Examines how certain artists, from Salvador Dali to Damien Hirst, have wholeheartedly embraced both the cult of celebrity and the commercial cut and thrust of the art market. This book examines those who have engaged directly with trading their own wares. It accompanies a major exhibition at Tate Modern.

A pop-up book for young and old alike, featuring 600 black spots that slip, spin, swirl and slide their way across the page.

J M W Turner is regarded as the greatest painter Britain has ever produced. This book explores the fascinating aspect of his career, revealing detail on the debts and rivalries that shaped his work in often unexpected ways. It accompanies a major touring exhibition that brings together works by Turner with masterpieces by Claude and Canaletto.

Contains an essay by Andrew Marr, an A-Z of works in the collection, including acquisitions, and entries on over 120 artists as well as explanations of key terms in art and museology.

Offering coverage ranging from Impressionism to the Harlem Renaissance, from Cezanne to Post modernism, this book presents an introduction to modern art.

Presents a story that leads you through a spring day deep in the countryside, from dawn to dusk. This title is suitable for children learning to count.

Pop artist Peter Blake has an eye for the quirky and the overlooked. As well as being known as a painter, Blake is renowned for his works on paper and as a leading exponent of collage. This work displays the strong graphic sensibility and the love of popular culture for which the artist has long been renowned.

At Trewyn in St Ives, Barbara Hepworth created a unique combination of sub-tropical garden and sculpture park. This book is a record of the plants and sculptures at Trewyn throughout the seasons, exploring the botanical evolution of the garden and the relationship between art and nature.

Based in Los Angeles since the 1960s, John Baldessari (b. 1931) is one of the most influential artists of his generation. This book illustrates more than 150 works of the artist in full colour, with a selection of essays by some of the leading international critics, curators and art historians.

Occupying a key position in the history of western art, this book allows the author to communicate with his readers as he intended. It helps the readers to experience the mystery and beauty of his poems as he first created them, discovering for themselves the intricate web of symbol and meaning that connects word and image.

A pictorial record of the sculptor Barbara Hepworth's life, work and writings over 40 years, from childhood to her marriages to the sculptor John Skeaping and to Ben Nicholson, and from figuration through geometric and organic abstraction to the grandeur of her large-scale, post-war work.

Intended for college students and museum visitors, this volume defines terms, whether theme, movement, medium or practice, and complements the entries by over a hundred illustrations.

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.

Turner's lifetime was also the classic age of English watercolour, and his mastery and perfection of the medium coincided with its establishment as an independent art form. This volume examines the unique body of watercolours Turner produced throughout his lifetime. It also provides a context to the watercolours.

Presents an encounter between one of the 20th century's greatest philosophical minds and an artist fundamental to our understanding of the development of modern art. This title explores Manet's importance in the overthrow of traditional values in painting. It takes the form of a commentary on thirteen of Manet's paintings.

A portable entertainment system within the covers of a book that intends to keep adults and children alike engaged for hours.

One of a series exploring the lives and work of major artists associated with St Ives, this is a study of Barbara Hepworth and her work as a sculptor, which spanned five decades. Her art is discussed in the light of her contemporaries, including Henry Moore and Ben Nicholson, her second husband.

Miffy takes inspiration from a visit to an art gallery and decides to become an artist herself. Looking at the colour and shapes of the world around her she discovers what fun it can be to make pictures of the things she sees. By bedtime, her walls are full of all her wonderful artworks.

Dutch artist Theo van Doesburg (1883-1931) is perhaps best known as a prime mover in De Stijl, the Dutch artistic movement that demanded an extreme simplicity and abstraction in architecture and painting. This work explores the true extent of his influence, demonstrating that it reached far beyond Holland, in Europe, into Russia and beyond.

Antony Gormley's work generates lively debate, connecting readily with subjects of widespread concern. This book sets Gormley's art in its historical context, exploring his relationship to minimalism, arte povera, land and environmental art, as well as the challenge of engaging with figurative sculpture at the beginning of the 21st century.