Art & Design Styles: c 1900 to c 1960

The Biographics series presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world's greatest thinkers and creatives. It takes the 50 definin...

Roland Paris is one of the most recognisable artists of the Art Deco world, yet his work remains something of an enigma. His art is caricature-like...

This lecture was given by Neil Cox of the University of Essex, one of Britain's leading scholars of Cubism and Surrealism, and a particular authori...

From the 14th Vienna Secession exhibition in 1902 to the development of Constructivism in the 1920s, art in Austria- Hungary underwent a seismic ch...

The Art Deco style is so recognisable and widespread that its original impact on the culture in which it emerged has been all but lost in the clutt...

'The nearest the general run get to art is Action: sex is their form of art: the battle for existence is their picture.' Tarr tells the blackly co...

Pablo Picassos modest yet revolutionary cardboard and sheet metal Guitar sculptures (1912 and 1914, respectively) bracket an incandescent period of...

This new addition to Prestel's successful 50s series focuses on Art Deco, an artistic movement that originated in France after World War I and spre...

Born in 1899 to Russian Aristocrats, Tamara de Lempicka escaped the Bolsheviks by exchanging her body for freedom, dramatically beginning a sexual ...

This book showcases and puts into historical context a host of sculpted works created in the 1920s and 1930s in the decorative vernacular defined l...

The design revolutions of the early 20th century were woven into the very fabric of the carpets and rugs of that era. Carpets of the Art Deco Era, ...

Published in conjunction with a major exhibition organized by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, in collaboration with the Menil Collection, Houst...

With a career spanning seven decades, Catalan-born Joan Miró (18931983) was a polymath giant of modern art, producing masterworks across painting, ...

In the 1920s and 30s Art Deco influenced everything from art and architecture, interiors and furnishings, automobiles and boats, to the small perso...

In a world where ''smart'' objects can talk to each other and a gun can be printed with a desktop 3D printer, the conditions for contemporary desig...

Born into the American aristocracy, Elizabeth Eyre de Lanux abandoned high society to pursue an artistic career. Starting her training with Constan...

For the Berlin Dadaists, their identity as a collective-Club Dada, to members-was an integral part of their artistic practice. But the circumst...

A highly anticipated publication that seeks to reassess the legacy of one of the greatest artists of the 20th century Salvador Dali (1904-1989) was...

An innovative new history of Cubism told through some of the most significant artworks ever produced, drawn from a distinguished private collection...