History of Art & Design Styles: from c 1900

Sean Scully is among the greatest abstract painters of our age. He is also one of the most outspoken. Since the late 1960s, Scullys visual expressi...

Bill Beckley is an American conceptual artist and one of the first artists to use photography as a means of artistic expression. In the early 1970s...

Available for the first time in paperback, this is a revised and updated edition of Jens Hoffmanns survey of groundbreaking exhibitions since 1989 ...

What were Montmartre and Montparnasse really like in their hey-day, roughly between 1904, when the youthful Picasso had just arrived on the Hill of...

The Decision Between Us combines an inventive reading of Jean-Luc Nancy with queer theoretical concerns to argue that while scenes of intimacy are ...

Art is not political action. Art is not education. Art does not exist to make society stronger, or the world a better place. Art disrupts and resis...

At the height of the Cold War, art produced in divided Germany contested the cultural demarcation of East and West. Here Claudia Mesch shows how a ...

A hall of art surrounded by nature, supported by 121 individually designed pillars created by famous artists from all over the world: Bernd Zimmer ...

A plain speaking, jargon-free account of contemporary art that identifies key themes and approaches, providing the reader with a clear understandin...

My art is a self-confession in it I seek to clarify my relationship with the world. But at the same time I have always thought and felt that my ar...

In reaction to the widespread pursuit of Abstract Expressionism in the late 1940s and early 1950s, Paul Wonner and William Theophilus Brown were am...

Themes of memory, love, economic inequality, and political upheaval are threaded throughout de Andrades work, which is often situated in Recife, hi...

and essays on Austin Osman Spare by Phil Baker, on Stephen Tennant by Philip Hoare and on Voodoo in Coastal Benin by Dr. Louise Fenton. Stephen...

What do we mean when we claim affinity with an object or picture, or say affinities exist between such things? Affinities is a critical and persona...

Phenomenal Difference grants new attention to contemporary black British art, exploring its critical and social significance through attention to e...