Art & Design Styles: c 1900 to c 1960

During 1889, Belgian artist James Ensor (1860-1949) painted a monumental canvas that would be his magnum opus: The Entry of Christ into Brussels in...

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was an architect who communicated his ideas with the same disciplined restraint as he developed his buildings. This book i...

A groundbreaking comparison of two titans of American art Winslow Homer (18361910) and Frederic Remington (18611909) represent a distinct artistic ...

Offering a rare opportunity to explore the largest and most luxurious house designed by Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus, and Marcel Breuer, ...

Ideal homes investigates the tastes and aspirations of the new suburban communities that emerged in Britain following the First World War. In a per...

Though little known outside her native country, Helene Schjerfbeck (1862-1946) is one of Finland's best-loved artists. Her career, which stretched ...

In 1999, Akseli Gallen-Kallelas Lake Keitele (1905) became the first Finnish painting to enter the National Gallery and is now one of the most popu...

Coinciding with the major exhibition of the same name, Henry Moore: The Helmet Heads traces the footsteps of the artist through the armouries of th...

This visually stunning volume offers perceptive examinations of several renowned German and Austrian Expressionist artists who redefined modern sel...

With an emphasis on painting and sculpture made in the United States between 1910 and 1950, this gorgeously illustrated volume offers a rich introd...

Throughout Ernst Ludwig Kirchners career, one unifying theme emergesthe search for what he saw as unadulterated and primal. This volume explores th...

Emil Nolde (1867-1956) was one of the greatest colourists of the twentieth century. An artist passionate about his north German home near the Danis...

Gunnar S. Gundersen (1921-1983) was one of the most important Norwegian artists of the post-war period. Together with several other artists, he was...

This book reveals that James Ensor did not develop his fantastic and grotesque universe of masks and skeletons out of his melancholic soul, but tha...

A new examination of the art and influence of artist John Graham and his circle, whose works and ideas contributed to the advancement of American m...

Romare Bearden (1911-1988) was a modernist artist renowned for his experimental and socially conscious works. Bearden is best known for his paintin...

9 lectures in various cities, April 1915-June 1920 (CW 288) The planning, construction, and execution of the functional work of art that was th...

Concrete Poetry is the first photographic survey of Modernist sculpture within the Brutalist context.