David Henry Wilson
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David Henry Wilson is the author of some twenty children’s books, including the popular Jeremy James series. He lives in England.
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My Favorite Animal Families
Steve Bloom, David Henry Wilson
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…
Elephants: A Book for Children
Steve Bloom
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
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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…
Floral Patterns of India: 10 Sheets of Wrapping Paper with 12 Gift Tags
Henry Wilson
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.…
Floral Patterns of India: 16 Notecards
Henry Wilson
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…
Patterns of India: 10 Sheets of Wrapping Paper with 12 Gift Tags
Henry Wilson
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…
Henry Moore's Sheep Sketchbook
Henry Moore
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 Poole & Co.: The First Tailor of Savile Row
James Sherwood
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…
Black Chronicles: Photography, Race and Difference in Victorian Britain
Edited by Renée Mussai
These striking studio portraits, curated and brought together following ten years of research championed by Autograph, constitute the most comprehensive collection of nineteenth-century photography depicting the Black subject in the Victorian era, including some of the earliest known images of Black people photographed in Britain.
The historically marginalized lives of both…
Henry Carroll
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Henry Carroll is the author of fourteen books including the Read This if You Want to Take Great Photographs series, which has sold over one million copies across twenty-two languages. He is also the author of Photographers on Photography, the Photographs That Make You Think series, and The 1980s: Image of…
Henry Luttikhuizen
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Henry Luttikhuizen is the Lena Meijer Professor of Art History at Aquinas College. He has served as the president of the Midwest Art History Society and the American Association of Netherlandic Studies. With Dorothy Verkerk, he co-authored the second edition of Snyder’s Medieval Art and with Larry Silver, the second edition…
Training Days: The Subway Artists Then and Now
Henry Chalfant, Sacha Jenkins
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…
A Chronology of Photography: A Cultural Timeline From Camera Obscura to Instagram
Paul Lowe
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…
A Look at My Life
Eileen Agar, Andrew Lambirth, Olivia Fraser
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…
Alexandra Green
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Alexandra Green is the Henry Ginsburg Curator for Southeast Asia in the Department of Asia at the British Museum, London.
Art in California
Jenni Sorkin
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…
Beneath Our Feet: Everyday Discoveries Reshaping History
Michael Lewis, Ian Richardson, Mackenzie Crook
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…
Black Art: A Cultural History
Richard J. Powell
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…
Brassaï (Photofile)
Roger Grenier
No photographer is more closely associated with a city than Brassaï (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…
Comrades in Art: Artists Against Fascism 1933-1943
Andy Friend, Frances Spalding
From the Great Depression to World War II, the lives and work of British artists intersected with a world in crisis. A compelling group biography, Comrades in Art explores the political forces that shaped the development of modern art in Britain, tracing how artists set aside aesthetic differences to mobilize on…
David Bindman
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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 Artist,…
Face Time: A History of the Photographic Portrait
Phillip Prodger
Photographic portraiture has always served a number of functions: from practical identification to storytelling and the intimate personal portrait. With a fresh approach, Face Time explores the many modes of portraiture—from fine art photography to fashion, and from anthropology to cinema—as well as the ways we encounter and interpret a portrait,…
Grayson Perry
Jacky Klein
Grayson Perry, renowned for his ceramic vases decorated with shocking, unconventional imagery, rose to fame in 2003 when he won the Turner Prize. Since then, Perry has remained an important voice in the arts and the contemporary discussion of gender—in 2016, he published the critically acclaimed book The Descent of Man.…
Henry Chalfant
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Henry Chalfant is a photographer and videographer most notable for his work on graffiti, breakdance, and hip-hop culture.
Hockney's Portraits and People
Marco Livingstone, Kay Haymer
Ever since he made his first portraits and self-portraits at the age of sixteen, David Hockney has been fascinated by people—“the human clay,” as W. H. Auden put it—and how they have been represented throughout the history of art. As much as any other artist in recent years, he has embraced,…
James Sherwood
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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
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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…
Richard Hollis
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Richard Hollis is a British graphic designer. He has taught at various art schools, written several books, and worked as a printer and magazine editor. He designed the quarterly journal Modern Poetry in Translation, was art editor of the weekly magazine New Society, and designed John Berger’s Ways of Seeing. He…
Ronald Moody: Sculpting Life
Ego Ahaiwe Sowinski, Eleanor Clayton, Paul Dash, David Bailey, Errol Lloyd, Cynthia Moody, Val Wilmer
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
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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…
Subway Art
Henry Chalfant, Martha Cooper
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…
Suzanne Preston Blier
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Suzanne Preston Blier is an art historian, currently professor of fine arts and professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University, and a leading expert on African art, architecture, and culture. Her many books include A History of Art in Africa (coauthor), Royal Arts of Africa, Art and Risk in…