T&H celebrates 75-year anniversary

Thames & Hudson (T&H) is celebrating its 75-year anniversary this year with a series of trade promotions and events.

Walter and Eva Neurath founded T&H in 1949 with the ambition ‘to make art and scholarship more accessible through boldly independent publishing’. T&H remains wholly owned by the founding family.

Thames & Hudson Australia, which has transformed from a specialist visual arts publisher to a mainstream supplier of illustrated books for the general market, will begin celebrations with a 75th-anniversary party at its new offices in Wurundjeri Country, Cremorne, Victoria on 1 May. Trade promotions, including point-of-sale displays, window display incentives and consumer giveaways, will roll out in September, including a ‘75 years in 75 books’ promotion, featuring the publisher’s ‘most iconic’ titles from its local and international lists.

A highlight on the local list is 65,000 Years: A short history of Australian art (ed by Judith Ryan & Marcia Langton), a ‘landmark publication [that] foregrounds Indigenous perspectives on Australian art history and celebrates the complex philosophy and powerful aesthetic embodied in the world’s longest-continuing art tradition’.

T&H Australia managing director Daniel Watts said: ‘For 75 years, Thames & Hudson has published exquisite, useful books on all aspects of culture and creativity and fostered a deeper appreciation of artistic expression in all its forms. I’m delighted and proud to be celebrating our anniversary and looking forward to the future.’

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