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conversations between David Hockney and art critic Martin Gayford as they explore the nature of creativity.
“Sumptuously illustrated, this radiant volume encapsulates what it truly means to be a visual artist.”
— Booklist
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David Hockney is possibly the world’s most popular living painter, but he is also something else: an incisive and original thinker on art.
This now classic book details the fruits of his lifelong meditations on the problems and paradoxes of representing a three-dimensional world on a flat surface. How does drawing make one “see things clearer, and clearer, and clearer still,” as Hockney suggests? What significance do different media—from a Lascaux cave wall to an iPad—have for the way we see? What is the relationship between the images we make and the reality around us? How have changes in technology affected the way artists depict the world?
The conversations in this volume with writer and art critic Martin Gayford are punctuated by wise and witty observations from both parties on numerous other artists—Van Gogh or Vermeer, Caravaggio, Monet, Picasso—and enlivened by shrewd insights into the contrasting social and physical landscapes of California, where Hockney lived for many years, and Yorkshire, his birthplace. Some of the people he has encountered along the way—from Henri Cartier-Bresson to Billy Wilder—also make entertaining appearances in the dialogue.
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Martin Gayford is a writer and art critic. His books include Man with a Blue Scarf: On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud; Modernists and Mavericks: Bacon, Freud, Hockney and the London Painters; A History of Pictures: From the Cave to the Computer Screen and Spring Cannot Be Cancelled: David Hockney in Normandy, both with David Hockney; Shaping the World: Sculpture from Prehistory to Now, with Antony Gormley; Love Lucian: The Letters of Lucian Freud, 1939–1954, with David Dawson; Venice: City of Pictures; and How Painting Happens (and why it matters)
Published in association with the Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, this stunning book offers a visually engaging and detailed journey through Hockney’s extraordinary life and career.
David Hockney
Edited by Sir Norman Rosenthal
Accompanies the exhibition opening at the Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, in spring 2025.
Published in association with the Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, to coincide with their major 2025 David Hockney exhibition, this vivid book charts the life and work of one of Britain’s most popular and significant artists. Expertly written by preeminent curatorial experts, art historians, and critics including Sir Norman Rosenthal, Sir Simon Schama, and Fiona Maddocks, this definitive survey combines a curated selection of archival photographs and eye- catching artworks presented in a lavish, large-format book to offer a visually engaging and detailed journey through Hockney’s remarkable life and career.
Following an introduction that offers an overview of Hockney’s life and work, a series of chapters explore in detail the important moments and signature styles and preoccupations of the artist’s varied career, from his early life in Bradford and London through his years in California to his later life in Bridlington, Yorkshire, and Normandy. Several of the chapters are arranged thematically according to artistic subject matter and medium, ranging from still lifes and portraits to his much-loved landscapes and stunning designs for opera. A final chapter explores Hockney’s engagement with new technology, particularly the iPad, demonstrating the endless inventiveness, curiosity, and creativity that have characterized Hockney’s work over the decades.
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Compiled with the full involvement of David Hockney and his studio, and with a large-scale landscape format with a selection of gatefolds that enables the reader to revel in the art, this is the most important book on Hockney’s entire career to have been published, and will appeal to the many fans of the artist’s work across the globe.
Sir Norman Rosenthal is an independent curator and art historian. He was exhibitions secretary at the Royal Academy, London, from 1977 to 2008.
A nonfiction graphic novel that tells the story of a century of revolutionary contemporary art.
Blow Up! The Explosion of Contemporary Art
Robert Shore
Illustrated by Eva Rossetti
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How did a urinal become art? And a can of tomato soup, a tent, a pickled shark. How did what seemed like a prank at the New York Armory Show of 1917 explode to become today’s global multibillion-dollar art world? Blow Up! answers these questions by following the lives of seminal contemporary artists and the stories behind their groundbreaking works.
Against a backdrop of armed conflict (two World Wars, Japanese militarization, US troops in Vietnam, the Yugoslav Wars) and rapid societal change (democratization, successive waves of feminism, globalization), Blow Up! tells the story of contemporary art from Marcel Duchamp’s repurposed urinal to Maurizio Cattelan’s taped banana. Literal bombs explode and conventions go up in flames as a series of art objects shock and electrify society: a pickled shark, a stuffed hare, human blood.
Chapters follow a series of chain reactions as artists meet and inspire each other across continents, generations, and decades. Over a period of one hundred years everything changes—and yet the cry of “It’s not art!” never goes away. No matter how long people have had to get used to it, contemporary art continues to upset expectations and disrupt conventions—and inspire anew.
Robert Shore is the author of several books about contemporary art and photography, including Beg, Steal and Borrow: Artists Against Originality, Andy Warhol, and Yayoi Kusama He worked for many years as an arts reviewer and as the editor of Elephant magazine.
Eva Rossetti has illustrated several graphic novels, including The Women Who Changed Art Forever: Feminist Art—The Graphic Novel
The first- ever A– Z survey of the major modern and contemporary artists of the Middle East.
Artists of the Middle East 1900 to Now
Saeb Eigner
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The vibrant and varied art of the Middle East and North Africa comes together in this beautifully illustrated book through the life and work of more than 250 artists, covering a 120-year period of creative activity from 1900 to the present day.
Each of the eighty alphabetically arranged biographies offers a critical analysis of an artist’s work and its cultural significance, as well as illustrating key works—b eginning with Shafic Abboud (b. Lebanon, c. 1926) and closing with Charles-Hossein Zenderoudi (b. Iran, 1937). The selected works engage with significant issues of our age, both universal and regional; many are breathtaking and illuminating, and some are provocative. The book also includes concise biographies of more than 100 additional artists, giving fascinating insights into a richly creative region.
In an in- depth introduction, the book’s author, Saeb Eigner, shares his intimate knowledge of the Middle East, its languages, literary and stylistic influences, and artistic innovations. He also explores the region’s varied art scene, its art movements and communities, and the everchanging cultural, political, and religious context in which the artists have been working.
As a work of reference, this book will be a fascinating and invaluable addition to the library of anyone interested in or engaged with the culture of the Middle East and those keen to broaden their knowledge of modern and contemporary art.
Saeb Eigner is a specialist in Arab art and culture with a deep knowledge of the Middle East, and is a committed advocate of the arts. For several decades he has been an avid collector of modern and contemporary Middle Eastern art, and much of his collection is on long-term loan to the London Business School (of which he has been a governor for many years). Eigner was a senior adviser on the British Museum’s exhibition “Word into Art: Artists of the Middle East,” and is author of Art of the Middle East: Modern and Contemporary Art of the Arab World and Iran
A vibrant contemporary art anthology that explores the complex ties between race, climate crisis, and colonialism by over 150 leading artists of African diasporic, Latin American, and Native American identity.
Black Earth Rising
Ekow Eshun
Texts by Anna Arabindan-Kesson and Macarena Gómez-Barris
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Black Earth Rising presents works by artists of African diasporic, Latin American, and Native American identity that address vital questions of land, presence, climate crisis, and social and environmental justice against the historical backdrop of European settlement of the New World. Supported by an exhibition curated by the author, this timely publication invites us to trace and make the connections between race, the climate crisis, and colonialism.
Works by over 150 contemporary artists are presented in three thematic sections: Reckoning, Reimagining, and Reclaiming. Complex and intertwined concepts are explored: forced migration and slavery, the environmental consequences of colonialism, the occupation of Native lands, the urban plight of Black and Brown communities, and how cultural practices and knowledge systems of indigenous peoples can change our perspectives of the natural world.
Compelling and thought-provoking, Black Earth Rising presents a discourse around climate change that situates the voices of people of color at the active center rather than on the passive periphery, and expands our understanding of aesthetic perspectives on climate change through artworks that reach to the poetic and lyrical rather than the didactic.
Ekow Eshun is a writer, curator, journalist, and broadcaster based in London, whose writing has appeared in publications including The New York Times, the Financial Times, The Guardian, and Vogue. Director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, from 2005 to 2010, and a frequent contributor to BBC radio and television programs, his previous books include Black Gold of the Sun: Searching for Home in England and Africa, Africa State of Mind: Contemporary Photography Reimagines a Continent, and In the Black Fantastic
A charming gift book devoted to the art and design of Vanessa Bell, a central figure in the internationally popular Bloomsbury group.
Vanessa Bell Modern Living
Rosalind McKever
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The painter Vanessa Bell initiated a step change in modern British art, bringing the bright palette and bold stylization of the Parisian avant-garde to London. She was a central figure in the Bloomsbury group, alongside members of her family and close circle including Virginia Woolf, Clive Bell, and Duncan Grant.
Vanessa Bell: Modern Living explores Bell’s radical approach to art and life through her paintings, prints, and designs for interiors, textiles, book jackets, and more, bringing her work out of the shadow of her male contemporaries while celebrating her collaborative approach. Illustrated by more than one hundred striking images drawn from the V&A’s important collection of her work, this engaging overview also considers Bell’s unique, artisanal designs for the Omega Workshops, and for Charleston Farmhouse in Sussex, her family residence, foregrounding the home as a crucial site of modernity.
Rosalind McKever is curator of paintings and drawings at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. She has curated exhibitions at the V&A and the Museum of Contemporary Art at the University of São Paulo, and has held fellowships at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the National Gallery, London.
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The first ever critical biography of Helen Chadwick, who died tragically young but is now revered as a pioneering feminist artist.
Helen Chadwick Life Pleasures
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Helen Chadwick (1953–1996) embraced the sensuous aspects of the natural world, breaking taboos of the “traditional” or “beautiful.” Her sculpture, performance, and photography is radical, provocative, and often steeped in humor, and employs unusual, sometimes grotesque materials—b odily fluids, meat, flowers, chocolate, and compost among them. She quickly became a leading figure among Britain’s postwar avantgarde, becoming one of the first women to be nominated for the Turner Prize. A dedicated teacher, she mentored the majority of the Young British Artists. She was also involved in the artistic community at Beck Road, Hackney, whose residents included Maureen Paley, Richard Deacon, and Genesis P- Orridge.
Although Chadwick’s work was widely exhibited during her lifetime, attention to it declined following her unexpected death in 1996, and it is only relatively recently that its significance has been acknowledged afresh. Coinciding with a major touring retrospective, this publication spans the breadth of her practice, from her renowned MA degree show In the Kitchen (1977) through to her seminal Piss Flowers (1991–2). Merging art and life, with a focus on Chadwick’s interdisciplinary interests and engagement with education, music, and politics, as well as an in-depth study of her art and ideas, the book is a fitting tribute to her vital impact on social and cultural history.
Laura Smith is the director of collection and exhibitions at The Hepworth Wakefield. She was previously curator at Whitechapel Gallery, London. She writes extensively on modern and contemporary art, recently contributing to the publications Revisiting Modern British Art and Virginia Woolf Reader, as well as many artists’ monographs. Marina Warner is an English historian, mythographer, art critic, novelist, and short story writer. Maria Christoforidou is an artist, writer, and researcher. Philomena Epps is a writer, art critic, and researcher. Katrin Bucher Trantow is the chief curator of the Kunsthaus Graz.
An indispensable supplement to Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné, uncovering valuable new information about the artist’s practice.
Revisions Francis Bacon in the Act of Painting
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The manner in which Bacon’s paintings evolved was misunderstood during his lifetime. Since he always painted alone in his studios, there were no witnesses to the emergence of his visceral imagery. His insistence on privacy helped generate considerable speculation about his painting process, most of it erroneous.
Bacon did make one clear statement about the genesis of his paintings: “I sketch out very roughly on the canvas with a brush, just a vague outline of something, and then I go to work ”. Yet this fundamentally accurate summation of his technique ran counter to the received wisdom and was misunderstood or ignored.
Martin Harrison’s introductory essay begins by demonstrating exactly what Bacon meant, and what he did: it will show what “rough sketching” signified. It also deploys X-ray and infrared images that reveal underdrawing, and analyzes other features that elucidate Bacon’s methodology. Photographs of paintings briefly arrested at intermediate points before completion—taken by the few visitors to the studio allowed the privilege— help to explain later stages in painting process.
Sophie Pretorius’s survey incorporates every one of the images that have hitherto remained unseen, illustrating the transitional states of all the paintings recorded in photographs, arranged thematically.
A reference section includes thumbnail images of all the paintings discussed here, arranged in chronological order. This is consistent with the layout of Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné (2016), to which this volume may be regarded as a supplement, publishing significant new information.
Martin Harrison is one of the foremost scholars of Francis Bacon, and the editor of Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné Sophie Pretorius is archivist of The Estate of Francis Bacon collection, and has transcribed all Bacon’s surviving medical records.
The fifth volume in the acclaimed Francis Bacon Studies series, published under the aegis of The Estate of Francis Bacon.
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David Sylvester’s Interviews with Francis Bacon remain the most consulted writing on Bacon. For the first time, Bacon’s words appear here in their unredacted form. Other essays throw light on form and accident in Bacon’s work, chimera and liminal entities, the psychology of the imposter, and destroyed paintings.
Half of this volume, an unprecedented proportion in the Studies series, is devoted to one topic: key parts of Bacon’s responses in Interviews with Francis Bacon that were removed, either to maintain continuity or at Bacon’s own insistence. This unpublished material will add immensely to this most frequently consulted resource and will require a reassessment of many of Bacon’s statements and ideas.
Martin Harrison examines photographs of four paintings that Bacon later destroyed.
Maria Balaska considers the question: Where does a painting come from? She investigates forms and accidents in Bacon’s work.
Amanda J. Harrison studies chimera and liminal entities in Bacon’s work.
Darian Leader asks: In whose name? He turns our attention to the psychology of the imposter.
Martin Harrison is one of the foremost scholars of Francis Bacon, and the editor of Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné Maria Balaska is a lecturer and research fellow in philosophy at the University of Hertfordshire in the UK and at Åbo Akademi University in Finland. Amanda J. Harrison is a poet whose essays include “Francis Bacon: A Sudden Blow” and, in Francis Bacon Studies IV , “Bacon and the Occult.” Darian Leader is a psychoanalyst and author. He is honorary visiting professor in psychoanalysis at Roehampton University in the UK.
A long overdue evaluation of John Walker’s work from the last half century.
John Walker Touch
Catherine Lampert and Alex Bacon
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John Walker’s prolific painting career spans over sixty years. His practice is inspired by a range of visual references, notably the work of Goya, Matisse, the abstract expressionists, and the art of Oceania, as well as by shapes and pattern motifs evoking history, time, and place; however, his work cannot readily be defined as abstract or figurative, and his guiding thought is to have a conversation with the art of the past that embraces feeling and touch. As Walker puts it, the artist should listen to the sound of the brush. His desire to “own” a subject is present in his engagement with the bay at Seal Point, Maine, where he has lived for many years: “It’s about capturing something no one else has seen.”
Walker’s works are in major museums and private collections internationally, and he has had solo exhibitions in the UK, US, Australia, New Zealand, and China. Despite winning the John Moores Painting Prize in 1976, and being nominated for 1985’s Turner Prize, he has exercised a resistance to reputation-building, and visualizes his studio practice as a slow, evolving process. His uncompromising judgments infuse the work, and are one reason he remains an artist respected and closely watched by many other artists, increasingly by younger admirers.
Including essays by Catherine Lampert and Alex Bacon, this immersive new monograph is a long overdue evaluation of Walker’s work from the past half century, connecting key works with new perspectives and historical influences, and examining the role of form, color, and presence in his masterly paintings.
Catherine Lampert , former director of the Whitechapel Art Gallery (1988–2001), has edited and contributed to numerous catalogs and books on contemporary artists over the years. Most recent are her books on Frank Auerbach, Peter Doig, and Hurvin Anderson. Alex Bacon is an art historian, curator, and writer. He is an editor- at- large for The Brooklyn Rail and former curatorial associate at the Princeton University Art Museum.
Published to accompany a major exhibition at M+, Hong Kong, this catalog places more than sixty Picasso masterpieces alongside works by Asian and Asian- diasporic artists selected from the M+ Collections.
Picasso for Asia A Conversation
Doryun Chong and François Dareau
Accompanies an exhibition at M+, Hong Kong, from March 28 to July 13, 2025.
Why is Pablo Picasso so famous the world over? How does Picasso, the quintessential modern artist of the twentieth century but also undeniably a European, relate to the work of contemporary artists in other parts of the world, such as Asia? And what do Picasso and his legacy mean in an age and a place that are far from his own?
These are some of the fundamental questions explored in Picasso for Asia, which accompanies a major exhibition at M+, Hong Kong. At its heart are two intertwined narratives. First, Picasso’s life and artistic practice are interpreted through the four archetypes of the creative genius, the outsider looking in, the consummate magician, and the endlessly inquisitive student of art history. Secondly, the fresh interpretation of Picasso’s oeuvre is placed “in conversation” with the works of Asian artists, thereby revealing what Picasso’s art can tell us about artistic practice today, and vice versa. A visual timeline shows how Asian art and artists migrated to Europe during Picasso’s lifetime and became an unavoidable part of his cultural context and milieu, as well as describing Picasso’s reception in Asia from the 1910s right up to the end of the 20th century.
A bold exploration of complex relationships between origin and reception, invention and adaptation, West and East, this book enriches the discourse on transnational contemporary Asian art and visual culture, while contributing to the growing critical literature on global art history.
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Doryun Chong is artistic director, curatorial, and chief curator of M+, Hong Kong. François Dareau is a research fellow at the Musée National Picasso- Paris, France.
A vibrant survey of contemporary portrait painters by bestselling author and curator Amber Creswell Bell.
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“Portraiture is like an alchemy of the physical and the intangible into painted materiality.”
Yvette Coppersmith
A portrait is no longer expected to be a realistic rendering of a person— ar tists experiment with numerous techniques, even approaching abstraction, to convey the personality and character of their subjects. About Face explores the rich diversity of contemporary portraiture via the diverse practices of thirty-nine portrait painters—in the process unveiling a vibrant part of the art world informed by a rich history. Many of these artists use their portraiture to engage with social, political, or environmental issues or to convey a narrative, and the complexity of the human experience; others are simply fascinated by human faces.
Whatever the artist’s motivation, every work makes clear that portraiture has always been a powerful means of telling stories and exploring our individual and collective identities.
Amber Creswell Bell is a Sydney-based arts, design, and lifestyle writer and curator. With a passion for art, Bell champions emerging and unrepresented artists, curating exhibitions both independently and in collaboration with well- established commercial galleries. She is currently the director of emerging art for Michael Reid galleries. Her previous books include Clay: Contemporary Ceramic Artisans, Still Life, and Abstract Painting: Contemporary Painters
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Above left: Gavin Hurley, Flower Girl (Henrietta), 2023. Above right: Abdul Abdullah, It's been a long time, 2023.
Below left: Yvette Coppersmith, Self-portrait, after George Lambert, 2018. Below right: David Fairbairn, Large head SA No 1, 2010.
A visual journey through five centuries of the city known as “La Serenissima”— a unique and compelling story for both lovers of Venice and lovers of its art.
“[A] tour de force saga of the lives of Venetian painters and of visiting artists Gayford is a marvelous writer.”
— Art Eyewitness
“From its rich history as a maritime power and magnet for diverse cultures to the central role it played during the Renaissance, Venice continues to enchant, fascinate, and lure hordes of eager tourists each year. Gayford takes readers on a visual journey through the past five centuries.”
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Venice was a major center of art in the Renaissance: the city where the medium of oil on canvas became the norm. The achievements of the Bellini brothers, Carpaccio, Giorgione, Titian, Tintoretto, and Veronese are a key part of this story. No other city has been depicted by so many great painters in such diverse styles and moods. Venetian views were a specialty of native artists such as Canaletto and Guardi, but the city has also been represented by outsiders: J. M. W. Turner, Claude Monet, John Singer Sargent, Howard Hodgkin, and many more.
Then there are those who came to look at and write about art. The reactions of Henry James, George Eliot, Richard Wagner, and others enrich this tale. Nor is the story over. Since the advent of the Venice Biennale in the 1890s, and the arrival of pioneering modern-art collector Peggy Guggenheim in the late 1940s, the city has become a shop window for the contemporary art of the whole world, and it remains the site of important artistic events.
In this elegant volume, Gayford—who has visited Venice countless times since the 1970s, covered every Biennale since 1990, and even had portraits of himself exhibited there on several occasions—takes us on a visual journey through the past five centuries of the city known as “La Serenissima,” the Most Serene. It is a unique and compelling portrait of Venice that will delight lovers of the city and lovers of its art.
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Martin Gayford is a writer and art critic. His books include Man with a Blue Scarf: On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud; Modernists and Mavericks: Bacon, Freud, Hockney and the London Painters; A History of Pictures: From the Cave to the Computer Screen, Spring Cannot Be Cancelled: David Hockney in Normandy, and The World According to David Hockney, all with David Hockney; Shaping the World: Sculpture from Prehistory to Now, with Antony Gormley; Love Lucian: The Letters of Lucian Freud, 1939–1954, with David Dawson; Venice: City of Pictures; and How Painting Happens (and why it matters)
A timely history of immigration, integration, and national identity that reveals the true heritage behind some of the nation’s defining artworks.
The Foreign Invention of British Art
Leslie Primo
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To truly understand British art is to recognize the pivotal contributions of the many foreign artists who have called Britain home. Traditional narratives have long obscured foreign influence, but this radical study challenges the notion of an exceptional or exclusive British culture, and in so doing rewrites the history of Renaissance and Enlightenment–era art.
Broadcaster and lecturer Leslie Primo expertly places art history in the wider political contexts of xenophobia and influence, addressing both foreign artists working in Britain and British-b orn artists affected by foreign cultures. From Hans Holbein to Artemisia Gentileschi, William Hogarth to Angelica Kauffman, familiar masters and lesser-known creators are situated within the multiculturalism inherent to, yet commonly dismissed by, the art world at this time.
Weaving together artists’ experiences of both acclaim and adversity, The Foreign Invention of British Art not only demonstrates how immigration and diversification are so often the driving force behind creative innovation, but also reveals the true heritage behind some of the nation’s defining artworks.
Leslie Primo is an independent art historian specializing in early to late medieval and Renaissance art. He has presented several art history programs for the BBC and regularly lectures at the National Portrait Gallery, Imperial College London, The Arts Society, and other leading institutions. Primo’s commitment to interrogating the historical canon and championing inclusive narratives continues through this book, his first with Thames & Hudson.
Pocket Perspectives Timeless
Thinking for Our Times
Surprising, questioning, challenging, enriching: the PocketPerspectives series presents timeless works by writers and thinkers who have shaped the conversation across the arts, visual culture, and history. Celebrating the undiminished vitality of their ideas today, these covetable and collectable books embody the best of Thames & Hudson.
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A highly acclaimed novelist on the way in which the landscape has both influenced and been represented in British Romantic literature.
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Margaret Drabble on the Romantics presents an image of Britain as seen through the eyes of some of its most celebrated writers. Many of the Romantics, as well as their successors, are closely associated with particular landscapes—the Wordsworths with the Lake District, Walter Scott with the Scottish Borders, and the Brontë sisters with West Yorkshire. Drabble deepens our understanding of this connection, unpacking the Romantics’ fascination with all varieties of rural landscape, from roaring seas to tranquil villages, while also exploring their writing’s subtler associations.
Herself a literary luminary, Drabble illuminates how this love of place fashioned some of the Romantics’ greatest works. She considers the resonances of myth and legend, art and earlier literature that the Romantics found in places such as North Wales and Cornwall, and investigates how their writing has, in turn, shaped our visual attitudes, taste in landscape and relation to nature.
Margaret Drabble is the author of eighteen novels including A Summer Bird-Cage, The Millstone, The Peppered Moth, The Red Queen, The Sea Lady, and the highly acclaimed The Pure Gold Baby. She has also written biographies, screenplays, and was the editor of the Oxford Companion to English Literature. She was appointed a Dame of the British Empire in 2008. She was also awarded the 2011 Golden PEN Award for a Lifetime’s Distinguished Service to Literature.
ISBN 978- 0- 500- 02949-7
45/8" × 71/8"
11 color illustrations
88 pages
Literary Criticism
June
$16.95 hardcover
(CAN $22.95)
C oming soon
Richard Rogers on Modern Architecture
978-0-500-029503
An updated and expanded edition of this classic survey, which has established itself as a superlative introduction to the full diversity of Aboriginal art.
FOURTH EDITION
Aboriginal Art
Wally Caruana
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Caribbean Art
$24.95 paperback
ISBN 978- 0- 500-20478- 8
Latin American Art Since 1900
$24.95 paperback
ISBN 978- 0- 500-20458- 0
This concise survey showcases the incredible, diverse work of Aboriginal and Torres Strait artists. Building on traditions that stretch back at least 50,000 years, these artists have long worked in a variety of contexts from the sacred and secret realm of ceremony to more public spheres. From isolated beginnings to postcolonialism and the present, Wally Caruana explains how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art has continually developed and responded to change; and considers the impact of urban living, the growth of local art centers that support the artists in these communities, and the recognition of women artists.
This new edition has been expanded and updated to include and reflect on important artists who have emerged in the last decade, with a focus on the burgeoning of activity in the Southern Desert region, Queensland, and the Torres Strait Islands—all testament to Aboriginal art’s continued dynamism and vitality.
Wally Caruana is an independent curator and consultant on Aboriginal art and was formerly senior curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, from 1984 to 2001.
ISBN 978- 0- 500-20465- 8 6" × 83/8"
345 color illustrations
304 pages Art
May
$26.95 paperback (CAN $35.95)
A new comprehensive overview of expressionism, tracing its evolution from the nineteenth century to the present day.
Expressionism
Colin Rhodes
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Outsider Art
$24.95 paperback
ISBN 978- 0- 500-20486-3
Abstract Art
$24.95 paperback
ISBN 978- 0- 500-20445- 0
Expressionist artists believed in art’s ability to communicate emotion, irrespective of any representational or narrative content. In this comprehensive introduction to one of the most radical artistic movements of our time, writer, artist, curator, and educator Colin Rhodes traces the thread of expressionist thought from the nineteenth century to the present day, mapping its various manifestations across Europe and the US, as well as parts of Africa, Asia, and South America.
By paying particular attention to nuanced issues of gender, sexuality, and cultural appropriation, Rhodes challenges the received art-historical narrative and reassesses it in the context of broader twentieth- and twenty-first-century artistic practice. Generously illustrated, the diverse selection of artists featured in this book range from Wassily Kandinsky, Erma Bossi, Francis Bacon, and Mark Rothko to Ursula Schultze-Bluhm, Gillian Ayres, Purvis Young, and Jadé Fadojutimi.
Colin Rhodes is a writer, artist, and educator. He has written and lectured widely on modern and contemporary art, and is a specialist on expressionism, primitivism, and outsider art. He is the author of Primitivism and Modern Art, Outsider Art: Spontaneous Alternatives, and The World According to Roger Ballen, all published by Thames & Hudson. He has worked in universities in the UK and Australia and is currently distinguished professor, Xiaoxiang Scholar, and Yangtze River Scholar in the Fine Arts Academy, Hunan Normal University, China.
ISBN 978- 0- 500-29775- 9
6" × 83/8"
145 color illustrations
272 pages
Art
May
$24.95 paperback (CAN $33.95)
An indispensable guide to the international history of illustrated images, from 1750 to the present day.
Illustration A Concise History
Andrew Hall
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Modern Painting: A Concise History
$25.95 paperback
ISBN 978- 0- 500-20489- 4
Graphic Design in the Twentieth Century: A Concise History
$24.95 paperback
ISBN 978- 0- 500-20458- 0
Illustration: A Concise History is a dynamic visual journey through the landscape of illustration that maps the evolution of the discipline from the industrial revolution to the postdigital age and showcases over 180 of its most iconic practitioners, including Laura Knight, Antonio Lopez, Käthe Kollwitz, and Hayao Miyazaki. By contextualizing the subject within a framework of key political events, cultural innovations, and technological advances, Andrew Hall redefines how we might think about illustration and the place that it has in our ever-evolving global network.
The second half of this introductory volume follows on from the ten chapters charting the chronology of illustration to provide a more in-depth look at its specific commercial genres across eleven feature sections, each including minihistories, practical career advice, and biographies of inspirational practitioners who operated within the field.
Andrew Hall is senior lecturer of illustration for the Central Saint Martins’ Graphic Communication Design Program. He has written several books on illustration and produced articles on a wide range of related topics such as coded robotic drawing, illustration practices in Tokyo and New York, and the digitalization of illustrative production methods.
ISBN 978- 0- 500-29772- 8 6" × 83/8"
218 color illustrations
360 pages
Drawing & Illustration
May
$29.95 paperback (CAN $39.95)
A celebration of the rich twentieth and twenty- firstcentury tradition of screenprinting as a means of artistic expression, from its commercial origins in 1920s America to the limited-edition screenprints of the postwar period and today.
Screenprints
A History
Gill Saunders
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$19.95 hardcover
ISBN 978- 0- 500- 48077- 9
The Poster: A Visual History
$65.00 hardcover
ISBN 978- 0- 500- 48038- 0
ISBN 978- 0- 500- 48101-1
77/8" × 101/4"
185 color illustrations
272 pages
Drawing & Illustration
May
$50.00 hardcover
(CAN $66.00)
Screenprints: A History, the first title in the V&A’s new series on the history and practice of printmaking, is a celebration of the fine-art applications of this versatile medium, from the commercial origins of the screenprinting process in 1920s America, its pivotal role in 1960s pop and op art among artists such as Andy Warhol and Bridget Riley, through to its adoption by the YBAs in the 1990s, and its enduring presence today.
The origins of the screenprinting process are introduced through early artistic precursors, such as the stencil and pochoir printing in the making of Henri Matisse’s Jazz, and other artists’ books. Screenprinting became one of the most important techniques in the rise of artists’ limited-edition, fine-art prints from the 1960s onward, seen here in the work of notable figures such as Roy Lichtenstein, Eduardo Paolozzi, and Damien Hirst. Special focus is given to lesser-known names who pioneered the use of the screenprint in fine art in the UK, the US, and Europe, including Francis Carr and Ben Shahn, while also tracing its global spread. The medium has further lent itself to spontaneous graphic protest, notably in the Atelier Populaire posters made in Paris in 1968, featured here and embodying screenprinting’s unique qualities, rich colors, and graphic impact.
An illustrated, step-by-step guide to the practical process further enriches this multifaceted account, which will appeal to art lovers and practicing artists everywhere.
Gill Saunders is honorary senior research fellow in the art, architecture, photography, and design department at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. She is the author of Edward Bawden’s England and coauthor, with Margaret Timmers, of The Poster: A Visual History
An in- depth exploration of the myths and legends of early Rome, highlighting the enigmatic origins of the Romans and how the first seeds of this vast empire were sown.
Rome Before Rome
The Legends That Shaped the Romans
Philip Matyszak
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The Greek and Roman Myths: A Guide to the Classical Stories
$24.95 hardcover
ISBN 978- 0- 500-25173-7
The Gods and Goddesses of Greece and Rome
$39.95 hardcover
ISBN 978- 0- 500- 02418- 8
ISBN 978- 0- 500- 02831- 5
51/2" × 85/8"
41 color illustrations
224 pages
Mythology & Ancient History
May
$24.95 hardcover
(CAN $33.95)
“I sing of arms and the man” wrote Vergil at the start of the Aeneid, one of Rome’s most iconic origin stories as it explores the tumultuous journey of Aeneas from Trojan prince to Roman hero. But did Aeneas actually flee from Troy? How did this story affect the Romansʼ perspective of themselves? And did they believe it? In Rome Before Rome, Philip Matyszak explores the myths and legends, heroes and villains that shaped the Roman sense of self.
There are few books which explain how these different legends fit into Rome’s overall narrative—and none which explore the range of myths Matyszak describes. Some of the legends are well known, from Romulus and Remus to the Rape of the Sabines; others are more obscure, such as the story of the Latin king Picus, who was turned into a woodpecker. Whether renowned or unfamiliar, all are significant in their own way and have had a profound impact on centuries of Romans. Even today these myths continue to reverberate throughout western culture in films, TV shows, and plays. Matyszak dissects these myths, investigating the historical texts of Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Plutarch, and Livy as well as Vergil's epic poem the Aeneid and Ovid’s Metamorphoses Rome Before Rome continually reveals the ways in which Rome’s mythological past may not be as illustrious as traditionally chronicled.
Philip Matyszak has a doctorate in Roman history from St John’s College, Oxford. He also teaches and prepares courses for the eLearning program at Cambridge University. He is the author of numerous books on the ancient world, including Lost Cities of the Ancient World, The Greek and Roman Myths: A Guide to the Classical Stories, and Ancient Magic: A Practitioner's Guide to the Supernatural in Greece and Rome, all published by Thames & Hudson.
A lifetime’s study brings revealing expertise to an oft- misunderstood topic in human history— the origin and language of the Indo-Europeans.
“Mallory presents the search for the Indo-European homeland in a compelling narrative which combines his deep knowledge of linguistics, archaeology and genetics with a rare ability to make it enjoyable for the reader. A brilliant book in every respect.”
— Barry Cunliffe,
Emeritus Professor of Archaeology,
University of Oxford
“An instant classic, Mallory provides an in-depth history of the research methods and interpretations, which puts into perspective the new genetic results.”
— Kristian Kristiansen, Professor of Archaeology, University of Copenhagen
The IndoEuropeans Rediscovered
How a Scientific Revolution is Rewriting Their Story
J. P. Mallory
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$34.95 hardcover
ISBN 978- 0- 500-25263- 5
Today the number of native speakers of Indo-European languages across the world is approximated to be over 2.6 billion—ab out 45 percent of the Earth’s population. Yet the idea that an ancient, prehistoric population in one time and place gave rise to a wide variety of peoples and languages is one with a long and troubled past. In this expansive investigation, based on more than forty years of research, archaeologist J. P. Mallory navigates the complex history of our search for the Indo-European homeland, offering fresh insight into the debates surrounding origin, as well as the latest genetic research.
In this compelling account, Mallory explores ancient migrations, linguistics, and archaeology, applying cutting-edge genetic research to untangle the key arguments with wit and verve. He addresses how the controversial idea of a single, shared homeland has been viewed by scientists, archaeologists, and linguists across the past century and reconsiders how, in the case of the Nazis and more recent nationalist movements, they have been manipulated for political advantage. The author goes on to analyze the linguistic trail linking current populations to the Indo-Europeans, looking at Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, and more, as he traces linguistic origins across multiple peoples and cultures, bringing the most up-to- date phylogenetic research to bear on this story. Ultimately this important volume offers the most conclusive and nuanced understanding of an oft-misrepresented and misunderstood topic.
ISBN 978- 0- 500- 02863- 6
61/8" × 91/4"
67 illustrations
448 pages
History
May
$39.95 hardcover
(CAN $53.95)
J. P. Mallory is a world expert on the interconnection of archaeology and linguistics and is the author of In Search of the Indo-Europeans and The Oxford Introduction to Proto-IndoEuropean and the Proto-Indo-European World. He has published numerous other works, including the acclaimed The Origins of the Irish. He is emeritus professor of prehistoric archaeology at Queen’s University Belfast and a member of the Royal Irish Academy.
A deliciously fascinating, expertly written global tour of cooking, eating, and drinking, told through objects in the collection of the British Museum.
Repast
The Story of Food
Jenny Linford
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Reshaping History
$40.00 hardcover
ISBN 978- 0- 500- 02752-3
ISBN 978- 0- 500- 48115- 8
73/8" × 93/4"
300 color illustrations
256 pages History
July
$ 45.00 hardcover
(CAN $60.00)
Our insatiable appetite for creativity in the kitchen—or around the open fire—is reflected in the fascinating objects explored in this book. Written by food writer Jenny Linford in collaboration with the British Museum, Repast focuses on artifacts in the museum’s collection—from ancient clay cooking vessels to exquisite gold cups—spanning multiple continents and dating from prehistory to the modern day.
Taking a broadly chronological approach to the subject, the book is arranged into thirteen thematic chapters, starting with explorations of hunting and gathering and ending with the history of eating out; along the way, agriculture, alcohol, and cooking—among other subjects—are also investigated. Interspersed among the many remarkable objects examined in each chapter is a series of in- depth essays on such topics as tea (the world’s most consumed drink after water), pork (one of the world's most consumed meats), and wheat (the source of 20 percent of the world’s human calorie consumption), revealing the many social, cultural, and religious aspects of food.
Through a feast of words and images, Repast presents the irresistible, international story of food, drink, and the culinary arts.
Jenny Linford is a London- based food writer and a long- standing member of the Guild of Food Writers. She has written more than fifteen books, including The Missing Ingredient: The Curious Role of Time in Food and Flavor , which explores time as the “universal, invisible ingredient” in the food we grow, make, and cook. She also produces and presents a cheesecentric podcast called A Slice of Cheese for Food FM Radio.
This concise history tells India’s unfolding story, from the ancient Hindu dynasties to the coming of Islam, from the Mughal Empire to the present day, with a new preface and postscript.
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India
A Short History
Andrew Robinson
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India: A History in Objects
$45.00 hardcover
ISBN 978- 0- 500- 48064- 9
Throughout its long history, India has signified many things. To pilgrims from ancient China, India was the birthplace of the Buddha; to Alexander the Great it was a land of philosophers and indomitable, elephantine armies. At the height of the Mughal Empire in 1700, India meant wealth, boasting nearly 25 percent of the world economy, but then, under British rule, its economy declined.
In the nineteenth century, India's identity continued to evolve, defined by stark contrasts of extravagant wealth and crippling poverty, symbolized by the Taj Mahal and devastating famines, maharajas, and untouchables. At the same time, the country was celebrated for its rich spirituality, from the many gods of Hinduism and Sufi saints to Buddhist philosophy, with towering figures like Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore shaping its legacy.
Andrew Robinson incisively distills India’s many incarnations, from the remarkably advanced cities of the early Indus Valley to the world’s largest democracy. Anyone curious about its past, present, or future will find this a fascinating introduction.
ISBN 978- 0- 500-29825-1
5⅛" × 7⅞"
224 pages History
May
$16.95 paperback (CAN $22.95)
Andrew Robinson has written more than twenty-fi ve books on the arts and sciences. They include Lost Languages: The Enigma of the World’s Undeciphered Scripts, Cracking the Egyptian Code, and Earthshock, which won the Association of Earth Science Editors Outstanding Publication Award. He is also a regular contributor to magazines, such as Current World Archaeology, History Today, The Lancet, Nature, and Science. A former literary editor of The Times Higher Education Supplement, he was also a visiting fellow at the University of Cambridge.
Entertaining and gripping, Alistair Moffat clears away the myths and brings the compelling history of the Highland clans to life.
“A brisk and accessible guide to a thousand years of reiving and rivalry in the Highlands.”
The Scotsman
“Refreshing new material and commanding historical breadth in this lively survey of 1,000 years of clancestry.”
Country Life
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The Highland Clans
Alistair Moffat
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Scotland’s Forgotten Past: A History of the Mislaid, Misplaced and Misunderstood
$24.95 hardcover
ISBN 978- 0- 500-25264-2
Before Scotland: A Prehistory
$18.95 paperback
ISBN 978- 0- 500-29725- 4
The story of the Highland clans is famous, the names celebrated, and the deeds heroic. Having clung to ancient traditions of family, loyalty, and valor for centuries, the clans faced their downfall at the decisive Battle of Culloden in 1746.
Award-winning historian Alistair Moffat traces the history of the clans from their Celtic origins to the coming of the Romans; from Somerled the Viking to Robert the Bruce; from the great battles of Bannockburn and Flodden to Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Jacobite Risings; and from the Clearances to the present day.
Moffat is an adept guide to the world of the clans, a world dominated by lineage, land, and community. These are stories of great leaders and famous battles, and of an extraordinary people, shaped by the unique traditions and landscape of the Scottish Highlands. It’s a story, too, about the pain of leaving, with the great emigrations to the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand that began after Culloden.
Complete with a clan map and an alphabetical list of the clans of the Scottish Highlands, this is a must for anyone interested in the history of Scotland.
Alistair Moffat was born in Kelso, Scotland. He is an award- winning writer and historian, was director of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and is former rector of the University of St Andrews. He is founder of Borders Book Festival and cochairman of the Great Tapestry of Scotland. His many books include The Highland Clans, Before Scotland, and Scotland's Forgotten Past
ISBN 978- 0- 500-29828-2
5⅛" × 7⅞"
43 illustrations, 25 in color
216 pages
History
May
$17.95 paperback (CAN $23.95)
A charming, lively and often amusing tour of thirty-six forgotten episodes and overlooked people and places of Scottish history.
“Illuminating . . . this book deserves a place on the school curriculum.”
— Allan Massie, The Scotsman
NEW IN PAPERBACK
Scotland’s Forgotten Past
A History of the Mislaid, Misplaced and Misunderstood
Alistair Moffat
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The Highland Clans
$17.95 paperback
ISBN 978- 0- 500-29828-2
Before Scotland: A Prehistory
$18.95 paperback
ISBN 978- 0- 500-29725- 4
While Scotland’s history cannot be separated from its kings and queens, saints, and warriors, there is a rich story to tell about the country’s lesserknown places, people, and events. This colorful history of Scotland from award-winning writer Alistair Moffat chooses episodes, half-forgotten or misunderstood, that have been submerged by the wash of history. Bringing these stories to light and to life, this entertaining book reveals the richness and complexity of this nation on the northwest edge of Europe. Moffat takes us from the geological formation of the land that makes up Scotland to the first evidence of human habitation and then up to modern times. In the process our discoveries include: the cave of headless children; the origins of the Scottish kings and the real heroes of Scottish independence; the invention of tartan and the romance of the Highlands; Scotland’s answer to Shakespeare; the many US presidents with Scottish heritage, and other fascinating tales brought to life by Joe McLaren’s attractive woodcut-st yle illustrations. Even the most knowledgeable history buff will experience a sense of newfound knowledge and appreciation for this unique country, its history, and its people.
Alistair Moffat was born in Kelso, Scotland. He is an award- winning writer and historian, was director of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and is former rector of the University of St Andrews. He is founder of Borders Book Festival and cochairman of the Great Tapestry of Scotland. His many books include The Highland Clans, Before Scotland, and Scotland's Forgotten Past
ISBN 978-0-500-29780-3
5⅛" × 7⅞"
37 illustrations
224 pages
History
July
$16.95 paperback (CAN $22.95)
An illustrated guide to our astonishing new understanding of dinosaurs, with the latest science and the most accurate and visually stunning paleoart.
“This gorgeous book belongs on the bookshelves of any science enthusiast and any movie director or television producer looking to bring dinosaurs to the screen.”
Steve Brusatte
“World-leading palaeontologist Michael J. Benton cracks open the fossil evidence to reveal the truth behind what dinosaurs looked like in this fascinating and remarkably illustrated guide.”
Extinctions: How Life Survives, Adapts and Evolves
$34.95 hardcover
ISBN 978- 0- 500- 02546- 8
ISBN 978-0-500-29804-6
7⅜" × 9¾"
100 color illustrations
240 pages Life Science
July
$24.95 paperback (CAN $33.95)
Dinosaurs are not what you thought they were— or at least, they didn’t look like you thought they did. In this new visual guide to the world of the dinosaurs, world-leading paleontologist Michael J. Benton shows how rapid advances in technology and amazing new fossil finds have changed the way we see these extinct beasts forever. Stunning new illustrations by paleoartist Bob Nicholls display the latest and most exciting scientific discoveries in vibrant color.
From Sinosauropteryx, the first dinosaur to have its color patterns identified—a ginger-and-white striped tail—by Benton’s team at the University of Bristol in 2010, to recent research on the surprising mixed feathers and scales of Kulindadromeus, this is one of the first books to include this cutting- e dge scientific research in paleontology.
Each chapter focuses on a particular extinct species, featuring a specially commissioned illustration that brings to life the latest scientific breakthroughs, with accompanying text exploring how paleontologists have determined new details, such as the patterns on skin and the colors of feathers of animals that lived millions of years ago. This visual compendium surprises and challenges everything you thought you knew about what dinosaurs looked like and how they lived.
Michael J. Benton is head of the world- leading Palaeobiology Research Group at the University of Bristol. He has written more than fifty books, including Dinosaurs: New Visions of a Lost World, Dinosaurs Rediscovered: The Scientific Revolution in Paleontology, When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time, and Extinctions: How Life Survives, Adapts and Evolves Bob Nicholls is one of the world’s leading paleoartists. His work is regularly used to illustrate the latest discoveries in both science journals and the general press.
A fresh take on the history of film, using timelines to trace its development from the earliest moving images to now.
“Haydn Smith’s nuanced chronology blends discussions of groundbreaking films, filmmaking innovations, and noteworthy historical and cultural events. . . . Scholars will especially appreciate the depth of thought, and the images make this work an enjoyable browse for casual film buffs.”
Library Journal
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A Chronology of Film
A Cultural Timeline from the Magic Lantern to the Digital Screen
Ian Haydn Smith
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A Timeline of Western Culture from Prehistory to the Present
$24.95 paperback
ISBN 978- 0- 500-29817- 6
A Chronology of Film presents a fresh perspective on the medium by taking a purely chronological approach to its history, tracing the complex links between technical innovations, social changes, and artistic interventions.
Organized around a central timeline that charts the development of film from the earliest moving images to present-day blockbusters, it features key films, together with commentaries and contextual information about the social, political, and cultural events of the period in which they were produced. Special feature spreads highlight important technical developments and key practitioners. Covering a wide selection of genres, styles, and directors, this Chronology is invaluable as a comprehensive guide to film in all its different forms.
Ian Haydn Smith is the author of Selling the Movie: The Art of the Film Poster and Cult Filmmakers: 50 Movie Mavericks You Need to Know, and is the update editor on 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die. Haydn Smith is also the editor of Curzon Magazine
ISBN 978- 0- 500-29856- 5
85/8" × 101/8"
300+ illustrations
272 pages
Pop Culture
May
$24.95 paperback
(CAN $33.95)
A gripping, postapocalyptic sci- fi graphic novel from acclaimed universe- builder Ben Mauro, perfect for fans of Dune, Blade Runner, Halo, and Fallout.
HUXLEY
Ben Mauro
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Making Videogames:
The Art of Creating Digital Worlds
$40.00 hardcover
ISBN 978- 0- 500- 02314-3
Waneella: Pixelscapes
$50.00 hardcover
ISBN 978- 0- 500- 02845-2
In this boundary-breaking new graphic novel, a once-thriving world, buried in the ashes of a nuclear holocaust and ruined by generations of planetary wars, now lies in perpetual waste. To save humanity from itself, the remaining AI bred and cloned elite humans as workers, soldiers, and enforcers—armored warriors known as Ronin—to help keep order and give humanity a purpose in this brave new world. After a certain age, the clones start to think for themselves and are sent on increasingly dangerous missions until they are killed or “retired,” replaced by younger and more compliant clones, until the cycle repeats itself.
While humanity limps on, the lives of two soldiers, Max and Kai, become intertwined on a routine mission upon discovering an ancient sentient robot known as Huxley, and soon find themselves caught up in a mystery of galactic scale, as the robot’s true purpose is revealed.
This thrilling sci-fi debut by artist and world-builder Ben Mauro sets the stage for an immersive postapocalyptic adventure that will leave you captivated and hungry for more.
Ben Mauro has left an indelible mark on the entertainment industry. His portfolio boasts involvement in blockbuster hits such as Elysium, Chappie, Valerian, Lucy, The Amazing Spiderman 2, and the iconic The Hobbit Trilogy, and he has worked with directors Peter Jackson, Guillermo Del Toro, Luc Besson, and Neill Blomkamp. He has also been instrumental in shaping the visual and thematic foundations of critically acclaimed videogames in the billion- dollar Call of Duty and Halo franchises.
ISBN 978- 0- 500-29843- 5
81/8" × 105/8"
230 color illustrations
240 pages
Graphic Novel & Pop Culture
May
$35.00 paperback
(CAN $47.00)
The inside story of Record Plant Studios— the real “Hotel California”— that reveals how the greatest music of the seventies was recorded and why the artists checked out but rarely left.
In the seventies, Record Plant Studios was at the heart of the largest boom in record production in music history. With studios in New York, Los Angeles, and Sausalito, and a fleet of remote recording trucks, Record Plant was everywhere there was music In 1976 alone, three #1 albums— Stevie Wonder’s Songs In The Key Of Life, the Eagles’ Hotel California, and Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours—were all recorded in Record Plant studios.
Based on the memoirs and archives of studio cofounder Chris Stone, and interviews with over one hundred studio employees, music producers, and recording artists, Buzz Me In narrates this previously untold story of classic rock ’n’ roll as the authors received it from industry insiders working behind the iconic studio’s locked doors, alongside the great rock stars of the twentieth century.
ISBN 978- 0- 500- 02869- 8
61/8" × 91/4"
250 illustrations, 150 in color
384 pages
Music
May
$39.95 hardcover
(CAN $53.95)
This fast-paced and engrossing book, written by two seasoned music journalists, tells the incredible story of the evolution of Record Plant Studios, tape by tape, and of the hits that were manufactured there. Starting on New York’s West Side in 1968 with the recording of Jimi Hendrix’s Electric Ladyland, Record Plant expanded to LA, where Stevie Wonder produced his greatest hits, and then on to Sausalito where Sly Stone, Bob Marley, and Fleetwood Mac encamped; John Lennon made New York his post-Beatles home, and the Eagles conceived Hotel California while working in LA. Each location showcased the founders’ proven formula of combining state- of-the-art audio, fantasy bedrooms, and group Jacuzzis, with sex, drugs, and celebrity jams.
Martin Porter is an author, journalist, and publisher who began his career as a technology writer/reporter in the mid-1970s for Rolling Stone, GQ, and Premiere magazines. As editor and publisher of Pro Sound News, EQ, Guitar Player , and Surround magazines, he has been one of the leading chroniclers of this golden period in music and audio technology. David Goggin, aka Mr. Bonzai, is an award-winning author, photographer, and music journalist. Together the authors manage the popular Record Plant Diaries Facebook page.
Stunning botanically inspired interiors from chintz to chinoiserie.
Modern Floral Timeless Interiors Inspired by Nature
Charlotte Coote
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$45.00 hardcover
ISBN 978-1-760-76254- 4
For Charlotte Coote, the interiors that have stayed with her are those that feel confident and unashamed. Charlotte’s bold and contemporary spaces embrace beauty and authenticity and transcend modern trends. Modern Floral offers an abundance of inspiration on how to bring the colors, patterns, and textures of nature into your home.
From designing with floral and antique textiles to color concepts and ideas for incorporating natural textures, this book demonstrates the endless inspiration that comes from the timelessness and elegance of nature. With mood boards, hand- drawn illustrations, and step-by-step guides, Coote shows that drawing on the natural world is always a strong and grounding foundation from which to create.
Charlotte Coote is one of Australia’s most sought- after interior designers with a flair for classic contemporary designs that transcend fleeting trends and exude unmistakable elegance. With close to twenty years’ experience in the industry, Charlotte’s career has seen her interior design commissions in Australia, the United Kingdom, Europe, and the United States. As the founder and head designer at Coote & Co., she has worked on numerous projects from boutique hotels to castles and private residences. Coote’s first book, Color is Home: A Brave Guide to Designing Classic Interiors was published by Thames & Hudson in 2022.
ISBN 978-1-760-76479-1
85/8" × 101/8"
308 color illustrations
224 pages
Interior Design
May
$ 45.00 hardcover (CAN $60.00)
Published to mark the 150th anniversary of the founding of Liberty, this book celebrates the extraordinary range of innovative fabric designs that have been at the forefront of the business and its global reputation for well over a century.
Liberty. Design. Pattern. Colour.
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FuturLiberty:
Liberty Fabrics and the Avant-Garde
$65.00 hardcover
ISBN 978- 0- 500- 02671-7
ISBN 978- 0- 500- 02885- 8
101/8" × 121/8"
275 color illustrations
272 pages
Decorative Arts
June
$75.00 hardcover
(CAN $99.00)
Liberty—an icon of design innovation and luxury—is renowned internationally for fabric designs on silk, wool, cashmere and, most famously, Tana Lawn™ Cotton. Gathered here are 150 of the most striking and significant Liberty patterns, ranging from much-loved florals to bold and abstract designs and contemporary collaborations.
Published to mark Liberty’s 150th anniversary, this beautifully produced book places fabrics in the context of the store’s wider design history—from the retailer’s remarkable Tudor-revival building to posters, advertising, and branding. It presents the very latest examples of Liberty design alongside prints, drawings, and samples from the company’s outstanding archive, telling an inspiring, century-long story of manufacturing quality and design excellence.
Kassia St Clair is a writer, cultural historian, and color expert. She is the best- selling author of The Secret Lives of Color and The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History
Kassia St Clair
A richly illustrated sourcebook of two- dimensional pattern and three- dimensional ornamentation, presenting more than one thousand historic and contemporary examples from around the world.
“Helpfully organized by subject, this book can provide many happy hours of ogling for the design- inclined.” NPR
NEW IN PAPERBACK
The V&A Sourcebook of Pattern & Ornament
Amelia Calver
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May Morris: Arts & Crafts Designer
$29.95 paperback
ISBN 978- 0- 500- 48081- 6
Silk: Fiber, Fabric, and Fashion
$95.00 hardcover
ISBN 978- 0- 500- 48065- 6
ISBN 978- 0- 500-29840- 4
77/8" × 91/4"
1146 color illustrations
400 pages
Decorative Arts
May
$35.00 paperback (CAN $47.00)
This richly illustrated, easy-to-navigate sourcebook presents more than one thousand historic and contemporary examples of pattern and ornamentation from around the world, each one succinctly identified and explained. Arranged thematically, it is unique among pattern books, as it includes examples not only of surface pattern but also of threedimensional ornamentation and embellishment.
Two- dimensional pattern is ubiquitous, no matter what the age of an object or where it was created. From Japanese kimonos and William Morris fabrics to Chinese porcelain and contemporary furniture, such works reveal humanity’s unceasing desire to combine pattern with design. Just as prevalent are examples of three- dimensional embellishments that go far beyond the requirements of their practical use: an acrylic handbag has a carved motif of insects and wildflowers, a cobalt-blue pottery ewer has a dragon’s-head spout, and an early 19th- century fruit plate is shaped like a seashell.
Designers working today are as fascinated and inspired by pattern and ornament as they have always been. This expertly compiled selection will appeal to designers, artists, illustrators, and other creatives from all disciplines as well as anyone interested in visual and material culture.
Amelia Calver is licensing research and development manager at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. She has worked at the V&A for more than twenty years and has an impressive familiarity with the museum’s extensive collections, particularly of the fabric and wallpaper designs from around the world that have been acquired during the V&A’s 170-year history.
A perfect armchair and gardening companion to garden flowers.
Praise for The Book of Wild Flowers
“Charming. . . . This cheerful, whimsical, eminently browsable book will appeal to nature lovers, gardeners, artists, and readers who enjoy botanical art meshed with engaging narration.”
Library Journal
The Book of Garden Flowers
Angie Lewin and Christopher Stocks
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The Book of Wild Flowers: Reflections on Favorite Plants
$24.95 hardcover
ISBN 978- 0- 500- 02706- 6
Christopher Stocks feeds our affection for flowers by revealing the fascinating stories behind some of the most familiar and unusual plants to be found in creative gardens today. Designed in a similar format to The Book of Wild Flowers, The Book of Garden Flowers focuses on nineteen of artist Angie Lewin’s favorite garden flowers, and includes reproductions of her paintings and illustrations, many of them created especially for the book. Tips for care and cultivation are also included.
The Book of Garden Flowers will appeal to anyone who loves flowers, as well as fans of Angie Lewin, who is widely admired for her alluring images of the natural world.
Angie Lewin studied fine art at the Central School of Art in London and has since become a highly regarded artist and printmaker. She has published three books: Angie Lewin: Plants and Places, The Book of Pebbles, and The Book of Wild Flowers: Reflections on Favorite Plants Christopher Stocks is an author, journalist, and trainee bell ringer. He is the author of several books, including The Book of Pebbles and The Book of Wild Flowers: Reflections on Favorite Plants
ISBN 978- 0- 500- 02707-3
57/8" × 83/8"
64 color illustrations
152 pages Gardens May
$24.95 hardcover (CAN $33.95)
A compelling collection of one hundred years of outdoors magazine and catalog design, featuring the work of crucial creatives and seventy iconic brands, from Salomon to The North Face.
The Outdoor Archive
The Ultimate Collection of Adventure & Sporting Graphics, Illustrations, and Gear
Chase Anderson and Clint Pumphrey Foreword by Chris Burkard
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The Art of Climbing
$45.00 hardcover
ISBN 978- 0- 500- 02597- 0
ISBN 978- 0- 500- 02599- 4
81/2" × 111/8"
600 color illustrations
384 pages Design May
$65.00 hardcover (CAN $86.00)
For decades, outdoor brands have put daring and aspirational images on the covers of their magazines and catalogs, pushing the limits of photography and graphic design. This fascinating collection of outdoors covers, drawn from the Outdoor Recreation Archive at Utah State University and spanning one hundred years, features seventy iconic brands including Columbia, The North Face, and Snow Peak. Together, they make up a stunning visual sequence that traverses generations, sports, styles, and continents, and holds something for creatives of all persuasions.
The images, from grainy climbing photographs to homely illustrations of happy campers and cinematic landscapes, are organized artfully by medium—from outdoors to processed photography, collage to illustration, product photography to typography. Lead-in texts provide an overview of the scope and creative opportunities afforded by each medium, while interspersed throughout are pieces written by guest contributors. Specially commissioned, these personal reflections—by more than twenty industry leaders, designers, creatives, and sportspeople, including photographer Chris Burkard, designer Jeff Staple, and climber Conrad Anker—hone in on a particular image and explore what it means to them. Four eight-page inserts, meanwhile, printed on a different paper stock, reveal a selection of fascinating pages from inside the catalogs.
Carefully crafted, with an unfurling sequence of varied and impactful covers, The Outdoor Archive is an enviable resource for graphic designers and creative studios, plus a covetable item in its own right.
Chase Anderson is industry relations manager in outdoor product design and development at Utah State University. Clint Pumphrey is archives manuscript curator at Utah State University. Chris Burkard is an award- winning photographer, creative director, explorer, and author. He has worked with companies including The North Face, Patagonia, National Geographic, and the BBC.
A timely examination of a wide range of projects exploring the boundaries of our existence.
Alive Designing Radical Life
Madeline Schwartzman
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Phenomena:
An Infographic Guide to Almost Everything
$39.95 hardcover
ISBN 978- 0- 500- 02865- 0
How can a drone smell? Is a silicone jellyfish with a rat’s heart “alive”? Things that once seemed impossible are now becoming not only possible but mainstream. In the coming years, nearly all realms of our existence, will involve experiments with human and non-human living tissue impacting the worlds of medicine, art, and design as well as our everyday lives, so it's about time we got to grips with what these new lifeforms can do.
Alive examines the concepts and ideas behind the knotty intersection where robotics, AI, biology, and art collide through nearly 150 fascinating projects. From the cutting edge of technological innovation and scientific discovery, Schwartzman speculates on what “life” is, and how humankind will (or will not) fit into a new order of hybrid species. The engaging result is a sort of sci-fi guidebook to lab-built creatures that will have readers excited about what might come next.
Madeline Schwartzman is an artist, writer, filmmaker, architect, and educator who explores human narratives and the human sensorium through all of the above mediums. She is also the author of See Yourself Sensing: Redefining Human Perception and See Yourself X: Human Features Expanded
ISBN 978- 0- 500- 02686-1
91/8" × 111/8"
250 color illustrations
256 pages Design
July
$50.00 hardcover (CAN $66.00)
The story of photography’s first widely accessible color process is also the story of fashion, as it evolved from the Edwardian era to the newfound fluidity and freedom of the 1920s.
The Color of Clothes
Fashion and Dress in Autochromes 1907–1930
Cally Blackman
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20th-Century Fashion in Detail
$40.00 paperback
ISBN 978- 0- 500-29410- 9
Color Mania: Photographing the World in Autochrome
$65.00 hardcover
ISBN 978- 0- 500- 48076-2
ISBN 978- 0- 500- 02548-2 93/8" × 121/4"
370 color illustrations
336 pages
Fashion & Photography
June
$95.00 hardcover
(CAN $125.00)
“Soon the world will be color-mad and Lumière will be responsible.” Alfred Stieglitz, 1907
These words announced the arrival of the autochrome, the color process invented by the Lumière brothers that not only transformed photography, but also recorded the transition of fashion from Edwardian elegance toward a liberating modernity.
The Color of Clothes celebrates the unique beauty of the autochrome in 370 images that reflect the broad sweep of its usage. Couturiers embraced the way the process showcased their exquisite designs to luminous perfection—among them Fortuny, Poiret, Doucet, Vionnet, Lucile, Chanel, and Lanvin. Beyond the sphere of fashion, there are also examples from the Salon du Goût Français, France’s “virtual” autochrome exhibition of luxury items, and Albert Kahn’s Archives de la Planète, a bold attempt to record the world’s cultures in autochromes.
Some of the photographers involved may be famous in their field— L artigue, Stieglitz, Steichen—though very often they are lesser known, and many are women who took to the process with panache. Whoever they were, they helped to immortalize one of photography’s historic moments, when the camera first revealed the world of fashion as it was—in color.
Cally Blackman is a fashion historian, lecturer, and author. Her research into autochromes is both original and extensive, with a large number of images she has sourced that have either never or very rarely been published since they were taken more than one hundred years ago.
A collection of extraordinary nineteenth- century portraits that radically shift our understanding of the presence and identities of the Black subject in Victorian Britain.
PUBLISHED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH AUTOGRAPH
Black Chronicles
Photography, Race, and Difference in Victorian Britain
Edited by Renée Mussai
Foreword by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Texts by Paul Gilroy, Stuart Hall, Lola Jaye, Neelika Jayawardane, Renée Mussai, Mark Sealy, and Val Wilmer
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The African Gaze: Photography, Cinema and Power
$65.00 hardcover
ISBN 978- 0- 500- 02539- 0
ISBN 978- 0- 500- 02661- 8 93/4" × 115/8"
330 illustrations
304 pages
Photography May
$65.00 hardcover (CAN $86.00)
These striking studio portraits, curated and brought together following ten years of research championed by Autograph, constitute the most comprehensive collection of nineteenth-century photography depicting the Black subject in the Victorian era, including some of the earliest known images of Black people photographed in Britain.
The historically marginalized lives of both ordinary and prominent Black figures of African, Afro-Caribbean, South Asian, and mixed heritage are seen through a prism of curatorial advocacy and experimental scholarly assemblage. Black Chronicles features high-quality reproductions of plate negatives, cartes de visite, and cabinet cards, many of which were buried deep in various private and public archives including the Hulton Archive’s remarkable London Stereoscopic Company collection, unseen for decades. These photographs are linked with imperial and colonial narratives through newly commissioned essays and rare lecture transcripts, in-conversation and text interventions by Caroline Bressey, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Paul Gilroy, Stuart Hall, Neelika Jayawardane, Lola Jaye, and Renée Muss ai, and an afterword by Mark Sealy.
Built upon groundbreaking, in-depth new research, Black Chronicles opens up photographic archives to expand and enrich photography’s complex cultural histories and subjectivities, offering an essential insight into the visual politics of race, representation, and difference in the Victorian era by addressing this crucial missing chapter.
Renée Mussai is a curator, writer, and scholar of visual culture, photography, and lens-based media with a special interest in Black feminist practices. Formerly senior curator and head of curatorial at Autograph, London, Mussai has curated and edited award- winning projects such as Zanele Muholi’s Somnyama Ngonyama—Hail the Dark Lioness (2019) and Lina Iris Viktor’s Some Are Born to Endless Night Dark Matter (2020). Her latest book is the soleauthored Eyes That Commit—A Visual Gathering (2025).
Discover Monocle’s favorite places to stay, eat, shop, and visit in Greece.
Greece
The Monocle Handbook
Edited by Tyler Brûlé, Andrew Tuck, and Chiara Rimella
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France: The Monocle Handbook
$45.00 hardcover
ISBN 978- 0- 500- 97869- 6
Spain: The Monocle Handbook
$50.00 hardcover
ISBN 978- 0- 500- 97867-2
Following Monocle’s bestselling handbooks on France, Spain, and Portugal, this practical and inspirational guide takes you from the bustling streets of Athens to the forested ski slopes of Arcadia, and beyond to Crete and the Ionian, Cyclades, Dodecanese, and Aegean islands, introducing Monocle’s favorite places to stay, eat, shop, and visit across Greece.
Discover rural tavernas, isolated island retreats, great music venues, cool bars, and the best luxury pit stops. You’ll also find out about a new generation of olive oil producers, winemakers, and beekeepers upholding ancient traditions and creating the best produce from local ingredients, as well as contemporary artisans creating great fashion, jewelry, and leather accessories.
For those looking to spend more time, or even put down roots in Greece, the book also profiles the cities, towns, and islands where you could make a home, the architects and designers to commission, and interior-design inspiration for your new apartment on the Athens Riviera or white-washed island retreat. So, whether you are putting together an itinerary for a sun-soaked summer break, a culinary and wine-tasting tour, or planning to stay a little longer, Greece: The Monocle Handbook makes the perfect companion.
Tyler Brûlé is editorial director and chairman of Monocle. Andrew Tuck is the magazine’s editor- in- chief. Virginia McLeod is head of book publishing.
ISBN 978- 0- 500- 96631- 0
71/2" × 97/8"
450 color illustrations
224 pages
Travel
July
$ 45.00 hardcover
(CAN $60.00)
A collection of precious inscribed or decorated Islamic textiles produced before the thirteenth century CE, many published here for the first time.
Textiles of the Early Islamic Caliphates
Jochen Sokoly
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Pre-Islamic Carpets and Textiles from Eastern Lands
$55.00 hardcover
ISBN 978- 0- 500- 97054- 6
Adornment and Splendour: Jewels of the Indian Courts
$85.00 hardcover
ISBN 978- 0- 500- 97864-1
ISBN 978- 0- 500- 96605-1 85/8" × 107/8"
700 illustrations
552 pages
Textiles May
$85.00 hardcover
(CAN $112.00)
The al- Sabah Collection, Kuwait, includes a remarkable array of textiles from the Islamic world, ranging widely in form, function, and place of origin. Textiles of the Early Islamic Caliphates focuses on a group of tiraz and tiraz-st yle textiles produced before the thirteenth century CE, mainly in the central Islamic lands.
Tiraz textiles—the word tiraz can be traced back to the Persian word for “embroidery”—were highly valued in the early Islamic world. Inscribed with sacred invocations and the name of the ruling caliph, together with information relating to their year of manufacture, these textiles provide an invaluable window into the political, administrative, and religious life of early Islam, as well as various traditions of textile production. The large majority of the surviving fragments of tiraz textiles, which were originally given as robes of honor to courtiers and ambassadors, have been found in Egyptian tombs: most of the textiles examined in this book once belonged to burial outfits from the diverse religious communities in Egypt during the early Islamic period.
Featuring more than 180 textiles from The al-Sabah Collection, some never published before, this book provides authoritative analysis not only of the textiles themselves, but also of the historical and cultural context in which they were produced. With hundreds of illustrations, including specially commissioned macrophotography, Textiles of the Early Islamic Caliphates is a landmark publication that will appeal to scholars and general readers alike.
Jochen Sokoly is associate professor of art history of the Islamic world at Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Qatar. He has published on early Islamic inscribed textiles, served as cochair of the Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium, and curated exhibitions on contemporary Middle Eastern art.
The long- awaited monograph on the Turner Prize–winning architecture collective Assemble, gathering more than a decade of their groundbreaking collaborative work.
Assemble(d) Architecture for All
Aaron Betsky
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Unspoken Spaces
$95.00 hardcover
ISBN 978- 0- 500-34313- 5
Neri&Hu Design and Research Office: Thresholds: Space, Time and Practice
$65.00 hardcover
ISBN 978- 0- 500-34360- 9
ISBN 978- 0- 500- 02700- 4
81/2" × 103/4"
300 color illustrations
360 pages
Architecture
July
$60.00 hardcover
(CAN $79.00)
Architecture collective Assemble has transformed the definition of a successful young practice by working on temporary, small-scale, community-based projects, often reusing sites and materials. Described by architecture critic Edwin Heathcote as “young, widely admired and increasingly influential,” they are the future of architecture and the antithesis of the faceless corporate juggernaut.
This retrospective of the first decade or so of Assemble’s dynamic work highlights how their methods, working practices, interest in craft and building, and focus on reuse and material choices set them apart from other architecture practices. Based on extensive interviews with partners, and the group’s archives and documentation of their projects, the book is itself a collaborative labor of love, drawing together nearly forty major pieces of work through stunning photography, drawings, and text. Their projects range as widely as Granby Four Streets—a community-le d project to rebuild a derelict neighborhood in Liverpool—to a brewery in rural Japan and a train depot renovation in Arles.
Providing an essential overview of the group, from their self-initiated temporary projects to their meteoric rise to international acclaim, Aaron Betsky explores how Assemble’s playful and subversive buildings have forged a pioneering new model of progressive architecture that continues to challenge the establishment.
Aaron Betsky is a critic and teacher living in Philadelphia. Previously, he was professor and director of the School of Architecture and Design at Virginia Tech and, prior to that, president of the School of Architecture at Taliesin. A critic of art, architecture, and design, Betsky is the author of over twenty books on those subjects, including 50 Lessons to Learn from Frank Lloyd Wright, Making It Modern: The History of Modernism in Architecture of Design, Architecture Matters, and The Monster Leviathan: Anarchitecture
The best new houses from Mexico, currently the exciting epicenter of the architecture scene fueled by brilliant young practices, a booming economy, and a liberal sprinkling of concrete.
Casa Mexicana
Jonathan Bell and Edmund Sumner
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Contemporary House India
$75.00 hardcover
ISBN 978- 0- 500- 02133- 0
Earth, Sky & Water: Houses in the Nordic Style
$40.00 hardcover
ISBN 978- 0- 500- 02524- 6
Mexico’s domestic architecture scene is on the rise, characterized by innovative homes that play with texture through the use of concrete and stone, maximize the piercing quality of light, and prioritize efficient use of space. Expert architecture photographer Edmund Sumner has rounded up the best examples from the last decade for this new volume, which will fill a gap on the shelves of many architecture and lifestyle-interested readers.
In Casa Mexicana, twenty-six houses showcase the trends and themes in Mexican residential architecture with plans and drawings and a focus on the allure of the contemporary Mexican lifestyle. With stunning photography, the book profiles these sun-s aturated houses in extraordinary landscapes.
Jonathan Bell is an editor- at- large at Wallpaper* magazine. He is also the author and editor of nine books, including Carchitecture: Houses with Horsepower , 21st Century House, Penthouse Living, and The Modern House Edmund Sumner is a London- based architectural photographer who has collaborated with leading architects, publishers, and curators around the world since 1988. Edmund is often to be found shooting in India, Japan, Mexico, the Middle East, and the US. He also photographed Contemporary House India for Thames & Hudson.
A children’s nonfiction book about ocean habitats that places the reader in the diving mask of an ocean explorer.
Praise for the
an Ocean in This Book
Rachel
Elliot
Illustrated by Genevieve Lacroix
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There’s a Mountain in This Book
$19.95 hardcover
ISBN 978- 0- 500- 65339- 5
Young adventurers will take an intrepid journey around the world to five incredible oceans. Starting in the Arctic, readers will meet polar bears and narwhals in Svalbard’s icy waters before diving down to the world’s largest cold-water coral reef. The journey continues to some of the least explored ecosystems on Earth. Discover flying fish in the Sargasso Sea; the smoking underwater chimneys of Kairei Vent Field in the Indian Ocean; the colorful coral of the Great Barrier Reef; towering icebergs in Antarctica’s Ross Sea; and learn what’s at the bottom of the Challenger Deep. Using clever die- cuts and gatefold pages, this colorful volume explains how underwater volcanoes turn into islands; the difference between a sea and an ocean; how the Moon affects the tides; and reveals some astonishing species, including deadly jellyfish and a spooky vampire squid that glows in the dark.
Written by children’s nonfiction author Rachel Elliot, There’s an Ocean in This Book features fascinating facts and immersive descriptions in combination with novelty flaps, expedition logs, and infographics— bring the world’s oceans to life.
ISBN 978- 0- 500- 65376- 0
91/8" × 117/8"
Illustrated in color throughout 48 pages
Nonfiction
Children Ages 6+
May
$19.95 hardcover
(CAN $25.95)
Rachel Elliot is an experienced author and editor living in Devon, England. She has an MA in modern literature from the University of Kent and has written over twenty books for children, including Maisie Mammoth’s Memoirs Dodo’s Detective Diary, and There’s a Mountain in this Book Genevieve Lacroix is an illustrator and animator originally from California and currently living in Sweden. Follow her on Instagram @genevievelacroixox.
Discover the wonderful world of insects in this beautiful 3D search- and- find book.
The Incredible 3D Bug Hunt
Peggy Nille
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The Big Book of Bugs
$19.95 hardcover
ISBN 978- 0- 500- 65067-7
Little Ladybug is so bored, so she decides to go and see the world and make new friends. She meets some colorful beetles along the way and is rescued from a big bird by some mantises in a tropical forest. There’s no stopping Little Ladybug and her new friends as they meet spiders, butterflies, frogs, and other little creatures, each more beautiful and fascinating than the last. Little Ladybug soon realizes that the world is full of wonders.
Children will love using the 3D glasses to spot all the bugs Little Ladybug encounters on her journey. The book’s unique use of “ChromaDepth” technology imparts a real sense of depth to the illustrations: the bugs seem to jump forward off the page, while the background jungle recedes. The glasses are different too—instead of having one red and one blue lens they are entirely clear, so the beauty of the original illustrations remains intact.
Originally working as a graphic designer, Peggy Nille became a freelance illustrator in 2005 and has illustrated numerous children’s books. She divides her life between Paris and Chartres.
A delightful picture book with intricate laser cuts and beautiful illustrations.
The Glasshouse
Hélène Druvert
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Garden Jungle
$24.95 hardcover
ISBN 978- 0- 500- 65224- 4
ISBN 978- 0- 500- 65391-3
91/4" × 121/8"
Illustrated in color throughout 32 pages
Fiction
Children Ages 6+
May
$24.95 hardcover (CAN $33.95)
Holly loves to wander the city streets, collecting fallen leaves and stray flowers, tiny treasures that bring a spot of brightness to her day. But one day she stumbles upon the biggest treasure of all, an amazing forgotten place bursting with life and color that might
A new, hardcover edition of Errol Lloyd’s enduring, classic tale of Carnival, originally published in 1978.
Nini at Carnival
Errol Lloyd
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Edward and the Horse
$17.95 hardcover
ISBN 978- 0- 500- 65302- 9
Button and Popper
$16.95 hardcover
ISBN 978- 0- 500- 65201- 5
ISBN 978- 0- 500- 65379-1
101/8" × 83/4"
Illustrated in color throughout 32 pages
Fiction
Children Ages 3+
May
$16.95 hardcover
(CAN $22.95)
Every year on Carnival Day, the streets fill with a whirl of color and sound, as people put on their wildest costumes and pick up their musical instruments to celebrate with a grand parade. When the big day arrives, everyone is excited! Everyone except for Nini. She doesn’t have a costume, and so she doesn’t want to join in the fun.
She sits and cries until a familiar-lo oking fairy godmother arrives with a solution—a b eautiful piece of colorful cloth that will let Nini join the celebration and become Queen of the Carnival.
Readers will feel as if they are joining in themselves as the energy from the images seems to march right off the page into your imagination. Nini at Carnival is a story of the yearly celebration of Caribbean culture which takes place around the world, from Rio to London’s Notting Hill to New Orleans. First published in the 1970s, its themes of friendship and community are just as relevant today.
Author and artist Errol Lloyd’s instantly recognizable mixed-me dia illustrations remain timeless, full of striking primary colors, aquas, and oranges that will appeal to children everywhere. A perfect story for families, schools, and libraries at Carnival, or any time of year, this new edition is sure to become a beloved classic for a new generation of readers.
Born in Jamaica and coming to the UK as a young man, Errol Lloyd was nominated for the Kate Greenaway Medal for illustrations for the first full- color picture book he worked on, My Brother Sean, written by Petronella Breinburg. Lloyd has undertaken hundreds of school and library visits, and his children’s work also includes plays for the Tricycle (now Kiln) Theatre, the Oxford Playhouse, and Carib Theatre. His main aim is to write stories featuring children from ethnic minorities, but appealing to all. He lives in north London.
The third title in the charming series inspired by the Forest School movement, teaching young children how to engage with nature from season to season.
Praise for the Wild by Nature series
“A lovely series of field guides that encourage an appreciation for and reverence of nature while including valuable information and fun activities for kids. Dawnay presents two interactive volumes filled with poetry, sidebars, prompts, and infographics that will inspire kids to use all of their senses to explore the many factors that make each season special. . . . The painterly illustrations truly set these titles apart. Brouwers uses vivid colors to depict the awe- inducing markers of each season.”
School Library Journal
A Field Guide to Summer
Gabby Dawnay
Illustrated by Dorien Brouwers
Consultant Louise Black
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A Field Guide to Autumn
$14.95 hardcover
ISBN 978- 0- 500- 65352- 4
A Field Guide to Spring
$14.95 hardcover
ISBN 978- 0- 500- 65351-7
ISBN 978- 0- 500- 65353-1
6" × 85/8"
Illustrated in color throughout 64 pages
Nonfiction
Children Ages 4+
June
$14.95 hardcover
(CAN $19.95)
A Field Guide to Summer is a pocket-sized introduction to the summer season. Building on children’s natural curiosity about the world around them, this book aims to establish a connection with nature at an early age that will go on to last a lifetime!
Hunt for bugs, build your own sundial, identify different trees, and make your own flower crown. Discover how caterpillars transform into butterflies and why bees are so busy in summertime.
This book features lyrical poems, hands- on crafts and activities, scientific facts, and identifier pages to help children find different animals and plants. Whether a child’s access to nature is in the form of an urban park, a private garden, a field, or a forest, there is so much to discover and experience.
Gabby Dawnay is a writer and poet. She is the author of more than twenty books for children including the bestselling If I Had a series. She is a regular contributor to OKIDO magazine and a scriptwriter for children’s television. Follow her on Instagram @gabdaw38. Dorien Brouwers is an award- winning illustrator and author from the Netherlands. Based in the UK, she won the Cross Category Award in the 2022 AOI World Illustration Awards, a Gold in the Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards, and was shortlisted for the Bologna Children’s Book Fair 55th Illustrator’s Exhibition. Follow her on Instagram @dorienillustrator. Louise Black is a deputy headteacher who holds her Level 3 Forest School Leader qualification. She is passionate about the outdoors and runs regular Forest School sessions and supports providing outdoor learning for all children.
Your
Brain
Ten Discoveries That Reveal How the Brain Works
Lucy Ann Unwin and Professor Caswell Barry
Illustrated by María Jesús Contreras
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The Brainiac’s Book of the Body and Brain
$17.95 hardcover
ISBN 978- 0- 500- 65245- 9
ISBN 978- 0- 500- 65380-7 71/2" × 103/8"
Illustrated in color throughout 96 pages
Nonfiction
Children Ages 9+
June
$19.95 hardcover
(CAN $25.95)
The human brain is famously complex and difficult to understand. The brain is also essential to how we function—so much so, that you can’t simply poke a stick at it to see what happens. However, if you accidentally poked a stick through your brain, it turns out there’s a lot you can learn. . . .
Written by professor of neuroscience Caswell Barry, together with his good friend, the children’s author Lucy Ann Unwin, Inside Your Brain takes young readers on an irreverent gallop through history to uncover ten groundbreaking discoveries that have led to our current understanding of how the brain works.
The ancient Egyptians discovered in battle that the brain was more important than they’d thought; Luigi Galvani sent electric shocks through dead frogs’ legs and uncovered how brain cells work; Phineas Gage’s unfortunate accident on the railroads revealed that you can survive a metal rod through the head, while some unwitting kittens helped us understand how our brain develops.
Inside Your Brain also touches on our present and future potential to continue testing the brain, such as how we can learn an enormous amount about how the brain processes information from AI without experimenting on a human subject. This entertaining and engaging deep dive into the most mind-boggling area of science is sure to fascinate and delight young readers.
Lucy Ann Unwin is a children’s author who previously worked as a journalist and presenter for the BBC. Follow her on X @lucyannunwin. Prof. Caswell Barry is professor of neuroscience at UCL in London. He has a PhD in neuroscience and runs his own lab. María Jesús Contreras is an award- winning illustrator from Chile. She was shortlisted for the 2023 World Illustration Awards. Follow her on Instagram at @mariajesuscontreras.
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