History of Art & Design Styles: from c 1900

New Zealand-born Frances Hodgkins (1869-1947) arrived in London in 1901 and, by the 1920s, had become a leading British modernist, exhibiting frequ...

Auguste Rodin is still justifiably recognized today as not only one of the greatest sculptors of all time, but also the father of modern sculpture....

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 ...

Japanese Sumi-e brush painting combines the techniques of calligraphy and ink painting to produce compositions of rare beauty.This art has its root...

50 Contemporary Artists is my response to publishers, critics and curators who systematically regurgitate the same list of contemporary artists eve...

Adolf Loos (18701933) was a flamboyant character whose presence in the cultural hotbed of early 1900s Vienna galvanized the countrys architectural ...

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

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (18801938) is regarded as one of the key figures in 20th-century European art. A Modernist to his bones, he sent seismic wave...

With his geometric structures perched upon the hillsides, beaches, and deserts of California, John Lautner (19111994) was behind some of the most s...

More than any other decade, the Sixties captures our collective cultural imagination. And while many Americans can immediately imagine the sound of...

This outstanding monography of Viktor Freso brings a fresh and non-conformist view of the artwork of contemporary Slovak multimedia artist who is b...

Art History, but not as we know it. Smart, sharp and witty, The History of Art in 100 Limericks gives a unique twist to Art History, summing up the...

The award-winning, highly acclaimed Artificial Hells is the first historical and theoretical overview of socially engaged participatory art, known ...

A Sunday Times Art Book of the Year: a major study of Black figurative art from Africa and the African diaspora, covering 100 years from the early ...

*One of The Times Best Art Books of the Year*'Looking to Sea is a remarkable and compelling book... I loved it.' Edmund de Waal'In her first, tran...

For nearly two decades, Jose Pepe Gonzalez was hailed as the premierVampirella artist, drawing the fiery vixen for Warren Publishing in theSeventi...

Record of Agarest War is an epic, multi-generational RPG where yourdecisions affect the power of future generations of heroes. Record of AgarestWa...

Showcasing the grim and chilling artwork behind the fan-favorite DarkSouls game in a gorgeous hardcover collection, Dark Souls: DesignWorks feature...