Art & Design Styles: c 1900 to c 1960

The Saint Louis Art Museum has assembled one of North Americas largest and most comprehensive collections of German Expressionist paintings. Redisc...

New Surrealism: The Uncanny in Contemporary Painting by Robert Zeller offers a sweeping exposition of both historical Surrealism and its legacy in ...

The Sculpture of William Edmondson: Tombstones, Garden Ornaments, and Stonework is the first large-scale museum examination of the artist's career ...

The Hall of Fame for Great Americans provides a window into the cultural changes taking place in the United States from the turn of the twentieth c...

A landmark study of how the famed Bloomsbury Group developed their distinct aesthetic  [Fascinating and wide-ranging. . . . Will be enjoyed by both...

Thematically focused analysis of modern architecture throughout Texas with gorgeous photographs illustrating works by famous and lesser-known archi...

The volume offers an unprecedented reflection on the work of Lucio Fontana, whose art appears to be not so much masculine, volcanic, demiurgic, as ...

A seminal text in the history of modern art, from one of the most famous artists of the twentieth century In Concerning the Spiritual in Art Wassi...

Jeanne Mammens watercolour images of the gender-bending new woman and her candid portrayals of Berlins thriving nightlife appeared in some of the m...

The Wound and the Stitch traces a history of imagery and language centered on the concept of woundedness and the stitching together of fragmented s...

The Wound and the Stitch traces a history of imagery and language centered on the concept of woundedness and the stitching together of fragmented s...

The first biography of Gilbert Spencer, recounting the life and career of a long-overlooked twentieth-century British artist   Gilbert Spencer (189...

Surrealism is widely thought of as an artistic movement that flourished in Europe between the two world wars. However, during the 1960s, 70s, and 8...

This book outlines the life and intellectual thought of the English surrealist artist and psychoanalyst, Dr Grace Pailthorpe (1883-1971). It gather...

Consuming Surrealism in American Culture: Dissident Modernism argues that Surrealism worked as a powerful agitator to disrupt dominant ideas of mod...

City and Campus tells the rich history of a Midwest industrial town and its two academic institutions through the buildings that helped bring these...

The second of an important multi-volume catalogue project, this publication features work by Francis Picabia (1879-1953) that dates from 1915 into ...

Burst! Abstract Painting After 1945 looks at the close, but previously unexplored relationship between Abstract Expressionism and Art Informel. Thr...

Luigi Russolo (1885-1947) - painter, composer, builder of musical instruments, and first-hour member of the Italian Futurist movement - was a cruci...

As inviting and sensual as a warm summer day, this opulent exhibition catalog offers a deep appreciation of Klimt's ornate, exquisitely detailed, a...

Brushes With War is a unique history of World War I in broad brush strokes. Over 230 original paintings, drawings, sculpture, and trench art by the...

The Anahuacalli Museum in Mexico City, a pyramid-shaped structure of volcanic stone, was intended to be the final mansion of Diego Rivera and his w...

In this remarkable study by the late Francis Pound, author of the landmark Invention of New Zealand, we are introduced to the making of a New Zeala...