Art History & Techniques

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The updated edition of Julian Barnes' best-loved writing on art, with seven new exquisite illustrated essays 'Flaubert believed that it was impossible to explain one art form in terms of another, and that great paintings required no words of explanation.

Written by leading Leonardo experts from London and Florence, and accompanying a major British Library exhibition, this fascinating new book reveals the central importance of motion in Leonardo's art and thought.

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 which he lived, and features for the first time work from the Estate s largely unseen and significant collection of paintings, drawings, sketches, and ephemera.

An impulse-friendly, uplifting gift book of hand-lettered "directions" for living well that present essential truths and joys. Includes a set of postcards suitable for sending or framing.

The first-ever visual expansion of Werner's Nomenclature of Colours, featuring over 800 illustration references from the natural world.

Painter, surrealist, enigma: Salvador Dali

A tribute to Ireland's beautiful capital from its own artists. Take a tour through the city, from historic Trinity College to the iconic Ha'penny Bridge using this impressive collection as your guide.

What does art tell us about ourselves? John Berger on the politics and consolations of creativity.

Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak. But, there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world. The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. This is a book on art in various languages.