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Celebrating 50 years of Iron Maiden, this magnificent visual presentation, incorporating commentary by band members past and present, chronicles the evolution of heavy metal's most prestigious band. Iron Maiden is an institution. Hailed as pioneers of British new wave heavy metal, the band has come to embody a spirit of fearless creative independence and ferocious dedication to their fans that has won them a huge following around the world and across the generations. Iron Maiden traces the creative evolution of heavy metal's most influential and enthralling band, from 1975 to 2025. Presenting iconic album and single artworks, photographs of the band's instruments past and present, stage props, hand-written lyrics and artefacts from the archive and the band's personal collections, as well as landmark photographs by Ross Halfin and John McMurtrie, Iron Maiden is rife with revelatory stories and intriguing insights from pivotal band members and management. It is bookended by a foreword from band founder Steve Harris and an afterword by vocalist Bruce Dickinson. Organized chronologically, this supremely visual volume tells the entire story of the band from their first pub gigs in 1975 and their first record deal in 1979 through the recording and reception of the landmark third album The Number of the Beast in 1982 to their most recent 25th global tour. It traces the evolution of their iconic Eddie mascot, reproducing original sketches and artworks, and documents the band's spectacular and complex stage productions and extensive live tours, including the Somewhere Back in Time Tour of 2008, which made headlines around the world. Iron Maiden is the definitive legacy volume, celebrating the band's creativity, dedication, personality and success.

Add feeling to your journal, collage or scrapbook with this collection of over 1000 expressive stickers. With over 1000 stickers conveying every possible emotion, this book is the perfect way to bring all the feels to your journal, collage or scrapbook. Packed full of memorable retro images from vintage sources, you can peel, stick, and capture any feeling more accurately than words ever could. From screaming, to laughing, crying and the ultimate eye roll, there's an image for every moment, memory or reaction. Skittledog Sticker Books are loved by junk journallers, collage artists and scrapbookers for their fun and imaginative range. Make sure to check out:The Ransom Note Sticker BookThe Graffiti Alphabet Sticker BookYe Olde Ransom Note Sticker Book. The Curious Collectables Sticker Book

The most creative Christmas ever! Collage your own spectacular cards and decorations with this festive collection of surprising images. Collage your way through Christmas with this collection of delightful vintage imagery. Curated specially for the holiday season, hundreds of pictures are ready for you to cut out and combine into gloriously Christmassy scenes to use on cards, decorations, scrapbooks, journals, and more. You'll find whatever makes your celebrations complete: From Santa Claus, bells, baubles, and reindeer to snowflakes, mistletoe, and roaring log fires. With backgrounds, templates and step-by-step projects also included, it's the ultimate Christmas crafting kit.

Brilliantly useful for anyone who keeps a junk journal! Steadily growing in popularity since lockdown, junk journalling has become the hottest craft pastime for Gen Z. Filling pages with discovered images, stickers and ephemera, junk-journal keepers create visual stories that range from personal to whimsical. Many journallers look for vintage background images onto which they can layer their ideas. This book supplies a collection of 100 patterns, backdrops, landscapes and scenes, each one a fresh idea for surprising and delightful juxtapositions.

Color up the free-wheeling spirit of the roaring twenties, with sensationally Parisian fashions, décor and design.

Send mysterious messages, or decorate your journal in a unique vintage style! Organised by letter, with plenty of accents, punctuation marks, numbers and wingdings to pep up your text, this collection of over 1000 letters makes an excellent companion to The Ransom Note Sticker Book, but stands on its own equally well. Peel and spell today!

Following on from Mini Artists and Mini Architects, this new title will introduce creative children to the world of Graphic and Product Design. Across twenty easy-to-prepare craft activities, children will gain an understanding of how and why objects have been created throughout history - from traditional items made for function and cultural significance to essential and efficiently crafted everyday products - and creations that reflect the creativity of the artists who made them. From road signs and billboards seen on the way to school or nursery, to lamps that light our homes, children are surrounded by examples of creative design every day. Through twenty projects by designers from across the world, mini designers will learn what good design can accomplish and how to apply those principles in their own creativity. The wide variety of activities and craft techniques means there is something for every interest and mood. Craft projects include making a mixed-media vase inspired by Hella Jongerius, creating a toy race car from recycled materials and designing a map of an imaginary city based on the iconic London Tube map. With fast set-up and clean-down times for every project, this book is perfect for use at home or in schools and play groups, and will make for wonderful creative bonding time between imaginative children and their art-loving grown-ups.

Inspired by Paul Klee's quote, 'A drawing is simply a line going for a walk', this artful activity book is packed with playful ways to start a drawing. What if drawing could be as simple as picking up a pencil and moving it about on the page, as fun as playing a game or as exciting as setting out on an adventure? The answer is, you would spend all your time drawing, just like the author and illustrator of this book, Marion Deuchars! Featuring more than 100 drawing prompts, Take a Line for a Walk takes the pressure out of being creative by turning every drawing into a game. Having spent decades at the drawing board, Marion knows exactly how make art fun and easy. Whether it's drawing a line with the hiccups, playing a visual game of cat and mouse or walking your line around a maze of busy streets, Marion has endless suggestions for how to start a drawing. Without having to worry about what to draw, or what the results might be, young artists can enjoy following each prompt to see where it might take them. Peppered through the book are Marion's own beautiful line drawings, all of which are the result of simply taking a line for a walk.

A series of fascinating, well-illustrated biographies that offer insights into the women and men whose work in the applied arts represents the very pinnacle of their craft. This fascinating, richly illustrated anthology of the lives and careers of some of the most accomplished craftspeople represented in the V&A's collection celebrates the pinnacle of creative accomplishment. Their pioneering designs, technique and aesthetic flair resulted in masterpieces that changed the nature and direction of the decorative arts forever. Arranged chronologically from the Renaissance to now, the makers' biographies are contextualized by thematic introductions to the history of the decorative arts. The book features forty illustrated biographies, ranging from furniture makers such as Thomas Chippendale to woodcarvers such as Grinling Gibbons, textile artists including Gunta Stölzl and ceramicists such as Lucie Rie, alongside goldsmiths, enamellists and many more. It also explores less familiar names who made a significant contribution to their field, brought together by their extraordinary skill and innovative use of technology and materials. While maintaining a focus on makers in Europe and North America, the book surveys a range of international influences in the biographies and thematic introductions. These thematic introductions also explore important moments in the history of the decorative arts, ranging from early modern craft and industrialization through to the Arts and Crafts Movement, modernism and the post-war craft revival. This beautiful, expertly written book will appeal to anyone interested in visual culture.

A beautifully presented survey of design and the applied arts, explored not by use, material, form or date - but by colourThe V&A Book of Colour in Design is attractively simple: a celebration and exploration of colour, as revealed through objects in the world-class collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Structured by colour, it offers fascinating insights into the choices made by designers and makers from across the world and throughout history. Each chapter begins with a brief introduction that considers the history, symbolism, and use of an individual colour. Objects - from items of jewelry, textiles, glassware and ceramics to furniture and more - are reproduced in a visual selection that explores the varied hues of every colour. However different objects within each section may be in their detail and meaning, they are united by their common colour, revealing surprising connections between them. Throughout, narrative captions bring together disparate items from across the V&A's collection to explore the universal significance of colour in art and design. Beautifully designed, this highly visual, colour-led survey of design and the applied arts is a compelling sourcebook with broad appeal for anyone interested or involved in all aspects of visual culture.

A handy resource for all lovers and enthusiasts of house design, featuring over 100 of the world's most significant residential buildings. The Iconic House features over 100 of the most important and influential houses designed and built since 1900. International in scope and wide-ranging in style, the houses share a remarkable sensitivity to site and context, an appreciation of local materials and building traditions, and a careful understanding of clients' needs. Each, however, has a unique approach that makes it groundbreaking and radical for its time. Concise, informative texts and fresh, vibrant illustrations, including specially commissioned photographs, floor plans and drawings, offer detailed documentation, while architect biographies, a bibliography, a gazetteer and list of houses by type provide further information. Whether Arts and Crafts or Art Nouveau, Modernist or Minimalist, High-Tech or new vernacular, these unforgettable buildings from around the world will inspire and delight students and professionals, design aficionados and anyone who dreams of building a house of their own.

A fresh and vibrant account of the USA's New Deal art programmes, highlighting diversity, activism, social justice, and urgent lessons for today. Franklin D. Roosevelt's landslide victory in the USA's 1932 presidential election gave him a mandate to institute a 'New Deal' for US citizens, and by so doing offer them 'a more abundant life'. For a decade between 1933 and 1943 the New Deal art programs marked the largest federal investment in the arts in the history of the country. Tens of thousands of artists and artisans across the country produced some 2,500 murals, 100,000 easel paintings, 17,000 sculptures, and 200,000 prints. How should we understand the history and legacy of the New Deal art programs today? Marshalling new scholarship and original research, New Deal Art highlights the contributions of a diverse range of women, immigrant, working class, Indigenous, Black, Asian, Jewish, Latinx and LGBTQ+ artists. While previous studies have focused on the personalities and politics of government administrators, this book offers a 'history from below' that stresses the role of artists as activists through collective efforts such as the Artists Union and the American Artists Congress. It explores topics that traditionally fall outside the purview of art history: art as therapy in prisons and hospitals, children's art, community art centres and art education, and the place of handicrafts and applied arts. Above all, New Deal Art centres the question of art and democracy: What if art was treated as a natural resource to which all citizens had an equal right?

Published to mark the artist's 90th birthday, this is the first and only book to provide an overview of Bryan Organ, one of the world's great portrait painters.

The first book to explore from an archaeological perspective the incredible and improbable history of our relationship with cats, from fearsome foe to purring pet. Feared, revered and respected, cats have left an indelible pawprint on the histories and civilizations of humankind. In Britain a third of all households have a cat, as of 2021, some 45 million American households owned one or more cats, making them one of the most popular pets in the world. Over the last two million years, cats and people have interacted in diverse and unexpected ways, but the predecessors of your furry friend were predators, not pets. Here, for the first time, the path from deadly enemy to improbable roommate is set out through an archaeological lens by Professor of Anthropology Jerry Moore. Starting with the terrifying prehistorical scimitar-toothed cat of the Pliocene and the lion drawings of the Palaeolithic Chauvet caves, Moore journeys through our complicated history with these charismatic creatures. He travels along the Nile and across the Mediterranean, sailing on to South America, exploring pet cemeteries, cat mummies and exquisite statuary across continents and centuries. However, our attempts to bring cats in from the cold have not always had happy endings, as Moore explores through such famous feline fanciers as Joe Exotic, Siegfried Fischbacher and Roy Horn. Combining incredible archaeological finds with contemporary media, Cat Tales surveys ancient and modern interactions between humans and cats, wild and domestic, to ask a simple but profound question: who domesticated whom?

Fifty years after first publication, one of the most important photobooks of the 20th century returns, offering an intimate glimpse into the daily lives of the Roma community in the 1960s and 1970s. Josef Koudelka's Gypsies remains one of his best-known series, offering a unique survey of the lives of the Roma community across then-Czechoslovakia, Romania, Hungary, France and Spain between 1962 and 1971. Originally published in 1975, five years after Koudelka left Prague following the Soviet Union's invasion, Gypsies is a classic of documentary photography. Now returning in its original, hardback format, this timely new edition is as much a pioneering photoessay as it is a lesson in book making. Carrying only his equipment, a rucksack and sleeping bag, Koudelka journeyed between different village and encampments. His nomadic existence, defined by a sense of displacement, allowed him to gain the trust of the Roma communities he encountered. The resulting series eschews the often-derogatory depictions of the community to instead provide unparalleled insight into their world, shining a light on their traditions, struggles and routines. The Roma in these images were photographed mostly in a state that no longer exists, ruled by a regime that dissolved in 1989. With such few historical depictions, Gypsies is not only a testament to the beauty of photography, but a vital historical document of a community often relegated to the shadows. Arriving at a moment of contemporary unrest and social marginalization, Gypsies is a poignant reminder of the often bleak reality of the disenfranchised, and the power of photography to bear witness.

A unique survey of the explosion of avant-garde art in 1960s Japan. We've all heard of Paris 1968, but in Japan, a movement just as revolutionary, interesting and enduring was underway. The turbulent times of the post-war era inspired an artistic explosion in Japan, with the emergence of a revolutionary scene of avant-garde artists who pioneered many disciplines: experimental and erotic photography, 'Angura' theatre and underground street performances, apocalyptic Butoh dance, surreal illustrations and seminal graphic design. Taking design cues from Japanese luminaries Yokoo Tadanori and Awazu Kiyoshi, Japan Art Revolution features 400 captivating artworks, encompassing photographs, film stills, theatre posters and illustrations by visionary artists including Moriyama Daido, Hosoe Eikoh, Araki Nobuyoshi, Ishiuchi Miyako, Tanaami Keiichi, Yokoo Tadanori, Hijikata Tatsumi, Ohno Kazuo, Terayama Shuji, Tenjo, Sajiki, Kawada Kikuji, Neo-Dada Organizers, Hi-Red Center, Awazu Kiyoshi, Hanaga Mitsutoshi, Nakahira Takuma and Tanabe Santaro. Drawing on extensive interviews with these iconic artists, this comprehensive book offers readers a nuanced understanding of the thriving world of Japanese avant-garde art, complemented by insightful texts from esteemed experts, curators, academics and archivists. Japanese photobooks from this period are rare and expensive, so this book serves not only as a visual delight but also as an invaluable resource for scholars, art enthusiasts and those eager to discover the pioneers of Japanese avant garde.

A joyful overview of contemporary photography of birds, featuring the work of 50 internationally recognized photographers. Photographs of birds are found in every decade of photography's 200-year-old history. Today, more photographers than ever before have taken them as their subjects, inspired by our heightened understanding and appreciation of their complexity. Aviary unites the work of more than 50 internationally recognized photographers to explore our complex relationship with birds, questioning how we observe them and respond to their presence. Taking an eclectic curatorial approach, William A. Ewing and Danaé Panchaud weave together photographs from the fields of art, landscape, fashion, portraiture, ornithology and wildlife into six 'acts' that propose intriguing new dialogues and visual theatre between these different modes of photographic expression. Aviary features 200 photographs from leading image makers including Leila Jeffreys, Sarah Moon, Roger Ballen, Sarker Protick, Tim Flach, Viviane Sassen and Nadav Kander. Aviary is much more than simply a book for bird lovers, but an essential, visually led study of the relationship between humans and animals - a visual testament to the beauty, complexity and intrigue of the natural world.

The first monograph to present Roger Ballen's work in colour: a visual revelation that remains grounded in the chaotic, absurd psychological space of the Ballenesque. Having previously expressed no interest in colour photography, Roger Ballen was inspired to engage with the medium after receiving a Leica SL camera as a gift in 2016. Opening up to the potential of colour in his work, Ballen used light in creative ways, exploring new avenues of experimentation. Spirits and Spaces eloquently captures the absurd and bizarre world of Roger Ballen, where animals and Art Brut-like drawings dominate, and humanity is reduced to obscure figures or fragmented body parts. The new colour images in Spirits and Spaces, created in conjunction with Ballen's artistic director, Marguerite Rossouw, were produced in a claustrophobic space, constructed of worn, wallpapered wooden panels and with minimalistic lighting. Here, in this dense, oppressive environment, Ballen creates what might be seen by many as a world that is unexplainable in words: one in which absurdity, chaos, comedy and tragedy apparently exist side by side. Both a visual revelation and an artistic evolution by one of contemporary photography's most unique voices, Spirits and Spaces is an essential and much anticipated photobook for all Roger Ballen fans.

A clear, concise and compelling analysis of the eclectic and beautiful visual and material culture of shamanism. Entering trance states, healing body and soul, invoking animals as spirit guides and journeying to incorporeal realms - these skills have been central to shamanism over thousands of years and across much of the world, from the Evenki shamans of northern and central Asia to contemporary Neo-Shamans of the West. Join cultural and social anthropologist Max Carocci as he explores an eclectic array of shamanic artefacts and images, decoding the symbolism and explaining their extraordinary shamanic ritual practices. Marvel at the adornments of a Siberian shaman's coat; examine the prehistoric rock art that depicts mystical transformations of shamans into animals; and discover the psychotropic plants that open our minds to interdimensional journeys of healing and wisdom. Carocci makes the manifold meanings encoded in the forms, colours and purposes of shamanic images and objects clear, painting a vibrant and in-depth picture of shamanic cultures past and present.

A bold exploration of the role of the domestic interior in fashion photography and its importance in defining a new kind of fashion image. For three decades, the fashion image has shifted its focus from high-end shoots to the idiosyncratic, Instagram-style practice of pictures taken at home. That home may be a house, apartment or room - often, though not always, the antithesis of glamour and gloss. The Domestic Stage captures this fascination with the home as an 'uncurated' setting for presenting an individual's private life and relationships, and for professional commissions with edge. Those behind the camera come from very different places, but all celebrate a sense of inventiveness and empowerment from working in the domestic space. How this space merged with the fashion image is revealed through the words and work of twenty-two such image-makers, most of whom talked personally to author Adam Murray. They include the pioneering Nigel Shafran; International Magic, who created virtual fashion shows with Martine Rose during the pandemic; and Carrie Mae Weems, whose 2024 Bottega Veneta campaign truly came 'home' - to show A$AP Rocky enjoying time with his children. Each and every contributor's commentary is candid and revealing, their images even more so. The result is a provocative new take on fashion photography and its transformation in recent years.

A 'genre killer' guide to the world of anime featuring 100 movies and television series, from all-time classics to cult favourites and under-the-radar gems. Ultimate Anime is for newcomers and anime aficionados alike, not reviewing but instead celebrating the medium's most incredible achievements to date. Packed with specially commissioned artworks, film stills and essays on directors and Japanese pop culture, Ultimate Anime is an irresistible 'way in' to the art form for newcomers as well as an essential purchase for even the most hardcore anime otaku. Whether looking at the ephemeral arthouse tragedy of Belladonna of Sadness, the iconic legacy of Cowboy Bebop or the genre-busting touchstone of Suzumiya Haruhi, there are worlds beyond worlds worth exploring once a new fan has finished their first Ghibli binge. Each featured movie is supported by an in-depth commentary and branching recommendations to other movies that may overlap with viewers' tastes. Movie profiles are illustrated by stills from the movies themselves. These celebrations explore the titles' creation, from the minds that brought them to life to the thoroughly Japanese culture and themes woven throughout, all while breaking down what makes each of them such enduring classics. By building a library of recommendations around such well-known works, fans old and new will quickly be able to find a new favourite to check out. Built from the ground up to be a 'genre-killer' title, Ultimate Anime is the defining guide to anime for established fans and curious newcomers alike.