Product Description: Make art as modern artists do! A quirky collection of games and techniques inspired by modern art to encourage the creative impulse, from the creators of Mind Games and Psychobox.      It is one of the great liberating ideas of modern art that everyone is a creative being capable of making art...read more

Product Description: Humankind is social. We have meetings to attend, appointments to keep, and business to conduct. Hunting and gathering, raising crops, working at a factory, farm, or office all are deeply ingrained in our nature. But how could we be human without the customs and rituals of social life, the ceremonies that mark the turning year, the rites of passage and the pleasures of celebrations? We need the church, temple and mosque; the cafés, bars and restaurants; the clubs and dance halls...read more

Product Description: Following on from the hugely successful "Russian Diary" comes the 2011 version which takes as its theme, 'The Artist's World'. Get to know: Louise Bourgeois, Georges Braque, Paul Klee, Vincent van Gogh, Frida Kahlo, Rene Magritte, Kazimir Malevich, Henri Matisse, Claude Monet, Kurt Schwitters, Varvara Stepanova and many others through remarkable photographs and revealing texts...read more

Product Description: Best known for designing the seminal Beatles album cover, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Sir Peter Blake, born in 1932, is widely considered the godfather of British Pop art. Across his oeuvre, Blake has always drawn inspiration from popular culture, often collaging disparate elements or quoting from works by other artists...read more

Includes alphabets, emblems, and logos, bringing together the editors' selection of alphabets and features from their two previous volumes, 'Alphabets and Other Signs' and 'ABZ: More Alphabets and Other Signs'. This book is intended for those interested in lettering, graphics, and signs.

Pop artist David Shrigley's work is immediate, sometimes rude, and very funny, "like a psychotic version of Matt Groening's 'Life in Hell' cartoons" (The Guardian). His darkly brilliant, addictively hilarious scrawls from the subconscious have already made him a star in the UK, with a growing legion of fans around the globe. The Book of Shrigley is the most extensive and the first widely available showcase of his edgy but accessible off-kilter vision. Here are bad-tempered pets, strange attractions, work, S-E-X, knitting, wrestling, and a host of other everyday activities, dangers, and amusements laid bare in Shrigley's urgently illustrated panels and wickedly mischievous punch lines. Made up of almost entirely new work and bursting with color and unsettlingly funny truths, The Book of Shrigley is the ideal introduction to this comic genius and the book fans have been waiting for.

Product Description: "This in-depth survey of the visual arts in Wales addresses the practice of individual artists and the infrastructure in which they work. These essays cover a wide array of artists, such as established painters Ivor Davies and the late Ernest Zobole; younger painters like Neal Howells, Elfyn Lewis, and Sue Williams; installation artist David Hastie; and the internationally acclaimed performance artist Andre Stitt...read more