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Combining powerful imagery of artworks and ritual objects with insightful analysis and expertly written text, Magick tells the visual story of the magical arts, from personal and community-based folk magic to ceremonial magic, illusionists, and the paranormal.From 30,000-year-old magic wands unearth...

How we search for meaning in our futures, as revealed by the divine, occult, or supernatural, from ancient prophets to the end of days.What will happen to us next? From the earliest beginnings of human civilization, people have searched for signs, patterns, and clues to address the last unanswerable...

Tracing the British figurative master's evolving drawing practice throughout his lifetimeExamining the intimate dialogue between his sketches and paintings from the 1940s to the early 21st century, Drawing into Painting reveals Lucian Freud's lifelong focus on the human face and form. Featuring a go...

A major new monograph on the work of Lottie Consalvo, bringing together painting, performance and video across 304 pages.Published by Art Ink, We hover above the ground in hope that we might float offers a richly paced view of Consalvo’s practice through expansive image plates and commissioned tex...

An extraordinary blend of narrative history and memoir, by the author of the award-winning and bestselling international sensation, The Hare with Amber EyesIn , artist Edmund de Waal gives us an intimate portrait of his lifelong obsession with porcelain, or “white gold." A potter who has been work...

A Bigger Book, TASCHEN’s SUMO-sized David Hockney monograph, is as spectacular in format as it is in scope. In it, the artist takes stock of more than 60 years of work, from his teenage days at the Bradford School of Art, through his breakthrough in 1960s Swinging London, life by Los Angeles pools...

Discover the intimate spaces that shaped one of the world’s most iconic artists.reveals how the places she inhabited— and especially the famed Blue House—nurtured her creativity, identity, and extraordinary body of work.This compelling visual biography traces Kahlo’s life through the places...

Available in English for the first time, anthropologist Carlo Severi’s The Chimera Principle breaks new theoretical ground for the study of ritual, iconographic technologies, and oral traditions among non-literate peoples. Setting himself against a tradition that has long seen the memory of people...

An intimate glimpse into one of the world’s most renowned contemporary art collections and the collector whose vision and passion shaped itStep inside one of the most captivating private art collections in the world - an extraordinary group of modern and contemporary art curated by Glenn Fuhrman...

The best-selling and critically acclaimed monograph on one of the most influential painters of the twentieth centuryWillem de Kooning was a leading exponent of Abstract Expressionism. MoMA's 2011 de Kooning retrospective drew record crowds, and his prodigious achievements continue to provoke and ins...

This collectible volume introduces Vonnegut’s legion of fans to an entirely new side of his irrepressible creative personality – his work as a gifted graphic artist.Readers around the world know Kurt Vonnegut as the iconic author of books such as Slaughterhouse-Five and Cat’s Cradle. Far fewer...

The Kisokaido route through Japan was ordained in the early 1600s by the country's then-ruler Tokugawa Ieyasu, who decreed that staging posts be installed along the length of the arduous passage between Edo (present-day Tokyo) and Kyoto. Inns, shops, and restaurants were established to provide suste...

Lovers of botanical art will feast their eyes on the stunning collection of 80 works by the painter often compared to Georgia O'Keeffe.Rosie Sanders's botanical paintings lie at the extreme end of botanical art—they exude dynamism and sensuality in every brushstroke, while their richness of color...

In this first comprehensive overview of his drawing practice from 1980 to the present, artist and sculptor Antony Gormley reflects on the ideas, processes, and histories behind his craft."What is drawing?" artist and sculptor Antony Gormley asks in his prologue to. "What does it take to draw?" This...

SKULLS: ART IN BONE is a captivating anthology that delves into the artistry inspired by the cranium―one of the most evocative bones in the human body. Long associated with cultural narratives, the skull has served as a powerful symbol throughout history, representing danger, death, and even rebel...

BEST OF THE YEARThe Guardian · SLJ Teen Librarian ToolboxFrom the creator of The Arrival, a collection of essays illuminating his thoughts and advice for writers and artists, young and old.Shaun Tan is one of the world’s most highly acclaimed narrative artists—his stories and images are loved b...

A clear, concise and detailed analysis of the eclectic and beautiful visual and material culture of Catholicism. Focusing on a carefully curated selection of Catholic art and artefacts, this book explains the meaning of the iconography and the mystic power of the faith’s ritual objects. A wealth o...

Published in connection with an exhibition opening at Photo Elysée in spring 2024, this book presents more than one hundred and fifty of Man Ray's portraits, primarily from the 1920s and '30s.Man Ray (1890–1976) was a man both of and ahead of his time. With his conceptual approach and innovative...

A visually stunning and surprisingly accessible book that brings out subtle facets of Proust's masterpiece, as well as the artworks he cites. ―Art in AmericaA la recherche du temps perdu by Marcel Proust is one of the most profoundly visual works in Western literature. Eric Karpeles has identified...

Getrieben von dem Ehrgeiz, das gesamte Wissen der Menschheit in einem einzigen Raum zusammenzuführen, bestückten Sammler ihre Wunderkammern mit allen möglichen Gegenständen künstlerischer, wissenschaftlicher und intellektueller Art und bildeten damit zugleich den Ausgangspunkt moderner Wissensc...

Un panorama fascinant des visages de Jésus aujourd'hui Jesus Now présente, pour la première fois, une vitrine de la figure du Christ dans l'art contemporain, le graphisme, la publicité et la culture pop. Avec le travail de plus de 80 artistes du monde entier, dont Cindy Sherman, David LaChapelle...

Albertus Sebas Naturalienkabinett gehört zu den größten naturhistorischen Errungenschaften des 18. Jahrhunderts. Obwohl das Sammeln von Naturexemplaren zu Forschungszwecken in seinem Beruf üblich war, ging die Leidenschaft des in Amsterdam ansässigen Apothekers Albertus Seba (1665-1736) weit ü...

Artists, activism, and the historical power of cloth in protest.A landmark survey of how textiles have been used for political protest in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including banners, flags, clothing, and pieces from the world of fine art.Textile Protest showcases the richness and div...

A groundbreaking volume resituating the Harlem Renaissance as integral to the development of twentieth-century modernismBeginning in the 1920s, Upper Manhattan became the center of an explosion of art, writing, and ideas that has since become legendary. But what we now know as the Harlem Renaissance...