Evelyn Hankins Hardcover | 28.58 x 1.27 x 18.42 cm | 96 pp Yale University Press | 2018 | 9780300230772 This beautifully illustrated book documents Pickett’s Charge, an ambitious and timely project by renowned artist Mark Bradford. Eight new paintings extended nearly four hundred feet to...

Erin C. Garcia Hardcover | 18.42 x 1.52 x 22.23 cm | 112 pp J. Paul Getty Museum | 2010 | 9781606060315 From as early as 1839, artists began exploring photography's enormous potential for storytelling and often went to great lengths to stage pictures...

Dan Jones Softcover | 15.88 x 1.27 x 21.59 cm | 112 pp Conran Octopus | 2016 | 9781840917284 Painfully cool and instantly recognisable, the 50 style trailblazers in this collection used fashion to attract attention, gain influence, express themselves and make powerful statements. From...

Hardcover | 15.88 x 1.91 x 21.59 cm | 112 pp Conran Octopus | 2011 | 9781840915693 Everything around us is designed and the word 'design' has become part of our everyday experience. But how much do we know about it? Fifty Hats That...

Henrietta Goodden Hardcover | 20.96 x 2.54 x 26.04 cm | 224 pp Unicorn Press | 2020 | 9781916495777  This is the first biographical study of the women who made the Royal College of Art's School of Fashion a household name. Madge Garland, Janey Ironside,...

Softcover | 20.78 x 2.08 x 25.15 cm | 248 pp ACC | 2014 | 9781851497676 Text in English with a summary in Italian In Fashion by Chance Italian fashion designer Cleonice Capece provides a vivid and richly documented account of how creativity, entrepreneurial...

Venetia Porter & Amy de la Haye Hardcover | 20.96 x 2.54 x 26.04 cm | 160 pp Unicorn Press | 2018 | 9781911604563 Starting in 1966, Thea Porter designed clothes for the rich and famous for nearly two decades. Her creations were made from...

Wessie Ling & Simona Segre-Reinach Softcover | 14.53 x 1.78 x 21.67 cm | 288 pp Bloomsbury | 2020 | 9781350148024 The transformation of China from a major site for clothing manufacture to an intensely fashion consuming society has been widely documented. Less has been written about the...

Mary N. Woods Softcover | 17.78 x 3.18 x 25.4 cm | 368 pp University of Pennsylvania Press | 2009 | 9780812223095 Typical architectural photography freezes buildings in an ideal moment and rarely captures what photographer Berenice Abbott called the medium's power to depict "how...

Peter Osborne & Eric Alliez Softcover | 15.5 x 1.1 x 23.3 cm | 160 pp Tate Publishing | 2013 | 9781854379757 A snapshot of current debates about the relationship of politics to contemporary art, with original writings by major European thinkers. This collection of essays...