History of Art & Design Styles: from c 1900

Royal women wield a unique, quiet kind of power. They use their clothing choices and their styling preferences to create a visual brand that is at ...

The history of Western art is saturated with images of the female body. Lynda Nead's The Female Nude was the first book to critically examine this ...

Horizontal together tells the story of 1960s art and queer culture in New York through the overlapping circles of Andy Warhol, underground filmmake...

Michael Allred stands out for his blend of spiritual and philosophical approaches with an art style reminiscent of 1960s era superhero comics, whic...

Raised in West Virginia, self-taught artist Carolyn Norris (b. 1948) moved as a young woman of twenty-one to Cleveland, Mississippi, a quintessenti...

Jesus, matadors, panthers, bandits, Indians, movie stars, waifs, and, of course, Elvis are recognized icons of the oft-despised, uber-kitsch art fo...

Expressions of Place embarks on a journey across the rural and urban landscapes of Louisiana via the talents of thirty-seven artists located all ar...

Together with his own artworks, contemporary artist Hew Locke uses the British Museums collection as a springboard to explore themes of colonialism...

A groundbreaking and richly illustrated account of the importance of Manets family to his artAll families are complicated, but the family of Édouar...

Horizontal together tells the story of 1960s art and queer culture in New York through the overlapping circles of Andy Warhol, underground filmmake...

Engendering an avant-garde is the first book to comprehensively examine the origins of Vancouver photo-conceptualism in its regional context betwee...

Jackson Pollock, the towering American artist who was to revolutionize twentieth-century art with his dripping painting technique, grew up between ...

Hans Hofmann (1880-1966) was a pivotal figure in Abstract Expressionism and stands as one of the most important characters of post-war American art...

Famed for his motto less is more, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (18861969) was one of the founding fathers of modern architecture and a hotly-debated ta...

This book highlights the intimate relationship between landscape and portraiture in the work of the Austrian Expressionist artist Egon Schiele (189...

A journey through all creative periodsHenri Matisse is one of the most celebrated artists of Modernism. His groundbreaking work had a significant i...

The debut monograph from renowned pixel artist Waneella, showcasing a decade of her distinctive pixelated landscape compositions. This compelling ...

In SoulStirrers, H. Ike Okafor-Newsum describes the birth and development of an artistic movement in Cincinnati, Ohio, identified with the Neo-Ance...

Five decades of Yaus diverse poetic collaborations with artists from Pat Steir to Richard Tuttle The poetry of Chinese American poet John Yau (bor...

Architectural, industrial, and graphic design in the United States from the 1950s through to the 1970s - generally known as mid-century modern - is...

For popular British artist Howard Hodgkin (b.1932), India has been a source of inspiration since he first visited the country in 1964. Although Hod...

A stunning and comprehensive exploration of the work of visual artist-activist Zanele Muholi. Born in South Africa in 1972, Zanele Muholi came to ...

One of the greatest collaborations of cinema history, L'Âge d'Or(1930) united the geniuses of Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali in the making of a Surr...

Migrating the Black Body explores how visual mediafrom painting to photography, from global independent cinema to Hollywood movies, from posters an...

This new edited volume of critical essays examines designs for modern living in Asia between 1945 and 1990. Focusing particularly on the post-World...

Per Fronth is one of Norways most distinctive contemporary artists, dynamically redefining the relationship between painting and photography in inf...

An extraordinary publication with new research and writing on world renowned Japanese multi-media artist, singer, songwriter and peace activist, Yo...

Out of My Great Sorrows is the story of Philadelphia artist Mary Zakarian, whose life and work were shaped by the experiences of her mother, a surv...

At its essence, Gigers art digs down into our psyches and touches our very deepest primal instincts and fears. His art stands in a category of its ...

From a Nation Torn provides a powerful critique of art history's understanding of French modernism and the historical circumstances that shaped its...

A career-spanning survey of the adored French artist whose conceptual works explore the tensions between the observed, the reported, the secret and...