History of Art & Design Styles: from c 1900

When it comes to viewing art, living in the information age is not necessarily a benefit. So argues Michael Findlay in this book that encourages a ...

The editors of the acclaimed Hi-Fructose Magazine present a stunning visual exploration of the intersection between the worlds of wearable art an...

Albert Oehlen has established himself as one of the leading figures in contemporary painting thanks to a continually evolving practice that focuses...

One of Singapore's most prominent artists, Georgette Chen forged an artistic vision that till today continues to enchant and inspire. Chen's remark...

Of all of the contemporary draftsmen, I admire you the most, wrote Alfred Kubin on November 25, 1912, in a letter to Lyonel Feininger. After the tw...

In 1967, sex between consenting men in England and Wales was finally decriminalised - an entire century after the death penalty was abolished for s...

Ambiguous work. Where can we start?, wrote the art historian Oscar Schürer in the historic series Junge Kunst about Pablo Picassos multi - facete...

After flirtations with Realism, Impressionism, and Symbolism, Kiev-born Kazimir Malevich (18781935) found his métier in dissolving literal, represe...

Recruitment, propaganda, rationing, fundraising - during the First World War posters were used to inform and rally the public as never before. Ma...

A key figure in the international avant-garde, Piet Mondrian (18721944) was at once an extraordinary painter and leading art theoretician whose inf...

After Egon Schiele (1890-1918) freed himself from the shadow of his mentor and role model Gustav Klimt, he had just ten years to inscribe his signa...

The artistic stagnation of Vienna at the end of the 19th century was rudely shaken by the artists of the Vienna Secession. Their work shocked a con...

Gwen John was an artist with a singular vision, one whose intense gaze produced some of the most beguiling and atmospheric paintings of the late ni...

Revolution: Russian Art, 1917-1932 encapsulates a momentous period in Russian history that is vividly expressed in the diversity of art produced be...

During the Second World War, I worked in an empty building by the Thames. It had been used by the Thames Conservancy Board. When war came, they mov...

In the first half of the 20th century, thousands of newcomersEastern European émigrés, Mexican immigrants, and Southerners both black and whitefloc...

This fiery and influential book, available for the first time in English, presents an Italian Futurist's radical ideas about art and architecture ...

A penetrating inquiry into the motives, moral dilemmas, and compromises of Walter Gropius, Emil Nolde, and other celebrated artists who chose to re...

This publication is the first of four volumes in the catalogue raisonné of Francis Picabia (18791953), one of the most significant, challenging art...

When R.S. Thomas died in 2000, two seminal studies of modern art were found on his bookshelves - Herbert Read's Art Now (1933) and Surrealism (1936...

Allen W. Seaby's life has been described as a classic tale of Victorian self-improvement. But there is more to the tale than just upward mobility. ...

Among his many captivating exploits, the French artist Yves Klein (1928 - 1962) invented his own brand of colour: the inimitable International Klei...

This generously illustrated volume examines Hammershoi's work as a whole and in relation to the artists of his generation. Hammershoi's enigmatic p...

One of the most recognizable artists of his era, Amedeo Modigliani is also perhaps one of the least understood. In this thorough, yet refreshingly ...

With his Boîte-en-valise, or Museum in a Box, Duchamp embarked on one of his more ambitious projects: a portable museum of miniature replicas and f...

Exploring the ways in which painting, applied design and illustration intertwined over the course of the accomplished career of Paul Nash (1889-194...

With this book, Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen brings a new formal and conceptual rubric to the study of turn-of-the-century modernism, transforming our...

Despite being one of the foremost American intellectuals of the mid-twentieth century, Harold Rosenberg (19061978) was utterly incapable of fitting...

In 1921/22 Édouard Vuillard created a cycle of six paintings for the entrance hall of the Villa Bauer in Basel. Four large-format pictures show exh...

The radical changes wrought by the rise of the salon system in nineteenth-century Europe provoked an interesting response from painters in the Amer...

Les collections d'œuvres d'art racontent des histoires qui reflètent les intérêts du collectionneur et de son époque. Chefs-d'œuvre de la Galerie d...

Joan Eardley (1921-1963) is one of Scotland's most admired artists. During a career that lasted barely fifteen years, she concentrated on two very ...

Radical Women tells an original story of British modernism from the perspective of Jessica Dismorr's career, along with the women artists - some fa...

Encountering the work of Alan Davie (1920-2014) at Wakefield Art Gallery in 1958, a young David Hockney (b.1937) was struck by Davie's landmark Abs...

Minimalism: Space, Light and Object is an expansive global survey of the movements influential language of reductive forms, from its Abstract Expre...

Stanley Spencer (1891-1959) explored fundamental issues of life with an urgency and persistence unique among British artists of his generation. His...

An insightful look at the dynamic relationship between modern art and modern urban life in 1920s Paris through the lens of Fernand Leger''s masterp...

Majestic and magical landscapes, the soft beauty of fields of flowers, the raw cold of winter: the works of Harald Sohlberg combine a Romantic pe...

The Art of Fine Gifts: Twentieth-century painter, designer and wood engraver Eric Ravilious was responsible for a fascinating range of different wo...

Paul Nash (1889-1946) created an individual pathway through English art in the first half of the 20th century, shaping a body of work that recognis...

This book highlights sport as one of the key inspirations for an international range of modernist artists. Sport emerged as a corollary of the indu...

This newly expanded book on Louis Icart - one of France's most well known art deco artists - now includes a section on his oil paintings, as well a...