Since its launch in 1999, "Afterall", a journal of art, context, and enquiry, has offered in-depth considerations of the work of contemporary artists, along with essays that broaden the context in which to understand it. Published three times a year,...

Not for sale in Estonia! "The Address Book", a key and controversial work in Sophie Calle's oeuvre, lies at the epicenter of many layers of reality and fiction. Having found a lost address book on the street in Paris, Calle copied the pages before...

Not for sale in selected countries! Targeted at young aspiring artists seeking to develop their technical skill and build a repertoire of subjects, Lee J. Ames's Draw 50 series shows you how to draw with ease using his signature step-by-step method...

Not for sale in selected countries! Targeted at young aspiring artists seeking to develop their technical skill and build a repertoire of subjects, Lee J. Ames's Draw 50 series shows you how to draw with ease using his signature step-by-step method...

This collection of masterpieces of the art of illusion will delight and entertain readers of all ages. Children love to be fooled – and artists are some of the greatest tricksters around. This collection features artworks that incorporate a variety...

This is an engrossing exploration of an 18th-century sculptor's influence on artists to the present day. An astonishing group of 69 "Character Heads" by German sculptor Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (1736-1783) has fascinated viewers, artists, and collec...

In America during the 1960s, sculpture as an artistic practice underwent a series of radical transformations. Artists including Lee Bontecou, Claes Oldenburg, Lucas Samaras, H. C. Westermann, and Bruce Nauman offered alternative ways of imagining the...

This title presents a critical collection of writings on the creation, display, and interpretation of sculpture. In many anthologies of art, sculpture is given short shrift in relation to other media, if it is treated at all. "Modern Sculpture Reader...

The history of the handbag – its design, how it has been made, used, and worn – reveals something essential about women's lives lived over the last 500 years. Perhaps the most universal item of fashionable adornment, it can also be elusive, an object...

It is a beautifully illustrated celebration of the images of Eliot Porter, and their role in the origins of the environmental conservation. Known for his exquisite images of birds and landscape, Eliot Porter (1901-1990) was a pioneer in the use of co...