Family and the Chinese arts intersect in numerous ways, stretching across many media and ranging from actual depictions of the family to underlying values and parallel structures. This book explores...

Der Ausstellungskatalog setzt sich auseinander mit sozialen und politischen Aspekten des Lebenswerkes des legendären New Yorker Künstlers K. Hering, geht allen seinen Gegen-Haltungen nach und hebt...

If the aim of graphic design is to communicate meaning clearly, there's an irony that the field itself has struggled between two contradictory opposites: rote design resulting from a rigorous, fixed...

"Since its inception, the field of graphic design--whose primary aim is visual communication--has struggled between two contradictory poles: design resulting from a rigorous, fixed set of rules, and...

The definitive volume on important, little-known Surrealist artist Enrico Donati--on the occasion of new research and never-before-published material. Enrico Donati first found acclaim when the...

Cinema, like language, can be said to exist as a system of differences. In his latest book, acclaimed philosopher Jacques Rancière looks at cinematic art in comparison to its corollary forms in...

Extensively illustrated with more than 200 examples of the best in contemporary Arabic typography and graphic design, Arabic for Designers is an authoritative guide for designers unfamiliar with...

"As one of the oldest ways of printing type, stencils are a ubiquitous means of mass communication, appearing on everything from construction hoardings to shipping containers, and often employed by...

An arresting volume to commemorate Olafur Eliasson’s latest work of installation art, featuring lush illustrations and unique insights from participating writers, photographers, and artistsOne of the...

A practical introduction to the techniques of contemporary carpet designWalking on Art explores contemporary carpet design from a practitioner’s viewpoint, describing through techniques and...

The Book of Kells is a masterpiece of western calligraphy, undoubtedly the finest remaining example of an illuminated manuscript, and one of the most important surviving artifacts from medieval...

“One of the most winning and witty artistic experiments of recent time." –Washington Post In 1966, Tom Phillips took a forgotten nineteenth-century novel, W. H. Mallock’s A Human Document, and began...

A dynamic tale of art and friendship, set between the World Wars, against the backdrop of a rapidly changing worldEric Ravilious is one of the best-known twentieth-century English artists. For many,...

In this book Johnson strips everyday brands down to their basic components, with case studies that enable us to understand why we select one product or service over another and allow us to comprehend...