Art & Design Styles: c 1900 to c 1960

Wartime Kiss is a personal meditation on the haunting power of American photographs and films from World War II and the later 1940s. Starting with ...

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...

'This is the book I've eagerly awaited for almost a half century .Andrew McPherson's study of Gillies is nothing less than a game-changer, presenti...

Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) was an English surrealist artist and writer who emigrated to Mexico after the Second World War. This volume approach...

What would it mean to be avant-garde today? Arguing against the notion that the avant-garde is dead or confined to historically "failed" movements,...

Cecily Brown (b.1969, London) is one of the most acclaimed painters working today. Her inimitable style shifts effortlessly between abstraction and...

This is the first volume to focus on the diverse permutations of international surrealist cinema after the canonical interwar period. The collectio...

The History of Art as it developed after the Second World War, is an important chapter in world cultural heritage. During this period art developed...

This is a book about artistic modernism contending with the historical transfigurations of modernity. As a conscientious engagement with modernity'...

From the time of his first trip to Ireland in 1913 and his last trip in 1928, American artist Robert Henri created masterful paintings of the Irish...

Looking at the newspaper clipping from 1870 to 1930 in art and science, this study examines knowledge production and its visual and material backgr...

Berlin has a special architectural treasure: six residential estates in the Modern Style, built between 1913 and 1932, are remarkable both for thei...

A to Z of Caribbean Art is a visual overview of Caribbean art, from the beginning of the 20th century to now, and serves as a resource of informati...

The traumatic surreal is the first major study to examine the ground-breaking role played by Germanophone women artists working in surrealist tradi...

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