History of Art & Design Styles: from c 1900

On December 13, 1933, the Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg left its home in Hamburg and went into exile in London, salvaging the books an...

This groundbreaking book examines how the notion of “the object” was transformed in Japanese experimental art during a time of rapid social, econom...

Described in the New York Times as the greatest art historian America ever produced, Meyer Schapiro was both a close friend to many of the famous a...

Some of the most breathtaking art in America lies behind doors that few ever open. One such masterpiece is The Prophetic Quest, a series of ten mon...

Surrealism is widely thought of as an artistic movement that flourished in Europe between the two world wars. However, during the 1960s, ’70s, and ...

Described in the New York Times as the greatest art historian America ever produced, Meyer Schapiro was both a close friend to many of the famous a...

In feministisch geprägten Kunstproduktionen der 1980er Jahre erfolgte in den USA eine intensive Auseinandersetzung mit Sexualitätsentwürfen und Ges...

Jack Levine, George Segal, Audrey Flack, Larry Rivers, and R. B. Kitaj have long been considered central artists in the canon of twentieth-century ...

The “biennale culture” now determines much of the art world. Literature on the worldwide dissemination of art assumes nationalism and ethnic identi...

100 years after the Dada soirées rocked the art world, the author investigates the role that music played in the movement. Dada is generally though...

Projected-image art occupies an increasingly important place in the contemporary art-world. But does the projected image have its own specificity, ...

Each of the five volumes in the Stone Art Theory Institutes series, and the seminars on which they are based, brings together a range of scholars w...

Performance in the Museum charts the main stages of the inclusion of performance in the museum from the 1960s to the present day, offering a though...