The Kisokaido route through Japan was ordained in the early 1600s by the country’s then-ruler Tokugawa Ieyasu, who decreed that staging posts be installed along the length of the arduous pass...
Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) was one of the last great artists in the ukiyo-e tradition. Literally meaning "pictures of the floating world," ukiyo-e was a particular genre of art that fl...
Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) was one of the last great artists in the ukiyo-e tradition. Literally meaning "pictures of the floating world," ukiyo-e was a particular genre of art that fl...
This elegant volume showcases Hiroshige’s exquisite scenes of 19th-century Japan in a format that honors the Japanese bookmaking tradition.The last great master of the ukiyo-e tra...
Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858) is een van de beroemdste prentkunstenaars uit het negentiende-eeuwse Japan. Dit nieuwe boek, Hiroshige – Nature and the City, is het meest uitgebreide over...
This magnificent boxed set includes a silkbound volume of stunning, accordion-fold, color reproductions of Hiroshige’s complete series, accompanied by a separate booklet with background...
In the age of big data and digital distribution, when news travel ever further and faster and media outlets compete for a fleeting slice of online attention, information graphics have swept center ...
An international phenomenon and pop-culture classic, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has been a radio show, TV series, novel, stage play, comic book and film. Following the galactic (mis)adven...
The life and loves of one of the world’s best known artists, now published in paperback to coincide with a major exhibition at the Royal Academy, LondonSpanning several decades and show...
Hokusai created sublime works during the last thirty years of his life, right up to his death at the age of ninety. Publications have hitherto presented his long career as a chronological sequence....
The accompanying hardback title to the British Museum exhibition Hokusai: The Great Picture Book of Everything.This landmark publication documents a major new discovery of over 100 draw...
Religion, Renaissance, and Reformation—these three ideologies shaped the world of 16th-century portraitist Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/98–1543), a pivotal figure of the Northern Rena...
16th-century Europe was a time of unprecedented economic expansion, cross-cultural trade, religious upheaval, warring empires, and scientific advancement. With unfettered access to the court of Hen...
Across small cottages and lavish villas, beach houses and forest refuges, discover the world’s finest crop of new homes. This cutting-edge global digest features such talents as Shigeru Ban, ...
Get ready to quake in fear with this revised and expanded edition of our history of horror cinema. This chilling volume packs 640 pages full with the finest slashers, ghosts, zombies, cannibals, an...
What’s so unique about the houses of London? With row upon row of brick terraces, how do the capital’s most stylish people make their homes stand out? And how do those living in convers...
Featuring nineteen home-building and design strategies that are direct, original and often surprisingly simple, this inspirational sourcebook presents a mix of new technology and time-tested vernac...
Enter a world of haunting power and dark psychedelia with this tribute to the biomechanic visions of HR Giger. The anniversary edition spans the artist’s painting, sculpture, film design, ico...
Album prezentujący najpiękniejsze ikony w polskich kolekcjach. Arcydzieła sztuki Kościoła Wschodniego pochodzące z okresu od XV do XVIII wieku, niezwykłe przedstawienia Chrystusa Pantokratora, Matk...
Na wystawie w 1874 roku Claude Monet pokazał w atmosferze skandalu Impresję, wschód słońca ? obraz, który otworzył drogę do największej rewolucji w sztuce XIX wieku. Miejsce skostniałego stylu akad...