A study of the force of photographic images which are continually inserted between experience and reality. It develops the concept of 'transparency'. It features six essays including 'In Plato's Cave,' which explores how the image has affected society.

A course in designing and making jewellery. This work offers tutorials that guide you through various stages of the process, revealing how to translate inspired ideas into workable, wearable designs, and provides professional advice on presenting and selling your work.

This is a pocket-sized A-Z guide to 500 great painters and sculptors from medieval to modern times. Each artist is represented by a full-page colour plate of typical work, accompanied by information on each image and its creator. Artists, styles and subject matter are cross referenced.

A fully revised edition of the world's most widely used drawing instruction book.

Full of detailed drawings that illustrate the construction of building elements, this title explains the principles and processes of construction with the concepts of design included where appropriate. It also includes further material on energy conservation, sustainable construction, environmental and green building issues.

Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2004, The Line of Beauty is a perfectly realised tale of our times. 'The work of a great English stylist in full maturity; a masterpiece' Observer

Includes material for early years and further education (FE) practitioners, and those working in the toughest schools. This series provides teaching practitioners with a wealth of practical advice for use in a variety of educational settings.

James Gurney, New York Times best-selling author and artist of the Dinotopia series, follows Imaginative Realism with his second art-instruction book

Explores how the age of mass media means audiences can listen to or see a work of art repeatedly - and what the troubling social and political implications of this are.

The Architect in Practice was first published in 1952. Originally written by a quantity surveyor and an architect it has remained, through its nine editions, a leading textbook used in the education of architects world-wide.

An essential part of the street art movement, inexpensive, and easy to produce, stickers often act as an informal business card for graffiti writers, and a quick and effective promotional tool for many artists and illustrators. This fully-peelable sticker book features illustration, graffiti and graphics.