Art & Design

Three years before he died, David Bowie made a list of the one hundred books that had transformed his life - a list that formed something akin to a...

There are few pieces of pottery more recognisable than those designed by Clarice Cliff. For many the epitome of Art Deco, characterised by bold col...

translated by Daniel W. Smith In this landmark text by one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century, Gilles Deleuze takes the ...

What might our cities look like in ten, twenty or fifty years? How may future cities face global challenges? Imagining the city of the future has l...

This book offers a general introduction to the vast and complex subject of glass. The author examines not just the history and technology of glassm...

Before the days of modern packaging the only vessel available for fetching, storing or serving liquids was the simple jug. Jugs were the staple pro...

Patti Smith's exquisite prose is generously illustrated in this full-color edition of her classic coming-of-age memoir, Just Kids. New York locatio...

There has never been a band like Pearl Jam. The Seattle quintet has recorded eleven studio albums; sold some 85 million records; played over a thou...

The story of the compact disc is also the story of the end of physical media. It is the story of how the quest for perfection laid the grounds for ...

In this classic work of music theory Adorno critiques two major composers, Arnold Schoenberg and Igor Stravinsky, who he presents as dialectically ...

translated Gabriel Rockhill The Politics of Aesthetics rethinks the relationship between art and politics, reclaiming "aesthetics" from the narrow ...

To many people a thimble may seem to be simply a mundane and commonplace object with unromantic shape and associations, even if the work with which...

Leo Tolstoy is one of the most celebrated novelists of all time. As well as writing literary classics such as Anna Karenina and War and Peace he wa...

Following a run of New Year's concerts at San Francisco's legendary Fillmore, Patti Smith finds herself tramping the coast of Santa Cruz, about to ...