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U-Dox
Presents a global survey of sneaker designs that have been released over the last decade. This title showcases the very best of this new sneaker culture, featuring more than 300…
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Hughes Croggon
Impresario: Paul Taylor, The Melbourne Years, 1981-1984 brings together a diverse body of texts focused on Paul Taylor, the Australian editor, writer, curator and impresario, and in particular his important…
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Calvin Tomkins
First published in 1971 and now available for a younger generation with a new introduction by the author, Living Well Is the Best Revenge is Calvin Tomkins’ now-classic account of…
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Catherine Ingram
Salvador Dali is one of the most popular artists in the world, known for his lavish lifestyle, gravity-defying moustache and bizarre art. This book tells the story of Dali’s life…
Andy Warhol, the iconic Pop artist, presented himself as the vacuous, dumb kid, famously saying, ‘If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of…
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Manuel Lima
This book exposes our long-lasting obsession with trees, as metaphors for organising and representing hierarchical information and provide a broad visual framework for the various types of executions, many dating…
Bob Nickas
The definitive survey of contemporary abstract painting, featuring eighty of the most innovative painters from around the world.
Robert Klanten
Products, brands, and ideas that capture the evolving ethos of today’s outdoor and lifestyle entrepreneurs.
R. Klante
Today’s glamorous chambers of curiosity are to apartment design what the dandy is to fashion.
Rossella Menegazzo,Stefania Piotti,Kenya Hara
The beauty and essence of Japanese design through 300 objects.
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Betty Churcher
In Australian Notebooks, Betty Churcher revisits some of the artworks she most cherishes - a seminal Picasso, early works of the Heidelberg School, a striking portrait by Lucian Freud -…
Andrew Brown
Eco awareness has had an enormous impact across all cultural and political spectrums, not least in the art world. This book presents an exploration of the ways in which contemporary…
Edmund de Waal,Emma Crichton-Miller
The first monograph on this internationally famous potter and writer, this book brings to life the man behind The Hare with Amber Eyes. Stunning photography reveals a day in the…
Vivien Greene,Claudia Salaris
Presenting over 300 works executed between 1909 and 1944, this title encompasses painting and sculpture, and also architecture, design, ceramics, fashion, film, photography, advertising, free-form poetry, publications, music, theatre and…
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
Features recipes for ice cream on the moon; candied atmospheric electricities; nocturnal love feasts; sculpted meats.
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Tim Fisher,Anaïs Lellouche
Exhibition catalogue for Victor Hugo: Les Misérables - From Page to Stage, on show at the State Library of Victoria from 18 July to 9 November 2014. This illuminating book…
Jeffrey Deitch,Julia Gruen,Suzanne Geiss
The fantastic book is now available again in new smaller format edition with a lower price
Magdalene Keaney,Eleanor Weber
Presents a survey of more than 30 young photographers from 14 countries who will have a pivotal role in shaping the fashion of the future. This book embraces the fashion…
Boris Groys
One of the most influential voices in contemporary cultural theory on how to make it new.
Tate Publishing
As well as focusing on his studios, the book also explores Mondrian’s broader relationship with architecture and urbanism, particularly through a comparison of his earlier Parisian works and those made…
Elisa Van Joolen
11"x17" by Elisa van Joolen is an on-going project that examines and challenges the fashion industry’s prevailing value systems and proposes new methods of production. The project began in 2013…
Gilda Williams
Suitable for students, arts professionals and other aspiring writers, this book navigates readers through the key elements of style and content, from the aims and structure of a piece to…
Koichi Kawasaki
This first monograph on Tsuyoshi Maekawa (born 1936), one of the last surviving members of the Gutai art group, includes archival images and documents of the Gutai period from the…
Our longing for simplicity, clarity, and relaxation often leads us into nature. Hide and Seek showcases the most beautiful places for satisfying this longing.
The Monocle Guide to Good Business is a book for would-be business leaders, start-ups and established companies that feel it’s time for some new ideas. It’s a book to be…
Original and unconventional visual identities from the world of eating, drinking, and hospitality. The hot topics of eating and drinking are spawning a range of small, creative companies with innovative…
Philip Gumuchdijan
Drawing its examples from all around the globe, this title offers an account of the architects, plans, designs and constructions that over the centuries have most engaged our minds, inspired…
Anne Berest,Audrey Diwan,Caroline de Maigret,Sophie Mas
Deconstructs the French woman’s views on culture, fashion and attitude. Full of wit and self-deprecating humour, this book explains those confusing subjects of clothes, makeup, men, culture and lifestyle as…
Vince Frost
Design plays an essential role in our daily lives. You don’t have to be a designer to design your life. But it doesn’t hurt to have some professional help. It…
Henry Chalfant,Sacha Jenkins
In the late 1970s, New York City was bankrupt, dirty and dangerous. In this book, twelve legendary graffiti writers the original subway artists whose creative genius fuelled the earliest flowering…
Marianne Van den Lemmer,FUEL,Inna Cannon
On 3 November 1957, the dog Laika was the first Earth-born creature to enter space, making her instantly famous around the world. She did not return. Her death, a few…
