Throughout his career, Gustav Klimt completed hundreds of paintings and thousands of drawings of delicate beauty, many of them featuring the female form. Designed to imitate an artist's sketchbook, this gorgeous volume reproduces Klimt's most beautif...

For decades, anyone who cared about product design looked to the Braun label when choosing their appliances, radios, and other consumer items. Now Dieter Rams, the guiding force behind the Braun look, breaks down his design principles and processes i...

Raghubir Singh (1942-1999) was a pioneer of color street photography who worked and published prolifically from the late 1960s until his death in 1999 at age 56. His vivid, intensely hued photographs capture rural and urban India and iconic depiction...

For Henri Matisse, drawing was an exercise as personal as it was essential to his art. These black and white and gently colored sketches allow the viewer to appreciate the quality of Matisse's lines, their confidence and ease, as well as the intense...

This lavishly produced authoritative monograph presents an in-depth view of the life and work of Utagawa Hiroshige, one of Japan's most revered artists. Presented in a style as stunning as the prints it celebrates, this survey of Hiroshige tells the...

The Burrell Collection in Glasgow houses more than twenty paintings, pastels, and drawings by Edgar Degas (1834-1917) that include his most recognisable motifs: ballet dancers, bathers, jockeys, and women at work. Together with a selection of the Nat...

Fabrics are the base for the world of fashion: they determine the way designers conceive their pieces and their creativity. This book is a bridge uniting materials and their creators by visually showing the profound relationship between fabrics and f...

A. Bandit is an experimental performance art group started by conceptual artist Glenn Kaino and magician Derek DelGaudio. Together they have exhibited and performed their work in venues that span a diverse range of cultural activities. The book intro...

Scott Mead captures the physical and emotional wonder of air travel with his awe-inspiring images of the world above the clouds. World traveler and acclaimed photographer Scott Mead documents gorgeous vistas from above the clouds. Mead views this se...

This book includes examples of the Wiener Werkstنtte's iconic aesthetic and covers all of the significant artists who were a part of the collective. The Wiener Werkstنtte, founded by Josef Hoffmann, Koloman Moser, and Fritz Waerndorfer, was an artis...