The Allgemeines K??nstlerlexikon (AKL), a once-in-a-century work in itself and unique in its comprehensiveness and academic authority, is by no means limited to only the most famous artists: artists all over the globe from Easter Island to Tokyo and throughout the ages from antiquity to the present are recorded in this major lexicon. And - as the title...

This book explores the changing fortunes of the heroes of Greek myth and history in the melting pot of popular culture. Using both popular and little-known examples, classicist and film fan Gideon Nisbet charts the hidden history of Greece in the twentieth-century imagination, from film to science fiction and comics. As the twenty-first century began...

Following the success of 'Spoon', this title presents 10 leading design experts' choice of 100 of the most important young product designers from around the world. With a short written piece provided by the curators for each designer, it gives insight into why the designer's work has been chosen, and their background and future design plans.

This book grew out of an exhibition that was organized by the Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, in 2005. With the show, Shafrazi paid homage to a seminal display of Warhol's portraits that took place at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, in 1979-80. Titled "Andy Warhol: Portraits of the 1970s," the Whitney exhibition presented for the first...

'Eloquent and superbly illustrated ... Lauterwein's responses to Kiefer's individual works, and the thread which leads from one to the next, are invariably subtle and revealing' - The Times Literary Supplement
The art of Anselm Kiefer is rich with references to writers, philosophers and poets, and his relationship with Paul Celan has been the...