Art & Design Styles: c 1900 to c 1960

The beautifully illustrated and authoritative biography of Frida Kahlo'Frida will hold its place as the first comprehensive biography of this most ...

Picasso was one of the most creative and experimental talents ever to explore the medium of print. This book charts his career as a printmaker, whi...

No other art movement in history has contained two artists as different as Magritte and Miró. This is because Surrealism was not in origin an art m...

Published to coincide with the 150th anniversary of Beatrix Potter's birth, this magnificent collection celebrates the artist behind The Tale of Pe...

This definitive appreciation of Kahlo's career features gorgeous full-page reproductions and insightful commentary to illuminate connections betwee...

Jean Fautrier (1989-1964) was a major 20th century artist. Trained at the Royal Academy of Arts and influenced by J.M.W. Turner, he was quickly not...

James Wilson Morrice: Paintings and Drawings of Venice is the first comprehensive overview of the artist’s images of Venice, Italy. Living in Paris...

A fascinating journey into Pierre Bonnards world and the inspiration behind his spatially arresting and intimate paintings   Pierre Bonnards paint...

Explores how Soviet architects reimagined the built environment through the principles of the human sciences  During the 1920s and 1930s, proponent...

Madrid on the move illustrates print culture and the urban experience in nineteenth-century Spain. It provides a fresh account of modernity by look...

Since the 1970s, it has been argued that Abstract Expressionism was exhibited abroad by the post-war US establishment in an attempt to culturally m...

When Kasimir Malevich’s Black Square was produced in 1915, no-one had ever seen anything like it before. And yet it does have precedents. In fact, ...

Polish Jewish Culture beyond the Capital: Centering the Periphery is a path-breaking exploration of the diversity and vitality of urban Jewish iden...

The book is a study of the evolving history of knowledge in the arts and sciences in the modern era – from 1648 through the present. Modernism is t...

Arthur Dove, often credited as America's first abstract painter, created dynamic and evocative images inspired by his surroundings, from the farmla...

A vivid portrait of Picasso’s early life and the city he called home.   Part biography of the young artist, part guide to Barcelona, Picasso Barcel...

A rich reappraisal of a key Black American modernist through a lens of cross-cultural engagement   Sargent Claude Johnson (1888–1967) was the first...

Raw, unprettified and decried in conservative circles as “gutter art”: Käthe Kollwitz employed her art uncompromisingly as a political voice for th...

In Dragging Away Lex Morgan Lancaster traces the formal and material innovations of contemporary queer and feminist artists, showing how they use a...

In Dragging Away Lex Morgan Lancaster traces the formal and material innovations of contemporary queer and feminist artists, showing how they use a...

As founder of the Bauhaus school, Walter Gropius (1883–1969) is one of the icons of 20the century architecture. While his early buildings in Pomera...

A monograph on the life and work of an outstanding abstract expressionist painter, now emerging as one of the most important women artists of the 2...

Deco dandy contests the supposedly exclusive feminine aspect of the style moderne (art deco) by exploring how alternative, parallel and overlapping...

Malvin Gray Johnson, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, and Max Weber were three New York City artists whose work was popularly assigned to the category of "racial a...

Kunstwerke lassen sich nicht allein auf die Lebensgeschichte von Künstlerinnen und Künstlern zurückführen, doch es wäre auch falsch anzunehmen, das...

René Lalique: Selections from the Steven and Roslyn Shulman Collection introduces the artistic innovations and legacy of renowned French Art Deco a...

Luigi Russolo (1885-1947) - painter, composer, builder of musical instruments, and first-hour member of the Italian Futurist movement - was a cruci...