Art & Design Styles: c 1900 to c 1960

The main character of this extraordinary graphic novel is not a person but an ideathe school of Bauhaus, which arose in the wake of World War I, an...

An exploration of the development of the art scene, its socio-political context, and the role of the fine arts in nineteenth-century Nordic society...

The Washington Principles of 1998 call for just and fair solutions in handling Nazi-looted art. At that same time, Austria was the only European st...

The edition makes accessible for the first time the complete correspondence between the collector and founder of the Folkwang Museum Karl Ernst Ost...

This ground-breaking book is the first to address the feminine and feminist politics of Intimiste art - a modernist mode of art making developed in...

The New York jewellery firm of Marcus & Co. (18921942) created exceptional examples of Art Nouveau and Art Deco jewellery for an art-loving, we...

Emphasizing the diversity of twentieth-century collage practices, Rona Cran's book explores the role that it played in the work of Joseph Cornell, ...

Despite the censorship of dissident material during the decade between the Manchurian Incident of 1931 and the outbreak of the Pacific War in 1941,...

This book presents the making of Mexican Modernist architecture through five power structures academic, social status, economic/political, gender,...

This book examines the development of national emblems, photographic portraiture, oil painting, world expositions, modern spaces for art exhibition...

Bringing together cultural history, visual studies, and media archaeology, Bruno considers the interrelations of projection, atmosphere, and enviro...

This book complements the more textually-based Bauhaus scholarship with a practice-oriented and creative interpretive method, which makes it possib...

Four major communities, four buildings constructing their identities in the contested urban space of Jerusalem.This book examines a fascinating and...