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Spanning more than a century, this generously illustrated book explores the world of travel photography.

From soup cans to car crashes, the early work of Andy Warhol is reconsidered in this illustrated collection of essays from a wide variety of scholars, writers, and artists.

Illuminated by Dale Chihuly's mesmerizing glass sculptures, this beautiful book presents the artist's most recent nature-inspired work.

This unique building-per-year survey of a century of great architecture offers a superb introduction to the best existing structures built each year from 1916 to 2015 around the globe- and an irresistible must-see list for architecture enthusiasts everywhere.

Meike Peters, the author of the acclaimed cooking blog Eat In My Kitchen, presents a cookbook as inviting, entertaining, and irresistible as her website, featuring dozens of never-before-published recipes.

This large-format, lavishly illustrated book offers a comprehensive survey of the fin de siecle and modernist painting of Scandinavia. This book features an enormous variety of artists and works that explore the impact of Nordic geography, history, social mores, and national identities on the region's painters. Focusing on the core countries Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Iceland as well as the Faroe Islands, Greenland, and the Danish-German border region, the authors present a thematically organized overview of Nordic art between the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Drawing from the most recent scholarship, the book considers the prevalent themes and subjects, such as landscapes, genre scenes, portraits, interiors, modern city life, and abstraction, and analyzes various works by artists such as Edvard Munch, Vilhelm Hammershoi, Helene Schjerfbeck, Johannes S. Kjarval, and Sigrid Hjerten. It looks at the rise of modernism in Nordic art and discusses the artistic interaction between North and Central Europe. A final chapter is devoted to the significance of Nordic painting today. Comprehensive and authoritative, this beautifully illustrated book is certain to become the standard volume on Nordic art.

This newest addition to Prestel's acclaimed series, which introduces children to important works of art and architecture, takes young readers around the world to investigate how tall buildings are constructed and what makes them so appealing.

Now available in a new paperback edition, this book for young readers offers an illustrated introduction to the life and art of Georgia O'Keeffe.

Inspired by Klimt's famous mural, The Tree of Life, this dreamily illustrated children's book tells the story of a magical tree whose fruit saves lives.

This highly accessible overview of Art Deco, embraces nearly every artistic medium-offering paintings and photography to furnishings and film-through fifty superb examples of Art Deco style that reveal the period's richness and range.

These radiant images from the renowned 19th-century biologist and illustrator Ernst Haeckel, featuring marine microorganisms, will enthrall fans of his previous collections and garner-renewed attention for Haeckel's unparalleled artistry.

new edition to Prestel's popular "50s" series, this collection of the finest examples of Art Nouveau showing how the movement impacted every artistic discipline.

This delightful and engaging introduction to the history of art for children comes in a beautiful oversized format and features intricate illustrations with hidden details.

Now available in a new edition, this intimate book captures the sensual pleasure of an artist's sketchbook as well as the genius behind Gustav Klimt's vision of women.

This book reveals how the Aga Khan Development Network and its Historic Cities Programme transformed an area of Cairo's urban blight into a dynamic public space.

Now available in an updated edition, this visually stunning collection of landscape paintings and drawings by Egon Schiele brings to light a lesser-known aspect of this famous painter's oeuvre.

Now available in a new edition, this lavishly illustrated volume draws on the latest research to present an exciting new interpretation of Albrecht Durer, both as a man and as an artist.

This illustrated survey celebrates the panoramic holdings and colorful history of the Archivio Storico Ricordi, one of the world's most important musical archives.

This generously illustrated book takes readers inside Nick Cave's newest work: an enormous, elaborate journey through the workings of the artistic mind.

This highly regarded survey of the works of a master of Japanese printmaking is now available in a convenient and attractively priced flexi edition.

This volume surveys the acclaimed work of Dara Friedman, exploring her innovative approach to 16mm film and video art.

In this highly engaging and empowering book, Michael Findlay, an internationally respected art dealer, urges museum goers to unplug from the audio tour, ignore those information labels, and really see art with all of their senses.

Gives an introduction to the world's greatest photographers from the inception of photography that bears proof of the magic of the camera. From Felix Nadar to Nan Goldin, this title features photographers, each of whom represents an important aspect of photography's evolution. It also includes reproductions of their most important works.

A young boy learns that art is all around us in this captivating picture book about a day at the museum.

This groundbreaking book looks at the influence California and Mexico have had on each other's architecture and design in the 20th century.

This celebration of contemporary street photography-in all its edgy, strange, beautiful, haunting, colorful, and humorous glory-brings together the work of a new generation of talented artists.

Beautiful, whimsical, and entertaining, this book of illustrations by Britta Teckentrup shows eggs in all their fragility, complexity, and variety.

This fun and educational journey through art history shows young readers how the materials artists use in their work have evolved over the centuries, around the world.

This expansive book commemorates the fifteenth anniversary of the Neue Galerie New York and includes highlights of the museum s collection. "

Big art for little hands, this enchanting activity book allows young artists to explore the world's masterpieces on their own terms and with plenty of space to color outside the lines.