The Arts: General & Reference books

`Give me three years and we'll be millionaires,' Nick challenged his long-suffering family in 1980, when cash was...  Read More >>

A richly illustrated account by the late French poet of Rome at one of its greatest moments: the baroque high point...  Read More >>

A conversation between Kiefer and a writer and theologian, featuring 34 color images of Kiefer's work.  Read More >>

28 Paradises is a rare book: it reveals not only the individual talents of the authors, Modiano and Zehrfuss,...  Read More >>

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The first in a trilogy of books that seeks to illuminate Francis Bacon's art and motivations, and to open up fresh...  Read More >>

The Art of Missing Link is a lushly illustrated volume that goes behind the scenes of LAIKA's new stop-motion adventure....  Read More >>

The #MeToo movement is overturning a cliche that has forgiven bad behaviour for years- to be creative is to be prone...  Read More >>

Harry Potter, Game of Thrones, The Shape of Water, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Lord of the Rings, The...  Read More >>

Wars have always been connected to images. From the representation of war on maps, panoramas, and paintings to the...  Read More >>

This book analyses the relationship between comics and cultural memory. By focussing on a range of landmark comics...  Read More >>

It's 1979. The Soviet Union invades Afghanistan, China introduces its one-child policy, Margaret Thatcher is elected...  Read More >>

A new bible of sticker art - a visual history of street art in one of its most elemental, accessible, provocative,...  Read More >>

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Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey traces how indigenous and postcolonial peoples in the Caribbean and Pacific Islands grapple...  Read More >>

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Nicholas Brown theorizes the historical and theoretical conditions for the persistence of art's autonomy from the...  Read More >>

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Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey traces how indigenous and postcolonial peoples in the Caribbean and Pacific Islands grapple...  Read More >>

An unflinching portrait of talent and addiction. In 2008 the artist Adam Cullen invited journalist Erik Jensen to...  Read More >>

Examines the subculture of enigmatology: mechanical puzzles, their makers, and those who aspire to solving them....  Read More >>

Nicholas Brown theorizes the historical and theoretical conditions for the persistence of art's autonomy from the...  Read More >>