Art History

It was simple furniture ... and we were makers of it.In 1931, the English designer Gerald Summers and his partner Marjorie Butcher opened their bus...

This book highlights the significant role that production artists played when Russian cinema was still in its infancy. It uncovers Russian cinemas ...

The 1970s is often considered the period that design forgot. In Private sets out to challenge this view, offering a cultural history of domestic in...

The art of Paule Vézelay (1892-1984), celebrated in this groundbreaking publication, is remarkable in its breadth. Over her long career she created...

This edited volume explores the notion of artifice in modern visual culture, ranging from the eighteenth century to the present, in countries aroun...

Discover how artists used machines and algorithms to create mesmerising and mind-bending art between the 1950s and 1980s. From collaged punch cards...

Discover how artists used machines and algorithms to create mesmerising and mind-bending art between the 1950s and 1980s. From collaged punch cards...

The debate about the return of cultural assets to former colonial territories is highly topical and at the same time much older than most assume. ...

In this book, Sólveig Guðmundsdóttir uncovers the crucial role of esotericism in the art of the Vienna Actionistsa group of Austrian neo-avant-gard...

This volume explores the Indian artist, K. Venkatappas (18861965) life, his works and the political and cultural contexts that influenced and inspi...

Gary Deirmendjian is a compelling and original voice in the realm of contemporary art. A Prevailing Sense of Disquiet is a visually rich and multi-...

This third collection of SAO illustrations highlights events from Volumes 16 through 22 of the main story, as well as Volumes 1 through 3 of Sword ...

This book is the first to examine Renoirs handling of fashion and textiles, so opening up a fresh approach to the initially fêted artist who came ...

Explores some of the dynamic, forward-facing artistic creations of Indigenous FuturismThe growing field of Indigenous Futurism eludes easy categori...

Reverence, Revelation, Devotion is a new large-format hardback publication showcasing the complete works from three new series of paintings by Dami...

This volume is the first to address the concept of spontaneity from an art-historical perspective. The term, located in the creative field today, ...

The Short Story of Women Artists tells the full history - from the breakthroughs that women have made in pushing for parity with male artists, to t...

Miguel Covarrubias enjoyed transcultural encounters and exchanges in the cosmopolitan centers of Mexico City, New York, and Europe, where he met an...

This deeply informed and lavishly illustrated book is a comprehensive introduction to the modern study of Middle English manuscripts. It is intende...

An essential African American artist of his era, Archibald Motley Jr. created paintings of black Chicago that aligned him with the revisionist aims...

A beautiful, one-of-a-kind collection of more than 150 of Van Gogh's letters, paired with more than 250 works of art.Vincent Van Gogh wrote hundred...

Honorable Mention, 2021 LASA Mexico Humanities Book Prize, Latin American Studies Association, Mexico SectionIn the sixteenth century, the Francisc...

This volume presents for the first time in English a curated selection of writings by the design thinker Gui Bonsiepe from the 1960s to the present...

2,700 stickers for every mood! Feeling all the feels? Express yourself! This EPIC collection of meaningful stickers helps you do just that. Each on...

The first standalone title on the BFTK imprint, As Celebration, As Critique, As Play pulls together selected writings by Ron Hunt across his varied...

Sabotage is the deliberate disruption of a dominant system, be it political, military or economic. Yet in recent decades, sabotage has also become ...

Architecture and urban planning have always been used by political regimes to stamp their ideologies upon cities, and this is especially the case i...

Moving beyond the dominant model of syncretism, this extensively illustrated volume proposes a completely different approach to the field known as ...

Die sehr reich bebilderte Publikation zur Sammlung des Bröhan-Museums, das 1973 von dem Sammler und Unternehmer Karl H. Bröhan (19212000) gegründet...

Global Cinema Studies in Landscape Allegory explores the narrative and stylistic approaches to imbuing natural settings in audiovisual media with a...

2023 marks fifty years of the She-Devil with a Swords adventures, and to honor the occasion Dynamite is going big! Join the celebration with this o...

A close-up history of the Yugoslav artists who broke down the boundaries between public and private   In the decades leading up to the dissolution...

The Casa del Deán in Puebla, Mexico, is one of few surviving sixteenth-century residences in the Americas. Built in 1580 by Tomás de la Plaza, the ...

Icons in Time, Persons in Eternity presents a critical, interdisciplinary examination of contemporary theological and philosophical studies of the ...

The impressive collection of 18th-century French paintings at the National Gallery, London, includes important works by Boucher, Chardin, David, Fr...