History of Art & Design Styles: from c 1900

This is the first sustained phenomenological approach to modern art, taking a new approach and drawing upon an unusual selection of thinkers. As a ...

The Making of the Modern Indian Artist-Craftsman is intended to be a biographical and critical insight into the work of the potter, painter and pho...

With more than 280 entries, this architectural AZ, now part of our Bibliotheca Universalis series, offers an indispensable overview of the key play...

The notion of a person--or even an object--having a double has been explored in the visual arts for ages, and in myriad ways: portraying the bod...

The books will showcase the best paintings and sculptures of the period and present rarely seen gems from provincial museums and museums of former ...

The books will showcase the best paintings and sculptures of the period and present rarely seen gems from provincial museums and museums of former ...

Four books - Landscapes, Still Lifes, Nudes and Portraits - are opening a new series called Art of the Soviet Union. This set will examine differe...

The books will showcase the best paintings and sculptures of the period and present rarely seen gems from provincial museums and museums of former ...

This comprehensive survey of the career of Edward Bawden (1903-89) accompanies a major exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery and brings together hi...

This new resource assembles 129 Black artists and their magnificent works, highlighting their important contributions to art worldwide. Beginning w...

Sunday Times Art Book of the Year 2018''If you are interested in modern British art, the book is unputdownable. If you are not, read it.'' - Grey G...

A highly-illustrated monograph on the life and work of Arthur Singer, an American wildlife artist specializing in birds. His work in reference book...

Harry Graf Kessler's (1868-1937) impact on the visual arts of his time can hardly be overestimated. Auguste Rodin, Henry van de Velde, Aristide Mai...

This book rediscovers an important contribution to a popular field of graphicdesign and suggests that Ismar David's calligraphicbookjacketspresent ...

This publication gathers more than 120 works by American abstract painter Frederic Matys Thursz (1930-1992), most of which are reproduced for the f...

Jose Clemente Orozco's 1930 mural, Prometheus, created for the Pomona College campus, is a dramatic and gripping examination of heroism. This thou...

A style of his own: The colorful work of a truly avant-garde painterIn the course of his short life, German painter August Macke (1887--1914) combi...

Phenomenal Difference grants new attention to contemporary black British art, exploring its critical and social significance through attention to e...

'Rich and funny' Julian Barnes, Guardian 'Poirier's hugely enjoyable, quick-witted and richly anecdotal book is magnifique' The Times A captivati...

The Short Story of Modern Art explains the how, why and when of modern art who introduced certain things, what they were, where they were produced...

The Books That Shaped Art History provides an invaluable roadmap of the field by reassessing the impact of the most important texts of art history ...

Georgia O''Keeffe is one of the most significant and intriguing artists of the twentieth century, known internationally for her boldly innovative a...

The book Art Forms in Nature is a collection of prints, made by the scientist Ernst Haeckel, of an enormous variety of flora and fauna from the sea...

The brilliant mid-century modern artist, Harry Bertoia (19151978), left a rich legacy of art and design, each with an intriguing history. And yet, ...

Over a period of some twenty years, Mexican-born artisan Dionicio Rodríguez created imaginative sculptures of reinforced concrete that imitated the...

Elisabeth Lebon has compiled the ultimate reference book for serious collectors of bronze sculpture and professionals working in the field. Her Dic...

A groundbreaking reassessment of the reinvention of portraiture in America between 1945 and 1975 - the period when the abstract expressionists reac...

Subtle and wide-ranging in its account, this study explores the impact of Australian art in Britain in the two decades following the end of World W...

In this groundbreaking book David Roberts sets out to demonstrate the centrality of the total work of art to European modernism since the French Re...

Flowers by Rosie Sanders is a large-format book that showcases over 80 of her finest flower paintings in exquisite detail. Often compared to the ar...

Go behind-the-scenes of the art world as you tour the homes and studios of 86 international artists. Some studios are large, with lovely high ceili...

Ink-Stained Hands fulfils a considerable gap in Irish visual arts publications as the first book to present the activities of printmakers in Irelan...