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Author: Donald J. Cosentino

Focusing on artistic evocations of the irrepressible Gedes--an increasingly dominant family of trickster dieties--In Extremis examines the striking disjunction between social collapse and artistic flourescence in twenty- ...

Author: Dawn Ades, Rita Eder & Graciela Speranza

*It is widely recognised that surrealism has been fundamental to the development of modern art and literature. What is often under-appreciated, however, is its international perspective. This thought-provoking and compre ...

Author: David Keuning & Arthur Wortmann

"Mark: Another Architecture "is a bi-monthly international trade journal featuring exceptional architecture projects. Launched seven years ago by the makers of "Frame," "Mark "takes a radical and international approac ...

Author: The One Club

"One Show Design, Volume 6" features all of the winners from the 2012 One Show Design competition. With categories including brand and corporate identity, package, environmental and broadcast design from iconic brands ...

Author: Danzig Baldaev & Sergei Vasiliev

This final volume of previously unpublished drawings and photographs completes the "Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopadia" trilogy. Danzig Baldaevs unparalleled ethnographic achievement, documenting over 3,000 tattoo draw ...

Author: Reid Kirby

Posters of the United States Army Chemical Warfare Service (CWS) are examined from 1918 to 1945. Using a selection of 32 posters the emotional appeal of fear and sex are used to motivate manufacturing, quality, training, ...

Author: Lo Scarabeo, Erik C Dunne & Kim Huggens

A profound quest for enlightenment drives us to grow, overcome challenges, and reach our full potential. Combining artistic beauty, symbolic depth, and intuitive vigor, the Illuminati Tarot warms the soul and frees th ...

Author: Marie Toms

In Marie (Broadway) Toms second family heritage book Broadway Generations, she brings a spirit of celebration and honor to the family. She traces the footprints of early Arkansan settler Grandpa Oliver back two more step ...

Author: Anastasios Antonaras

For the first time, this important volume features nearly all of the ancient glass objects in the collection of the Princeton University Art Museum. Collected over the course of more than a century, the objects originate ...

Author: Carolyn Elaine Tate

Recently, scholars of Olmec visual culture have identified symbols for umbilical cords, bundles, and cave-wombs, as well as a significant number of women portrayed on monuments and as figurines. In this groundbreaking st ...

Author: Selene Wendt & Ernesto Neto

A catalogue inspired by the tradition of Latin American literature and authors such as Jorge Amado, Jorge Luis Borges, Pablo Neruda, Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The unique storytelling tradition which characterizes Latin Ame ...

Author: Philip Kaiser & Miwon Kwon

This book traces the origins of the artistic impulses to use the earth as a medium and to locate works in remote sites, far from familiar art contexts. In doing so, Ends of the Earth will challenge the ideas that Land ar ...

Author: Caroline Holmes

'Impressionists in their Gardens' explores gardens through the senses of the Impressionists from three continents - Europe, North America and Australia - enjoying the essentially similar pleasures of the garden, but enga ...

Author: National Portrait Gallery

Author: National Portrait Gallery

One of the greatest living painters and portraitists, Lucian Freud (born 1922) brings a powerfully obsessive scrutiny to bear upon his subjects. "I want the painting to be flesh," Freud has avowed, and through this aspir ...

Author: Rosalind Ormiston

Vincent van Gogh is considered one of the world's greatest painters, his work having had a huge and far-reaching influence on 20th-century art as well as remaining visually and emotionally powerful to this day. We all kn ...

Author: Robert Neuman

Baroque and Rococo Art and Architecture is the first in-depth history of one of the great periods of Western art, spanning the years 1585 to 1785. The text treats the major media-painting, sculpture, drawings, prints, an ...

Author: Sarah Lees

The core of the Clark's collection was assembled by Robert Sterling Clark (1877-1956), who once declared, "I like all kinds of art if it is good of its kind". This monumental, two-volume publication is the first fully-do ...

Author: Jeff Brouws, Wendy Burton & Hermann Zschiegner

In the 1960s and 1970s, the artist Ed Ruscha created a series of small photo-conceptual artist's books, among them Twentysix Gas Stations, Various Small Fires, Every Building on the Sunset Strip, Thirtyfour Parking Lots, ...

Author: Victoria Charles & Klaus H. Carl

According to the defined canons of art technique, a portrait should be, above all, a faithful representation of its model. However, this gallery of 1000 portraits illustrates how the genre has been transformed throug ...