In his illustrated essay, Lars Muller traces the history of "Swiss Graphic Design" from the 1930s to the 1960s. Muller-Brockmann's posters have become world famous for their ability to convey information with great visual tension, a sense of drama, a...

Sutnar's brilliant structural systems for clarifying otherwise dense industrial data placed him in the pantheon of Modernist pioneers and made him one of the visionaries of what is today called "information design". "Visual Design in Action" is a sna...

Set like a stronghold south-west of the Caucasus mountains, Armenia is caught between East and West. Briefly a great empire in the first century BCE under King Tigranes the Great, Armenia was later incorporated first by the Sasanian and then the Byza...

The greatest treasure of the City of London has been, until now, the least known. The unique Crystal Sceptre of c. 1420 – seen only at the inauguration of the Lord Mayor and at coronations, and never photographed before – is here presented with as mu...

Accompanying a major exhibition at The Courtauld Gallery, this catalogue explores a remarkable and unprecedented series of paintings by Peter Lanyon (1918-1964), one of Britain's most important and original post-War artists. Lanyon sought to create...

In a groundbreaking analysis, Silvano Levy unravels the hidden structures of Magritte's paintings. Decoding Magritte puts forward the theory that aphasia, the injury-induced inability to produce and comprehend language, is the elusive key to an under...

The French Impressionist painters discovered new means for painting light – they used a "solar palette", the pigments matched to the colours the eyes see. They are the colours of a ray of light. This little book reproduces palettes by 8 of the plein-...

A century after it began, we still struggle with the terrible reality of the First World War, often through republished photographs of its horrors: the muddy trenches, the devastated battlefields, the maimed survivors. Due to the crude film cameras u...

Not for sale in Estonia! From the start, the Belgian Surrealists – among them Rene Magritte, Paul Delvaux, Paul Nouge, E.L.T. Mesens and Marcel Marien – distinguished themselves from their Parisian counterparts with their dry wit, brilliant concept...

Not for sale in Estonia! This volume offers the most comprehensive overview in print – and the first substantial English-language monograph in decades – on the great 17th-century Spanish painter Zurbaran. It spans his entire career, from his earlie...