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This book is the first monograph on the product designer Ross Lovegrove. Written by the designer himself, with a forward by Paola Antonelli, it presents a complete overview of the ...

For over three hundred years, from the era of Christopher Columbus to the struggles for independence around 1820, Latin America witnessed an artistic flowering of enormous creativity and originality. In ...

Renzo Piano, winner of the Pritzker Prize 1998, is an architect whose work seems increasingly relevant to our times. Always challenging and surprising, each new design never fails to be ...

Magnum Stories is a collection of photo stories produced by the photographers of Magnum. Through the work of key Magnum photographers, including Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, Eugene Richards, Martin Parr, ...

Born in Berlin in 1958 and now based in Los Angeles, Uta Barth is among the most influential artists working with photography to have emerged in the last decade. Her ...

Surrealism is a survey of the twentieth centurys longest lasting and, arguably, most influential art movement. Championed and held together by André Breton for over forty years, Surrealism was Frances ...

Primarily a painter of still-life and landscape, Vija Celmins (b. 1938, Latvia; moved to the US in 1949) is a major international figure associated with 1960s Pop art. Her unique, ...

Among the greatest artistic achievements of the Roman Empire are portrait sculptures. Derived from an ancient tradition of making funerary effigies, these portraits are astonishing in their realism and expressive ...

History of the Poster, co-written by Josef and Shizuko Müller-Brockmann, is a landmark account of one of the most prolific visual traditions of our culture. Originally published in 1971, this ...

The Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture presents a global survey of the most outstanding works of contemporary architecture from around the world completed in the last five years. Organized ...

This book is the first publication on one of the largest and most important private contemporary art collections in the world today, the Rubell Family Collection. Collectors since 1967, the ...

José Luis Sert (1902-1983), architect and town planner, friend and collaborator of Le Corbusier, member of CIAM, and founder of the Grupo Este of the GATEPAC in Barcelona, took the ...

John Nash - architect, town-planner, landscape designer, bridge-builder, engineer and entrepreneur - was born in 1752 and died in 1835, outliving his principal patron, George IV, by five years. After ...

A beautifully produced monograph on one of the greatest sculptors of the twentieth century, comprising a critical essay, a superb selection of colour plates, and invaluable documentation of the artists ...

The first book to provide a comprehensive overview of British pottery, The Potters Art traces this remarkable history from the rudimentary pots of the Middle Ages to the intellectually ambitious ...

This book presents the work of the French designers Ronan and Erwan bouroullec, the rising stars of international design and the most promising international designers to have emerged from France ...

Lucy Orta's work examines the social bonds within communities and the relationships between individuals and their environments. In the early 1990s, Orta began a series of works called "Refuge Wear" ...

This is a comprehensive, behind-the-scenes examination of the work of 'The Master of Suspense', director Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980). It examines all of the director's career, from the early films made ...