From 1950 to 1962, John Richardson lived near Picasso in France and was a friend of the artist. With a view to writing a biography, the acclaimed art historian kept a diary of their meetings. After...
John Richardson draws on the same combination of lively writing, critical astuteness, exhaustive research, and personal experience which made a bestseller out of the first volume and vividly recrea...
Drawing on exhaustive research from interviews and unpublished archival material, John Richardson has produced the long-awaited third volume of the definitive biography, full of original, groundbre...
The ultimate introduction to global art, presenting 30,000 years of creativity in one lavishly illustrated book.Discover all you need to know about art history in this definite guide. A...
“Seeing many of my works years after I completed them is a fascinating experience. I don’t really associate them with any particular time or place or state of mind, but view them as par...
The highly original and unique art of Escher, one of the most celebrated artists of the 20th centuryMaurits Cornelis Escher was born in 1898 in the Netherlands and died there in 1972.In...
A rich overview of the fascinating life and career of internationally renowned Mexican artist Frida Kahlo (1907-1954), this volume features the artist’s complex and diverse paintings, a serie...
In 1916, Georgia O’Keeffe wrote to Alfred Stieglitz that she had “made [a] drawing several times - never remembering that I had made it before - and not knowing where the idea came from...
Five centuries of fascinating female creativity presented in more than 400 compelling artworks and one comprehensive volumeThe most extensive fully illustrated book of women artists eve...
Nearly 250 photographs, some never before published, offer an intimate glimpse into one of the art world’s most famous love affairs.Emilie Flöge was only a teenager when she ...
This landmark volume tells the story of Jean-Michel Basquiat from the intimate perspective of his family, intertwining his artistic endeavors with his personal life, influences, and the times in wh...
‘Mr. Karpeles, a California-based painter and art critic, has ignited international interest in Czapski’s artwork’ Wall Street JournalThis stunning monograph, a long-overdue...
Experience the brilliant artist's lifelong obsession with nature and immersion in gardens, a bedrock of her hugely influential work. Yayoi Kusama’s work is the product of an infinite curiosit...
'Fifty Years of New York Graffiti Art and Beyond' is the first monograph of Puerto Rican born artist Lee Quiñones presenting his monumental work and following his evolution over five decades...
Robert Mapplethorpe's influence as an artist has grown steadily since his untimely death in 1989. In honour of his work, seven extraordinary contemporary artists - David Hockney, Vik Muniz, Catheri...
The first properly posthumous retrospective on the artist, this paperback exhibition book highlights the significance of Mike Kelley’s influential four-decade career on the development of art...
From Tudor times to the First World War, this paperback exhibition book accompanying Now You See Us: Women Artists in Britain 1520–1920 charts these women’s journeys to becoming profess...
Picasso’s work appears never to have ceased to haunt the imagination of his peers. The great stylistic periods and certain emblematic works by Picasso like "Les Demoiselles d’Avign...
For his photographs and films, the Dutch photographer Erwin Olaf creates a world that has been staged down to its smallest detail. It seems very similar to ours, but its artificiality gives it an e...
The most anticipated book in more than a decade by the legendary band, The Beatles: Get Back is the official account of the creation of their final album, Let It Be, told in The Beatles’ own ...