The Arts: General & Reference books

Highly political and controversial: this is art that addresses events of the past which still affect the present....  Read More >>

This book explores the overlooked role of smell in architecture, design, and urban life, positioning olfaction as...  Read More >>

This book explores the overlooked role of smell in architecture, design, and urban life, positioning olfaction as...  Read More >>

The book analyzes songs written about New York City, and engage with the depiction of the city within them, but...  Read More >>

A handsome new volume devoted to the most important works by Manet, a pivotal figure in Impressionism and widely...  Read More >>

A definitive retrospective monograph for Korean master Ha Chong-Hyun, a pioneering figure of postwar Korean art...  Read More >>

The first book-length biography of the Detmold twins, this study uses previously unknown archives to show how profoundly...  Read More >>

*A Financial Times and Waterstones Book of the Year 2025* Many artists are unaware of the...  Read More >>

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Performing Recovery shows how theatre and performance can transform addiction recovery into a creative, community-driven...  Read More >>

When Elena moves to a small coastal town, she doesn't expect her life to change. But the moment she steps into Harper's...  Read More >>

This will be the first book to focus on the African patrons, who commissioned grand family mansions from the 1860s...  Read More >>

A profound reckoning with feminine power, sacred art, and the restless spirit of resistance. Irwin Allan Sealy—master...  Read More >>

This book considers the motives, and ambitions of writing architectural history during the 1900s. In reference to...  Read More >>

During the last decades of the 19th century, women used the camera, still a new technological apparatus, to establish...  Read More >>

Analyzes, through the lens of posthuman philosophy, the practices of artists and designers who explore the potentialities...  Read More >>

An irreverent, no-nonsense approach to cooking and the restaurant industry With the new issue of its offbeat cooking...  Read More >>

La rencontre avec l'oeuvre de Vilhelm Hammershøi provoque chez le spectateur un vécu d'égarement qui lui fait perdre...  Read More >>

Le colloque de la 11eme édition du Festival national des Arts et Cultures (FESNAC) a eu lieu les 23 et 24 janvier...  Read More >>

Almost three decades since the 1998 Washington Conference on Holocaust-Era Assets, a new awareness of provenance...  Read More >>

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Carrie, Scarface, The Untouchables, Casualties of War, Mission: Impossible and Carlito's Way-Brian De Palma has...  Read More >>

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This book features international and interdisciplinary research into socially engaged, relational and critical creative...  Read More >>