Art & Design Styles: c 1900 to c 1960

No other artist, apart from J. M. W. Turner, tried as hard as Claude Monet (18401926) to capture light itself on canvas. Of all the Impressionists,...

Created in 1934, the Coit Tower murals were sponsored by the Public Works of Art Project (PWAP), the first of the New Deal art programs. Twenty-fi...

Chaim Soutine (18931943) produced some of the most powerful and expressive portraits of modern times. His ability to capture in paint the character...

The first monograph on a Surrealist cult classic, Reading Claude Cahun's Disavowals offers a comprehensive account of Cahun's most important publis...

Toronto - the largest and one of the most multicultural cities in Canada - boasts an equally interesting and diverse architectural heritage. Archit...

Redressing the neglect of World War I memorials in art history scholarship and memory studies, Sculpting Doughboys considers the hundreds of sculpt...

William Reid Dick (1878-1961) was one of a generation of British sculptors air-brushed out of art history by the Modernist critics of the late twen...

Hot Art, Cold War Southern and Eastern European Writing on American Art 1945-1990 is one of two text anthologies that trace the reception of Ameri...

Hot Art, Cold War Southern and Eastern European Writing on American Art 1945-1990 is one of two text anthologies that trace the reception of Ameri...

In endless odes to the female form, Amedeo Modigliani (18841920) traced elongated bodies, almond eyes, and his own name into art history. His langu...

Presenting a radically different picture of Egon Schieles work, this study documents (in one-to-one comparisons) the extent of the artists visual b...

In endless odes to the female form, Amedeo Modigliani (18841920) traced elongated bodies, almond eyes, and his own name into art history. His langu...

With his instantly recognizable decorative style, Czech artist and Art Nouveau master Alphonse Mucha (18601939) defined the look of the fin-de-sièc...

With his instantly recognizable decorative style, Czech artist and Art Nouveau master Alphonse Mucha (18601939) defined the look of the fin-de-sièc...

With his instantly recognizable decorative style, Czech artist and Art Nouveau master Alphonse Mucha (18601939) defined the look of the fin-de-sièc...

Resisting interpretation or classification, Mark Rothko (19031970) was a prominent advocate for the artists consummate freedom of expression. Altho...

Resisting interpretation or classification, Mark Rothko (19031970) was a prominent advocate for the artists consummate freedom of expression. Altho...