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Botero | Fernando Botero's fulsome and frolicking forms Fernando Botero is an artist with his own style. For more than six decades, the Colombian's "Boterismo" technique has captured collectors, insti...

Living in Mexico | The most remarkable abodes from Costa Careyes to the Yucatan Peninsula South of the border, rich colors and woven textiles form a unique design aesthetic, crafted by the union of lo...

Italy 1900. A Portrait in Color | Journey back to early 20th-century Italy "You may have the universe," composer Giuseppe Verdi once said, "if I can have Italy." Back in the mid-19th century, Verdi's ...

Expressionism | Sharp angles, strange forms, lurid colors, and distorted perspectives are classic hallmarks of Expressionism, the twentieth century movement that prioritized emotion over objective rea...

Wassily Kandinsky | Over the course of his artistic career, Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) transformed not only his own style, but the course of art history. From early figurative and landscape paintin...

Bosch. The Complete Works | The complete works of Hieronymus Bosch A bird-monster devouring sinners, naked bodies in tantric contortions, a pair of ears brandishing a sharpened blade: with just 20 pai...

Mario Testino. I Love You | In I Love You, Mario Testino presents a celebration of weddings. A beginning in life -that is also a culmination and a public promise - captured by a unique photographic po...

Michelangelo | Italian-born Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475-1564) was a tormented, prodigiously talented, and God-fearing Renaissance man. His manifold achievements in painting, sculp...

The Dog in Photography 1839–Today | A photo tribute to our four-pawed friends In celebration of the world’s favorite animal, we bring you over 400 photographs of or about dogs. With pictures from the ...

Monet. The Triumph of Impressionism | The essential Impressionist No other artist, apart from J. M. W. Turner, tried as hard as Claude Monet (1840–1926) to capture light itself on canvas. Of all the I...

Lautner | With his geometric structures perched upon the hillsides, beaches, and deserts of California, John Lautner (1911-1994) was behind some of the most striking and innovative architectural desig...

Ando. Complete Works 1975-Today | Tadao Ando's complete works from 1975 until today Discover the completely unique aesthetic of Tadao Ando, the only architect ever to have won the discipline's four mo...

King Tut. The Journey through the Underworld | Buried in the 14th century BC but unearthed by Howard Carter in 1922, the objects entombed with Tutankhamun are an invaluable window into a long-extinct ...

Bruegel. The Complete Works | The life and times of Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1526/30-1569) were marked by stark cultural conflict. He witnessed religious wars, the Duke of Alba's brutal rule as go...

Japanese Woodblock Prints. 1680-1938 | From Edouard Manet's portrait of naturalist writer Emile Zola sitting among his Japanese art finds to Van Gogh's meticulous copies of the Hiroshige prints he dev...

Gustav Klimt. Complete Paintings | A century after his death, Viennese artist Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) still startles with his unabashed eroticism, dazzling surfaces, and artistic experimentation. In ...

The Complete Costume History by Auguste Racinet | Originally published in France between 1876 and 1888, Auguste Racinet's Le Costume historique was in its day the most wide-ranging and incisive study ...

The Blaue Reiter | The charge of 20th-century expressionism Although it only lasted three turbulent years, the afterburn of the Blaue Reiter (1911-1914) movement exerted a tremendous influence on the ...

Stone Age. Ancient Castles of Europe | Castles and fortresses of medieval Europe Follow photographer Frederic Chaubin as he embarks on a unique, century-spanning journey through Europe. Featuring imag...

Pop Art | When the kitschy, banal, and mass-market became art Peaking in the 1960s, Pop Art began as a revolt against mainstream approaches to art and culture and evolved into a wholesale interrogatio...

Horror Cinema | Get ready to quake in fear with this revised and expanded edition of our history of horror cinema. From serial killers to satanists, The Shining to Scream, some 600 pages explore the g...

The Beatles. On the Road 1964-1966 | The best of Harry Benson’s era-defining Beatles portfolio, capturing the Liverpudlian quartet on the road, performing, and coming to terms with skyrocketing fame. ...

Egyptian Art | A lifelong devotee of ancient Egyptian and Oriental culture, the French author, artist, and scholar Achille-Constant-Theodore-Emile Prisse d'Avennes (1807-1879) is famed as one of the m...

Alchemy & Mysticism | A fantastic journey through the history of esoteric lore The Hermetic Museum takes readers on a magical mystery tour spanning an arc from the medieval cosmogram and images of Chr...

The Copy Book | An updated edition of the best-selling reference work for copywriting In 1995, the D&AD published a book on the art of writing for advertising. The then best-selling book remains a...

Logo Beginnings | The origins of modern logos Countless global brands, including Rolex, BMW, Louis Vuitton, and the New York Yankees, still use logos that were designed over 100 years ago. Yet there h...

Egypt. People, Gods, Pharaohs | Everyday life in Ancient Egypt How much do we really know about Ancient Egypt? The pharaohs and pyramids are familiar history fodder, but what about the farmers, the so...

The Package Design Book. Volume 2 | An international guide to award winning packaging design The field of package design never ceases to expand and innovate, making it one of the most vibrant, competi...

Iheronimus Bosch. The Complete Works | In the midst of the realist-leaning artistic climate of the Late Gothic and Early Renaissance, Netherlandish painter Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450-1516) was more tha...

Atlas of Human Anatomy and Surgery. The Complete | Discover one of the most comprehensive and beautifully illustrated anatomical treatises ever published. The product of more than two decades of dedic...

Michelangelo. The Graphic Work | Michelangelo’s breathtaking drawings Very few artists can claim such lasting and worldwide fame and importance as Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564). The nickname il ...

Vienna Around 1900 | Poets and intellectuals brushed shoulders in bustling coffeehouses, young avant-gardists heralded a new era in social and sexual liberalism, waltzes resounded through the Ringstra...

Photographers A-Z | An encyclopedia of 20th-century photographers and their finest publications Arranged alphabetically, this biographical encyclopedia features every major photographer of the 20th ce...

Afghanistan | Magnum photographer Steve McCurry’s Afghanistan retrospective Afghanistan has long been a country overwhelmed by tribal rivalries, colonial wars, and geo-political conflict. The Afghans ...

100 Movies of the 1990s | The ultimate 1990s movie compendium The last decade of the 20th century consolidated once again the fascinating power of the silver screen, both by looking to the future and ...

The Ultimate Sneaker Book | A 15-year anthology of cult magazine Sneaker Freaker Back in 2002, Simon “Woody” Wood was dreaming up schemes to get free sneakers. Two weeks later, he was the proud owner ...

Rodin | When marble and clay come alive While anchoring his practice in the traditions of antiquity and the Renaissance, Auguste Rodin (1840–1917) paved the way for modern sculpture. From a very early...

Araki | Decades' worth of images have been distilled down to 512 pages of photographs in this ultimate retrospective collection of Nobuyoshi Araki's work, selected by the artist himself. First publish...

Jazz. New York in the Roaring Twenties | Big city, big bands: New York's jazz scene of the 1920s It's the Roaring Twenties, and New York is aflame with jazz fever. Crowds flock to the nightclubs and d...

Raphael | The heavenly grace and human grandeur of a supreme Renaissance master In art history, we tend to be on first name terms only with the most revered of masters. The Renaissance painter and arc...

Witchcraft | A bewitching history of a magickal practice Initiating readers in the fascinating and complex history of witchcraft, from the goddess mythologies of ancient cultures to the contemporary e...

Ultimate Collector Cars | The stories behind 100 of the world's most coveted automobiles From the adrenaline-filled 24 Hours of Le Mans to the legendary Goodwood Festival of Speed, Lake Como's famed C...

Warhol on Basquiat. The Iconic Relationship Told in Andy Warhol’s Words and Pictures | Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat’s complex relationship captivated the a...

Tarot | A visual history of Tarot To explore the Tarot is to explore ourselves, to be reminded of the universality of our longing for meaning, for purpose and for a connection to the divine. This 600-...

Kazimir Malevich | After flirtations with Realism, Impressionism, and Symbolism, Kiev-born Kazimir Malevich (1878-1935) found his metier in dissolving literal, representational figures and landscapes ...

Duchamp | Changing the course of 20th-century art When is a urinal no longer a urinal? When Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) declared it to be art. The uproar that greeted the French artist's Fountain (1917...

Helmut Newton. A Gun for Hire | "Carte Blanche" for the commissioned works between art and commerce Helmut Newton did not distinguish compositionally or stylistically between his magazine work and ass...

Living in Morocco | Arabian Nights in contemporary Morocco Though it lies just across the Mediterranean from Europe, barely a stone’s throw from Spain’s southernmost tip, Morocco couldn’t possibly be ...

Brucke | The onset of Expressionism In the German city of Dresden on June 7, 1905, the foundation of the Die Brucke artists’ group (1905–1913) is widely regarded as the birth of Expressionism. Led by ...

Great Escapes Italy. The Hotel Book | Legendary hotels and secret hideaways full of atmosphere To travel through Italy is as close as one gets to being in paradise. For centuries, writers, artists, ar...

Egon Schiele. The Paintings | With his revolutionary and liberated view of the naked body and sexuality, Egon Schiele emphatically wrote himself into the history of art at the beginning of the last ce...

Piano | While some architects have a signature style, Renzo Piano seeks to apply coherent ideas to extraordinarily different projects. His buildings impress as much for their individual impact as for ...

Gustav Klimt. The Complete Paintings | The legacy of Gustav Klimt A century after his death, Viennese artist Gustav Klimt (1862–1918) still startles with his unabashed eroticism, dazzling surfaces, an...

The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm | A precious anthology of Brothers Grimm fairy tales, complete with vintage illustrations From Snow White to Cinderella, Rapunzel to Rumpelstiltskin, the Brothers...

Leonardo. The Complete Paintings and Drawings | The life and work of the greatest Renaissance artist Unmatched in his ingenuity, technical prowess, and curiosity, Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) epitomi...