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A funny, inviting book about art for people who don’t know about “art”—featuring new artworks by David Shrigley. What is art, where do I find it, and once I’m in front of it, what am I supposed to think about it? Kate Bryan is a self-confessed art addict who has worked with art for...

The British Isles hold a unique position in the history of art, a place where local traditions fuse with international ideas. At once isolated by coastal boundaries, yet also part of larger networks of diverse peoples, these islands have always benefited from a dual perspective.

An illuminating exploration of the relationship between the restitution of looted art, global status, and the international construction of national cultural heritage. Why is art restitution a matter of politics? How does the artwork displayed in national museums reflect the international status...

Un breve, delicioso e imprescindible tratado lleno de sugerentes ideas para comprender qué es el arte, qué utilidad puede tener para nosotros, cómo creamos, cómo el arte abre mundos y cómo puede transformarnos para imaginar un futuro diferente. ¿Qué hace el arte por nosotros? ¿Y para...

Wie funktioniert Kreativität? Wie hängen Psyche, unser Gehirn und das Talent zu Künstlerischem zusammen? Mit dem Besteck des Neurologen seziert Mario de la Piedra Walter die Kulturgeschichte und zeigt, was es braucht, damit ein Kunstwerk in die Welt kommt. Ob Dostojewski, Frida Kahlo oder Kandinsky – oft sind neurologische Besonderheiten oder Ausprägungen Voraussetzung für herausragende Kunst.

Uma reveladora jornada pela vida e a obra de 31 artistas geniais que compartilham uma qualidade essencial: o olhar. Frida Kahlo nos ajuda a ver através da dor. Rembrandt dá uma aula sobre autopercepção. David Hockney abre nossos olhos para a luminosidade da natureza. Jean-Michel Basquiat nos tira da inércia para que possamos ver a realidade em toda a sua complexidade selvagem.

Bloomsbury presents The Politics of Aesthetics by Jacques Ranciere, read by Charles Armstrong. The Politics of Aesthetics rethinks the relationship between art and politics, reclaiming "aesthetics" from the narrow confines it is often reduced to. Jacques Rancière reveals its intrinsic link to...

A heart-stopping family memoir about art, obsession, and love as the author searches for the spectacular jeweled egg that consumed her father’s dreams and spelled her family’s downfall. "An extraordinary family story and a strange, poignant portrait of obsession." —Sophie Elmhirst, New...

“Sparklingly smart. . . For anyone who wants to place the culture wars in their historical and philosophical context.”—Dan Jones, New York Times bestselling author of The Plantagenets and Henry V A bold, expansive argument for a new way to understand immoral art in our time of cultural and...

Brought to you by Penguin. Throughout history, the concept of Blackness has been remarkably intertwined with another colour: blue. In daily life, it is evoked in countless ways. Blue skies and blue water offer hope for a life beyond the current conditions. But blue is also the colour of deep...

The story of the making, loss, and recovery of some of the greatest treasures of antiquity, raising questions about ancient mosaic art and its creation, the work of archaeology, and museum practice. In 1932, after years of fundraising and flurries of letters back and forth, an archaeological...

Con la obra que tiene entre sus manos conocerá la «Ocultura» que rodea a la historia del arte. A través de estas páginas, el autor presenta una serie de temas apasionantes, con interesantes datos, diversos misterios y teorías que giran en torno a ellos, así como algunas de sus posibles teorías. Todo ello con la finalidad de que el lector encuentre respuestas; pero, sobre todo, para que comience a formularse ciertas preguntas.

Artists are expert lookers: they have learned to pay attention. The rest of us spend most of our time on autopilot, rushing from place to place, our overfamiliarity blinding us to the marvelous, life-affirming phenomena of our world. But that doesn't have to be the case. In his inimitable engaging style, Will Gompertz takes us into the minds of artists—from contemporary stars to old masters, the well-known to the lesser-so, and from around the world—to show us how to look and experience the world with their heightened awareness.

Juan Valera defendía que el arte es desinteresado. Empeñado en atacar tanto a los románticos como a los naturalistas, nunca se adscribió a ningún movimiento esteticista, como el simbolismo, que bajo la insignia de l'art pour l'art, intentaba renovar las tendencias artísticas en el cambio de siglo.

An informative, fun and rather charming essay on the nature and history of one of life’s most desirable assets, Charm, by renowned culture and design critic, Stephen Bayley. Aiming to wound, a schoolmaster wrote on future design-guru Stephen Bayley’s last ever school report “Charm alone...

Bloomsbury presents Rogues and Scholars: Boom and Bust in the London Art Market, 1945–2000 by James Stourton, read by Charles Armstrong. The modern art market was born on a single night. On 15 October 1958 Sotheby’s of Bond Street staged an ‘event sale’ of Impressionist paintings from...

La Ilustración, que se prolongó durante todo el siglo XVIII, provocó cambios cruciales en el pensamiento de la gente y transformó todo el entramado de la sociedad.

A pattern is a repeated design that is found everywhere in our world and even in outer space. All around you are both simple patterns and complicated patterns. The spiral of a seashell is very complex. But, there are patterns more complicated than a seashell. When did humans discover or invent patterns? There are cave paintings that are around 10,000 years old. They show hands in a pattern with 5 fingers.

Brought to you by Penguin. 'Let me stay there, let me paint. Let me go to bed when the sun comes up. I don't want life to sharpen me.' Why make art? Faced with a capitalist system that has turned art into artwork and creative expression into cut-throat competition, why do so many artists try...

An illuminating exploration of 31 incredible women—across art, architecture, dance, literature, and more—whose culture-defining contributions have, until now, been overshadowed by their role as "muses" to history's better-known men. What does it mean to be someone's "muse"? Historically, to...