History of Art & Design Styles: from c 1900

Roni Horns To Place series is about the connections between identity and location. Haraldsdóttir, Part Two, is the tenth volume in this series. It ...

The encounter between art and fashion has been a rapidly growing phenomenon over the last decade, with major international artists working with top...

What is behind the tidal wave of street art that is sweeping through the cultural scene today? What are its artistic features, its codes, and its l...

TADA's Revolution is a playful, visual journey into the fantastical and imaginative miniature worlds of Los Angeles-based artist, Susan Chi. Chroni...

What is a true 1950s look, as opposed to a 1930s or 1940s look? This book aims to address that question by thoroughly surveying the development of ...

Over a career that now spans nearly seven decades, the American painter Alex Katz (b. 1927, New York) has devoted himself to the representation of ...

What does it mean, not only to be an artist, but to become one? What does the quest for the personal artistic language consist of? The life and art...

Ronnie Wood is one of the foremost rock guitarists in the world, but his artistic talents extend beyond music. Throughout his stellar musical caree...

Words become imageswriting, drawings, designs. For around twenty years Stefan Marx has been studying script. Lines of songs, sayings, sentences, an...

Park Seo-Bo was born in 1931, in Yecheon, Gyeo-ngbuk, South Korea, as part of a generation that was deeply affected by the Korean War (1950 1953). ...

With his graphic style, figural distortion, and defiance of conventional standards of beauty, Egon Schiele (18901918) was a pioneer of Austrian Exp...

Consider for a moment the history of modern art in Britain; you may struggle to land on a narrative that features very many women. On this journey ...

An overview of the life and work of much-loved childrens illustrator and author Judith Kerr, creator of classics such as The Tiger Who Came to Tea,...

A group of primarily Scottish artists (mainly William York Macgregor, Joseph Crawhall, George Henry, Edward Atkinson Hornel, Sir John Lavery and Ar...

This first comprehensive survey of the life and work of Luigi Lucioni (1900 1988) places him in the context of fellow Regionalist painters Grant Wo...

In addition to her accomplishments as a gifted musician and songwriter, Norma Tanega was a noted gallerist, teacher, and a central figure in the vi...

In the mid-1950s, Yves Klein (19281962) declared that a new world calls for a new man. With his idiosyncratic style and huge charisma, this bold ar...

Idol Structures accompanies an exhibition at the DePaul Art Museum of recent photographs and sculptures by Chicago-based artist Matt Siber, whose w...

Nobody doubts that the contemporary art of Turkey has arrived on the international stage: Hale Tengers work has been bought by the Pompidou Centre;...

In 1936, an American ornithologist named James Bond published the definitive taxonomy Birds of the West Indies. Ian Fleming, an active bird-watcher...

Ever since electricity became ubiquitous artists have been fascinated by the manifold possibilities to create works with it. The catalogue Kinetism...

Painter, draftsman and engraver, Pierre Lesieur (1922-2011) was one of the most influential French artists of the second half of the 20th century. ...

Ilya Kabakov (*1933) is one of the former Soviet Union''s most important and influential international artists today. After the two-volume catalogu...