Art & Design Styles: from c 1960

Nobody doubts that the contemporary art of Turkey has arrived on the international stage: Hale Tengers work has been bought by the Pompidou Centre;...

In 1936, an American ornithologist named James Bond published the definitive taxonomy Birds of the West Indies. Ian Fleming, an active bird-watcher...

Ilya Kabakov (*1933) is one of the former Soviet Union''s most important and influential international artists today. After the two-volume catalogu...

Carta Canta shows a selection of Alechinsky's working on paper from 270 works that were donated to the royal museums in the past, as well as a numb...

This catalogue for a show at the Tornabuoni Gallery in Paris pays homage to two outstanding Italian women artists of the second half of the 20th ce...

Narcissus Quagliata is considered one of the most significant contemporary artists in glass. He has defined a new pathway in this field by combinin...

A new, updated and expanded edition of this classic survey on the history of Caribbean art, featuring the work of over 100 artists from the period ...

Edmund de Waal's art speaks to his enduring fascination with the nature of objects and the attendant history of their collection and display. Confr...

A seminal experience on the Italian art scene of the 1960s. At the height of the economic miracle of the 1960s, artistic experiments in Italy kept ...

Accrochage brings together about seventy works from the Pinault Collection produced by thirty artists since the 1970s. The works-never sho...

I like my paintings to have one foot in the grave, to be not quite of this world. For me they exist in a dream world, a world that is made up of al...

Over a period of 100 days from July to October 2009, 2,400 people stood on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square for one hour. They were free to do...

Street art is part of every cityscape. By street art, we mean the crazy and wonderful stencils, paste-ups, paintings and little sculptures that dec...

Sympathy for the Devil refers to the first track on the Rolling Stones album Beggars Banquet. Each of the selected art works in this book about con...

Painting after Postmodernism: Belgium - USA investigates why so many believed Marcel Duchamp when he made his infamous statement of 1918: that pain...

Armando Romero's paintings often juxtapose his re-painting of historical works by Old Masters like Velazquez, Bosch, and Veronese with images from ...

The fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm according to David Hockney are like no other version you will have read before. Although inspired by earlier ...

This jewel-like book evokes unmistakable Italian landscapes and cityscapes. Anne Desmet's pen commits every detail to paper, and the small-scale fo...

The Insta Grammar series explores the best of the best in amateur photography, focussing on the immensely popular social media site, Instagram. Aft...

In 2014, the contemporary painter George Shaw (b. 1966) began a two-year post as associate artist in the National Gallery, London. This book docume...

Born to a prominent family in Havana but exiled to the United States as a girl, Ana Mendieta (1948-1985) is regarded as one of the most significant...

The BP Portrait Award, now in its thirtieth year, is one of Britain''s most prestigious art prizes, and is the leading showcase for artists throug...

Galerie nachst St. Stephan is one of Austria''s, and indeed Europe''s, most eminent and distinguished galleries for contemporary art. Located in th...

Born in New York in 1941, Joel Shapiro is one of the most significant artists of his generation. Since the first public showing of his work in 1969...

For her most recent series, Austrian artist Katharina Anna Loidl has reworked steel engravings of Swiss alpine landscapes, transforming the origina...

Cecile Wick's work- oscillating between photography, painting and drawing- ranks among the most important oeuvres in contemporary Swiss art. Amendi...

Since the 1970s, Swiss artist Manon has been confronting observers with their own vision. Her performances raise question about the boundary betwee...

Sonja Sekula (1918-63) was born and educated in Lucerne, Switzerland, but emigrated to the United States with her parents in 1936. In 1941, she beg...

Art Galleries across the world are now full of works that are so bizarre or devoid of skill. Anything including a kitchen sink can be called ''Art'...

Dutch artist Theo Jansen (b. 1948, The Hague) has achieved worldwide recognition for his imposing and ingenious strandbeests, which are much more t...

Raqib Shaw is one of the most extraordinary and sought-after artists working in the world today. Born in Calcutta in 1974 and raised in Kashmir, he...