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Exploring the most exciting art spots worldwide, The Art Escapes Atlas invites the reader to delve into surprising new frontiers in culture travel. From homes of artists like Georgia O’Keeffe and Frida Kahlo to hidden treasures in a forest or desert, the book is a collection of precious locations for art outside the museums.

A manual of the not-to-be-missed getaways for art lovers across the world, The Art Escapes Atlas will show the most captivating art, culture and design scenes for those who don’t want to waste any time, and always make the most out of a cultural trip.

About the Author:

Grace Banks is a London-born editor and journalist who specializes in culture and current affairs. She writes for The Guardian, The New York Times, Interview, Elle, VICE, i-D, Mr Porter, Wallpaper*, Forbes.com, Al Jazeera, and others. She is the former editor of Sleek Magazine.

From the earliest cave paintings through to the internet and street art, this inspiring book chronicles the 100 most influential ideas that have shaped the world of art. Arranged in broadly chronological order, it provides a unique and compelling take on the history of art.

The book shows how developments in materials and technology have radically changed the way that art is produced. Each entry explores when an idea first evolved and how it has resurfaced in the work of different artists up to the present day.

Illustrated with historical masterpieces and packed with fascinating contemporary examples, this is an inspirational and wholly original guide to understanding the forces that have shaped world art.

About the Author:

Michael Bird is a writer and art historian. His books include The St Ives Artists, Studio Voices and an acclaimed history of art for children, Vincent’s Starry Night and Other Stories. He is Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the University of Exeter.

Have you have ever felt at a disadvantage when joining in a conversation on a subject that you aren’t confident about? If yes, this new book series is for you. Each book features definitions of two hundred words frequently used to describe and discuss a smart subject.

200 Words to Help You Talk About Art is designed to demystify jargon-based art language and make you at ease holding a conversation on the topic. Art can be intimidating to the uninitiated, but with Ben Street’s help you’ll know your Dada from your diptych in no time. The book is written with digestible text enabling a quick and easy understanding of various topics while broadening your artistic vocabulary.

200 Words to Help You Talk About Art is one of two new titles beginning a series of smart subjects, also including philosophy, psychology, and music.

About the Author:

Ben Street is an art historian, writer and lecturer based in London. He has been a schools and family educator for the National Gallery, Tate, Dulwich Picture Gallery, The Museum of Modern Art and the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum (New York), and a lecturer in art history for Christie’s Education, London. 

The stresses of the digital world mean that it's more important than ever to engage with the natural world. The sky is the most dramatic and evocative aspect of nature and looking up at the clouds is always good for the soul. Ever-changing and ephemeral, clouds reflect the shifting moods of the atmosphere in limitless compositions and combinations.

Gavin Pretor-Pinney started the Cloud Appreciation Society in 2005. Since then, he's been encouraging people to 'look up, marvel at the ephemeral beauty, and always remember to live life with your head in the clouds.' Membership to the Society now includes over 50k cloud spotters. Together, they capture and share the most remarkable skies, from sublime thunderstorms and perfect sunsets to hilarious object shaped clouds.

A Cloud A Day is a beautifully illustrated book containing 365 skies selected by the Cloud Appreciation Society. There are photographs by sky enthusiasts around the world, satellite images and photographs of clouds in space, as well as skies depicted by great artists over the centuries. The clouds are accompanied by enlightening explanations, fascinating snippets of cloud science, poetry and uplifting quotations.

The perfect dip-in-and-out book for anyone who wants to de-stress and reconnect with nature, A Cloud A Day will inspire you to open your eyes to the everyday beauty above and to spend a moment each day with your head in the clouds.

Dreaming and relaxing, with the wonderful Art Nouveau designs of Alphonse Mucha, this beautiful new book will give you many hours of pleasure, and calm. Printed on high-quality paper, this art book features 45 intricate Mucha artworks for you to colour, offering a suggestion of how the original looked as well as key information such as title and date. Mucha's distinctive style and images of beautiful women in arabesque poses evoked a beautiful, spiritual life, and this book will take you on an enjoyable journey where the satisfaction of creating stunning artworks is mixed with rediscovering the joy of colouring. You can use a wide variety of pens: from gel and pencil, to pigment and crayons, from ballpoint and rollerball to highlighters, although it’s best to avoid the heavy felt pens. Each page is perforated near the spine of the book, so you can tear out and frame, or simply place your wonderful creation on the walls of your home, perhaps even send them as a gift to your loved ones. Bring the Ink to life!

About the Author:

Daisy Seal is a talented, thoughtful writer of gift, celebration and puzzle books. She has long observed the intimate connections between the natural world around us and our search for the enduring spirit of humankind. Previous publications include "Inspirations", "Reflections", "Be Calm," and "Friendship".

Two authorities on popular culture reveal the ways in which art can enhance mood and enrich lives - now available in paperback

This passionate, thought-provoking, often funny, and always-accessible book proposes a new way of looking at art, suggesting that it can be useful, relevant, and therapeutic. Through practical examples, the world-renowned authors argue that certain great works of art have clues as to how to manage the tensions and confusions of modern life. Chapters on love, nature, money, and politics show how art can help with many common difficulties, from forging good relationships to coming to terms with mortality.

About the Authors:

Alain de Botton is the author of bestselling books, including The Consolations of Philosophy, How Proust Can Change Your Life, Status Anxiety, and Religion for Atheists. He founded The School of Life in 2008, an organization which - from branches around the world - supplies good ideas for everyday life in the form of books, workshops, and talks. In 2009 he founded Living Architecture, which makes high-quality architecture accessible to everyone.

John Armstrong is a philosopher and art theorist based at Melbourne University in Australia. He is the author of several well-received books, including The Intimate Philosophy of Art, and Conditions of Love.
 

Featuring the stylish and delightful designs of Barbier and the artists of Harpers' Bazaar, this beautiful new book will give you many hours of pleasure, and calm. Printed on high-quality paper, this new book features 45 powerful art deco fashion designs for you to colour, offering a suggestion of how the original looked as well as key information such as title and date. Barbier's famous illustrations of high culture still provide a powerful influence on modern design, and this wonderful book will take you on an enjoyable journey where the satisfaction of creating stunning artworks is mixed with rediscovering the joy of colouring. You can use a wide variety of pens: from gel and pencil, to pigment and crayons, from ballpoint and rollerball to highlighters, although it’s best to avoid the heavy felt pens. Each page is perforated near the spine of the book, so you can tear out and frame, or simply place your wonderful creation on the walls of your home, perhaps even send them as a gift to your loved ones. Bring the Ink to life!

About the Author:

Daisy Seal is a talented, thoughtful writer of gift, celebration and puzzle books. She has long observed the intimate connections between the natural world around us and our search for the enduring spirit of humankind. Previous publications include "Inspirations", "Reflections", "Be Calm," and "Friendship".

The bold and distinctive imagery in the adverts produced by the artists of the Art Nouveau period is a delight to behold and is now yours to recreate in this beautiful new book. Printed on high-quality paper, there are 45 classic posters by the likes of Chéret, Toulouse-Lautrec and Mucha for you to colour, with suggestions on how to start the colouring. This book will give you many hours of pleasure and calm, taking you on an enjoyable journey where the satisfaction of creating stunning artworks is mixed with rediscovering the joy of colouring. You can use a wide variety of pens: from gel and pencil, to pigment and crayons, from ballpoint and rollerball to highlighters, although it’s best to avoid the heavy felt pens. Each page is perforated near the spine of the book, so you can tear out and frame or simply place your wonderful creation on the walls of your home, perhaps even send them as a gift to your loved ones. Bring the Ink to life!

About the Author:

Daisy Seal is a talented, thoughtful writer of gift, celebration and puzzle books. She has long observed the intimate connections between the natural world around us and our search for the enduring spirit of humankind. Previous publications include "Inspirations", "Reflections", "Be Calm," and "Friendship".

Be guided and inspired by the world’s greatest artists with this creative set of oracle cards.

Are you suffering from creative block? Struggling to make a difficult life decision? Find out what Picasso, Pollock, Kahlo and other great artists would have done.

Simply select an artist's card from the pack, select the oracles’ advice on life, work or inspiration and any obstacle becomes surmountable.

Contains 50 oracle cards plus a booklet featuring the artists’ biographies and details of how to use the cards.

About the Author:

Mikkel Sommer was born in 1987 and grew up in Copenhagen. He started freelancing in 2009, working in illustration, design for animation and comic books. He lives in Berlin with his wife and daughter. Katya Tylevich is a writer and essayist. She is Editor-at-Large for Elephant and Contributing Editor for Mark. She contributes regularly to Domus, Pin-Up and Frame among other journals, and has contributed to books, monographs and exhibition catalogues on topics in art and architecture. With her brother Alexei, she founded Friend & Colleague, a platform for editions, fiction and special projects.

A chic and informative guide to the Ballet Beautiful method, featuring dance-inspired exercises, wellness tips, and lifestyle advice that help readers achieve ballerina confidence and self-esteem.

After a career with the New York City Ballet, Mary Helen Bowers created Ballet Beautiful, a fitness and lifestyle program inspired by ballet’s artistry and athleticism. Designed to give anyone a ballerina body, Bowers’s targeted exercises tone and lengthen muscles, develop good posture, and teach grace in movement. Since launching in 2008, Bowers and her training have been sought after by celebrities and models (Alexa Chung, Liv Tyler, and Miranda Kerr, to name a few), as well as thousands of women across the globe through their streaming service.

This book delves into the Ballet Beautiful universe, showing readers how to attain a ballerina’s lean and powerful physique and graceful poise via exercises, posture lessons, wellness tips, and fashion and beauty advice that can be effortlessly incorporated into everyday routines. The book features original images by the legendary photographers Inez and Vinoodh coupled with technical photographs illustrating the Ballet Beautiful workout and lifestyle. A refreshing antidote to traditional fitness programs and restrictive diets, this book is a stylish and instructional guide to transforming your body and life though ballet.

About the Authors:

Mary Helen Bowers is a former ballet dancer for the New York City Ballet. In 2008, she launched Ballet Beautiful, and in 2010 she trained Natalie Portman for her Oscar-winning role in the film Black Swan.
Inez and Vinoodh are renowned international fashion photographers whose images have been published in Vogue, W, and the New York Times, among others.
Lily Aldridge is an American supermodel who has graced the runway as a Victoria's Secret Angel and the cover of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue.

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Пролистать книгу Ballet for Life: Exercises and Inspiration from the World of Ballet Beautiful

The most creative Christmas ever! Collage your own spectacular cards and decorations with this festive collection of surprising images.

You'll find whatever makes your celebrations complete. From Santa Claus, bells, baubles and reindeer to snowflakes, mistletoe and roaring log fires, it's the ultimate Christmas crafting kit. Also includes backgrounds, templates and step-by-step projects.

About the Author:

Maria Rivans is a collage artist based in Brighton, UK. She curated the images in the hugely successful Extraordinary Things to Cut Out and Collage (2020), has exhibited her work internationally, and created a book and three unique jigsaw puzzles. Known for their surreal approach, Maria’s collages are in a constant dialogue with cultures of the past, reinventing narratives while spinning bizarre and dreamlike tales.

An exploration into how basketball redefines creativity, shaping the art, fashion, and design of contemporary subcultures.

Courtside Candy explores basketball as a cultural force that transcends the sport itself, deeply influencing art, fashion, street art, urban interventions, urbanism, architecture, and graphic design. This book presents a visually compelling narrative, focusing on basketball’s role as a creative catalyst within specific subcultures. By capturing the intersection of the game with various forms of expression, Courtside Candy reveals how basketball shapes and reflects the unique character of the places where it thrives.

As basketball intertwines with diverse forms of creativity, it drives innovation in spaces where art, architecture, and culture converge. This book documents how the sport fuels connection and transformation, offering readers a focused exploration of basketball’s ability to inspire across disciplines.

Conjure thrillingly sinister scenes with more than 1,000 surprising images 

From memento mori to día de los muertos, nothing inspires more than the imagery of mortality, and this book supplies collage artists with all they need to explore that spellbinding topic. Make shadowy skeletons dance before ruined churches, lilies bloom against apocalyptic cloudscapes, or serpents wind through empty eye sockets -- there's no limit to the visions you can conjure.

Make shadowy skeletons dance before ruined churches, lilies bloom against apocalyptic cloudscapes, or serpents wind through empty eye sockets... there's no limit to the visions you can conjure.

There are backgrounds, textures, images large and small – all ready for you to cut out and combine in expressive new ways. Just bring scissors, glue and your nightmarish reveries.

About the Author:

Eliza Scott has degrees in both literature and art and is features editor of Lula magazine. Maria Costa Planas, who created the cover image, is a collage artist based in Brighton, UK.

This beautifully illustrated revised edition of Dolls’ Houses celebrates some of the best-loved dollhouses from the collection of London’s Victoria and Albert Museum of Childhood (or Young V&A Museum), curated by author Halina Pasierbska.

Featuring specially commissioned photography detailing the astonishing skill and craftsmanship required to create these homes in miniature scale, this book presents a close-up look at the most interesting and historically significant examples of this absorbing craft, including the exquisite Nuremberg House of 1673 to the brightly colored 21st-century Kaleidoscope House.

From lavish country mansions to cozy suburban villas, Dolls’ Houses explores their fascinating roles as both domestic teaching aids and records of contemporary lifestyle, providing unique insights into the world of their owners.

Includes Color Photographs

About the Author:

Halina Pasierbska is former Curator of Dolls' Houses and Toys at the V&A.

Drag celebrates the fabulous current and historical influence of drag, and its talented and inspiring performers.

Since man first walked the Earth...in heels, no other art form has wielded as unique an influence on pop culture as Drag. Drag artists have now sashayed their way to snatch the crowns as the Queens of mainstream entertainment.

Through informative and witty essays chronicling over 100 years of drag, readers will embark on a Priscilla-like journey through pop culture, from television shows like The Milton Berle Show, Bosom Buddies, and RuPaul's Drag Race, films like Some Like It Hot, To Wong Foo..., and Tootsie, and Broadway shows like Hedwig and the Angry Inch, La Cage aux Folles, and Kinky Boots.

With stops in cities around the globe, and packed with interviews and commentaries on the dramas, joys, and love that "make-up" a life in wigs and heels, Drag features contributions from today's most groundbreaking and popular artists, including Bianca del Rio, Miss Coco Peru, Hedda Lettuce, Lypsinka, and Varla Jean Merman, as well as notable performers as Harvey Fierstein and Charles Busch. It includes more than 100 photos--many from performers' personal collections, and a comprehensive timeline of drag "herstory."

About the Author:

Frank DeCaro hosted his own live national talk show The Frank DeCaro Show every weekday on Sirius Satellite Radio for over 10 years. For nearly seven years, he co-wrote and hosted the popular Out at the Movies segments on the Emmy Award-winning Daily Show with Jon Stewart. A much sought-after pop culture pundit, he has appeared on numerous programs including TV Land's Tickled Pink, Logo's The Evolution Will Be Televised, CNN's Showbiz Tonight, NBC's Dateline, VH1's The List, E! Entertainment Television's The E! True Hollywood Story: The Sopranos, and Bravo's Bravo Profiles: RuPaul. As a journalist and fashion editor, he wrote the funny-but-chic biweekly column "Style Over Substance" for The New York Times. His work has appeared in myriad publications including The New York Times Magazine, Martha Stewart Living, Entertainment Weekly, Newsweek, Vogue, USA Weekend, Metropolitan Home, In Style, Time Out New York, and the Advocate.

Bruce Villanch is an award-winning writer and performer.

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Пролистать книгу Drag: Combing Through the Big Wigs of Show Business