This extraordinarily beautiful book gathers together and examines for the first time a delightful collection of English gardens rendered by artists from 1540 to the early nineteenth century, many of which are unknown. Sir Roy Strong, widely recognise...

From teaspoons to cocktail shakers and unique objects made for New York World's Fairs, this stunning book examines the influence of modernism upon industrially produced silverware made in the United States from 1925 to 2000. Featuring the Dallas Muse...

Not for sale in Estonia! The surfing iconoclast who became an icon, Miki Dora was the epitome of 1960s beach culture. His dark good looks were the envy of Malibu. His talent earned him trophies (which he disdained) and the nickname "Da Cat". And in...

Poets often have responded vitally to the art of their time, and ever since Susan Stewart began writing about art in the early 1980s, her work has resonated with practicing artists, curators, art historians, and art critics. Rooted in a broad and lea...

By the 19th century, connoisseurs from the British Isles had assembled the richest collections of classical antiquities outside Rome. The galleries they created to house the spectacular Greek and Roman statues, ornaments, vases, bronzes and gems were...

Not for sale in selected countries! Includes 2500 photographs of 50 faces – men and women of a variety of ages, shapes, sizes and ethnicities – each demonstrating a wide range of emotions and shown from multiple angles.

With "The Invention of Art", Larry Shiner challenges our conventional understandings of art and asks us to reconsider its history entirely, arguing that the category of fine art is a modern invention – that the lines drawn between art and craft resul...

London-based "Dazed and Confused" magazine started life as a group voice for the capital's exploding creative scene. This volume combines the best of past "Dazed" editorial and images with new commissions from fashion photographers, artists and docum...

This unique collection of radical club culture design forms an authoritative record of some of the most innovative flyers to come out of the UK's post-House Dance scene. Introductory essay by Jon Savage, designed by Mike Dorrian.

In "Venus in Exile" renowned cultural critic Wendy Steiner explores the twentieth century's troubled relationship with beauty. Disdained by avant-garde artists, feminists, and activists, beauty and its major symbols of art – the female subject and or...