James Mallord William Turner entered the Royal Academy at 14 and a year later was exhibiting. His first loves were architecture, engraving and watercolours, and the country houses, cathedrals and landscape of England. He was mean with money, never married, and spent a lot of his life living in taverns. His dying words were: 'The Sun is God.'

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780-1867) produced a body of work that strongly appealed to his contemporaries while disconcerting them. This book offers an account on various aspects of Ingres' achievement.

Caravaggio, or more Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (Milan 1571 - Porto Ercole 1610), was a legend even in his own lifetime. Celebrated by some for his naturalism and his revolutionary pictorial inventions, he was considered by others to have destroyed painting. This book examines Caravaggio's oeuvre with a catalogue raisonee of his works.

Artists, photographers, architects, fashion designers, product designers, street artists, graphic designers: all are helping to redefine our aesthetics, values and ideas about the future. This compendium includes a selection of five people who are making significant contributions to the way we experience everyday life and visual culture.

Provides the reader with an insight into the life and work of one of history's most intriguing figures, Leonardo Da Vinci. Almost all of his work is presented in this volume - from his paintings and frescos, to detailed reproductions of his remarkable encrypted notebooks.

An artist of the 20th century, Marc Chagall (1887-1985) created a world full of pathos, poetry, humor, and enchantment, drawing on vivid memories of his Jewish upbringing in Russia. This title covers various aspects of Chagall's work from paintings to stained glass, tapestries, ceramics, and more.

Offers views of the life and works of Dali, one of the world's most famous artists of the 20th century. This book takes the reader through the life of one of the leading lights of the Surrealist movement.

Focusing on 120 of J.M.W. Turner's works, this volume provides a survey of all the aspects of the Tate Turner collections, introducing not only familiar masterpieces but many other works - such as sketchbooks or prints. These highlight Turner's achievements and the many themes to his work.

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.

HR Giger first received acclaim in the 1960s with his airbrushed fantasy landscapes. However, he scored his breakthrough in applied art, and in his high-profile movie work on Ridley Scott's Alien . This book was designed by the artist himself, and features commentaries in which Giger describes his work from the early 1960s to the late 1990s.

Nature artist Darren Woodhead captures in painting and words the natural beauty of countryside around Carlops and valley of the North Esk river. This book comprises of him creating a record of the area - the hills, the flora and fauna - the contrasting barrenness and bleakness of winter with the explosive colours of spring and summer.

Focuses on the creativity of childhood.

American sculptor Harriet Hosmer (1830-1908) moved to Rome in 1852 to live among a community of British and American artists, writers, scholars, and 'independent women'. This book offers a comprehensive, illustrated overview his work. It explores the complexities of Hosmer's career, reputation, and legacy.

The art of William Wiley (b 1937) has stood the test of time in the face of changing styles, successive movements, critical theories, and passing fashion. This book considers the artist - William T Wiley's career through 2008.

A collection of paintings of an artist whose erotic, provocative and emotionally charged paintings have made him one of Britain's most successful contemporary artists. It features women - the mysterious, seductive, beautiful, languid, passionate and powerful.

The Figurative Art of Jia Lu.

As a young man the American painter John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) was passionate about the sea and deeply knowledgeable about ships and seafaring. This scrapbook relates Sargent's freely handled marine drawings, large and small, to his watercolours, oil sketches, and finished oil paintings of marine subjects.