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Autobiography: Artworks

Autobiography: Artworks

by: Barbara Steiner

The first publication in an exciting new series for the 21st century, Autobiography is designed as a 'portable exhibition' based on a subject of central importance to art and everyday life. Barbara Steiner and Jun Yang, two 'author-creators' selected from the world's leading artists, curators and...

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The Ravished Image: An Introduction to the Art of Restoring Paintings

by: Sarah Walden

Why do some Old Masters shout at you from gallery walls like colours on a TV screen? Do these paintings still represent what the artist intended? The pictures we see today are frequently a world away from what they looked like when they left the easel. Partly it is the effects of time. More often...

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Buddhism in the Western Himalaya: A Study of the Tabo Monastery

Buddhism in the Western Himalaya: A Study of the Tabo Monastery

by: Laxman,S. Thakur

A detailed analysis of one of the earliest surviving Buddhist temples in the western Himalaya. The author studies architectural developments, sculptures, murals and inscriptions to study the evolution of Tabo Monastery from the year 99 to 1996.

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Art Works: Money

Art Works: Money

by: Katy Siegel

This unique 'exhibition in a book' presents some of the most challenging art to deal with the place and function of money in the contemporary world. Arranged into themed 'rooms', it reflects a wide range of artistic attitudes and practices. Some artists depict or use real money directly in their...

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Art: History - Visual - Culture

by: Deborah Cherry

This innovative collection of essays offers exciting new research and thoughtful reflection on the subject of visual culture and its relationship to art history. The book brings together innovative scholarship by major scholars; engages with cross-cultural questions, asking if attention to visual...

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Portraiture

by: Shearer West

This fascinating new book explores the world of portraiture from a number of vantage points, and asks key questions about its nature. How has portraiture changed over the centuries? How have portraits represented their subjects, and how have they been interpreted? Issues of identity, modernity,...

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Planning on the Edge

by: Nick Gallent

More than a tenth of the land mass of the UK comprises 'urban fringe': the countryside around towns that has been called 'planning's last frontier'. One of the key challenges facing spatial planners is the land-use management of this area, regarded by many as fit only for locating sewage works,...

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Key Writers on Art: the Twentieth Century

by: Chris Murray

Key Writers on Art: The Twentieth Century offers a unique and authoritative guide to modern responses to art. written by an international panel of expert contributors. Featuring 48 essays on the most important twentieth century writers and thinkers and written by an internatinal panel of expert...

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Twenty-first Century Design

by: Marcus Fairs

"Twenty-first Century Design" is the a fascinating survey of the contemporary design landscape, guiding the reader through the intoxicating array of contemporary movements, styles and trends, and identifying today's leading designers, as well as future design classics. This pioneering publication...

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Abstract Expressionists

by: Rachel Barnes

This series explores the lives of significant artists and their contemporaries, studied in the context of their school or period. Each book explains how the artists were affected by contempory world events such as the World Wars and in turn how society was affected by the artists work - Also...