Art & Design Styles: c 1900 to c 1960

How did German aesthetic values change during the Weimar Republic and after its immediate collapse at the beginning of the National Socialist perio...

It was simple furniture ... and we were makers of it.In 1931, the English designer Gerald Summers and his partner Marjorie Butcher opened their bus...

The first publication of its kind, connecting a constellation of artists working at the forefront of abstraction in the early 20th century Orphism...

Miguel Covarrubias enjoyed transcultural encounters and exchanges in the cosmopolitan centers of Mexico City, New York, and Europe, where he met an...

An essential African American artist of his era, Archibald Motley Jr. created paintings of black Chicago that aligned him with the revisionist aims...

A brilliant introduction to the work of Jules Schmalzigaug (1882-1917), Belgium's sole representative of the Futurist movement. The Royal Museum of...

Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) is without doubt the most famous Latin-American painter of the 20th century and a fundamental figure in Mexican art. Her wo...

A fun and fact-filled introduction to the dismissed Black art masters and models who shook up the world.Elegant. Refined. Exclusionary. Interrupted...

In a fleeting 14-year period between two world wars, Germanys Bauhaus school of art and design changed the face of modernity. With utopian ideas fo...

A new history of Futurism and its fraught ideological ambitions, centered on sculptural experimentation   As the first comprehensive avant-garde of...

This 15 year retrospective on the contemporary South Korean artist Soo Kyoung Lee presents paintings, installations and drawings from both public a...

This book introduces a compelling new personality to the modernist canon, Marisa Mori (1900-1985), who became the only female contributor to The Fu...

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

When the Bloomsbury critics Roger Fry and Clive Bell introduced an aesthetically conservative English public to recent Parisian avant-garde paintin...

Bringing to light the largely overlooked female participation in domestic and international art worlds, this book offers the first comprehensive s...

Carsten Höller invites readers to disrupt their daily lives with 336 mind-expanding diversions. They can be played alone, in pairs or in teams, in ...

The main character of this extraordinary graphic novel is not a person but an ideathe school of Bauhaus, which arose in the wake of World War I, an...

An exploration of the development of the art scene, its socio-political context, and the role of the fine arts in nineteenth-century Nordic society...