Art & Design Styles: c 1900 to c 1960

An expansive take on American Art Deco that explores Chicago's pivotal role in developing the architecture, graphic design, and product design that...

The early twentieth century is usually remembered as an era of rising nationalism and military hostility, culminating in the disaster of the First ...

Is a tower block, your unmade bed, your lavatory basin, or the bicycle chained to the gate next door a work of art? Why should a novel have a begin...

The Bauhaus, the legendary school in Dessau, Germany, transformed architecture and design around the world. This book broke new ground when first p...

The Art of Football is a singular look at early college football art and illustrations. This collection contains more than two hundred images, many...

Sigfried Giedion’s small but vocal manifesto Befreites Wohnen (1929) is an early manifestation of modernist housing ideology and as such is key to ...

For nearly fifty years the humanities have been confined by a series of critiques: of the subject, of representation, of the visual, of modernism, ...

The fascinating untold story of how Nazi architects and planners envisioned and began to build a model “Aryan” society in Norway during World War I...

Beautifully designed and featuring breathtaking photography, this book from the creator of The Modern House makes the perfect coffee table book and...

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was an architect who communicated his ideas with the same disciplined restraint as he developed his buildings. This book i...

Though little known outside her native country, Helene Schjerfbeck (1862-1946) is one of Finland's best-loved artists. Her career, which stretched ...

Coinciding with the major exhibition of the same name, Henry Moore: The Helmet Heads traces the footsteps of the artist through the armouries of th...

Throughout Ernst Ludwig Kirchner’s career, one unifying theme emerges—the search for what he saw as unadulterated and primal. This volume explores ...

Gunnar S. Gundersen (1921-1983) was one of the most important Norwegian artists of the post-war period. Together with several other artists, he was...

This book reveals that James Ensor did not develop his fantastic and grotesque universe of masks and skeletons out of his melancholic soul, but tha...

'An essential coffee-table tour' Wired The end of the Second World War was an era marked by community engagement through post-war progressive civi...