In this follow-up to the bestselling Histories of Nations, leading historians from around the globe revisit the great revolutions of modern history and explore their meaning today.
The most thorough and accessible short introduction to Scottish art available.
An unprecedented biographical and interpretative overview of Matisse’s livres d’artiste – intimate visions of the artist’s war in words and pictures intrinsic to his life’s work.
‘Briggs’s pencil has drawn everything about being human – the comic, the tragic; passion, tenderness, fear, anger, joy, bogeys ... slime’ Posy Simmonds
An international history of trains, from early steam locomotives to Japan’s bullet train, presented in spectacular layered pop-up scenes.
An account of Vincent Van Gogh, together with a selection of his works.
Claude Monet transformed light and colour into art. This book traces his career from his "Impression, Sunrise" of 1874, which caused uproar among the critics, to his last near-abstract paintings of water and reflection which he painted when he was almost blind.
Brings together the work of some of the world's greatest photographers. This book contains some sixty full-page reproductions, together with a critical introduction and a full bibliography.
Accompanying the Smithsonian Institutions major exhibition, this book features more than sixty objects that large embassies,... Læs mere
A beautiful, contemplative artist’s book from Philip Hughes.