History of Art & Design Styles: from c 1900

The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries have been characterised as the ''age of speed'' but they also witnessed a reanimation of still li...

One of the most influential choreographers of the twentieth century, Merce Cunningham is known for introducing chance to dance. Far too often, howe...

The book builds an original argument for the department store as a significant site of design production, and therefore offers an alternative inter...

An encounter with Gerhard Richter, the German artist who widened horizons in the relationship between painting and reality. From early photographic...

In the last five decades the popularity of outsider art - works by artists working outside of the art establishment - has grown exponentially. Muse...

The years between the Revolution of 1848 and the end of World War II were characterised by profound social, intellectual, and political change in F...

Delicious Metropolis brings together two of Wayne Thiebaud's most celebrated bodies of work: desserts and cityscapes. Between the two, fascinating ...

Immerse yourself in a world of abstract equilibrium with 57 tiles inspired by the Modernist master Piet Mondrian. Arrange the tiles to create table...

This is the story of women caught up in the tumultuous art scene of the early twentieth century, some famous and others lost to time. By 1910 the ...

The Art of Love tells the stories of the most fascinating couples of the art world - uncovering the passionate, challenging and loving relationship...

This dazzling book showcases the history of modern and contemporary art using one hundred of the most significant art works--one per year--of the p...

Featuring rarely and never-before-seen works from the collection of Picasso's wife and muse, Jacqueline, this book celebrates the sheer force of Pi...

In So Much Longing in So Little Space, Karl Ove Knausgaard explores the life and work of Edvard Munch. Setting out to understand the enduring power...

A multitude of colourful and naïve biblical and other religious pottery figures found their way into 19th century Victorian homes in Britain. They...

Olive Pink: Artist, Activist & Gardener presents a superb selection of original paintings of the iconic flowers of the Central Australian regio...

Pocket Frida Kahlo Wisdom is an inspiring collection of some of her best quotes on love, style, life, art and more, and celebrates the Mexican icon...

The First World War at once extends and marks a departure from established understandings of the literature and culture of the First World War. In ...

For the third edition of Graphic Design Stephen Eskilson has, with the aid of 540 new and existing images, updated key parts of the book. M...

The landscape of contemporary art has changed dramatically during the last hundred years. We have seen a painting of a single black square on a whi...

This book opens an exciting and extensive archive of fashion illustration by Francis Marshall (1901-1980), held at the Victoria and Albert Museum, ...

Aimed to fashion students and designers, Palette Perfect is both a practical guide and an inspirational book that proposes a reflection on the univ...

From painters and photographers to sculptors and performance artists, fifty of the most influential contemporary artists are profiled in this color...

Iconoclastic, generous, inventive, impulsive, sensitive, gregarious, prodigious: these are just some of the words to describe Robert Rauschenberg (...

Donald Judd remains an important artist, whose radical ideas and work continue to provoke and influence the fields of art, architecture, and design...

Ever since the 1910s Zurich Kunstgewerbemuseum, or Museum of Arts & Crafts - which was founded in 1875 and is known today as the Museum fur Ges...

It's been over a decade since New York City hosted a new Dale Chihuly exhibition. Featuring the artist's latest, dynamic glass sculptures on displa...

The paintings of Paul Feiler (1918-2013), the focus of this first survey of the artist's life and career, were inspired by the English landscape, p...

This monograph brings together pivotal sculptures by two of the most important American sculptors of the 20th Century, whose pioneering work with m...

This book explores the work of those artists who attempted to keep alive the expanded possibilities opened up by Cubism in Paris between 1911 and 1...

In 1957-58, after he moved to New York''s Lower East Side, Claes Oldenburg (b. 1929) began making collages he has described as mostly done in an...

Modern Art and St. Ives explores the art and artists associated with this seaside Cornwall town from 1915 to 1965. The authors investigate how the ...

Celebrate the epic journey of the LEGO® minifigure. Features an orange spaceman minifigure!Enter the world of minifigures with this fully updated e...

In January 2006 a man tried to break Marcel Duchamp's Fountain sculpture with a small hammer. The sculpted foot of Michelangelo's David was damaged...

A farmer's son from Cheshire, British artist Charles Frederick Tunnicliffe (1901-79) won a scholarship to the Royal College of Art in 1920. He went...

William Nicholson (18721949) is among the most admired and elusive painters in the history of British art. In the first four decades of the 20th ce...