The Clore Gallery one is of London's most challenging new galleries, built to house the Tate's collection of paintings by J M W Turner. Its counterpart, the Tare in Liverpool, is a conversion of a magnificent 1845 dockside warehouse to a modern art gallery. ...

This building, which caused a sensation when first built, has become a classic of modern design. In 1990 it won the first RIBA Trustees' Medal as 'the finest work by a British designer anywhere in the world completed between 1965 and 1983'. ...

The massive forms of the Barnsdall House, with its sloping walls, inward-looking courts, ponds and flat roofs, suggest a break from the Prairie House tradition and a new mood of robust architectural optimism. ...

A new edition of a Phaidon classic, first published in 1937, which presents 500 of the world's greatest self-portraits, arranged in chronological sequence from ancient times to the late twentieth century. 425 colour illus. 75 b/w. ...

- Award-winning architectural series for students and professionals
- Each volume focuses on a single celebrated building
- Series covers a wide range of periods and building types from houses to public buildings and from the majesty of St Paul's Cathedral to the intimacy of contemporary homes in California
- Each building has been selected for its exceptional character, innovative design or technical virtuosity
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This entertaining survey of Stanley Spencer's career discusses the full range of his work and places his remarkable oeuvre in the wider context of twentieth-century European art. ...

In this new volume -- the tenth in the series of his collected essays -- Professor Gombrich returns to themes that have long preoccupied him in his study of visual imagery of all kinds. Central to these essays is a consuming interest in the functions of images, and how these functions -- and the images -- change over time.<P>In wide-ranging studies of both 'high' and 'low' art, from fresco painting, altar painting, the International Gothic ...

A unique reference book for all those using electronic media, The Cyberspace Lexicon provides a much-needed guide through the maze of existing and emerging technologies. From interactive video and multimedia, through to hypermedia, arcade games, high-band networks and virtual reality, this book explains all the essential concepts and technical terms. Techniques and technologies are defined, key concepts are explained, and 'buzzwords' are ...

L'Autre contains ninety photographs that Luc Delahaye took of passengers on the Paris Metro between 1995 and 1997 using a hidden camera. Accompanied by an original French text by cultural theorist Jean Baudrillard and an English translation, L'Autre is an exploration of the relationship between the photographer and his subject, and a revealing investigation into the meaning of the human image. ...

Arguably Isozaki's masterwork, this museum was the first in a line of commissions for art museums worldwide. Completed in 1974, it was refurbished and extended in 1994. It forms the most complete realization by Isozaki of a conceptual architectural approach. ...