Quilts are among the most utilitarian of art objects, yet the best among them possess a formal beauty that rivals anything made on canvas. This landmark book, drawn from the world-renowned collection of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, highlight...

In this wide-ranging, eloquent book, Paul Binski sheds new light on one of the greatest periods of English art and architecture, offering ground-breaking arguments about the role of invention, making and the powers of Gothic art. His richly documente...

Forty works by early Netherlandish masters from van Eyck to Bosch – reproduced in exquisite detail – are the subject of this breathtaking book that leads readers deep into the paintings to reveal each artist's astonishing technique and brilliant appl...

Through beautiful photos and interviews with designers, this book instroduces the jewelers who have dominated the landscape of jewelry design in recent years. In presenting their creations, which fuse tradition and innovation with fascinating results...

Life in the digital economy of information and images enriches us but often induces a sense of being overwhelmed. "Sensing the Future: Moholy-Nagy, Media and the Arts" considers the impact of technology by exploring ways it was addressed in the pract...

Not for sale in selected countries! Arguably the most popular writer in modern comics, Brian Michael Bendis shares the tools and techniques he uses to create some of the most popular comic book and graphic novel stories of all time".Words for Pictu...

Designers need to draw the human body in movement and they must take into account the relationship between the human body, the materials and the shape of the clothing at the same time. This book is a through study on the techniques for drawing the hu...

Written in the spirit of Ovid, this lively and erudite book traces the art derived from Ovid's Metamorphoses from the Renaissance up to the present day. The Metamorphoses has been more widely illustrated than any other book except the Bible; for cent...

The work of Matthew Day Jackson (b. Panorama City 1974, lives and works in Brooklyn, New York) opens up a dialogue between various aspects of the history of Western culture and progress, including technology and pop culture, as well as art history an...

In this lucid, witty book, the eminent art historian Jonathan Brown examines links between his personal life and his study of Hispanic art of the Golden Age. His adventures are offered as a model for understanding how art history is shaped by life ex...