Subject: Aesthetics (Keywords)

Rooted in the idea that architecture and interior design have the power to influence how we feel and that we are, for better and for worse, different people in different buildings, this book suggests how we might learn to build better, more attractive dwellings in which we would stand a higher ch...

In this group biography, Weber brings to life the pioneering art school in Germany's Weimar and Dessau in the 1920s and early 1930s, and captures the spirit and flair with which these Bauhaus geniuses lived, as well as their consuming goal of making art and architecture. Nicholas Fox Weber, for t...

What part of your beautiful self were you taught to hate? Body hair. 'Fat' thighs. Something's always 'too big' or 'too small'. We spend a lot of time hiding our 'defects', according to society's ideals of beauty. Ideals that are often tyrannical, commercially entangled, homogenizing and imposed ...

There are countless books on music with much analysis given to musicians, bands, eras and/or genres. But rarely does a book delve into what's going on inside us when we listen. Michel Faber explores two big questions: how we listen to music and why we listen to music. To answer these he considers...

This title takes readers on a spectacular visual journey through some of the most stunning photographs to be found in National Geographic's famed image collection. Award-winning photographer Annie Griffiths Belt culled the images to reflect the many variations on the universal theme of beauty.

Upon entering his 80s, David Hockney sought out rustic tranquillity for the first time: a place to watch the sunset and the change of the seasons; a place to live a life of simple pleasures, undisturbed and undistracted; a place to keep the madness of the world at bay. So when Covid-19 and lockdo...