Female Creatives

Softcover | 21.5 x 2.46 x 27 cm | 272 pp ACC Art Books | 2021 | 9781788841481 This is the illustrated story of super-stylist Caroline Baker – the woman who shaped modern street fashion. It explores Baker’s highly influential career – in her...

Darryl W. Bullock Hardcover | 15.88 x 3.56 x 23.5 cm | 368 pp Omnibus Press | 2023 | 9781913172527  This is the definitive account of the LGBTQ trailblazers of early blues and a fascinating consideration of the intersection between music and LGBTQ history, from...

Kate Bryan & Asli Yazan Hardcover | 19.94 x 2.67 x 25.27 cm | 184 pp White Lion Publishing | 2019 | 9780711240315 The Art of Love tells the stories of the most fascinating couples of the art world, exploring the passionate, challenging and loving relationships behind...

Jean Stein Softcover | 13.1 x 3 x 19.7 cm | 464 pp Grove Press | 2020 | 9780802134103 ‘Exceptionally seductive… You can’t put it down’ LA TimesOutrageous, vulnerable and strikingly beautiful - in the 1960s Edie Sedgwick became both an emblem of, and a...

Betty May Softcover | 12.9 x 1.37 x 19.81 cm | 256 pp Duckworth Books | 2023 | 9780715654910 Dancer, singer, gang member, cocaine addict and artist’s favourite: Betty May – aka ‘the Tiger Woman’ – was a woman like no other. Tiger Woman is...

Hardcover | 19.56 x 1.52 x 25.4 cm | 112 pp Thames & Hudson | 2019 | 9780500022139  In the course of a career spanning more than fifty years, Posy Simmonds (b. 1945) has become one of Britain’s best-known satirical cartoonists. She is also...

Softcover | 21.6 x 1.9 x 27.3 cm | 192 pp Tate Publishing | 2011 | 9781854378880 Susan Hiller was born in the United States in 1940, and studied and worked as an anthropologist before becoming an artist and settling in London in the early...

Hardcover | 24 x 1.5 x 31 cm | 144 pp Asia Society Museum | 2011 | 9780878481132 Sarah Sze (b. 1969), initially trained in architecture, erects vertiginous sculptural universes from common consumer products such as aspirin, foam, ladders, plastic spoons, notepads, trash baskets,...

Softcover | 30.48 x 1.85 x 17.78 cm | 112 pp John Hopkins University Press | 2000 | 9780801864001 Rare Edition In this volume of 60 black-and-white panoramas, photographer Laurie Brown documents the changing landscape along the western edge of Southern California. These stark...

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...

Hardcover | 22.6 x 2.2 x 28.6 cm | 176 pp Harper Collins | 2023 | 9780007513215 A lavishly illustrated retrospective in celebration of 100 years since Judith Kerr’s birth, author of The Tiger Who Came to Tea and many other iconic books. Judith...

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...

Softcover | 18.7 × 26.5 cm | 32 pp The Everyday Press | 2019 | 9781912458066 Edition of 750 copies Sigune Hamann's work combines experimental approaches in photography, video, and sound with cross-disciplinary inquiry. She explores how time, perception, and attention shape the construction and...

Hardcover | 25.4 x 2.54 x 33.66 cm | 224 pp Hatje Cantz | 2021 | 9783775751209 Reality and fiction, matter and spirit, subject and object – the artist Rebecca Horn constantly blurs these boundaries. Even the different media she uses are not clearly separated...

Hardcover | 27.05 x 1.85 x 31.72 cm | 172 pp Roads Publishing | 2014 | 9781909399396 The work of Bulgarian painter Oda Jaune (b.1979) focuses on the biomorphic, the collaged, the abnormal, which ensure that her work continually evades the viewers grasp. Her work plays...

Softcover | 13 × 2 x 13 cm | 168 pp The Everyday Press | 2009 | 9780956173829 Edition of 1000500 black cover / 500 white cover Each of the 168 pages of Crosswords presents a grid of 13 × 13 squares arranged in different black...

Softcover | 21 x 29.7 cm | 68 pp The Everyday Press | 9781912458158 | 2022 Edition of 1000 copies  Philatelic Items documents 220 works produced over ten years by Lolly Batty. It includes an index showing the envelopes followed by a selection printed...

Larissa Pham Hardcover | 13.8 x 2.8 x 20.4 cm | 288 pp Serpent's Tail | 2021 | 9781788168021 Pop Song is a celebration of the strange and delicious state of falling in love, whether with a painting or a person, interwoven with incisive...

Lionel Bovier, Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith & Dominic Molon Softcover | 25.4 x 1.9 x 30.5 cm | 192 pp JRP Ringier | 2014 | 9783037643853 In the 1980s Kilimnik's jumbled narrative installations were compared by critics to the 'scatter art' of the previous decade,...

Hardcover | 16 x 3 x 24.2 cm | 320 pp Faber & Faber  | 2024 | 9780571377022  In the early '60s, four friends from Liverpool formed a band. But this is not the 'fab four' story we know. Mary, Sylvia, Valerie and Pamela...