Art & Design Styles: c 1900 to c 1960

When is a urinal no longer a urinal? When Marcel Duchamp (18871968) declared it to be art. The uproar that greeted the French artists Fountain (191...

In recent years Eric Ravilious has become recognized as one of the most important British artists of the 20th century, whose watercolours and wood ...

Elegant sailing ships, expansive seascapes, crystal - clear spread - out views of architecture with his unique pictorial language and range of sub...

Illustrator and cartoonist W. Heath Robinson is renowned for his ingenious and haphazard contraptions. His witty drawings of complicated machines, ...

Behind the Mask: Artists in the GDR focuses on the wide variety of artistic self-staging in the GDR, between public and private, prescribed collect...

This book offers an intimate and accurate view into this period and details-in a chronological and dynamic fashion, the most important moments, his...

A Sunday Times Art Book of the Year: the first critical illustrated biography of this much-loved artist, locating her firmly in the art worlds of l...

The unexpected encounter of a rubber glove, a green ball and the head from the classical statue of the Apollo Belvedere gives rise to one of the mo...

In the mid-1950s, declaring there is no reason not to consider the world as a gigantic painting, Robert Rauschenberg began a series of radical ex...

Two wartime artists, one bustling harbour, and a city ravaged by the Halifax Explosion. Two perspectives on Halifax one year after the Explosion.A ...

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...

Immerse yourself in the colourful world of Frida Kahlo with this search and find book which details key aspects of her life - from her eccentric te...

This comprehensive book is both a biographical exploration of the early life of Mary Seton Watts and a survey of the pottery she designed. Mary Se...

A massive full-career retrospective for Arte Informale painter Emilio Vedova One hundred years after his birth, Emilio Vedova examines the career ...