
Are We Human?
The question Are We Human? is both urgent and ancient. Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley offer a multilayered exploration of the intimate relationsh...
View full detailsThe question Are We Human? is both urgent and ancient. Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley offer a multilayered exploration of the intimate relationsh...
View full details'Art is theft,' Picasso once proclaimed, and much of the best and most 'original' new art involves an act or two of unequivocal, overt theft. Parad...
View full detailsFew could explain, let alone seek out, a career in criticism. Yet what A. O. Scott shows in Better Living Through Criticism is that we are, in fact...
View full detailsThe first biography of America's greatest twentieth-century sculptor, Alexander Calder: an authoritative and revelatory achievement, based on a wea...
View full detailsFor the first time ever, we have all the music in the world to choose from. As Ben Ratliff, one of America's celebrated music critics, shows us, it...
View full detailsGrunge, also known as the 'Seattle Sound', emerged from the Pacific north-west in the early part of the 1980s. With the unexpected success of Nirva...
View full detailsIn 1959, Richard Bellamy was a witty, poetry-loving beatnik on the fringe of the New York art world who was drawn to artists impatient for change. ...
View full detailstranslated by Daniel W. Smith In this landmark text by one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century, Gilles Deleuze takes the ...
View full detailsGrowing up in the mountains of Japan, Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929) dreamed of becoming an artist. One day, she had a vision in which the world and everyt...
View full detailsFrom Scandinavia is a collection of work from some of the most talented agencies in Scandinavia, such as Snask, Stockholm Design Lab, Bielke & ...
View full detailsThis engaging book offers an introduction to and overview of armor in Europe from the Middle Ages through the 17th century, focusing in particular ...
View full detailsIn 1958, artist Joan Miró and critic Yvon Taillandier sat down for an in-depth discussion on Miró's life and work. Their conversation, one of the m...
View full detailsThe drawings of Israeli artist Eran Shakine may look carefree and casual, but their message is serious: Muslims, Christians, and Jews share a histo...
View full detailsWhen Frida was a teenager, a terrible road accident changed her life forever. Unable to walk, she began painting from her bed. Her self-portraits, ...
View full detailsRecognizable by the signature four white stitches and blank tag, celebrated French fashion brand Maison Margiela made its debut in Paris in 1988. F...
View full detailsMonocle is a London-based monthly publication featuring political, social, cultural and global issues through in-depth reporting by its corresponde...
View full detailsIntended to be a generic line for the Seiyu Supermarket Group, Muji was launched in Japan in 1980, as Mujirushi Ryohin, which means “no-brand quali...
View full detailsOne day, the French artist Henri Matisse cut a small bird out of a piece of paper. It looked lonely all by itself, so he cut out more shapes to joi...
View full detailsIt's everywhere, including the moon (on the commemorative plaque left by Apollo 11 astronauts), Nike sneakers, the artworks of Barbara Kruger, Ed R...
View full detailsThis catalogue is published to coincide with the UMAG exhibition North Korea’s Public Face 20th-century Propaganda Posters from the Zellweger Colle...
View full detailsDesign is a way to engage with real content, real experience,' writes celebrated essayist Michael Bierut in this follow-up to his best-selling Seve...
View full detailsAlthough he is best known for pioneering Cubism, Picasso's works over a prolific seven-decade career are characterized by an impressive stylistic e...
View full detailsJohn Berger, one of the world’s most celebrated art writers, takes us through centuries of drawing and painting, revealing his lifelong fascination...
View full detailsFor their 25th anniversary issue, Purple celebrates the artists and models who incarnated the spirit of the magazine through their style, attitude,...
View full detailsRichard Gerstl (1883-1908) painted for just four years, but the work he produced in that short period is widely seen as well ahead of his time, inc...
View full detailsAs the sixties dream faded, a new flamboyant movement electrified the world: GLAM! In Shock and Awe, Simon Reynolds explores this most decadent of ...
View full detailsIn the 1950s, a French journalist joked that the Chinese were 'blue ants under the red flag,' dressing identically and even marching in an identica...
View full detailsDrawing on the author’s personal experience of living and working as an architect in Syria, this timely and fascinating account offers an eyewitnes...
View full detailsWhich were the books that shaped art history as it developed in the twentieth century? This pioneering book provides an invaluable roadmap of the f...
View full detailsillustrated by Ashley Tyson Discover the true meanings behind over 200 popular tattoos with this comprehensive book, illustrated with over 100 tatt...
View full detailsStep into the magical world of Moominvalley with this beautiful one of a kind book; a fun, fascinating, behind the scenes look at the wonderful wor...
View full detailsillustrated by Christina Christoforou Antoni Gaudi has a reputation as monastic, mad and hermetic. But the architect of many of the buildings that ...
View full detailsOnly one copy available, with slight tear in the back of the dust jacket. This comprehensive collection offers a thorough overview of typeface desi...
View full detailsVasily Kandinsky was one of the first painters of abstract art and a founding member of the Blue Rider movement. Although he trained as a lawyer, K...
View full detailsThe HDB block is full of look-out points. From the openness of the void deck to our windows that look out onto those of the block opposite; to live...
View full details'Art is not a luxury. Art is a basic social need to which everyone has a right'. This extraordinary collection of 100 artists' manifestos from acro...
View full detailsPublished in conjunction with the exhibition Written in the Margins. Includes texts by Marianna Liosi, Mark Gisboune and Wilma Lukatsch, as well as...
View full detailsEach book is customised to reflect the culture and behaviours of Singaporeans. Yesteryears captures 50 abandoned and forgotten buildings in Singap...
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