Another England is the second chapter in Phillip Toledano’s ongoing exploration of “historical surrealism.” Through a series of meticulously imagined fictions—where jellyfish light Devonshire streets, Thatcher’s face looms from the cliffs of Dover, and foxes form insurgent armies—the book reconstructs an alternate national memory. Created in collaboration with AI, the work mirrors our age of synthetic truth: a Britain both familiar and fantastical, where nostalgia and invention blur until history itself becomes performance. Toledano’s images are haunting, cinematic, and darkly humorous—each frame a plausible impossibility that probes the nation’s uneasy relationship with identity, empire, and myth. As with Another America, this new volume continues his visual archaeology of the invented past, inviting us to question not only what we remember, but who is doing the remembering.
Brigantinas by Nicola Lo Calzo is a poetic and political journey through Sardinia’s landscapes of resistance. The book weaves together photography, archival research, and historical reflection to uncover a genealogy of struggles—from 19th-century peasant revolts to contemporary feminist and environmental movements. Lo Calzo approaches the island not as a postcard of identity, but as a living archive of dissent and re-appropriation. Through his lens, Sardinian women—peasants, activists, mythic figures—emerge as central protagonists of an alternative narrative, where land, body, and memory intersect. Both critical and lyrical, Brigantinas questions the mechanisms through which tradition and power shape representation, while celebrating collective resilience and the subaltern imagination. The result is a powerful counter-history of Sardinia—rooted in its past, urgent in its present, and universal in its call for dignity and self-determination.
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Firelight by Amy Friend is a captivating photographic collection that breathes new life into vintage photographs from the 1920s to the 1940s. Sourced from family albums, online finds, and market discoveries, these images are re-imagined through Friend’s artistic vision. The series, titled “Dare alla Luce”—Italian for “to bring to the light”—embodies a dual meaning of illumination and birth. By introducing delicate perforations and backlighting, Friend transforms these historical moments into ethereal scenes where figures and landscapes are adorned with luminous patterns, evoking a sense of magic and nostalgia. This interplay of light and shadow invites viewers to reflect on the transient nature of time, memory, and existence. Firelight is presented in a meticulously crafted volume, featuring laser-cut paper and French binding, all encased in a cloth-bound box. This edition is a testament to the fusion of past and present, art and artifact.
KAMI is a meditative visual elegy by Japanese photographer Hitoshi Fugo, unfolding across nearly three decades of reflection on impermanence and renewal. The work interlaces two temporal and emotional landscapes: the aftermath of the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake in Kobe, and a series of intimate studies of a scorched industrial paper roll found outside a burned printing factory in Tokyo. In both, Fugo traces the fragile line between destruction and transformation, revealing form within ruin and spirit within residue. The Japanese word kami means both “god” and “paper,” and this duality anchors the project’s philosophical depth — where the divine and the material, the sacred and the ordinary, dissolve into one another. Through images stripped of narrative yet charged with presence, KAMI becomes a quiet act of reparation: an offering to what survives, and to the poetic stillness left after loss.
It is a perilous time for the Roman Republic. Victory over her nemesis Hannibal in the Second Punic War and the subsequent conquest of Greece have led to widespread debauchery and mayhem on the Italian peninsula. Into the breach steps Spurius Postumius Albinus, Consul of Rome in 186 BC, who turns detective to investigate a series of crimes attributed to the cult of the wine god Bacchus that, he argues, threaten the very heart of the State.
Based on events recorded by the Roman historian Livy and confirmed by a surviving bronze plaque in Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum, Spurius is at once an ancient political whodunit and the first major treatment of a cataclysmic event in Roman history: according to Livy, some 3,500 Romans perished in the witch hunts resulting from Spurius’ investigation. In its finely balanced examination of freedom of belief and expression, and the manipulation of truth in times of national emergency, the novel has great relevance to today’s troubled world.
Kulturalis’s edition of Spurius gives the novel a striking and luxurious new treatment. Renowned Argentinian-born illustrator Jorge González’s vivid images – including full-page and double-page illustrations within the text and an arresting slipcase design – brings the graphic events of the novel to life. Based in Madrid, González previously illustrated the edition of William Golding’s Lord of the Flies published by Los Libros del Zorro Rojo and The Folio Society’s edition of Carlos Ruíz Zafón’s The Shadow of the Wind. Working hand-in-glove with González through Maria Cardelli’s IllustrationZone is award-winning hand-lettering artist Ruth Rowland who has designed album covers for Elton John, Kate Bush and Cliff Richard.
Captured brings cities to life through the eyes of talented photographers from around the world, with the mission of highlighting the beauty, diversity, and energy of urban landscapes and offering a fresh perspective on familiar places. With contributions from 45 different photographers in each edition, the Captured series offers a rich and varied view of every city. From iconic landmarks to hidden corners, each photo tells a story or captures moments that reflect the city’s true essence. These photo books offer viewers a deeper connection to the cities they love — or inspire them to discover new ones.
The latest edition is Captured: London. A book that is more than just a collection of photographs; it is a tribute to a city that never stands still. A global metropolis that embraces both its grandeur and its rawness, its iconic landmarks and its hidden corners. London’s strength lies in its diversity—the people, cultures, and creativity that shape it every day.
An History of Richmondshire (1819–23) is the only part to be published of the largest commission ever received by Turner. Originally intended to count 120 drawings for a General History of the County of York by the well-known historian Thomas Dunham Whitaker, it was cut short owing to the death of the author and the spiralling costs. Nevertheless, Turner produced some of his finest work for the project, and the finished engravings demonstrate how his topographical art took landscape painting and illustration to new heights, and guaranteed his popular fame.
All 20 prints are reproduced here, at approximately three-quarters of the size of the originals. This is the first time they have been published together since the 19th century.
In 2023 Soma Surovi Jannat (b.1990), one of the most exciting emerging artists working in South Asia, became the Ashmolean’s first artist-in-residence from Bangladesh. Jannat’s art practice arises from a profound connection with nature. Inspired by the Ashmolean collection, her recent works weave together motifs to create new imaginary worlds of forests, bodies of water, animal and human forms. The exhibition will capture the ways in which Jannat explores the climate crisis, natural disasters, and the disproportionate impact on marginalized communities and ecosystems. An artist of exceptional talent and versatility, this would be Jannat’s first solo exhibition in the UK focusing on her engagement with the Ashmolean collections and the works created between 2023 and 2026. The exhibition and book provide the Museum an opportunity to engage wider diverse audiences, while also presenting the works of a contemporary multidisciplinary artist who reflects and draws strength from our collections.
The Texas Gulf Coast stretches for hundreds of miles from the Louisiana border to Galveston and Corpus Christi, continuing all the way to the Mexican border. Breathtaking landscapes, big cities and motifs straight out of an American road movie line the coast, like a string of pearls: morbidly beautiful towns, dilapidated or picturesquely restored houses, and squares that look like film sets. Between 1987 and 2024, photographer Jörg Rubbert traveled the Texas coast from north to south on six trips, capturing it all on film. In his sombre analog black-and-white photographs, almost exclusively taken in October and November, Rubbert portrays the region and its people. Subjectively and authentically captured, and enriched with anecdotes and texts on geography and history, Rubbert’s photos transport viewers into an American film noir, dreamlike and full of melancholic atmosphere.
This impressive book offers a comprehensive overview of designer and sculptor Eric Schmitt’s work, focusing on the years 2015–2025 while tracing the notable shifts of his practice since the 1980s. Working primarily with noble materials such as patinated bronze, alabaster, marble, natural stone, and glass, Schmitt blends traditional French craftsmanship with a modern aesthetic to create functional works of art that balance geometry, fluidity, and subtle strength. Written in English and French, the book opens with an introduction by Patrick Mauriès, who charts the development of Schmitt’s artistic influences—from his early fascination with the Creative Salvage movement in the 1980s to his enduring commitment to hands-on fabrication. Organized thematically, the book’s central section explores Schmitt’s creations through chapters such as Cornerstones, Metal & Company, Levitation, and Material Illusions, with opening ommentaries by Axelle Corty.
Through stunning photography by Adrien Dirand, readers are invited onto the grounds of Le Chapitre, while Alexandra Babeanu’s text shares the story behind the restored 12th-century farm that serves as Schmitt’s home, studio, and collaborative workshop.
The volume concludes with an extensive catalogue raisonné of more than 700 pieces, establishing the book as both a visual archive and an essential reference for collectors, curators, and design professionals. Eric Schmitt portrays the distinguished designer’s multi-faceted practice, one that continues to blur the boundaries between design,
sculpture, and architecture.
Eric Schmitt (born in 1955) is a renowned French designer and sculptor internationally recognized for his sculptural, timeless furniture and objects. Self-taught, he began his career creating expressive wrought-iron pieces before evolving toward refined, minimal-ist forms inspired by nature, architecture, and his upbringing in Poitou, France.
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In Abundant, Alexander Gershberg shows just how plentiful plant-based cooking can be. He weaves the bold flavors, aromas, and colors of the Middle East together with those of his new home country, the Netherlands. The result is a fresh plant-based cooking style in which fruit, vegetables, whole grains, and legumes take center stage. Using local, simple ingredients, Gershberg challenges you to think differently about food: surprising and healthy, without sacrificing pleasure. Abundant is an ode to the abundance of life, built around seven taste experiences and mindsets: Fresh, Umami, Comforting, Abundant, Street, Refined, Sweet. A cookbook that energizes, inspires, and proves that plant-based cooking is anything but limited.
With The Art of Endurance 2025, Éditions Cercle d’Art is publishing a new, exceptional coffee table book dedicated to international motor racing and the FIA World Endurance Championship. This 2025 edition follows on from The Art of Endurance 2024 ISBN 9782702211458 and continues a collection for all enthusiasts of motor sports, competition cars, legendary circuits, and major endurance races.
Designed as a total immersion in a complete season, this official WEC book recounts, race by race, the eight major events on the world calendar, from the start to the checkered flag, including the strategies, drivers, cars, teams, and decisions that tip the balance of a championship.
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Bapji: The King Who Would Be Man is an intimate and evocative chronicle of Maharaja Gajsingh II of Marwar-Jodhpur—a sovereign born to grandeur, yet shaped by contemporary changes with traditional responsibilities. It narrates a parallel story of a man escalating from within history to a place in posterity, as well as de-escalating into democratic, contemporary times to be one among his people.
Set against the sweeping changes of post-colonial India, this is the story of a royal figure who does not cling to power, but channels his heritage into relevance and purpose. With grace and wisdom, he reconciles the solemnity of tradition with the demands of democracy, becoming not just a keeper of palaces and customs, but a king of conscience—a man of his time, and for his people.
The volume Erté accompanies the exhibition of the same name at the Labirinto della Masone and presents the figure of the artist Erté. Renowned for his extraordinary versatility, Erté designed theatrical sets and costumes, created jewelry, illustrated for world‑famous magazines, and worked as a fashion designer in Paris during the 1910s. More than fifty years after the first volume that Franco Maria Ricci dedicated to Erté, this new publication offers an extensive selection of the artist’s works, with particular emphasis on those from the 1910s, 1920s, and 1930s. Texts by Valerio Terraroli, curator of the exhibition, and Alessandra Tiddia trace the production of an artist capable of capturing—always with taste and irony—the shifting fashions and their most dazzling, luxurious inventions, poised between modernity and exoticism. In these works, impossible elegances—bordering on the precious—and the sharp, feral allure of the femme fatale take shape, equally suited to the worlds of cinema and choreography.
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The volume Erté accompanies the exhibition of the same name at the Labirinto della Masone and presents the figure of the artist Erté. Renowned for his extraordinary versatility, Erté designed theatrical sets and costumes, created jewelry, illustrated for world‑famous magazines, and worked as a fashion designer in Paris during the 1910s. More than fifty years after the first precious volume that Franco Maria Ricci dedicated to Erté, this new publication offers an extensive selection of the artist’s works, with particular emphasis on those from the 1910s, 1920s, and 1930s. Texts by Valerio Terraroli, curator of the exhibition, and Alessandra Tiddia trace the production of an artist capable of capturing—always with taste and irony—the shifting fashions and their most dazzling, luxurious inventions, poised between modernity and exoticism. In these works, impossible elegances—bordering on the precious—and the sharp, feral allure of the femme fatale take shape, equally suited to the worlds of cinema and choreography.
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Fulco di Verdura (1898–1978) was an Italian artist and nobleman best known for his extraordinary talent in jewelry design. In addition to founding his own maison, he worked for Coco Chanel—who was also a close friend—as well as for Paul Flato. Less well known, however, is his talent as a painter, which he was able to fully express later in life, when he decided to stop producing jewelry and devote himself to painting.
For Fulco di Verdura, painting and drawing were not merely sources of inspiration but essential means of expressing his creativity and developing his collections. This book presents a selection of his pictorial works. Accompanied by a text by journalist Stefano Salis, the landscapes and still lifes in this volume seem to emerge directly from the artist’s imagination, evoking a silent and intimate Italian atmosphere.
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This is a comprehensive essential tool to understanding and appreciating the Dome of Florence in its entirety. It is published as the result of several months of photographing all the famous structures – the interior of the Cathedral, Brunelleschi’s dome, the Baptistery – in ultra-high gigapixel photographic capture, including the frescoes inside the dome that no one but conservators have seen in centuries. More than an architectural icon for the millions of visitors to Florence every year, Santa Maria del Fiore represents the moment Europe discovered its new identity—one that valorized human ingenuity, revived classical ideals, and re-imagined the relationship between beauty, mathematics, and the divine. This publication captures that pivotal transition with unprecedented fidelity. Brunelleschi’s dome and its frescoes, the Baptistery, and the inner cathedral are showcased in fine detail.
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Madame de by Louise de Vilmorin is the fourth title in the Dédale series. First released in 1951, it is arguably the French author’s most celebrated work. The novel unfolds in a timeless atmosphere, where seemingly insignificant events gradually form a sophisticated yet relentless plot that ensnares both characters and readers. The story centers on a pair of diamonds secretly sold by Madame de…, the elegant yet frivolous heroine, in order to settle her debts—thus setting the chain of events in motion. Around them, a handful of characters are portrayed with delicacy, defined through only a few precise strokes.
This new edition features original drawings by Laurent de Commines. Louise de Vilmorin’s work is introduced by a preface by Patrick Mauriès, followed by an essay by Emmanuelle Amiot, which explores the role of the diamond in Western culture and thought. Together, they broaden the reflection on the deeper meaning of jewelry and its significance in society across the centuries.
Miró – Loeb. Correspondence 1926–1936 reveals the exceptional relationship between Joan Miró and Pierre Loeb, his gallerist and close friend in Paris. Through previously unpublished letters, richly illustrated with Miró’s works and facsimiles, the book traces a decade of exchanges during which exhibitions, collaborations, and new visions of modern art took shape. This vivid and illuminating correspondence captures the daily life of an artist and a dealer at the heart of the cultural ferment of the interwar years. It offers a glimpse into the realities of the gallery world, the networks of friendship, and the evolving dialogue between artistic creation and its dissemination in a time of profound transformation. The volume is accompanied by texts by Albert and Sonia Loeb, which place these exchanges within their human and historical context, offering a sensitive perspective on a relationship that proved decisive for both modern art and the life of Parisian galleries in the twentieth century.
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British Portuguese Paula Rego (1935–2022) carved out her place in international art history with a self-possessed, uncompromising expression and a burning commitment to fighting oppression and lack of freedom. She grew up in Portugal under António de Oliveira Salazar’s dictatorship, which imposed strong constraints, especially on women’s freedom, and throughout her long career Rego dissected the relationship between gender, the body and power in a dark, fantastical visual language. At a time when authoritarian forces are on the rise across the world and women’s right to control their own bodies is under pressure, her images feel more relevant than ever. The exhibition Paula Rego – Dance Among Thorns presents Rego’s powerful and unsettling body of work in its full breadth. The catalog includes all works on display and a collection of new texts by the exhibition’s curator Kari J. Brandtzæg as well as by Catarina Alfaro, Isabel Freire and Jennifer Higgie. Together, they sketch an intense and nuanced portrait of an artist who never ceased to challenge – whether aesthetically or politically.
Step into the world of Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love, beauty, and desire – later worshiped by the Romans as Venus. Today she is thought of as a symbol of passion and beauty, but her story is far older and more complex. This catalogue explores Aphrodite’s beginnings on the island of Cyprus, where she was worshiped as an all-powerful goddess over 3,000 years ago, and traces her journey through the Greek and into the Roman world, where she became Venus.
This book reveals how, over the centuries, Aphrodite evolved into an iconic figure symbolizing love and beauty as her myths and images flourished – inspiring art, literature, and imagination from the Renaissance to the present day. Illustrated with more than 200 extraordinary objects – from sculpture and bronzes to gems and terracottas from Cyprus, Greece, and Italy, dating back from around 1400 BCE to the 21st century – this catalogue uncovers the making of a goddess whose legacy still shapes our ideas of love and beauty today.
Carolyn Bessette Kennedy was far more than a style icon. In an age of visual excess, she stood for a new kind of elegance: restrained, precise, and uncompromising. Her style was quiet yet unmistakable—and continues to resonate to this day.
This Callwey book traces her journey from her early years to the very centre of the fashion world, revealing how a minimalist code emerged at Calvin Klein that shaped her entire appearance. Iconic street-style images, rare private photographs, and selected editorials illustrate how colour, cut, material, and attitude merged into a timeless aesthetic.
Alongside key garment silhouettes, accessories, and materials, the book also explores the role of privacy and distance as part of her public image. Featuring around 150 carefully curated photographs, it offers a precise portrait of a woman whose style never sought to be a trend—and is therefore still inspiring today.
A new title in the Design series and an excellent introduction to the life and work of this versatile Russian artist. Alexander Mikhailovich Rodchenko (1891-1953) was a central figure in the Russian Constructivist art movement; a radical activist, a pioneer of photomontage, a theorist, and a teacher. He was an active force in the organization of the first museums of modern art that arose in Russia in the first years after the Russian Revolution of 1917. Attending art school in 1914 in Kazan was to be a defining influence: that year Russian Futurists performed in the town, and Rodchenko saw their leading figures in action. It transformed his vision and he was still working with Futurist artists and their ideas twenty-five years later. And it was at art school where Rodchenko first met the artist Varvara Stepanova, with whom he collaborated extensively, and who would become his life-long partner. Central in the re-examination of art and its place in society after the Revolution, and in the search for a new culture without the class implications of the past, Rodchenko’s radical approach proposed a new understanding of a constructed, rather than a tastefully composed, culture. This concise, comprehensive and informative work focuses largely on Rodchenko’s graphic work in the form of book jackets, posters and advertising. Also avaliable: Claud Lovat Fraser ISBN: 9781851496631 GPO ISBN: 9781851495962 Peter Blake ISBN: 9781851496181 FHK Henrion ISBN: 9781851496327 David Gentleman ISBN: 9781851495955 David Mellor ISBN: 9781851496037 E.McKnight Kauffer ISBN: 9781851495207 Edward Bawden and Eric Ravilious ISBN: 9781851495009 El Lissitzky ISBN: 9781851496198 Festival of Britain 1951 ISBN: 9781851495337 Harold Curwen & Oliver Simon: Curwen Press ISBN: 9781851495719 Jan Le Witt and George Him ISBN: 9781851495665 Paul Nash and John Nash ISBN: 9781851495191 Abram Games ISBN: 9781851496778
Terry O’Neill (1938-2019) was one of the world’s most celebrated and collected photographers, with work displayed and exhibited at first-class museums and fine-art galleries worldwide. His iconic images of Frank Sinatra, The Beatles, Brigitte Bardot, Faye Dunaway, and David Bowie – to name but a few – are instantly recognizable across the globe.
Now, for the first time, O’Neill selects a range of images from his extensive archive of “vintage prints”, which will surprise and delight collectors and photography lovers alike. Long before the age of digital, photographers would send physical prints to the papers and magazines. These prints were passed around, handled by many, stamped on the back, and often times captioned. After use, the prints were either filed away, thrown out or – for the lucky few – sent back to the photographer or their photo agencies.
At the dawn of the 1960s, when O’Neill’s career began, physical prints were the norm. Terry kept as many as he could that were sent back to him. “I just kept everything,” he says. “I don’t know why. Back then, there wasn’t really a reason to keep them. Photos were used straight away and then I just moved on to the next assignment. No one was thinking these would be worth anything down the line, let alone fifty years later.”
This book collects hundreds of these rare images, a true must for Terry’s fans and photography collectors.