Art & Design Styles: c 1900 to c 1960

Part of a series of handy, luxurious Flame Tree Pocket Books. Combining high-quality production with magnificent fine art, the covers are printed o...

One of the few under-examined aspects of Picasso's life and work was his love of animals. The son of a pigeon breeder and an aficionado of bullfigh...

From the sensuality of Dali's Mae West Lips sofa to Schiaparelli's dramatic Tear dress, Surrealism produced some of the most extraordinary objects ...

In a groundbreaking analysis, Silvano Levy unravels the hidden structures of Magritte's paintings. Decoding Magritte puts forward the theory that a...

Pioneered by Picasso and Braque, Cubism has been described as the first avant-garde art movement of the 20th century. With inspiration from African...

Les diners de Gala is uniquely devoted to the pleasures of taste If you are a disciple of one of those calorie-counters who turn the joys of eatin...

Be transported back to the heyday of modern style when architecture, design and style were de rigueur. This is an invaluable location guide for...

Ghosts of the Black Chamber includes over two hundred photographic images by revolutionary and iconic artists working between 1918 and 1948. In add...

Paul Nash is one of the most distinctive and important British artists of the 20th century. He is known for his work as an official war artist, pro...

The architecture of social reform explores the fascinating intellectual origins of modern architectures obsession with domesticity. Copiously illus...

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

His paintbrush set everything in motion: the landscape of Provence, the colourful still lifes, his portraits and the picturesque coast of southern ...

Alexey Shchusev (18731949) was one of the most celebrated architects of the Soviet Union, famous for Lenins Mausoleum in Moscow. Not only a gifted ...

This book reveals that Pablo Picasso wasn't simply a figurehead of the Modern Age. He grew up in the 19th century: the extraordinary mixture of val...