Art & Design Styles: c 1900 to c 1960

Part of a series of exciting and luxurious Flame Tree Notebooks. Combining high-quality production with magnificent fine art, the covers are printe...

When it comes to viewing art, living in the information age is not necessarily a benefit. So argues Michael Findlay in this book that encourages a ...

The editors of the acclaimed Hi-Fructose Magazine present a stunning visual exploration of the intersection between the worlds of wearable art an...

Albert Oehlen has established himself as one of the leading figures in contemporary painting thanks to a continually evolving practice that focuses...

One of Singapore's most prominent artists, Georgette Chen forged an artistic vision that till today continues to enchant and inspire. Chen's remark...

Of all of the contemporary draftsmen, I admire you the most, wrote Alfred Kubin on November 25, 1912, in a letter to Lyonel Feininger. After the tw...

Ambiguous work. Where can we start?, wrote the art historian Oscar Schürer in the historic series Junge Kunst about Pablo Picassos multi - facete...

After flirtations with Realism, Impressionism, and Symbolism, Kiev-born Kazimir Malevich (18781935) found his métier in dissolving literal, represe...

Recruitment, propaganda, rationing, fundraising - during the First World War posters were used to inform and rally the public as never before. Ma...

A key figure in the international avant-garde, Piet Mondrian (18721944) was at once an extraordinary painter and leading art theoretician whose inf...

After Egon Schiele (1890-1918) freed himself from the shadow of his mentor and role model Gustav Klimt, he had just ten years to inscribe his signa...

The artistic stagnation of Vienna at the end of the 19th century was rudely shaken by the artists of the Vienna Secession. Their work shocked a con...

Revolution: Russian Art, 1917-1932 encapsulates a momentous period in Russian history that is vividly expressed in the diversity of art produced be...

During the Second World War, I worked in an empty building by the Thames. It had been used by the Thames Conservancy Board. When war came, they mov...

In the first half of the 20th century, thousands of newcomersEastern European émigrés, Mexican immigrants, and Southerners both black and whitefloc...

This fiery and influential book, available for the first time in English, presents an Italian Futurist's radical ideas about art and architecture ...

A penetrating inquiry into the motives, moral dilemmas, and compromises of Walter Gropius, Emil Nolde, and other celebrated artists who chose to re...

This publication is the first of four volumes in the catalogue raisonné of Francis Picabia (18791953), one of the most significant, challenging art...

When R.S. Thomas died in 2000, two seminal studies of modern art were found on his bookshelves - Herbert Read's Art Now (1933) and Surrealism (1936...

Allen W. Seaby's life has been described as a classic tale of Victorian self-improvement. But there is more to the tale than just upward mobility. ...

Among his many captivating exploits, the French artist Yves Klein (1928 - 1962) invented his own brand of colour: the inimitable International Klei...

This generously illustrated volume examines Hammershoi's work as a whole and in relation to the artists of his generation. Hammershoi's enigmatic p...

One of the most recognizable artists of his era, Amedeo Modigliani is also perhaps one of the least understood. In this thorough, yet refreshingly ...