Art, Photography & Fashion

The Painter RAs photographed in their studios with examples of their work accompanied by a brief biography.

This intriguing book investigates the very rare discovery of a huge, lost, Last Supper painting produced in the workshop of Tiziano Vecellio, known as Titian. The discoloured canvas hung neglected in a parish church for 110 years until the conservator and art historian Ronald Moore removed centuries ...

Take four seasons, one photographer, eighty species, hundreds of miles on foot in a city of ten million people and through intimate and captivating portraits meet London's wild neighbours.

A great tattoo starts with a great tattoo drawing.

A Passion for Fashion provides an amusing
look at some of the clothes, underclothes, shoes and accessories worn by many
of the more colourful characters in Blenheim Palace's 300-year history, as well
as a cautionary look at the role that arsenic, lead, mercury and mousetraps
played in the fashions of ...

Features ten of London's most prominent galleries and
museums - The British Museum, Victoria and Albert, National Gallery, Dulwich,
Wallace Collection, Tate Britain, Courtauld, Tate Modern, National Portrait
Gallery, Royal Academy.
Showcases paintings, sculptures and objects from the
Ancient world to ...

Drawing on interviews with all the key BritArt players and archival research, this title examines the individual characters, their relationships to one another, crucial events and seminal artworks, considering, the political, economic and artistic context of those years.

The photographs are a compact summary of Bob Mazzers' work since the 1960s: photographs from London, including the famous Underground images; hippie life in Wales; loving life in France; expanding life in the USA and local life in Hastings.

Last great master of the Renaissance, El Greco, holds a singular place in the history of art. His work is still viewed today with the eye of modernity, seducing a wide audience of lovers of ancient and contemporary art.

This book focuses on Li Lei's abstract painting from the period 2006 to 2016. Important series include Shanghai Flowers, Flames at Pompeii and Memories of the South. Accompanying essays trace his influences, from the twentieth-century Abstract art scene in Shanghai and his childhood in the vast landscapes ...

Originally published: London: Thames and Hudson, 1973. With new afterword.

Chinese collector Liu Xinyan has been absorbed in the world of collecting for over thirty years. Under his influence, the husband-and-wife team Xiang Xiaoqun and Zhong Guomiao also early on began to collect glass. Their collection of Chinese Qing dynasty palace glass, exquisite beyond compare, magnificently ...

The painted world of Fred Dubery
was all about warmth and colour - a bright pattern of life reflecting a private
place of beauty, pleasure and merriment. Known from numerous solo exhibitions,
and from regular showings at the Royal Academy and New English Art Club, the
pictures are a record of joyful ...

In this unique book the author shares his experiences as a mental health specialist, and as a sufferer of PTSD. Illustrated with his own stunning wildlife photography that helped him on his own journey to recovery, he hopes this book will inspire positivity and wellbeing for all.

Figure Drawing is a step-by-step guide for beginners, aimed at artists who are keen to learn how to create figure drawings in a vast variety of styles.It is a guide to the entire process, including getting to grips with the anatomy of the human body, learning about the materials and concepts such as ...

Landscape Drawing is a step-by-step guide for beginners, aimed at artists who are keen to learn how to create landscape drawings in a vast variety of styles and mediums, such as watercolours, oils and pastels.It is a guide to the entire process, including getting to grips with representing different ...

The post-1989 period has seen artists in Central and Eastern Europe embrace socially engaged practices.

Ellen Emmet Rand (1875-1941) was one of the most important and prolific portraitists in the United States in the first decades of the twentieth century. She negotiated her career, reputation, family, and finances in modern and commercially savvy ways-revealing the complex negotiations needed to balance ...

Fashion has always been strongly linked with the politics of gender and equality. In this global and interdisciplinary collection, leading authors explore the relationships between the dressed body, fashion, sex, and power, with an emphasis on the role of dress in both reinforcing and challenging social ...

This illustrated version of the popular Passover song "Had gadya" was the wonderfully playful offspring of the avantgarde artist El Lissitzky (1890-1941). It dates to a little-known period early in his career when he immersed himself in the Jewish cultural renaissance that flourished in Russia between 1912 and 1920.