Art & Design Styles: c 1900 to c 1960

Three Centuries of American Art in 1938 was the Museum of Modern Art’s first international exhibition. With over 750 artworks on view in Paris rang...

A celebrity in his own day, who gave lectures dressed as Napoleon or seated on the back of an elephant, Ramón Gómez de la Serna is the most represe...

Marginal to Mainstream traces the near-miraculous progress of modern art in France in the first half of the twentieth century. Before World War One...

Featuring new essays by established and emerging scholars, Intersections: Women artists/surrealism/modernism redefines conventional surrealist and ...

The Danish artists participating in the Cobra movement (1948-1951) are 10 to 15 years older than their Dutch and Belgian colleagues. They experienc...

Lee Miller: Photography, surrealism, and beyond offers a major new critical discussion of the work of one of the most significant twentieth-century...

Arvey Foundation Book Award, Association for Latin American Art, 2018Many Latin American artists and critics in the 1920s drew on the values of mod...

This first survey of Antonio Bernal’s life and work, The Artist as Eyewitness features essays that assess his murals, situating them within the his...

They were reviled, ridiculed, and ignored. Today, the Zurich Concretists — along with Dada — are considered the most important art movement origina...

Jewish designers and architects played a key role in shaping the interwar architecture of Central Europe, and in the respective countries where the...

This publication sets the precedent for the next generation of Lawrence scholars and studies in modern and contemporary discourse. The American Str...

Home — signaling a dwelling, residence or place of origin — embodies one of the most basic concepts for understanding an individual or group within...

A groundbreaking insight into Gustave Courbet and his bold experiments in landscape painting   Between 1862 and 1866 Gustave Courbet embarked on a ...

Insane Acquaintances explores a range of exhibitions, organisations and institutions that mediated and promoted modernism in Britain. In a series o...

History and Imagination presents the works of four Singapore photographers: Tan Lip Seng, Lee Lim, Lim Kwong Ling and Lee Sow Lim. These amateur ph...

"The work of an artist is, in its largest sense, inseparable from history thought of in its largest sense." That is how eminent British art histori...

Jugendstil, that is Germany’s distinct engagement with the international Art Nouveau movement, is now firmly engrained in histories of modern art, ...

Cinema was the most important new artistic medium of the twentieth century and modernism was the most important new aesthetic movement across the a...

Max Beckmann (1884–1950), the outstanding Expressionist painter, is regarded as one of the most important artists of the twentieth century. His wor...

A fascinating, narrative biography of the art movement that transformed the modern world, tracing the lives and activities of the key protagonists ...

A new history of postwar painting that explores how the desire to look backward shaped some of the period’s most radical artmaking   This incisive ...

While the domestic sphere might seem tangential to the dire political situation and humanitarian crises of interwar Europe, it was nevertheless at ...