History of Art & Design Styles: from c 1900

Published to accompany the first Francis Bacon retrospective in Paris for twenty years, this catalogue analyses Bacons works from 1971 onwards in l...

An authoritative, richly illustrated history of six centuries of global protest artThroughout history, artists and citizens have turned to protest ...

Michel Buffet is known as a pioneer in the mid-century industrial design movement in France. His work embodies the aesthetics of the ''Thirty Glori...

From imperial Russia to the Rome of the 1960s, the work of architect, painter and scenographer André Beloborodoff (1886-1965) expresses his unique ...

With his pictures, Günter Fruhtrunk (1923-1982) created an autonomous, uncompromising oeuvre that made him one of the outstanding representatives o...

Many of the works of Gego (1912-1994) can be turned around, walked around or walked through, so that their composition seems to be constantly chang...

Gothic effigy brings together for the first time the multifarious visual motifs and media associated with Gothic, many of which have never received...

Evocative and often highly erotic works on paper by Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, and Pablo Picasso are presented along with new details about Scofie...

An original and valuable intervention in the fast-growing field of feminist and new art histories, Nancy Spero, Encounters offers a sophisticated i...

For nearly sixty years, Richard Artschwager (b. 1923) has undertaken an unrelenting investigation of art's ability to mediate contemporary experien...

In 1950, photographer Gisèle Freund embarked on a two-week trip to Mexico, but she wouldnt leave until two years later. There she met the legendary...

Few artistic moments are as instantly recognisable as Pablo Picasso''''s Blue Period, and from it La Vie (Life) has emerged as the culminating mast...

Widely considered one of the most important artists of the twentieth century, Alexander Calder revolutionised modern sculpture - most significantly...

The work of Alex Colville, O.C. (1920-2013), one of the great modern realist painters, combines the Flemish detail of Andrew Wyeth, the eerie foreb...

How are love and emotion embodied in material form? Love Objects explores the emotional potency of things, addressing how objects can function as...

This beautiful and authoritative book brings together a number of exceptional works of art whose audacity disrupted the course of art history at th...

In Lone Star Steeples: Historic Places of Worship in Texas, Carl J. Christensen Jr. and Pixie Christensen present sixty-fivecaptivating and histori...

The first comprehensive study of Picasso''s mastery of line drawing and its centrality to his artistic process This beautiful new study provides an...

Practically every major artistic figure of the mid-twentieth century spent some time at Black Mountain College: Harry Callahan, Merce Cunningham, W...

A beautifully illustrated account of the Impressionist experiment in the United Statesshowing how the French style was put to distinctly American u...

Considered to be the founder of video art, Nam June Paik (1932- 2006) was a visionary artist who foresaw the importance of mass media and new techn...

With some 280 colour illustrations, Introduction to Modern Design takes us on a visual survey of design from the Industrial Revolution of the eight...

Born in British Guiana in 1936, Frank Bowling arrived in Britain in his late teens, going on to study paiting at the the Royal College of Art in th...

The Belgian surrealist artist René Magritte redefined the way we think about art. Famous for his men in bowler hats, Magrittes witty and provocativ...

A focused investigation of Whistlers watercolors that introduces readers to a rarely seen aspect of the artists creative output In the 1880s, James...

From Montana award-winning author Jill Trevelyan comes the first biography of Peter McLeavey, the charismatic, pioneering art dealer who since the ...

An engaging exploration of the relationship between avant-garde art and American network television from the 1940s through the 1970s The aesthetics...

The first biography of America's greatest twentieth-century sculptor. In this beautifully written, deeply researched book Jed Perl shows how Alexan...

Philip de László (18691937) was born into a humble Hungarian family in Budapest and rose to become the preeminent portrait artist working in Britai...

An insightful study of the progressive politics animating a great work of modernist mural painting In 1936 the Works Progress Administration''s Fed...

This is the definitive account of the life and work of Edward Seago (1910-1974), the highly popular, versatile and talented British painter whose w...

A beautiful celebration of six decades of work by Edgar Degas, published in the centennial year of the artists death Edgar Degass (18341917) relent...

From 1921 until 1948, Paul J. Sachs (1878-1965) offered a yearlong program in art museum training, Museum Work and Museum Problems, through Harvard...

Barbara Hepworth: The Sculptor in the Studio is the first study devoted to Hepworth's St Ives studio in which the centrality of Trewyn Studio and g...

Born into slavery around 1853-4 on a cotton plantation in Benton, Alabama, Traylor has become one of the most important self-taught artists of the ...

A fascinating life of Sergei Shchukin, the great collector who changed the face of Russia''s art world Sergei Shchukin was a highly successful text...

Man Ray (1890-1976), a pioneer of the Dada movement and a central protagonist of surrealism, is best known for his innovative photographs, but his ...

Canadian-born Agnes Martin was one of the pre-eminent painters of the second half of the twentieth century, whose work has had a significant influe...

First opened in 2000, Tate Modern is acclaimed worldwide as the pre-eminent gallery of modern and contemporary art. This book is published to accom...

This is the third of three text books, published in association with the Open University, which offer an innovatory exploration of art and visual c...

'Art is not a luxury. Art is a basic social need to which everyone has a right'.This extraordinary collection of 100 artists' manifestos from acros...

In 1925 the artists Edward Bawden and Eric Ravilious moved to the Essex village of Great Bardfield, at first sharing lodgings. Over the course of s...

The catalogue raisonné of the works on paper by Lucio Fontana (Rosario de Santa Fe, 1899 Varese, 1968) is one the most complete and cutting-edge p...