Art & Design Styles: c 1900 to c 1960

Still Modernism offers a critique of the modernist imperative to embrace motion, speed, and mobility. In the context of the rise of kinetic technol...

One of the most important and underappreciated visual artists of the twentieth century, Romare Bearden started as a cartoonist during his college y...

The artists as explorers: the Expressionist artists Kirchner and Nolde studied non-Western lifestyles and incorporated them into their artistic pro...

A brilliant introduction to the work of Jules Schmalzigaug (1882-1917), Belgium's sole representative of the Futurist movement. The Royal Museum of...

How did the revolutionary Left view cultural modernists? Their uneasy relationship is illustrated in this book with quotations ranging from Alexand...

A gorgeous color depiction of every remaining structure designed by Louis Sullivan Louis Henry Sullivan (18561924) is a foundational figure in Amer...

Most art historians agree that the modern art adventure first developed in the 1860s in Paris. A circle of painters, whom we now know as Impression...

Most art historians agree that the modern art adventure first developed in the 1860s in Paris. A circle of painters, whom we now know as Impression...

Most art historians agree that the modern art adventure first developed in the 1860s in Paris. A circle of painters, whom we now know as Impression...

An exploration of the human figure and artistic imagination in public art of the American Renaissance, from the nations centennial to World War I  ...

An intellectual history of architectural modernism for an age of rising global inequality and environmental crisis.The Earth That Modernism Built t...

An intellectual history of architectural modernism for an age of rising global inequality and environmental crisis.The Earth That Modernism Built t...

This book is the first substantial study of the presence and relationship with the concepts of apocalypse, eschatology, and millennium in modern Br...

Fall under the spell of Gustav Klimt. Over a century after his death, Viennese artist Gustav Klimt (18621918) still startles with his unabashed ero...

A major voice in the architectural culture of the fifties and sixties, Sibyl Moholy-Nagy was uniquely engaged with modernism and modernity. As the ...

Material Modernity explores creative innovation in German art, design, and architecture during the Weimar Republic, charting both the rise of new m...

Knitting together two fascinating but entirely distinct lives, this ingeniously structured braided biography tells the story of the lives and work ...

One of the most enduring and pervasive myths about modernist architecture is that it was whitepure white walls both inside and out. Yet nothing cou...