Art & Design Styles: from c 1960

Seditiously garish paintings, watercolours, animated films, absurd journals, and extensive installations - all of these are only a small part of ...

Images have never been as freely circulated as they are today. They have also never been so tightly controlled. As with the birth of photography, d...

Hirst’s Psalm paintings allude to Gothic stained glass windows and the circular patterns of Buddhist mandalas This beautifully illustrated book co...

Jonathan Monk (*1969) is known for his witty appropriation of art history, his re-staging of conceptual and minimalist art works, his critique of...

Chuck Close immediately liked the idea of a book without words. As a child, his severe dyslexia stood in the way of reading, making images all the ...

From bottle gardens, the bachelor pad and Batman to designer gnomes and monogamy spray, this book uses a diverse range of objects to explore the ch...

This book addresses late-Soviet and post-Soviet art in Armenia in the context of turbulent transformations from the late 1980s to 2004. It explores...

In a gorgeously illustrated exploration of the art of Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, Mischief Making disproves any notion that play is frivolous. Depl...

The artistic tradition that emerged as a form of cultural resistance in the 1970s changed during the transition from socialism to capitalism. This ...

I conoclast and artist Pope.L uses the body, sex, and race as his materials the way other artists might use paint, clay, or bronze. His work proble...

The witty American conceptualist offers a fresh twist on his classic 1960s walking piece “Contrapposto” refers to a pose in which the human subjec...

From her earliest experiments with painting old-master landscapes as graffiti on the streets of New York, to her recent project The Alien's Guide t...

In the popular imagination, Homer as author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, epitomises poetic genius. So, when scholars proposed that the Homeric epi...

Images have never been as freely circulated as they are today. They have also never been so tightly controlled. As with the birth of photography, d...

Robert Hernandez traces the history and assesses the impact of VIVA! Lesbian and Gay Latino Artists, a nonprofit artists' coalition founded in 1987...

Shanghai, long known as mainland China’s most cosmopolitan city, is today a global cultural capital. This book offers the first in-depth examinatio...

Dialogues with Degas demonstrates the ongoing relevance of Edgar Degas to 20th- and 21st-century ideas and art practices. The first in-depth exami...