It's not so long ago that a woman's expressed interest in other realms would have ruined her reputation, or even killed her. And yet spiritualism, in various incarnations, has influenced numerous men - including lauded modernist artists such as Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, Kazimir Malevich and Paul Klee - without repercussion. The fact that so many radical women artists of their generation - and earlier - also drank deeply from the same spiritual well has for too long been sorely neglected. In THE OTHER SIDE, we explore the lives and work of a group of extraordinary women, from the twelfth-century mystic, composer and artist Hildegard of Bingen to the nineteenth-century English spiritualist Georgiana Houghton, whose paintings swirl like a cosmic Jackson Pollock; the early twentieth-century Swedish artist, Hilma af Klint, who painted with the help of her spirit guides and whose recent exhibition at New York's Guggenheim broke all attendance records; the 'Desert Transcendentalist', Agnes Pelton, who painted her visions beneath the vast skies of California; the Swiss healer, Emma Kunz, who used geometric drawings to treat her patients; and the British surrealist and occultist, Ithell Colquhoun, whose estate of more than 5,000 works recently entered the Tate gallery collection. While the individual work of these artists is unique, the women loosely shared the same goal: to communicate with, and learn from, other dimensions. Weaving in and out of these myriad lives, sharing her own memories of otherworldly experiences, Jennifer Higgie discusses the solace of ritual, the gender exclusions of art history, the contemporary relevance of myth, the boom in alternative ways of understanding the world and the impact of spiritualism on feminism and contemporary art. A radical reappraisal of a marginalised group of artists, THE OTHER SIDE is an intoxicating blend of memoir, biography and art history.

Until the twentieth century, art history was, in the main, written by white men who tended to write about other white men. The idea that women in the West have always made art was rarely cited as a possibility. Yet they have - and, of course, continue to do so - often against tremendous odds, from laws and religion to the pressures of family and public disapproval. In THE MIRROR AND THE PALETTE, Jennifer Higgie introduces us to a cross-section of women artists who embody the fact that there is more than one way to understand our planet, more than one way to live in it and more than one way to make art about it. Spanning 500 years, biography and cultural history intertwine in a narrative packed with tales of rebellion, adventure, revolution, travel and tragedy enacted by women who turned their back on convention and lived lives of great resilience, creativity and bravery. This is a dazzlingly original and ambitious book by one of the most well-respected art critics at work today.

Australian artist David Noonan (born 1969) uses found imagery as the basis for his screenprinted canvases and sculptures. Enigmatic figures, printed in grainy black and white or sepia, pose in these elaborate artworks, invoking covert and futuristic rituals. This monograph will be the first comprehensive overview of Noonan's work.

Poché, brouillé, mollet, battu dans un cocktail, transformé en matériau par les peintres, jeté sur une maison ennemie: incarnation du paradoxe, l'oeuf existe, en bienheureuse suspension entre humble ingrédient de cuisine et toute-puissante source de vie. Symboles parmi les plus récurrents de l'Antiquité, les oeufs étaient utilisés par les Romains pour dissiper les esprits malins, ils furent sublimés jusqu'à devenir des objets d'art inestimables par la noblesse russe, et sont omniprésents dans la mythologie égyptienne. Dans ce tome inaugural de la nouvelle collection TASCHEN conçue avec le cultissime magazine Gourmand, nous célébrons la relation entre art et nourriture à travers une exploration visuelle et littéraire de cet aliment de base. Une sélection de recettes originales, du poché parfait aux desserts les plus sophistiqués, souligne la diversité des traditions culinaires de par le monde. The Gourmand's Egg. A Collection of Stories and Recipes est richement illustré par les oeuvres de grands maîtres, parmi lesquels Salvador Dalí, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Frida Kahlo, David Hockney et Man Ray, ainsi que par des images exclusives commandées pour cet ouvrage aux meilleurs photographes du moment. Ce corpus iconographique est complété par les essais de la chef, auteure et critique gastronomique Ruth Reichl et de l'auteure et éditrice Jennifer Higgie, entre autres contributeurs. «En cuisine, comme dans quasiment tous les autres domaines, rappelle Reichl, tout commence par un oeuf.»