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Henry Moore's Sheep Sketchbook (Thames & Hudson 60th Anniversary Edition)

Thames & Hudson is celebrating it’s 60th Anniversary! To mark this special birthday we will be reissuing 20 titles from across our list as special editions. Popular when first published, popular now, with the added spice that enhanced by their unique 60th Anniversary cover and jacket designs they are set to become collectors items.

Henry Moore’s perennially popular collection of sheep sketches - in February 1972 Henry Moore’s sculpture studios in the English countryside at Much Hadham were filled with the preparations for his retrospective exhibition in Florence. In search of peace and quiet, he went into a smaller room overlooking the fields where a local farmer graxed his sheep. Initially he saw the sheep as nothing more than four-legged balls of wool, but his vision changed as he explored what were really like – the way they moved, the shape of their bodies under the fleece.

They also developed strong human and biblical associations, and the sight of a ewe with her lamd evoked the mother-and-child theme, important to Henre Moore in much of his work, Solid in form, sudden and vigorous in movement, Henry Moore’s sheep are created through a network of swirling and zigzagging lines in the rapid (and in Moore’s hands) sensitive medium of ballpoint pen.

The Body: Photoworks Of The Human Form (Thames & Hudson 60th Anniversary Edition)

Thames & Hudson is celebrating it’s 60th Anniversary! To mark this special birthday we will be reissuing 20 titles from across our list as special editions. Popular when first published, popular now, with the added spice that – enhanced by their unique 60th Anniversary cover and jacket designs – they are set to become collectors items.

One of our biggest-selling titles ever: a seminal study of the human form in photography. " 'The Body' navigates the shoals and rapids of an aesthetically and politically loaded topic, and manages not only to survive the journey but also to shed substantial light on how photographers have used the human figure for a variety of pictorial purposes over more than 150 years", The New York Times Book Review.

From 19th-century erotica to the sexual politics of the 1990s, this collection of hundreds of images provides a rich archive of bodily forms, both male and female, featuring the work of some of the world’s outstanding photographers: Nadar and Muybridge in the early days, through Stieglitz, Weston and Man Ray to Robert Mapplethorpe, Bruce Nauman and Cindy Sherman. From medical photography to sport, fashion and dream imagery, this is an exciting and provocative record of the camera’s infatuation with the human figure.

The Renaissance Complete (Thames & Hudson 60th Anniversary Edition)

Thames & Hudson is celebrating it’s 60th Anniversary! To mark this special birthday we will be reissuing 20 titles from across our list as special editions. Popular when first published, popular now, with the added spice that – enhanced by their unique 60th Anniversary cover and jacket designs – they are set to become collectors items.

A lively, comprehensive and superbly illustrated overview of an enthralling era. No period has been more discussed, dissected and argued over than the Renaissance, and every age has reconstructed it in its own image. Today’s emphasis is on its complexity - the way ideas, politics, religion, society, art and science depended upon and affected one another.

The Renaissance Complete does away with watertight divisions by means of a lucid, innovatory system of cross-references, and brings the image to centre stage. The fascinating range of topics covered includes the revival of classical learning, the printing press, the rise of the nation-state, philosophy and the role of women.

The scope is all-embracing: Italy, France, Spain, Britain, Germany and the northern countries; courts and patrons, painters and sculptors, churchmen and traders, men, women and children. Over 1,000 illustrations are carefully focused on over 100 key topics, subject-matter taking precedence over art history. An impressive information resource provides biographies, timelines, bibliography, a gazetteer of museums and galleries and an illustrated glossary.

Sensation: Young British Artsits (Thames & Hudson 60th Anniversary Edition)

Thames & Hudson is celebrating it’s 60th Anniversary! To mark this special birthday we will be reissuing 20 titles from across our list as special editions. Popular when first published, popular now, with the added spice that – enhanced by their unique 60th Anniversary cover and jacket designs – they are set to become collectors items.

The catalogue of the exhibition that rocked the modern art world. "Dark, violent, savagely satirical visions of what it feels like to be British", Artforum. The opening of the 'Sensation' exhibition at the Royal Academy in 1997, at the height of the Young British Artists’ popularity, caused a public furore and a media frenzy, with both broadsheet and tabloid journalists falling over themselves to comment on the show’s controversial images, and unprecedented crowds queuing up to see for themselves what all the fuss was about.

This catalogue of that seminal exhibition features the work of over forty artists, including Damien Hirst, Gillian Wearing, Rachel Whiteread, the Chapman brothers, Mark Wallinger, Gary Hume, Michael Landy and Chris Ofili, as well as penetrating essays by Norman Rosenthal, Lisa Jardine, critics Richard Shone and Brook Adams and painter and critic Martin Maloney, who survey a decade of creative explosion.

The Complete Zaha Hadid (Thames & Hudson 60th Anniversary Edition)

Thames & Hudson is celebrating it’s 60th Anniversary! To mark this special birthday we will be reissuing 20 titles from across our list as special editions. Popular when first published, popular now, with the added spice that – enhanced by their unique 60th Anniversary cover and jacket designs – they are set to become collectors items.

An affordably priced, comprehensive publication on the entire output of the world’s most exciting architect. For over thirty years, Zaha Hadid, the Iraqi-born, English-educated architect, has symbolized the vanguard of contemporary architecture. Her continually new ideas never fail to stun the world of design with their commitment to revolutionary forms. As a result she is one of the most respected architects in the world, with an enormous following of students and practitioners, visionaries and designers.

In this book, Hadid’s vision of architecture is revealed: at once thrillingly dynamic and intensely thoughtful. Her complete work is illustrated here by her electrifying drawings and paintings, plus hundreds of sketches, plans and models. An introduction by Aaron Betsky, 2008 Director of the Venice Architecture Biennale, examines Hadid’s stellar career, both in the context of architectural history and as a manifestation of the current and future state of architecture.

Lives Of The Great Modern Artists (Thames & Hudson 60th Anniversary Edition)

Thames & Hudson is celebrating it’s 60th Anniversary! To mark this special birthday we will be reissuing 20 titles from across our list as special editions. Popular when first published, popular now, with the added spice that – enhanced by their unique 60th Anniversary cover and jacket designs – they are set to become collectors items.

Informative, penetrating and illuminated with entertaining anecdotes and balanced historical judgment, this book presents some of the most engaging life stories of our times. "A fascinating collection of some of the saddest, strangest and most intriguing life stories of our time", The Observer. Here, Edward Lucie-Smith vividly evokes the lives of some of the great artists of the last 100 years or so, from Picasso and Duchamp to Joseph Beuys and Louise Bourgeois, guiding the reader through the maze of different styles and movements with authority and verve. Eventful, intimate and poignant biographies, clearly grouped according to style and era, are illustrated with important works, self-portraits and photographs.

New entries on such artists as Marlene Dumas, Shirin Neshat and Zhang Xiaogang show the global reach of art in the present day. Informative and entertaining, illuminated with telling anecdotes and balanced historical judgment, this is a wonderful collection for everyone interested in the art and artists of the past one hundred years.

William Blake: Complete Illuminated Books (Thames & Hudson 60th Anniversary Edition)

Thames & Hudson is celebrating it’s 60th Anniversary! To mark this special birthday we will be reissuing 20 titles from across our list as special editions. Popular when first published, popular now, with the added spice that – enhanced by their unique 60th Anniversary cover and jacket designs – they are set to become collectors items.

One of Thames & Hudson's landmark publications, this volume reproduces every page of Blake's dazzling illuminated books. In his 'illuminated' books, William Blake combined his handwritten text with his exuberant imagery on pages the like of which had not been seen since the great decorated books of the Middle Ages. To read such books as Jerusalem, America and Songs of Innocence and of Experience in cold letterpress bears no comparison to seeing and reading them as Blake conceived them, infused with his sublime and exhilarating colours. At times tiny figures and forms dance among the lines of the text, flames appear to burn up the page, and dense passages of Biblical-sounding text are brought to a jarring halt by startling images of death, destruction and liberation.

This edition, produced together with The William Blake Trust, contains all the pages of Blake,s twenty or so illuminated books reproduced in true size, an appendix with all Blake's text set in type and an introduction by the noted Blake scholar, David Bindman. They can at last become part of the lives of all lovers of art and poetry.

The Mind In The Cave (Thames & Hudson 60th Anniversary Edition)

Thames & Hudson is celebrating it’s 60th Anniversary! To mark this special birthday we will be reissuing 20 titles from across our list as special editions. Popular when first published, popular now, with the added spice that – enhanced by their unique 60th Anniversary cover and jacket designs – they are set to become collectors items.

An erudite and unanimously praised exploration of cave art and the birth of man’s artistic impulse. "The most comprehensive and convincing exploration for the cave art in Europe so far", Chris Stringer, The Evening Standard. The breathtakingly beautiful art created deep inside the caves of western Europe in the late Ice Age provokes awe and wonder in equal measure. What do these animals and symbols, depicted on the walls of such caves as Lascaux, Chauvet and Altamira, tell us about the nature of the atavistic mind? How did these images spring, sophisticated and fully formed, seemingly from nowhere into the human story?

The Mind in the Cave puts forward the most plausible explanation yet proposed for the origins of image-making and art, with David Lewis-Williams offering a skilful and convincing account of how we became human and, in the process, began to make art. This masterful piece of detective work casts light on the remotest layers of our ancestral history as well as on the nature of our own consciousness and experience.

Wonders Of World Architecture (Thames & Hudson 60th Anniversary Edition)

Thames & Hudson is celebrating it’s 60th Anniversary! To mark this special birthday we will be reissuing 20 titles from across our list as special editions. Popular when first published, popular now, with the added spice that – enhanced by their unique 60th Anniversary cover and jacket designs – they are set to become collectors items.

The world’s most extraordinary feats of architecture and engineering explored and explained in authoritative contributions from 28 leading experts ‘Fascinating and superbly illustrated’ Reference Reviews The modern world’s greatest buildings capture the imagination and inspire awe, whether they are places of worship, palaces of power or pleasure, skyscrapers, bridges, tunnels, canals, dams or colossal statues.

In Wonders of World Architecture, an international team of professional architects, engineers and leading architectural historians chart the progress of human ingenuity and creativity in erecting buildings, from AD 500 to the present day. With factfi les, diagrams, reconstructions and spectacular photographs, this acclaimed volume explains and celebrates these masterpieces of architecture, design and engineering.

Manolo Blahnik Drawings (Thames & Hudson 60th Anniversary Edition)

Thames & Hudson is celebrating it’s 60th Anniversary! To mark this special birthday we will be reissuing 20 titles from across our list as special editions. Popular when first published, popular now, with the added spice that – enhanced by their unique 60th Anniversary cover and jacket designs – they are set to become collectors items.

A spectacular showcase of Manolo Blahník’s dashing and dazzling drawings for his celebrated shoe designs For over three decades, Manolo Blahník’s shoes, and his sense of the theatrical wedded to the fi nest materials and superlative craftsmanship, have inspired fanatical devotion.

Here are over one hundred and twenty of the exuberant, colour-rich sketches that Blahník makes at the outset of the design process, executed with such verve and deftness that they have become as sought-after as the shoes themselves. Inimitable in style and beautifully reproduced in this book, they vividly convey Blahník’s unique vision. The celebrity texts provide valuable insights into the man behind the shoes. These are complemented throughout the book by the comments of a host of admirers, including David Bailey, Suzy Menkes, Mario Testino and Sarah Jessica Parker. This book is essential reading for anyone who has ever coveted a pair of ‘Manolos’, or indeed has the slightest interest in fashion.

Sneakers: Complete Collectors' Guide (Thames & Hudson 60th Anniversary Edition)

Thames & Hudson is celebrating it’s 60th Anniversary! To mark this special birthday we will be reissuing 20 titles from across our list as special editions. Popular when first published, popular now, with the added spice that – enhanced by their unique 60th Anniversary cover and jacket designs – they are set to become collectors items

A comprehensive, infallibly informed reference guide ‘If you want to take your sneakers out of the gym and into the art realm, let this book be your guide’ Vogue Sneakers is the indispensable and defi nitive guide to the very best and most collectible sneaker designs.

It features: over 550 specially taken colour photographs; over 180 sneaker designs from eleven leading brands, chosen for the mark they have made on sneaker culture worldwide, and a selection of shoes from unforgettable and up-and-coming brands; comprehensive collectors’ information, with an invaluable introduction, brand histories and practical tips on how to create and care for your collection; a fully illustrated glossary and chronology; and a directory for collectors’ shops, resources and websites. This encyclopaedic book has proven appeal to both the novice collector and the hardcore sneaker freak.

Factory Records (Thames & Hudson 60th Anniversary Edition)

Thames & Hudson is celebrating it’s 60th Anniversary! To mark this special birthday we will be reissuing 20 titles from across our list as special editions. Popular when first published, popular now, with the added spice that – enhanced by their unique 60th Anniversary cover and jacket designs – they are set to become collectors items.

A complete catalogue of Factory Records’ classic designs, packed to the gills with the work of some of the most innovative designers of our times, including Peter Saville, Central Station and 8vo ‘As an indicator of time’s passing, a document of an important pop-culture moment and just as great a book of superb looks, serial number Fac 461 is the business’ GQ

This is the definitive overview of the artwork of the seminal Factory label, covering its iconic record sleeves, posters, ephemera, venues and packaging. After a foreword by Factory’s founder, Tony Wilson, an introductory essay discusses the label’s role in bringing design to the mainstream. Thereafter, every item with a Factory inventory number is either illustrated or discussed, including all the Factory artwork for Joy Division, New Order, the Happy Mondays, and a host of other bands. Factory Records, as part of the story, has been given its own reference number – Fac 461 – making it a collectible item in its own right.

The Proms: A New History (Thames & Hudson 60th Anniversary Edition)

Thames & Hudson is celebrating it’s 60th Anniversary! To mark this special birthday we will be reissuing 20 titles from across our list as special editions. Popular when first published, popular now, with the added spice that – enhanced by their unique 60th Anniversary cover and jacket designs – they are set to become collectors items.

A lavishly illustrated history of the Proms, Britain’s favourite musical institution ‘Will delight any proms buff; and the authoritative narration provides a kind of wide-angle record of British musical tastes over the 20th century’ The Guardian ‘Warm, weighty and welcoming … a richly illustrated tome packed with evocative anecdotes about the great and the good and a plethora of easily assimilable facts and fi gures’ History Today Here is the complete story of one of the most enduring institutions in British cultural life: the Proms.

This lavishly illustrated book describes the Proms’ history by focusing on how changes in society have infl uenced its development, at the same time as revealing how the Proms has been responsible for shaping the tastes and listening habits of our whole nation.

Street Sketchbook (Thames & Hudson 60th Anniversary Edition)

Thames & Hudson is celebrating it’s 60th Anniversary! To mark this special birthday we will be reissuing 20 titles from across our list as special editions. Popular when first published, popular now, with the added spice that – enhanced by their unique 60th Anniversary cover and jacket designs – they are set to become collectors items.

A treasure trove of creativity for street art lovers everywhere Here is privileged access to the sketchbooks of some of the world’s leading street and graffi ti artists. The sketchbooks may be dog-eared, paint-splattered or falling apart, but their unassuming appearance belies their importance as vital storehouse for ideas and thoughts, where creativity is unravelled and stimulated.

This book showcases an incredible diversity of working methods, innovative approaches and personal fi xations, typographic explorations, alter egos, storyboards, mythological creatures, anatomical studies, architectural drawings and extreme doodling. Over 65 artists worldwide are represented, including Banksy (UK), AJ Purdy (USA), Eroné (France), Joska (Germany), Microbo (Italy), Laguna (Spain), Bfree (Holland), Ekta (Sweden), Neb (Belgium) and Zbiok (Poland). They work across different media, including illustration, painting, design and animation, but graffi ti and street art are common links between many of them. This stunning collection was a world bestseller on fi rst publication and remains a landmark in street art publishing.