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July – December 2016
Contents
Art
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The British Museum
28
The Victoria and Albert Museum
30
Photography
33
Advertising
42
Graphic Design
44
Design
50
Architecture
54
Interiors
65
Gardens
67
Fashion
70
Jewelry
74
Music
76
Cultural History
78
History & Archaeology
86
Natural History
90
Science
96
Sports
100
Mythology
102
Travel
104
Food & Drink
105
Craft, Practical Arts & Hobbies
108
Gifts
112
Recent Highlights
123
Picture Credits
129
Index
129
Subsidiaries, Agents and Representatives Abroad
131
Thames & Hudson UK Sales Force
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ART
Set to be the art book of the decade: David
Hockney and Martin Gayford discuss the
30,000-year-old history of pictures in one
brilliantly original volume.
David Hockney is the
world’s most popular artist.
Martin Gayford’s books
include Man with a Blue
Scarf, A Bigger Message
and Rendez-vous with Art
(with Philippe de
Montebello), all published
by Thames & Hudson.
310 illustrations
27.9 x 21.6 cm
360pp hardback
ISBN 978 0 500 239490
September
£29.95
‘The history of pictures begins in the caves
and ends, at the moment, with the computer
screen. Who knows where it will go next? But one
thing is certain, the challenge remains the same:
how do you represent the three-dimensional world
on a two-dimensional surface?’ David Hockney
A History of Pictures
From the Cave to the Computer Screen
David Hockney and Martin Gayford
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A picture, says David Hockney, is the only way that we can give an account of
what we see. But all picture-makers face a common problem: how to compress
three-dimensional people, things and places onto a flat surface? The results are
often pigeonholed as paintings, photographs or films. In fact, Hockney argues,
whether they are made by brush, camera or digital program, and no matter if
they are on cave walls or computer screens, first and foremost they are all
pictures. And for us to understand how we see the world around us – and
hence ourselves – what is needed is a history of pictures. This is that book.
Informed and energized by a lifetime of painting, drawing and making
images with cameras, Hockney, in collaboration once again with the art critic
Martin Gayford, explores how and why pictures have been made across the
millennia. What makes marks on a flat surface interesting? How do you show
movement in a still picture, and how, conversely, do films and television
connect with old masters? What are the ways in which time and space can be
condensed into a static image on a canvas or screen? What do pictures show –
truth or lies? Do photographs present the world as we experience it?
Juxtaposing a rich variety of images – a still from a Disney cartoon with
a Japanese woodblock print by Hiroshige, a scene from an Eisenstein film with
a Velázquez painting – the authors cross the normal boundaries between high
culture and popular entertainment, and make unexpected connections across
time and media. Building on Hockney’s groundbreaking book Secret Knowledge,
they argue that film, photography, painting and drawing are deeply
interconnected. Insightful and thought-provoking, A History of Pictures is an
important contribution to our appreciation of how we represent our reality.
Also available
978 0 500 238875 £18.95
‘The exchanges with Hockney are enlightening
and provocative, and Gayford has framed this
dialogue with skilful narrative and art
historical context’ Times Literary Supplement
ART
ART
A beautifully illustrated introduction to
Katsushika Hokusai.
Henri-Alexis Baatsch is the
author of several plays and
books, including Yukio
Mishima: Modernity, Ritual
and Death and Henri
Michaux: Painter and Poetry.
139 illustrations
23.0 x 16.0 cm
224pp hardback
ISBN 978 0 500 094037
October
£19.95
Hokusai
A Life in Drawing
Henri-Alexis Baatsch
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Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) was the most prolific and diverse artist of
Japan’s Edo period, with a body of work reputed to include more than 30,000
drawings, paintings and prints. In an era when Japan had isolated itself from
the outside world, its urban centres enjoyed increasing wealth and stability,
leading to a flourishing culture of art and pleasure-seeking. Woodblock prints of
the genre known as ukiyo-e – ‘images of the floating world’ – became defining
images of the age, and from humble beginnings in a working-class district of
Tokyo, Hokusai rose to become a master of this style of printmaking.
Driven and endlessly inventive, he used many names over the course of his
long career, but perhaps the most telling was Gakyojin – ‘the madman of art’.
His works range from portraits of popular actors and courtesans to landscapes
and seascapes, including his celebrated Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji, and from
cleverly observed scenes of everyday life to the erotic prints known as shunga.
While his prints had a huge influence on the course of Western art, it is equally
true that he himself was influenced by European painting, embracing
techniques such as perspective and adapting them to suit Japanese tastes.
This is a beautifully illustrated introduction to this master artist, who
combined great technical prowess with remarkable imagination and a passion
for vivid detail.
An important new study of drawings,
many of them rarely seen, by one
of the most influential French artists
of the 20th century.
Isabelle Dervaux is the
Acquavella Curator of
Modern and Contemporary
Drawings at the Morgan
Library & Museum. Margaret
Holben Ellis is Director of
the Thaw Conservation
Center at the Morgan.
Lindsey Tyne is Assistant
Paper Conservator at the
Morgan. Alex Potts is the
Max Loehr Collegiate
Professor in the Department
of History of Art at the
University of Michigan, Ann
Arbor. Cornelia Butler is
Chief Curator of the Hammer
Museum, Los Angeles.
150 illustrations
28.0 x 23.0 cm
224pp hardback
ISBN 978 0 500 519011
October
£29.95
Dubuffet Drawings, 1935–1962
Isabelle Dervaux, Margaret Holben Ellis, Lindsey Tyne, Alex Potts
and Cornelia Butler
Jean Dubuffet (1901–1985) achieved international recognition in the late 1940s
for his paintings inspired by children’s drawings, the art of psychiatric patients
and graffiti. Drawing played a major role in the development of his art as he
explored on paper new subjects and techniques, experimenting with nontraditional tools and modes of application. Despite his essential role in the
post-war avant-garde and his continuous influence on the art of the following
decades, Dubuffet has received less attention than other artists of his
generation, such as Jackson Pollock or Willem de Kooning.
Dubuffet Drawings, 1935–1962 is the first major publication devoted to
works on paper by one of the most important French artists of the 20th
century. Featuring more than one hundred drawings representing Dubuffet’s
development during his most innovative decades – the 1940s and 1950s –
the book includes rarely seen works and major pieces from public and private
collections in the United States and France.
Published to accompany an exhibition at the Morgan Library & Museum,
New York, and the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles.
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ART
The most comprehensive
book on the work and life
of Louise Bourgeois ever
published, by the leading
authority on the artist.
Robert Storr is among the
most esteemed curators and
critical writers on art today.
He was appointed professor
of painting/printmaking and
dean of the Yale School of Art
in 2006 and is also Consulting
Curator of Modern and
Contemporary Art at the
Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Over 1,000 illustrations
33.0 x 28.0 cm
828pp
Hardback in a carrycase
ISBN 978 0 500 093849
September
£98.00
ART
Intimate Geometries
New compact edition
The Art and Life of Louise Bourgeois
A genre-defining, classic book
that offers unrivalled access to
Francis Bacon’s philosophy of life,
art and work – reissued in a new
compact format.
Robert Storr
Louise Bourgeois was a prolific artist known for her highly personal body
of work consisting of sculptures, installations, drawing and prints that deal
with themes of memory, trauma, fear and hidden emotion. Bourgeois first
received international acclaim in the 1990s, when the artist was in her
eighties, for her ambitious series of Cells: small room-like sculptures
containing arrangements of symbolic objects intended to elicit emotional
and psychological responses in the viewer. Here, for the first time, her vast
oeuvre is interwoven with a fascinating discussion of the full range of
ideas, emotions and experiences that inspired the creation of her work.
Renowned critic and curator Robert Storr, acknowledged as Bourgeois’s
leading interpreter, presents a chronological account of the artist’s career,
weaving in thematic discussions accompanied by sequential ‘portfolios’
of the artist’s work. An introduction outlining the artist’s career is followed
by chapters examining her childhood; Bourgeois’s education, early career
and emigration to the US; her mid-career ‘disappearance’ and her gradual
return to prominence during the 1980s; and her late career as high-profile
celebrity artist, exhibiting across the world until her death in 2011. The
final chapter examines Bourgeois’s profound and ongoing artistic legacy.
David Sylvester (1924–2001)
was a prominent writer, art
critic and leading authority
on Francis Bacon.
‘A classic’
141 illustrations
22.9 x 15.2 cm
232pp paperback
ISBN 978 0 500 292532
September
£16.95
Guardian
‘The most celebrated documentation
of the painter’ Sunday Telegraph
‘Compelling … A profound, lucid text,
precisely illustrated’ Sunday Times
‘When it comes to illuminating the work
of the artist, this short, nourishing book
is hard to beat’ Observer
Interviews with Francis Bacon
David Sylvester
The extraordinarily revealing interviews with Francis Bacon conducted over
a period of 25 years by the distinguished art critic David Sylvester amount
to a unique statement by Bacon on his art and on art in general. As a
discussion of the problems of making art, the book has been widely influential
not only among artists but also among writers and musicians including David
Bowie, who named it among his favourite books.
With a rare and brilliant use of language, Bacon talks about his aims as
a painter and the ways in which he works, responding always with vivacity
and candour to Sylvester’s searching questions. Bacon’s obsessive effort to
record and re-create the human form, his practice of making variations on
old masters’ paintings and on photographs, his dependence upon chance,
and his views about the way in which his work has been interpreted are only
some of the many subjects discussed and investigated in depth during these
historic encounters.
Offering unparalleled access to the thought, work and life of one of the
creative geniuses of the 20th century, this book – with its subsequent revised
and augmented editions – has become a classic.
Other titles on Francis Bacon
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Also available
978 0 500 291955 £24.95
Mumbling Beauty
Alex Van Gelder
978 0 500 093917 £35.00
‘An intimate, uncompromising
portrait’ artdaily.org
978 0 500 093443 £39.95
978 0 500 019948 £29.95
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ART
The final edition of Tom Phillips’s
‘defining masterpiece of postmodernism’,
published to mark 50 years since the
artist’s first encounter with the novel
A Human Document, which he transformed
into A Humument.
Tom Phillips CBE RA is a painter,
writer, translator and composer.
Collaborators include the
filmmaker Peter Greenaway
(A TV Dante), the novelist Salman
Rushdie (Merely Connect) and
the composer Tarik O’Regan
(Heart of Darkness). Informing
Phillips’s work for half a century,
A Humument has appeared
in many guises beyond book
and exhibition form, including
operatically in Irma, digitally
as an app and aurally, read by
the artist himself.
A Humument
A Treated Victorian Novel | Final Edition
Tom Phillips
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In 1966 the artist Tom Phillips set himself a task: to find a second-hand book
for threepence and alter every page, by painting, collage or cut-up techniques,
to create an entirely new version. He found his threepenny novel in a junk shop
on Peckham Rye, south London. It was A Human Document (1892), an obscure
Victorian romance by W.H. Mallock.
Tom Phillips writes: ‘I took a forgotten novel found by chance. I mined, and
undermined its text to make it yield alternative stories, erotic incidents and
surreal catastrophes, which lurked within its wall of words. I replaced with
visual images the text I’d stripped away. A Humument began to tell, amongst
other memories, dreams and reflections, the sad story of Bill Toge, one of
love’s casualties.’
First published in 1973, A Humument – as Phillips titled his altered book –
quickly established itself as a cult classic. Since then, the artist has been
working towards a complete revision of his original, adding new pages in
successive editions. That process is now finished. This 50th anniversary
edition presents, for the first time, an entirely new and complete version
of A Humument. It also brings this half-century-long endeavour to a close.
Illustrated throughout
17.5 x 12.5 cm
392pp hardback
ISBN 978 0 500 519035
October
£20.00
‘Phillips has decorated, distorted, sampled,
remixed and reworked it for 50 years to produce
one of the most original, fascinating and lovely
books of all time’ Brian Eno
‘Simply astounding … and addictive’ Stephen Fry
‘Utterly original, delightful and idiosyncratic’
David Lodge
‘Astonishes the eye and amazes the mind’
William H. Gass
Also available: Limited Edition
A Special Limited Edition of the 50th anniversary
book, presented in a clamshell box and with
a limited-edition print signed by the artist.
978 0 500 094044 £175.00
ART
A celebration of the richness of
figurative painting over the last
100 years and a passionate critique
of the accepted history of art in
the 20th century.
Timothy Hyman is an art
critic and historian, as well
as a painter. He was elected
a Royal Academician in 2011
and is an honorary research
fellow at University College
London. He is the author
of Bonnard and Sienese
Painting, both published
by Thames & Hudson.
158 illustrations
26.0 x 19.0 cm
256pp hardback
ISBN 978 0 500 239452
October
£32.00
The World New Made
Figurative Painting in the Twentieth Century
Timothy Hyman
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Figurative painting is due a reappraisal. From the early 1950s to the early
1980s, modern art and abstraction were almost synonymous, with figurative
painters cast as ‘backward children’, conservative throwbacks and outdated
survivors. In The World New Made, Timothy Hyman argues that figuration never
went away; abstraction was just one of the ways by which artists renewed
pictorial language.
The World New Made is structured not as a general survey, but as an in-depth
exploration of over 130 specific paintings, and accompanying artists’ writings.
Focusing on the work of more than fifty painters, Hyman presents a collective
‘Resistance’ of artists who together offer a human-centred alternative to the
dominance of the Abstract or the Conceptual in conventional narratives of
modern art. He guides the reader through the art movements of the last century
to show the development of a new kind of figuration, with Matisse, Picasso,
Rousseau, Bacon, Edward Burra, Anselm Kiefer, Jack Yeats, Paula Rego, Lucian
Freud, Red Grooms, Neo Rauch, Howard Hodgkin and others all staking out their
separate territories.
A celebration of the richness of figurative painting over the last century,
Timothy Hyman’s lavishly illustrated new book – distilled from many decades
of looking and writing – brings these often-marginalized artists centre stage.
Together they offer a counter-argument to Western formalism, and a
foundation for the painters of the 21st century.
‘Wonderfully concrete in detail and
wide-ranging in scope, Timothy Hyman’s
The World New Made constructs a new
and convincing scenario for the history of
20th-century painting’ Linda Nochlin
‘A highly original history of 20th-century
painting … there are brilliant insights and
connections on every page’ David Bindman
‘This magnificent book by a practising painter
… will change forever our sense of the “story”
of modern art’ Gabriel Josipovici
ART
An accessible guide to 100 masterpieces
of Western art.
Susie Hodge is an art
historian, author, artist and
journalist with more than 100
books to her credit, including
Why Your Five Year Old Could
Not Have Done That, also
published by Thames &
Hudson. She has twice been
named The Independent’s
No. 1 art writer.
c. 700 illustrations
23.5 x 22.0 cm
432pp hardback
ISBN 978 0 500 239544
October
£24.95
Features works by
Art in Detail
100 Masterpieces
Susie Hodge
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Great works of art cannot be fully understood in a single encounter: to revisit
and reconsider art again and again throughout one’s life is to be richly
rewarded with an ever-deepening appreciation and insight.
Similar benefits come from analysing a work of art in detail. Art in Detail
spotlights the finer points that even connoisseurs may miss, casting light upon
minutiae that a quick glance will almost certainly fail to reveal. These include
subtle internal details, such as hidden symbols. Expert commentary reveals the
technical tricks employed by the artist to achieve particular effects, such as the
placement of the subject, the lighting and the style of brushstrokes. The book
also looks at the themes and external factors influencing the creation of an
artwork – everything from the broad socio-economic context in which the
artist operated to the ambient temperature at the time of the work’s creation,
which can be of surprising relevance.
The book examines 100 works of art down the ages, from Giotto’s
14th-century fresco Adoration of the Magi, to a 21st-century landscape
painting by David Hockney. It approaches each work as part of a tradition that
links the oldest work of art to the most recent, as artists pass a metaphorical
baton down through the ages.
Giotto
Van Eyck
Botticelli
Leonardo
Raphael
Titian
Caravaggio
Gentileschi
Hals
Rembrandt
Vermeer
Hogarth
Goya
Courbet
Renoir
Van Gogh
Matisse
Hopper
Picasso
Kahlo
Bacon
… and more
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ART
ART
A solid introduction to the history of
American prints.
Judith Brodie is the curator
and head of the
Department of Modern
Prints and Drawings at the
National Gallery of Art.
Amy Johnston is the
assistant curator of Prints
and Drawings at the
National Gallery of Art.
Michael J. Lewis is the
Faison-Pierson-Stoddard
Professor of Art History,
Williams College.
206 illustrations
29.0 x 24.5 cm
360pp hardback
ISBN 978 0 500 239520
October
£40.00
The first comprehensive Englishlanguage survey of contemporary art
in Colombia, showcasing major works
as well as artists, galleries, institutions
and collectors.
Hossein Amirsadeghi is a
writer, publisher and editor,
and the driving force behind
many books, including
Sanctuary, Art Studio
America, Nordic
Contemporary, and
Contemporary Art Mexico.
Catherine Petitgas was
executive editor of
Contemporary Art Brazil
and Contemporary Art
Mexico.
Over 500 illustrations
29.0 x 25.0 cm
272pp hardback
ISBN 978 0 500 970768
November
£55.00
Contemporary Art Colombia
Three Centuries of American Prints
Judith Brodie, Amy Johnston and Michael J. Lewis
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Nearly 200 American prints, representing more than 100 artists, and dating
from the colonial era to the present day, are brought together in this
unprecedented volume from the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, to
commemorate its collection and recent acquisitions. The artists featured range
from Paul Revere through James McNeill Whistler, Mary Cassatt, Winslow
Homer, Louise Nevelson, Romare Bearden, Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg,
Chuck Close and Kara Walker. The works cover the major movements in
American art and print history, so major art and historical themes running
through the collection are readily visible. Lending context, twelve contributing
authors discuss the varied themes in American art. Biographies of the artists
and a glossary of printmaking terms are also featured.
Also available
978 0 500 970393 £48.00
Published in association with the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.
978 0 500 970713 £58.00
Edited by Hossein Amirsadeghi
Executive editor: Catherine Petitgas
Colombia’s contemporary art scene – one of the most vibrant in Latin America
– nevertheless remains relatively undocumented outside that country. With
profiles of 90 key players and four critical essays, Contemporary Art Colombia
captures the renewed dynamism of the Colombian art world.
Contemporary Art Colombia features the key figures, museums and spaces
so integral to the booming Colombian art scene, including public institutions
such as the Museo del Banco de la República in Bogotá and the Medellín Museo
de Arte Moderno; private initiatives such as Art Fair ArtBo; private institutions
such as Flora and Fundación Misol; commercial galleries such as Bogotá-based
Casas Riegner and Instituto de Visión; artists such as Doris Salcedo, Carlos
Motta, Edinson Quiñones, and Oscar Muñoz; and well-established figures like
Celia de Birbragher, the founder and editor of Latin America’s leading art
magazine, ArtNexus.
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ART
ART
New in paperback
A unique anthology that presents
poignant reimaginings of the still life
by over 180 international contemporary
artists.
A landmark publication on Dada by
one of its founding members, reissued
to celebrate the 100th anniversary
of the movement’s birth.
Michael Petry is an artist,
curator and Director of the
Museum of Contemporary
Art (MOCA), London. He is
the author of Installation
Art, Installation in the New
Millennium and The Art of
Not Making, all published
by Thames & Hudson.
Hans Richter (1888–1976)
started the Dada
movement with Hugo Ball,
Tristan Tzara and others.
Michael White is Professor
of History of Art at York
University.
391 illustrations
27.5 x 23.0 cm
288pp paperback
ISBN 978 0 500 292235
July
£24.95
Contemporary Artists Reinvigorate the Still-Life Tradition
Michael Petry
This important, timely book reveals in over 400 illustrations how leading artists
of the 21st century have reinvigorated a genre previously synonymous with
16th- and 17th-century Old Masters. Whether in painting, photography,
sculpture or video, they have drawn on a tradition ripe with metaphorical and
moral significance to create works of conceptual vitality and striking beauty.
Michael Petry’s careful curation of this exciting revival celebrates works by
emerging and established artists alike, from all over the globe, including John
Currin, Elmgreen & Dragset, Renata Hegyi, Damien Hirst, David Hockney,
Beatriz Milhazes, Gabriel Orozco, Elizabeth Peyton, Marc Quinn, Sam TaylorJohnson and Ai Weiwei. Petry has structured his book according to the classic
categories of the still-life tradition – Flora, Food, House & Home, Fauna and
Death. Each chapter explores how the timeless symbol of the memento mori –
a reminder of death, change and the passing of time – has been rediscovered
for a new millennium. These audacious new still lifes redefine what it means
to be a work of nature morte, or ‘dead nature’.
‘Lively … a cabinet of curiosities, both beautiful
and weird’ Peter Conrad, Observer
‘Scratch the surface of any major art show and
the still life remains the ultimate way of looking
at the world through modern eyes’ Wallpaper*
Dada Centenary Edition
Hans Richter
With a new introduction and commentary by Michael White
First published in English in 1965, Hans Richter’s Dada completely changed
the interpretation of Dada from a literary phenomenon to an artistic one.
Ever since, it has been the first port of call for anyone interested in the subject.
As a member of the first Dada group in Zurich, Richter was in a unique position
to tell its history, and his book draws together not only important historical
documents but the testimonies of friends, such as Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst
and Raoul Hausmann. Michael White provides a new introduction and
commentary to a book that has become a legend in its own right, influencing
a generation of artists since its first publication – David Bowie even quoted it
on his Scary Monsters album. Michael White has unearthed Richter’s private
correspondence with his fellow Dada artists to tell the story of how the book
came about and, using previously unseen archive sources, enables us to
discover the truth behind this most elusive of art movements.
‘One of the best and most consistently interesting documents on this
extraordinary movement’ Sunday Times
A World of Art bestseller – the
authoritative introduction to ancient
Greek art, comprehensively updated
for its fifth edition.
Nature Morte
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188 illustrations
21.0 x 15.0 cm
376pp paperback
ISBN 978 0 500 204313
September
£12.95
Dada: Art and Anti-Art
Sir John Boardman is
Lincoln Professor Emeritus
of Classical Archaeology
and Art in Oxford, and
a Fellow of the British
Academy. His other books
in the World of Art series
include Athenian Black
Figure Vases, Athenian Red
Figure Vases, and three
volumes on Greek
Sculpture.
311 illustrations
21.0 x 15.0 cm
320pp paperback
ISBN 978 0 500 204337
August
£12.95
Greek Art
Fifth Edition, revised and expanded
John Boardman
John Boardman has updated his definitive survey of Greek art, the most
influential and widely known historic artistic tradition of the Old World. In the
20 years since the last edition, valuable evidence has come to light which has
dramatically enhanced our understanding of the arts of ancient Greece and
their influence. We now know that Greek artists in fact completed their stone
sculptures with realistic colour, as well as working with a wealth of other
materials on a major scale. We can identify the work of individual artists,
and schools of artists, and have a clearer picture than ever before of how art
and artistic traditions travelled throughout the Greek world and beyond it.
Boardman encourages the reader to consider the masterpieces that have
been preserved in their original context, not just the isolated installations of
our modern galleries, weaving into his discussion of the arts insights into the
society that produced them. Illustrated in full colour throughout for the first
time, this fifth edition demonstrates more vividly than ever the artistic aims
and achievements of ancient Greece.
‘One of the very best short histories of Greek art’ Financial Times
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A ground-breaking encyclopaedic study
of Art Deco sculpture by the author of
Art Deco Complete.
Alastair Duncan was for
many years an officer and
consultant of Christie’s,
New York, and is now an
independent consultant on
the decorative arts of the
19th and 20th centuries.
He is the author of Art
Nouveau and Art Deco
Lighting, Art Deco Furniture,
American Art Deco, Art
Nouveau and Art Deco
Bookbinding and Art Deco
Complete, all published by
Thames & Hudson.
30.8 x 24.0 cm
408pp hardback
ISBN 978 0 500 239483
October
£75.00
Art Deco Sculpture
Alastair Duncan
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This book showcases and puts into historical context a host of sculpted works
created in the 1920s and 1930s in the vernacular defined loosely today as ‘Art
Deco’. From the chevrons, sunbursts, maidens, fountains, floral abstractions
and ubiquitous biche (doe) of the Parisian geometric style to the crisp, angular
patterns of the zig-zag, jazz-age, streamlined aesthetic of the 1930s, the works
shown demonstrate an enormous range of styles and stylistic influences.
Alastair Duncan organizes his subject into three main categories: the first
features work by avant-garde sculptors (Csáky, Janniot, Pompon and more),
often as pièces uniques or small editions; the second shows commercial
sculpture, comprising mainly large-edition statuary, commissioned as
decorative works for the burgeoning 1920s domestic market; while a final,
third category covers architectural and monumental sculpture from Western
and Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, North and South America and beyond.
With extended biographies of the most important artists and concise
biographies of all the principal artists as well as a thematic index, this volume
is the essential and authoritative guide for all those interested in the Art Deco
style, from the amateur collector to professional historians of the period.
Companion volume
ISBN 978 0 500 238554 £60.00
‘Alastair Duncan has put what seems like
every art deco object ever made inside this
book … A serious A–Z section on 500
designers makes the work definitive’
Sunday Telegraph
ART
Third edition
An updated edition of the most
comprehensive critical history of 20thand 21st-century art on the market today.
Hal Foster is Townsend
Martin, Class of 1917,
Professor of Art and
Archaeology at Princeton
University. Rosalind Krauss
is University Professor of
Modern Art and Theory
at Columbia University.
Yve-Alain Bois is Professor
in the School of Historical
Studies at the Institute for
Advanced Study in Princeton.
Benjamin H. D. Buchloh is
Andrew W. Mellon Professor
of Modern Art at Harvard
University. David Joselit is
Distinguished Professor
of Art History at The
Graduate Center, City
University of New York.
884 illustrations
27.7 x 21.6 cm
896pp hardback
ISBN 978 0 500 239537
September
£48.00
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‘The definitive history of 20th-century art …
spectacular, and painstakingly conceived’
Gaby Wood, Observer
‘The book is important, not because it gives neat
answers but because it raises questions’
Sir Nicholas Serota, Director, Tate
‘Written by the most innovative scholars of
modern art history today … a landmark’
Briony Fer, University College London
Art Since 1900
Modernism • Antimodernism • Postmodernism
Hal Foster, Rosalind Krauss, Yve-Alain Bois, Benjamin H. D. Buchloh
and David Joselit
Groundbreaking in both its content and its presentation, Art Since 1900 has
been hailed as a landmark study in the history of art. Conceived by some of
the most influential art historians of our time, this extraordinary book has
now been revised, expanded and brought right up to date to include the latest
developments in the study and practice of art.
Within a clear, chronological framework, Art Since 1900 presents 130
articles, each focusing on a crucial event – such as the creation of a seminal
work, the publication of an important text, or the opening of a major exhibition
– to tell the myriad stories of art from 1900 to the present. This third edition
includes a new introduction on the impact of globalization, as well as essays
on the development of Synthetic Cubism, early avant-garde film, Brazilian
modernism, postmodern architecture, Moscow conceptualism, queer art,
South African photography, and the rise of the new museum of art.
Art Since 1900 is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the
complexities of art in the modern age.
ART
B I O G R A PH Y & L I T ER AT U R E
A gloriously illustrated celebration
of biblical manuscripts, representing
1,000 years of history and some of the
finest works of art from the medieval
Christian world.
Scot McKendrick is Head
of Western Heritage
Collections at the British
Library, where Kathleen
Doyle is Lead Curator,
Illuminated Manuscripts.
Together they wrote Bible
Manuscripts: 1,400 Years of
Scribes and Scripture, and
contributed to Sacred: Books
of the Three Faiths: Judaism,
Christianity and Islam.
300 illustrations
31.0 x 25.0 cm
336pp hardback
ISBN 978 0 500 239476
September
£60.00
The Art of the Bible
Illuminated Manuscripts from the Medieval World
Scot McKendrick and Kathleen Doyle
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Illuminated manuscripts of the Bible are some of the finest, most beautiful
but least-known works of art to survive from the Middle Ages.
This exquisitely illustrated book presents 45 expertly selected treasures
that transport us across 1,000 years of history, passing chronologically
through some of the major centres of the Christian world. We travel from
Constantinople, Lindisfarne and imperial Aachen to Canterbury, Mozarabic
Spain, Crusader Jerusalem, northern Iraq, Paris, Bologna, Naples, the Low
Countries, Rome and elsewhere, and finish our journey in Gondar, the capital
of imperial Ethiopia. Our guides, Scot McKendrick and Kathleen Doyle, are
internationally renowned scholars who shed light on each manuscript’s
fascinating history and significance.
Every manuscript included in this major new study is a glorious masterpiece,
and is reproduced on a scale that enables us to marvel at the illuminator’s art.
Published in association with The British Library.
‘A comprehensive narrative … [Hickley]
meticulously lays out the spidery network of
ties, lies and fears that helped Gurlitt save
his own skin’ The Economist
‘Hickley tells the story of the Gurlitts, as
well as of the efforts made by some of the
heirs of the works’ original owners to get
them back, with forensic attentiveness to
detail’ Art Quarterly
‘A splendid account of skulduggery …
a riveting read’ Ronald Harwood, The Oldie
New in paperback
The world’s leading journalist in the
field of Nazi-looted art tells the story of
Hitler’s art dealer, Hildebrand Gurlitt,
and his incredible collection – now
available in B format paperback.
In a 16-year career at
Bloomberg News,
Catherine Hickley reported
on arts and culture from
Berlin for eight years,
following stints as a
reporter covering German
politics, as Berlin bureau
chief and as the editor
managing European
government news.
40 illustrations
19.8 x 12.9 cm
272pp paperback
ISBN 978 0 500 292570
July
£9.99
The Munich Art Hoard
Hitler’s Dealer and His Secret Legacy
Catherine Hickley
In February 2012, in a Munich flat belonging to an elderly recluse, German
customs authorities seized an astonishing hoard of more than 1,400 paintings,
drawings, prints and sculptures. When Cornelius Gurlitt’s trove became public
in November 2013, it caused a worldwide media sensation.
Catherine Hickley has delved into archives and conducted dozens of
interviews to uncover the story behind the headlines. Her book illuminates
a dark period of German history, untangling a web of deceit and silence that
has prevented the heirs of Jewish collectors from recovering art stolen from
their families more than seven decades ago by the Nazis. Hickley recounts
the shady history of the Gurlitt hoard and brings its story right up to date,
as 21st-century politicians and lawyers puzzle over the inadequacies of a legal
framework that to this day falls short in securing justice for the heirs of those
robbed by the Nazis.
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Shortlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize
The story of Louise Nevelson’s
remarkable life and art, with extensive
new detail uncovered by biographer
Laurie Wilson.
‘A brilliant, beautiful and sensual book’
Sunday Times
‘Gathers all the written English centuries
and sets them dancing to the seasons on the
head of its pin’
Laurie Wilson is an art
historian and practising
psychoanalyst on the faculty
of the Psychoanalytic
Institute at NYU Medical
School. She has been writing
about Nevelson since the
late 1970s, including essays
for the 1980 retrospective
at the Whitney Museum.
Ali Smith
‘Weatherland is so beautifully written that
it transcends even its wealth of information.
Alexandra Harris is a poet scholar’
Clive James
‘Splendid … its glory is in the detail, in its
recording of facts and lives, atmospheres
and words, quirks of feeling and behaviour’
A. S. Byatt
24.0 x 16.5 cm
512pp hardback
ISBN 978 0 500 094013
October
£24.95
‘Carrying her immense knowledge lightly,
never emerging as didactic or pedantic,
Harris takes us across sodden fields
and frosty meadows, through thick mist –
and into the English mind’
Andrea Wulf, New York Times
New in paperback
Louise Nevelson
Weatherland
Art is Life
Writers and Artists Under English Skies
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One of 2015’s most reviewed and
acclaimed non-fiction releases – the
first book to consider English literary
and artistic responses to the weather.
Alexandra Harris is
currently Senior Lecturer
in English at the University
of Liverpool. She is the
author of Romantic
Moderns and Virginia
Woolf, both published
by Thames & Hudson.
Alexandra Harris
Writers and artists across the centuries, from Chaucer to Ian McEwan, and from
the creator of the Luttrell Psalter in the 14th century to John Piper in the 20th,
looking up at the same skies and walking in the same brisk air, have felt very
different things and woven them into their novels, poems and paintings.
Alexandra Harris’s subject is not the weather itself, but the weather as it is
daily recreated in the human imagination. She builds her remarkable story from
small evocative details and catches the distinct voices of compelling
individuals: ‘Bloody cold’, says Jonathan Swift in the ‘slobbery’ January of 1713;
Percy Shelley wants to become a cloud and John Ruskin wants to bottle one…
Weatherland is both a sweeping panorama of cultural climates on the move
and a richly illustrated, intimate account – for although weather is vast, it is
experienced physically, emotionally and spiritually; as Harris brilliantly reveals,
it is at the very heart of English life and culture.
Other artist’s biographies
978 0 500 093986 £24.95
59 illustrations
19.8 x 12.9 cm
432pp paperback
ISBN 978 0 500 292655
July
£9.99
978 0 500 093900 £24.95
Laurie Wilson
Louise Nevelson (1899–1988) was, with Calder, Noguchi and David Smith, one
of the great American sculptors of the 20th century. She created extraordinary
work, from room-size installations composed of boxes to gnarled and majestic
steel structures. Her life story is no less interesting. She was born in Tsarist
Russia, but her family emigrated to the States and she grew up in Maine.
Nevelson endured a repressive marriage to a New York millionaire, whom she
escaped to pursue the life of an artist. She gained recognition as an abstract
sculptor at the age of 59, and spent the next 30 years taking the art world
by storm, becoming a colourful New York personality and minor celebrity.
Laurie Wilson, who knew Nevelson personally, draws extensively on her
own research in this crisp new biography. She conducted interviews not just
with Nevelson but with her siblings, son, and gallery owner Arne Glimcher.
Wilson has also had complete access to Glimcher’s archives, Nevelson’s
personal assistant, Diana MacKown, and Lippincott studios, where much
of Nevelson’s work was cast, among others.
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The life story of Eva Neurath,
co-founder of Thames & Hudson,
in her own words.
Eva Neurath co-founded the
publishing house Thames &
Hudson with her husband
Walter Neurath in 1949.
After Walter’s death in 1967,
she served as the company’s
chairman for 32 years,
upholding its founding
mission to create a ‘museum
without walls’ and to share
the worlds of art, culture and
learning with a broad,
non-specialist reading public,
at prices it could afford. Eva’s
son, Stephan Feuchtwang,
is Emeritus Professor of
Anthropology in the London
School of Economics.
41 illustrations
23.5 x 14.9 cm
84pp hardback
ISBN 978 0 500 519318
November
£16.95
Recollections
Eva Neurath, 1908–1999
Eva Neurath
With an afterword by Stephan Feuchtwang
Eva Neurath, co-founder of Thames & Hudson, wrote this memoir for her
granddaughters, and it is a private story of a remarkable 20th-century life.
She was born in Berlin and grew up there in the Twenties, in the world of
Marlene Dietrich and Leni Riefenstahl, when anything was possible. But this
was a world in the grip of traumatic change. Pursued by the Gestapo, Eva,
her second husband Wilhelm Feuchtwang and their baby son Stephan left
Berlin in 1938, first for Rotterdam, then London. Wilhelm was interned in
the Isle of Man, and Eva was at her wits’ end. Then came another change: she
was visited with a message from her husband by Walter Neurath, an Austrian
art historian and publisher who had come to England earlier and also been
interned, but was soon released to continue his publishing of books for Adprint,
where he had created the ‘Britain in Pictures’ series. Offered a job by Walter,
Eva grasped the opportunity to recreate herself in her own right as picture
researcher, layout designer and art director. In 1949 they founded a new
publishing house, Thames & Hudson, and married in 1953. Her life with
Walter moved in circles of art, archaeology and history, among friends
including Henry Moore, Harold Acton, John Julius Norwich and Roy Strong.
The memoir ends in 1981, but Eva’s work continued until 1999, the year
she died, and the story is filled out by her son, Stephan Feuchtwang.
Tells the story of the famous mistress
of British national hero Admiral Nelson,
published to accompany a major
exhibition at the National Maritime
Museum, London.
Quintin Colville is Curator
of Naval History at the
National Maritime
Museum. He edited Nelson,
Navy & Nation, and is the
author of The British Sailor
of the First World War. Kate
Williams is Professor of
History at the University
of Reading. Her biography
England’s Mistress: The
Infamous Life of Emma
Hamilton was published
in 2006.
225 illustrations
26.5 x 22.1 cm
280pp hardback
ISBN 978 0 500 252208
November
£29.95
Emma Hamilton
Seduction and Celebrity
Edited by Quintin Colville with Kate Williams
With contributions by Vic Gatrell, Hannah Greig, Jason Kelly,
Margarette Lincoln, Christine Riding and Gillian Russell
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‘The elegant joy with which she lived her life
came to her so naturally – in the delight she
took in the highest forms of culture, especially
music, in her house in Italy surrounded even
in the hottest summer by its cool green lawn,
in her always beautifully styled appearance,
but above all in producing at Thames and
Hudson books that attested to her great
respect for high culture – one might have
imagined nothing had happened to her to
cause anything but total delight in the world’
From David Plante’s obituary in the Guardian
Emma Hamilton (1765–1815) is widely known as a temptress who ensnared
the naval hero Horatio Nelson, and paid the price by dying in poverty in Calais.
But this epic love affair, and the judgments surrounding it, have obscured
a spectacular life story.
This book, published to coincide with a major exhibition on Emma Hamilton
at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, explores her remarkable life –
with its ambitions, successes and hardships – and recovers Emma from myth
and misrepresentation. Distinguished contributors provide a fresh evaluation
of Emma’s artistic undertakings, cultural achievements and legacy, as well as
of the momentous years of her association with Nelson and the unravelling
of her fortunes after his death at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.
Illustrated throughout with paintings, prints and drawings capturing the
beauty that propelled her to celebrity status, Emma Hamilton tells the story
of an extraordinary woman who broke through barriers of class and privilege
to win her own unique place in British history.
Published in association with Royal Museums Greenwich.
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THE BRITISH MUSEUM
In collaboration with
Examines the process and practice of
drawing, showcasing over 500 years
of work from Michelangelo to the
present day.
Bridget Riley first came to
the British Museum Study
Room as a student at
Goldsmiths College. The
insights that she gained
there were fundamental to
the development of her
pioneering abstract work,
and drawing has remained
a key tool at every stage of
her creative process. Hugo
Chapman is Keeper of
Prints and Drawings at the
British Museum. Isabel
Seligman is the Bridget
Riley Art Foundation
Exhibition Curator at the
British Museum.
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25.0 x 22.0 cm
128pp paperback
ISBN 978 0 500 292785
September
£16.95
Isabel Seligman
Lines of
thought
Drawing from
Michelangelo to now
THE BRITISH MUSEUM
An all-embracing history of art in
South Africa, from the iconic artefacts
of the country’s first kingdoms to its
vibrant contemporary art scene.
John Giblin is Head of
the African collection
at the British Museum.
Chris Spring is curator of
the contemporary African
art and the eastern and
southern African collection
25.0 x 22.0 cm
224pp hardback
ISBN 978 0 500 519066
October
£40.00
South Africa
Lines of thought
Drawing from Michelangelo to now
Isabel Seligman
Foreword by Bridget Riley • Preface by Hugo Chapman
Lines of thought uncovers the process and practice of drawing, illustrated by
a selection of work created over 500 years. From Dürer to Degas, Michelangelo
to Matisse, Rembrandt to Riley, this publication studies the types of thinking that
produced their drawings – brainstorming, enquiry, experiment, association,
development and decision – giving us fresh insight into the creative impulse
of some of the world’s greatest artists.
The accompanying exhibition will tour around the UK and internationally,
inspiring and encouraging the practice of drawing. The exhibition and the book
feature highlights of the British Museum’s outstanding Prints and Drawings collection.
Accompanies a travelling exhibition showing at three venues in the UK:
Poole Museum and Art Gallery, The Brynmor Jones Library Art Gallery,
University of Hull, and Ulster Museum, Belfast.
Also available in paperback
ISBN 978 0 500 292839
£25.00
3 million years of art
John Giblin and Chris Spring
In recent decades, archaeologists in South Africa have discovered some of
the world’s oldest artworks – extraordinary examples of humankind’s first
artistic endeavours. Today, South Africa enjoys a vibrant, often politicized
contemporary art scene, one that draws on both the recent and the more
distant past to comment on the present. Taking as its point of departure the
Makapansgat Pebble, thought to be the oldest art object ever to have been
found, South Africa: 3 million years of art explores the history of South Africa
through a selection of its artworks, paying particular attention not only to
their relationship to one another, but also to their connections to key episodes
in the nation’s evolution. By setting up a dialogue between past and present,
between art objects old and new, the book offers a refreshingly novel way
of looking at the history of South Africa, a story that begins many millennia
before the creation of the modern republic.
Published to accompany a major new exhibition at the British Museum,
South Africa: 3 million years of art provides a welcome change of perspective
on the story of a once-troubled yet resolutely forward-looking nation – by
telling that story through its art.
Accompanies the exhibition at the British Museum, London, showing from
27 October 2016 to 26 February 2017.
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THE VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM
Lucy Johnston
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Presenting a wealth of new, bespoke
imagery and building on the authors’
unrivalled level of expertise, 17th-Century
Men’s Dress Patterns is a definitive
resource for costume designers, fashion
historians, re-enactors and students.
Part of the V&A’s bestselling ‘Fashion
in Detail’ series, this revised edition
showcases the opulence and variety
of 19th-century fashion, shown in
exquisite colour photography and with
line drawings of the complete garments.
Susan North is the Curator
of Fashion 1550–1800 at
the V&A. Jenny Tiramani
was the Director of Theatre
Design at Shakespeare’s
Globe Theatre between
1997 and 2005, where
she and Melanie Braun,
Luca Costigliolo and
Claire Thornton led its
award-winning experiments
in authentic Shakespearean
stage costume. In 2009
they founded The School
of Historical Dress in
London, where they all
currently teach.
Lucy Johnston is an expert
in historical dress. She was
previously Curator of Fashion
1800–1914 at the V&A, and
her other publications include
Shoes: A Brief History, which
she co-authored with Linda
Woolley. Helen Persson was
formerly Curator of Chinese
Textiles and Dress in the V&A’s
Asia Department, and curated
Shoes: Pleasure and Pain at the
Museum in 2015. Marion Kite
was Head of the Furniture,
Textiles & Fashion Conservation
Section at the V&A until 2014.
c. 1,000 illustrations
27.0 x 30.5 cm
176pp hardback
ISBN 978 0 500 519059
November
£35.00
17th-Century Men’s Dress Patterns
Written and illustrated by Melanie Braun, Luca Costigliolo, Armelle
Lucas, Susan North, Claire Thornton and Jenny Tiramani
Published in collaboration with the V&A, this book presents full step-by-step
instructions for the making of 17th-century men’s clothes and accessories in
a technically accurate, visually exciting and easy-to-follow format. The
garments featured are all historical pieces from the V&A’s world-class
collections. They have been deconstructed so that every aspect of the
pattern is authentic. Scale patterns and precise construction diagrams are
accompanied by colour photography of the whole garment as well as an
abundance of informative details and x-ray photographs that reveal the
hidden structure of each piece, showing the precise construction and the
types of stitches used inside. The methods and techniques of historical
tailoring and dressmaking are shown in detail.
The co-authors have the best historical tailoring skills in the world.
Their book promises to be a unique resource for costume designers, fashion
historians and students.
c. 160 illustrations, c. 300 line drawings
29.0 x 20.5 cm
240pp paperback
ISBN 978 0 500 292648
October
£25.00
19th Century
Fashion in Detail
19th-Century Fashion in Detail
Lucy Johnston with Marion Kite and Helen Persson
From Liberty & Co. dresses to Indian-inspired printed cottons, brightly coloured
corsets, feathered capes and dramatic sleeves and petticoats, 19th-Century
Fashion in Detail reveals the elaborate trimmings, refined embroidery,
voluptuous drapery, strict corseting and impeccable tailoring that make up
some of the most beautiful garments in the V&A’s 19th-century fashion
collection, giving a unique opportunity to examine historical clothing that
is often too fragile to be on display.
Part of the ‘Fashion in Detail’ series, this substantially revised and updated
book explores the opulence and diversity of clothing from the 19th century,
with a new, comprehensive introduction illuminating the history of fashion
in the period, followed by chapters dedicated to specific techniques and
elements – from ‘Tailoring’ to ‘Printed Textiles’, ‘Buttons and Fastenings’,
‘Technical Innovations’ and ‘Accessories’. Each garment is accompanied by
an authoritative text, exquisite photography and specially commissioned line
drawings, making this one of the most complete and beautiful books dedicated
solely to the subject of 19th-century fashion.
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PHOTOGRAPHY
New in paperback
An essential anthology of must-see
photographs from the earliest days
of the medium to the present – now
in paperback.
A colouring book of iconic patterns
produced by William Morris and his
contemporaries at Morris & Co. from
the V&A’s outstanding collection.
Roberto Koch is the
co-founder and publisher
at Contrasto, one of the
world’s leading
photography publishers.
250 illustrations
22.0 x 17.0 cm
512pp paperback
ISBN 978 0 500 292662
September
£14.95
The V&A is the world’s
leading museum of art
and design and holds an
extensive collection of
wallpaper, textile and tile
designs by William Morris
and his contemporaries.
105 illustrations
27.0 × 21.5 cm
96pp paperback
ISBN 978 0 500 420591
September
£12.95
PhotoBox: The Essential Collection
William Morris
An Arts & Crafts Colouring Book
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‘These natural forms which are at once most familiar and most delightful to us, as well
from association as from beauty, are the best for our purpose’ William Morris
William Morris’s patterns are enduringly popular for their originality and colour,
and have captured the imagination of countless designers and artists. This
colouring book explores the intricate work of William Morris, and allows the
reader to invent their own colourways to complete Morris’s patterns.
• 45 patterns to colour, interspersed by full-colour reproductions of the
original designs.
• Organized into four sections – ‘Nature’, ‘Colour’, ‘Pattern’ and ‘Craft’ –
to highlight different aspects of the designs, and the crafts and skills
behind them.
• Explores Morris’s love of nature, his artistry, mastery of colour and
innovation in pattern design in concise introductory texts.
‘A wonderful guide to 250 of the world’s most
outstanding photographers and their work …
eye-popping, heartbreaking, beautiful, mysterious
and strange’ Black & White Photography
‘Beautifully produced and reasonably priced’
Guardian
‘Endearing ... Koch’s snapshots of the snappers
are suitably snappy, his prose style brisk
but revealing’ Independent on Sunday
250 Images You Need to See
Edited by Roberto Koch
PhotoBox presents a collection of 250 photographs by 200 of the world’s most
prominent photographers, ranging from legendary masters to contemporary
stars, in a compact paperback format. Photographers include Ansel Adams,
Richard Avedon, Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Elliott Erwitt,
Robert Frank, Nan Goldin, David LaChapelle, Annie Leibovitz, Helmut Newton
and many more. Each image is accompanied by an engaging commentary
and a brief biography of the photographer.
PhotoBox is an irresistible and amazingly affordable anthology of the images
you need to see.
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PHOTOGRAPHY
A major new retrospective of one of the
world’s most acclaimed contemporary
art photographers.
William A. Ewing has been an
author, lecturer, curator and
museum director for more than
forty years. His many books
include The Body, Arnold
Newman: Masterclass, Landmark:
The Fields of Landscape
Photography and Lois Greenfield:
Moving Still, all published by
Thames & Hudson.
140 photographs
27.6 x 33.0 cm hardback
202pp (inc 7 x 6-page gatefolds)
ISBN 978 0 500 544617
October
£45.00
Also available: Collector’s and Deluxe editions
Edward Burtynsky: Essential Elements
William A. Ewing
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Collector’s Edition
Includes a print: Silver Lake Operations #16, Lake Lefroy,
Western Australia, Australia 2007. 11 x 14 inches.
Slipcased ISBN 978 0 500 544686 £325.00
Deluxe Edition
Includes a print: Morenci Mine #2, Clifton, Arizona, USA
2012. 16 x 20 inches.
Boxed ISBN 978 0 500 544693 £1,500.00
Available exclusively via the Thames & Hudson website
www.thamesandhudson.com
Edward Burtynsky has achieved global recognition for his spectacular, large-scale
photographs which depict the impact of human activity upon urban and natural
environments around the world. They cover such subjects as mines and quarries,
the oil industry, ship-building and ship-breaking, water as a resource under threat
worldwide, and an emergent China.
Curated by William A. Ewing, this volume, the first comprehensive survey of
Burtynsky’s multi-faceted work in over a decade, includes both iconic images and
previously unpublished photographs. Relinquishing the project-based lens through
which the photographer’s work has previously been presented – the major
monographs Oil and Water being the most recent examples – it presents
Burtynsky’s photographs in five free-flowing sections which combine and contrast
work from throughout his career. This original approach provides a sense of both his
visual language and his exploration of the dilemmas at the heart of our globalized
world. Each section is interspersed with selected texts which work in concert with
the images to provide a context and greater understanding of Burtynsky’s view of
the world.
With an introduction by Ewing and an afterword by academic Joshua Schuster,
Essential Elements provides an entirely new way of seeing Burtynsky’s work for
those who are already familiar with it, as well as an accessible introduction for
those encountering his photographs for the first time.
PHOTOGRAPHY
A groundbreaking, immersive new
monograph from Roger Ballen, one
of the world’s most original and critically
acclaimed art photographers.
Roger Ballen is the recipient
of numerous awards, including
‘Photographer of the Year’
at Rencontres d’Arles in 2002
and ‘Photography Book
of the Year’ for Outland
at Photo España in 2001.
Thames & Hudson published
his monograph Asylum of the Birds
in 2014. Colin Rhodes has written
and lectured widely contemporary
art. He is the author of the
influential Outsider Art, also
published by Thames & Hudson.
98 illustrations
24.0 x 17.0 cm
192pp hardback
ISBN 978 0 500 544648
September
£24.95
The Theatre of Apparitions
Roger Ballen • Introduction by Colin Rhodes
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Also available
ISBN 978 0 500 544297 £32.00
Roger Ballen is best known for his psychologically powerful and intricately
layered images that exist in a space between painting, drawing, installation
and photography. The Theatre of Apparitions is both a departure from his
existing oeuvre and the culmination of his unique aesthetic linking imagemaking and theatrical performance. Separated into seven chapters or ‘acts’,
with each one introduced by a text written by the photographer, these
‘Ballenesque’ images take readers on a journey deep into their subconscious.
Initially inspired by blacked-out windows seen in an abandoned women’s
prison, Ballen started to experiment using different spray paints on glass
and then ‘drawing on’ or removing the paint with a sharp object to let natural
light through. The resulting images are like prehistoric cave-paintings: the black,
dimensionless spaces on the glass are canvases onto which Ballen carves
his thoughts and emotions. Fossil-like facial forms and dismembered body
parts co-exist uncomfortably with vaporous, ghost-like shadows – these images
have the capacity to shock, inspire, amuse and even elate viewers. Timeless
and innovative, earthly and otherworldly, physical and spiritual, this work
transcends all traditional concepts of photography.
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PHOTOGRAPHY
John Loengard, the renowned LIFE magazine
photographer, sums up his career with this
important monograph which includes many
of his best and most iconic photographs.
John Loengard’s distinguished career
in photography has largely been
in the context of his long association
with LIFE magazine. He is also
the founding picture editor
of People magazine. His books
include Pictures Under Discussion,
LIFE Faces, Classic LIFE Photographs,
LIFE Photographers: What They Saw,
The Great LIFE Photographers
and As I See It.
133 illustrations
32.0 x 25.0 cm
152pp hardback
ISBN 978 0 500 970775
October
£35.00
Moment by Moment:
Photographs by John Loengard
John Loengard
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As John Loengard writes in the preface to this monograph: ‘The truth is: a good
photograph cannot be repeated. This may be why a photograph of a brief
moment, an instant in time, can hold our interest forever.’ And this volume,
Moment by Moment, is an intriguing selection of many moments in his over
half-century long career. His subjects include movie stars, writers, politicians,
artists and other photographers, as well as normal people engaged in a host
of extraordinary activities – or, rather, typical activities rendered unforgettable,
of enduring interest, by the photographer’s vision. Loengard enlarges our
understanding and deepens our appreciation of his photographs with insightful
commentaries on each of the pictures reproduced in the book.
From a shimmering Marilyn Monroe to a brooding T. S. Eliot and an iconic
shot of the Beatles, from an Etonian to a boy in the streets of Manchester,
as well as ranchers, sweepers, picnickers and other photographers, Loengard’s
vision moves and delights us with his humanity and artistry.
PHOTOGRAPHY
A beautifully produced showcase
of Bernard Plossu’s inimitable
photographs of 1970s and 80s America.
Bernard Plossu is a renowned
French photographer who
has worked all over the world.
His many publications include
So Long and ¡Vámonos! Bernard
Plossu in Mexico. Max Evans
is best known for his novel
The Rounders, which was made
into a film starring Glenn Ford
and Henry Fonda in 1965, and
The Hi-Lo Country, which also
became a film in 1998. Francis
Hodgson is a photography critic.
88 photographs
22.0 x 27.0 cm
144pp hardback
ISBN 978 0 500 544679
July
£34.95
Bernard Plossu: Western Colors
Photographs by Bernard Plossu
Texts by Bernard Plossu, Max Evans and Francis Hodgson
Bernard Plossu has been called ‘the most American of French photographers’
by his friend and colleague Lewis Baltz. Although he is best known for his work
in black and white, often capturing a bohemian world of free-spirited adventure,
Plossu has also shot in colour throughout his career.
This book showcases 88 bold and cinematic colour photographs, many
of which are previously unpublished, dating from the 1970s and early 80s,
when Plossu was resident in the US. Strikingly rendered using the Fresson
carbon printing process, these images depict an unmistakably American
landscape of motels and rodeos, deserts and highways; a realm that is both
rugged and dreamlike, haunted by the mythic imagery of the Old West.
They combine to form a memorable and atmospheric collection of work
by a supremely talented photographer.
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PHOTOGRAPHY
PHOTOGRAPHY
An intimate photographic portrait of
Billie Holiday, the epitome of the jazz
singer and one of 20th-century music’s
most iconic figures, with an introduction
by Zadie Smith.
Jerry Dantzic was a photojournalist.
His work is in the permanent
collections of the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, the Whitney
and The Museum of Modern Art.
Grayson Dantzic, Jerry’s son,
is a photographer and photo
archivist. Zadie Smith is a novelist,
essayist and short story writer.
100 illustrations
30.5 x 23.0 cm
144pp hardback
ISBN 978 0 500 544655
October
£24.95
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Analyses the visual approaches and
techniques of 100 great photographers,
and shows readers how to weave some
of this magic into their own photography.
Paul Lowe is course director
of the MA in Photojournalism
and Documentary Photography
at the London College
of Communication, University
of the Arts London. He is an
award-winning photographer,
whose work has been published
in Time, Life, the Sunday Times
Magazine, the Observer and
the Independent among others.
135 illustrations
24.2 x 19.9 cm
288pp flexibound
ISBN 978 0 500 544624
September
£19.95
Billie Holiday at Sugar Hill
Photography Masterclass
Photographs by Jerry Dantzic • Text by Grayson Dantzic
Introduction by Zadie Smith
Creative Techniques of 100 Great Photographers
In 1957, New York photojournalist Jerry Dantzic spent time with the iconic singer
Billie Holiday during a two-week run of performances at the Newark, New Jersey,
nightclub Sugar Hill. The resulting images offer a rare behind-the-scenes glimpse
of Billie at work and at play.
We see her with her family, friends and her pet chiuhuaha, Pepe; playing
with her godchild (son of her autobiography’s co-author, William Dufty); washing
dishes at the Duftys’ home; walking the streets of Newark; in her hotel room;
waiting backstage or having a drink in front of the stage; and performing. The years
and the struggles seem to vanish when she sings: her face lights up. Later that year,
Dantzic photographed her at the second New York Jazz Festival at Randall’s Island,
in colour. Only a handful of the photographs in this book have ever been published.
Why do some photographs stay in the memory forever? It can be down
to subject matter alone, but more often than not this timeless quality
is due to the photographer’s skill.
This book showcases 100 iconic images by the world’s greatest
photographers, and analyses how they achieved their mesmerising effects
so you can recreate their techniques yourself. Discover how to compose
‘decisive moments’ like Henri Cartier-Bresson, use long exposures
for landscapes like Simon Norfolk, and experiment with flash in daylight
like Rineke Dijkstra.
Arranged thematically to offer fresh insights that transcend traditional
genres or chronology, this book reveals the techniques behind perceptive
portraits, unusual landscapes, eye-opening reportage and unforgettable
fashion shots, to name a few. Perfect for students as well as seasoned
pros, and with a broad historical and global reach, it is an indispensable
introduction to the rich history and practice of photography.
Paul Lowe
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ADVERTISING
The essential guide for students
and professionals in advertising,
communication, marketing and allied
fields – now in its third edition to reflect
the growing digital landscape.
The ultimate guide to creating a
successful brand by a world-class
master of the art, Michael Johnson.
Michael Johnson set up the
creative design studio, johnson
banks, in 1992. Since then,
he has received eight ‘pencil’
awards from D&AD, 13 Design
Week awards and four NYADC
‘cube’ awards, among many
others. Johnson has been
cited as one of the most
notable British designers
by the Guardian and the
Independent, and has been
featured in Design Week’s
‘Hot 50’ list of prominent
figures in design on three
separate occasions. He is also
the author of Problem Solved.
Pete Barry began his career
as an art director at Ogilvy,
London. A former lecturer
in Advertising Design
at Syracuse University,
he now works as a copywriter
in New York City.
500 illustrations
24.0 x 20.0 cm
320pp hardback
ISBN 978 0 500 518984
August
£22.50
The Advertising Concept Book
Think Now, Design Later
A Complete Guide to Creative Ideas, Strategies and Campaigns
Pete Barry
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‘Invaluable’
Creative Review
‘Hands down the best creative advertising
book I have ever read!’ Inspired Magazine
‘Sound advice for advertising creatives’
Communication Arts
ADVERTISING
In creative advertising, no amount of glossy presentation will improve
a bad idea. That’s why this book is dedicated to the first and most important
lesson: concept.
Structured to provide both a complete course on advertising and a quick
reference on particular topics, it covers every aspect of the business, from how
to write copy and learn the creative process to how agencies work and the
different strategies used for all types of media. This third edition features
substantially revised and expanded chapters on interactive advertising and
integrated advertising, and an entirely new chapter on branded social media.
Pete Barry outlines simple but fundamental rules about how to ‘push’ an
ad to turn it into something exceptional, while exercises throughout will help
readers assess their own work and that of others. Fifty years’ worth of
international, award-winning ad campaigns – in the form of over 500 ‘roughs’
specially produced by the author, fifty of which are new to this edition – also
reinforce the book’s core lesson: that a great idea will last forever.
24.5 x 21.0 cm
320pp hardback
ISBN 978 0 500 518960
September
£29.95
Branding. In Five and a Half Steps
The Definitive Guide to Strategy and Design of Brand Identities
Michael Johnson
Michael Johnson is one of the world’s leading graphic designers and brand
consultants. His studio, johnson banks, is responsible for the rebranding of
many notable clients, including Virgin Atlantic, Think London, BFI, Christian
Aid and MORE TH>N. He has garnered a plethora of awards in the process.
In Branding, Johnson strips the most famous, everyday brands down to their
basic components, enabling us to understand why we select one product or
service over another and allowing us to comprehend how seemingly subtle
influences can affect our key life decisions. The first part of the book shows
how the birth of a brand begins not with finding a solution but rather with
identifying key questions: what does the brand mean? What does it want to
be? The second half focuses on the design and implementation of the brand.
Step 2.5, Johnson reveals, is the most important stage of all. It bridges the
all-too-neglected gap between research and design, and guides you through
the vital moments where the creation of brands can go wrong.
With more than 1,000 vibrant illustrations showcasing the world’s most
successful corporate identities, Branding is an authoritative guide to creating
the simplest and most compelling brands.
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GRAPHIC DESIGN
The very best in contemporary collage
by 50 of the world’s leading creative
studios and graphic designers.
DR.ME is a creative studio
based in Manchester and
founded by Ryan Doyle
(DR) and Mark Edwards
(ME). Specializing in print,
digital and retail design,
their clients include Sony,
Urban Outfitters and Red
Bull, and they have
collaborated with designers
such as James Victore and
Anthony Burrill.
318 illustrations
25.0 x 19.5 cm
288pp paperback
ISBN 978 0 500 292242
August
£24.95
Cut That Out
Contemporary Collage in Graphic Design
DR.ME
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Curated by Ryan Doyle and Mark Edwards, who work together under the name
of DR.ME, Cut That Out focuses on the compositions of 50 leading designers
and studios from 14 different countries for whom collage has been the key to
creating vibrant, effective work – among them Hort, Paul Sahre and Atelier
Bingo. Each of them uses collage techniques in spectacularly inventive and
diverse ways, and materials range from the ‘found’ or rediscovered – old
magazines, coloured paper, beads or images from the Internet – to those
produced by the artists themselves, such as drawings, photographs or scraps
from previously discarded projects.
Copiously illustrated throughout, and featuring a quick-fire Q&A with each
of the artists, Cut That Out is a rich seam of inspiration to be mined by all
students and graphic designers who wish to explore the creative possibilities
of collage.
GRAPHIC DESIGN
GRAPHIC DESIGN
New in paperback
A unique global survey of fresh
contemporary illustration talent
and a daring experiment in creative
collaboration, now available in paperback.
An intricate tracing book, source
book and colouring book all in one.
Eric Broug received his
master’s degree in the history
of Islamic art and architecture
from the London School of
Oriental and African Studies.
He now runs a design
consultancy and the School of
Islamic Geometric Design in
the north of England.
96 illustrations
29.7 x 21.0 cm
64pp + 48 loose-leaf sheets
Paperback
ISBN 978 0 500 292426
October
£14.95
Illustration Next
Islamic Design Workbook
Contemporary Creative Collaboration
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Ana Benaroya is a young
American illustrator at the
heart of an international
creative network. She is the
creator of 120 Ways to
Annoy Your Mother (And
Influence People), 30 Ways
to Annoy Your Friends by
Mail and 20 Notecards to
Annoy Your Friends (or Make
Them Smile).
382 illustrations
24.0 x 18.5 cm
320pp paperback
ISBN 978 0 500 292525
July
£16.95
Ana Benaroya
Illustration is experiencing a remarkable renaissance. Young illustrators are
no longer regarded as the poor relations of artists, photographers and
designers, and their work – engagingly human, delightfully witty and
intricately hand-rendered – is at the forefront of visual culture.
This outstanding global survey brings together the dazzling talent of
50 leading illustrators from over 20 countries, among them Julia Rothman,
Whitney Sherman and Mike Perry, and also provides them with the opportunity
to indulge in a brilliant creative experiment. The book is curated in two
interleaved strands: in the first, each illustrator showcases their own work and
is interviewed by the author to shine a light onto what inspires and motivates
them. The second strand is a collaborative project, with illustrators working in
pairs to create original work to one of 25 briefs from the author across themes
ranging from ‘beauty’ to ‘beast’ and ‘speed’ to ‘excess’. Each collaboration is
accompanied by a joint interview with the two illustrators.
‘Brilliantly unpredictable’
‘Weird and wonderful’
By the same author
978 0 500 287217 £14.95
Design Week
Artists & Illustrators
978 0 500 516959 £39.95
Eric Broug
In this inventive interpretation of the popular colouring book concept, Islamic
design expert Eric Broug helps readers to create their own patterns, based on
compositions from across the Islamic world. The book opens up the world of
intricate Islamic patterns, allowing artists, designers and doodlers alike to learn
about these works of art as they produce their own. With 48 Islamic geometric
compositions from around the world to choose from, artists at all skill levels
will relish the myriad opportunities to replicate these intricate patterns or
create their own. The workbook’s clever design invites the pattern-maker to
consider a composition in the book, take a corresponding loose leaf from the
back of the book and figure out which sections of lines to trace to make the
composition.
Readers will have the unique satisfaction of making patterns appear where
previously none were visible. Compositions are categorized by region and have
various levels of complexity, making it possible for beginners to get started and
artists or designers to develop their skills. Compositions are sourced from
Samarkand, Delhi, Fes, Isfahan and Cairo, among many other places.
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GRAPHIC DESIGN
GRAPHIC DESIGN
New in paperback
A compact graphic-design resource and
an essential survey of an ever popular
typographic form, expertly curated by
graphic design’s leading historians.
‘If you know the difference between
a font and a typeface, you need this
book; if you don’t, you need it even
more’ Erik Spiekermann
Steven Heller is co-chair of the
MFA Design: Designer as Author
programme at the School of
Visual Arts, New York. He is the
author of many books,
including Stencil Type, Graphic,
Typography Sketchbooks, New
Ornamental Type and New
Vintage Type, all published by
Thames & Hudson. Louise Fili
is director of Fili Design, and
co-author, with Steven Heller,
of Scripts, Shadow Type and
Stencil Type.
24.5 x 17.2 cm
352pp paperback
ISBN 978 0 500 518496
August
£22.50
‘Takes an appreciation of letterforms
to another level’ Creative Review
Also available
Slab Serif Type
The Geometry of Type
A Century of Bold Letterforms
The Anatomy of 100 Essential Typefaces
Stephen Coles • Foreword by Erik Spiekermann
Steven Heller and Louise Fili
Since being introduced in the 19th century, when they were considered the
bastard cousins of more refined serif types, slab serif typefaces have become
ubiquitous. Prized for their bold visual impact and versatility, they are used
on a broad variety of demonstrative communications, from posters and
newspapers to product packaging. Slabs come in many iterations and are
recognized as a face with many characters – and nationalities.
Following the cult typography volumes Scripts, Shadow Type and Stencil
Type, this new book artfully selects classic examples to present fresh and
unexpected typographic ideas. It brings together material from across Europe
and the United States, ranging from vintage hand-lettering to iconic company
logos. The authors employ their decades of combined experience as art
directors to present hundreds of wonderful examples in a visual resource
that will delight and inspire designers in all media.
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978 0 500 290392 £19.95
978 0 500 291238 £19.95
978 0 500 241462
£24.95
Stephen Coles is a writer
and typographer. After six
years as creative director
at FontShop in San
Francisco, he now runs the
websites ‘Typographica’,
‘Fonts In Use’ and ‘The
Mid-Century Modernist’.
Erik Spiekermann founded
MetaDesign in 1979 and
FontShop in 1989; he now
heads the design agency
Edenspiekermann.
24.5 x 19.0 cm
256pp paperback
ISBN 978 0 500 292457
July
£14.95
The Geometry of Type explores 100 traditional and modern typefaces in detail,
with a full spread devoted to each entry. Characters from each typeface are
enlarged and annotated to reveal key features, anatomical details, and the finer,
often-overlooked elements of type design, which shows how these attributes
affect mood and readability. Sidebar information lists the designer and foundry,
the year of release and the different weights and styles available, while feature
boxes explain the origins and best uses for each typeface, such as whether it is
suitable for running text or as a display font for headlines. To help the reader
spot each typeface in the wider world, the full character set is shown, and the
best letters for identification are highlighted. This beautiful and highly practical
work of reference for font spotters, designers and users is a close-up celebration
of typefaces and great type design.
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DESIGN
New in Thames & Hudson’s ‘Whole Story’
series, an essential visual guide to the
sophisticated attempts of manufacturers to
woo us with high functionality, good looks –
and that indefinable feeling of the future.
Elizabeth Wilhide is the
author or co-author of
acclaimed books on design
and interiors, including
William Morris: Décor and
Design, Sir Edwin Lutyens:
Designing in the English
Tradition, The Mackintosh
Style and Scandinavian
Modern Home. Jonathan
Glancey was the
architecture and design
editor at the Guardian from
1997 to 2012. He now
reports on architecture and
design for BBC Culture.
24.5 x 17.2 cm
576pp flexibound
ISBN 978 0 500 292280
September
£19.95
Also available
978 0 500 289471 £19.95
978 0 500 291733 £19.95
Design: The Whole Story
General Editor: Elizabeth Wilhide • Foreword by Jonathan Glancey
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Design: The Whole Story takes a close look at the key developments,
movements and practitioners of design around the world, from the beginnings
of industrial manufacturing to the present day. Organized chronologically,
it locates design within its technological, cultural, economic, aesthetic and
theoretical contexts. From the high-minded moralists of the 19th century
to the radical thinkers of modernism – and from the emergence of showmen
such as Raymond Loewy in the 1930s to today’s superstars such as Philippe
Starck – the book provides in-depth coverage of a subject that touches all
our lives. Iconic works that mark significant steps forward or that characterize
a particular era or approach – such as Marcel Breuer’s Wassily chair of 1925
or Jonathan Ive’s iPhone, which rewrote the rules of the smartphone – are
analysed in detail, while the text sets out the framework of ideas, intent and
technology within which differing approaches to design have evolved.
From the cars we drive and the products we buy to the graphics that
surround us, we are all consumers of design. Design: The Whole Story provides
all the information you need to decode the material world.
978 0 500 291481 £19.95
978 0 500 291108 £19.95
978 0 500 288955 £19.95
978 0 500 290453 £19.95
DESIGN
DESIGN
The first visual resource on the
rising field of biomimetics targeted
at design professionals and students,
showing concrete examples of nature’s
most fascinating processes and their
applications in the real world.
What is it that distinguishes an
architect-designed chair? This book
answers this question and many more,
and provides an outstanding selection
of contemporary chairs by some of the
world’s most acclaimed architects.
Veronika Kapsali is a Reader
in Material Technology and
Design at University of the
Arts, London. She is also the
co-director of MMT Textiles
Limited, a company that
specializes in biomimetic
fibre-based textile technology.
Agata Toromanoff is an art
historian. She previously
worked for art collectors
and galleries, which
resulted in curating
and managing numerous
contemporary art projects.
She runs BOAblog.net,
a site dedicated to books
on art.
25.5 x 21.0 cm
240pp hardback
ISBN 978 0 500 518489
September
£36.00
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26.0 x 21.0 cm
160pp paperback
ISBN 978 0 500 292501
August
£16.95
Biomimetics for Designers
Chairs by Architects
Veronika Kapsali
Agata Toromanoff
The importance of biomimetics – imitating life’s natural processes – has been
known for years. Designers are increasingly looking to the natural world for
formal solutions, drawing inspiration from nature’s infinite examples of how
to achieve complex behaviours and applications by using simple materials in a
clever way. In the popular imagination, the best-known example of biomimetics
is the microscopic ‘hook’ on burrs that led to the development of Velcro, but
there are many more applications, from kingfisher beaks inspiring the shape
of bullet trains to shark skin being used as a model for advanced swimsuits.
This book presents more than 80 examples, showing each natural
phenomenon alongside its application, with an accessible explanation of the
biology and the story of the design. While most are concrete examples that
have already been developed, others point the way to what might be possible
for an enterprising designer, providing a starting point for creativity. This timely
overview is the perfect introduction for designers of all disciplines, and a
reminder that inspiration may be just down the garden path.
What is it that distinguishes a chair designed by an architect? Why is it so
tempting for an architect to have a chair in his or her portfolio? Is it possible
to use creative solutions interchangeably in both domains? Chairs by Architects
answers these and many other questions to show how qualities in the buildings
by architects are also evident in their chair designs: pieces of furniture, like
manifestos, become signatures of architectural style. The 55 architects include
early modern architectural pioneers such as Otto Wagner, Charles Rennie
Mackintosh, Antoni Gaudí and Walter Gropius, together with more recent
modern masters such as Oscar Niemeyer, Santiago Calatrava, Frank Gehry,
Daniel Libeskind and the late Zaha Hadid. The book contains interviews on
Designing (in conversation with David Adjaye), Manufacturing (David E. Bright,
Knoll Inc.), Selling (Zeev Aram), Collecting (Richard Wright) and Preserving
(Susanne Graner, Vitra Design Museum).
This is essential reading for everyone with an interest in design, architecture
and the relationship between creators and their creations.
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ARCHITECTURE
The first major survey on the rich
relationship between the imagery
and thinking of Surrealist art
and the architecture of the 20th
and 21st centuries.
Neil Spiller is Hawksmoor Chair
of Architecture and Landscape
at the University of Greenwich,
London. He is the author of
Visionary Architecture and
Digital Architecture Now, both
His architectural design work
and research has been widely
published and exhibited
worldwide.
28.0 x 23.0 cm
256pp hardback
ISBN 978 0 500 343203
October
£38.00
Architecture and Surrealism
A Blistering Romance
Neil Spiller
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Features works by:
Bryan Cantley
Le Corbusier
Salvador Dalí
Douglas Darden
Max Ernst
FleaFollyArchitects
Natalie Gall
HR Giger
Frederick Kiesler
Daniel Libeskind
Bernard Schumi
Diller + Scofidio
Mark West
Lebbeus Woods
In a world where ‘smart’ objects can talk to each other and a lethal gun can
be produced with a desktop 3D printer, the conditions for contemporary design
are nothing if not surreal. With technology now setting the protocols and
altering our daily lifestyles in profound ways, the concepts and otherworldliness
of Surrealism have become more relevant to architects than the dogmas of
architectural formalism. Architecture and Surrealism: A Blistering Romance
charts the development of the fertile relationship between these two very
different ways of seeing the world and reveals how the fusion of these ideas
are being put to use by contemporary architects in extraordinary ways.
Divided into four thematic chapters, the book explores the connection
between architecture and Surrealism through the central concepts of the
body, the house, the city and the environment. Each chapter offers a spectrum
of images of works by both established and emerging architects, as well as
feature pages dedicated to contemporary work, all of which demonstrate the
lasting influence of Surrealism on architectural aesthetics.
In an era of wearable technology and big data, connecting us everywhere
all the time, Architecture and Surrealism unveils fascinating and unexpected
forms, buildings and spaces that are creating the most exciting futures for our
personal and built worlds.
ARCHITECTURE
An alternative history of global
architecture, reaching from Ancient
Greece to Scandinavian modernism,
which demonstrates how the built
environment affects our experience
of the world.
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ARCHITECTURE
An outstanding illustrated study of
the finest medieval parish church
towers and spires in England.
Henry Plummer teaches
architectural history and
design at the Center for
Advanced Study, University
of Illinois. He received his
MArch from MIT, studied
light-art with György Kepes
and was a photographic
apprentice to Minor White.
He is the author of Nordic
Light, also published by
Thames & Hudson.
Julian Flannery, a qualified
architect, worked for two of
the best-known
architectural practices,
Nicholas Grimshaw &
Partners and Future
Systems, before founding
his own practice, Flannery
& de la Pole, in 2004. The
detailed study of historic
buildings, from Hampton
Court Palace after the
major fire in 1986 to
England’s finest medieval
parish churches, has been
a lifelong passion.
295 illustrations
25.5 x 18.5 cm
288pp hardback
ISBN 978 0 500 343210
October
£29.95
171 line drawings, 76 photographs and 6 maps
29.0 x 22.5 cm
496pp hardback
ISBN 978 0 500 343142
October
£50.00
The Experience of Architecture
Fifty English Steeples
Henry Plummer
The Finest Medieval Parish Church Towers and Spires in England
The Experience of Architecture aims to understand how everyday acts in space
are influenced by architectural form, a concept that is vital for all architects to
grasp if our buildings are to be anything more than a commercial or aesthetic
enterprise. It considers how specific built elements and volumes, taken from
a wide array of buildings and settings around the world, can sustain or deny
our powers of decision. From the hand-carved stairs in Greek villages to freefloating catwalks, the elegant processional steps of Renaissance Italy to Frank
Lloyd Wright’s masterly manipulation of form, the seemingly random
placement of Japanese stepping stones to the staircase in Pierre Chareau’s
Maison de Verre, all provide very different experiences of stepping from one
level to the next, and all affect our experience of that space.
Each chapter focuses on a different aspect of our daily interactions with
architecture, looking at stairs, floors and paths, moving interior spaces,
perception and perspective, transparency and the relationship between
a building and its setting. This book will appeal not only to architects and
designers engaged in the production of space, but also to all those who seek
a richer understanding of their place in the built world.
Julian Flannery
This book – an astonishing achievement following five years of detailed and
original research – presents the first systematic survey of the fifty most
important medieval parish church towers and spires in England, covering
a period of some 500 years. The introduction provides an overview of the
technological and aesthetic development of towers and spires, and examines
the evolution of their major architectural elements. The process of medieval
steeple construction is also explored. The main part of the book is devoted
to a richly illustrated survey of the fifty most important medieval steeples
in England, from renowned Saxon churches such as Earls Barton in
Northamptonshire, to those of almost cathedral-like proportions such as
Salle in Norfolk or Chipping Campden in the heart of the Cotswolds.
With some 260 high-quality photographs and around 175 immaculate
explanatory line drawings, this book will appeal to the many thousands who
visit England’s parish churches and who find in them some of the greatest
pleasures that buildings can offer.
‘The church steeple is the glory of the English landscape. Over a thousand
years it has evolved a grandeur and a beauty unrivalled in Europe. It is
the icon of every parish. At last it has achieved its biographer.’
Simon Jenkins
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ARCHITECTURE
A global overview of the most innovative
and arresting pavilions, one of the most
popular built forms for both architecture
practitioners and students.
Philip Jodidio studied art
history and economics
at Harvard, and edited
Connaissance des Arts
for over twenty years. He is
internationally renowned as
one of the most popular
writers on architecture.
A Knight in the French Order
of Arts and Letters, he has
also won the Prix de Briey
for his publications. His books
include The Japanese House
Reinvented, published
by Thames & Hudson.
328 illustrations
25.0 x 20.0 cm
288pp hardback
ISBN 978 0 500 343227
August
£24.95
The New Pavilions
Philip Jodidio
Features work by:
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Atelier Bow-Wow
Bunker Arquitectura
Olafur Eliasson
Zaha Hadid
Heatherwick Studio
Herzog & de Meuron
MBMO
John Pawson
Pezo von Ellrichshausen
PLY Architecture
Snøhetta
Sou Fujimoto
UNStudio
Vector Architects
… and many more
Tents, bandstands, displays, places for sitting, listening, seeing and being seen…
Pavilions have myriad forms and as many functions. For architects and designers,
they offer unique opportunities to experiment with form, construction, material,
structure, surface and texture, often as prototypes for larger buildings or as
purely artistic pursuits. A pavilion’s particular location also offers rich possibilities
for interaction with the landscapes, streetscapes and peoplescapes around it.
Pavilions can be temples to digital interaction or provide oases of surreal calm
and isolation.
The New Pavilions presents a selection of the best and most exciting examples
produced in recent years. From the cutting-edge forms of Sou Fujimoto to Zaha
Hadid’s Chanel pavilion, from small structures created entirely out of farm waste
to a mirrored carapace conceived by Olafur Eliasson, each pavilion featured
provides a lesson in the extreme possibilities of built form and demonstrates
that many of the biggest ideas in architecture start small.
ARCHITECTURE
ARCHITECTURE
LITTLE BIG HOUSE / ROOM 11 / TASMANIA
Surveys 30 of the best and most
architecturally interesting homes
recently built in the wilds of Australia
and New Zealand.
LIVING IN THE
LANDSCAPE
Extraordinary rural homes in
Australia and New Zealand
John Wardle Architects
work across all architectural
scales, from small domestic
dwellings to university
buildings and large
commercial offices.
The distinguished practice
has won many awards,
including the Royal
Australian Institute of
Architects Sir Zelman
Cowen Award for the most
outstanding work of public
architecture in Australia
and The Robin Boyd Award
for Residential Architecture.
Anna Johnson is a senior
lecturer at the School of
Architecture and Design,
RMIT University. She has
written ten books across
such subjects as Australian
contemporary residential
architecture, southeast Asian
architecture and design
practice research. Richard
Black is head of the Bachelor
of Architectural Design
degree at RMIT University.
He is the co-author of several
books and his architectural
projects have been
extensively published
and exhibited.
Anna Johnson and Richard Black
29.0 x 23.0 cm
272pp hardback
ISBN 978 0 500 500750
October
£34.95
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The new monograph on one of Australia’s
best and most internationally renowned
architectural practices.
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Living in the Landscape
Extraordinary rural homes in Australia and New Zealand
Anna Johnson and Richard Black
Living in the Landscape explores 30 homes overlooking remote island clifftops,
tucked into escarpments or seemingly dropped into the rainforest in Australia
or New Zealand. Rather than romanticizing the bush and shack vernacular, the
authors examine how architects use various naunced landscape conditions as
inspiration and as sites for creativity. The complexities of the landscape with
its beautiful yet often harsh physicality, questions of sustainability and climate
change, and an understanding of the indigenous relationship to landscape are
all thoughtfully considered.
From the archetypal rural farm shed to Glenn Murcutt-inspired buildings
designed with the philosophy of touching the earth lightly, to sculptural glass
and metal dwellings that dramatically contrast with the landscape, this book
celebrates the multitude of ways in which landscape and architecture intersect.
In an age where we are increasingly aware of our relationship with the
environment, these breathtaking homes exemplify the possibilities of living
with the land.
29.0 x 23.0 cm
440pp hardback
ISBN 978 0 500 500774
November
£50.00
This Building Likes Me
John Wardle Architects
This Building Likes Me offers an engaging account of the recent work of one
of Australia’s most significant architectural practices, John Wardle Architects
(JWA). They are fascinated by those who experience their buildings and spaces
– by those who live or work in them, or simply walk past. These are the people
the buildings like!
This monograph captures the award-winning practice’s commitment to
people, cities and places; the collaborations with makers, builders and artists;
and their continual inventive exploration of scale, site, landscape and narratives
of memory. It presents 36 recent buildings and projects in pairs, and features
photographs, drawings and images of JWA’s distinctive models. Alongside the
projects are short critical essays and images of life within the practice. The
result is a compelling insight into contemporary architectural processes,
preoccupations and projects.
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ARCHITECTURE
ARCHITECTURE
Reannounced
The first monograph to showcase
the work of one of Russia’s most
influential architectural firms.
A complete overview of architecture
in 54 African cities, recorded by one
of the world’s leading architects.
David Adjaye has built a
stunning array of houses,
and his public buildings
– including a médiathèque
in London, a contemporary
art museum in Denver, and
the Nobel Peace Centre in
Oslo – have brought him
international critical
acclaim. His previous books
Hudson are David Adjaye:
Houses and David Adjaye:
Making Public Buildings.
Peter Allison is a
London-based exhibition
curator and teacher.
Oleg Yawein is a founding
partner of Studio 44
Architects. Aaron Betsky
is dean of the Frank Lloyd
Wright School of
Architecture. Hans Ibelings
is a Montreal-based
architectural historian
and critic, and the editor
and publisher of The
Architecture Observer.
400 illustrations
27.0 x 25.0 cm
312pp hardback
ISBN 978 0 500 343098
December
£45.00
Studio 44
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700 illustrations
24.0 x 20.0cm
408pp hardback
ISBN 978 0 500 343166
August
£29.95
Adjaye • Africa • Architecture
Edited by Oleg Yawein and Nikita Yawein
With contributions by Aaron Betsky and Hans Ibelings
Compact Edition
Studio 44 Architects is one of the largest and most influential private
architectural firms in Russia. Founded in St Petersburg in 1991 and led by
Nikita Yawein, the company now employs over 140 highly qualified specialists,
including architects, restoration experts, structural designers and engineers.
Studio 44 has won over sixty prestigious awards and implemented over 25
public and residential building projects, including Ladozhsky Railway Station,
the new wing at the Hermitage Museum, the Grand Palace shopping gallery,
the Novy Peterhof hotel, and the Boris Eifman Dance Academy in St Petersburg,
the Palace of Schoolchildren in Astana (Kazakhstan) and the Olympic Park
Railway Station in Sochi.
Studio 44 provides a detailed look at 35 projects completed from 2000
to the present as well as an overview of the earliest projects and the birth
of the firm.
The African continent contains some of the world’s most vibrant culture and
creativity, and yet its buildings – vernacular, colonial or contemporary – have
rarely engaged the interest of Western architects. David Adjaye, the first black
architect to establish a truly global reputation in his field, has found endless
sources of inspiration for his designs in the rich – and chequered – heritage of
Africa’s teeming metropolises. His life dream was to return to the continent as
an architect to document Africa’s built environment. Over a long decade, he
tirelessly documented these dynamic, colourful cities, photographing thousands
of buildings, sites and places, and letting each building speak for itself, in telling
contrast to a design world obsessed with photorealistic slickness. The result
was a stunning seven-volume work that has become an essential resource for
all those interested in the burgeoning continent. The new compact edition
will make the fruits of this once-in-a-generation record available to a much
wider audience.
This is one of the most original, ambitious and important architectural
publications of our time, now available to everyone wishing to gain an
understanding of a unique architectural heritage overlooked for too long.
David Adjaye • Edited by Peter Allison
‘An arresting visual introduction to cities across
the continent, a learned journey into the vibrant
beating heart of contemporary African life’
Ellah Wakatama Allfrey, Guardian
‘A unique record of a continent in which
compelling architecture is appearing in
extraordinary circumstances’
Edwin Heathcote, Financial Times
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ARCHITECTURE
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INTERIORS
Reannounced
New in paperback
The most up-to-date complete
illustrated account of the work of
one of the world’s most influential
architects, in his own words.
A survey of high-design contemporary
houses set in dramatic mountainous
locations that fuse style with comfort.
Renzo Piano is a worldrenowned architect, recipient
of the RIBA Gold Medal, the
AIA Gold Medal, and many
other prestigious awards.
Kenneth Frampton is a
distinguished architectural
critic and historian. He is the
author of many books,
including Le Corbusier and
Kengo Kuma, both published
by Thames & Hudson.
Dominic Bradbury is the
author of Mid-Century Modern
Complete, Waterside Modern,
Interior Design Close Up, New
Natural Home, The Iconic
Interior and Mediterranean
Modern, all published by
Thames & Hudson. Richard
Powers’s previous books
include New Paris Style, Living
Modern Tropical and The
Iconic House, all also published
by Thames & Hudson.
Over 1,000 illustrations
24.5 x 24.5 cm
432pp hardback
ISBN 978 0 500 343104
October
£45.00
450 illustrations
21.5 x 19.7 cm
256pp paperback
ISBN 978 0 500 292563
July
£16.95
Renzo Piano: The Complete Logbook
Mountain Modern
Renzo Piano • With a foreword by Kenneth Frampton
Contemporary Homes in High Places
Renzo Piano has created some of the most emblematic buildings of our age,
including the Shard in London, the New York Times Building in New York City,
the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and the Parco della Musica in Rome.
Here, Renzo Piano himself – whose many international awards include the
prestigious Pritzker Prize – presents in his own words the works on which he
has built his reputation over a span of fifty years.
Over 100 works are featured, accompanied by over 1,000 images of Piano’s
work around the world, including new photographs, drawings and sketches,
both intimate and authoritative, all with commentaries by the architect that
combine personal anecdote and technical description with original insights.
No other architect book will appeal to such a broad range of professionals
and general readers alike. This is an unmatched introduction to the work of one
of the world’s most influential and inspiring architects.
Dominic Bradbury • Photographs by Richard Powers
High up in the snow-covered alpine regions of the world, the whole idea
of mountain living is being refreshed and reinvented. As our cities become
more concentrated, there is an increasing desire to experience nature as
directly as possible, and architects are making use of new technologies and
materials to look again at the tried-and-true methods, with results that
range from cosy retreats to glamorous hilltop villas. This visual sourcebook
celebrates 25 such interiors in a range of mountain settings. Organized into
three sections – ‘Cabin’, ‘Chalet’ and ‘Villa’ – the houses feature indooroutdoor living, beautifully crafted materials and a mastery of natural light.
Richard Powers’s photographs reveal each house’s architecture, interior
design and surroundings, while plans provide an additional layer of
information. Dominic Bradbury tells the story behind each building’s
construction – how it was sited to make the most of its location, how design
innovations were introduced and how such solutions provide a comfortable
space from which families can enjoy the great outdoors.
From the Highlands of Scotland to the breathtaking summits of the
Alps and the majestic Rockies, Mountain Modern is a journey to the most
stunning homes around the world.
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INTERIORS
‘Indoor Green is the modern-day Bible
for plant lovers’ Domain
GARDENS
A richly illustrated volume
that illuminates Shakespeare’s
understanding of the natural world
and gardens as he knew them.
Bree Claffey is the owner of
Mr Kitly – an emporium of
carefully curated ceramics,
homeware and lush indoor
plants, frequented by stylists,
designers and creative types.
Bree regularly curates
houseplants for cafes and
shops, and holds monthly
exhibitions featuring work by
various artists and makers
from Australia and beyond.
Sir Roy Strong is an art
historian, museum curator,
writer, broadcaster and
landscape designer. He has
served as director of both
the National Portrait
Gallery and the Victoria
and Albert Museum in
London. Strong has written
many books on garden
history, including The
Renaissance Garden in
England, also published
by Thames & Hudson.
26.5 x 20.5 cm
208pp hardback
ISBN 978 0 500 500538
August
£19.95
126 illustrations
23.0 x 16.0 cm
112pp hardback
ISBN 978 0 500 252246
October
£14.95
Indoor Green
The Quest for Shakespeare’s Garden
Living with Plants
Roy Strong
Bree Claffey
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The Victorians suffered from ‘fern madness’; the 1970s were the age of the
macramé plant hanger; the Japanese believe that where there are plants, life
energy flows well. For centuries and across cultures, plants have transformed
interiors. Today houseplants are once again experiencing a revival.
Bree Claffey journeys through the worlds of her plant-loving friends to share
their joy-inducing, foliage-filled spaces. This is more than a gardening book:
this is an inspirational look at life with plants. From the ever-reliable Peace lily
and beguiling Fiddle leaf fig to the elusive Chinese money plant, houseplants
are showcased in all their weird and wonderful forms. More than good-looking
props, plants are living growing things rooted in community and creativity.
As this book celebrates, houseplants are not a passing trend – they are a way
of life.
Here’s flowers for you;
Hot lavender, mints, savoury, marjoram;
The marigold, that goes to bed wi’ the sun
And with him rises weeping: these are flowers
Of middle summer, and I think they are given
To men of middle age
The Winter’s Tale (4.4.122-7)
Shakespeare’s potent use of garden imagery has captivated successive
generations of readers and inspired the making of gardens across the globe.
Laced with quotations and abounding with illustrations drawn from sources
including Elizabethan gardening books, embroidered fabrics and hand-coloured
herbals, The Quest for Shakespeare’s Garden reveals the inspiring relationship
between Shakespeare and gardens while it tells the story of the Bard’s own
garden at New Place in Stratford-upon-Avon, the only home he ever purchased,
and where he died in 1616.
Sir Roy Strong’s lively account is supplemented by Francis Bacon’s 1625
essay ‘Of Gardens’ extolling the virtues of the ‘purest of human pleasures’.
Introduced by Strong, Bacon’s essay delights the senses and provides accessible
advice to gardeners from a 17th-century perspective.
Published in association with the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.
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GARDENS
The lives of 40 men and women
behind some of the world’s most
exciting and influential gardens.
Stephen Anderton is
perhaps best known as The
Times’s long-standing
writer on gardens and
gardening (for which he has
won three major awards
from the Garden Media
Guild). He worked for many
years on the care and
restoration of historic
gardens, latterly as
National Gardens Manager
for English Heritage. His
books include Discovering
Welsh Gardens and
Christopher Lloyd: His Life at
Great Dixter.
247 illustrations
24.6 x 18.6 cm
304pp hardback
ISBN 978 0 500 518564
October
£24.95
Lives of the Great Gardeners
Stephen Anderton
Also available
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9780 500 051818 £24.95
978 0 500 251799 £24.95
978 0 500 251690 £24.95
978 0 500 251393 £24.95
Throughout history great gardeners have risen from all walks of life. Some have
been aristocratic amateur gardeners, others professional designers with an
international practice. Some have come to garden-making from sister arts such
as sculpture or painting; others have been hands-on nurserymen or botanists.
What they all have in common is the ability to take an idea and develop it in
a new manner relevant to their times.
The book contains four sections. ‘Gardens of Ideas’ moves from the
politically allusive gardens of 18th-century England made by men such as
William Kent, to Charles Jencks’s Scottish garden inspired by 21st-century
cosmography. ‘Gardens of Straight Lines’ explores the lives of the great
formalist gardeners, from Le Nôtre at Versailles to the rational English
minimalism of contemporary designer Christopher Bradley-Hole. ‘Gardens
of Curves’ begins with that great exponent of the English landscape garden,
‘Capability’ Brown, and leads to the extraordinary Brazilian designer Roberto
Burle Marx. Finally, ‘Gardens of Plantsmanship’ moves from the father of
naturalistic planting, William Robinson, to the sweeping prairies of New
York’s favourite Dutch designer, Piet Oudolf.
With an outstanding text by the award-winning gardens writer Stephen
Anderton, this book will appeal to garden lovers everywhere.
FA SHION
A unique tribute to Alexander
McQueen’s stunning collections,
captured behind the scenes by US Vogue
photographer Robert Fairer, who opens
up his archives for the first time.
Robert Fairer was US Vogue’s
exclusive backstage photographer
for over a decade, working with
such outstanding figures as André
Leon Talley, Hamish Bowles and
Sarah Mower, and editor-in-chief
Anna Wintour. Claire Wilcox
is Senior Curator, Department
of Furniture, Textiles and Fashion
at the V&A, where she curated
the record-breaking ‘Alexander
McQueen: Savage Beauty’
exhibition in 2015. Sally Singer
is Creative Director of Vogue.com.
Alexander McQueen: Unseen
33.5 x 24.5 cm
352pp hardback
ISBN 978 0 500 519042
October
£48.00
Photographs by Robert Fairer • Introduction and texts by Claire Wilcox
Preface by Sally Singer
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Alexander McQueen has grasped the public’s imagination like few other fashion
designers before him, with exhibitions dedicated to his work continuing to
attract record visitor numbers. Almost 500,000 people visited the V&A’s 2015
‘Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty’ exhibition, making it the most popular
in the museum’s history.
Opening with a brief essay on the designer’s work, Alexander McQueen:
Unseen unfolds chronologically. Each collection is introduced by a concise
text by Claire Wilcox, one of the foremost experts on the McQueen’s work,
revisiting the designer’s most iconic creations across his entire career and
revealing previously unseen behind-the-scenes moments that capture models,
hairdressers, stylists, make-up artists and Alexander McQueen himself at their
most candid and creative.
Robert Fairer’s stunning and high-energy photographs, all previously
unpublished, capture the glamour, grit and spirit that made McQueen’s
flamboyant shows unique. A treasure-trove of inspiration, they make this
publication a must-have reference for fashion and photography lovers alike.
‘Robert’s images capture the raw energy and
powerful emotion in those moments leading
up to Lee’s incredible shows. The intensity
and focus, the stress and excitement are all
palpable. They trigger such vivid and fond
memories’ Sarah Burton, Creative Director
of Alexander McQueen
FA SHION
FA SHION
The first-time publication of
rediscovered drawings by Andy
Warhol, telling the story of a cheeky,
stylish snake and the glittering
constellation of celebrities that
surrounds him.
Wise words from the fashionable, from
Mae West to Lady Gaga, illustrated by
specially commissioned drawings by
Christian Lacroix – the perfect book
for fashion lovers!
Patrick Mauriès is author
of many notable titles on
fashion and design.
Jean-Christophe Napias
is an author, translator and
editor of books on dandies,
dance music and camp
culture. Christian Lacroix is
a world-renowned fashion
designer known for his
colourful and exuberant
drawing style.
50 illustrations
21.5 x 14.5 cm
160pp hardback
September
ISBN 978 0 500 518953
£12.95
Fashion Quotes
‘Jogging pants are a sign of defeat. You’ve
lost control of your life, so you go out in
jogging pants.’ Karl Lagerfeld
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‘Well, she wore far too much rouge last night
and not quite enough clothes. That is always
a sign of despair in a woman.’ Oscar Wilde
‘Good taste is death. Vulgarity is life.’
Mary Quant
Also available
978 0 500 517116 £18.95
978 0 500 517741 £12.95
Stylish Wit and Catwalk Wisdom
Patrick Mauriès and Jean-Christophe Napias
Illustrations by Christian Lacroix
The fashion world has long been celebrated for its scintillating salon wit. The
sharpest tongues and quickest repartee have always sprung from the lips of
fashion royalty. From Oscar Wilde to Miuccia Prada, fashion’s words of wisdom
have become our daily bread.
Fashion Quotes presents hundreds of the snappiest quotations from over
three centuries, from the society beaux of the 18th century and the literary
wits of the 19th century, to the celebrity elite of the 20th century and today’s
hippest twitterati. Christian Lacroix has gilded the pages with creative
inspiration, his illustrations perfectly expressing the colour and panache that
we expect of fashion’s finest. The collection is divided into quotations from
different spheres, including: Haute Couture, Shoes, Dogs, The Little Black Dress,
The Dandy, Eros & Erotica, Eccentricity, Snobbery, and Shopping and Spending.
Fashion Quotes is the must-have gift for every fashionista and aspiring wit,
or for anyone looking for the ultimate bon mots, cheeky pick-me-up, whipcrack wisdom or poisonous punchline.
Andy Warhol remains one
of the best-loved artists of
all time. Before he found
his huge fame, Warhol was
a successful fashion
illustrator and graphic
designer. One of his earliest
clients was the leather
goods company FlemingJoffe Ltd, owned by Teddy
and Arthur Edelman, who
in 1963 commissioned the
drawings for this book.
21.5 x 25.4 cm
48pp hardback
ISBN 978 0 500 519257
September
£14.95
The Autobiography of a Snake
Drawings by Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol • Afterword by Teddy and Arthur Edelman
This is the never-before-published story of a snake trying to make it in the
world of high society, strongly suggested to be a stand-in for Warhol himself.
The snake’s tongue-in-cheek observations as he slithers from adorning Jackie
Kennedy’s boots to embellishing Coco Chanel’s shirt will delight the
sophisticated fashion crowd. But the stars of the show are Warhol’s whimsical
illustrations, revivified with a colour scheme inspired by his iconic Pop Art.
Before he achieved his dream of making it big in New York, Andy Warhol
worked in advertising for a leather goods company, Fleming-Joffe, alongside
Ogden Nash and Piero Fornasetti. It was for Fleming-Joffe that he created these
images, held by the Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and rarely
seen until this publication. The Autobiography of a Snake is a brilliant portrait
of Warhol’s obsessions, his talent, and the world he would one day conquer.
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JEWELRY
JEWELRY
Compact edition
Surveys the dazzling jewelry collections
of some of the 20th century’s most
celebrated women, brilliantly evoking a
lost world of high society – now available
in a compact format and featuring two
more icons of style.
A luxe survey of exquisitely crafted
precious jewelry by the most
trendsetting designers from around
the globe.
Stefano Papi has worked as
senior European specialist in
the jewelry departments of
both Sotheby’s and Christie’s.
He is the author of The Jewels
of the Romanovs, also
Hudson. Alexandra Rhodes
was Senior Specialist for the
international jewelry division
of Sotheby’s in London.
475 illustrations
30.0 x 22.5 cm
320pp hardback
ISBN 978 0 500 519004
August
£28.00
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‘The combination of images of beautiful,
stylish women of a bygone, glamorous era
and sumptuous, close-up shots of the most
gorgeous, covetable jewelry, makes for a
heady mix’ The Jeweller
20th Century Jewelry and the Icons of Style
Fine Jewelry Couture
Stefano Papi and Alexandra Rhodes
Contemporary Heirlooms
For many centuries collecting precious jewels was the preserve of kings and
queens, emperors and maharajahs. But in the aftermath of the First World War,
with the fall of several European monarchies, royal gems passed into the hands
of a different kind of elite that included celebrities from the silver screen and
a coterie who revelled in a social whirl of the newly rich.
This book profiles thirteen of these rich and glamorous women, all of whom
built up astonishing jewelry collections in the early and mid-20th century. The
authors, both international jewelry experts, bring to life the worlds in which
these women moved, as well as describing the gems in detail and providing
a portrait of the work of the leading jewelers of the day. The book is illustrated
with close-up shots of the jewels as well as wonderful drawings of the original
designs, and includes portraits of the women by Beaton, Horst and other
leading photographers of the time.
Olivier Dupon
Olivier Dupon’s books
include The New Artisans,
The New Jewelers, The
New Pâtissiers, Floral
Contemporary, Encore! The
New Artisans and Shoe.
32.0 x 23.4 cm
256pp hardback
ISBN 978 0 500 518601
September
£39.95
Design expert Olivier Dupon uses his keen eye for talent and creative flair to
select over 35 master jewelry designers from across the globe. They represent
a wide variety of approaches, from Aida Bergsen’s flora and fauna-inspired
designs, including emerald-studded frogs and diamond-encrusted salamanders;
through Katherine Jetter’s bravura use of glowing opals and Autore’s works
displaying signature South Sea pearls; to Elie Top’s yellow gold spheres that
are a feat of mathematical precision and ingenuity.
Each designer is introduced with a biography that highlights their working
practices and key sources of inspiration. Illustrations include sketches as well
as images of their glorious ‘wearable art’, all of which is unique and much of
which is bespoke. Complete with an introduction, a glossary and notes of
designers’ websites (some work by appointment only), this is the perfect,
curated resource for both aficionados and professionals who want to keep
up to date with some of the most visionary practitioners working in the field
of fine jewelry today.
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MUSIC
The definitive volume on the essence,
experience and energy that is hip hop,
and its massive and enduring impact
over the last 40 years.
DJ Semtex hosts the UK’s top
hip-hop show on BBC Radio
1Xtra every Friday, and is
currently the Director of Artist
Development at Sony Music.
Founder of Public Enemy,
Chuck D is a hip-hop giant
and member of the Rock and
Roll Hall of Fame.
30.8 x 24.0 cm
448pp hardback
ISBN 978 0 500 518946
October
£40.00
Hip Hop Raised Me.®
DJ Semtex • Foreword by Chuck D
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Draws extensively from Semtex’s
catalogue of interviews with the biggest
names in hip hop, including:
Jay-Z
Kanye West
Eminem
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
Drake
Nicki Minaj
J. Cole
Kendrick Lamar
Nas
The Wu-Tang Clan
In 2008, with help from Jay-Z and Puff, Obama got the hip-hop vote, and
became the first African American to be elected president. For a brief moment
the ‘Audacity of Hope’ seemed attainable. Yet in 2014 the Ferguson riots brought
an abrupt end to that hope, making emerging hip-hop artists, such as J. Cole and
Kendrick Lamar, the voice of the voiceless.
Spliced between thematic text sections that feature seminal interviews
conducted with practically every name in hip hop are photographs, ephemera
and infographics that together tell the incredible 40-year visual story of the
scene that changed everything. Seminal photography of artists both on and
off stage, rare shots and previously unseen contact sheets by key hip-hop
photographers are displayed alongside the rarest ephemera and vinyl. Original
infographics show the continuing influence and impact of key hip-hop artists,
such as Jay-Z, track the ever-evolving fashions, and highlight the key events in
hip-hop history to complete the picture.
The definitive volume on the essence, experience and energy that is hip hop,
Hip Hop Raised Me.® traces the characteristics and influence of hip hop from its
origins in the early 1970s with DJ Kool Herc’s block parties in the South Bronx,
through its breakthrough to the mainstream and advent of gansta rap in the late
1980s, with artists such as Run D.M.C., Public Enemy and Ice-T, to the impact of
contemporary artists and the global industry that is hip hop today.
CU LT U R A L H IS TO RY
‘The greatest writer about the big
screen has now written a defining
book about the small screen’ Geoff Dyer
A comprehensive anthology of
vampires in literature, from Dracula to
Twilight – published to coincide with
the 200th anniversary of Frankenstein.
David Thomson is a frequent
contributor to The New York
Times, the Guardian and
more. He is the author
of The New Biographical
Dictionary of Film
and Moments that Made
the Movies, also published
by Thames & Hudson.
Sir Christopher Frayling is a
Fellow of Churchill College,
Cambridge, and was Rector
of the Royal College of Art,
London, from 1996 to 2009,
where he remains Professor
Emeritus of Cultural History.
His many public appointments
have included Chairman of Arts
Council England; Chairman
of the Design Council;
and the longest-serving
Trustee of the Victoria and Albert
Museum. He is the author
of many books, including
The Yellow Peril, Cinema: The
Whole Story and Sergio Leone, all
92 illustrations
24.9 x 17.8 cm
416pp hardback
ISBN 978 0 500 519165
October
£19.95
Television
A Biography
David Thomson
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‘A panoramic history of television that’s full
of thoughtfulness, gusto and intelligence.
It’s also extremely entertaining. At the
moment when screens are finally everywhere,
David Thomson is out to decide how we
salvage excellence from ubiquity’ David Hare
In Television, David Thomson – whom Michael Ondaatje has called ‘the best
writer on film in our time’ – turns his attention to the ubiquitous small screen
and delivers a history of its revolutionary transformation. In just a few years,
this immobile piece of living room furniture – in front of which viewers had
to sit at appointed times in order to watch a finite number of channels – has
morphed into a glowing cloud of screens that supply near-endless content as
and when we want it.
Thomson notes that ‘if you wanted to play everything that has been on
all the channels of American television all the hours of every day, that playing
would take 5,000 years, give or take a century or so. The stuff is growing at
a demented pace, as if the “wasteland”, which was once a lofty put-down
of television, is actually a rampant jungle.’ So instead of a strict chronology,
Thomson has built 21 thematically organized chapters in which he turns his
provocatively insightful and observant gaze to the television era.
Television surveys a Boschian landscape, illuminated by that singular glow
and peopled by everyone from Lucille Ball to Dennis Potter to Don Draper.
It is a rip-roaring, unexpected, and perhaps most of all, deeply thoughtprovoking history of the medium that has defined us.
c. 62 illustrations
23.4 x 15.3 cm
464pp hardback
ISBN 978 0 500 252215
August
£18.95
‘A very Baedeker of vampirism’
Vampyres
Genesis and Resurrection from Count Dracula to Vampirella
Christopher Frayling
Observer
‘An admirable selection of 19th-century
vampire stories in an anthology that shows
how blood-soaked and fertile was the soil
from which Bram Stoker’s marvellous
Dracula sprang in 1897’ Independent
‘A capacious book dripping with suspense
and replete with horror’ Financial Times
‘A thorough scholarly survey of the vampiric
literature of the 19th-century Gothic
Revival … enthralling’ Evening Standard
Christopher Frayling has spent 45 years exploring the history of one of the
most enduring figures in the history of mass culture – the vampire. Vampyres
is a comprehensive illustrated history and anthology of vampires in literature,
from the folklore of Eastern Europe to the Romantics and beyond. Frayling
recounts the most significant moments in Gothic history, while extracts from
a huge range of sources – including Bram Stoker’s detailed research notes for
Dracula, penny-dreadfuls and Angela Carter’s The Lady of the House of Love,
new to this edition – are contextualized and analysed.
This revised and expanded edition brings Vampyres up to date with
21st-century vampire literature, including new text extracts, commentary and
a revised introduction. For the first time, Christopher Frayling also explores the
development of the vampire in the visual arts in four colour-plate sections,
with illustrations ranging from 17th-century prints to 21st-century film stills,
demonstrating the enduring appeal of the vampire from popular press to fine
art and, finally, to film.
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Part social history and part design
catalogue, this innovative book
delves into the sinister history
of 19th-century wallpaper.
Building upon his much-praised
BBC Radio 4 series ‘21st Century
Mythologies’, Peter Conrad examines
the enduring place of myth in
contemporary culture and society.
Lucinda Hawksley is the author
of three biographies of Victorian
artists: Lizzie Siddal, Kate Perugini
(née Dickens) and Princess Louise.
She also writes about art history,
social history, literature and the
life and works of her great-greatgreat-grandfather Charles Dickens.
Peter Conrad is a respected
academic and author. He has
written more than 20 books,
including How the World Was
Won: The Americanization of
Everywhere; Creation: Artists,
Gods & Origins; At Home in
Australia; and Modern Times,
Modern Places: Life and Art
in the Twentieth Century,
all published by
Thames & Hudson.
25.0 x 19.5 cm
256pp hardback
ISBN 978 0 500 518380
October
£28.00
23.4 x 15.3 cm
248pp hardback
ISBN 978 0 500 292587
September
£18.95
‘As to the arsenic scare a greater folly it is
hardly possible to imagine: the doctors were
bitten as people were bitten by the witch
fever’ William Morris, writing to his friend
Thomas Wardle in 1885 on the subject
of toxic wallpapers
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Bitten by Witch Fever
Wallpaper & Arsenic in the Victorian Home
By the same author
Mythomania
Tales of Our Times, From Apple to Isis
Lucinda Hawksley
Peter Conrad
Beautiful to leaf through and compelling to read, Bitten by Witch Fever
is a highly original and captivating volume that interleaves facsimile
sections of alluring, arsenic-laden wallpapers, all laboratory-tested for
the first time, with thought-provoking narrative, tracing the arresting
story of the manufacture, uses and effects of arsenic in the 19th-century
home, in particular, the pigments ingrained in popular wallpapers.
Lucinda Hawksley reveals how pigments, such as Scheele’s green and
Schweinfurt green, were created using arsenic to produce vibrant and
durable dyes, which became instant favourites with wallpaper designers and
householders alike. Drawing on contemporary case studies and reports in
the press, she highlights how, by the middle of the century, manufacturers
were producing millions of rolls of arsenical wallpaper, with devastating
consequences for those working in their factories and for those living in
rooms decorated with the deadly designs. The wallpaper sections display
dazzling long-lost work from the great designers and printers of the age,
including Christopher Dresser, Corbière, Son & Brindle, Charles Knowles &
Co. and Morris & Co. – whose owner was famously dismissive of the fatal
effects of living within arsenic-laden walls.
Despite our culture’s proclaimed respect for scientific reason, we are no less
bedazzled and bedevilled by myth than our remote ancestors. Roland Barthes
first examined the mythical resonances of consumer products in the 1950s.
Far from being demystified, consumerism has since morphed into a universal
religion, its compulsory ritual of shopping essential to our economic survival.
Myth has also invaded the political realm, as terrorists brandish black flags
and recite theological mantras as they martyr themselves.
Peter Conrad’s exhilarating book exposes the absurdity and occasional
insanity of our godforsaken, demon-haunted contemporary culture. Conrad
casts his brilliant beam upon subjects from the Queen to the Kardashians,
via Banksy, Nando’s, vaping, the vogue of the cronut, the mushroom-like rise
of Dubai, the launch of the Large Hadron Collider, the growth of the Pacific
garbage patch... In Judge Judy, he shows us a matronly Roman goddess
dispensing justice with a fly swatter. In the metamorphosis of Caitlyn Jenner
from Olympic athlete and paterfamilias into idealized female form, he sees
parallels to the deeds of the residents of Mount Olympus themselves. Finally,
after surveying advances in biomedical engineering and artificial intelligence,
he asks whether we might be on the brink of a post-human world.
978 0 500 290859 £18.95
978 0 500 252086 £19.95
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New in paperback
A major contribution to cultural
history that garnered widespread
and enthusiastic reviews on
publication in hardback, now
available in paperback.
A unique introduction to 1,000 years
of Islamic history, featuring the
individuals – caliphs, sultans, scholars,
mystics, writers and travellers – who
shaped the course and reflect the
diversity of Islamic civilization.
Andrew Scull is
Distinguished Professor
of Sociology and Science
Studies, University of
California, San Diego. He
is the author of many books,
including Masters of Bedlam;
Madhouse: A Tragic Tale of
Megalomania and Modern
Medicine; and Madness:
A Very Short Introduction.
Chase F. Robinson was Lecturer
and Professor of Islamic History
in the Faculty of Oriental Studies
and Fellow of Wolfson College,
Oxford, from 1993 until 2008,
when he was appointed
Distinguished Professor of History
and Provost of the Graduate
Center of the City of University of
New York, where he now serves
as President. His books include,
Empire and Elites after the Muslim
Conquest; Islamic Historiography;
and The New Cambridge History
of Islam, Vol. 1.
72 illustrations
23.4 x 15.6 cm
272pp hardback
ISBN 978 0 500 110300
October
£24.95
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128 illustrations
23.4 x 15.6 cm
448pp paperback
ISBN 978 0 500 292549
September
£19.95
Islamic Civilization in Thirty Lives
Madness in Civilization
The First 1,000 Years
A Cultural History of Insanity
Chase F. Robinson
Religious thinkers, political leaders, law-makers, writers and philosophers have
shaped the 1,400-year-long development of the world’s second-largest religion.
But who were these people? What do we know of their lives, and the ways in
which they influenced their societies? In this book, Chase F. Robinson weaves
these ambitious lives together to create a rich narrative of Islamic civilization,
from the Prophet Muhammad in the seventh century to the era of the worldconqueror Timur and the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II in the 15th.
Beginning in Islam’s heartland, Mecca, and ranging from North Africa and
Iberia in the west to Central and East Asia, Robinson not only traces the rise
and fall of Islamic states through the biographies of political and military
leaders, but also discusses those who developed Islamic law, scientific thought
and literature. What emerges is a fascinating portrait of rich and diverse Islamic
societies. Alongside the famous characters who coloured this landscape are
less well-known figures, such as Ibn Fadlan, whose travels in Eurasia brought
fascinating first-hand accounts of the Volga Vikings to the Abbasid Caliph,
the eleventh-century Karima al-Marwaziyya, a woman scholar of Prophetic
traditions, and Abu al-Qasim Ramisht, a 12th-century merchant millionaire.
An illuminating read for anyone interested in learning more about this often
misunderstood civilization, this book creates a vivid picture of life in all arenas
of the pre-modern Islamic world.
‘A brilliant cultural history … Scull’s book
fills a gap in the literature and deserves to
be widely read … outstanding’ The Times
‘Perhaps the most comprehensive account
of the history of psychiatry that has yet
appeared in a single volume’
Times Literary Supplement
‘A milestone text … No other monograph has
accomplished such scope, perception and
balance in covering madness’s haunting,
shifting presence in civilization’s psyche’
BBC History Magazine
Andrew Scull
‘Powerful and disturbing … a panoramic survey’ Sunday Times
‘Learned, liberally humanitarian and wryly witty’ Spectator
One of the most reviewed non-fiction books of 2015, this ambitious
volume, worldwide in scope and ranging from antiquity to the present,
examines the human encounter with Unreason in all its manifestations,
the challenges it poses to society and our responses to it. In twelve
chapters organized chronologically from the Bible to Freud and beyond,
from exorcism to mesmerism, from Bedlam to Victorian asylums, from
the theory of humours to modern pharmacology, Andrew Scull writes
compellingly about madness, its meanings, its consequences and our
attempts to understand and treat it.
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New in paperback
A portrait of world civilization told
through the fascinating stories of the
world’s greatest cities, new in paperback.
A compelling illustrated exploration
of the evolution of the asylum
and attitudes to the insane from
the 17th century to the present day.
John Julius Norwich is
the author of magisterial
histories of Norman Sicily,
the Republic of Venice
and of the Byzantine
Empire. He has also
presented some thirty
historical documentaries
for BBC television.
Mike Jay has written widely
on the history of science,
medicine and the mind,
and has co-curated the
exhibition that
accompanies this book.
He is the author of several
books, including High
Society: Mind-Altering
Drugs in History and
Culture, also published
by Thames & Hudson.
51 illustrations
19.8 x 12.9 cm
372pp paperback
ISBN 978 0 500 292518
July
£9.99
28.0 x 18.0 cm
256pp hardback
ISBN 978 0 500 518977
September
£24.95
Edited by John Julius Norwich
From the origins of urbanization in Mesopotamia to the global metropolises
off today, great cities have marked the development of human civilization.
The Great Cities in History tells their stories, from Uruk and Memphis to Tokyo
and São Paulo. A galaxy of distinguished contributors evoke the character of
each place – its people, its art and architecture, its government – and explain
the reasons for its success. Richly illustrated with photographs, paintings, maps
and plans, this book is nothing less than a portrait of world civilization.
‘An extravaganza … a terrific line-up of writers, and some superb
illustrations’ Times Literary Supplement
‘One couldn’t really ask for better people to open windows of insight
on this fascinating and urgent topic’ Condé Nast Traveller
‘The history of cities is a history of civilization and such histories do
not usually come so clear, so concise, so accessible and so entertaining
as this’ The Art Book
New in paperback
This Way Madness Lies
The Asylum and Beyond
Mike Jay
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The Great Cities in History
Is mental illness – or madness – at root an illness of the body, a disease of the
mind or a sickness of the soul? This Way Madness Lies is a thought-provoking
exploration of the history of madness and its treatment as seen through
the lens of its proverbial home: the Royal Bethlem Hospital, London, popularly
known as Bedlam. Organized chronologically, the book explores the meaning
of mental illness through the successive incarnations of the institution that
defined it: the 18th-century madhouse, the 19th-century asylum and the
20th-century mental hospital.
Moving and sometimes provocative illustrations sourced from the Wellcome
Trust’s exceptional collection and the Royal Bethlem Hospital’s archive
highlight the trajectory of each era of institution: founded in the optimistic
spirit of humanitarian reform but eventually dismantled amid accusations of
cruelty and neglect. Each chapter concludes with a selection of revealing and
captivating artwork created by asylum patients and other artists responding to
the asylum. Compelling and intriguing, these artworks express the personalities
and attitudes of the originators far more powerfully than descriptions of their
conditions by doctors.
Accompanies the exhibition at the Wellcome Collection, London,
from 15 September 2016 to 15 January 2017.
A fast-moving account of the rise and fall
of Roman Britain, told through the lives
of governors and generals, emperors
and rebels, now available in paperback.
Sam Moorhead, voted
‘Archaeologist of the Year
2011’ by readers of Current
Archaeology, is the National
Finds Adviser for Iron Age
and Roman Coins in the
Department of Portable
Antiquities and Treasure
David Stuttard is the founder
of theatre company ‘Actors
of Dionysus’, and is the
author of several books on
the Classical world, including
A History of Ancient Greece
in Fifty Lives, also published
by Thames & Hudson.
73 illustrations
19.8 x 13.0 cm
288pp paperback
ISBN 978 0 500 292600
July
£9.99
The Romans Who Shaped Britain
Sam Moorhead and David Stuttard
Roman Britain was created not by impersonal historical forces, but by men
and women, each driven by ambition, aspiration and passion. The Romans
Who Shaped Britain explores the narrative of Britannia through the lives
of its emperors, commanders, governors, officials and rebels. This rich cast
of characters includes some, such as Caesar, Agricola and Boudica, who may
be familiar; and others, such as Carausius, Magnentius or Valentinus, who
deserve to be more so. Their lives and actions are set against the backdrop
of an evolving landscape, in which Iron Age shrines were being replaced by
marble temples, industrial-scale factories and granaries were springing up
across the countryside and a triumphal arch towered into the Kent sky to
mark Rome’s domination.
Fast-moving, vivid and compelling, The Romans Who Shaped Britain,
by setting out the story as a single narrative, above all reminds us of the
truly epic nature of the history of Britannia.
‘A lively story … offers a wonderful gallery of later characters’
Mary Beard,
Sunday Times
‘An engaging, thought-provoking and often entertaining read … very
compelling … a must for those who are bored by (or feel they know
everything about) our Roman heritage’ BBC History Magazine
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HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY
An ambitious yet accessible account
of Britain’s Neolithic Revolution that
examines how the early agricultural
settlers on our island shaped their
landscape – and thus our own.
The first-ever translation of this
important ancient Egyptian Book
of the Dead, fully illustrated and
explained by a leading Egyptologist.
Paul F. O’Rourke is Research
Associate in the Department
of Egyptian, Classical, and
Ancient Near Eastern Art at
the Brooklyn Museum.
David Miles is former
Director of Oxford
Archaeology and Chief
Archaeologist at English
Heritage.
61 illustrations
24.6 x 18.6 cm
216pp hardback
ISBN 978 0 500 051887
September
£24.95
76 illustrations
23.4 x 15.3 cm
432pp hardback
ISBN 978 0 500 051863
August
£19.95
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‘David Miles’s wide-ranging story of how
agriculture reached Britain and what
happened afterwards is based on his lifetime
of archaeological inquiry and what he rightly
calls a “tsunami” of new research. The Tale
of the Axe is a beautifully written narrative
[and] a powerful testimony to the value of
archaeology in today’s world’ Brian Fagan,
Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, University
of California, Santa Barbara
The Tale of the Axe
An Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead
How the Neolithic Revolution Transformed Britain
The Papyrus of Sobekmose
David Miles
Translation, Introduction, and Commentary by Paul F. O’Rourke
We, modern humans, are one of the youngest species on the planet. For our
first hundred millennia we survived as hunters and foragers, moving about the
land, following seasonal resources. It was only some ten thousand years ago
that we domesticated plants and animals, thereby transforming our
settlements, social relationships, diet and beliefs.
Focusing on the British Isles, David Miles explores this period of societal
change – the Neolithic, or ‘New Stone Age’ – using the most iconic artifact of
its time, the polished stone axe, as a guide to the revolution that changed the
world. Mixing anecdote, ethnography and archaeological analysis, Miles vividly
demonstrates how the archaeology on the ground reveals to us the evolving
worldview of a species increasingly altering their own landscape; settling down
together, investing in agricultural plots, and collectively erecting massive
ceremonial monuments to cement new communal identities.
As a direct result of the invention, and intensification, of agriculture, the
planet has entered the Anthropocene, or the ‘age of humanity’: an era in which
we are changing the world around us in significant, accelerating and often
unpredictable ways. Our ancestors set us on the path to the modern world
we live in; now seven billion humans must face the challenges that presents.
The Book of the Dead of Sobekmose, in the collection of the Brooklyn
Museum, New York, is one of the most important surviving examples of the
ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead genre. Such ‘books’ – papyrus scrolls –
were composed of traditional funerary texts, including magic spells, that
were thought to assist dead persons on their journey into the afterlife.
The ancient Egyptians believed in an underworld fraught with dangers that
needed to be carefully navigated: lakes of fire to pass by, animal-headed
demons to pass and, of course, the ritual Weighing of the Heart, whose
outcome determined whether or not the deceased would be ‘born again’
into the afterlife for eternity.
This publication is the first to offer a continuous English translation of
a single, extensive, major text that can speak to us from beginning to end in
the order in which it was composed. The papyrus itself is one of the longest
of its kind to come down to us from the New Kingdom. This new translation
not only represents a great step forward in the study of these texts, but also
grants modern readers a direct encounter with what can seem a remote and
alien civilization. With language that is unquestionably evocative and very
beautiful, it offers a look into the mindset of the ancient Egyptians,
highlighting their beliefs and anxieties about this world as well as the next.
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A landmark publication – the
definitive account of the greatest
archaeological monument in the world
by the leading authorities on the site,
making it the ultimate book on Giza
and its pyramids.
Mark Lehner has been
conducting fieldwork at Giza
since the mid-1970s. He is
president of Ancient Egypt
Research Associates (AERA), and
author of the award-winning The
Complete Pyramids, published by
Thames & Hudson. Zahi Hawass
has been involved with the
archaeology of the Giza Plateau
since 1974. He has also been
both Secretary General of the
Supreme Council of Antiquities
(SCA) and Minister for Antiquities
in Egypt. He has written
numerous books, including King
Tutankhamun and The Lost Tombs
of Thebes, and his memoirs,
Secrets from the Sand, all
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450 illustrations
28.0 x 23.0 cm
560pp hardback
ISBN 978 0 500 051894
October
£75.00
Giza and the Pyramids
Mark Lehner and Zahi Hawass
For more than 4,000 years the pyramids of Giza have stood like giant question
marks that have intrigued and endlessly fascinated people. Who exactly built
them? When? Why? And how did they create these colossal structures? But
the pyramids are not a complete mystery – the stones, the hieroglyphs, the
landscape and even the layers of sand and debris hold stories for us to read.
Mark Lehner and Zahi Hawass, with over four decades of involvement with
Giza, provide their unique and personal insight into the site, bringing together
all the information to create a record unparalleled in its detail and scope.
We may think of the pyramids as rising from the desert, isolated and
enigmatic, yet they were surrounded by temples, tombs, vast cemeteries and
even teeming towns of the living. All are described in detail here and brought
back to life, with hundreds of illustrations including detailed photographs of
the monuments, excavations and objects, as well as plans, reconstructions
and the latest images from remote-controlled cameras and laser scans.
Through the ages, Giza and the pyramids have inspired the most
extraordinary speculations and wild theories, but here, finally, in this prestigious
publication, is the full story as told by the evidence on the ground, by the
leading authorities on the site.
N AT U R A L H IS TO RY
A celebration of exploration told
through the finest visual journals
of some 70 explorers from the 16th
century to the present day.
Huw Lewis-Jones travels in
the Arctic and Antarctica each
year as a polar guide. He was
formerly Curator at the Scott
Polar Research Institute,
Cambridge, and the National
Maritime Museum, London.
His books include The
Conquest of Everest, which
won the History Award at the
Banff Mountain Festival, The
Crossing of Antarctica and
Across the Arctic Ocean. Kari
Herbert’s first book, The
Explorer’s Daughter, was Book
of the Week on BBC Radio 4;
her latest books include In
Search of the South Pole and
Heart of the Hero.
19.5 x 27.0 cm
320pp hardback
ISBN 978 0 500 252192
September
£29.95
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‘Huw Lewis-Jones and Kari Herbert have
made a rich realm in which to wander, an
archive into which to dive, a wunderkammer
of wunderkammers – beautifully collected
and curated, and magnificently produced’
Robert Macfarlane
Explorers’ Sketchbooks
The Art of Discovery & Adventure
Huw Lewis-Jones and Kari Herbert • Foreword by Robert Macfarlane
Despite dramatic advances in technology and equipment over the centuries,
there is one vital piece of kit in most explorers’ pockets that hasn’t changed
much at all – the journal. The sketchbooks and journals presented here allow
us the opportunity to share, through their own eyes and thoughts, the
on-the-spot reactions of around 70 intrepid individuals as they journeyed
into frozen wastes, high mountains, barren deserts and rich rainforests. Some
are well known, such as Captain Scott, Charles Darwin, Thor Heyerdahl and
Abel Tasman; others are unfamiliar, including Adela Breton, who braved the
jungles of Mexico to make an unparalleled record of Maya monuments, and
Alexandrine Tinne, who died in her attempt to be the first woman to cross the
Sahara. Here are pioneering explorers and map-makers, botanists and artists,
ecologists and anthropologists, eccentrics and visionaries, men and women.
A handful of living explorers, including Wade Davis, provide their thoughts
on the art of exploration.
Often battered and neglected, stored away and perhaps long forgotten,
many of these sketchbooks have themselves awaited rediscovery. Now is the
chance to open them again…
A fascinating compendium
showcasing the wonders of the
birds that share our world through
exquisite ornithological illustrations,
prints and drawings.
Mark Avery worked for the Royal
Society for the Protection of
Birds for 25 years and was its
Conservation Director for nearly
13 years. His other books include
Fighting for Birds: 25 Years in
Nature Conservation, A Message
from Martha: The Extinction of
the Passenger Pigeon and Its
Relevance Today and Inglorious:
Conflict in the Uplands.
225 illustrations
24.6 x 18.6 cm
240pp hardback
ISBN 978 0 500 518533
September
£24.95
Remarkable Birds
Mark Avery
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Also available
978 0 500 517420 £24.95
We share the Earth with more than 10,000 species of birds and we have always
been enchanted by them. Here, over 60 birds – organized thematically into
eight sections – cover all aspects of our relationship with them. ‘Songbirds’
celebrates the greatest bird virtuosi, such as the Nightingale, while ‘Birds of
Prey’ include majestic hunters such as the Harpy Eagle, which catches prey
as large as monkeys and sloths. ‘Feathered Travellers’ describes astounding
journeys made by birds – even some tiny Hummingbirds migrate huge
distances. ‘The Love Life of Birds’ can rival any soap opera and involves the
most brilliant displays. ‘Avian Cities’ explores species such as the Flamingo that
live in spectacular large colonies. ‘Useful to Us’ examines the ways we find
birds of value, such as the Turkey, but also the Canary. ‘Threatened & Extinct’
describes some no longer living and others that seem on the brink. Birds have
also had great mystical significance, both for good and evil, and ‘Revered &
Adored’ considers such species as the Sacred Ibis, believed by the ancient
Egyptians to represent the god Thoth.
For anyone interested in the natural world and the wonderful variety of
birds around us, this beautifully illustrated book is a visual treat that will inspire,
inform and delight.
A new, compact edition of
a publication that challenges
the traditional narrative of
the history of photography.
SU
C IBEJ N
E C TE
An introductory guide to 100 of the
most extraordinary theories and
experiments in the history of science.
Robert Cave has been a writer
and editor for many years.
He is author of more than 30
books for adults and children,
including the encyclopedia sets
International Wildlife, Life
Science and Aquatic Life of the
World, and is a contributor
to the annual Guinness World
Records book.
Sean Sexton is an Irish-born
photographic collector and
author of The Irish: A
Photohistory. Robert Flynn
Johnson is Curator Emeritus
of the Achenbach Foundation
for Graphic Arts, Fine Arts
Museums of San Francisco.
Alice Waters is the author of
a bestselling series of books
based on the recipes of her
restaurant, Chez Panisse in
Berkeley, California.
100 illustrations
19.7 x 14.0 cm
224pp flexibound
ISBN 978 0 500 292006
August
£9.99
117 illustrations
23.0 x 16.4 cm
128pp hardback
ISBN 978 0 500 544631
August
£14.95
Why It’s Not All Rocket Science
The Plant Kingdoms of Charles Jones
Sean Sexton and Robert Flynn Johnson
Preface by Alice Waters
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‘Magnificent’
Time Out
‘Detailed still-lifes of fruits, vegetables and
flower heads, taken with admirable clarity
and good composition’ The Art Newspaper
‘A cornucopia of hundreds of ravishing
photographs of fruits, flowers and mundane
vegetables, magically transformed into art’
New York Times
First published in 1998 and now available for the first time in a compact,
accessible format, The Plant Kingdoms of Charles Jones is an exquisite visual
feast for anyone who draws delight from the bountiful riches of nature.
It presents more than 100 photographs of vegetables, fruits and flowers,
all taken by the same photographer at around the turn of the 20th century,
and all set against neutral, dark or light backgrounds in the style of formal
studio ‘portraits’. The images have a wider significance in the history of
photography and of the still-life genre in general, as explained in the book’s
introduction by Robert Flynn Johnson.
For a contemporary audience, the photographs’ simple and
unembellished beauty is the perfect antidote to appetites jaded by
processed foods and 21st-century artifice. They communicate and inspire
a loving respect for the beauty in nature.
Scientific Theories and Experiments Explained
Other titles in the series
Robert Cave
ISBN 978 0 500 290477
ISBN 978 0 500 290958
ISBN 978 0 500 291498
ISBN 978 0 500 291788
In Why It’s Not All Rocket Science, Robert Cave examines 100 extraordinary
projects, theories and experiments that have been conducted in the name of
science. Some, including various nuclear tests, have attracted controversy and
hostility; others, such as Johann Wilhelm Ritter’s erotic self-experiments with
a voltaic pile, seem downright weird. But Cave demonstrates, thoroughly and
informatively, that it is only by doggedly asking awkward questions, and paying
close attention to the answers, that scientists have been able to make progress.
From spider monkeys to human cyborgs, and from swimming in syrup
to chaos theory, Cave places each experiment and discovery in its scientific
context to present an entertaining guide to some of the most jaw-dropping
entries in the history of science. Why It’s Not All Rocket Science contains
chapters on psychology, the body, society, planet Earth and the universe, and
to read it is to gain startling insights into why scientists seem to behave so
oddly, and how their brilliant if sometimes bizarre work benefits all of society.
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SCIENCE
Breathtaking views of high peaks as
they’ve never been seen before, using
cutting-edge satellite technology.
DLR is Germany’s national
aeronautics and space
research centre. Stefan
Dech is director of the
Earth Observation Center.
Reinhold Messner is one
of the world’s most
distinguished mountaineers.
Nils Sparwasser is Head of
the Department of Science
Communication and
Visualization at the Earth
Observation Center.
198 illustrations
31.5 x 26.5 cm
240pp hardback
ISBN 978 0 500 518892
September
£39.95
Unseen Extremes
Mapping the World’s Greatest Mountains
Edited by the German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Stefan Dech, Reinhold Messner and Nils Sparwasser
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Features:
Kailash
Mont Blanc
Matterhorn
Ushba
Denali
Aconcagua
Nanda Devi
Mount Everest
K2
Dhaulagiri
Nanga Parbat
Annapurna
Masherbrum
Mountains have long been viewed as places of beauty and faith, challenge and
discovery. Now this unique book presents the earth’s extremes in an entirely
new way. Using high-resolution satellite data, scientists from the German
Aerospace Center (DLR) have created a series of incredibly accurate digital 3D
maps of mountain landscapes. These digital terrain models have in turn been
used to generate amazing photorealistic images, creating virtual landscapes seen
from previously impossible viewpoints in an unprecedented degree of detail.
Unseen Extremes features 13 of the world’s greatest mountains, chosen not
only for their magnificence but because they also offer a condensed history
of mountaineering, packed with tales of historic ascents and new routes, tragic
failures and memorable moments. The milestones of mountain exploration
are presented alongside maps, infographics and profiles that bring the traits
of each mountain to life, while location photographs and first-hand accounts
by climbers past and present complete the dazzling picture.
Science, technology, history and geography are brought together with
an unassailable passion for adventure, opening up a whole new perspective
on the planet’s most captivating extremes.
SPORTS
A landscape and photography book
of Europe’s most majestic mountains
and historic cycling climbs for the
growing audience of enthusiasts and
participants around the world.
Michael Blann is a former
professional cyclist turned
photographer who works
for the world’s leading
creative agencies.
c. 190 photographs
25.5 x 30.5 cm
224pp hardback
ISBN 978 0 500 518915
September
£34.95
Mountains
Epic Cycling Climbs
Michael Blann
With contributions by:
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Lizzie Armitstead
Romain Bardet
Ivan Basso
Bernie Eisel
Maurizio Fondriest
Andy Hampsten
Tao Geoghegan Hart
Sean Kelly
Greg LeMond
Robert Millar
Allan Peiper
Stephen Roche
Shane Sutton
Geraint Thomas
The mountains of Europe have many different meanings to many different
people. For the locals they are a way of life; for visitors they represent
breathtaking beauty, active holidays and peaceful moments. For cyclists,
however, the dramatic landscapes mean something quite different: suffering,
pain, agony – and glory. From the Ardennes to the Alps, for over a century the
mountains have provided the setting for the greatest cycling contests, where
human determination and willpower can triumph over nature and opposition.
In recent years, the mountains of Europe have become the primary
destination for urban riders who want to challenge themselves, experience
the storied roads and escape their everyday lives. This publication is aimed
at all who wish to be inspired by those challenges or celebrate those personal
victories. A reference section includes locator maps and climb profiles. With
personal recollections from leading road-racing cyclists, photographs and
words coalesce into a visual depiction that transcends any single perspective
and will evoke awe and wonder in anyone who wishes to confront the power
of the mountains.
LANGUAGES
LANGUAGES
®
A workbook to practise writing
Chinese characters based on the
bestselling Chineasy method.
ShaoLan is the creator of Chineasy.
She is an entrepreneur, writer,
traveller and dreamer. Her aim
is to allow the east and west
to communicate freely. Noma Bar
is an illustrator whose work has
appeared in many media outlets,
including Time Out London,
the BBC, the Observer, The
Economist and Wallpaper*.
c. 50 illustrations
24.5 x 18.4 cm
120pp paperback
ISBN 978 0 500 420607
September
£9.95
100
Other products in the Chineasy range
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5
2
1
Chineasy Workbook
6
ShaoLan • With illustrations by Noma Bar
• Practise writing over 100 of the most commonly occurring Chinese
characters and phrases, covering the essential building blocks on
which the language is based.
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4
• Guides show the correct stroke order for each character and grids
help you space elements correctly.
• Perfect for both beginner students and intermediate learners who
need to improve their writing.
ShaoLan Hsueh developed the Chineasy method as a fun and easy way
of teaching her children Chinese. Building on characters published in
the internationally bestselling books Chineasy and Chineasy Everyday,
this workbook is the perfect practical companion to entering the rich
world of Chinese.
1 100 Postcards
100 postcards
13.5 x 9.7cm
ISBN 978 0 500 952030
£14.95 inc VAT
£12.46 exc VAT
4 Memory Game
60 cards
6.6 x 6.0cm
ISBN 978 0 500 420126
£14.95 inc VAT
£12.46 exc VAT
2 Notebooks
3 Notebooks, each 48pp
21.0 x 14.8cm
ISBN 978 0 500 420133
£7.95 inc VAT
£6.62 exc VAT
5 Chineasy: The New Way
to Read Chinese
24.0 x 18.0cm
192pp flexibound
ISBN 978 0 500 650288
£14.95
3 Chineasy Everyday: The World
of Chinese Characters
24.0 x 18.0cm
256pp flexibound
ISBN 978 0 500 292266
£19.95
6 60 Flashcards
60 flashcards + 1 instruction card
13.5 x 9.7cm
ISBN 978 0 500 952047
£12.95 inc VAT
£10.79 exc VAT
MYTHOLOGY
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MYTHOLOGY
A spellbinding history of esoteric
knowledge, from Stone Age shamans to
Mesopotamian astrology to Freemasonry
and magic in the modern world, by the
author of the bestselling Monsters.
A dark yet engrossing visual history
of fearsome beasts from every age
and culture in art, mythology and
legend – now available in a compact
paperback edition.
Christopher Dell has
written and edited many
bestselling titles on art and
visual culture, including
Monsters (opposite),
Freemasonry, Mythology
and What Makes a
Masterpiece?, all published
by Thames & Hudson.
161 illustrations
17.0 x 12.0 cm
216pp hardback
ISBN 978 0 500 292556
August
£9.95
400 illustrations
25.4 x 20.3 cm
400pp hardback
ISBN 978 0 500 518885
September
£24.95
By the same author
The Occult, Witchcraft & Magic
A Bestiary of the Bizarre
Christopher Dell
Christopher Dell
Our belief in some form of magic runs throughout human history. In fact,
in an increasingly rational and scientific world, the idea that occult or arcane
knowledge can give us access to another, hidden reality is as strong and
widespread as ever.
The Occult, Witchcraft and Magic is a lively and fascinating history of all
things cryptic, mystic and other-worldly, beginning with the earliest evidence
of magical thinking amid the gloom of a Palaeolithic cave, and ending in the
bright light of our digital age and its newfound interest in paganism. With
hundreds of images drawn from rare and unusual sources, in-depth explorations
of crosscultural themes and profiles of key figures from the history of magic,
this is a bewitching and irresistible treasury of esoteric thought that will appeal
to believers and sceptics alike.
Topics include:
ISBN 978 0 500 291511 £18.95
Monsters
An Illustrated History
Alchemy
Astrology
Chaos magic
Divination
Folk Magic
Grimoires
Kabbalah
Love Magic
Necromancy
Phantasmagoria
Runes
Shamanism
Talismans
Tarot
Voodoo
Wicca
… and more
‘A mis-matched zoo of mind-boggling
creations from minotaurs through golems
to mermaids, from sphinxes to sirens and
shapeshifting nightmares … takes us to the
edge of the cultural map’ The Times
‘A colourful and hideous collection of arty
monsters of all kinds … this nightmarish
bestiary is sure to stir the bloodthirsty
imaginations of nice boys and girls
everywhere’ V&A Magazine
Monsters have preoccupied mankind from the earliest times: even cave art
includes animal–human monsters. Certainly monsters were present in the
ancient religions of Egypt and Mesopotamia; the Old Testament describes
the giant land and sea monsters Behemoth and Leviathan, while in the world
of Classical mythology, monsters embody the fantasies of the gods and the
cruellest punishments of human beings. While we may no longer worry about
being eaten by trolls on the way home, there remains a fascination with these
creatures who have shadowed us throughout history.
This book explores monsters down the ages and throughout the world.
It provides a dark yet engrossing visual history of the human mind, lit up
by flashes of wild and unearthly inspiration.
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TR AVEL
An intimate look at the unsung lives
of Asia’s people, from an awardwinning film director and protégé
of Henri Cartier-Bresson.
FOOD & DRINK
Awe-inspiring recipes from the world’s
best pâtissiers – now in paperback.
Olivier Dupon is a
21st-century tastemaker
and author of Shoe, Floral
Contemporary, The New
Artisans, Encore! and The
New Jewelers, all published
by Thames & Hudson.
Ishu Patel is an acclaimed
animation film director/
producer whose films have
received distribution
worldwide. His many
international awards
include two Oscar
nominations, the Silver Bear
at the Berlin Film Festival,
the BAFTA award, the
Grand Prix at both Annecy
and the Montreal World
Film Festival.
335 illustrations
30.0 x 23.4 cm
288pp paperback
ISBN 978 0 500 292594
July
£24.95
158 illustrations
29.4 x 27.0 cm
192pp hardback
ISBN 978 0 500 519240
September
£29.95
Asian Lives
The New Pâtissiers
A Closer Look
Olivier Dupon
Ishu Patel
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In 2011, adhering to his mentor Henri Cartier-Bresson’s mantra to ‘photograph
the truth’, animation filmmaker Ishu Patel embarked on a photographic journey
in southeast Asia. Abandoning moving images to secure a series of still images
that capture a uniquely human gesture or powerful thought-provoking story,
he prowled both urban and rural areas armed only with a Leica M9 with 35
and 50mm fast lenses. The result is a collection of elusive still images –
photographs, mainly in black and white, that tell a story, seize a moment in
life or are a witness to joy, struggle or human dignity. Patel also contributes
thoughtful essays on the various countries and peoples he has so powerfully
photographed.
Never political or judgmental, this anthology comprises Patel’s homage to
the unsung lives of ordinary Asians, many of whom are increasingly overlooked
in today’s fast-changing world.
‘A treat’
Elle Decoration
‘These mouthwatering 89 recipes from cakes
to petits fours, created by 38 of the world’s
best patissiers, are for dessert lovers who
take their sweet treats seriously’ Independent
‘Drool inducing’
Irish Tatler
This mouthwatering book presents 38 of the finest pastry chefs working
worldwide today, together with samples of their glorious, highly sophisticated
confections. Some of the chefs are up-and-coming, others are well established;
all are innovative pioneers in a uniquely appealing creative field. They include
Rosio Sanchez, former pastry chef at Noma; Bonnae Gokson, crowned Queen
of Confectionery in Asia by America’s wedding-event guru Colin Cowie;
Nathaniel Reid, one of Dessert Professional magazine’s Top 10 Pastry Chefs
in America; and World Chocolate Master, Carmelo Sciampagna. Each profile
has a biography giving a sense of their individual style. Also included are scores
of recipes for world-class cakes, tarts, biscuits, petits fours, plated desserts,
pastries, confectionery, chocolate, ice creams and sorbets, with a final chapter
focusing on the lavish sugar-paste world of celebratory cakes.
Offering a wealth of inspiring and delicious material, this book is a must
for professional pastry chefs, keen amateurs and anyone interested in the
gourmet lifestyle.
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FOOD & DRINK
A stylishly illustrated compendium
of 100 herbs, designed to enrich
our understanding of all their uses,
by the team behind the bestselling
The Geometry of Pasta.
Caz Hildebrand is one of the
Creative Partners at Here
Design. She is the designer
of bestselling cookbooks
by Nigella Lawson, Yotam
Ottolenghi and Sam Clark
of Moro. In 2010 she wrote
The Geometry of Pasta
with Bocca di Lupo chef
Jacob Kenedy.
100 illustrations
24.6 x 17.5cm
224pp hardback
ISBN 978 0 500 518939
August
£16.95
Herbarium
Caz Hildebrand
Herbarium (plural: herbaria): a collection of preserved plant specimens stored,
catalogued, and arranged systematically; the building or room where the
specimens are housed.
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‘I need three copies of this book: one to
reach for in the kitchen, one to read in
bed and one (if it’s not sacrilege?) to
cut up to decorate my walls with. This
is a book which is informed, useful
and completely divine. It’s a must for
anyone with an interest in the beauty
of herbs or the boldness of great design’
Yotam Ottolenghi
‘An exquisite and inspirational book’
Nigella Lawson
Award-winning designer Caz Hildebrand’s Herbarium is a 21st-century reboot
of the traditional herbal compendium. The visual genius behind the international
bestseller The Geometry of Pasta, she has created abstract forms and vibrant
colours to illustrate 100 essential herbs and to reveal their hidden properties.
From bergamot, comfrey and dill to sassafras, vervain and wasabi, all types
of herbs are covered; each is explained through the fascinating history of their
uses and symbolism. There are tips on how to use them as seasonings and how
to create healing potions, as well as advice on when and how to grow them.
This isn’t just a book for the kitchen – it’s for the greenhouse, the medicine
cabinet, the coffee table...
Where The Geometry of Pasta deepened our understanding of the way
Italians eat pasta, Herbarium celebrates all facets of herbs and all their lifeenhancing poperties.
CR A F T, PR AC T I C A L A RTS & H O B B I ES
CR A F T, PR AC T I C A L A RTS & H O B B I E S
The complete guide to craft:
33 techniques, from embroidery
and clay to collage and baskets,
more than 150 contemporary artists
and inspirational project ideas.
Ramona Barry is the former
Chair of Craft Victoria,
Australia’s leading
contemporary craft
organization. Rebecca
Jobson is a textile designer,
artist, writer and curator
with 20 years’ experience
in the craft and design
industry. Together, Barry
and Jobson co-write their
blog handmadelife and
present a specialist craft
programme on Australian
radio station Triple R.
700 illustrations
27.5 x 22.0 cm
408pp hardback
ISBN 978 0 500 518922
August
£24.95
The Craft Companion
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This colouring book takes its
inspiration from the most creative
images imaginable – the world’s
greatest paintings.
21.6 x 30.0 cm
96pp paperback
ISBN 978 0 500 292686
September
£9.95
Highlights include:
Primavera, Botticelli
Bacchus and Ariadne, Titian
The Night Watch, Rembrandt
The Art of Painting, Vermeer
The Entrance to the Grand Canal, Canaletto
Under the Wave off Kanagawa, Hokusai
Ophelia, Millais
Luncheon on the Grass, Manet
The Scream, Munch
The Kiss, Klimt
Whaam!, Lichtenstein
… and more
Art Studio
Ramona Barry and Rebecca Jobson
Great Paintings to Colour In
Once the domain of the domestic, craft has now infiltrated every creative
sphere – including food, fashion, fine art and architecture. If this craft
renaissance is indicative of a new wave of keen creatives, then The Craft
Companion is the ultimate guide to navigating the new craft frontiers.
From appliqué and baskets to weaving and zakka, The Craft Companion features
over 30 new and old crafting techniques. Each chapter includes a historical
overview of the craft, with design notes and explanations of key techniques
to help beginners to get started. Tools and methods are explored through
a combination of hand-drawn illustrations and photography. A range of project
ideas, including one basic project for each craft and a further Top 5 selection,
will kickstart the reader’s creativity, while examples of inspirational work from
contemporary artisans display the possibilities of each medium.
With over 20 years in the craft and design industries, Ramona Barry
and Rebecca Jobson are bona fide craft gurus. Everyone from beginners
to experienced crafters will love Ramona and Rebecca’s witty voice, and
will be inspired to experiment and dip their toes into new crafts.
Using carefully drawn line illustrations of famous masterpieces, Art Studio
takes aspiring artists on an inspiring world tour. Along the way they can try
their hand at replicating the originals or applying different palettes. In the
process they will also learn to appreciate the complexity and composition
of these great works.
Avid colouring fans will relish not only the bold, bright lines of works such
as Van Gogh’s The Starry Night, but also mastering the intricacy of some of
the world’s most renowned paintings. Among the 46 masterpieces featured
are such celebrated Western works as Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam and
Renoir’s Moulin de la Galette as well as a Mughal hunting scene of the 16th
century and some stunningly complex Aboriginal art. Each entry explains
how the artist achieved his or her effects, and offers suggestions on how the
reader might try to reproduce them.
Art Studio is simultaneously relaxing, challenging and informative: an
exquisite combination that will appeal to anyone who’s caught the colouring
bug – or to anyone on the verge of catching it.
Fibre: felt; knit; crochet; weave; tapestry;
macramé; yarn; baskets; leather; rugs
Stitch: embroidery; cross stitch; needlepoint;
sew; appliqué; quilt and patch; haberdashery
Surface: marble; indigo; print; dye; collage; gild
Form: clay; beads; books; jewelry; origami;
paper; mobiles; upcycle; veneer/wood; zakka
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Inspired by
Hirameki: a fabulous art form
for everybody – even the most
inexperienced doodler can produce
hundreds of sensational scribbles.
Create your very own bespoke
brooches, from the classically chic
to the stylishly offbeat.
Corinne Alagille is the
author of several other
arts and crafts books,
and a practising
craftsperson herself.
18.2 x 11.6 cm
64pp pb + brooch materials
Boxed
ISBN 978 0 500 420621
September
£10.79 exc VAT | £12.95 inc VAT
978 0 500 518441 £9.95
Create Your Own Brooches
Corinne Alagille
Inspired by
Hirameki: Cats & Dogs
Draw What You See
Peng & Hu
Sonia Lucano is the author
of Interior Inspiration
Scandinavia, also published
by Thames & Hudson.
18.2 x 11.6 cm
64pp pb + 2 tote bags
Boxed
ISBN 978 0 500 420614
September
£10.79 exc VAT | £12.95 inc VAT
Also available in the Craft Studio series
Decorating with Pompoms & Tassels
20 Creative Projects
Émilie Greenberg and Karine Thiboult-Demessence
ISBN 978 0 500 518908 £9.95
21.0 x 16.0 cm
64pp paperback
ISBN 978 0 500 292846
September
£5.95
• 15 DIY projects and plenty of tips to create something beautiful with everyday
materials – a scrap of fabric, a few coloured pencils, or even spare pieces of paper.
• Includes everything needed to get started:
1 book featuring 15 creative projects + 10 brooch pins + 2 large brooch fasteners
+ 4 wooden brooch bases to customize
Create your own tote bags – the chic
and eco-friendly alternative to throwaway plastic bags.
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Hirameki masters Peng + Hu
are today’s leading pioneers
of blot-collecting. The smallest
blots in their great collection
are tinier than the freckles on
a Nepalese dwarf squirrel’s nose
– the biggest are as huge as the
mini-golf course on the island
of Plong Plong in the High Seas.
Draw funny dogs and get into a sunny mood
Draw comical cats and give your day a boost
If you feel like fun and have a pen
It’s time to follow your imagination!
978 0 500 518434 £9.95
• An ingenious take on the Rorschach inkblot test – a book packed full of blots
that readers can transform into whatever they like.
• Artists Peng & Hu guide the reader with prompts and hints.
• Highly creative and a little bit anarchic, this is the perfect outlet for all those
who are bored by drawing inside the lines.
Create Your Own Tote Bags
Sonia Lucano
• 16 projects cover different techniques to create the bag of your choice:
embroidery, painting, dyeing, transfers, stamping and more.
• Includes two plain tote bags plus an easy pattern for making a simple bag,
which you can then customize.
• A range of difficulty levels, all well within reach of even the absolute beginner.
Also available
Stamping & Printing
‘The ink blotty watercolour-esque patterns are beautiful, but should you
feel inspired you can also pick up a pen and transform the ink blots into
your own doodle. Such a cool idea’ Abigail Ahern
20 Creative Projects
Émilie Greenberg and Karine Thiboult-Demessence
ISBN 978 0 500 518458 £9.95
‘Put the felt-tips down – the next phase of the adult colouring craze is upon
us, and it’s the art of Hirameki’ The Sun on Sunday
978 0 500 292488 £9.95
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GIFTS
GIFTS
Magnum Photos Gift Range
Magnum Photos: Street Photography Notecards
Three new products in Thames & Hudson’s Magnum Photos gift range,
produced in anticipation of Magnum’s 70th anniversary in 2017.
Sixteen notecards and envelopes, each featuring a street scene from
a Magnum photographer.
Each card: 15.8 x 11.3 cm
16 notecards, 16 envelopes
Boxed
ISBN 978 0 500 420478
September
£12.95 inc VAT | £10.79 exc VAT
Magnum Photos: Poster Book
Other products in the Magnum Photos gift range
Icons
Twenty iconic Magnum photographs to hang on your wall – at an affordable price.
Features photographs by:
Ian Berry • Dennis Stock • Chris Steele-Perkins • Eve Arnold • Werner Bischof
Jonas Bendiksen • Henri Cartier-Bresson • Elliott Erwitt • Martine Franck • Harry Gruyaert
Burt Glinn • Guy Le Querrec • Martin Parr • Trent Parke • René Burri • Bruce Davidson
Herbert List • George Rodger • Alec Soth • Inge Morath
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35.4 x 27.6 cm
20 posters paperback
ISBN 978 0 500 420461
September
£19.95 inc VAT | £16.63 exc VAT
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Magnum Photos: 100 Postcards
978 0 500 420362
£14.13 exc VAT | £16.95 inc VAT
Magnum Photos: 3 Sketchbooks
978 0 500 420348
£8.29 exc VAT | £9.95 inc VAT
Magnum Photos: Travel Journal
A notebook for planning and recording notes and memories from your travels.
Features inspirational quotes and over 70 Magnum photographs.
Also available
24.4 x 17.1 cm
144pp paperback
ISBN 978 0 500 420454
September
£14.95 inc VAT | £12.46 exc VAT
978 0 500 288306 £24.95
978 0 500 544310 £45.00
Magnum Photos: Field Notebook
978 0 500 420355
£10.79 exc VAT | £12.95 inc VAT
GIFTS
GIFTS
Patterns of India
Patterns of India:
Gift Wrapping Paper Book
Henry Wilson
A new gift range inspired by Henry Wilson’s Pattern and Ornament
in the Arts of India, an outstanding sourcebook of photographs
and drawings for lovers of design and India.
Patterns of India: 16 Notecards
Four designs featuring artworks derived from the decorative genius of India,
presented in an elegant gift box.
10 Sheets of Wrapping Paper with 12 Gift Tags
Gorgeous gift-wrap featuring imaginative designs.
10 sheets of wrapping paper + 12 gift tags
35.0 x 25.0 cm
Shrinkwrapped
ISBN 978 0 500 420560
August
£12.95 inc VAT | £10.79 exc VAT
Sample selection
16 notecards + 16 envelopes
14.5 x 10.5 cm
Boxed
ISBN 978 0 500 420553
August
£10.95 inc VAT | £9.13 exc VAT
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All illustrations drawn from
Patterns of India: 3 Notebooks
Three notebooks – two blank and one ruled – featuring vibrant
artworks by Henry Wilson.
48pp x 3
20.0 x 14.0 cm
Paperback
ISBN 978 0 500 420546
August
Pattern and Ornament
in the Arts of India
Henry Wilson
‘Masterful … the colour combinations are a delight’
The World of Interiors
ISBN 978 0 500 515822 £32.00
GIFTS
Decorated Papers
A beautifully presented stationery range for bibliophiles and anyone with a love of pattern
and decoration. Drawing on the Olga Hirsch collection at the British Library, one of the
largest and most diverse collections of decorated papers in the world, all products in the
range are illustrated with images taken from the book An Anthology of Decorated Papers.
GIFTS
Decorated Papers:
Gift Wrapping Paper Book
10 Sheets of Wrapping Paper with 12 Gift Tags
Ten sheets of luxury wrapping paper, each measuring
34.2 x 25.0 cm, with matching gift tags.
34.2 x 25.0 cm | 10 sheets + 12 tags
ISBN 978 0 500 420522
£12.95 inc VAT | £10.79 exc VAT
Decorated Papers: 3 Notebooks
Three notebooks, two measuring 20.0 x 14.0 cm and one
14.0 x 10.0 cm, each with a different cover.
20.0 x 14.0 cm x 2 | 14.0 x 10.0 cm x 1
48pp x 3 | paperback
ISBN 978 0 500 420515
Sample selection
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Decorated Papers: Journal
All illustrations drawn from
A ruled journal that provides an elegant way to record
experiences and thoughts.
An Anthology of Decorated Papers
A Sourcebook for Designers
P.J.M. Marks
15.2 x 11.5 cm | 128pp | paperback
ISBN 978 0 500 420539
‘A useful and inspiring visual reference book’ Creative Review
‘Marks writes with erudition and passion.
An inspiring book for creative types’ The Lady
ISBN 978 0 500 518120 £38.00
GIFTS
GIFTS
The Book of Kells
The Way Out Is In
Two exquisitely designed gift products inspired by the beauty
of the Book of Kells, Ireland’s finest national treasure, in the
collection of Trinity College Library Dublin.
Two products in a new gift line celebrating the fine
penmanship and inspirational teachings of Zen Buddhist
master Thich Nhat Hanh.
The Way Out Is In: Notecards
Thich Nhat Hanh
The Book of Kells: 16 Notecards: Animals
Sixteen notecards featuring Thich Nhat Hanh’s beautiful
and inspirational calligraphies.
Four designs, each with an animal theme and featuring a detail
from the Book of Kells.
20.0 x 14.0cm
16 cards (4 designs)
Boxed cards
ISBN 978 0 500 420447
August
£12.95 inc VAT | £10.79 exc VAT
16 cards + 16 envelopes
14.5 x 10.5 cm
Boxed cards
ISBN 978 0 500 420485
September
The Way Out Is In: Deluxe Journal
The Book of Kells: Small Journal
Thich Nhat Hanh
A paperback journal – lined throughout – with a smart
linen finish and elastic closure.
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An exquisitely crafted journal, with lined and patterned pages,
which contains over a dozen calligraphies and quotations from
Thich Nhat Hanh.
THE ZEN CALLIGRAPHY OF
THICH NHAT HANH
128pp + back pocket
15.2 x 11.5 cm
Paperback + elastic closure
ISBN 978 0 500 420492
September
Already available:
The Book of Kells: Set of 3 A5 Notebooks
The Book of Kells: Set of 3 A6 Notebooks
The Book of Kells: Five Year Journal
The Book of Kells: Box of 20 Notecards
The Book of Kells: Box of 30 Postcards
978 0 500 420225
978 0 500 420232
978 0 500 420218
978 0 500 420249
978 0 500 420256
JOURNAL
21.0 x 14.6cm
144pp
ISBN 978 0 500 420423
August
£12.95 inc VAT | £10.79 exc VAT
All based on
All based on
The Book of Kells
The Way Out is In
Bernard Meehan
The Zen Calligraphy of Thich Nhat Hanh
‘Sumptuous … a triumph of
scholarly investigation and
interpretation’
Thich Nhat Hanh
‘Truly elevates Hanh’s work and
the reader’s experience of his art’
Financial Times
Natural Health
ISBN 978 0 500 238943 £60.00
ISBN 978 0 500 110287 £9.95
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GIFTS
GIFTS
Susan Herbert was one
of the most distinctive of
contemporary cat artists, who
produced beautifully crafted
watercolours that respond with wit
and affection to the imagery
of Western culture.
20 illustrations
35.4 x 27.6 cm
42pp paperback
ISBN 978 0 500 420584
July
£17.95 inc VAT | £14.96 exc VAT
A one-of-a-kind book of pop-ups
based on the works of the Japanese
artist Hokusai.
Courtney Watson McCarthy
is a noted paper engineer,
and the author of several
other pop-up books published
by Thames & Hudson.
Sample selection
All based on
33 x 30.4 cm
16pp including 6 pop-ups
ISBN 978 0 500 518847
October
£19.95
Shakespeare Cats
Susan Herbert
‘Captures the mood of each of the
original works so eloquently that we
can’t help but be enamoured’
artnet.com
Shakespeare Cats: 20 Posters
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ISBN 978 0 500 284292 £7.95
Hokusai Pop-Ups
Susan Herbert
Courtney Watson McCarthy
The newest addition to the popular Cats in Art gift range features
20 detachable posters of Susan Herbert’s celebrated feline
reimaginings of scenes from some of the greatest plays in English
literature. Published to coincide with a surge of cultural activity
marking the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, these
funny, clever, sometimes moving vignettes of cats on stage bring
to life the Bard’s best-loved plays, including Hamlet, Macbeth,
Henry V, The Taming of the Shrew and more.
Hokusai (1760–1849) was an extraordinarily prolific Japanese master artist and
printmaker of the ukiyo-e (‘pictures of the floating world’) genre. More than
150 years after his death, his legacy remains as important as any Western
painter’s. Hokusai’s work inspired a roll-call of great artists including Van Gogh,
Renoir, Monet, Gauguin, Manet, Degas and Klimt as well as craftsmen and
architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright. This book features six meticulously
crafted pop-ups of some of his most famous works: The Great Wave;
Chrysanthemums and Horsefly; The Poem of Ariwara no Narihira or Autumn
Leaves; Kirituri Waterfall; Phoenix; and A Sudden Gust of Wind.
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Pre-Raphaelite Cats
978 0 500 291382 £6.95
Dalí Pop-Ups
978 0 500 517505 £19.95
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978 0 500 516508 £19.95
Star Trek™ Pop-Ups
978 0 500 517499 £19.95
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Mid-Century Modern: Icons of Design
Mid-Century Modern: 3 Notebooks
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Remarkable Plants: Five-Year Journal
Remarkable Plants: 3 A6 Notebooks
Remarkable Plants: 3 A5 Notebooks
Illustrated throughout 18.0 x 14.0 cm 384pp
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ISBN 978 0 500 420300
21.0 x 14.8 cm 3 x 64pp
ISBN 978 0 500 420294
Remarkable Plants: Box of 20 Notecards
Remarkable Plants: Box of 30 Postcards
Illustrated throughout 15.8 x 11.3 cm 20 cards
ISBN 978 0 500 420317
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ISBN 978 0 500 420324
Cyclepedia: 100 Postcards of Iconic
Bicycles 15.0 x 10.5 cm 100 postcards
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London A to Z
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Corina Fletcher
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Recent
Highlights
RECENT HIGHLIGHTS
RECENT HIGHLIGHTS
Art
Art
Unspoken Spaces
Make Your Mark
Studio Olafur Eliasson
Introduction by Olafur Eliasson
Illustrated throughout 28.0 x 22.0cm 416pp
ISBN 978 0 500 343135 £60.00 hb
The New Urban Artists
Tristan Manco
540 illustrations 31.0 x 26.0cm 256pp
ISBN 978 0 500 292181 £24.95 pb
Presents 45 diverse artists united by one
basic principle: their art is completely fresh,
original and the epitome of creativity.
‘An exquisite monograph’ AnOther Magazine
‘Both thorough and highly accessible’ Aesthetica
124
125
Photography
Kandinsky
Artrage!
The Prado Masterpieces
The Elements of Art
Philippe Sers
ISBN 978 0 500 093979 £60.00 hb
The Story of the BritArt Revolution
Elizabeth Fullerton
ISBN 978 0 500 239445 £24.95 hb
Museo Nacional del Prado
Edited by Erica Witschey
ISBN 978 0 500 970744 £75.00 hb
Family Photography Now
Magnum Cycling
Yokainoshima
Sophie Howarth and Stephen McLaren
320 illustrations 240pp
ISBN 978 0 500 544532 £29.95 hb
Guy Andrews
Over 200 illustrations 26.0 x 25.8cm 256pp
ISBN 978 0 500 544570 £32.00 hb
Island of Monsters
Charles Fréger
ISBN 978 0 500 544594 £24.95 hb
RECENT HIGHLIGHTS
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RECENT HIGHLIGHTS
Fashion
Archaeology
Chanel Catwalk
Sunken cities
The Complete Karl Lagerfeld Collections
Introduction by Patrick Mauriès
1,200 illustrations 27.6 x 19.0cm 632pp
ISBN 978 0 500 518366 £48.00 hb
Egypt’s lost worlds
Edited by Franck Goddio and Aurélia Masson-Berghoff
ISBN 978 0 500 051856 £40.00 hb
ISBN 978 0 500 292372 £25.00 pb
‘Your new fashion bible’ I-D Magazine
‘Spectacular … a show to move you to
tears of wonder’ The Times
‘Definitive … a must-have for the fashion fanatic’ Daily Mail
‘Magnificent… a superb exhibition’ Telegraph
Interiors
Decorative Arts
Cycling
Interior Inspiration: Scandinavia
New Rings
Art Deco Collectibles
Archaeology
Greek Mythology
Paul Smith’s Cycling Scrapbook
Includes 30 DIY Projects
Sonia Lucano
ISBN 978 0 500 292396 £16.95 pb
500+ Designs
Nicolas Estrada
ISBN 978 0 500 292402 £19.95 flexi
Fashionable Objets from the Jazz Age
Rodney and Diana Capstick-Dale
ISBN 978 0 500 420324 £24.95 hb
Theories, Methods, and Practice
Colin Renfrew and Paul Bahn
ISBN 978 0 500 292105 £32.00 pb
A Traveller’s Guide from Mount Olympus to Troy
David Stuttard Drawings by Lis Watkins
ISBN 978 0 500 518328 £14.95 hb
Paul Smith with Richard Williams
ISBN 978 0 500 292365 £29.95 pb
127
RECENT HIGHLIGHTS
Music
Motown
The Sound of Young America
Adam White with Barney Ales
1,000 illustrations 27.7 x 21.6cm 400pp
ISBN 978 0 500 518298 £39.95 hb
‘Delves deep into the secret life of Detroit’s
revered home of soul ... An illuminating path
into a familiar story … an essential Motown
work’ MOJO
‘The definitive history of the Detroit-based
record company … this is a riotous and political
celebration of a great American brand’ Tatler
128
Popular Culture
Picture Credits
Index
On the cover:
Front: from Hip Hop Raised Me.®, p76
Questlove © Phil Knott
Back: from Alexander McQueen: Unseen, p70
Adjaye • Africa • Architecture 63
The Advertising Concept Book 42
Alagille, Corinne 110
Alexander McQueen: Unseen 70
Amirsadeghi, Hossein 15
An Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead 87
Anderton, Stephen 68
Architecture and Surrealism 54
Art Deco Sculpture 18
Art in Detail 12
The Art of the Bible 22
Art Since 1900 20
Art Studio 109
Asian Lives 104
The Autobiography of a Snake 73
Avery, Mark 92
Baatsch, Henri-Alexis 4
Ballen, Roger 36
Bar, Noma 100
Barry, Pete 42
Barry, Romana 108
Benaroya, Ana 46
Betsky, Aaron 62
Biomimetics for Designers 52
Bitten by Witch Fever 80
Black, Richard 60
Blann, Michael 98
Boardman, John 17
Bois, Yve-Alain 20
The Book of Kells Gift Range 118
The Book of Kells:
16 Notecards – Animals 118
The Book of Kells: Small Journal 118
Bradbury, Dominic 65
Branding. In Five and a Half Steps 43
Braun, Melanie 30
The British Museum 28–29
Brodie, Judith 14
Broug, Eric 47
Buchloh, Benjamin H. D. 20
Edward Burtynsky: Essential Elements 34
Butler, Cornelia 5
Cave, Robert 95
Chairs by Architects 53
Chapman, Hugo 28
Chineasy Workbook 100
Chuck D 76
Claffey, Bree 66
Coles, Stephen 49
Colville, Quintin 27
Conrad, Peter 81
Contemporary Art Colombia 15
p18, Art Deco Sculpture
p19tl: Pierre Le Faguays, Danseuse au Baton
Fleuri, patinated and cold-painted bronze,
1920s. Credit: Photo Pascal Faligot
p19tr: François Pompon, Grue Couronnée en
Marche, patinated bronze, c. 1926. Credit:
Photo courtesy Galerie Vallois, Paris.
p19b: Samuel Maw, two sections of the
limestone frieze depicting ‘industrial activity’,
carved by Charles Comfort, Toronto Stock
Exchange, Bay Street, Toronto (George &
Moorhouse, architects), 1937. Credit: Photo
© Bruno Perousse p68, Lives of the Great
Gardeners
Above: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
Below: © Buro Mien Ruys, Amsterdam.
p66, Renzo Piano
The Shard – London Bridge Tower
© Chris Martin
p76, Hip Hop Raised Me.®
Column 1: Top: © Eddie Otchere; Centre:
© Normski; Bottom: © Eddie Otchere
Column 2: Row 1: Clare Muller / PYMCA; Row
2 L: © Eddie Otchere; Row 2 R: Mick Hutson
/ Redferns / Getty Images; Row 3: © Eddie
Otchere; Row 4: © Normski
Architecture
p90, Explorers Sketchbooks
Above: Photography Martin Hartley/Art Direction
Huw Lewis-Jones: Prance Collection.
Below left: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
Below right: Royal Library, National Library
of Denmark, Copenhagen.
p92, Remarkable Birds
Illustrations © 2016 The British Library Board.
The Anatomical Venus
The Course of Landscape Architecture
Morbid Anatomy Museum/Joanna Ebenstein
ISBN 978 0 500 252185 £19.95 hb
A History of our Designs on the Natural World,
from Prehistory to the Present
Christophe Girot Foreword by Philip Ursprung
Over 670 illustrations 30.0 x 25.0cm 352pp
ISBN 978 0 500 342978 £45.00 hb
Lumitecture
Illuminating Interiors for Designers & Architects
Anna Yudina
ISBN 978 0 500 518342 £32.00 hb
p99, Unseen Extremes
Kailash © DLR, includes copyrighted material
of CNES/Airbus Defence & Space
Costigliolo, Luca 30
The Craft Companion 108
Create Your Own Brooches 110
Create Your Own Tote Bags 110
Cut That Out 44
Dada: Art and Anti-Art 17
Dantzic, Grayson 40
Dantzic, Jerry 40
Dech, Stefan 96
Decorated Papers Gift Range 116
Decorated Papers: 3 Notebooks 116
Decorated Papers:
Gift Wrapping Paper Book 116
Decorated Papers: Journal 116
Dell, Christopher 102, 103
Dervaux, Isabelle 5
Design: The Whole Story 50
DJ Semtex 76
Doyle, Kathleen 22
DR.ME 44
Dubuffet Drawings, 1935–1962 5
Duncan, Alastair 18
Dupon, Olivier 75, 105
Edelman, Arthur 73
Edelman, Teddy 73
Emma Hamilton 27
Evans, Max 39
Ewing, William A. 34
The Experience of Architecture 56
Explorers’ Sketchbooks 90
Fairer, Robert 70
Fashion Quotes 72
Feuchtwang, Stephan 26
Fifty English Steeples 57
Fili, Louise 48
Fine Jewelry Couture 75
Flannery, Julian 57
Foster, Hal 20
Frampton, Kenneth 64
Frayling, Christopher 79
Gatrell, Vic 27
Gayford, Martin 2
The Geometry of Type 49
Giblin, John 29
Giza and the Pyramids 88
Glancey, Jonathan 50
The Great Cities in History 85
Greek Art 17
Greig, Hannah 27
Harris, Alexandra 24
Hawass, Zahi 88
Hawksley, Lucinda 80
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130
Heller, Steven 48
Herbarium 106
Herbert, Kari 90
Herbert, Susan 120
Hickley, Catherine 23
Hildebrand, Caz 106
Hip Hop Raised Me.® 76
Hirameki Cats and Dogs 111
A History of Pictures 2
Hockney, David 2
Hodge, Susie 12
Hodgson, Francis 39
Hokusai 4
Hokusai Pop-Ups 121
Holben Ellis, Margaret 5
Billie Holiday at Sugar Hill 40
A Humument 8
Hyman, Timothy 10
Ibelings, Hans 62
Illustration Next 46
Indoor Green 66
Interviews with Francis Bacon 7
Intimate Geometries 6
Islamic Civilization in Thirty Lives 82
Islamic Design Workbook 47
Jay, Mike 84
Jobson, Rebecca 108
Jodidio, Philip 58
Johnson, Anna 60
Johnson, Michael 43
Johnson, Robert Flynn 94
Johnston, Amy 14
Johnston, Lucy 31
Joselit, David 20
Kapsali, Veronika 52
Kelly, Jason 27
Kite, Marion 31
Koch, Roberto 33
Krauss, Rosalind 20
Lacroix, Christian 72
Lehner, Mark 88
Lewis-Jones, Huw 90
Lewis, Michael J. 14
Lincoln, Margarette 27
Lines of thought 28
Lives of the Great Gardeners 68
Living in the Landscape 60
Loengard, John 38
Louise Nevelson 25
Lowe, Paul 41
Lucano, Sonia 110
Lucas, Armelle 30
Madness in Civilization 83
Magnum Photos 112–113
Magnum Photos: Poster Book 112
Magnum Photos:
Street Photography Notecards 112
Magnum Photos: Travel Journal 112
Mauriès, Patrick 72
McKendrick, Scot 22
Messner, Reinhold 96
Miles, David 86
Moment by Moment:
Photographs by John Loengard 38
Monsters 103
Moorhead, Sam 85
Mountain Modern 65
Mountains 98
The Munich Art Hoard 23
Mythomania 81
Napias, Jean-Christophe 72
Nature Morte 16
Neurath, Eva 26
The New Pâtissiers 105
The New Pavilions 58
19th-Century Fashion in Detail 31
North, Susan 30
Norwich, John Julius 85
O’Rourke, Paul F. 87
Occult, Witchcraft and Magic 102
Papi, Stefano 74
Patel, Ishu 104
Patterns of India Gift Range 114–115
Patterns of India: 16 Notecards 114
Patterns of India: 3 Notebooks 114
Patterns of India: Gift Wrapping Paper Book 114
Peng & Hu 111
Persson, Helen 31
Petitgas, Catherine 15
Petry, Michael 16
Phillips, Tom 8
Photobox: The Essential Collection 33
Photography Masterclass 41
Piano, Renzo 64
The Plant Kingdoms of Charles Jones 94
Bernard Plossu: Western Colors 39
Plossu, Bernard 39
Plummer, Henry 56
Potts, Alex 5
Powers, Richard 65
The Quest for Shakespeare’s Garden 67
Recollections 26
Remarkable Birds 92
Renzo Piano: The Complete Logbook 64
Rhodes, Alexandra 74
Rhodes, Colin 36
Richter, Hans 17
Riding, Christine 27
Riley, Bridget 28
Robinson, Chase F. 82
The Romans Who Shaped Britain 85
Russell, Gillian 27
Scull, Andrew 83
Seligman, Isabel 28
17th-Century Men’s Dress Patterns 30
Sexton, Sean 94
Shakespeare Cats: 20 Posters 120
ShaoLan 100
Singer, Sally 70
Slab Serif Type 48
Smith, Zadie 40
South Africa 29
Sparwasser, Nils 96
Spiekermann, Eric 49
Spiller, Neil 54
Spring, Chris 29
Storr, Robert 6
Strong, Roy 67
Studio 44 62
Stuttard, David 85
Sylvester, David 7
The Tale of the Axe 86
Television 78
The Way Out In In: Deluxe Journal 119
The Way Out Is In: Notecards 119
Theatre of Apparitions 36
This Building Likes Me 61
This Way Madness Lies 84
Thomson, David 78
Thornton, Claire 30
Three Centuries of American Prints 14
Tiramani, Jenny 30
Toromanoff, Agata 53
20th Century Jewelry and the Icons of Style 74
Tyne, Lindsey 5
Unseen Extremes 96
Vampyres 79
The Victoria and Albert Museum 30–32
John Wardle Architects 61
Warhol, Andy 73
Waters, Alice 94
Watson McCarthy, Courtney 121
Weatherland 24
White, Michael 17
Why It’s Not All Rocket Science 95
Wilcox, Claire 70
Wilhide, Elizabeth 50
William Morris 32
Williams, Kate 27
Wilson, Laurie 25
The World New Made 10
Yawein, Nikita 62
Yawein, Oleg 62
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