Art & Design Styles: c 1900 to c 1960

Cubism and futurism were related movements that vied with each other in the economy of renown. Perception, dynamism, and the dynamism of perception...

This original and insightful book establishes a reciprocal relationship between Ludwig Wittgenstein's notion of ethics and the experience of war. I...

Abstract art was never dead. Since its revolutionary beginnings at the dawn of the 20th century, it has repeatedly flourished and survived all anim...

A gorgeous look at popular illustrators of the Jazz Age and their influential role in the dynamic culture of the 1920s and 30s   The 1920s in the U...

A landmark retrospective on the Art Deco painter exploring her intersectional identities   Tamara de Lempicka (18941980), the Baroness with a Brush...

A key figure in the Art Deco movement, artist Jean Dunand (1877-1942) stands out for his multiple talents as a sculptor, goldsmith, copper maker, b...

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 Saw f...

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

Abstraction shook Western art to its core. In the early part of the 20th century, it refuted the reign of clear, indisputable forms and confronted ...

In 1956, TIME magazine called him one of the defining form-givers of the 20th century. Today, Marcel Breuer (19021981) remains a locus classicus of...

In 1956, TIME magazine called him one of the defining form-givers of the 20th century. Today, Marcel Breuer (19021981) remains a locus classicus of...

Abstraction shook Western art to its core. In the early part of the 20th century, it refuted the reign of clear, indisputable forms and confronted ...

A groundbreaking and richly illustrated account of the importance of Manets family to his artAll families are complicated, but the family of Édouar...

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

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...

Famed for his motto less is more, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (18861969) was one of the founding fathers of modern architecture and a hotly-debated ta...

This book highlights the intimate relationship between landscape and portraiture in the work of the Austrian Expressionist artist Egon Schiele (189...

A journey through all creative periodsHenri Matisse is one of the most celebrated artists of Modernism. His groundbreaking work had a significant i...

Architectural, industrial, and graphic design in the United States from the 1950s through to the 1970s - generally known as mid-century modern - is...

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...

This new edited volume of critical essays examines designs for modern living in Asia between 1945 and 1990. Focusing particularly on the post-World...