Art & Design Styles: c 1900 to c 1960

This book is the first volume on the artistic representation of industrial disputes in European art (from 1870 to 1914) since the catalogue of the ...

With essays on sojourning artists like Situ Qiao and local artists such as Tchang Ju Chi, Singaporean scholar and educator Yeo Mang Thong demonstra...

Reproducing the intricate details and somber palette that characterize John Dunkley's paintings, this book thoughtfully situates the artist's oeuvr...

Dating from the late 19th-century to the 1970s, this collection features vintage posters from cycling's most iconic brands- such as Bianchi and Peu...

Art = New Vision. This formula shaped the avant-garde. With moving images abruptly expanding the boundaries of the visible world, new printing tech...

Todays war is for the survival of the planet. In Maintenant 14: A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art, the weapon of choice is Dada. Today...

One of Singapores most prominent performance artists, Lee Wen produced a body of provocative, thought-provoking and sharply satirical works over th...

Imaging Animal Industry focuses on the visual culture of the American meat industry between 1890 and 1960. It describes how, during that period, ph...

With his graphic style, figural distortion, and defiance of conventional standards of beauty, Egon Schiele (18901918) was a pioneer of Austrian Exp...

Many of the greatest avant-garde artists of the early twentieth century were Ukrainians or came from Ukraine. Whether living in Paris, St. Petersbu...

Many of the greatest avant-garde artists of the early twentieth century were Ukrainians or came from Ukraine. Whether living in Paris, St. Petersbu...

It illuminates multiple facets of the era the lives of its people, the art, the literature, the music, and the social history through paintings, pr...

Alan Glasss drawings from the 1950s are like swirls of smoke on the verge of assuming solid shape, like rock coming alive and metamorphosing, like ...

Point and Line to Plane can be seen as a continuation of Wassily Kandinskys seminal treatise On the Spiritual in Art. Kandinskys thesis is that dif...

Italian architect and designer Gio Ponti (18911979) is difficult to pin down. With an extraordinarily prolific output and eclectic style, his oeuvr...

In recent years, many prominent and successful artists have claimed that their primary concern is not the artwork they produce but the artistic pro...

Italian architect and designer Gio Ponti (18911979) is difficult to pin down. With an extraordinarily prolific output and eclectic style, his oeuvr...

Exploring the significance of metaphor in modern art Where do the roots of art lie? asked Der Sturm founder Herwarth Walden. In the people? Behind ...

Over the course of his artistic career, Wassily Kandinsky (18661944) transformed not only his own style, but the course of art history. From early ...