Art Forms, Treatments & Subjects Books

The work of Banksy is unmistakable, except maybe when it's squatting in the Tate or New York's Metropolitan Museum. Banksy is responsible for decorating the streets, walls, bridges and zoos of towns and cites throughout the world. This fully coloured illustrated volume presents the best of his work.

Brings together the collected photographs of Slinkachu, a street-artist who for several years has been leaving little hand-painted people in the bustling city to fend for themselves, waiting to be discovered.

This introductory volume shows the best of Francis Bacon's work.

A lush sourcebook of nearly two thousand tattoo designs from artists around the world. From the editors of TattooFinder.com, it's a fantastic compendium for people who want to think before they ink!

This work elucidates the values and meanings that can be ascribed to Bacon's work, and discusses criticisms of Bacon by distinguished critics and philosophers.

Banksy is responsible for decorating the streets, walls, bridges and zoos of towns and cites throughout the world. Witty and subversive, his stencils show monkeys with weapons of mass destruction, policeman with smiley faces, rats with drills, and umbrellas. This work features his work with illustrations.

Features 1001 paintings, ranging from ancient Egyptian wallpaintings to contemporary Western canvases, which were selected by Professor of Fine Art and acclaimed painter, Stephen Farthing. It also contains text written by a team of artists, curators, art critics and collectors which illuminates both the paintings and the people who painted them.

A guide to paintings and sculpture from around the world. It helps you to bring a gallery of more than 2,500 of the world's most influential paintings and sculptures and learn what you need to know about art history. It enables you to learn how to 'read' composition, subject matter, technique and style as key paintings are examined.

Phases of Expressionism and Surrealism led Rothko (1903-1970) to become one of the most outstanding figures of Abstract Expressionism. This work offers an informative overview of this Russian-born American painter.

A complete professional course for artists.

Not everyone can draw, but everyone loves to doodle. This book features over 200 doodles to complete. It helps children express their imagination and feelings, and tell their own picture stories.

Revised and Expanded Edition. This gorgeously illustrated and completely updated book introduces art lovers to the finest works from Londons National Gallery, tracing the history of European paintings from the thirteenth to the twentieth century.

Featuring stars of film, TV, music and sport, this book celebrates the ultimate celebrity accessory: the tattoo. It looks at the global trend of celebrity body art, and the designs that have become iconic and influenced millions of imitators since adorning the arm, back, hip, or elsewhere of the likes of Xtina, Paris, Amy, Becks and Angelina.

3rd edition

Throughout his artistic career, Mark Rothko (1903-70) was concerned with what other people saw when they looked at his canvases. Presenting a series of analytic, personal, and even poetic essays, this book explores the experience of standing before Rothko's compelling artistic creations. It also includes a bibliography of texts by Rothko.

A new practical art book that combines the finest of two existing bestsellers - 'The Fundamentals of Drawing' and 'Advanced Drawing Skills'.

Explores the streets of Banksy's Bristol and interviews many of the people who worked with Banksy in his early years. This book is a photographic collections of Banksy's Bristol work from the freehand wall paintings in Easton to the iconic Mild Mild West, his stencils and more. It contains more than 100 images.

Offers an examination of Francis Bacon through critical commentary, reproductions, and private photographs. This book presents an overview of Bacon's life, analyses his paintings, and examines the creative processes they embody. It also explores Bacon's subtle use of space, the development of his imagery, and idiosyncratic painting technique.

Artists have long sought to capture the intimacy and tranquility of reading in their work. There was a time, however when female literacy was a radical idea, and women have certainly not always been free to read whatever they want, whether for pleasure or instruction. Including works by a diverse range of artists from Vermeer, Manet and Whistler to Edward Hopper and photographer Eve Arnold, this .