A book that debunks the popular myth that William Wordsworth was, first and foremost, a poet of daffodils, Wordsworth's Gardens and Flowers: The Spirit ...
Why collect Russian stage designs? Why write about them? These questions are not rhetorical or idly academic. They have real historical, intellectual and commercial ...
In Italy there has always been a tradition of making jewellery from semi-precious metal, as copies or prototypes of fine jewellery. Fashion Jewellery: Made ...
William Bouguereau (1825-1905) was a highly important and influential French academic painter, who taught a long succession of gifted students, primarily at the private ...
Italian Renaissance art is closely intertwined with the development of courts and court culture in much of the Italian territory. The patronage of the ...
This is the most comprehensive and wide-ranging survey of Ottoman Architecture ever produced. It extends to over 700 pages and is illustrated with over ...
The development of textiles as an art form between 1945 and 1970, and the extent of collaboration between artists and textile manufacturers at this ...
A contemporary of Picasso, Matisse and Kandinsky, Goncharova is now recognised as one of the leading Russian artists of the Twentieth Century. This book ...
This new title in the highly-successful "Design Series" features the design work of the acclaimed artist Peter Blake. Best known of the British pop ...
Russian artist Alexander Mikhailovich Rodchenko will be a more familiar name, but for designers, the 'Design book, concentrating largely on Rodchenko's graphic work in ...
An excellent introduction to the work of two British designers Edward Bawden (1903-1989) and Eric Ravilious (1903-1942). This fascinating book illustrates every aspect of ...
