Theory, Criticism & Philosophy

This is an indispensable and entertaining guide to a visionary new form of moviemaking that can be appreciated by the avid film buff and general movie lover alike. So convinced is Francis Ford Coppola that "live cinema" will become a powerful medium within the...

A love letter to old Hollywood, this is a book for anyone interested in film. Todd McEwen grew up in Southern California, so his head was hopelessly messed with by the movies. As the son of relatively 'normal people', Todd had no in with...

The Pocket Essentials series started in 1999 as a niche list providing inexpensive pocket guides to interesting areas of history, film, literature and philosophy. This three-book set includes the following titles: Jackie Chan Michelle Le Blanc &  Colin Odell Softcover | 11 x 0.7 x...

Text in English and Italian Just Enough: Design Microstories offers a collection of insights, a series of hypotheses about the transversality and interdisciplinarity that characterise the process of creating design. A succession of micro-narratives that take reality as a source of inspiration. The evolution...

Lord Kitchener, Neneh Cherry, Smiley Culture, Stormzy . . . Groundbreaking musicians whose songs have changed the world. But how? This exhilarating playlist tracks some of the key shifts in modern British history, and explores the emotional impact of 28 songs and the artists...

Viktor Koretsky (1909–1998) was a leading Soviet artist and the acknowledged master of the Soviet photographic poster. With a long and prolific career that spanned the early Stalin era through to the onset of Glasnost, Koretsky produced some of the most memorable images of...

We all consume architecture – it’s the one art-form we can’t avoid. So it’s hardly surprising that the finest writers have applied their minds to it. Most of them aren’t architects, but their powers of perception are such that what they say gets under...

From a Nation Torn provides a powerful critique of art history's understanding of French modernism and the historical circumstances that shaped its production and reception. Within art history, the aesthetic practices and theories that emerged in France from the late 1940s into the 1960s are...

The Benjamin Files offers a comprehensive new reading of all of Benjamin's major works and a great number of his shorter book reviews, notes and letters. It's premise is that Benjamin was an anti-philosophical, anti-systematic thinker whose conceptual interests also felt the gravitational pull of...

About Bridget Riley, represents a monumental body of research and analysis by some of the most important art historians of today. It also offers the opportunity for the reader and the viewer to approach Riley from a plethora of perspectives to form their own...

This book - Behrendt's principle theoretical work in German and the precursor to Modern Building - presents a revisionist concept of style that places equal emphasis on form and function. Behrendt calls on architects to return to basic geometries and to express the new social...

Fighting History is the first book to engage with the story of British history painting and its survival into contemporary practice today. Beautifully illustrated with works from the Tate collection, as well as a number of paintings from other institutions and from practicing artists,...

Otto Preminger was one of Hollywood's first truly independent producer/directors. Blazing a trail in the examination of controversial issues such as drug addiction (The Man with the Golden Arm) and homosexuality (Advise and Consent), Preminger broke the censorship of the Hollywood Production Code and...

The Architect’s Edge is a bold exploration of architecture, leadership and business, offering invaluable insights for creative entrepreneurs and industry leaders. Gareth Stapleton, an award-winning architect and project manager, shares practical wisdom from decades of global experience. Drawing from real-world projects, Stapleton demonstrates how architects...

Found in the Codex Atlanticus of Leonardo da Vinci's writings and drawings, 'The Prophecies' are a collection of enigmatic divinatory pronouncements, some punning and playful, others dire and ominous. While the author's intentions behind these utterances are unclear, they clearly attest to the artist's...

From dada to Gaga and beyond, How Art Made Pop examines the intertwined histories of pop music and the visual arts from the late 1950s to the present day. In particular, this remarkable and definitive study explores in exhaustive detail the exhilarating exchange between...

Writings on people and places, theatre and film, in a portfolio of essays and photographs informing Wes Anderson's film Asteroid City. Featuring eight newly commissioned pieces alongside more than 20 classic essays from the likes of François Truffaut and Jonas Mekas, DO NOT DETONATE explores...

Through nine essays Gerhard Richter explores the relation between two worlds: the world in which an artwork is created, that is, a world that over time perishes or decays beyond interpretive understanding, and the new world that the artwork opens up. The multiple relations...

Pyclets are round savoury griddle cakes, made with flour, yeast and buttermilk, not dissimilar from crumpets and the kind of oatcake made in other parts of midlands Britain.They were sold from mobile carts in the gloriously gloomy entrance to the Derby Guildhall Covered Market...

The world is currently teetering on the edge of chaos, buckling under the weight of greed and corruption, dark undercurrents of power twisting noble intentions into self-serving agendas and turning our dreams for civilisation into a nightmare of tyranny and oppression. Monumental offers an...