Art & Design Styles: c 1900 to c 1960

This book examines Rembrandt Bugatti s fraught personal life, his position in art history, and the wide-ranging artistic influences apparent in his...

The horror of the First World War brought out a characteristic response in a group of English artists, who resorted to black humour. Among these, J...

In collaboration with Miamis Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, a rediscovery of a lost figure of American modernism - the early-twentieth-century America...

American Modern presents a fresh look at The Museum of Modern Arts holdings of American art made between 1915 and 1950, and considers the cultural ...

By 1947, Matisse in his seventies and suffering poor health much preferred the simple, fluid act of cutting forms from painted paper to drawing o...

Noa the Boa is a slave to fashion with the heart of an actor and an obsession with celebrity. He becomes luxurious leather accessories for illustr...

At the dawn of photography photographers had no limits. Using the traditional styles employed by past masters in their paintings of the naked human...

Considered one of the most important religious structures of the twentieth century, the Chapel of the Rosary in Vince was regarded by Matisse himse...

Fernand Léger is one of two new volumes being published this autumn in the MoMA Artists series, which explores important artists represented in dep...

PURGE the world of dead art, imitation, artificial art. . . . Promote living art, anti-art, promote NON ART REALITY to be grasped by all peoples, w...

Established in 1919 in Weimar, the Bauhaus college for design influenced one of the world's most important Modernist movements. Divided into three ...

Mondrian's relevance has not only to do with his pioneering role in the definition and conceptualisation of abstraction, but also with the complex ...

INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards -- 2014 FinalistA monumental new monograph accompanying the first major retrospective in fifty years of the work o...

At the forefront of the social revolution that transformed Mexico during the first half of the twentieth century were three artists whose work had ...

Best known for his depictions of the human form, Schiele was also interested in portraying the beauty and structure of the world he inhabited. In f...

British realist art of the 1920s and 1930s is visually stunning - strong, seductive and demonstrating extraordinary technical skill. Despite this,...

Diane Arbus was one of the greatest photographers of the last century. Her portraiture of freaks, circus performers, twins, nudists and others on t...

German art student Otto Schubert was 22 years old when he was drafted into the Great War. As the conflict unfolded, he painted a series of postcard...

Austrian painter Egon Schiele was a gifted artist, mentored by the great Gustav Klimt. Inspired by the human form, he is best-known for his figurat...