The variety of patterns in the exquisitely wrought details of India’s architecture and interiors is boundless, and one can only marvel at the ways in which materials such as wood, stone, and plaster have been transformed into masterworks of decorative art. Photographer and illustrator Henry Wilson has spent decades recording the…
David Henry Wilson is the author of some twenty children’s books, including the popular Jeremy James series. He lives in England.
From Babar to Dumbo, the elephant has long fascinated children and their parents in equal measure. Here, eighty stunning photographs encompass every aspect of the elephant’s life and world: elephants big and small, African and Asian, in the wild and domesticated, at play and at rest. Whether taken from the air,…
Henry Wilson is well known as a photographer of architecture and interiors, with a special interest in India. His books include India Contemporary and Pattern and Ornament in the Arts of India, and he is a frequent contributor to The World of Interiors, Architectural Digest, and other design magazines. He lives…
In his new book for children, Steve Bloom has focused his camera on fourteen species of wild animal families: bears, cheetahs, chimpanzees, elephants, giraffes, gorillas, hippos, lions, orangutans, pandas, penguins, rhinos, seals, and zebras.
Each family is featured over four pages, and the broad array of subjects is guaranteed to entice…
The richness of the arts of India is overwhelming, and perhaps most noticeably so in its architecture. These ten sheets of gorgeous gift-wrapping paper featuring imaginative floral designs that draw on the richness of the arts of India reveal the exquisite detail of the decorative compositions, their finesse, precision, and creativity.…
The richness of the arts of India is overwhelming, and perhaps most noticeably so in its architecture. This selection of sixteen notecards featuring intricate floral patterns in Indian architecture and design reveals the exquisite detail of the decorative compositions, their finesse, precision, and creativity. It also highlights the skill, patience, and…
The richness of the arts of India is overwhelming, and perhaps most noticeably so in its architecture. This innovative volume reveals the exquisite detail of the decorative compositions, their finesse, precision, and creativity. It also highlights the skill, patience, and pictorial imagination of the many thousands of craftsmen and their patrons.
The…
The richness of the arts of India is overwhelming, and perhaps most noticeably so in its architecture. These ten sheets of gorgeous gift-wrapping paper featuring imaginative designs that draw on the richness of the arts of India reveal the exquisite detail of the decorative compositions, their finesse, precision, and creativity. It…
The richness of the arts of India is overwhelming, and perhaps most noticeably so in its architecture. This selection of notecards featuring intricate patterns in Indian architecture and design reveals the exquisite detail of the decorative compositions, their finesse, precision, and creativity. It also highlights the skill, patience, and pictorial imagination…
Known as the founding tailor of Savile Row, Henry Poole & Co. has dressed the world’s most important men and women for over two centuries. Their craft of bespoke tailoring was meticulously documented through the generations in a complete set of ledgers, to which sartorial expert James Sherwood has been granted…
In 1972, when the packing and crating for a major exhibition made it impossible for him to work in his sculpture studios, Henry Moore retreated to a small studio that looks out on a sheep meadow. Over the course of several months, as sheep were suckled and sheared, Moore produced this…
Henry Carroll is an author, editor, and screenwriter with an MFA from the Royal College of Art, London. His bestselling Read This if You Want to Take Great Photographs series has sold over one million copies across 22 languages. He is also the author of Photographers on Photography. Originally from London,…
Henry Plummer is Professor Emeritus of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received his M.Arch from MIT, studied light-art with György Kepes, and was a photographic apprentice to Minor White. He is the author of numerous books on the art of light in architecture, including The Architecture of…
Late 1970s New York City was bankrupt and its streets dirty and dangerous. But thecity had a wild, raw energy that made it the crucible for the birth of rap culture and graffiti. Graffiti writers worked in extremely tough conditions: uncollected garbage, darkness, cramped spaces, and the constant threat of police…
Henry Chalfant is a photographer and videographer most notable for his work on graffiti, breakdance, and hip-hop culture.
Henry Luttikhuizen is Professor of Art History Emeritus at Calvin University. He has served as the president of the Midwest Art History Society and the American Association of Netherlandic Studies.
Henry Whitbread studied comparative theology at Cambridge University. He lives in England.
James Sherwood is a London-based style writer, broadcaster, and curator. Currently editor-at-large for The Rake magazine, he has written for the Financial Times and the International Herald Tribune, among others, and is the author of Jewelry for Gentlemen, Bespoke, and Henry Poole & Co.
Karl Orend is an author and editor, and the founder and director of Alyscamps Press. He was manager of Shakespeare & Company in Paris for ten years, and is a leading authority on Henry Miller, as well as a translator of several classics of surrealism including work by André Breton, Paul…
Whether dancing on the rooftops in Paris, sharing ideas with Pablo Picasso, or gathering starfish on the beaches of Cornwall, Eileen Agar transformed the everyday into the extraordinary. Her legacy as a pioneering figure in the surrealist movement is firmly established, and her work continues to captivate audiences with its otherworldly…
Ronald Moody is a significant artist of the twentieth century, yet until now there has been no comprehensive monograph on his work. This biography explores the development of his sculpture, reestablishing his place within the story of twentieth-century art.
Born in Jamaica, Moody arrived in Britain in 1923, establishing studios in…
Stephen J. Campbell (Henry and Elizabeth Wisenfeld Professor Johns Hopkins University) is a specialist in Italian art of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, focusing on the artistic culture of North Italian court centers, on the Ferrarese painter Cosmè Tura, and the Paduan Andrea Mantegna. His research explores the relationship between artistic…
In 1984 the groundbreaking Subway Art brought graffiti to the world, presenting stunning photographic documentation of the burgeoning movement in New York. Thirty years later, this bible of street art has been updated with over seventy photographs not included in the original edition and new insights on an incredibly rich period…
Enchanting, captivating, precious—Venice is one of the most cherished cities in the world. For centuries it was the heart of a global maritime power and a crossroads for diverse cultures. Today the city attracts millions of visitors each year, enticed by its irresistible beauty. Art lovers are drawn here by the…
The 1980s were a time of bold exploration, dazzling creativity, inspiring unity—and stark division. Technology, media, gender roles, race, sexuality, geopolitics, climate, our place in the universe. You name it: the 1980s saw almost all aspects of humanity challenged, upturned, and reimagined. From partying to parting, travel back in time to…
For over five hundred years, empires have been a feature of the political landscape, and today, many contemporary conflicts resonate with issues tied to colonial conquest and the uneasy situations they produced. Empires evoke potent images: Henry Morton Stanley, David Livingstone, and the gallery of colonial explorers; the Spanish conquistadors’ quest…
Alexandra Green is the Henry Ginsburg Curator for Southeast Asia in the Department of Asia at the British Museum, London.
This introduction to the art of California focuses on the distinctive role the state played in the history of American art, from early twentieth-century photography and Chicanx mural painting to the fiber art movement and beyond. Shaped by a compelling network of geopolitical influences—including waves of migration and exchange from the…
Britain has a rich past, with incredible archaeology. Every day, new discoveries transform our understanding of its history. Most are made not by professional archaeologists, but by ordinary members of the public. Some are chance finds; others are recovered by the thousands of fieldwalkers, mudlarks, and metal detectorists who scour Britain’s…
Betel Cutters: From the Samuel Eilenberg Collection
The African diaspora—a direct result of the transatlantic slave trade and Western colonialism—has generated a wide array of artistic achievements, from blues and reggae to the paintings of the pioneering American artist Henry Ossawa Tanner and the music videos of Solange. This study concentrates on how these works, often created during…
No photographer is more closely associated with a city than Brassai (1899–1984) is with Paris. From the moment he moved there in 1924, he devoted his life and art to immortalizing his adopted city—capturing the street life by day, the cafés and the Seine by night. A friend of Picasso and…
As a medium of documentation, social commentary, commercial marketing, artistic exploration, and self-expression over the last two centuries, photography has in many ways defined the way we view ourselves and the world around us. A Chronology of Photography traces the development of the medium from early experiments with optics by artists…
David Bindman is emeritus Durning-Lawrence professor of the history of art at University College London. He is currently a fellow of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Harvard University, and he was a visiting professor of history of art at Harvard, 2011-2017. His publications include Blake as an…
