Follow the journey of Vincent Van Gogh's revolutionary and deeply turbulent life in a unique graphic novel format.

The first comprehensive overview of Vivienne Westwood's womenswear collections, from her 1981 catwalk debut to today.

A fascinating new account of the work and lives of Britain's women artists in the twentieth century.

Drawing has always been a fundamental skill and despite the wide availability of computers and other technologies, drawing has remained a treasured skill. Walk the Line includes interviews with the international selection of artists, as well as examples of their work.

The work of Banksy is unmistakable, except maybe when it's squatting in the Tate or New York's Metropolitan Museum. Banksy is responsible for decorating the streets, walls, bridges and zoos of towns and cites throughout the world. This fully coloured illustrated volume presents the best of his work.

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Wayne Thiebaud has long been recognized as one of America's prominent modern artists. This title brings together 120 of Thiebaud's important paintings, watercolours and pastels. It contains essays that trace the course of his career from the 1950s onwards.

Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak. But, there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world. The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. This is a book on art in various languages.

A satirical take on the much-loved ladybird books of the '60s. John and Susan visit an art gallery with Mummy and discover the real meaning behind contemporary works of art such as empty rooms, giant vaginas and inflatable dogs.

The author has long been fascinated by the relationships that develop between dogs and their owners. In this book, his delicate portraits in watercolour and gouache reveal the mutual understanding and sympathy of these partnerships.

Over 400 works from the Turner Prize-nominated king of odd

Casablanca is "not one movie," Umberto Eco once quipped, "it is 'movies'". Released in 1942, the film won 4 Oscars, including Best Picture and featured unforgettable performances by Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman. This book offers a rich account of the film's origins, the myths and realities behind its production.

Museums today are a cultural battleground. Jon Sleigh maintains that museums must be for all people and inclusion must be at the heart of everything they do. He uses museum objects from different museums to explore trust-building, representation, digital access, conflicting narratives, removal from display and restitution.

Hindpal Singh Bhui argues that we need to look at who is sent to prison and why to disentangle reality from ideology and myth. Including the voices of prisoners, prison staff and victims, he asks whether prison is an institution for managing marginalized people, or if there is a better way to achieve the socially useful goals of prisons.

While attention is on Olympic triumphs and tribulations, there is much that goes on behind the scenes that is deeply troubling. Boykoff tells us that radical steps are required if the Games are to be fixed and only then will they be truly 'athletes first'.

What is modern art? Why do we either love it or loathe it? And why is it worth so much damn money? This book asks all the basic questions that you were too afraid to ask.