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An indispensable introduction to the life and work of Georgia O'Keeffe, whose distinctive vision and pioneering approach to painting nature offer a unique way of looking at the world and cement her reputation as the 'mother of American modernism'.

A fascinating introduction to the life and work of Henri Matisse, a leading artist of the modern age whose radical and innovative techniques demonstrate his lifelong commitment to celebrating dynamic forms and bold, expressive colour.

An enlightening introduction to the life and work of Louise Bourgeois, whose abstract sculptures and unconventional art offer profound insight into both her personal life and the larger social issues of her age, solidifying her as one of the most important feminist artists of the twentieth century. Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) is best known for her monumental sculptures: towering, dark and warped structures that are often isolated, evoking a myriad of emotions from hope and fear to anguish and anxiety. But she also worked prolifically with fabric, weaving together her personal life with her art to tell powerful stories of her traumatic memories and experiences. This book is an enlightening introduction to the life and work of Bourgeois. Bringing together her extensive and beguiling body of work, from her early paintings and ink drawings to her large-scale sculptural installations incorporating textiles and tapestries, it reveals the profound personal and social insight of an extraordinary artist who transformed violence and vulnerability into art, solidifying her as one of the most important feminist artists of the twentieth century.

Enter the captivating world of leading contemporary artist Do Ho Suh Korean-born, London-based artist Do Ho Suh invites us to explore his large-scale installations, sculptures, videos, and drawings in this beautifully designed and illustrated survey of his work, raising timely questions about the enigma of home, identity, and how we move through and inhabit the world around us. Through his extraordinary immersive artworks, Suh draws us in to think about belonging, collectivity, and individuality, connection, and disconnection, examining the intricate relationship between architecture, space, the body, and the memories and the moments that make us who we are. From the fragility and minute detail of embroidered threads to the monumentality of his larger installations, Suh's work is profoundly thought-provoking and enriching. Text by artists and art historians, as well as a conversation between Suh and British artist Janice Kerbel further enrich our experience of this remarkable body of work.

Accompanying the first major UK exhibition of contemporary artist Ed Atkins, this career-spanning publication assembles paintings, writings, embroideries and drawings alongside Atkins's moving-image works in a succession of large-scale installations. For over a decade, Ed Atkins has been making videos and animations that trace the dwindling gap between representation and embodied experience. Using his desires, experiences and body as a model, Atkins's works misuse contemporary technologies of representation to critically reflect what they have done to images and our sense of self. Troubled by melancholy, undermined by bathos and tempered with humour, his works pit a weightless digital life against a corporal world of craft and touch, allegorising profound experiences of loss, intimacy, and love. This ambitious publication provides a radical survey of his career, assembling a wide range of paintings, writing, embroideries and drawings alongside the moving-image works for which he is best-known. Essays from leading scholars, authors and curators, alongside previously unpublished behind-the-scenes production photographs and a curated selection of new drawings collectively probe Atkins' practice to ask: what kind of realism is at stake here?

The first major exhibition of visionary artist Ithell Colquhoun and the first major accompanying publication on the artist. One of the most radical artists of her generation, Colquhoun was an important figure in British Surrealism during the 1930s and 1940s. An innovative writer and practicing occultist, Colquhoun charted her own course, investigating surrealist methods of unconscious picture-making and fearlessly delving into the realms of myth and magic. Colquhoun explored the possibilities of a divine feminine power as a path to personal fulfilment and societal transformation. Her understanding of the world as a connected spiritual cosmos brought her to Cornwall, where she deepened her creative explorations, inspired by the region's ancient landscape, Celtic traditions, and sacred sites. This landmark exhibition and publication of over 200 artworks and archival materials traces Colquhoun's evolution, from her early student work and engagement with the surrealist movement, to her fascination with the intertwining realms of art, sexual identity, ecology and occultism. It culminates in a room dedicated to Colquhoun's interpretation of the Taro deck - her most accomplished fusion of her artistic and magical practice. Explore Colquhoun's enthralling, multi-layered universe through writings, drawings, paintings, early theatre projects and mural designs, many of which have never been shown publicly before.

"Self-portraiture then is a way to interrogate not just who I am in terms of my identity and sexuality, but, more importantly, who I can fantasise myself to be."Ajamu X, born in Huddersfield in 1963, is a British photographic artist, curator, archivist and activist. He is best known for his fine art photography which explores same-sex desire, the erotic and sensory, and the Black queer body. As a leading specialist in Black British LGBTQ+ history, heritage and memory, his work as an archivist and activist documents the lives and experiences of Black LGBTQ+ people in the United Kingdom. His work is held in many private and public collections, including Tate, the Rose Art Museum, Autograph, Arts Council of England, and the Victoria & Albert Museum. "I think photography privileges the visual, but in the darkroom the other senses kick in: the sonic, the tactility, the smell is important too."

"I feel most comfortable among people in various diasporas. I don't feel like I have one specific home; everywhere is home and nowhere is home."Sunil Gupta was born in 1953 in New Delhi, India and moved to Canada as a teenager in the late 1960s. He now lives and works in London. Over a career spanning more than four decades, Gupta has maintained a visionary approach to photography, producing bodies of work that are pioneering in their social and political commentary. The artist's diasporic experience of multiple cultures informs a practice dedicated to themes of race, migration and queer identity - his own lived experience a point of departure for photographic projects, born from a desire to see himself and others like him represented in art history. Working in India, the United States, and the UK, his best-known works include the Exiles series (1986-7), Lovers: Ten Years On (1984-6), the series From Here to Eternity (1999), Songs of Deliverance (2022). His newspaper articles, speeches and essays show his crucial role at the centre of grassroots queer and postcolonial organising throughout his career. He continues to forge his own cultural history, fusing the public and the personal through photographs that highlight those marginalised in society.

New York-based artist Lyle Ashton Harris spent his adolescence living between New York City and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. This formative period informs his wide-ranging artistic practice in photography, collage, installation and performance - making a commentary on the societal constructs of gender, desire, and race; the complexities of African and African American experience; and his own identity as a queer, Black man. "I think it's important to talk about the triumph of laying claim to an experience and rechannelling its energy into creative expression that will go back out into the culture where an intergenerational transmission can take place."

"Women taking ownership of their bodies and allowing forgiveness of self as a form of healing is one of the ways in which I have approached my work. It is as much a formal experiment as it is a societal gift."Laura Aguilar (1959-2018) was a trailblazing Chicana artist and photographer, best known for her images that explore ideas of beauty and the female form in relation to nature and place. In the 1980s and 1990s, she experimented with portraiture and text to give visibility to a range of perspectives from Latinx and LGBTQ communities around Los Angeles. She later began using her naked body as a subject, adopting photography as a medium to empower herself and find her place among diverse interests and intersecting identities. Her images have been increasingly exhibited and praised since a major retrospective in the United States launched in 2017. This publication showcases works from different photographic series that made Aguilar one of the most influential artists of her generation. It also includes one of her previously unpublished artist statements.

The bestselling survey of art history, newly expanded with additional artworks and fresh commentary across six overarching themes: looking, materials, mind, devotion, power, and sex. How is art made? How can we interpret the meaning behind it? And what is the significance of the way in which it is displayed? Using six common themes that bind together art from around the globe, this lively and illuminating journey through art history seeks to answer these questions and more, drawing parallels across different time periods and cultures - from cave paintings to contemporary multi-media works. This expanded edition of Dana Arnold's bestselling survey offers news illustrations and fresh insights - the perfect companion for anyone seeking to learn more across a stunning breadth of art.

With original, full-color designs and 11 affirmations from the artist himself, this compact gift book offers guidance, clarity, and support for fulfilling your creative potential Are you an aspiring artist? Or perhaps lost your creative vision? Or you just need some powerful words of encouragement to follow your dreams. Well, this book is for you. Known as the “architect of joy,” this book was created by visionary multidisplinary artist and designer Yinka Ilori and offers bold and fearless encouragement for anyone looking for assurance on their artistic journey. Suitable for all ages, this is the perfect gift book for anyone needing a joyful mood boost and for aspiring artists in need of uplifiting declarations. With original, full-color designs and 11 affirmations from the artist himself, this compact gift book offers guidance, clarity, and support for fulfilling your creative potential.

Tate Modern exhibition: 8 October 2024 - 16 March 2025

Tate Modern exhibition: 1 February - 5 May 2025

A beautiful and faithfully reproduced slipcase edition of the best-selling, revolutionary publication from one of history's most visionary artists.Widely recognised as a masterpiece of English literature, Songs of Innocence and of Experience also occupies a key position in the history of Western art. This unique edition, newly reissued in a slipcase, sees William Blake communicating with his readers as he intended - reproducing his own illumination and lettering from the finest existing example of the original work. In this way, readers can experience the mystery and beauty of Blake's poems as he first created them, discovering for themselves the intricate web of symbol and meaning that connects word and image. Each poem is accompanied by a literal transcription, and the volume is introduced by the renowned historian and critic, Richard Holmes. This beautiful edition of Songs of Innocence and of Experience will be essential for those familiar with Blake's work, but also offers an ideal way into his world for those encountering him for the first time.

Tate Modern exhibition: 27 February - 2 September 2025

An insightful and much-needed introduction to the life and work of Malgorzata Mirga-Tas, a textile artist dedicated to celebrating the vibrant heritage of the Romani community. Malgorzata Mirga-Tas (b.1978) is a Romani artist and activist who is best known for her colourful textile collages. Made from materials gathered from family and friends, and often created in collaboration with other women, these works depict the everyday life of the Romani people to challenge stereotypical representations and form what she calls 'microcarriers of history'. This fascinating introduction explores the life and work of Mirga-Tas, contextualising her practice within Romani culture and the community in which she was raised. Bringing attention to the Romani people - their relationships, alliances and shared activities - through her visual storytelling, she also re-imagines artworks from across the centuries that have presented Romani identity in negative ways and transforms them into vibrant images imbued with strength and dignity. These works, informed by her feminist perspective and a sustained engagement with her community, combine realism with visual motifs of Romani culture, and offer a rare opportunity to see and celebrate the Roma on their own terms - both as a contemporary community and as a people with a rich heritage.

An insightful exploration celebrating the diverse and dynamic cultural impact of South Asian artists and filmmakers in twentieth-century Britain. This book will introduce readers to an array of South Asian artists active in the twentieth century, all of whom demonstrate such variety that they challenge the unifying category 'South Asian'. From Punjabi war veterans who came to fill labour shortages in the interwar period, through to South Asians from Uganda who settled in Britain after expulsion by Idi Amin in 1972, this book will explore how the South Asian diaspora responded to hostility and discrimination by turning to artistic production. Using a variety of media, they made artworks which demanded the colonial constitution of art history be interrogated, and the lives of South Asians to be transformed. These artworks, together with those by contemporary artists that draw from and reorient their ancestral legacies, have contributed to incisive theories of race, gender, nationhood and aesthetics - all of which come to bear on present debates on power in the art world and beyond.

Compelling and intimate, this collection of letters between the celebrated art critic and essayist John Berger and his son Yves, an artist, is a moving look at their musings on art, memory, life, death, and beyond. Composed of letters written between 2015 and 2016, some of the last written by John Berger, along with images of works by old masters and contemporary art and some of the Bergers' own drawings and watercolours, Over to You is an informal back-and-forth not unlike the ping-pong games father and son used to play in the barn of their house. It begins when John, who is in a Parisian suburb, sends Yves, who is in Haute-Savoie, an envelope of reproductions of art that have moved him. And so they begin to reveal their thoughts, looking at works by Goya, Watteau, Twombly, Joan Mitchell, Dürer, Caravaggio, Manet, and Euan Uglow, among many others. But the art is just a way to summon shared emotions and memories, as well as deepen their understanding of the world and its mysteries. John, at eighty-nine, is the more formal teacher; Yves, at thirty-nine, is the younger, philosophical artist. There are John's thoughts on everything from the use of colour, light and space in, say, a Dürer or a Beckmann to the question of 'staying fully alive.' Yves notes how much in life exceeds our understanding, the gap between our consciousness and our feeling, between the said and the unsaid. 'That's the zone where I would like us to meet. Are you coming?' he asks his father. 'I may need other eyes to confirm what is really there. Like your eyes always did.'This is an exceptional and moving tribute to a relationship between a father and a son, and between two artists, as well as a thought-provoking look at questions we all have about work, time, the universe, life, and death.

An indispensable introduction to the life and work of James McNeil Whistler, a hugely influential artist whose delicate and atmospheric paintings and aesthetic theories cement him as a key artist of the modern age.

An enlightening introduction to the life and work of Gwen John, whose intense gaze and fascination with the female sitter resulted in some of the most beguiling paintings of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

A much-needed introduction to the life and work of Sonia Boyce, a leading contemporary artist whose interdisciplinary practice explores race and gender, and questions artistic authorship and cultural difference.

Taking you behind the lens during a decade of significant social and political change, discover the remarkable transformation of British photography in the 1980s, and its impact on art across the world. This book will trace critical developments in photographic art in the UK, made by a diverse range of photographers in and around the Thatcher era (1976-1993). Rather than presenting a comprehensive history, the book will showcase more than 70 lens-based artists, and reveal numerous small histories, known and unknown, presented by a constellation of image makers (particularly Global Majority photographers), photography journals, photographer collectives, and theorists. The publication will also pay close attention to the intersection between photography and the British Black arts movement, and to the theoretical developments in photography and representation from the perspectives of postmodernism and cultural theory by British scholars from the period, namely John Tagg, Victor Burgin, and Stuart Hall. Photographers include Don McCullin, Martin Parr, Ingrid Pollard, Sunil Gupta, Wolfgang Tillmans, Keith Arnatt, Vanley Burke, Sirkka-Liisa Kontinnen, Marketa Luskacova, Joy Gregory, Paul Graham, Ajamu X, and many more key figures.

An essential introduction to the life and work of William Blake, a radical and rebellious painter and poet whose eccentric artistic vision was deeply concerned with the social, religious and political issues of his age.

Discover how artists used machines and algorithms to create mesmerising and mind-bending art between the 1950s and 1980s.

Discover how artists used machines and algorithms to create mesmerising and mind-bending art between the 1950s and 1980s.

Come along on this journey to look at portraits in art! Paint, draw and create your very own artwork inspired by the work of incredible artists from around the world!

Exploring timeless themes of love, innocence, deception and betrayal, Charlotte Gastaut magnificently retells the story of Giselle, using die-cut paper and transparent book leaves to fully immerse us in one of the world's most famous and haunting ballets.