Art & Design Styles: c 1900 to c 1960

A key figure in the international avant-garde, Piet Mondrian (18721944) was at once an extraordinary painter and leading art theoretician whose inf...

A key figure in the international avant-garde, Piet Mondrian (18721944) was at once an extraordinary painter and leading art theoretician whose inf...

A key figure in the international avant-garde, Piet Mondrian (18721944) was at once an extraordinary painter and leading art theoretician whose inf...

The creative duo Charles Eames (19071978) and Ray Kaiser Eames (19121988) transformed the visual character of America. Though best known for their ...

With more than 280 entries, this architectural AZ, now part of our Bibliotheca Universalis series, offers an indispensable overview of the key play...

With more than 280 entries, this architectural AZ, now part of our Bibliotheca Universalis series, offers an indispensable overview of the key play...

In the 1890s, French poet and playwright Alfred Jarry founded pataphysics, the absurdist science of imaginary solutions, a concept that has been no...

The artistic society known as Groupe de Saint-Luc left its mark on the artistic and cultural heritage of Switzerland, in particular French-speaking...

Aesthetics after Modernism defends the ongoing relevance of aesthetics to art after modernism. Diarmuid Costello traces the art world's rejection o...

In Surrealism at Play Susan Laxton writes a new history of surrealism in which she traces the centrality of play to the movement and its ongoing le...

This immersive dive into the life and work of Salvador Dali unlocks the secret of this creative genius and reveals for the first time how his eroti...

The special exhibition Die gute Form, put on by the Swiss Werkbund (SWB) at the Basel trade fair in 1949, was an event that caused a furor far beyo...

A compelling re-examination of the forces that influenced post-war Italian art, providing an alternative account of a tumultuous period through a f...

August Macke (18871914) quickly ascended to notoriety, only to be killed at the tender age of 27 at the start of World War I. Despite his brief car...

August Macke (18871914) quickly ascended to notoriety, only to be killed at the tender age of 27 at the start of World War I. Despite his brief car...

Diego Rivera (18861957) is a loud presence on the art historical stage. With devout political principles and a turbulent romantic history, he was a...