An updated edition of this classic title on the origins of 20th-century ideas in architecture and the applied arts.The turn of the nineteenth century saw an extraordinary flowering of i...
Surprising, questioning, challenging, enriching: the Pocket Perspectives series celebrates writers and thinkers who have helped shape the conversation across the arts. Mixing classic and contempora...
In this classic essay, renowned art historian and pioneering feminist Linda Nochlin explores how, from the late 18th century, fragmented, mutilated and fetishized representations of the human body ...
An interpretation of the history of mural painting from ancient Egypt to the twentieth century by one of most eminent art historians of all time, who wielded huge influence over both his profession...
Stencils are ubiquitous in the fields of industry, military, traffic and transportation, as well as in the home, often applied as ornamental patterns on cabinets, walls and floors. And because they...
No other art movement in history has contained two artists as different as Magritte and Miró. This is because Surrealism was not in origin an art movement, but a philosophical strategy. It w...
An essential guide to how the power of art has been harnessed to effect political change across the modern world, from the struggle for universal suffrage to Black Lives Matter.A well-r...
Lonely Planet's New York City is our most comprehensive guide that extensively covers all the city has to offer, with recommendations for both popular and lesser-known experiences. Catch a show on ...
A revised and expanded edition of the book described by Books Monthly as ‘an absolute gem. A bible, in fact’.If the future is going to be creative, then Hegarty on Advertising points yo...
An accessible introduction to a writer whose work is of timeless significance and whose unconventional life is a continuous source of fascination.In 1907, when she was twenty-five and n...
Lonely Planet’s USA is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Catch a Broadway show in New York, marvel at the G...
Lonely Planet’s Austria is our most comprehensive guide that extensively covers all the country has to offer, with recommendations for both popular and lesser-known experiences. Ski in the Al...
Lonely Planet's Egypt is our most comprehensive guide that extensively covers all the country has to offer, with recommendations for both popular and lesser-known experiences. Discover the pyramids...
Lonely Planet's Morocco is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Explore the Marrakesh medina, wander the...
Inside Lonely Planet’s Slovenia Travel Guide:Up-to-date information - all businesses were rechecked before publication to ensure they are still open after 2020’s...
A Train Journey takes readers on an international journey through the history of trains and brings the locomotives to life in pop-up detail. Created by the world's leading paper engineer and art di...
From the rise of the egalitarian Little Free Library movement (motto: 'Take a book, return a book') to the growth in luxury hotel libraries, Alex Johnson - whose parents were both librarians - maps...
Graphic Design School is organized into two main sections, ‘principles’ and ‘practice’. The first section deals with the fundamentals of design, such as composition, hierarc...
Karl Lagerfeld lived a very public life. He shaped the Chanel and Fendi brands for decades, and his wit and wisdom amused and informed the world. Yet despite a massively public persona, his hinterl...
Giorgio Vasari’s The Lives of the Most Famous Painters, Sculptors and Architects (1550 and 1568) is a classic of cultural history. A monumental assembly of artists’ lives from Giotto to...