Art History & Techniques

Claude Monet's Impressionist technique still inspires to this day. Whether it's his stunning Water Lilies series, or genre-defining Impression, Sunrise, discover what made Monet the master of French 19th-century art in this exuberant exploration of his life and work.

This beautiful large-format poster book lets you decorate your walls with the gorgeous images from Big Picture Press's Historium. This is a stunning celebration of the history of the world.

Using hundreds of drawings, this book distills the secrets of the masters into a working system in order to create a book that has become the standard work on all forms of animation for professionals, students and fans. It also includes more on animal action, invention and realism with sophisticated animation examples.

Addresses the commodification of African-American male identity by raising questions about visual culture and the power of logos. The book focuses on the issues of grief, black-on-black violence in America, and the ways in which corporate culture is complicit in the crises of black male identity.

In Go with the Flow Painting, learn how to paint lush, flowing, expressive flowers, still life, travel motifs, food and drink, and animals with watercolor and pen and ink using easy and fun techniques that are perfect for beginners and beyond.

The third botanical watercolour book, this time with a seasonal twist, by best-selling author Harriet de Winton, whose first two books have sold 100,000 copies.

Lady Butler is a story of travel and history, of war and conflict, of Italy of the Risorgimento, of the London art world where she achieved celebrity and negotiated the difficulties of being a female artist in a male-dominated domain, and of imperial travel. Her biography reveals a figure whose perspective on war is modern, whose confidence in achieving success in the masculine field of battle art taps into contemporary debates, and whose work provokes a rethinking of the post-imperial world.

The extraordinary story of Han van Meegeren, a second-rate painter who became the world's greatest art forger

Marvel at this spectacular collection of full-colour graphic art of Godzilla and other Toho movie monsters by renowned artist KAIDA Yuji.

Magritte: a Surreal Life - the latest book in SelfMadeHero's Art Masters series