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"Invites the reader to take a closer look at works of art while pointing out tiny details hidden in famous works, providing information about a work or an artist, or explaining the techniques used to create the piece."--Publisher.
"A brand-new revised and updated edition of Phaidon's accessible, acclaimed A-Z guide to the most important artists of all time. Updated for only the third time in its 16-year history, this new edition of the award-winning landmark publication has been refreshed with more than 40 important new artists, including many previously overlooked and marginal practitioners. The new edition spotlights more than 600 great artists from medieval to modern times. Breaking with traditional classifications, it throws together brilliant examples from all periods, schools, visions, and techniques, presenting an unparalleled visual sourcebook and a celebration of our rich, multifaceted culture. Artists featured for the first time in this edition include: Berenice Abbott, Hilma af Klint, El Anatsui, Romare Bearden, Mark Bradford, Cao Fei, Cecily Brown, Judy Chicago, John Currin, Guerrilla Girls, Lee Krasner, Jacob Lawrence, Kerry James Marshall, Joan Mitchell, Zanele Muholi, Takashi Murakami, Louise Nevelson, Clara Peeters, Jenny Saville, Wolfgang Tillmans, and more"--
The "Art book" presents a whole new way of looking at art. Easy to use, informative and fun, it's an A to Z guide to 500 great painters and sculptors from medieval to modern times.
"Area is an exhibition in a book dedicated to 100 of the most significant new graphic designers today. It brings together the curatorial input of ten distinguished design leaders from around the world, each asked to select their ten favorite 'rising stars'--graphic designers who have emerged and broken new ground over the last five years ... Their choices are organized in A to Z order with each designer's work represented in four pages, along with an introductory text"--p. 5.
Revealing the rich artistic history of this ever-changing art form, the A-to-Z format of this fully updated bestseller creates fascinating juxtapositions between the 500 iconic garden-makers of all time found within its pages
An A-Z guide to 500 iconic houses and traditional dwellings worldwide.
Presents brief descriptions of the contributions to fashion of five hundred designers, photographers, models, and celebrities
Covering three centuries, this vibrant, fresh overview ranges from Puritan portraits to the American Impressionists to the videos and digital works of today's most intriguing conceptual artists. 500 color illustrations.
A miniature edition of William Morris designs.
Fully revised and updated for 2022, this new edition of Phaidon's iconic global bestseller The Fashion Book takes a fresh look at the fashion world and the people who created and inspired it. Spanning almost 200 years, the entire industry is represented: from designers to photographers, stylists, and retailers, as well as editors and creative directors. Marking significant changes on the fashion landscape, this revised edition features important new names who have fundamentally shaped the way we see fashion in recent years, alongside fashion pioneers of the previous edition. This bestselling - and now updated - classic volume remains a comprehensive and definitive view of the fashion industry today.