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Tearing Things Up. The radical gestures of Lucio Fontana Italian artist Lucio Fontana literally tore the art establishment apart. Trained as a sculptor, he combined form and colour in radical spatial gestures, most famously his slashed canvases of...

Home Sweet Home. A remarkable photographic exploration of life on Earth Frans Lanting’s photographs are a striking exploration of existence on Earth. The renowned wildlife photographer journeyed across the globe to capture these images of bo...

A Legacy in Stone. Castles and fortresses of medieval Europe Follow photographer Frédéric Chaubin as he embarks on a unique, century-spanning journey through Europe. Featuring images of more than 200 buildings in 21 co...

Unflinching truth. Portraits which scrutinized beneath the skin Lucian Freud (1922–2011) was interested in the telling of truth. Always operating outside the main currents of 20th-century art, the esteemed portrait painter observed his subje...

Original Covers. The golden age of Black music Following the success of Jazz Covers, this epic volume of groove assembles over 500 legendary covers from a golden era in Black music. Psychedelia meets Black Power, sexual liberation meets social con...

The Complete Gaudí. Freedom of form with the “Dante of architecture” Antoni Gaudí merged Orientalism, natural forms, and new materials into a unique Modernista aesthetic that put Barcelona on the global architecture map. ...

A Frenchman in Tahiti. Gauguin’s search for pristine originality and unadulterated nature Paul Gauguin (1848–1903) was not cut out for finance. Nor did he last particularly long in the French Navy, or as a tarpaulin salesman in Copenha...

Ol’ Blue Eyes Is Back. Gay Talese’s New Journalism triumph, Frank Sinatra Has a Cold “Sinatra with a cold is Picasso without paint, Ferrari without fuel — only worse. For the common cold robs Sinatra of that ...

Italian architect and designer Gio Ponti (1891–1979) is difficult to pin down. With an extraordinarily prolific output and eclectic style, his oeuvre remains one of the most diverse and groundbreaking in design history. Trained initially in arc...

Mythical places, dreamlike beaches. A voyage to the most beautiful hotels in Greece Greece’s ancient art and culture form the cradle of Western civilization—numerous monuments and museums tell to this day of the country’s rich hi...

This Land is Your Land. A Journey to the Finest Hotels in the USA The USA is one of the most varied and fascinating countries in the world. Its areas of natural beauty such as the Pacific Coast, the Yosemite National Park, and Monument Valley are ...

Good Morning, Africa. The finest getaways from Morocco to South Africa Travel the length and breadth of Africa with this updated guide to the continent’s most beautiful hotels. With a refined eye for the X-factor in accommodation, Angelika T...

Walter Gropius (1883–1969) set out to build for the future. As the founding director of the Bauhaus, the Berlin-born architect had an inestimable influence on our aesthetic environment, championing a bold new hybrid of light, geometry, and indu...

Art is for Everybody. The artist as activist One of the key figures in the New York art world of the 1980s, Keith Haring (1958-1990) created a signature style that blended street art, graffiti, Pop, and cartoon elements to unique, memorable effect...

The Life Aesthetic. Josef Hoffmann’s pioneering minimalism Before aesthete, designer, and architect Josef Hoffmann (1870–1956) came along, Austrian architecture and design was suffocating under a surfeit of opulent ornamentat...