Since the publication in 1939 of Frank Lloyd Wright’s An Organic Architecture, Lund Humphries has been a leading publisher of illustrated art books. With our roots in British Modernism, our list today encompasses books for art specialists, professionals and enthusiasts across all periods and genres. We value high-quality design and reproduction, serious but accessible writing, and unique collections of reference material.
An additional recent stream of publishing on art business and art markets is aimed at art professionals, students and collectors and introduces readers at all levels to the workings of the art world. As a pioneer of museum co-publications in the 1980s, Lund Humphries still regularly collaborates with major museums and galleries around the world. We also regularly work in partnership with artists, estates, foundations and galleries to publish illustrated monographs and complete catalogues of modern and contemporary artists.
Blurring the boundaries between sculpture, architecture, design and painting, the innovative practice of Rana Begum RA (b.1977) is the subject of this comprehensive monograph, which takes her processes as its focus.
The Rise of the Contemporary Biennial offers a critical assessment of the current discussions around the subject of contemporary biennials and how these might be used to illuminate potential new approaches in this area of study.
This book is the first detailed study of the Commonwealth Institute's architecture and its exhibition galleries. It shows how the strikingly modern building and its dynamic displays inside worked together to create an immersive 'experience' of the Commonwealth, as part of a wider process during which post-war Britain began to focus on a future ......
During the 1970s, London-based photographers joined together to form collectives which engaged with local and international political protest in cities across the UK. This book is a survey of the radical community photography that these collectives produced. The photographers derived inspiration from counterculture while finding new ways to ......
Drew Plunkett is a former academic who was head of interior design at Glasgow School of Art. He now writes on the subject for both students and practitioners and his most recent work, 'Revolution: Interior Design from 1950' examined the emergence of a distinct interior design profession.
This is the most comprehensive monograph to-date on the innovative abstract site-related installations of German artist Katharina Grosse (b.1961).
Grosse's daring move from the canvas into both architectural space and the landscape, with her signature colourful spray paintings, has resulted in a deeply compelling ......
New ideas and technologies are transforming the ways we build and inhabit underground space. This book explores how these innovations can help to make our increasingly dense, climate-stressed cities both more resilient and more of a pleasure to live in. While it sets out practical design approaches, Underground ......
Urban character is frequently cited by planners, developers and architects as something they wish to protect and enhance. But little or no effort is ever made to define urban character in specific or quantitative terms.
In Designing London, architect and critic Ike Ijeh provides a ......
Louise Campbell is an Emeritus Professor in Art History at the University of Warwick where she lectured from 1977 until her retirement in 2014. She is a specialist in late nineteenth- and twentieth-century architecture, has edited books on Basil Spence and on Twentieth Century Architecture and has written books on Coventry Cathedral.
