History of Art & Design Styles: c 1800 to c 1900

Known as the Audubon of Botany, Philadelphia, Quaker Mary Morris Vaux Walcott (18601940) was a gifted artist whose stunning watercolors comprise a ...

Few American artists have captured painters imaginations with the gripping force of Albert Pinkham Ryder (1847-1917). The brooding spirituality of...

He was one of the last great court artists and at the same time a significant trailblazer for modern art: Francisco de Goya. The Fondation Beyeler ...

Once considered an outsider artist, after her show at the Guggenheim Museum was seen by more than half-a-mil-lion visitors, Hilma af Klint firmly e...

Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland is a cultural phenomenon. First published in 1865, it has never been out of print and has been translated into ...

The notion of a person--or even an object--having a double has been explored in the visual arts for ages, and in myriad ways: portraying the bod...

This unique and meticulously researched book will delight both Yes fans and students of the 1960s music scene. It is essential reading for all love...

Published to coincide with the first UK exhibition of these masterworks at The Wallace Collection, Forgotten Masters celebrates the work of a serie...

Munch was Norway''s greatest artist and one of the founders of the Expressionist movement. He first made a name for himself as a painter, and thoug...

The industrial and agricultural revolutions transformed the face of Britain. Fiery blast furnaces, pit-head steam engines and fuming lime-kilns sca...

Walter Potter (1835-1918), a country taxidermist of no great expertise, became famous as an icon of Victorian whimsy. His tiny museum in Bramber, ...

An engaging look at how the middle classes of fin-de-siècleVienna used innovative portraiture to define their identity During the great flourishing...

The Short Story of Modern Art explains the how, why and when of modern art who introduced certain things, what they were, where they were produced...

The late nineteenth century saw a re-examination of artistic creativity in response to questions surrounding the relation between human beings and ...

A century after his death, Viennese artist Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) still startles with his unabashed eroticism, dazzling surfaces, and artistic ex...

This is volume 2: E-K, of a four-volume set. The complete four-volume set presents the careers of 320 women artists working in California, with mor...

Visual Art and the Urban Evolution of the New South recounts the enormous influence of artists in the evolution of six southern cities - Atlanta, C...

Every work of art has a story behind it. In 1886 the German American artist Robert Koehler painted a dramatic wide-angle depiction of an imagined c...

Over the course of the long nineteenth century, Civilisation was the subject of some of the most prominent public mural paintings and sculptures in...

This is volume 4: S-Z, of a four-volume set. The complete four-volume set presents the careers of 320 women artists working in California, with mor...