Pierre-Auguste Renoir put people into the center of his painting. His compositions showed people embracing the pleasures of life, dancing, and enjoying outings in Paris....View more

Few painters are as well-known and admired as Cézanne. His work focuses on subjects popular since the Renaissance: portraiture, figure studies, landscapes, and still lifes....View more

As a painter, designer, sculptor, and also a collector of art, Paul Gauguin (1848–1903) was the leader of the Pont-Aven school and one of the...View more

From its underground genesis during the Cultural Revolution (1966–76), contemporary Chinese art has become a dynamic and hugely influential force in a globalized art world....View more

Featuring many of the greatest nature photographs of all time, this book charts the development of nature photography, from the first hand-held cameras and the...View more

'With the moral stamina and intellectual poise of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, dutiful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell...View more

From deciphering an early form of Ancient Greek to learn more about the Mycenaean, to developing the Colossus computer to crack Lorenz ciphers during the...View more

You are a blessing. / You are beautiful just as you are. / You are loved, / and you love. / You make mistakes, /...View more

'Bryan’s writing pops and zings like a Basquiat painting' – NOEL FIELDING In Bright Stars, Kate Bryan examines the lives and legacies of 30 great artists who died too...View more

What better way to understand Britain during the twentieth century than through the eyes of those who experienced it at first hand? Travis Elborough's compilation...View more

In this lively and very readable history of the Roman Empire from its establishment in 27 BC to the barbarian incursions and the fall of...View more

With Art Nouveau there developed a new, international style under various names in the architecture and handicrafts from the 1880s onwards that sought to replace...View more