The roll-call of wars down the centuries is paralleled by an equally extensive narrative of the theft, destruction, plundering,...
In May 1939, the celebrated American architect Frank Lloyd Wright visited London and gave four lectures at the Royal Institute...
Frank Lloyd Wright is known as the architect of an enduring modern American vision, but was himself extremely well-travelled,...
Edward Ardizzone RA (1900-79) was one of relatively few British artists who defined the field of illustration for their generation....
The building of the Victoria and Albert Museum, begun in 1857, is the most elaborately designed and decorated museum in Britain....
Now available for the first time in paperback, this book remains the definitive survey of the life and work of Surrealist artist...
This new book on painter Rose Hilton (b.1931), one of the last survivors of the legendary St Ives group of post-war Modernist...
Heath Robinson (1872-1944) is fondly regarded for his mischievous, gently comic illustrations that have been enjoyed for generations....
Paul Nash (1889-1946) was one of the most important British artists of the twentieth century and an official war artist in both...
For popular British artist Howard Hodgkin (b.1932), India has been a source of inspiration since he first visited the country...
This book lifts the lid on some of the excesses that the 21st-century explosion of the contemporary art market brought in its...
Architectural, industrial, and graphic design in the United States from the 1950s through to the 1970s - generally known as mid-century...
This is the first book in over a century to examine the important work of the watercolour artist Frederick Walker (1840-75) and...
Painter and illustrator Edward Bawden’s five scrapbooks, assembled over a period of more than 55 years, contain everything from...
Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732–1806) was a French painter and printmaker whose late Rococo style was distinguished by a remarkable...
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