A new edition of Campbell and Cole's acclaimed survey of Italian Renaissance art, updated to reflect the very latest scholarship and contemporary restorations.
Explores 100 traditional and modern typefaces in detail, with a full spread devoted to each entry. In this title, characters from each typeface are enlarged and annotated to reveal key features, anatomical details, and the finer, often-overlooked elements of type design, which shows how these attributes affect mood and readability.
The first in the new series Pocket Photo Books - attractive, immersive, compact photo guides - in which Harry Cory Wright explores one of the most beautiful libraries in the world.
Monsters have preoccupied mankind from the earliest times: even cave art includes animal-human monsters. This book explores monsters down the ages and throughout the world. It provides a dark yet engrossing visual history of the human mind, lit up by flashes of wild and unearthly inspiration.
From the earliest Paleolithic cave rituals, magic has gripped the imagination. Today, magic means many things: contemporary Wicca is practised widely as a modern pagan religion in Europe and the US; 'magic' also evokes the cathartic rituals of Chaos magic. This book is packed with a selection of images, chosen from unusual and hidden sources.
Provides technical tips, practical exercises, contemporary images and step-by-step guidance for all aspiring photographers. This title introduces the technical and creative aspects of commercial as well as fine art photography.
Presents a selection of about 100 plants that grow wild in Ireland or are cultivated in Irish gardens. This book features plants that range from native plants to exotic species introduced from the New World and Asia, unusual plants that grow in some of the most extreme environments in Ireland, and hybrids created by plant breeders.
7 Reece Mews, South Kensington, was the artist Francis Bacon's home and studio for over 30 years. On his death in 1992, access was granted to photographer Perry Ogden to work undisturbed for days on end to produce this fascinating record of the artist's private space and its contents.