We’re celebrating 75 years of Thames & Hudson! 🎉🎉🎉
When Walter and Eva Neurath founded Thames & Hudson in 1949, their ambition was to make the arts and scholarship more accessible. The company remains family owned and resolutely independent, and the founding vision of creating a ‘museum without walls’ resonates today more than ever.
We collaborate with many of the world’s most inspirational artists, designers, curators, writers and cultural historians. We partner with major museums, cultural institutions, fashion houses and creative brands to bring their work to a wider audience. We bring craft, beauty and innovation to every page and are committed to making books to be read and enjoyed time and again.
We may be turning 75, but it’s never too late to try something new – as of today, we’re officially on TikTok!
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You may have met our books already – now it’s time to get to know us a little better! Here’s a sneak peek inside T&H HQ (hint: it’s a lot of books – big ones, little ones, old ones and new!) in the heart of central London! 📚📚📚
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Alicia Foster, author of ‘Gwen John: Art and Life in London and Paris’ shares a story about how she discovered our iconic and long running World of Art
series.
We launched the ‘World of Art’ series in 1958, and over 300 titles have since appeared in the series allowing readers to see the arts through expert eyes.
Fun fact: the new cover design features fluid shapes based on a grid inspired by the Golden Ratio, the system of mathematical proportion believed for
millennia to be the secret of aesthetic harmony in nature, art and design!
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Claude Cahun (1894–1954) was a pioneering figure in the aesthetics of modernity who never stopped crossing boundaries of gender and genre.
Cahun was best known in her lifetime as a writer but built up a remarkable body of photographic work that only came to prominence after her death.
Politically active and involved with a wide circle of artists and intellectuals, including the Surrealists, Cahun followed her own rules in both life and art. She is best known for her strikingly staged self-portraits, in which she used costumes, makeup and technical effects to tackle themes of identity and self-representation. Her love of symmetry, mirroring, repurposing and retouching was also reflected in her approach to other styles of photography, including portraiture, photomontage and still-life tableaux.
Whether working alone or in collaboration with her life partner Marcel Moore (born Suzanne Malherbe), Claude Cahun was a pioneering figure in the aesthetics of modernity who never stopped crossing boundaries of gender and genre.
You can find more of Claude Cahun’s work in our Photofile series.
Images: Claude Cahun, vers 1938 Photographies de Claude Cahun / Droits réservés / Claude Cahun, 1927 Photographies de Claude Cahun / Droits réservés / Claude Cahun, 1928 Photographies de Claude Cahun / Droits réservés / Claude Cahun, vers 1938 Photographies de Claude Cahun / Droits réservés
🔔 Giveaway alert! 🔔
To celebrate the release of ‘Ronald Moody: Sculpting Life,’ we’ve teamed up with @hepworthwakefield to give away a copy of the book and tickets to the exhibition
One grand prize winner will receive:
🎟️ A copy of ‘Ronald Moody: Sculpting Life’
🎟️ 2 tickets to the @hepworthwakefield exhibit
🎟️ a £40 voucher to use in the gallery cafe
🎟️ a set of Ronald Moody postcards and notebooks
To enter, all you need to do is:
▪️ Follow @thamesandhudson and @hepworthwakefield
▪️ Like this post
▪️ Tag a friend in the comments below
Giveaway ends 5 July at 23:59. Open to UK Residents only.
Good luck!
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In the 1950s and 60s, an underground network of transgender women and cross-dressing men found refuge at a modest house in the Catskills region of New York. Known as Casa Susanna, the house provided a safe place to express their true selves and live for a few days as they had always dreamed - dressed as and living as women without fear of being incarcerated or institutionalized for their self-expression.
This book opens up that now-lost world. The photographs - mostly discovered by chance in a New York flea market in 2004 - chronicle the experiences of men who dressed as women, gender nonconforming people, and transwomen in states of relaxation, experimentation, connection and joy. All of this was made possible by Susanna Valenti who - on her own journey toward womanhood - created Casa Susanna, a protected space where others could crossdress and live freely as women. Supplementing the images are excerpts from Transvestia, a magazine that allowed those who had been cast out by a rigidly binary society to connect in a different medium.
The people who came to Casa Susanna found a spot where they could explore and celebrate their own and each other’s femininity, as they could not do elsewhere. Their creations are also a reminder that there were, and still are, many ways to explore the boundaries of gender.
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