Charlotte Salomon (1917-1943) is renowned for a single, monumental, modernist artwork, "Life? or Theatre?" ("Leben? oder Theater?"), comprising 784 paintings and created between 1941 and 1942. This major art-historical study sheds new light on the re...

Winslow Homer (1836-1910) is widely regarded as the greatest American painter of the 19th century, but it is not well known that he spent a pivotal period of time on the other side of the Atlantic. The eighteen months Homer spent in England in 1881 a...

When the inscription "Made by Nathan Lumbard Apl 20th 1800" was found in the late 1980s on a chest of drawers, the identity of an unknown craftsman suddenly surfaced. "Crafting Excellence" introduces the striking achievements of cabinetmaker Nathan L...

Landscape is probably the most popular type of painting, but anyone who has ever been disappointed by vacation photographs knows how difficult it is to turn a view into a picture. This book shows how artists in past centuries translated outdoor space...

One of the great innovations of the Impressionists was their radical use of colour: their application of strokes of complementary or contrasting hues captured the shifting effects of light and foregrounded the nature of vision. Using colour as the le...

Not for sale in selected countries! This updated, expanded and oversized inspirational resource for artists and designers working with colour presents more than 1,100 colour palettes, with light, bright, dark and muted varieties for each one, makin...

Pioneered by William Hogarth (1697-1764) and his peers in the early 18th century, and then revitalized by Johan Zoffany (1733-1810), the conversation piece was an innovative mode of portraiture, depicting groups posed in landscape or domestic setting...

Clarence H. White (1871-1925) was one of the most influential art photographers and teachers of the early 20th century and a founding member of the Photo-Secession. This beautiful publication offers a new appraisal of White's contributions, including...

In recent years, funding for the conservation of cultural heritage has become increasingly difficult to obtain, and this trend shows no sign of changing significantly in the foreseeable future. The twelfth triennial meeting of the International Commi...

The Architect Kuno Mayr has developed a way of working on reality in which the rigorousness of his process manifests itself first in the model. Through a long and laborious procedure, overlooked things are saved from abandonment and neglect so as to...