Art & Design Styles: c 1900 to c 1960

Few regions of the country produced such a distinctive group of artists with such a particular view on the modern world as did the Pacific Northwes...

Dada is often celebrated for its strategies of shock and opposition, but in Dada Presentism, Maria Stavrinaki provides a new picture of Dada art an...

In the first half of the twentieth century, a group of American artists influenced by the painter and teacher Robert Henri aimed to reject the pret...

The Fruits of Empire is a history of American expansion through the lens of art and food. In the decades after the Civil War, Americans consumed an...

In Surrealist sabotage and the war on work, art historian Abigail Susik uncovers the expansive parameters of the international surrealist movement’...

García Lorca at the Edge of Surrealism: The Aesthetics of Anguish examines the variations of surrealism and surrealist theories in the Spanish cont...

World War I had a profound impact on American art and culture. Nearly every major artist responded to events, whether as official war artists, impa...

An exploration of the radical artists who transformed the ways art is conceived, exhibited, and collected, through the Dada, Surrealist, and Fluxus...

They were not only two of the outstanding artists of the Bauhaus, but also a well-known couple. Their many famous works and the artists they influe...

Die Zentralvereinigung der ArchitektInnen (ZV) wurde 1907 gegründet. 1938 wurde der Verein aufgelöst und die Mitglieder selektiv in die NS-Reichska...

In Holocaust Graphic Narratives, Victoria Aarons demonstrates the range and fluidity of this richly figured genre. Employing memory as her controll...

García Lorca at the Edge of Surrealism: The Aesthetics of Anguish examines the variations of surrealism and surrealist theories in the Spanish cont...

The first major work to examine Joseph Cornell's relationship to American modernismJoseph Cornell (1903–1972) is best known for his exquisite and a...

Starting in Autumn 2017, Kunstmuseen Krefeld will take a fresh look at the legacy of the Bauhaus in the context of the former Eastern Bloc in the ...

Magdeburg zählte in den 1920er Jahren zu den Städten, die sich der Moderne verschrieben hatten. In einer Aufsatzsammlung verschiedener Fachautoren ...

Arthur Drexler (1921-1987) served as the curator and director of the Architecture and Design Department at the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) from 195...

An in-depth look at Whistler’s city streets and storefronts, addressing the phenomena of urbanization and gentrification, past and present James M...

A lavishly illustrated exploration of forward-looking Czech art around the turn of the twentieth century.   Though it’s less widely heralded than B...