Composed of colour photographs taken in and around national and international airports, this volume presents graphic design related to air travel. The film director Marco Brambilla has taken images from the highly coded systems and endless architectu...

An illustrated and comprehensive account of the history of Chinese painting from prehistoric times to the 21st century. It should be of interest to students and general readers who wish to gain an in-depth knowledge of Chinese painting.

Told as a series of reflections, this study traces links between cultures as diverse as pre-Vedic India and late 19th-century France. An array of unrelated artists are all in fact linked by the Kabbalah and the correlation between art and this mystic...

"Is a non-remote horizon always a concealment? If a portion of sky has been carved and set loose to rest upon land, is it the result of an illegal language spoken in the town?" – Ben Marcus, from A Horizon Grammar A hybrid of artist's book and catal...

One of the most original and memorable photographers of the twentieth century, Brassai was also a journalist, sculptor, and writer. He took great pride in his writing, and he loved literature and language-French most of all. When he arrived in Paris...

One of the leading artists of his generation, the Spanish sculptor Juan Munoz (1953-2001) was known for his diverse and highly original body of work centering on the narrative possibilities of figures in environments".Juan Munoz" illustrates in full...

Myer Myers, a Jewish silversmith in colonial America, created outstanding works for leading members of the New York elite, and the objects made in his workshop have long been regarded as among the most important American statements of the Rococo styl...

The sculptor Louise Bourgeois is best known for her monumental abstract sculptures, one of the most striking of which is the installation "Spider" (1997). Too vast in scale to be viewed all at once, this elusive structure resists simple narration. It...

Leonardo's Last Supper, one of the most important works of the Renaissance if not all of Western art, was painted between 1494 and 1498 in the refectory of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan. From the moment that the prior at the monastery complained...

A study of the Albert Memorial. It tells the history, discusses the symbolism, and gives an account of the recent restoration of this 19th-century monument. In commemorating Prince Albert, the Memorial exemplified the age, its material achievements,...