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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...

There’s No Place Like Home. Step into the world’s most beautiful private abodes Discover the world’s finest crop of new homes. This dependable global digest features such talents as Shigeru Ban, MVRDV, and Marcio Kogan alongside ...

There’s No Place Like Home. Step into the world’s most beautiful private abodes Enter the world’s finest homes in this dependable global digest featuring talents like Shigeru Ban and Marcio Kogan alo...

Painter of urban loneliness. Significant American 20th-century art Edward Hopper (1882-1967) is considered as one of the first important American painters in 20th century art. After decades of patient work, Hopper enjoyed a success and popularity ...

Urban loneliness. One of the greatest realists of American art Edward Hopper (1882–1967) is considered as one of the first important American painters in 20th-century art. After decades of patient work, Hopper enjoyed a success and popularit...

Edward Hopper (1882–1967) is considered the first significant American painter in 20th-century art. Living in a secluded country house with his wife, Josephine, he depicted the loneliness of big-city people in canvas after canvas. Probably the ...

The best scary movies of all time. This exciting new visual history examines the genre in thematic, historical, and aesthetic terms Horror is both the most perennially popular and geographically diverse of all film genres; arguably, every country ...

Film frights. The best scary movies of all time Horror is both the most perennially popular and geographically diverse of all film genres; arguably, every country that makes movies makes horror movies of one kind or another. Depicting deep-rooted,...

Film frights. The best scary movies of all time Get ready to quake in fear with this revised and expanded edition of our history of horror cinema. This chilling volume packs 640 pages full with the finest slashers, ghosts, zombies, cannibals, and ...

When photographer Howard Huang began shopping his fashion book around New York in 2002 he had no idea he was about to become the master of urban photography. Back then, Huang, originating from Taiwan, thought "urban girls" were just women w...

Mythologies for the Future. The powerful world of HR Giger “At its essence, Giger’s art digs down into our psyches and touches our very deepest primal instincts and fears. His art stands in a category of its own. The proof of this lies...

The hula dance, historic, exotic, and romantic, has epitomized the somewhat intangible lure of the tropical Pacific for over two centuries. The idealized Hula Girl - with her ukulele, grass skirt, and curvy figure - evolved into the ultimate symbol o...