Art & Design Styles: c 1900 to c 1960

Master of sensuality and the architectural utopiaThe Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer (1907-2012) is a twentieth century classic. He became world...

Only in the darkest moments of our lives do the brightest stars appear.An artist, mother, teacher, and rebel, Audrey Flack is counted among the mos...

An essential examination of how emigration and resettlement defined modernismIn the fraught years leading up to World War II, many modern artists a...

Norman Bel Geddes has long been considered the founder of American industrial design. During his long career he worked on everything from theatre d...

Norman Bel Geddes has long been considered the founder of American industrial design. During his long career he worked on everything from theatre d...

Walter Kaesbach gehört zu den engagierten Persönlichkeiten des deutschen Kulturlebens der zwanziger und dreißiger Jahre des letzten Jahrhunderts. E...

Jeanne Mammens watercolour images of the gender-bending new woman and her candid portrayals of Berlins thriving nightlife appeared in some of the m...

In the years before, during, and after the First World War, hundreds of young Jews flocked to Paris, artistic capital of the world and center of mo...

Les diners de Gala is uniquely devoted to the pleasures of taste If you are a disciple of one of those calorie-counters who turn the joys of eatin...

Roy MacGregor grew up in Huntsville, close to his beloved Algonquin Park, where he spent his childhood surrounded by stories of the famous painter...

Paris, Shanghai and New York: Georgette Chen, one of Singapores foremost artists, once counted these cultural capitals as home and cut her teeth as...

A design monograph series on the most remarkable architects, designers, brands and design movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, ea...

A design monograph series on the most remarkable architects, designers, brands and design movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, ea...

From the late 1910s through the 1950s, particularly, the Caribbean nation of Haiti drew the attention and imaginations of many key U.S. artists, ye...

Redefining the artistic movement that helped shape American modernism   In the early decades of the twentieth century, a loose contingent of artis...

Tells the fascinating story of the journey taken by the Bauhaus both the concept behind the school and some of the individuals who represented it ...

Marcel Duchamp is today considered one of the most significant 20th century artists worldwide. His far-reaching influence is visible within a varie...

Unter dem faschistischen Regime wurde im Südtiroler Martelltal 1937 das vom Architekten Gio Ponti geplante Hotel Paradiso eröffnet. Das heute verla...

Der Band befasst sich mit der Moderne in Design und darstellender Kunst im Rumänien der Zwischenkriegszeit. Er folgt den transnationalen Wegen beme...