Visual arts
The Natural Way to Draw
Kimon Nicolaides
Format: Paperback
Learn how to draw over the course of a year, in the space of 64 exercises
Art of the Extreme 1905-1914
Philip Hook
The ten most revolutionary years in art ever. Art and artists would never be the same again.
Sybil & Cyril
Jenny Uglow
From one of our most admired writers, a beautifully illustrated story of a dynamic artistic partnership between the wars.
Fashion Sourcebook 1920s
Charlotte Fiell, introduction by Emmanuelle Dirix
Format: Hard Cover
This sourcebook documents the season-by-season fashions of the Twenties' Jazz Age with over 500 original photograph and prints. Includes analyses and biographies of the key designers and fashion houses of the period.
Fashion Sourcebook 1930s
Charlotte Fiell, introduction by Emmanuelle Dirix
Format: Hard Cover
This sourcebook is a season-by-season appraisal of the fashions of the 1930s, with over 600 photos and illustrations. Includes analysis of the significance of the fashions, and the key designers and fashion houses.
Fashion Sourcebook 1940s
Charlotte Fiell, introduction by Emmanuelle Dirix
Format: Hard Cover
This sourcebook is a season-by-season fashion evolution of the Forties, featuring original photos and illustrations. Includes analysis of the social, economic and cultural factors that influenced this period, and information about the major designers.
All of the Marvels
Douglas Wolk
Marvel comics are the nearest thing modernity has produced to a holy epic, a blockbusting, record-shattering pop-cultural cosmology that echoes our deepest hopes and fears. NYT comics critic Douglas Wolk has read them all. This is what they add up to.
Sketchbook Challenge
Molly Egan
Format: Paperback
Want to draw for pleasure? In Sketchbook Challenge, illustrator Molly Egan shares prompts and ideas to get you started, encouraging risk-taking and experimentation.
Wonderlands
Robert Ingpen
Format: Hard Cover
A celebration of Robert Ingpen's work as an illustrator and storyteller, told through his own illustrator's notes, original sketches and abundant illustrations from his award-winning publications - and revealing the places, stories and people that inspired him along the way.
The Story of Looking
Mark Cousins
Format: Paperback
An investigation into the elements of looking, combining art and science and painting a portrait of our culture, by critically-acclaimed writer and filmmaker Mark Cousins.
