More than 200 years of surfing cultureThis volume is a comprehensive visual history of surfing, marking a major cultural event as much as a publication. Following three and a half years...
When traditional craft met blossoming ModernismPoets and intellectuals brushed shoulders in bustling coffeehouses, young avant-gardists heralded a new era in social and sexual liberalism, wal...
Architectural remnants of the USSRElected the architectural book of the year by the International Artbook and Film Festival in Perpignan, France, Frédéric Chaubin’s Cosmic...
When is a urinal no longer a urinal? When Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) declared it to be art. The uproar that greeted the French artist’s Fountain (1917), a porcelain urinal installed in ...
A catalogue raisonné of “the painter’s painter”Manet called him “the greatest painter of all.” Picasso was so inspired by his masterpiece Las Meninas that...
The roaring twenties in BerlinIt was the decade of daring Expressionist canvases, of brilliant book design, of the Bauhaus total work of art, of pioneering psychology, of drag balls, cabaret,...
Wolfgang Tillmans compiles 30 years of his workto draw a picture of where we are todayLike hardly any other artist of his generation, Wolfgang Tillmans has shaped our perception of the ...
Lyrical forms from FinlandAlvar Aalto (1898–1976) made a unique modernist mark. Influenced by both the landscape and the political independence of his native Finland, he designed warm, ...
Space ShapersAn encyclopedia of modern architectureWith more than 280 entries, this architectural A–Z, now part of our Bibliotheca Universalis series, offers an indispensabl...
The Many Worlds of Dennis HopperA reluctant icon captures a decade of cultural transformationDuring the 1960s, Dennis Hopper carried a camera everywhere—on film sets and loc...
A monumental retrospective of the Case Study Houses programThe Case Study House program (1945–66) was an exceptional, innovative event in the history of American architecture and remain...
A century of great buildings and their creatorsThe architecture of the 20th century is distinguished by an astonishing diversity. Just as the clash of aesthetic and commercial ambitions never...
Tadao Ando’s complete works from 1975 until todayDiscover the unique aesthetic of Tadao Ando, the only architect ever to have won the discipline’s four most prestigious prizes: th...
Luminary design of the 20th centuryDesigned to be a companion to our classic title 1000 Chairs, this edition contains an awesome selection of over 1,000 lights. Presented chronologicall...
In the mid-1950s, Yves Klein (1928–1962) declared that “a new world calls for a new man.” With his idiosyncratic style and huge charisma, this bold artist would go on to pursue a ...
In a fleeting fourteen year period, sandwiched between two world wars, Germany’s Bauhaus school of art and design changed the face of modernity. With utopian ideals for the future, the school...
After flirtations with Realism, Impressionism, and Symbolism, Kiev-born Kazimir Malevich (1878–1935) found his métier in dissolving literal, representational figures and landscapes int...
Divine forms: The heavenly grace and human grandeur of a supreme Renaissance master In art history, we tend to be on first name terms only with the most revered of masters. The Renaissance painter ...
Sharp angles, strange forms, lurid colors, and distorted perspectives are classic hallmarks of Expressionism, the twentieth century movement that prioritized emotion over objective reality. Though ...
The neglected champions of ImpressionismIt was a dappled and daubed harbor scene that gave Impressionism its name. When Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet was exhibited in April 1874, critic...