Art, Photography & Fashion

The significant influence of the periodical Signature on fine art has long been overlooked. While few people nowadays will have read it, no journal has greater claim to have stimulated the taste that became British neo-romanticism in the mid-20th century.

Oliver Simon, its editor, publisher, patron ...

An unprecedented insight into the effect of drugs on life, politics and popular culture that's comprehensive and fantastical, informative and hallucinatory all at once, through one of the most comprehensive private collections.

The first monograph by the art director for leading video game company Blizzard Entertainment

Brutal: The Art of Samwise is the first book to reflect all aspects of Samwise's prolific career and includes the most famous characters he's created, including Blizzard's biggest heroes. Samwise's unique ...

Featuring a foreword by culture critic and curator Carlo McCormick and original typesetting by artist Adam Turnbull, Imaginary Concerts Volume 2 transports the reader further into Coffin's uncannily evocative, nostalgia-tinged and personally revealing realm of musical what-ifs.

An illustrated overview of writer/director/animator Mamoru Hosoda's Academy Award-nominated movies and career, including previously unpublished storyboards, background paintings, character designs, and concept art

Journey into the mind and creative process of one of the most celebrated anime directors ...

Abraham Manievich is first English-language publication to chronicle the life of this artist, and will reintroduce 130 of his images to the public record and present new scholarship The painter Abraham Manievich was a prominent figure in the artistic worlds of early twentieth-century Europe and America. ...

A fresh look at the art, life and literature of seminal American modernist painter Arthur Dove

Arthur Dove: A Reassessment offers a fresh look at the art, life and literature of seminal American modernist painter Arthur Dove (1880-1946). It also introduces Dove's long-forgotten biographer Suzanne Mullett ...

The first comprehensive overview of an influential American photographer and filmmaker whose work is known for its intimacy and social engagement

By integrating her contemporary photography with historical periods and various settings from around the world, Forman creates a world of illusion; upon closer inspection, what appears ordinary suggests an underlying tension and an aura of mystery. Expressed in the diffused colors of twilight and chiaroscruro, ...

Sophie Chang has been actively pursuing her artistic exploration in recent years. Her works incorporate Western painting style into the freehand style (or xieyi) of Chinese ink wash paintings, and integrate expressive use of colours into metaphysical spirituality. Chang has focused her studies on ink ...

Xu Bin Jueyi's sculpture breaks nearly a hundred years of stasis in Buddha sculpting. Using contemporary materials such as metal, resin and wood, Jueyi literally reshapes the aesthetic for Buddha imagery while retaining the compassion and tranquillity that lies behind it. Through the study and sketching ...

We may
have eyes that look - but how clearly do we see?

This
compelling novel of art and adventure, Julia Grigg's debut, is set in the feverish
creativity of mid-sixteenth century Italy. Francesco Bassano wants to find out
how and why an extraordinary painting was made; the story traces his quest to ...

This new publication examines early 20thcentury gender politics and development of the emerging art market in Russia.

Award-winning photographer Nick Veasey uses a variety of specialised imaging equipment to create images that see within. Often collaborating with scientists and boffins, he has built a strong body of work that enables the viewer to appreciate what goes on underneath the surface. The subject matter of ...

This ground-breaking publication provides a new view of the great Scottish artist Alan Davie (1920-2014), whose intensely physical gestural painting stood the staid post-war British art world on its head. In advance of a new Davie gallery in Hertford, the visually spectacular book argues that far from ...

Old Buildings and new ones tell their stories of colourful lives that have made up the character of a well-loved urban quarter.

Published to coincide with a career-defining retrospective at Hastings Museum and Gallery in January 2022, In Sussex: Bob Mazzer is a far-reaching collection showing Mazzer doing what he does best in the town he came to call home. Hastings, St Leonards-on-Sea and the stunning surrounding countryside ...

A fascinating guide to the dark side of the global art market.

Told in his own words, in response to questions from the writer and art critic Andrew Lambirth, this book chronicles Andrew Logan's life and work through expressive anecdote and factual recollection. Reflections is a look back, but also a look at the present and a look forward: it is about the meaning ...

Find calm through creativity with this exotic birds colouring book, designed especially for grown-ups.