Art, Photography & Fashion

Paul Cezanne, a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter, was an important catalyst to the transition from the 19th-century conception of artistic endeavor to the modern and radically different world of art that emerged full bore in the 20th century. Cezanne successfully melded the structural impulse ...

A charming book of sketches of London done in 1924.

Gauguin's paintings are redolent of the South Sea Islands, full of exotic women, vibrant flora and brilliant colour. They range from normal life in France, to Provence where he lived and painted briefly with Van Gogh to French Polynesia. This compact collection gives a brief history of his turbulent ...

Richard Wilson was born in London in 1953. Descended on one side from a line of builders and on the other of artists, his work often comes closer to engineering or even architecture than it does to traditional sculpture. Typically he transforms the viewer's environment into something unsettling and strange ...

The consistently original painter, sculptor and video artist Mark Wallinger has created some of the most subtly intelligent and irreverent work from the UK in the last twenty-five years. Studying in London at the Chelsea School of Art (1978 - 81) and Goldsmiths College (1983 - 5), his early work questioned ...

Features images that represent five European cities Paris, Istanbul, Palermo, Berlin and Budapest through their surface markings. Exploring the interaction between a city and its citizens as recorded by graffiti and advertising, this work invites us to look at graffiti and other unofficial interventions anew.

The best of Tim Richardson's groundbreaking work as one of the world's most inventive fashion photographers is gathered together for the first time in this lavishly produced volume.

The most awe-inspiring churches and cathedrals from around the world

Posters provide an instructive glimpse of an era's prevailing ideals, prejudices, and presumptions. This title suggests how a famous face can enhance the message of the poster and, conversely, how posters have defined and disseminated images of prominent Americans.

Aesthetics is regarded, traditionally, as an aspect of philosophy. Arthur Edwards' approach is different. Ignoring philosophy, he points out that any work of art is devised in the mind of the artist and interpreted through the mind of the beholder and the object must therefore constitute a device of ...

Maurice Cockrill RA (b 1936) is one of Britains most important abstract artists. This book traces his career, from the realist and Pop works he produced as a central figure in the Liverpool art scene in the 1960s, to the expressionist and abstract work he began to make after moving to London in the 1980s.

What do John Hoyland's boots, Peter Blake's photomontages and Laura Knight's drawing of Venus have in common? They've all featured on Royal Academy posters. Every year, since the founding of the Royal Academy of Arts in 1768, there has been a Summer Exhibition. The open event annually draws 10,000 submissions ...

This book arises from the Cities in dialogue exhibition that was held in in FACT in conjunction with the University of Liverpool and the Liverpool Independents Biennial in 2014, and covers the works of artists Brian Mackern (Uruguay), Barbara Palomino (Chile), Marina Zerbarini (Argentina), and Ricardo Miranda Zuniga (US-Nicaragua).

Catalog of an exhibition held at Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, Dec. 11, 2010-Feb. 20, 2011.

This new introduction to El Greco (1541-1614) follows the artist from his native island to Venice, Rome, Madrid, and then Toledo, the ecclesiastical capital of Spain. El Greco's ability to assimilate different artistic techniques and approaches to religion and philosophy enabled him to develop one of ...

Takes a look at the makings and meanings of shoes, cobblers, and barefootedness in Jewish experience. This book shows how shoes convey theological, social, and economic concepts, and as such are subjects for inquiry within a range of cultural, artistic, and historic contexts.