Книги видавництва Thames & Hudson

This book traces the extraordinary life of an artist whose unforgettable imagery combined cruelty and wit, honesty and insolence, pain and empowerment. Admired by the Surrealists and photographed by the greatest, Frida Kahlo was most renowned for ...

A comprehensive survey of contemporary art from Russia from the 1970s on, with more than 600 colour illustrations, artist interviews, in-depth profiles and essays by leading scholars and collectors Russia has undergone an amazing cultural and politi...

For millennia, architects and builders have attempted to rationalize cities into well-functioning and liveable places. While many aspects of a city evolve naturally, other facets result from human interventions and radical imagination. Future City ce...

Greater sensitivity to climate change has already made this century one of the most productive periods in landscape and garden design. Designers and clients are increasingly committed to innovative outdoor spaces: in cities, the country and private g...

This is the only book to provide a complete overview of the long history out of which today’s rich and varied gay culture has emerged. Historians from nine countries consider the evidence for same-sex relationships throughout the centuries, cha...

There’s never been a better time to be a geek. After decades, if not centuries, of persecution, ridicule and never, never getting the girl, geeks are hot. They are on the cover of magazines, win awards at the Oscars and the Baftas, eat at the b...

This book is filled with some of the glittering highlights of modern domestic architecture from around the globe. The most versatile, practical and beautiful of all the materials at architects' disposal, glass has the power to re-energize tire...

With ravishing full-spread details of paintings and carefully-chosen details of many etchings, this splendidly-illustrated volume focuses on Goya's profoundly disturbing imagery, and demonstrates that his modernity derives from his lifelong investiga...

With quotes from the key players, including JAZZ and the Brazilian twins OS GEMEOS, this book traces the story of Argentina’s vibrant but little-known graffiti scene – from the beginnings of graffiti in the 1990s and artists’ c...

GRAFFITI WORLD is the ultimate graffiti book offering a unique insight into the very essence of graffiti and its creative explosion in almost every corner of the globe. With over 2,000 pictures from more than 180 international artists, no other bo...

Graffiti World is the ultimate graffiti book. With over 2,000 pictures of artworks from more than 180 international artists, no other book is remotely so comprehensive or up to date. Nicholas Ganz combines his own first-hand experiences with quote...

Ranging through Persia, India, England, France and America, this volume includes the finest types of each carpet, from both museums and private collections. The text contains discussions of production, restoration and conservation, and of the origins...

The creation of this important and lavishly illustrated book involved gathering material from all the major museums in Russia and abroad, as well as from public and private archives. It is a remembrance of things past and a testimonial to a great cul...

John Dixon Hunt is the doyen of garden historians and this book is his credo, the product of a lifetime’s thought. 'Greater Perfections' establishes a firm intellectual tradition of garden history, weaving together the physical reality of gardens...

This book brings together the strongest contemporary graphic design promoting sustainability and the fight against climate change. The texts look back in time to posters and ideas that set the stage for the current movement (World War II posters, ...