Art History

Gerhard Richters oeuvre embraces in excess of three thousand individual works. Over a period of five decades he has created a stylistically heterog...

A style of his own: The colorful work of a truly avant-garde painterIn the course of his short life, German painter August Macke (1887--1914) combi...

The painful, exquisite art of Mexicos favourite artist was a product of immense physical pain, and an emotional tumultuous life. The new book featu...

In 1954, following her death, Frida Kahlo's possessions were locked away in the Casa Azul in Mexico City, her lifelong home. Half a century later, ...

Painter and illustrator Edward Bawdens five scrapbooks, assembled over a period of more than 55 years, contain everything from stamps, photographs,...

The title, Violent Grace, suggests a paradox. This pairing has become an unexpected gateway into the astonishingly varied and prolific artistic car...

In the second edition of Sacred Passion, biographer Gregory Wolfe chronicles the artistic career of William Schickel (1919-2009) in the years since...

Arranged alphabetically, this biographical encyclopedia features every major photographer of the 20th century alongside her or his most significant...

The catalogue raisonné of the works on paper by Lucio Fontana (Rosario de Santa Fe, 1899 Varese, 1968) is one the most complete and cutting-edge p...

A groundbreaking reassessment of the reinvention of portraiture in America between 1945 and 1975 - the period when the abstract expressionists reac...

Nestled in a leafy, residential section of Los Angeles is the house where Tom of Finland (Touko Laaksonen, 1920-1991) lived and worked during the l...

Richly illustrated with images of her art and views of the two homes she designed and furnished in New Mexico, the book also includes never before ...

Harley Crossley was a professional artist for over forty years. Painting in oils using knives, the range of his work included landscapes, ships, ca...

This book traces Schiele''s development as a portraitist through four principal chronological phases, from 1906 to 1918. Starting with the artist''...

This new, fully illustrated catalogue on the celebrated progenitor of video art, Nam June Paik (19322006), brings together a host of scholars, arti...

As beautiful and rigorous as an Escher work itself, this book is the classic study of a great maverick who so memorably linked the world of imagema...

At Fair Park in Dallas, a sculpture of a Native American figure, bronze with gilded gold leaf, strains a bow before sending an arrow into flight. T...

Hijikita: Revolt of the Body examines the life and work of Tatsumi Hijikata (1928-86), who invented a revolutionary performance art and dance known...