History of Art & Design Styles: from c 1900

With Salvador Dalí as its figurehead, the great ship of Surrealism traversed the turbulent seas of the early 20th century with sails billowing with...

In a fleeting 14-year period between two world wars, Germanys Bauhaus school of art and design changed the face of modernity. With utopian ideas fo...

The Case Study House program (19451966) was a unique event in the history of American architecture. Sponsored by Arts & Architecture magazine, ...

With Salvador Dalí as its figurehead, the great ship of Surrealism traversed the turbulent seas of the early 20th century with sails billowing with...

A hairless, ghostly figure on a bridge. The sky orange-red above him. His hands raised to his ears, his mouth wide in a haunting wail. In painting ...

The creator of the ubiquitous Knoll Tulip chairs and tables, Eero Saarinen (19101961) was one of the 20th centurys most prominent space shapers, me...

This fully illustrated catalogue, with essays by leading and emerging scholars in the field of Picasso studies, tells the remarkable story of Pablo...

Georgia OKeeffe (18871986) was a major figure in modern American art for some seven decades. Importantly, her fame was not associated with shifting...

With motion and machines as its most treasured tropes, Futurism was founded in 1909 by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, along with painters Giacomo Balla...

Lucian Freud (19222011) was interested in the telling of truths. Always operating outside the main currents of 20th-century art, the esteemed portr...

Emerging amid the brutality of World War I, the revolutionary Dada movement took disgust with the establishment as its starting point. From 1916 un...

With motion and machines as its most treasured tropes, Futurism was founded in 1909 by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, along with painters Giacomo Balla...

In the latter half of the 19th century, in the verdant countryside near Aix-en-Provence, Paul Cézanne (18391906), busily plied his brush to landsca...

With motion and machines as its most treasured tropes, Futurism was founded in 1909 by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, along with painters Giacomo Balla...

With Salvador Dalí as its figurehead, the great ship of Surrealism traversed the turbulent seas of the early 20th century with sails billowing with...

The Case Study House program (19451966) was a unique event in the history of American architecture. Sponsored by Arts & Architecture magazine, ...

This book highlights a theme that preoccupied Francis Bacon throughout his career: the relationship between two people, both physical and psycholog...