Art & Design Styles: c 1900 to c 1960

Torn Modernism illuminates an important moment in the history of the Kunstmuseum Basel's collection. In 1937 the Nazi cultural policy denounced tho...

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

When the Nazis came to power in January 1933, they began a programme of transforming Germany from a democracy into a totalitarian state, but it was...

Vive la Sociale: This rousing, revolutionary statement, written on a bright red banner across the top of James Ensors monumental painting Christs E...

A scintillating account of the cultural freedom and empowerment that American women experienced as leaders in the avant-garde scene in early twenti...

A monument to the talent of Canadian women artists in the interwar period, Uninvited: Canadian Women Artists in the Modern Moment provides a full a...

Long considered the embodiment of national resilience and fraternal loyalty in the wake of World War I, Fernand Légers art overshadows a far less h...

Winifred Knights (1899-1947) is one of the outstanding, but until recently neglected, British women painters of the first half of the 20th century....

Focusing on the British virtuoso Rex Whistler (19051944), who was linked to many of the most illustrious figures of the inter-war period, this book...

Sir Edwin Lutyens (1869-1944) was one of the great architects of the twentieth century. His Edwardian country houses, surrounded by rhapsodic garde...

Leonora Carrington (19172011) was part of an important group of artists who left Europe for America during the Second World War. Andre Breton descr...

Jean Cooke: Seascapes & Chalk Caves is the first publication about the artist in over ten years. It provides an original account of Jean Cooke ...

The conference volume _Munch and his World_ offers an excellent overview of Munch's multifaceted print and photographic techniques within the conte...

In 1998, France was one of the 44 signatory states of the Washington Declaration. This study examines to what extent the Republic has fulfilled its...

A Cultural History of Color in the Modern Age covers the period 1920 to the present, a time of extraordinary developments in colour science, philos...

During the Second World War, Britain's skies were transformed by the drone of aircraft, factory workers toiled around the clock to produce new type...

'A thrilling insight into one of the 20th century's great artists. Agar's exuberant and colourful life and work come alive in this book' Katy Hesse...