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Marc Chagall (1887 - 1985) is one of the great artists of the last century. Bringing together more than sixty paintings and a selection of works on paper from across the world, Chagall: Modern Master takes a fresh look at this compelling artist who created some of the most poetic and enduring images of the twentieth century. Accompanying the first major touring exhibition of the work of his work in the UK in fifteen years it explores Chagall's...

Lubaina Himid has long wanted to create a publication that explores the key themes and concerns in her work using a fresh and intriguing approach, and here it is. This book breaks from the traditional artist monographand instead serves as a useful manual for readers, using a series of 'how-to' sections inspired by the artist's work.

This stunning voulme tells the story of Rego's extraordinary life, highlighting the personal nature of much ofher work and the socio-political context in which it is rooted. It also reveals the artist's broad range of references, from comic strips to history painting.

A concise introduction to one of the world's most important concrete and geometric abstract artists and co-founder of the dada movement.

Rachel Whiteread (b. 1963) uses materials such as plaster, concrete, resin, and rubber to mold not the object itself but the area within or around it, single-handedly expanding the parameters of contemporary sculpture in the process. This book is the first significant survey of her career and includes a new commentary on key works by the artist. Whiteread first gained wide recognition in 1990 with Ghost, a plaster cast of the interior of an or...

Interesting and ambitious . . . identifies a serious and significant development within contemporary art., David Batchelor, Royal College of Art, London Significant and timely. I see the book as recommended reading for courses in contemporary art. . . . Excellent., Barry Schwabsky, "ArtForum" For well over 100 years artists have blurred the distinction between art and design

Born in London in 1953 to a family of builders and artists, Richard Wilson creates works that often come closer to engineering or even architecture than to traditional sculpture. Typically he transforms the viewer's environment into something unsettling and strange through interventions that not only alter the physical space but also interfere with our perception of it. Perhaps his best-known work is "20:50, " currently on view at the Saatchi ...

Michael Landy (b. 1963) is one of the most exciting and challenging artists to have emerged at the beginning of the 1990s. Landy is best known for his work "Break Down (2001), during which he created a meticulous inventory of his possessions before systematically destroying them in the window of an empty London department store. The book records Landy's first major installation since "Break Down, to be on view at Tate Britain, London. Chronicl...

Since 1984 the Turner Prize has done more than anything else to bring contemporary art to the attention of a wider audience. This updated edition of the only book to focus on the history and impact of the prize offers an opportunity to look back on all the artists who have participated in the prize including the shortlisted artists for 2005. In a year-by-year survey, each winner and shortlisted artist is represented by a short illustrated essa...

This text demonstrates a brand-new study of the Pre-Raphaelite movement, this time as a 'vision'. The content should appeal to young and old alike.

The crucial dialogue between British and French artists in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, is explored for the first time in this unique publication. The pivotal figures of Edgar Degas, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Walter Sickert are examined alongside Pierre Bonnard, Henri Fantin-Latour, Sir William Rothenstein, James Tissot, Edourd Vuillard and James McNeill Whistler, bringing together some of the greatest names in avant-...

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Accompanying a major exhibition at the Tate Britain (30th June - 27th Sept), this charts the changing seasons of British culture between the 1950s and 1970s.

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A new, revised edition of Tate's best-selling publication on J.M.W. Turner's spectacular array of watercolours.Turner's lifetime was also the classic age of English watercolour, and his mastery and perfection of the medium coincided with its establishment as an independent art form.

Published to accompany a remarkable 2019 display at Tate Modern this book will examine the full career of Hungarian artist Dora Maurer (b.1937), spanning over four decades of her experimental practice from the 1970s to the present.

Thematic essays on the artist Takis's groundbreaking and boundary-pushing practice alongside poems and quotations inspired by it. Ties in with a Takis exhibition at the Tate Modern starting this July.