'Ema (Nude on a staircase)' pulls the reader into the mind of Ema, the young woman descending the staircase in Gerhard Richter's 1966 painting, 'Ema'. Ema is a young artist who wants to discover what her greatest form of creativity is. She embarks on a journey of awakening, a quest for mastery that brings her into dialogue with her teachers and with her great mentors, the artists Gerhard Richter, Marcel Duchamp and John Cage. Ema explores her field, finds her own voice, considers the world an...

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A revealing exploration of how prescient nineteenth-century artists, writers, and scientists began to sound the alarm on climate crisis

An expertly curated compilation of officially published step-by-step guides on how to deal with every kind of disaster imaginable, drawn from government archives all around the world from the 1910s to today.

In the Artist's Journey, follow in the footsteps of some of the world’s most famous painters, and the journeys which inspired some of their greatest works.

The Anatomist's Library is a lavishly illustrated compendium of the anatomical publications that have informed medicine over six centuries.