History of Art & Design Styles: from c 1900

Hungarian-born French artist Nicolas Schöffer (19121992), though relatively unknown today, was during his lifetime a significant presence in the ar...

Marking an important moment in the Art Institute of Chicagos 136-year history, this book documents an exceptional gift to the museum: the Edlis/Nee...

Russian-born conceptual artists Ilya and Emilia Kabakov are among the most celebrated artists of their generation. Known for their pioneering large...

Describing drawing as her primary activity, for over thirty years Roni Horn (b. 1955) has created innovative and experimental works on paper marked...

Doris Salcedo, a Colombian-born artist, addresses the politics of memory and forgetting in work that embraces fraught situations in dangerous place...

A landmark survey of Sol LeWitts printmaking practice   The conceptual artist Sol LeWitt (19282007) is best known for his programmatic wall drawing...

South African artist William Kentridge (b. 1955) has become famous for his time-lapse animation movies and installations, as well as his activities...

Rachel Whiteread has single-handedly expanded the parameters of contemporary sculpture with her casts of the outer and inner spaces of familiar obj...

The work of Martha Rosler is perennially incisive, provocative, political, and timely, exploring a range of issues from everyday life and the media...

This bilingual publication offers an unprecedented exploration of the work of Belgian poet and artist Sophie Podolski (1953-1974), who has lingered...

This beautifully illustrated book documents Picketts Charge, an ambitious and timely project by renowned artist Mark Bradford. Eight new paintings ...

Pollock''s Modernism provides a new interpretation of the art of Jackson Pollock (1912-1956), one that is based on a phenomenological investigation...

From his abstract sculptures and collage to furniture and largescale works, the character of Franz West''s work is unrestrainedly irreverent, and y...

Soul of a Nation shines a bright light on the vital contribution of Black artists to a dramatic period in American art and history. In the period...

Since 1960, progressive forces within art education have stoked, and continued to fire, new impulses in the field of artistic production. As societ...

Born in Cotonou, Benin in 1961, Meschac Gaba moved to the Netherlands in 1996 to take up a residency at the Rijksakademie. It was there that he con...

Since its launch in 1999, Afterall, a journal of art, context, and inquiry, has offered in-depth considerations of the work of contemporary artists...

Lucian Freud (1922 - 2011) was one of the most influential artists of his generation. Hailed as the 'greatest living realist painter', Freud's comm...

Widely considered to be one of the most significant cultural figures of his generation in China and internationally, Ai Weiwei successfully occupie...

Born in New York in 1975, Taryn Simon is at the forefront of contemporary photography practice. Her artistic medium is based around three equal ele...

Ben Nicholson (1894-1982) was one of the greatest British artists of the twentieth century, first coming to international prominence with his famou...

Afterall is a journal of art, context, and inquiry that offers in-depth consideration of the work of contemporary artists from around the world, a...

This book explores how installation art developed into an interdisciplinary genre in the 1960s, and how its special intertwinement of the visual an...

The Swiss artist Otto Künzli has revolutionised modern art jewellery. In the 45-odd years in which he has been addressing the topic of jewellery, K...

An essential appraisal of Ellen Gallagher, one of the most important American artists working today. Born in 1965 in Providence, Rhode Island, El...

Whether its Georg Baselitz or Olafur Eliasson, Tacita Dean or Martin Kippenberger: these are the greats who have frequented Niels Borch Jensens pri...

Global biennials have proliferated in the contemporary art world, but artists' engagement with large-scale international exhibitions has a much lon...

The recent Bollywood craze in the West might get more exposure, but contemporary Indian artists aren''t far behind. New Delhi, New Wave is the best...

Scholarly considerations of Andy Warhol abound, including very fine catalogues raisonne, notable biographies, and essays in various exhibition cata...

Considered the first Chinese artist to work in video, Zhang Peili (b. 1957) manipulates perspective, close-ups, and framing to create astonishing r...

An essential new look at the Italian architect, writer, and designer whose work paved the way for the postmodern movement This crucial reassessment...

This handsome book peers into Troubleyn/Laboratorium, the workspace, collective art space, and creative incubator of Belgian multidisciplinary arti...

For more than thirty-five years, Antony Gormley has sought to explore the relationship of the human body to space and to reinvigorate and test the ...