History of Art & Design Styles: from c 1900

Henri Matisse (1869 - 1954) is one of the leading figures of modern art. His unparalleled cut-outs are among the most significant of any artist''''...

In interpreting its own age art often turns to the past. At the beginning of the twentieth century one of these encounters between present and p...

J.P. Bryan, whose monumental collection of Texas art is the source of this traveling exhibition, determined that he would collect only those artist...

This book is dedicated to the great Georgian modern artist David Kakabadze (1889-1952). This book compares the importance of David Kakabadze''''s c...

Paul Klee's angels are as precious artworks as gentle companions - here almost 50 images of his angels are gathered in a wonderful gift book.Paul K...

Poised at the start of the 21st century, we can see clearly that the previous century was marked by momentous changes in the field of design. Aesth...

Camouflage has been linked with military and natural history contexts, but growing interest in the connections with areas such as ecology, evolutio...

I love this book! Brilliant biography of theutterly fascinating artist Isabel Rawsthorne Jennifer Higgie Every page is gripping, fascinating, for...

Riffs and Relations: African-American Artists and the European Modernist Tradition presents works by African-American artists of the twentieth and ...

The Chinati Foundation is one of the worlds most prominent institutions of contemporary art. The foundation was founded by the American artist Dona...

This new edition of Bob Brown''s groundbreaking collection of modernist writing experiments has been out of print since 1931, when Brown''s Roving ...

Lorenzo Monaco's striking fifteenth-century portrayal of the stigmatisation of St. Francis was once owned by the art collector Otto Lanz. What prom...

Celebrated the world over for its impressionist masterpieces, the Orsay museum keeps thousands of paintings, sculptures and decorative art from the...

Claude Monet''s extensive work is revealed in numerous images. He was a painter who like no other moved perception to the center of his artistic ac...

Among the women artists who came to prominence in the postwar era in New York, painter Nell Blaine had a uniquely hard-won career. In her mid-thirt...

An insightful overview of how Millet influenced and inspired many modernist artists that followed him Jean-François Millet (18141875) was one of th...

The art of Makoto Azuma uses flowers and plants as its starting point, but juxtaposes their timeless yet transient beauty with an incredibly divers...

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...