Art & Design

Blues is the cornerstone of American popular music, the bedrock of rock and roll. In this extraordinary musical and social history, Robert Palmer t...

This handsomely illustrated volume is the second in a series of publications aimed at giving a broad audience deeper insight into the extensive col...

Keith Haring is synonymous with the downtown New York art scene of the 1980's. His artwork-with its simple, bold lines and dynamic figures in motio...

edited by Robert Faggen A magnificent selection of song lyrics and poems from across the storied career of one of the most daring and affecting poe...

translated by Robert Tavernor and Richard Schofield In De architectura (c. 40 BC), Vitruvius discusses in ten encyclopedic chapters aspects of Roma...

edited by Martin Kemp Artist, architect, poet and philosopher, Leon Battista Alberti revolutionized the history of art with his theories of perspec...

A cultural storm swept through the 1960s - Pop Art, Bob Dylan, psychedelia, underground movies - and at its centre sat a bemused young artist with ...

The Singapore shophouse is an architectural gem a particular building form that is unique to the island. This book traces its development from rudi...

Why do presidents and prime ministers, tycoons and tyrants share such a fascination with grand designs? Is it to impress or terrify, to wield state...

A century after his death, Gustav Mahler is the most important composer of modern times. Displacing Beethoven as a box-office draw, heard in Hollyw...