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Afghanistan is a country overwhelmed by tribal rivalries, colonial wars, and geo-political conflict. The Afghans have always called their mountains “the land of rebellion.” Yet born of such chaos, such entrenched conflict are these most breathtaking and beautiful of images. The distinguished American photographer Steve McCurry has traveled to Afghanistan regularly for more than 40 years: he is arguably the […]

Following on from the success of Lan Nguyen-Grealis’s first book, Art & Makeup, this book invites the reader to use their artistic flair and get hands-on with practical application.  Hundreds of stunning photographs provide inspiration and advice for creating key looks for magazine editorials, celebrities, fashion shows and advertising campaigns. Organized by technical themes, dozens […]

Den här boken är till för att du ska kunna reflektera över dig själv och ditt liv.  Svara på frågor som rör dina drömmar, minnen, värderingar, styrkor, vänner, hemligheter, idéer och mycket, mycket mer. Frågorna hjälper dig att blicka tillbaka över de gångna åren, att skåda framåt och mest av allt: att rannsaka dig själv. […]

Defining Decadence The legacy of Gustav Klimt A century after his death, Viennese artist Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) still startles with his unabashed eroticism, dazzling surfaces, and artistic experimentation. This monograph gathers all of Klimt’s major works alongside authoritative art historical commentary and privileged access to the artist’s archive with some 179 letters, cards, writings, and […]

The body remains a battleground. Politicized, conceptualized and increasingly shared, our often-paradoxical relationship with the human form is nothing new, but finds itself heightened in the digitised, virtualised era of the ‘post-industrial’ body. No longer a tool but a work-in-progress, our bodily expectations bound from fantasy to reality, beauty to tyranny, art to commerce and […]

Hilma af Klint s works have taken the international art world by storm, more than one hundred years after they were created. Around the turn of the 20th century, the new spiritual and social movements of theosophy and later anthroposophy came to inspire the pioneers of modernism and abstract art Kandinsky, Mondrian, Malevich and Hilma […]

Based on Mackenzi Lee’s popular weekly Twitter series of the same name, Bygone Badass Broads features 52 remarkable and forgotten trailblazing women from all over the world. With tales of heroism and cunning, in-depth bios and witty storytelling, Bygone Badass Broads gives new life to these historic female pioneers. Starting in the fifth century BC […]

Happy Sally är en fantasi om Sally Bauer, kanalsimmerska och simmardrottning. Sally Bauer var besatt av att simma. Alldeles före krigsutbrottet 1939 blev hon den första skandinaven att krossa Engelska kanalen. Tiden: 15:22. Långt senare försöker en annan simmerska, Ellen, göra om bedriften. Hennes längtan efter att simma bestämmer allt omkring henne. Hon har ingått […]