Product Description: With her earliest work, Penny Siopis established herself as one of the most talented and challenging visual artists in and beyond South Africa. Penny Siopis: Time and Again engages in a variety of ways with her work of the past 35 years...read more

Product Description: This book examines the art and writings of Wassily Kandinsky, who is widely regarded as one of the first artists to produce non-representational paintings. Crucial to an understanding of Kandinsky's intentions is On the Spiritual in Art, the celebrated essay he published in 1911...read more

Product Description: Drawing extensively upon the poet's unpublished manuscripts—poems, journals, essays, and letters—as well as all his published works, Marjorie Perloff presents Frank O'Hara as one of the central poets of the postwar period and an important critic of the visual arts...read more

Product Description: In this full-color sketchbook illustrating the historic Soho district of Hong Kong, Lorette Roberts paints the town red – and orange, and yellow, and green, and blue… See the rainbow-hued restaurants and street markets; the reds and golds of temples and lantern shops, the muted ochres and turquoises of old shophouses, the crimsons and pinks of tiny boutiques and bars; the full range of Hong Kong’s street life painted in vivid color...read more

Product Description: A fascination with an artwork's materiality remains one of the hallmarks of the visual arts and modernism during the 20th century. This critical text examines the role of materiality primarily within the context of modernist painting...read more

A brand new re-issue of this Christian classic, with a stunning new cover.

‘Classic . . . the definitive account of aerial combat – full of passion and poetry’ – Max Arthur, Independent ‘Magical evocation of the lonely battle fought in the clouds’ – The Daily Telegraph ‘This is a book everyone should read. It is the autobiography of an ace, and no common ace either. The boy had all the noble tastes and qualities, love of beauty, soaring imagination, a brilliant endowment of good looks . . . this prince of pilots . . . had a charmed life in every sense of the word’ – George Bernard Shaw Sent to France with the Royal Flying Corps at just seventeen, and later a member of the famous 56 Squadron, Cecil Lewis was an illustrious and passionate fighter pilot of the First World War, described by Bernard Shaw in 1935 as 'a thinker, a master of words, and a bit of a poet'. In this vivid and spirited account the author evocatively sets his love of the skies and flying against his bitter experience of the horrors of war, as we follow his progress from France and the battlefields of the Somme, to his pioneering defense of London against deadly night time raids.REVIEWS ”…brings to life the illustrious career of a passionate fighter pilot…engaging and spirited account…beautifully written and by turns horrifying, moving and exhilarating, this is a stirring tribute to the remarkable young men who risked their lives daily in the golden age of aerial combat.” Lone Star Book Review, 1/2011

Product Description: Clement Greenberg once praised the young Otto Rogers as "an artist of amazing talent, worthy of an international reputation." Widely collected in Canada, Rogers is considered one of that country's leading artists. His work is an inspired exploration of landscape and abstraction, rooted in a thorough understanding of the history of Modern art...read more

The voice of Pablo Picasso recounts the leading events of his life and places them in the historical, intellectual, and artistic context of his times.

The voice of Pablo Picasso recounts the leading events of his life and places them in the historical, intellectual, and artistic context of his times.

Discusses the life, art, and legacy of the artist Paul Klee, and includes a timeline linking the events in his life with world events.