Prestel

This cutting-edge book looks at why the world#8217;s most interesting buildings are becoming the hottest destinations for today#8217;s travellers. In the last few decades architecture has become a major focus for tourists, rather than merely part of a larger travel itinerary. Illustrated with one hundred colour and mono photographs and with...

For decades Close's larger-than-life and unflinchingly honest paintings of friends and family, and self-portraits have won admiration from a wide audience. Having reinvented portraiture for the late twentieth century, he is now arguably America's most famous living artist. Not everyone who appreciates his work realizes the extraordinary...

The newest volume of this important annual survey of German architecture focuses on spiritual spaces, most notably Christian churches built in the past year. It also provides new critical perspectives by some of the most exciting young architects working today. Superbly photographed from all angles, these spaces embody heavenly as well as earthly...

Radical chic gets a new definition in this stunning survey of fashion trends that are emerging far away from the runways. In Xtreme Fashion authors Courtenay Smith and Sean Topham turn their attention to the fashion world, where haute couture is taking a backseat to serious concerns about the environment, personal safety, and privacy. Featuring...

Gilbert George have carved a permanent place in the modern art world. Their enormous oeuvre comprises everything from Living Sculptures, Film/Videos to their large scale Pictures, and confronts all aspects of the human condition with characteristic honesty and clarity. Their Postcard Art is a representation of the themes that have occupied their...

Cassoni is the Italian word for the chests, painted with scenes from myth and literature, central to upper-class weddings of the 15th century. Little known today, cassoni deserve recognition as masterworks of the Renaissance. Botticelli, Pesellino and other superlative artists painted them, and they are precious early examples of the mythopoetic...