Books published by Thames & Hudson Ltd

An international survey of the vibrant, burgeoning field that is contemporary landscape photography, featuring over 100 masterful photographers.

The latest title in Thames & Hudson's World of Art series surveys the extraordinary diversity and creativity of global body art, past and present.

There has never been a designer quite like Anouska Hempel, and this richly illustrated volume - both a celebration of her work and an intimate insight into it - offers a captivating overview of her greatest achievements.

Henry Chalfant's photographs in the classic Subway Art inspired graffiti writers around the world; now read the stories behind those iconic images in the words of the pioneers of the graffiti movement in the late 1970s - early 1980s.

Tells the global history of comics from 1968 through to the present day. This book contextualizes the crucial modern period within the art forms broader history and offers a description of the more fluid, international and digital scene that is the mediums likely future.

Presents an overview that helps you make coherent sense of the often-bewildering diversity of styles, forms, media, techniques, and agendas that proliferate in contemporary art. This edition includes a new chapter on developments in contemporary art since 2000. It offers information on the evolution of art over the decades.

The landmark study of the `Proportioned Script', an Arabic writing that has dominated the art of Arabic and Islamic penmanship from the 10th century to the present day.

From India to Ethiopia, Tibet and beyond, the author has travelled widely in the world of script. She documents complex and simple characters, playful shapes and vibrant colours, which she then translates into her own visual art.

A major monograph available again in a new, compact format, published to coincide with this autumn's Anselm Kiefer exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts.

This new and completely redesigned edition surveys the myriad holy men, mystics and ascetics of India in astonishing photographs and an informed and trenchant commentary.

A celebration of the prestigious house famed for its collaborations with Chanel, Balenciaga and Yves Saint Laurent.

An exciting new survey of more than 30 young photographers from 14 countries whose bold, innovative and daring photographs are set to influence and shape fashion for the next five years.

Beginning with the stories of three great decipherments - Egyptian hieroglyphs, Minoan Linear B and Mayan glyphs - Lost Languages moves on to dissect the most well-known and enigmatic undeciphered scripts from around the world. These include the Etruscan alphabet of Italy, the Indus Valley seal script, Rongorongo from remote Easter Island, the Zapotec script of Mexico (probably the first writing system in the Americas), and the unique Phaistos disc of Crete. Lost Languages reports from the front lines of scholarship where obsessions, genius, occasional delusion and sometimes bitter rivalry are de rigueur among those currently competing for the rare honour of cracking these ancient codes - and giving voice to forgotten worlds.

The first book to evoke the fantasy world of turquerie in all its diversity and richness in eighteenth-century Europe.

Karl Lagerfeld's world-famous cat dispenses essential advice on lifestyle, diet, fashion, beauty and international travel.