Not for sale in selected countries! Targeted at young aspiring artists seeking to develop their technical skill and build a repertoire of subjects, Lee J. Ames's Draw 50 series shows you how to draw with ease using his signature step-by-step method...

This is a superbly illustrated and exhaustive overview of state of Russian contemporary art as seen through the Kandinsky Prize. In "An Absolute Disorder" displays the works of artists nominated for the Kandinsky Prize - Russia foremost award for con...

The Art Institute of Chicago is home to one of the world's finest – and largest – collections of American folk art. "For Kith and Kin" provides an introduction to that collection through more than sixty of its most outstanding objects. Selected by pr...

The Barnes Foundation is home to the world's largest collection of paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919). Dr. Albert C. Barnes, a Philadelphia scientist who made his fortune in pharmaceuticals, established the Foundation in 1922 in Merion, P...

Any scientist or engineer who communicates research results will immediately recognize this practical handbook as an indispensable tool. The guide sets out clear strategies and offers abundant examples to assist researchers – even those with no previ...

"Out of Focus" is the book of the first major photography overview at the Saatchi Gallery in London since the highly acclaimed 2001 show "I Am a Camera". "Out of Focus "presents 38 international artists working with the medium of photography in diver...

What happens when you invite such luminary fashion designers as Stephen Jones or Hussein Chalayan to collaborate with important contemporary artists such as Cerith Wyn Evans or Gavin Turk and ask them to think about the Olympic values of speed, stren...

"Permission to Laugh" explores the work of three generations of German artists who, beginning in the 1960s, turned to jokes and wit in an effort to confront complex questions regarding German politics and history. Gregory H. Williams highlights six o...

Not for sale in selected countries! Targeted to each new generation of aspiring beginners eager to learn the fundamentals of drawing in an easy and accessible way. The third title in a bestselling series, "Basic Drawing Made Amazingly Easy" is a co...

The newest volume in the "Art Institute of Chicago's successful A + D" series, "Fashioning the Object", invites readers to visit three of the most visionary design studios at work today: Bless, Boudicca, and Sandra Backlund. Fiercely independent and...