Books published by Prestel

This book reveals how the Aga Khan Development Network and its Historic Cities Programme transformed an area of Cairo's urban blight into a dynamic public space.

Now available in an updated edition, this visually stunning collection of landscape paintings and drawings by Egon Schiele brings to light a lesser-known aspect of this famous painter's oeuvre.

Now available in a new edition, this lavishly illustrated volume draws on the latest research to present an exciting new interpretation of Albrecht Durer, both as a man and as an artist.

This illustrated survey celebrates the panoramic holdings and colorful history of the Archivio Storico Ricordi, one of the world's most important musical archives.

This generously illustrated book takes readers inside Nick Cave's newest work: an enormous, elaborate journey through the workings of the artistic mind.

This volume surveys the acclaimed work of Dara Friedman, exploring her innovative approach to 16mm film and video art.

In this highly engaging and empowering book, Michael Findlay, an internationally respected art dealer, urges museum goers to unplug from the audio tour, ignore those information labels, and really see art with all of their senses.

A young boy learns that art is all around us in this captivating picture book about a day at the museum.

This celebration of contemporary street photography-in all its edgy, strange, beautiful, haunting, colorful, and humorous glory-brings together the work of a new generation of talented artists.

This fun and educational journey through art history shows young readers how the materials artists use in their work have evolved over the centuries, around the world.

This expansive book commemorates the fifteenth anniversary of the Neue Galerie New York and includes highlights of the museum s collection. "

Big art for little hands, this enchanting activity book allows young artists to explore the world's masterpieces on their own terms and with plenty of space to color outside the lines.

The first book to explore the mutual influence of the groundbreaking modernists Kurt Schwitters, Joan Miro, and Hans Arp.

Now available in a new edition, this introduction to fifty visionary architects traces the major aesthetic movements over the past six centuries and offers concise portraits of the geniuses behind them.

Now available in a new edition, this chronologically arranged volume covers a century and a half of masterpieces which beautifully capture the development of art in the modern age.

Young readers will find themselves immersed in art history with this large-format coloring book that provides hours of fun with great educational opportunities along the way...

More than twenty years after its initial publication, Michael Kenna's seminal collection of photographs of the Ford River Rouge industrial complex is now available in a new, revised, and expanded edition.