This is an in-depth overview of the creation and development of Mozart's opera The Magic Flute by artist and ceramicist Jun Kaneko. This fascinating and exciting journey is recorded in numerous colour photographs accompanied by essays.

Widely considered to be the most comprehensive introduction to ceramics available, this book contains numerous step-by-step illustrations of all ceramic techniques gathered from an impressive collection of international potters.

This practical reference book introduces basic materials and processes for drawing and painting.

Brings together over 250 images from more than 40 contemporary collage artists.

Contemporary Art: World Currents argues that, in recent decades, a worldwide shift from modern to contemporary art has occurred.

Brings together an innovative new generation of artists who are creating the aesthetics of the next decade.

A cool visual guide to the skull, charting its rebirth through music and street fashion to become today’s ultimate anti-establishment icon.

Miniatures make us relive the world from the perspective of our childhood. They offer a disquieting experience of distance, and artists often use it to explore very contemporary feelings of alienation, displacement and estrangement.

This interactive book is packed with stimulating ideas to spark your creative imagination.

With a freshness and breadth of approach that sets the art in its context, this book explores why works were created and who commissioned the palaces, cathedrals, paintings, and sculptures.

With a freshness and breadth of approach that sets the art in its context, this book explores why works were created and who commissioned the palaces, cathedrals, paintings, and sculptures.

Showing you how to create your own hand-drawn alphabets, this book contains over 40 typefaces, inspired by everything from hairy monsters to clouds, ribbons and robots.