Art & Design Styles: from c 1960

Rachel Whiteread has single-handedly expanded the parameters of contemporary sculpture with her casts of the outer and inner spaces of familiar obj...

The work of Martha Rosler is perennially incisive, provocative, political, and timely, exploring a range of issues from everyday life and the media...

This beautifully illustrated book documents Picketts Charge, an ambitious and timely project by renowned artist Mark Bradford. Eight new paintings ...

Pollock''s Modernism provides a new interpretation of the art of Jackson Pollock (1912-1956), one that is based on a phenomenological investigation...

From his abstract sculptures and collage to furniture and largescale works, the character of Franz West''s work is unrestrainedly irreverent, and y...

At thirty-six, Julian Schnabel was not only represented in the most important exhibitions of his time; retrospectives of his works were already bei...

Soul of a Nation shines a bright light on the vital contribution of Black artists to a dramatic period in American art and history. In the period...

Since 1960, progressive forces within art education have stoked, and continued to fire, new impulses in the field of artistic production. As societ...

It is almost impossible to believe that the posters, flyers and other punk ephemera were once used and discarded. But despite such humble origins, ...

Istanbul is now one of the planet's hippest cities. Its art is sought after by international collectors, its fashion is feted on catwalks, and its ...

Born in Cotonou, Benin in 1961, Meschac Gaba moved to the Netherlands in 1996 to take up a residency at the Rijksakademie. It was there that he con...

Since its launch in 1999, Afterall, a journal of art, context, and inquiry, has offered in-depth considerations of the work of contemporary artists...

Lucian Freud (1922 - 2011) was one of the most influential artists of his generation. Hailed as the 'greatest living realist painter', Freud's comm...

Widely considered to be one of the most significant cultural figures of his generation in China and internationally, Ai Weiwei successfully occupie...

Born in New York in 1975, Taryn Simon is at the forefront of contemporary photography practice. Her artistic medium is based around three equal ele...

Ben Nicholson (1894-1982) was one of the greatest British artists of the twentieth century, first coming to international prominence with his famou...

This book explores how installation art developed into an interdisciplinary genre in the 1960s, and how its special intertwinement of the visual an...