THAMES & HUDSON

The Baltic States - Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia - retain strong cultural identities that have survived despite centuries of colonization by powerful neighbouring lands. Following the First World War, a ...

Ruskin Spears reputation has fluctuated since the 1950s, when he was regarded as one of a team of painters who characterized the best of 'English or 'British painting. Spear had ...

With rising populations around the world and the pressures of looming climatic catastrophe, the work of Vo Trong Nghia is a call for architecture to transform itself from a source ...

Architecture of Health is a story about the design and life of hospitals?about how they are born and evolve, about the forces that give them shape, and the shifts that ...

Light Space Life is the first monograph from internationally recognised South African architecture studio SAOTA, known for crafting exceptional modern buildings that forge powerful connections to their extraordinary settings. Presenting ...

Founded by Gianni Versace in 1978, the family-run fashion house grew into a powerful symbol of high glamour and luxury known across the world. After Gianni Versaces untimely death in ...

This pioneering book stands as the most comprehensive treatment of the lives, ideas, and art works of the remarkable group of women who were an essential part of the Surrealist ...

Silk has long captured the imagination of peoples round the globe, inspiring creativity in the making of luxurious textiles. This major new survey draws on the exceptional collections of Londons ...

Sean Scullys paintings of brushy stripes and blocks of sumptuous colour are critically acclaimed and widely admired. Less well known is what a gifted storyteller and profound commentator on the ...

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882), best known and admired for his striking and seductive portraits of women, was one of the founding members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a group of artists ...

Norway-based Canadian architect Todd Saunders unique approach, set in some of the most remote locations on earth, splices modern sculptural forms with a deeply rooted respect for nature, most famously ...

Axel Törneman (1880-1925) was one of Swedens earliest modernist painters. He grew to work in several modernist styles, was one of the first Swedish expressionist artists, and became a part ...

One of the founding forces behind the 1970s feminist art movement, Judy Chicago became widely known for The Dinner Party, a massive installation turning womens traditional household-bound role on its ...

Building Community is an in-depth, wide-ranging survey of contemporary apartment buildings, not as raw canvases for interior decoration but as a building type of growing significance. An introduction presents the ...

With a few notable exceptions, the fundamental role that women played in the development of abstract art has long been underestimated, and their work has not received the same critical ...

This survey of over twenty examples of India's finest contemporary residential architecture gives exclusive, and often unprecedented, insight into private houses across the country built by an array of leading ...

An inveterate traveller, Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004) captured the world with his camera, justly earning himself the title of 'the eye of the century. Between trips overseas, he regularly photographed Paris, ...

Francis Bacon: Shadows continues in the revelatory mode established by Inside Francis Bacon. It comprises six essays on diverse topics, interpretative as well as factual, which cumulatively present an abundance ...

Gothic, Romanesque, Modernist, Metabolist... The variety of styles through architectural history can be bewildering. Whether it be a Gothic crocket or a simple Modernist join, this book illustrates all the ...

Barbara Hepworth is now acknowledged as one of the most important artists of the twentieth century. Combining Hepworths public statements with her private correspondences, this fascinating biography offers a penetrating ...