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Orient Expressed. The master of Japanese ukiyo-e Hiroshige was one of the last great artists of ukiyo-e, the woodblock print genre that flourished between the 17th and 19th century and did much to determine the world’s visual concept of Japa...

Station to Station. A historic trail through the heart of Japan, as told by two legendary woodblock artists This XXL edition reprints Keisai Eisen and Utagawa Hiroshige’s legendary series The Sixty-Nine Stations along the Kisokaidō, a stunni...

Literally meaning "pictures of the floating world", ukiyo-e refers to the famous Japanese woodblock print genre that originated in the 17th century and is practically synonymous with the Western world’s visual characterization of Japa...

City lights and cherry trees. The woodblock prints of Tokyo that captured Europe's imagination Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858) was one of the last great artists in the ukiyo-e tradition. Literally meaning “pictures of the floating wo...

Views of 19th-Century Tokyo. Images of a city between visual poetry and idealized reality From verdant panoramas to decadent pleasure quarters: Utagawa Hiroshige’s final masterpiece, One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, is a woodblock journey th...

It all started around 1900, and wouldn`t you know the French were the first? Whether you call them men`s sophisticates, nudie books, or girly magazines, this long-ignored art form has a rich international history. Author Dian Hanson, a girly magazine...

Data Trails. An XL-sized compendium on the history of knowledge From cosmic charts and da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man to the New York subway map: trace the history of visual data from the Middle Ages to the digital era in this XL compendium. Featu...

Open your notebooks, sharpen your pencils, and get ready for a history lesson like none you’ve ever experienced. Yes, that’s right: you’re about to learn everything you could ever want to know about the world history of men’s ...

The definitive annotated and illustrated history of girlie periodicals (1960s part 1) Open your notebooks, sharpen your pencils, and get ready for a history lesson like none you've ever experienced. You're about to learn everything you cou...

The definitive annotated and illustrated history of girlie periodicals (1960s part 2) "Separation is great, as long as the separation is of my thighs." —Adults Only Open your notebooks, sharpen your pencils, and get ready for a ...

The influence of the Austrian architect and designer Josef Hoffmann (1870-1956) is extraordinary: for a period of over 60 years he kept up an aesthetic dialog with Modernism, the International Style, and Art Deco. Before being rediscovered in the 198...

Meet the artist whose majestic breaking wave sent ripples across the world. Hokusai (1760–1849) is not only one of the giants of Japanese art and a legend of the Edo period, but also a founding father of Western modernism, whose prolific gamut ...

In the Footsteps of a Master. Hokusai’s complete Views of Mount Fuji This XXL edition transports readers to 19th-century Japan with Katsushika Hokusai’s seminal Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, an artifact ...

Religion, Renaissance, and Reformation — these three ideologies shaped the world of 16th-century portraitist Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/98–1543), a pivotal figure of the Northern Renaissance, whose skills took him to Switzerland, Belg...