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This catalogue accompanies the first UK show of Wayne Thiebaud’s quintessentially postwar American paintingsWayne Thiebaud is considered one of the greatest and most original American artists of the 20th century. This publication accompanies the first museum show of his work in the United Kingdom....

A fascinating look at John Singer Sargent’s formative years as a young painter in Paris, a city that helped forge his artistic identity and sparked his rise to the pinnacle of the nineteenth-century art worldIn 1874, eighteen-year-old American artist John Singer Sargent went to Paris to become a p...

One of Britain’s most influential living artists, Le Brun emerged as a significant rising star in the British art scene during the 1980s and continues to create works that are a celebration of light, depth, and the expressive potential of paint. This book presents an in-depth exploration of a disc...

Everyday objects can have an extra dimension or quality that has no relation to functionality, form, a concept or a trend. So what is it that gives a particular glass an “aura"? Why should one thing have more shine, passion and “mystical allure" than another? A Wild Thing attempts to identify an...

An expansive and awe-inspiring visual survey celebrating the stunning beauty of butterflies and moths across art, history, science, and cultureButterflies have enchanted people for thousands of years, capturing human imagination for so long that they are deeply entwined in our culture and history. d...

A groundbreaking, global survey of queer art, featuring more than 300 artworks made following the introduction of the term ‘homosexual’ in 1869An unprecedented and historic new book, The First Homosexuals traces the evolution of the homosexual identity through an archive of more than 300 paintin...

Unbound accompanies Karel Martens’ first solo exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, bringing together a wide-ranging body of work Karel made and collected over the entire span of his decades long career. Containing works from the show, collaged, overprinted and juxtaposed with elements fou...

A fully illustrated catalogue of new work and texts by Sir Grayson Perry to accompany a landmark exhibition at the Wallace Collection in celebration of the artist's 65th birthday.This publication accompanies a major exhibition created and curated by Grayson Perry at the Wallace Collection. The Colle...

More than a mere survey of Nara's signature children and animals, this clothbound publication features the artist's newest works, personal photographs and pictures of his studioSpanning four decades of work, this book offers readers the opportunity to immerse themselves in the personal and creative ...

Marge Monko’s work revolves around the role models society offers to women and men, using her own photographs coupled, above all, with found pictures from the world of advertising that she appropriates and re-contextualizes. She explores how things have been presented in applied and essayistic pho...

In this creative memoir the unsettling provocationsof Elizabeth Anderson’s startlingly nuanced caféscenes are set in vivid besidedness with theanecdote and revelation, the evidence and irony,of Janet Charman’s zeitgeist capture—28 days.A dialogue between artist and writer, whichreads as a dan...

Inspired by the ideas of Marcel Duchamp and Akasegawa Genpei, this final issue explores the concept of “involuntary sculptures." These are objects and structures in our cities, not created by artists, but emerging from everyday interactions and casual arrangements. By recognizing and appreciating ...

Published in association with the Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, this stunning book offers a visually engaging and detailed journey through Hockney's extraordinary life and career.Published in association with the Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, to coincide with their major 2025 exhibition, this vi...

As Claude Monet once said, “I would like to paint the way a bird sings". From the sacred falcons and ibises of ancient Egyptian glyphs, to the elegant cranes and swallows in East Asian ink paintings, birds have been revered for their beauty and symbolism, gracing numerous canvases throughout art h...

The classic book on the art and history of weaving―now expanded and in full color.Written by one of the twentieth century’s leading textile artists, this splendidly illustrated book is a luminous meditation on the art of weaving, its history, its tools and techniques, and its implications for mo...

a new publication by The Physics Room. It developed from the 2023 exhibition , curated by Amy Weng, with newly commissioned moving-image works by artists Selina Ershadi and James Tapsell-Kururangi.The exhibition was situated in embodied and intangible systems of knowledge, as Ershadi and Tapsell-Kur...

A leading authority on the subject presents a radically new approach to the understanding of abstract art, in this richly illustrated and persuasive history, updated with new content and now available in paperback.In his fresh take on abstract art, now available in paperback and expanded to include ...

A catalogue raisonné of never-before-seen abandoned projects by the artist Sophie Calle.'I hate things being finished. Death is final. Life is in the 'almost finished'.' - Pablo Picasso'But when everything comes to an end, what will become of the ideas that went nowhere, that were biding their time...

A definitive and comprehensive study of drawing, now entirely revised.Drawing has always been an inseparable part of art-­making, both as a distinct art form and a crucial step in many other creative visual practice. Yet, its role has faced increasing scrutiny in recent decades. The popularity of r...

Why are so many contemporary artists turning to thread, fabric and fibre to make their most powerful work?Textile art has surged into the spotlight, shedding its long-standing association with domesticity and craft to take centre stage in galleries, biennales and critical discourse. Authors Ramona B...

A captivating examination of the avant-garde art scene in Japan in the 1960s and '70s, and the revolutionary Japanese artists who made it a creative force both in the country and around the world.The 1960s in Japan were a time of profound social change, political unrest, and student protests. The tu...

A brilliant making-of guide to MAUS, the classic Pulitzer Prize-winning comic bookMAUS is widely renowned as one of the greatest pieces of art and literature ever written about the Holocaust. Readers adore it, and it's studied in colleges and universities all over the world.In MetaMAUS, Art Spiegelm...

The groundbreaking survey, showcasing 500 of the greatest American artists, now updated in an essential new edition‘A lavish glimpse not only into American Art, but into the history of the century as well.’ – The TimesFully revised and updated, this new edition of Phaidon’s seminal volume pr...

The Hermetic Museum takes readers on a magical mystery tour spanning an arc from the medieval cosmogram and images of Christian mysticism, through the fascinating world of alchemy to the art of the Romantic era. The enigmatic hieroglyphs of cabalists, Rosicrucians, and freemasons are shown to be clo...