Art & Design Styles: c 1900 to c 1960

The first book in English on Maruja Mallo, this volume is an insightful examination of the life and work of this seminal artist of the Spanish avan...

First published in 2006, this volume provides the first in-depth analysis of the place of visual representations within the process of decolonisati...

The Burlington Fine Arts Club was founded in London in 1866 as a gentlemen’s club with a singular remit – to exhibit members’ art collections. Exhi...

This book explores the effects of the Instagram platform on the making and viewing of art.Authors Lachlan MacDowall and Kylie Budge critically anal...

This title was first published in 2001. An examination of art and patronage in Britain during the post-war years. It consists of five case studies,...

This book examines the art of Cobra, a network of poets and artists from Copenhagen, Brussels, and Amsterdam (1948–1951). Although the name stood f...

This book provides a conceptual and global overview of the field of Surrealist studies. Methodologically, the companion considers Surrealism’s many...

For René Magritte, painting was a form of thinking. Through paintings of ordinary objects rendered with illusionism, Magritte probed the limits of ...

For René Magritte, painting was a form of thinking. Through paintings of ordinary objects rendered with illusionism, Magritte probed the limits of ...

Marianne von Werefkin played a key role in the development of expressionism in the early 20th century, thanks to her knowledge of the latest develo...

"If the function of the artist is to see, the first duty of the critic is to understand what the artist saw." – J.E.H. MacDonald To See What He Sa...

This excellent overview of new research on Dada and Surrealism blends expert synthesis of the latest scholarship with completely new research, offe...

Jackson Pollock, the towering American artist who was to revolutionize twentieth-century art with his “dripping” painting technique, grew up betwee...

Hans Hofmann (1880-1966) was a pivotal figure in Abstract Expressionism and stands as one of the most important characters of post-war American art...

One of the greatest collaborations of cinema history, L'Âge d'Or(1930) united the geniuses of Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali in the making of a Surr...

Still Modernism offers a critique of the modernist imperative to embrace motion, speed, and mobility. In the context of the rise of kinetic technol...

One of the most important and underappreciated visual artists of the twentieth century, Romare Bearden started as a cartoonist during his college y...

The artists as explorers: the Expressionist artists Kirchner and Nolde studied non-Western lifestyles and incorporated them into their artistic pro...

Conservation of Time-based Media Art is the first book to take stock of the current practices and conceptual frameworks that define the emerging fi...

This book is the first substantial study of the presence and relationship with the concepts of apocalypse, eschatology, and millennium in modern Br...

At the beginning of the 20th century, a group of artists around Henri Matisse and André Derain were carrying out revolutionary colour experiments. ...

At the beginning of the 20th century, a group of artists around Henri Matisse and André Derain were carrying out revolutionary colour experiments. ...