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As the rhythm of our hectic urban lives continues to speed up, we are increasingly compelled to leave it all behind and escape far into the quiet depths of nature. In great contrast with the claustrophobic…..

‘From her raging, handwritten letters to late-night phone calls with David Bowie, this biography gets up close and personal with the tempestuous Nina Simone’ – Observer Drawing on glimpses into previously unseen diaries, rare interviews and childhood journals, and with the aid of her daughter, What Happened, Miss Simone? tells the story of the classically […]

This major new book on the art of Banksy spans the entire career of the world’s most famous anonymous street artist. Decades before he blew the lid off the high-stakes art world by shredding a work immediately following its purchase at an auction, Banksy was committing acts of artistic protest on the streets, walls, and […]

In a bold stylistic departure from his award-winning Killing and Dying, Tomine distills his art to the loose, lively essentials of cartooning, each pen stroke economically imbued with human depth.

If Andy Warhol could have traveled through time, where would he have gone? Where’s Warhol? gives him his very own time machine, and finds out…Join Andy on a tour through time as he visits the art of the past. From Michelangelo at work on the Sistine Chapel, to Jean-Michel Basquait painting the streets of New […]

The Short Story of Contemporary Art is a must-read introduction to this exciting and important period from bestselling author and art historian Susie Hodge. This fascinating pocket guide to art explains the how, why and when of contemporary art – who introduced certain techniques or genres, and why these matter. Simply constructed, the book explores 40 […]

1963 ansågs den chockerande frispråkig och såldes i miljonupplagor. Idag räknas Mary McCarthys klassiker Gruppen, om åtta nyexaminerade studiekamrater som möter ett hårdare liv i 1930-talets New York, som en milstolpe i den moderna litteraturen. En skamlöst underhållande och bitsk kollektivroman om det moderna livets villkor, konstant relevant. ”Att kalla Gruppen för urkällan i traditionen […]

Den fjärde urbana revolutionenär en bok om Angereds plats. I historien. I världen. I tankesystemen och i maktstrukturerna. Om du följer med så går vi längs arkitekturens och stadsbyggnadskonstens sandiga