Art & Design Styles: c 1900 to c 1960

Drawing Degree Zero examines a pivotal moment in the history of drawing, when the medium was disengaged from its connoisseurial associations and po...

Mark Rothko's awe-inspiring yet deceptively simple, iconic colour field paintings belie the mythical and emotional complexity behind them. Rothko p...

Where do we begin to talk about abstract art? This question depends on ones worldview. From the point of view of the collection included in this bo...

The Loft Generation: From the de Koonings to Twombly; Portraits and Sketches, 19422011 is an invaluable account by an artist at the center of a lan...

Published in 1929, From Material to Architecture contains the main features of László Moholy-Nagys teaching program at the Bauhaus. With its focus ...

Die 1945 zu weiten Teilen zerstörte Stadt Mainz wollten die französischen Besatzer unmittelbar nach Kriegsende zu einem französisch geprägten Mayen...

A year of weekly interviews (1949-1950) with artist Diego Rivera by poet Alfredo Cardona-Peña disclose Riveras iconoclastic views of life and the a...

A richly illustrated exploration of Mina Loys art and writingsMina Loy (18821966) was one of the most iconoclastic figures in modernism. A groundbr...

An acclaimed history of Harlems journey from urban crisis to urban renaissanceWith its gleaming shopping centers and refurbished row houses, todays...

A critical look at the competing motivations behind one of modern architectures most widely known and misunderstood movements  Although mid-century...

A critical look at the competing motivations behind one of modern architectures most widely known and misunderstood movements  Although mid-century...

In 1935, the United States Congress began employing large numbers of American artists through the Works Progress Administration--fiction writers...

Cartoonist Winsor McCay (1869-1934) is rightfully celebrated for the skillful draftmanship and inventive design sense he displayed in the comic str...

Painter, sculptor, writer, filmmaker, and all-round showman Salvador Dalí (19041989) was one of the 20th centurys greatest exhibitionists and eccen...

Ellen Emmet Rand (1875-1941) was one of the most important and prolific portraitists in the United States in the first decades of the 20th century....

With Salvador Dalí as its figurehead, the great ship of Surrealism traversed the turbulent seas of the early 20th century with sails billowing with...

Poets and intellectuals brushed shoulders in bustling coffeehouses, young avant-gardists heralded a new era in social and sexual liberalism, waltze...

With unparalleled artistic originality Max Ernst (18911976) transformed everything he touched. By pushing the boundaries and breaking loose from th...

A Visual History of Graphic Design - A comprehensive look at hundreds of landmark projects, industry leaders profiles, and illustrated timelines fo...

This first major retrospective of Amalia Mesa-Bains unearths her significant contributions to Chicanx/Latinx art and feminism. Best known for her p...