Art & Design Styles: c 1900 to c 1960

A classic of modernism a new Feininger retrospective in the light of current knowledge Lyonel Feininger (18711956) was a painter, graphic artis...

A new look at the interrelationship of architecture and sculpture during one of the richest periods of American modern designAlloys looks at a uniq...

One of the classic texts on Picasso, republished with full illustration as originally conceived. Gertrude Stein was not only one of Picasso's earli...

Walter Gropius (18831969) set out to build for the future. As the founding director of the Bauhaus, the Berlin-born architect had an inestimable in...

In 1956, TIME magazine called him one of the defining form-givers of the 20th century. Today, Marcel Breuer (19021981) remains a locus classicus of...

An intimate look at Ben Nicholson's everyday inspirations Throughout his career, Ben Nicholson (18941982) transformed everyday homewares into extra...

From the end of World War II until the mid-1960s, exciting things were happening in American architecture. Emerging talents were focusing on innova...

A beautiful presentation of fifty masterworks of late 19th- to mid-20th-century avant-garde European art from one of America's most distinguished p...

Wiener Werkstätte: Textiles and their design This book presents new research and archival findings on the textile and fashion designs of the Wien...

Deco dandy contests the supposedly exclusive feminine aspect of the style moderne (art deco) by exploring how alternative, parallel and overlapping...

During the period in which Expressionist artists were active in central Europe, art historians were producing texts which also began to be characte...

A leading figure of the postwar avant-garde, Danish artist Asger Jorn has long been recognized for his founding contributions to the Cobra and Situ...