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The creative brilliance of Chanel - from Coco Chanel herself to Karl Lagerfeld - as seen by the greatest photographers of their times.Gabrielle Chanel was, without doubt, the most influential fashion designer of the twentieth century. She was years ahead of her time and her clothes, cuts and accesso...

What's your favourite colour? Ever wondered how it got from nature into your paints?Long ago, brilliant blues, glittering greens and radical reds weren't easy to make. Artists had to crush beetles, burn bones and even drain sea snails to create colours.Come on a journey through history, packed with...

"One of the best books ever written by one painter about another." ― John Russell, The New York TimesFirst published in 1982, Lawrence Gowing's an intimate portrayal of one of the twentieth century's most exceptional artists. At once a pivotal narrative, a furtive autobiography, and a profound exp...

The King's Painter: The Life and Times of Hans HolbeinA BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK'A great, thrusting codpiece of a book. It is big, bombastic and richly brocaded. A jewel in its own right' The Times'Evokes the painter and his world as vividly as a Holbein masterpiece. Beautifully written and illu...

'The sunflower is mine', Van Gogh once declared. No other artist has been so closely associated with a specific flower, and his sunflower pictures are among his most loved works.In this compact and richly illustrated book, Martin Gayford explores the history of the National Gallery's Sunflowers, pai...

A history of the Japanese archipelago through its material artifacts over fifteen millennia.This compelling illustrated history in objects traces Japan's complex past through its material culture. Over 350 artifacts―from the everyday to the sacred―highlight significant moments and themes from an...

Discover the love affairs that inspired art's greatest masterpieces.Whether in the throes of passion, enduring the pain of unrequited love, or basking in the joy of a wonderfully supportive friendship, explores the myriad ways love has influenced artists, shaped the work they created, and altered th...

Trading Beauty traces the evolution of the Western art market from the medieval era to the present day, examining how social, cultural, religious, and economic circumstances have informed distinct models of art production, validation, and valuation.Inextricably linked to the history of art are the s...

From scarlet women to imperial purple, leaf green to the white paint that protected against the atom bomb, Picasso's blue period to the pink Barbie claimed for feminism, offers a bright thread throughout human history. Kassia St Clair's lifelong fascination with colours and where they come from (whe...

Unpack the powerful visual symbols artists have used throughout history.From a single flower to a carefully placed skull, works of art across history are filled with symbols that carry powerful meanings. reveals how artists use these symbols to communicate ideas without relying on words.Why is there...

Joe Tucker’s Uncle Eric was a beloved yet unconventional figure throughout Joe’s life. A shambolically dressed man who lived with his mother for almost eighty years, he had an almost compulsive need to charm strangers with working men’s club comedy routines, and appeared to exist only for dail...

Inspired by The Word for World Is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin, this book understands water as a cosmological force that shapes worlds, resists them, and sustains them. It brings together artists, thinkers, and activists from around the globe to explore fluid bodies—rivers that carry resistance, oc...

Keeping Things Together is a bold, visually rich anthology that delves into the 50-year legacy of the Women's Art Register (W.A.R.), Australia's only living archive of women's art. This landmark publication celebrates W.A.R.'s grassroots origins and ongoing role in documenting and championing women'...

A vital testament to how art makes us who we are―and offers new ways of seeing our world and our lives.Barbara Kruger once defined art as “the ability to show and tell, through a kind of eloquent shorthand, how it feels to be alive." Testing that claim, How It Feels to Be Alive braids criticism...

Tracey Emin talks painting: what it is, why she does it, and why it matters.Known for her raw and irreverent artwork, Tracey Emin is one of the most widely admired artists working today. In a vivid and intimate portrait of her life and work, in her own words through conversation with author and art...

Celebrate five centuries of female creativity with this groundbreaking survey of women artistsGreat Women Artists is the most extensive illustrated survey on women artists ever published. Now available in a sleek compact format, this essential volume reflects an era where art made by women is more v...

From a widely celebrated artist, this dazzling book takes readers on a profound journey into the heart of creativityWhen Makoto Fujimura painted as a child, he felt a mysterious electrical charge pass through him. Over decades of art making, writing, and reflecting in his studio, he has come to unde...

This collection of 100 writings by Robert Rauschenberg reveals the artist’s gift for prose and the importance of his relationship to languageThe American artist Robert Rauschenberg (1925–2008) won acclaim and awards for his diverse oeuvre that spanned six decades and included paintings, sculptur...

Named by the New Yorker as one of the best books of 2022, this posthumously published work serves as the fourth and final volume in Anne Truitt’s remarkable series of journals“Anne Truitt’s Yield has a tone that is rich and spare, considered and sensuous, inward-looking and utterly vibrant and...

World-renowned curator Hans Ulrich Obrist for the first time grants a private view of how a near-death experience in young childhood catapulted him towards art and artistsWhen Hans Ulrich was a young boy, he was knocked down by a speeding car. Hospitalized for weeks, he discovered the healing powers...

A charming and highly personal introduction to the artists of the Dutch Golden AgeTwenty years ago, Benjamin Moser followed a love affair to an ancient Dutch town. In order to make sense of this new place, he threw himself into the Dutch museums. Soon, he found himself unearthing the strange, inspir...

A Times Best Art Book of the Year, 2024''A riot of a book'' – Country Life''s Books of the Year, 2024The modern art market was born on a single night. On 15 October 1958 Sotheby’s of Bond Street staged an ‘event sale’ of Impressionist paintings from the collection of an American banker, Erwi...

How technology and the attention economy shape contemporary art and performanceThe reception of art and performance is changing. Smartphones and social media have troubled the old model of individual appreciation and close looking, giving rise to new forms of mediated perception, such as sampling, s...

Artist and activist Ai Weiwei examines censorship and self-censorship, through the lens of his compelling personal history, offering readers profound insights into an important topic of current and perpetual relevance.Ai Weiwei is one of contemporary art's greatest practitioners. He has been a voice...