This wide-ranging collection of 50 iconic portraits includes works by many of the world's most renowned artists, each with their own style, technique, and story to tell. Throughout the history of art, most of the world's greatest artists have produc...

In a new addition to the Pelican History of Art series, leading architectural historian Eric Fernie presents a fascinating chronological survey of Romanesque architecture and the political systems that gave rise to the style. It is known for its mass...

The latest volume in this successful series introduces young readers to major movements in art history – from Romanesque to Pop art. Filled with gorgeous color reproductions and packed with fascinating information, this beautiful book presents a chr...

A searing introduction to Franco Fortini, a Jewish communist and a major figure in postwar Italian intellectual life, "The Dogs of the Sinai" is a book against – against those who love to rush to the aid of the victors, against the widespread and rac...

"New York... I HATE IT... I LOVE IT... I DON'T KNOW..." These are the reflections of Max Frisch (1911-1991) writing from his apartment in the Big Apple near the end of the twentieth century. Beginning in 1946 and continuing until his death at the age...

The Surrealist movement that developed in Europe following the devastation of World War I swept energetically through all kinds of media as artists found expression in an imaginative pictorial language. This introduction to Surrealism shows 50 unique...

"Pop Goes the Avant-Garde: Experimental Theatre in Contemporary China" is the first comprehensive review of the history and development of avant-garde drama and theater in the People's Republic of China since 1976. Drawing on a range of critical pers...

This generously illustrated volume on the work of Jan van Eyck makes the world's greatest art accessible to readers of every level of appreciation. A 15th-century Flemish painter who spent most of his life in Bruges, Van Eyck was revered for his inno...

This collection of world-renowned photographs offers a stunning visual history of photography and photojournalism. The birth of photography opened the doors to a new kind of art, one that recorded events with the immediacy not possible with painting...

This fully revised survey is the essential companion to the architecture of one of England's most rewarding regions. The Georgian spa of Bath and the medieval cathedral city of Wells are deservedly famous, each the finest of its kind in the country....