Art & Design Styles: c 1900 to c 1960

Crafting Modernism: Midcentury American Art and Design is an in-depth examination of the American studio craft movement in the decades following Wo...

Americans in Paris: Artists Working in Postwar France, 19461962 delves into the various circles of artists who lived in France following World War ...

The impact of Mirka and Georges Mora on Australian art and food has been remarkable.Arriving in Melbourne in 1951 from Paris, they energised local ...

Vita Sackville-West was a vital, gifted and complex woman. A dedicated writer, she made her mark as poet, novelist, biographer, travel writer, jour...

Paintings, graphic works, sculptures, textiles and furniture Johannes Itten was an unusually versatile artist who during the six decades of his cr...

Frank Dicksee was born at a time when the first wave of Pre-Raphaelitism was beginning to make its presence felt in Britain and he inherited the ro...

Earl Krentzin (1929-2021) was a virtuoso silversmith who poured his considerable talents into figurative sculpture, creating whimsical theatrical s...

Toward the end of his monumental career as a painter, sculptor, and lithographer, an elderly, sickly Matisse was unable to stand and use a paintbru...

Accompanying a major retrospective of Anders Zorns work, this is the first volume in English to explore the Swedish Impressionists entire career in...

Deluxe over-sized art-book celebrating the art of a lost master of horror illustration!, Celebrating the incredible art of Jordi Badia Romero from ...

The lowly placard, a quick and efficient device used to spread news or advertise goods, ascended to the level of a respected art form in the late 1...

William Turnbull (1922-2012) stands as one of Britain's foremost artists in the second half of the twentieth century. Both a sculptor and a painter...

Klee and Kandinsky were towering figures of the modernist movement and were close, both as friends and artists. For a time they lived next door to ...

When the First World War broke out, Morris Meredith Williams was living in Edinburgh with his wife Alice, a sculptor, and earning his living from b...

Klee's art appeals to our primary instincts and makes us look beyond the ordinary. A natural draughtsman, master of colour and hugely influential a...

C.R.W. Nevinson (1889-1946) is regarded as one of the finest British printmakers of the first half of the twentieth century - admired by contempora...

Edward Burra (1905-76) was an English painter who is best known for his paintings of the seedy underworld of urban life. Yet, as this fascinating ...

This book offers a concise and highly readable account of the visual art of David Jones (1895-1974). It challenges the simplistic view of Jones as ...

The first fully illustrated account of the life and work of English painter Christopher Wood (1901-30), this authoritative work, which includes ove...

Barye was the most famous artist of the group of sculptors we know as Les Animaliers. His art went beyond the mere representation of animals, howev...