Art & Design Styles: c 1900 to c 1960

A seminal text in the history of modern art, from one of the most famous artists of the twentieth centuryArt is the language that speaks to the sou...

The first biography of Gilbert Spencer, recounting the life and career of a long-overlooked twentieth-century British artist   Gilbert Spencer (189...

Surrealism is widely thought of as an artistic movement that flourished in Europe between the two world wars. However, during the 1960s, 70s, and 8...

Consuming Surrealism in American Culture: Dissident Modernism argues that Surrealism worked as a powerful agitator to disrupt dominant ideas of mod...

City and Campus tells the rich history of a Midwest industrial town and its two academic institutions through the buildings that helped bring these...

The second of an important multi-volume catalogue project, this publication features work by Francis Picabia (1879-1953) that dates from 1915 into ...

Burst! Abstract Painting After 1945 looks at the close, but previously unexplored relationship between Abstract Expressionism and Art Informel. Thr...

Luigi Russolo (1885-1947) - painter, composer, builder of musical instruments, and first-hour member of the Italian Futurist movement - was a cruci...

As inviting and sensual as a warm summer day, this opulent exhibition catalog offers a deep appreciation of Klimt's ornate, exquisitely detailed, a...

Brushes With War is a unique history of World War I in broad brush strokes. Over 230 original paintings, drawings, sculpture, and trench art by the...

The Anahuacalli Museum in Mexico City, a pyramid-shaped structure of volcanic stone, was intended to be the final mansion of Diego Rivera and his w...

In this remarkable study by the late Francis Pound, author of the landmark Invention of New Zealand, we are introduced to the making of a New Zeala...

From Tudor times to the First World War, Now You See Us: Women Artists in Britain 15201920 will chart the journey of women to becoming professional...

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

Surrealist womens writing: A critical exploration is the first sustained critical inquiry into the writing of women associated with surrealism. Fea...

Reluctant muse and feminist champion society heiress and rebel refugee the last of the Surrealists: Leonora Carrington played many roles in her lon...

Examining architectures foundational role in the repression of democracy   Reinhold Martin and Claire Zimmerman bring together essays from an arra...

Examining architectures foundational role in the repression of democracy   Reinhold Martin and Claire Zimmerman bring together essays from an arra...

The work of German cultural theorist and art historian Aby Warburg (18661929) has had a lasting effect on how we think about images. This book is t...