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Look At This If You Love Great Art is a must read for anyone with a passion for exceptional art. Featuring 100 of the best artworks ever produced, inside is a collection of insightful summaries on just what it is that makes each one so...

In 1922, Cyril Power, a fifty-year-old architect, left his family to work with the twenty-four-year-old Sybil Andrews. They would be together for twenty years. Both became famous for their dynamic, modernist linocuts, streamlined, full of movement and brilliant colour, summing up the hectic interwar...

A highly entertaining read for anyone with even a passing interest in art and art history, This myth-busting book takes you on a great ride through the lives of starving (and not so starving) artists, unusual exhibitions and painting blunders throughout history. In the...

Basics Illustration: Global Contexts is packed with insightful and thought-provoking commentary. It introduces the concept of illustration as a form of language and visual communication, conveying ideas, messages and emotions for cultural consumption. It looks at the illustrator as the inventor of imaginary worlds from...

Digital technologies in fashion are becoming more accessible and now any creative with a basic knowledge of fashion design and computing can create convincing still or animated 3D visualizations of styles, designs and products. With this technology, the designer is able to present a...

The book of the screenplay of Asteroid City - Wes Anderson's 2023 theatrical ensemble character piece; a poetic meditation on the meaning of life. Also included are colour images, and a conversation about the film with Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola, Jason Schwartzman, and Jake...

Kate Bush is the subject of murmured legend and one of the most idiosyncratic musicians of the modern era. Comprising fifty chapters or 'visions', Running Up That Hill is a multi-faceted biography of this famously elusive figure, viewing her life and work from fresh and illuminating...

Documentary films are the rock and roll of our times. Why are they made? Who are in the tribe of documentary film-makers? Do their films really change the world?In 1997 Nick Fraser created BBC Storyville, producing films that won Oscars, BAFTAs, and Peabody Awards....

Tate to Tate is a continuous concertina-bound panoramic drawing depicting a group of people walking east along London's South Bank - brightly coloured, diverse group, of all races and ages. As you follow their progress from spread to spread you start to notice cunning...

100 cards with category dividers in box Punch line. Political statement. Conversation piece. Souvenir. From the campaign trail to the concert tour, the button badge occupies a fascinating place in popular culture.This delightful box contains 100 colourful postcards featuring more than 300 badges -...

The consistently original painter, sculptor and video artist Mark Wallinger has created some of the most subtly intelligent and irreverent work from the UK in the last twenty-five years. Studying in London at the Chelsea School of Art (1978 81) and Goldsmiths College (1983-5),...

100 Fashion Icons showcases fashion portraits held in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery. The sitters include historic and contemporary fashion icons, fashion muses and influential designers, including portraits by notable fashion photographers, with key works accompanied by detailed captions. This concise publication...

The On Track series examines an artist’s entire output, track by track – or that within a specified date range – the series brings together expert analysis with both fact and opinion. In the 1990s, there was only one real punk rock band still...

In the work of Erica Van Horn, books collect and transform remnants, remembrances, remainders and reminders. From fragments that might otherwise be forgotten, she makes new inventories and series in intrinsic yet unexpected ways. ‘I use the portability of the printed sheet, mostly in book form,’ she...

28 photographs of manhole coverings and grilles randomly encountered on drifts through the urban landscape. With his characteristic interest in words and lines, Downsbrough applies his own playful minimal artistic grammar, system and precision in another work of his usual spareness and restraint. With...

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 that pareidolia images are processed by the same mechanism that would normally process emotion in a real face....

Aimed at students, sculptors, gallery owners, and artists Making Contemporary Sculpture offers a collection of informative interviews with leading sculpture artists. Sculpture has never been more exciting; gallery goers flock to see artworks that demand attention and dominate space. But how is this work...

Dirt documents the objects, sculptures and installations, many of a temporal nature made by Les Coleman over a period of 40 years. His use of transient materials leads to an instability and fragility, and may remind us of our own precariousness. Through the poetic appropriation...

Inspired by the manic, mind-expanding, music festivals that take over this rain-soaked, mud-mired country each summer, artist Kyle Platts has conjured up a festival fitting of his toxic comic book madness. Platts (a.k.a. Megaskull) here brings a wild festival to hideous life. Smelly campers, drunken partiers and...

What is the purpose of the comma – perhaps the most used symbol in the English language – and what are the proper uses of the asterisk? Do quote marks go inside or outside punctuation? What about a quote within a quote – a...