History of Art & Design Styles: from c 1900

Issue 42 of Afterall addresses the crisis of representation in contemporary art through the work of Pierre Huyghe and Tania Bruguera, reflecting on...

Alain Huck, born 1957, lives and works in francophone Switzerland. Following his degree in Fine Arts at the Ecole cantonale des beaux-arts Lausanne...

Colour and light as sensory stimulus and the phenomenon of light encountering surfaces are core elements of the work of artists Silvia Gertsch, bor...

A 336-page book presenting a vast collection of notebooks that have been decorated, hacked, sketched in and filled with notes, clippings and drawin...

Doris Stauffer, born 1934 in a small village in Switzerland, was educated as a photographer at Zurich School of Art and Design in the 1950s. Soon s...

In 2019 it will be the hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Bauhaus. Prompted by this occasion, with project bauhaus ARCH+ has undertaken a...

The first major monograph on Zhang Xiaogang (b. 1958), a leading Chinese contemporary artist, world-renowned for his haunting, surrealist works. Bo...

Cai Guo-Qiang, a Chinese artist known throughout the world for his exciting performances with fire, presents in this volume the works created in Na...

This is the most comprehensive monograph to-date on the innovative abstract site-related installations of German artist Katharina Grosse (b.1961). ...

An introduction to the feminist art movement: one of the most ambitious, influential and enduring artistic movements of the twentieth century. ...

This is the sixth volume in Lund Humphries series of monographs on British sculptor Anthony Caro and the first publication to focus on his use of s...

Etel Adnan (1925-2021) was a Lebanese-American poet, essayist and visual artist. This is the first book to present a full account of Adnans fascina...

The most comprehensive book yet on this inspired, inventive chronicler of the African-American experience Alabama-born, Chicago-based Kerry James M...

How do women paint or photograph each other? How do they represent each other in performance or sculpture? As mothers or heroines? With tenderness,...

Richard Stouts legacy as an artist is broad, deep, and firmly moored to his Texas Gulf Coast origins. Born in Beaumont in 1934, he has been paintin...

The work of this important sculptor, spokesperson, and teacher is seen from a variety of cultural perspectives in this book, which draws upon the a...

Since her debut in 1995, the Danish ceramist Gitte Jungersen (b. 1967) has gained much attention for her innovative work with ceramic glazes. She e...

The ultimate monograph on one of the most important artists of the twentieth century - a key figure in Arte Povera This book is the final, most com...

Since the 1990s, critics and curators have broadly accepted the notion that participatory art is the ultimate political art: that by encouraging an...

A fiercely honest and unvarnished autobiography from Ireland's most successful and controversial living artist. Making his name as a Pop artist in...

Founded in 1967, Stockwell Depot heralded the emergence of the London artists studio movement and gained international recognition as a centre for ...

The most comprehensive monograph in print on this provocative artist, who has helped to redefine contemporary art This thorough, multifaceted asses...

'Goldstruck: A Life Shaped by Jewellery' sets luxurious imagery of a lifetime's work alongside an honest and often comically autobiographical accou...

Drawn from an archive comprised of 1,500 separate pieces, including 600 original drawings, color Xeroxes, swatch references and inspiration materia...