Lives of the Artists, Lives of the Architects (Obrist Hans Ulrich)(Paperback)

Ways of Curating (Obrist Hans Ulrich)(Paperback / softback)

Moving from meetings with artists to the creation of the first public museums in the 18th century, recounting the practice of inspirational figures such as Diaghilev, skipping between exhibitions, continents and centuries, the author argues that curation is far from a static

The Richter Interviews (Obrist Hans Ulrich)(Paperback)

The Richter Interviews collects conversations between Hans Ulrich Obrist and Gerhard Richter conducted over the course of more than two decades of discussion and collaboration. Subjects discussed range from Richter's place within art history to artists' books, architecture, religion, unrealized

Ai Weiwei Speaks - with Hans Ulrich Obrist (Obrist Hans Ulrich)(Paperback / softback)

Lives of the Artists (Vasari Giorgio)(Paperback)

In his Lives of the Artists of the Italian Renaissance, Vasari demonstrated a literary talent that outshone even his outstanding abilities as a painter and architect. Through character sketches and anecdotes he depicts Piero di Cosimo shut away in his derelict house, living only to paint; Giulio

Lives of the Artists: Volume 1 (Vasari Giorgio)(Paperback)

In his Lives of the Artists of the Italian Renaissance, Vasari demonstrated a literary talent that outshone even his outstanding abilities as a painter and architect. Through character sketches and anecdotes he depicts Piero di Cosimo shut away in his derelict house, living only to paint; Giulio

The Lives of the Artists (Vasari Giorgio)(Paperback)

These biographies of the great quattrocento artists have long been considered among the most important of contemporary sources on Italian Renaissance art. Vasari, who invented the term 'Renaissance,' was the first to outline the influential theory of Renaissance art that traces a progression

Adrian Villar Rojas (Obrist Hans Ulrich)(Paperback)

The first book to explore the fascinating career and fantasy-driven worlds created by the acclaimed Argentinean artistAdri n Villar Rojas's works concoct imaginary realms. Usually made from clay, his colossal installations are transitory and so cannot be collected, as they disappear or decay over

What Artists Wear (Porter Charlie)(Paperback / softback)

Most of us live our lives in our clothes without realizing their power. But in the hands of artists, garments reveal themselves. They are pure tools of expression, storytelling, resistance and creativity: canvases on which to show who we really are.In What Artists Wear, style luminary Charlie

The Life of Raphael (Vasari Giorgio)(Pevná vazba)

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 Michelangelo, it paints a vivid picture of the progress of art in the hands of individual masters. This

Chris Orr: The Miserable Lives of Fabulous Artists (Orr Chris)(Pevná vazba)

A celebration of the lives of the fabulously artistic, as they come up against Chris Orr's irreverent wit, and published to coincide with a show of the works at the Royal

Lives of the Caesars (Suetonius)(Paperback)

The Lives of the Caesars include the biographies of Julius Caesar and the eleven subsequent emperors: Augustus, Tiberius, Gaius Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Galba, Otho, Vitelius, Vespasian, Titus, Domitian. Suetonius composed his material from a variety of sources, without much concern for their

Roman Lives: A Selection of Eight Lives (Plutarch)(Paperback)

'I treat the narrative of the Lives as a kind of mirror...The experience is like nothing so much as spending time in their company and living with them: I receive and welcome each of them in turn as my guest.'In the eight lives of this collection Plutarch introduces the reader to the major figures

The Metamorphosis of the World (Beck Ulrich)(Paperback)

We live in a world that is increasingly difficult to understand. It is not just changing: it is metamorphosing. Change implies that some things change but other things remain the same capitalism changes, but some aspects of capitalism remain as they always were. Metamorphosis implies a much more

Lives in Architecture: Terry Farrell (Farrell Terry)(Paperback)

Terry Farrell is one of Britain's most influential architects of the twenty-first century. Offering a compelling personal account of his life in architecture as an influential postmodern designer, architect-planner and principal of a leading global practice, this autobiography includes anecdotes

Houdini's Box - The Art of Escape (Phillips Adam)(Paperback / softback)

This text explores the lives of four different escape artists: a little girl playing her own wayward version of hide and seek; Harry Houdini who electrifies the world through a series of escapes; a man always in flight from women; and Emily Dickinson who spends her life in solitary

My Life with the Great Pianists (Mohr Franz)(Paperback)

Mohr's humor and personal perspective on the lives of Rubinstein, Horowitz, and other artists mix music lore with quiet

Daisy Chain - a novel of The Glasgow Girls (Ritchie Maggie)(Pevná vazba)

Inspired by the eventful and colourful lives of the pioneering women artists The Glasgow Girls, Daisy Chain is a story of independence, resilience and female friendship, set against the turbulent background of the early years of the 20th

Greek Lives (Plutarch)(Paperback)

I treat the narrative of the Lives as a kind of mirror...The experience is like nothing so much as spending time in their company and living with them: I receive and welcome each of them in turn as my guest. Here, Plutarch introduces the major figures and periods of classical Greece, detailing the

Lives of the Caesars (Suetonius)(Paperback / softback)

The Way We Live Now (Trollope Anthony)(Paperback)

Inspired by the financial scandals of its era, The Way We Live Now is a portrait of a society corrupted by greed that continues to resonate with modern readers. Taking place in 1870s Victorian London, the characters are comprised of a motley cast of financiers, investors, and determined

Sharp Tongues, Loose Lips, Open Eyes, Ears to the Ground (Obrist Hans-Ulrich)(Paperback)

With an ode by Olafur EliassonFollowing Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Curating* *But Were Afraid to Ask, this second volume in the series on international curator Hans Ulrich Obrist presents a selection of his key writings from the past two decades, which elaborate on the manifold

The Lives of Colonial Objects (Cooper Annabel)(Paperback)

'The Lives of Colonial Objects' is a sumptuously illustrated and highly readable book about things, and the stories that unfold when we start to investigate them. In this collection of 50 essays the authors, including historians, archivists, curators and Maori scholars, have each chosen an object

The Real Lives of Roman Britain (de la Bdoyre Guy)(Paperback)

An innovative, informative, and entertaining history of Roman Britain told through the lives of individuals in all walks of life The Britain of the Roman Occupation is, in a way, an age that is dark to us. While the main events from 55 BC to AD 410 are little disputed, and the archaeological

The Three Lives of Dylan Thomas (Janes Hilly)(Paperback)

In The Three Lives of Dylan Thomas, journalist Hilly Janes explores the poet's life and extraordinary legacy through the eyes of her father, the artist Alfred Janes. A member of Thomas's inner circle, he painted the poet at three key moments: in 1934, 1953 and, posthumously in 1964, portraits which