Art

A WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR'A compelling tale . . . Brilliantly insightful and well-written.' - TimesFernande Olivier, Olga Khokhlova, Marie-Therese Walter, Dora Maar, Francoise Gilot, and Jacqueline Roque. These...

The Story of Art, one of the most famous and popular books on art ever written, has been a world bestseller for over four decades. Attracted by the simplicity and...

Of all Italian painters, Caravaggio (c 1565-1609) speaks most intensely to the modern world. Helen Langdon uncovers his progress from childhood in plague-ridden Milan to wild success in Rome, where...

Georges de La Tour's haunting depiction of a repentant Mary Magdalen gazing into a mirror by candlelight; Jean Simeon Chardin's perfectly balanced image of a young boy making a house...

***"I wish I had read these rules forty years ago and carried them around like a bible. By chance or design I've followed most of them at some point but...

"The Nude Female Figure" is a compilation of hundreds of classic poses of the female nude. These full colour photographs are grouped into the various traditional positions you would find...

The BP Portrait Award, now in its thirtieth year, is one of Britain's most prestigious art prizes, and is the leading showcase for artists throughout the world specialising in portraiture....

Sean Scully is one of today's best-loved abstract painters. His familiar signature style of lines or bands of colour, alluding to architectural elements such as portals, windows and walls, is...

Many of Leonardo da Vinci's manuscripts were intended as preparatory sketches for future published works, and the "Codex Leicester" is one of the most advanced. Written densely on 18 sheets...

Making a vision board is one of the most powerful manifesting tools for creatingthe life you want.Make a Vision Board provides you with everything you need to get started now....

This dictionary provides comprehensive information on the fine arts, with entries on paintings, sculptures, drawings and prints, and the artists who have made them, throughout the world. It covers historical...

'I don't know how to write love letters. But I wanted to tell you that my whole being opened for you. Since I fell in love with you everything is...

The paintings and engravings of William Hogarth, the subject of this biography, have always been popular, but outside art history little is known about his life. He moved in the...

This work sets out to analyze some of the major works of early modern portraiture and takes a close look at 50 major works, including paintings by Jan Van Eyck,...

'Finally! Art without terror!' Phoebe Waller-Bridge'A completely joyful book about the joy of art. A cracking, easy read that puts art in our lives, our homes, our hearts' Richard Curtis'A...

This is a bestselling and comprehensive introductory textbook that uses a four-part structure to cover all aspects of the visual arts, including: how art is designed - the visual language...

The Book of Kells is the richest and most copiously illustrated book of in the Celto-Saxon style that still survives. However, despite its rarity and fame, there is little that...

Designed for the serious beginner, this volume offers step-by-step advice on painting in oil pastels. Lessons progress simply from easy subjects and techniques to the more difficult and complex. First,...

In the past, artists inherited a tried and tested body of knowledge concerning materials and techniques, this practice manual aims to restore this heritage and to supply a single reliable...

Botanical illustration and flower painting are perhaps two of the most skilled and captivating forms of expression in the history of art and Irish artists have excelled in these fields....

Color your happily-ever-after!Indulge your imagination as you add your own colorful touches to a romantasy world on the page. Slay the dragon, save the kingdom, fall in love. In romantasy...

This volume covers one of the greatest creative periods in the history of Italian art, looking at the progress of the arts in every centre between Venice and Sicily. It...

A Guardian Top 50 Summer Read'I ended up reading it in one sitting, well into the early hours of the following day.' - Observer'I can't think of an art book...

From the ' War on Terror' to resistance in Ramallah and traumatic dislocation in the Middle East, Berger explores the uses of art as an instrument of political resistance. Visceral...

***PRE-ORDER now to secure your special edition with Billy's signature sprayed edge - available only while stock lasts and EXCLUSIVE to the first print run***'My drawings started by accident. I...