An exploration of the Bauhaus school and its legacy in the context of the modernist period, including its wider influence on art, design, and education.

An accessible, comprehensive, freshly updated celebration of the vast range of human artistry from 28,000 BC to today, newly released in a tactile and gift-friendly mini format Brought completely up to date for this revised edition and now available in a compact new format, this new edition of Phaidon’s groundbreaking book presents art differently from all other compendia by revealing the huge diversity – or in many cases, the similarity – of artistic achievements around the globe. Imag...

Never before published, this self-curated, intensely personal collection of travel notes and sketches by the world's most revered performance artist offers readers a kind of iconography of Abramovic's daring and utterly original body of work.

René Magritte died in 1967, exactly fifty years ago, but Belgium’s most famous surrealist continues to seduce and surprise us with his confusing images of birds that are clouds, men in bowler hats floating in the air, a bleeding statue and a train coming out of an open hearth.

Magritte unveiled: a biography in 50 pictures aims to penetrate the secret world of René Magritte and lift the veil to show the meaning of his works. Taken together, the fifty carefully selected works give a chronol...

René Magritte est mort en 1967, il y a juste cinquante ans, mais le plus célèbre des surréalistes de Belgique continue à nous séduire et nous étonner avec ses images troublantes d’oiseaux-nuages, de petits hommes à chapeau melon flottants, de statue qui saigne et de train qui sort de la cheminée.

Magritte dévoilé. Une biographie en 50 tableaux entend pénétrer le monde secret de René Magritte et dévoiler le sens de son oeuvre. Ces cinquante peintures soigneusement sélectionnÃ...