Art & Design Styles: c 1900 to c 1960

This unique book proposes a re-reading of the relationship between artists and the contemporary museum. In Australia in particular, the museum has ...

Amongst recent contemporary art and museological publications, there have been relatively few which direct attention to the distinct contributions ...

This title takes an illuminating look at the unique work and artistic vision of Gerhard Richter. Born in Dresden in 1932, Gerhard Richter was first...

A stunning display of the vibrant and wide-ranging talent of Vanessa Bell in the first catalogue devoted to the artist. Vanessa Bell (18791961) ha...

Something New Must Turn Up is a series of six catalogues comparing the practices of artistic forerunners in post-independence Singapore. Through th...

Kunst der Vereinigten Staaten 17502000 ist eine wegweisende Anthologie, die drei Jahrhunderte amerikanischer Kunst anhand einer breiten Auswahl his...

Often regarded as an artistic movement of interwar Paris, Surrealism comprised an international community of artists, writers, and intellectuals wh...

Taking 19591960 as a pivotal cultural and political moment, the contributors to Breathless Days reframe postwar Western art history, examining the ...

The endless expressive potential of the human body, from portraiture and social satire to fantasy and erotica The Expressionist Figure documents a...

Including a number of short essays by Bataille and Leiris on aspects of the other's work as well as excerpts on Bataille from Leiris' diaries, this...

When a war ends provisionally, the agreement is called a ceasefire. But when peace ends, there is only war. War and peace are co-dependent. Perhaps...

One of The Eighta major group in the history of American paintingJohn Sloan was also an illustrator and cartoonist. Sloan kept an almost daily diar...

Darkness has a history and a uniquely modern form. Distinct from night, shadows, and artificial light, artificial darkness has been overlookeduntil...

Revelation serves as the catalogue for the first retrospective in Spain dedicated to Leonora Carrington (Clayton-le-Woods, United Kingdom, 1917-Mex...

Davor Konjikui legt erstmals eine umfassende Darstellung und Kontextualisierung der zwischen 1941 und 1945 entstandenen Fotografie der jugoslawisch...

Despite the recent rise in studies that approach fascism as a transnational phenomenon, the links between fascism and internationalist intellectual...

A Pedagogy of Observation argues that the fascination with learning about the past and new locations in panoramic form spread far from the traditio...

An urban history of modern Britain, and how the built environment shaped the nations politicsFoundations is a history of twentieth-century Britain ...