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Artists ask questions when they make art - and viewers ask questions when they look at art. This book provides an engaging way for young people to start asking and answering questions for themselves. It is structured around 22 questions, each one tackled over two spreads.

Pavilions have myriad forms and as many functions. This is a selection of the best examples produced in recent years. It features pavilions ranging from the advanced forms of Sou Fujimoto to Zaha Hadid's Chanel pavilion, from small structures created entirely out of farm waste to a mirrored carapace conceived by Olafur Eliasson.

Bernard Plossu has been called 'the most American of French photographers' by his friend and colleague Lewis Baltz. This book showcases 88 bold and cinematic colour photographs, many of which are previously unpublished, dating from the 1970s and early 80s, when Plossu was resident in the US.

A study of the connections between photography, drawing, the mind and the body. In this book, the images were inspired by the simple act of drawing on windows - a practice that the author observed first-hand in many communities. It features photographs that carves out a realm that is both earthly and otherworldly, physical and spiritual.

Explores the meaning of mental illness through the successive incarnations of the institution that defined it: the madhouse, designed to segregate its inmates from society; the lunatic asylum, which intended to restore the reason of sufferers by humane treatment; and the mental hospital, which reduced their conditions to diseases of the brain.

The official publication celebrating Magnum Photos' 70th anniversary: a totally fresh and perceptive view of the legendary agency's history and archive.

A fun, interactive guide for everyone who loves maps of any kind, and who loves to sketch or doodle.

An informative and beautifully produced guide to the Nimrud Ivories, one of the world's most spectacular collections of ancient ivory, now largely lost as a result of conflict in the Middle East.

A colouring book of iconic patterns produced by Morris & Co, from the V&A's collection. Includes designs by John Henry Derle, May Morris and William De Morgan, as well as William Morris himself. 105 illustrations.

Presents a systematic survey of the fifty most important medieval parish church towers and spires in England, covering a period of some five hundred years. In this title, the introduction provides an overview of the technological and aesthetic development of towers and spires, and examines the evolution of their major architectural elements.

Reveals the decorative seams, refined stitching, voluptuous drapery, strict corseting and slashing and stamping that make up some of the garments in the V&A's superlative 19th-century fashion collection. This title gives the reader a unique opportunity to examine historical clothing that is often too fragile to be on display.

Today's artists have an unprecedented level of choice with regard to materials and methods available to them, yet the processes involved in making artworks are rarely addressed in books or exhibitions on art. This title sets out a history of trends in artistic production and the possible catalysts for the proliferation of production strategies.

Beneath the waters of Abukir Bay, lie the submerged remains of the ancient Egyptian cities Canopus and Thonis-Heracleion, which sank over 1,000 years ago but were brought to the surface by in the 1990s. These ancient artefacts are to be exhibited in Britain in 2016. This book tells the story of these two ancient civilizations.

By comparing the world depicted in the earliest Irish literary tradition with the archaeological evidence available on the ground, the author explores Ireland's rich mythological tradition and tests its claims to represent reality.

Sri Lanka is a place of geographic and cultural contrasts, and its best architecture is structurally versatile, using features such as overhanging roofs, slatted walls and courtyards to cope with intense sunshine and sudden downpours in equal measure. This book deals with the interior, climatic factors, valuable antiques and more.

Explores the current rebirth of simplicity in graphic design. This book showcases around 150 outstanding minimalist designers working across a wide range of formats and media - from independent magazines and album covers to corporate identity and branding.

Follmi travelled far and wide to witness the celebrations, landscapes, rituals and traditions of cultures all over the world, discovering new ways of seeing as he sought to understand and capture through photography the connections linking the people to their ancestral lands. This book deals with his work.

Handkerchief, pochette, fazelleto, panuelo, mouchoir de poche, tenugui, hankachi or hank. They all mean one thing. A small innocent square of fabric. Place one in a jacket pocket however, and it transforms into a pocket square. This guide features 22 pocket square folds, for linen, cotton and silk, from the simple to the flamboyant 'Bouquet' fold.

Building on the visionary design system that architect Fritz Haller and engineer aul Scharer developed in 1965 for Swiss furniture company USM, this title brings together specially commissioned essays and interviews with leading designers, architects and thinkers to present the wide-ranging importance of modular design over the years.

Who are the Europeans? Where did they come from? This book brings together the evidence and combines it with archaeology and linguistics to produce a new history of Europe.

The events of Richard IIIs reign and his death in 1485 at the Battle of Bosworth are known worldwide through Shakespeares most performed, filmed and translated history play. This book tells the story of how his grave was found, the people behind the discovery and what it tells us.

Documents fifty of the most important buildings of the last decade through architectural photographs that highlight their exceptional detail, attention to context and material experimentation.

Introduces Miro, a quiet, kind and smartly dressed man, who 'dreamed when he was awake' and painted wonderfully strange worlds filled with magical animals. This book is illustrated with some of Miro's finest works, as well as evocative archive photography by Lee Miller and specially commissioned artworks by children done in the style of Miro.

Explores different formal ways of representing the passage of time and at the same time the unavoidable but marvellous stillness of portraits.

Follows a child's hilarious, wildly inventive train of thought as he decides to make a clone of himself - and starts to ponder what makes him.

In the 1920s and '30s Art Deco influenced everything from art and architecture, interiors and furnishings, automobiles and boats, to the small personal objects that are part of everyday life. In this title, the items demonstrate Deco style at its most alluring. They were then the height of fashion, and are highly prized collectibles today.