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As London evolves into a Babylonian-style city of lofty towers, the artist Anna Keen has been inspired to paint this London Metamorphosis. While each new edifice heads to the heavens, the exposed entrails of these vast construction sites strangely resemble ruins. Her large canvases are enriched with details stemming from patient observation and on-the-spot sketches, and from voyages around the city made by helicopter, boat, road and on foot. Like the eighteenth-century artist J.M Gandy, who simultaneously painted London in ruins and in construction, Anna Keen takes us just beneath the surface of the metropolis, to where the emotional landscape lurks and to where the soul of London is heading. London-based art historian Edward Lucie-Smith has followed Anna Keen's painting since 1995 in Rome.

In the spring of 2017, Carla van de Puttelaar developed a new and timely series devoted to prominent and promising women in the art world, 'Artfully Dressed: Women in the Art World'. While working on this ongoing project, Van de Puttelaar became even more impressed by the personalities and achievements of these women. United in their brilliance and strength, they represent a wide range of backgrounds, nationalities, careers, age and expertise. The women are dressed in amazing quality clothes by top designers, in period costumes or vintage clothes, or wrapped in stunning and luxurious fabrics. To date, over 250 women worldwide have participated in Van de Puttelaar's project, and the series continues to grow and has become an important document of the present time of women in the art world.

Few nations can boast a military history with the drama and depth of Britain's. This book offers an accessible, engaging daily introduction to that pageant for history buffs. With an entry for every day of the year, Armchair General brings British military history to life, telling stories of important British battles or sieges on their anniversaries. Covering all five continents and traveling from the Vikings to today, the book explores historical turning points like Passhendaele, Yorktown, and Waterloo, but also lesser known conflicts like the Sack of Lindisfarne or the more recent Battle of Musa Qala. For each one, Stuart Thresher offers a summary of the action alongside information about the battle's context and consequences, political and military alike. Armchair General is the perfect introduction to British military history.

A keen-eyed master story teller meets famous artists and characters from the art world, and brings his extraordinary adventures and discoveries in Europe and the Middle East vividly to life.

Two Lives in Colour provides a glimpse into the shared life of Fred Dubery and Joanne Brogden--artists, educators, colleagues, and spouses whose joie de vivre has inspired art fans and students alike for decades. Dubery's lush oil paintings captured the joys of travels abroad alongside the domestic contentment of a long and happy marriage, while Brogden, who trained under Christian Dior, was a pioneering professor of fashion. This book documents the legacy of their creative and personal lives with three hundred color images and text from renowned arts writer Ian Collins.

Working drawings, sketches, snapshots and manuscript notes from Thea Porter's career as a high-profile fashion designer much in demand in the 1960s and 70s POP scene. A source book and inspiration for students of fashion with an interest in colour, texture and pattern.

This book is unique in illustrating the art and material culture of birth and infancy across six centuries in Western Europe.

This retrospective of Tom Chambers' photomontage art demonstrates the artist's ability to produce believable but improbable magic realist scenes through camera work.

For thirty years, Kershisnik has enthusiastically celebrated his rich human bewilderment.

A love story of epic scope which explores the mental and physical damage that civil war inflicts. Weaves the subjects of sexuality, religion, ethnicity and loss into a dramatic tale which reveals the healing power of music.

The definitive account of British Artillery in the Great War, first published in 1972 and now re-issued featuring new photographs and foreword by Professor Peter Simkins.

For years, Chinese photographer Zhong Weixing has been dedicated to shooting the very best portraits of international masters of photography. Through his lens he has captured the faces of many of the world's foremost contemporary photographers, including Sebastião Salgado, William Klein, Robert Frank, Bruno Barbey, Bernard Faucon, and many more. Jean-Luc Monterosso, former director of the world-renowned Maison Européenne de la Photographie, describes these works by Zhong Weixing as a "pantheon of photography masters," and the well-known photographer Bruno Barbey has praised them as representing a "Bible of photographic history." Taken together, the stunning portraits collected in Zhong Weixing: Face to Face pay homage to those who dedicate their lives to making photography a major art of our time. In partnership with Intron International Cultural Development, the Unicorn Chinese Artists series features leading Chinese contemporary artists whose works are not yet well known enough outside China.

The first biography of Percy Moore Turner,

Initially published in 1956, this scientific exploration of the movements and private lives of swifts led the way for subsequent technological developments in tracking swifts' actions. This edition contains a new chapter from Andrew Lack bringing the story of swifts into the 21st century.

Omar Ramsden was a noted silversmith of the Arts and Crafts Era. In partnership with Alwyn Carr and a team of skilled artisans, he created spectacular silver goods that are still sought after today. But despite the renown of his work, and his involvement in the world of Arts and Crafts, there has been no published information about his life--until now. ​In Search of Ramsden and Carr is the first account of Ramsden's life and work. While looking into her genealogy, author Helen Ashton uncovered family ties to Ramsden, an interest that soon became an obsession that resulted in this book. Ashton details Ramsden's early life, including time spent in the United States, the establishment of his practice, and the adoption of a new style, adapted from Gothic and Renaissance designs with Celtic-style inscriptions, which would become their studio's trademark. Fully illustrated with one hundred black-and-white and color images, this book will appeal to all who appreciate hand-worked metal and the Arts and Crafts movement.

A remarkable figure of British politics between the late Victorian and interwar years, Lord Lansdowne was among the last hereditary aristocrats to wield power by birth.

Adrian Clark's thoroughly researched account of the origins and professional life of John Rothenstein, covers his highs and lows and tries to give a balanced view and summary of the achievements of this remarkable human being.

This book, richly illustrated and based on extensive scholarly research into the family archive, tells a comprehensive story of the collectors who amassed these treasures.

Four books - Landscapes, Still Lifes, Nudes and Portraits - are opening a new series called Art of the Soviet Union. This set will examine different genres of art in the USSR, covering the period from the October Revolution in 1917 to the dissolution of the Union in 1991.

Epitaphs of the Great War Passchendaele is an edited collection of headstone inscriptions from the graves of those killed during the Third Battle of Ypres - Passchendaele.

Volume III in our In Arcadia Series is a beautiful bird book - elegant descriptions of our best-loved birds alongside simple, yet stunning woodcuts.

This book is the first in the series of publications about Glasgow Museums' European Costume collection.

Glasgow Museums has the finest and most comprehensive collection of Italian paintings of any civic museums service in the United Kingdom.

A collection of Rudyard Kipling's articles describing the French Frontline during the First World War. Published to coincide with the 150th anniversary of Rudyard Kipling's birth.