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The Architecture Concept Book

978-0-500-29413-0

“An insightful primer for students and young professionals looking to formulate and develop enduring architectural design strategies… Tait offers clear guidance on how to assess, analyze, augment and assemble meaningful architectural experiences… [His] greatest strength is his ability to unpack and demystify the discussion surrounding the architectural design process. Written in a straightforward style, his book is a refreshing break from the scholarly jargon and esoteric hyperbole so common in architectural publications.”

— Canadian Architect

Arent & Pyke: Interiors Beyond the Primary Palette

978-1-760-76395-4

“A vibrant coffee-table book… Generous photographs of homes Arent and Pyke have decorated illustrate what [their] principles look like in practice… Color's ability to affect mood makes it the author's favorite tool… The appealing interiors are worth the price of admission.”

— Publishers Weekly

Around Antarctica: Exploring the Frozen South

978-0-500-65313-5

“Wonderfully informative, beautifully designed… Pack[ed] with wide-ranging yet pertinent information. The detailed, colorful illustrations enhance and augment the informative yet playful text and interactive nature of the book's design: a quarter-circle format that opens into a hemisphere with several gatefolds that open into full circles.”

— Shelf Awareness (starred review)

Art & Ecology Now

978-0-500-23916-2

“Art students and others curious about creative possibilities in the important, contemporary field of eco-art will obtain a broad overview…Recommended.”

— Choice

“Some 300 color illustrations pack a feature of some 90 artists and collectives, recommended for any collection strong in modern arts representations.”

— Protoview

The Art and Life of Hilma af Klint

978-0-500-65317-3

“A wild ride [that] pulls readers into the story making them yearn to discover more about this spiritual, artistic young woman… A welcome and riveting tale of an often overlooked artist, interesting enough to engage any age, from elementary to high school.”

— School Library Journal (starred review)

Art in California

978-0-500-20461-0

“A much-needed survey of the history of visual art in California from the early 20th century to the present… Manage[s] to lucidly layer the sociopolitical, geographic, institutional, and cultural concerns of the moment… Sorkin's survey is an unprecedented example of inclusivity, consistently foregrounding craftspeople, artist-educators, women, queer artists, and artists of color — while reiterating that for most of the period covered by this book, opportunity in the art world (in California as elsewhere) was restricted to white, heterosexual men. Her approach is refreshingly nonhierarchical: she gives nearly every artist mentioned roughly the same amount space, regardless of their art-world status.”

— Hyperallergic

Art in Hungary 1956-1980: Doublespeak and Beyond

978-0-500-23978-0

“A fresh, richly informative, and multifaceted picture …The book provides an impressively rich and prismatically presented body of information that could serve equally well as an accessible introduction for a novice reader and as a scholarly resource for a reader already initiated into the key problematics and possibilities of art under state socialism.”

— Tyrus Miller ARTMargins Online

The Art Museum in Modern Times

978-0-500-02243-6

“Charles Saumarez Smith has written a deeply important and original book, drawing on a lifetime of experience in the worlds of art, museums, and culture. It combines humane and thoughtful generalizations about the place and purpose of galleries today with vivid evocations of particular art museums from around the world. Beautifully written and deftly constructed, it is a landmark work.”

— Professor Sir David Cannadine, Dodge Professor of History, Princ

“I love the style, tone and perspective, the personal experience present along the way, and the open mode of thinking and reflecting on what is seen. That is rare in museum literature and gives a special authority and also a thrill to the text.”

— Professor Mari Lending, Professor of Architectural History and T

“A wise and insightful tour of our most successful art museums. One couldn't ask for a better informed or more congenial guide. Highly recommended.”

— Professor Andrew McClellan, Professor of History of Art and Muse

“Former National Portrait Gallery director Smith examines how museums' architecture and design has elevated the experience of art in this perceptive and generously illustrated volume… Insightful and thought provoking, this work is required reading for cultural historians, art connoisseurs, and museumgoers.

— Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“Lively, informative… The author has insider knowledge of the needs of present-day institutions dedicated to showing art… A good read.”

— The New Criterion

“A brisk tour through around forty art museums around the world… The diversity of museums in the book is rich and rewarding.”

— A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

“A work of art… Abounds with gorgeously reproduced black-and-white and color photos--of buildings and galleries, of their creators--that help the author tell the stories of each of 43 art spaces… Engaging [and] memorable.”

— Shelf Awareness

The Art of Sound: A Visual History for Audiophiles

978-0-500-51928-8

“Designers and pop culture aficionados will appreciate this rich tale of how recorded music was marketed… The Art of Sound is a singular and comprehensive history that makes visual the capturing and playback of sound, a fitting tribute to those earliest recordings made by marks warbling through soot.”

— Print Magazine

“A beautifully illustrated history of sound recording, reproduction devices, and processes from the 1857 phonautograph to the present day's streaming audio. This predominately visual book is eye candy for the audiophile, but will be of interest to scholars of the material culture of sound, audio historians, collectors, and any individual interested in the history and technology of recording. Recommended.”

— Choice

Art of the Celts: From 700 B.C. to the Celtic Revival

978-0-500-20256-2

“The entire spectrum of Celtic art, with all its vibrancy, magical power, intricate pattern and ambiguity, is revealed in this splendid, concise introduction. It shows that there was no single unbroken tradition, but several diverse interweaving strands - each exemplified in the many beautiful objects the Celts created, whether decorative or mainly functional: elaborate weaponry, pottery, personal ornaments, enamelled bronze and silver, coins, and (later) illuminated manuscripts such as the Book of Kells. Increasingly influencing artists and designers and attracting a wider public, the rich treasury of Celtic art from the Iron Age to medieval Europe and more recent revivals, is celebrated in this volume.”

— Kirkus UK

Art Since 1960

978-0-500-20424-5

“Unpacks the complex diversity of the art of the past 50 years, identifying and defining its proliferation of styles, forms, techniques, influences, and motivations…Highly recommended.”

— Choice

Art Studio America: Contemporary Artist Spaces

978-0-500-97053-9

“Authors Maryam Eisler and Hossein Amirsadeghi spent a full year jetting and driving between the American coasts, peering into and documenting the private worlds of 115 artists.”

— Art & Auction

“In depth Q&As and behind-the-scenes photos capture the essence of modern art in this collection.”

— Entertainment Weekly

“Showcases photographs and interviews with established American artists in their studios.”

— ARTINFO

“The line-up is an A-list of anyone who's anyone in the contemporary art world.”

— Cool Hunting

“With interviews by leading art writers, the artists reveal not only their personal spaces but also their personal thoughts on everything from politics to passports.”

— Vanity Fair

“A sumptuous, heavily illustrated look at the studios of artists across the country.”

— The Daily Beast

“We find Laurie Simmons, Mickalene Thomas, Gregory Crewdson, and other darlings of contemporary art at their most open, poring over works in progress.”

— Architectural Digest

“A lavish compendium both trendy and archival, offering a snapshot glimpse and encyclopedic breadth…Recommended.”

— Choice

“Hossein Amirsadeghi's just-personal-enough questions elicit fresh responses from established masters as well as rising stars.”

— Sotheby's

“Not since Alexander Liberman's classic The Artist and His Studio …has there been a more ambitious undertaking to broaden the scale of this sort of book with revealing studio photographs while also including insightful texts and wonderful interviews.”

— The Brooklyn Rail

“Follows Amirsadeghi's successful Santuary: Britain's Artists and their Studios.”

— Christie's

“Explores the relationship between surroundings and creativity, contrasting intimate visits to artist studios with explorations of America's landscapes.”

— The Takeaway (WNYC)

“A Route 66 kind of journey across America's multifarious landscapes, stopping on the way to chat with a wide range of the country's artists and getting a good snoop around their studios.”

— The Art Newspaper

“Not since Alexander Liberman's classic The Artist and His Studio …has there been a more ambitious undertaking to broaden the scale of this sort of book with revealing studio photographs while also including insightful texts and wonderful interviews.”

— The Brooklyn Rail

“This beautifully illustrated journey through artists' studios provides an unprecedented look into the workings of one of the world's largest artistic communities.”

— Art New England

“One of Whitewall's favorite art books from 2013.”

— Whitewall

“Prepare to be dazzled by the workspaces of America's most gifted artists. This hefty survey shows the milieu in which these creators thrive…Smart essays by Robert Storr, Ben Genocchio, and Mark Godfrey provide context.”

— Art Desk

Art Unpacked: 50 Works of Art: Uncovered, Explored, Explained

978-0-500-02567-3

“Juxtaposing the famous with the lesser known and the Western with the Eastern, Wilson expertly illuminates technical details without losing sight of art's visceral pleasures. Enriched by lush color reproductions on every page, it's an excellent resource for those looking to get the most out of their next trip to the museum.”

— Publishers Weekly

“[A] stunner… It reproduces artworks—some famous and some not—and then annotates them. The text tells us about the materials used, constraints under which each piece was produced and differences between how they were originally appreciated and how they are now.”

— Star Tribune

Artisan Design: Collectible Furniture in the Digital Age

978-0-500-02244-3

“A spectacular guidebook to artisan furniture… Gura skillfully highlights the changes that the craft has seen through decades as she traces the different movements, how they influenced each other, and the evolution of furniture as technologies changed and new techniques were introduced. Design enthusiasts will want this on their coffee tables.”

— Publishers Weekly (starred review)

The Artist's Studio: A Cultural History

978-0-500-02171-2

“A good read with ample illustrations, and a welcome addition to cultural histories that tell the story of art in new and interesting ways.”

— Hyperallergic (One of Hyperallergic's Best Art Books of 2022)

“James Hall traces the development of creative spaces from ancient Greece to current times.”

— Artists Magazine

An Atlas of Es Devlin

978-0-500-02318-1

“Es is like superstring theory, at least eleven dimensions.”

— Hans Ulrich Obrist

“Es knows how to bend the mind around corners of our experience.”

— Benedict Cumberbatch

“Es takes our inchoate aspirations and sculpts them into a stage.”

— Bono

“Es is a turning point for anyone she interacts with.”

— Pharrell Williams

“Es creates moments in which we suddenly become aware of life and existing, and time.”

— Carlo Rovelli

“Category-defying… An exquisitely produced and immersive artwork in itself, containing photographs, texts, foldouts, pullouts, translucent overlays and cutout pages that reflect the intricacy and imaginative extent of Devlin's processes, from concept to final iteration.”

— The New York Times

“From the cardboard sculptures and paintings that developed into stage sets for the 2012 Olympic closing ceremony and the 2022 Super Bowl, to her activism, theater, poetry and more, this 900-page monograph traces…Es Devlin's three-decade-long career across disciplines.”

— The New York Times Book Review

“Vibrant photographs of Devlin's stage and arena structures contrast with the simplest of doodles, and everything in between. There are booklets within booklets; there are holes to look through and ideas to imagine… 858 pages altogether, in which the entire expanse of Devlin's world is mapped out (hence the title) in vivid color and sumptuous design… One of our most brilliant and creative modern artists comes to scintillating life before you.”

— Goldmine

“At around 900 pages, there's a lot to see, from school-age drawings and glances of [Es Devlin's] studio to maquettes of theatrical set designs and photographs of concerts by the likes of Adele and U2. Thankfully, with its mix of paper sizes and types, and the insertion of small gatefolds that further explain her design process, the book's format makes a voyage through it anything but boring; there are surprises at every turn of the page.”

— A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books

“Despite its heft, the book's complex form…feels intimate and inviting… A surprising variety of translucent and mirrored papers, page sizes, die cuts, and other unexpected moments invite readers to pause and appreciate the object they hold in their hands. The ideas startle, provoke, and reward. Devlin searches for ways to provide dopamine hits. As with her designs for the stage, she invites readers to become part of a temporary society traveling through a rich, creative landscape of observing and feeling… An Atlas of Es Devlin is an immersive, joyful reading experience, an encyclopedia of creativity, and a tribute to the sculptural possibilities of the printed book. It gives form and substance to the artist's philosophy of why she creates.”

— Print Magazine

Author, No. 1

978-0-692-63664-0

AUTHOR is unlike anything the print media has seen, with gilded pages ensconced inside black linen cover with a tip on photograph featuring one of four of the top models in the industry today: Chiharu Okunugi, Katlin Aas, Aymeline Valade, and Ajak Deng. Crack it open and you will discover a new world of luxury publishing that creates a seamless journey through fashion, photography, and art.”

— Crave Online