This beautiful series lavishly illustrates the world's major fresco cycles from the early fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries. Each book also contains a comprehensive text, a biography of the artist, a bibliography, and a glossary.

Bringing together important experimental works and ephemera, this volume documents a watershed moment in James Welling’s photographic career. A seminal figure in the "Pictures Generation"—a group of artists working in 1980s New York—James Welling is best...

This vibrant 3-volume set explores Banksy’s iconic works through the lens of some of his most powerful symbols—rats, monkeys, and children.Whether he’s protesting war, challenging societal norms, or sending up political and economic systems with his...

From the authors of NYC Storefronts comes a sprawling new collection of intimately-rendered shops that line the streets and sidewalks of the Big Apple's most populous borough. Nowadays, Brooklyn is both destination and home to so many New Yorkers that...

A celebration of women-identifying and non-binary contemporary artists from around the globe who are transforming what it means to make craft.“Women’s work” has historically been relegated to the domestic, absent from galleries and discussions of “art.”...

A thought-provoking chronological timeline of the world’s most influential books.Many books have become classics, must-reads, or overnight publishing sensations, but how many can genuinely claim to have changed the way we see and think?In 100 Books that...

A groundbreaking look at the life and art of one of the most influential, modern painters of the late nineteenth century and founder of the Impressionist movement“Wullschläger emerges with a strikingly different picture of the artist. Passionate,...

The journals of the Nobel Prize–winning author, beautifully illustrated with his own paintingsFor many years, Orhan Pamuk kept a record of his daily thoughts and observations, entering them in small notebooks and illustrating them with his own paintings...

Compelling and intimate, this collection of never-before-seen letters between the celebrated art critic and essayist, John Berger and his son Yves, an artist, is a moving look at their musings on art, memory, life, death, and beyond.Written between...

Willie Doherty: False Memory is a mid-career retrospective. From his early black-and-white photographs to his Cibachromes, slide installation and video work, this is the most comprehensive book yet published on this artist.

The author of Dakota and Cloister Walk offers up her meditation on Mary, collecting sixty images of the mother of Jesus, from Raphael to Leonardo da Vinci--from Virgin, to peasant girl, to anxious parent, to Mother of God. 35,000 first printing.

What is the purpose of art in a world on fire? Can it be a genuine form of political resistance?In this exhilarating work, Amber Massie-Blomfield brings together stories of remarkable acts of creativity that have shifted history on its axis, from writer...

The first in an exciting and inspirational new V&A sketchbook series that explores the sketching processes and techniques of artists from the 16th century to the present day. Artists have been using sketchbooks for many hundreds of years, particularly...

An updated edition of this essential practical handbook for all those involved in, or studying, the dynamic field of curating. From pitching your ideas and writing loan requests to working with artists, lenders and art handlers, to writing...

A new edition of one of the first books to focus on the world of women artists and their practice. Women have always practised as artists, but for centuries the art world considered them mere dilettantes. Their work was derided as second-rate and they...

A concise compendium of the lives and work of the 101 most significant Surrealists by one of the last surviving members of the movement, bestselling author and artist Desmond Morris, who knew several of the key participants personally. 2024 marks the...

A Times Book of the Year 'This is as clear a piece of writing about the experience of looking at a great painting as I have ever read ... Gayford seems to have seen everything and thought deeply about all of it' Andrew Marr, New Statesman 'If you are...

A Spectator Book of the Year 'Grovier's book reframes [Banksy's] works in a new light. Inextricably linked to Da Vinci, Monet and Van Gogh, Banksy not only makes art but reinvigorates it' Daily Mail A new take on the history of art - from da Vinci to...