Art

The 20th Century Art Book was hailed upon its release as an exciting celebration of the myriad forms assumed by art over the last century. Complementing the phenomenally successful landmark,...

A complete course in the construction and development of Celtic ornament with over 700 illustrations. A Handbook of Celtic Ornament takes basic symbols or ideographs and develops them into a...

The Hermetic Museum takes readers on a magical mystery tour spanning an arc from the medieval cosmogram and images of Christian mysticism, through the fascinating world of alchemy to the...

This is a fascinating book, which will help readers to get more from visits to galleries, examines the processes involved in the creation of a painting, including composition, choice of...

William Orpen was the last of the great society painters, succeeding Sargent and becoming, in his turn, the most successful artist of his day. He was also the wealthiest, earning...

"When Matisse dies, Chagall will be the only painter left who understands what colour really is." Picasso said this in the 1950s, when he and Chagall were eminent neighbours living...

Egyptian mummies, Michaelangelo's drawings, sculptures from Greece and Rome, exquisite porcelain from China, bronze masterpieces from Africa, the remarkable finds from Sutton Hoo - these are just some of the...

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...

Lavishly illustrated and beautifully designed, this brand new textbook covers selected topics from the Leaving Certificate Art History and Appreciation syllabus in full and comprehensive detail. An accessible text that...

This volume of pen-and-ink drawings of Scottish mountain scenery by A. Wainwright - author of the legendary Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells and many volumes of Lakeland sketches -...

DAS MINSK is the latest project of the Hasso Plattner Foundation. Located in Potsdam, southwest of Berlin, the new exhibition space presents modern and contemporary art, as well as art...

***"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 book that Janet Maslin of The New York Times has called 'indispensable' and 'a transfixing study of American mores and manners that happens to incorporate boundless laughs, too' 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,...