History of Art & Design Styles: from c 1900

Philip Gustons legendary, prescient political satire of Richard Nixon In the summer of 1971two years before the Watergate hearingsRichard Nixon wa...

How leading American artists reflected on the fate of humanity in the nuclear era through monumental sculptureIn the wake of the atomic bombings of...

The spiritually inspired pictures of Agnes Pelton (18811961) have their roots in the desert of California, a place where the artist settled in 1932...

A series of personal and historical encounters with surrealism from one of its foremost practitioners in the United States.Penelope Rosemont has gi...

Heres another book about Frida Kahlo, and this one doesnt feature even a single original painting. What it does contain are encounters with her cur...

The most comprehensive overview of the art of Bruce Nauman

Connecting New England''s historical spiritualist and utopian traditions-from Brook Farm to Harvard''s LSD research-to work by contemporary artists...

Ithell Colquhoun (19061988) was a force of nature; a prolific artist, essayist, novelist, and poet whose overriding concerns were with spiritual tr...

Featured in the Guggenheims 2015 landmark Photo-Poetics exhibition, New Yorkbased artist Leslie Hewitt (born 1977) is one of the most revered artis...

Art is theft, Picasso once proclaimed, and much of the best and most original new art involves an act or two of unequivocal, overt theft.  Parado...

When is a urinal no longer a urinal? When Marcel Duchamp (18871968) declared it to be art. The uproar that greeted the French artists Fountain (191...

One of the most prolific and exuberant painters of the past three decades, Lari Pittman creates works that mirror the social fabric of his time. Th...

In recent years Eric Ravilious has become recognized as one of the most important British artists of the 20th century, whose watercolours and wood ...

One of the most wide-ranging and ambitious creative minds of his generation, Icelandic-Danish artist Olafur Eliasson has produced a dizzying spectr...

Elegant sailing ships, expansive seascapes, crystal - clear spread - out views of architecture with his unique pictorial language and range of sub...