History of Art & Design Styles: from c 1900

The first book in English on Maruja Mallo, this volume is an insightful examination of the life and work of this seminal artist of the Spanish avan...

All cultures make, and break, images. Striking Images, Iconoclasms Past and Present explores how and why people have made and modified images and o...

Reveals the contemporary art phenomenon of disrupted realism through the paintings of 43 artists at its core. Profoundly shaped by the events,...

Fair Women was the Victorian equivalent of a blockbuster exhibition. Organised by a committee of women, it opened to great fanfare in the Grafton G...

This book gathers the published and unpublished writings of Dr Grace Pailthorpe (1883-1971), English surgeon, specialist in psychological medicine ...

In this unique book the author explores the history of pioneering computer art and its contribution to art history by way of examining Ernest Edmon...

This book gathers the published and unpublished writings of Dr Grace Pailthorpe (1883-1971), English surgeon, specialist in psychological medicine ...

The first book to devote serious attention to questions of scale in contemporary sculpture, this study considers the phenomenon within the interlin...

Taking citizenship as a political position, cultural process, and intertwining of both, this edited volume examines the role of visual art and visu...

A mini art show of the celebrated artist's best-known and little-seen paintings, reproduced on stamps from around the world.  Exceptionally pr...

This book, a biography on Francis Bacon, is inspired by the friendship the author had with Bacon and based on records of the conversations that too...

This book examines a range of visual expressions of Black Power across American art and popular culture from 1965 through 1972. It begins with case...

This collection of essays considers artistic works that deal with the body without a visual representation. It explores a range of ways to represen...

First published in 2006, this volume provides the first in-depth analysis of the place of visual representations within the process of decolonisati...

The Burlington Fine Arts Club was founded in London in 1866 as a gentlemens club with a singular remit to exhibit members art collections. Exhibit...

This beautiful and informative volume illustrates the vitality and importance of North Carolina's contemporary art scene, showcasing the creation, ...

This volume reframes the development of US-American avant-garde art of the long 1960sfrom minimal and pop art to land art, conceptual art, site-spe...

This book explores how feminist artists continued to engage with kitchen culture and food practices in their work as womens art moved from the marg...

This transnational volume examines innovative women artists who were from, or worked in, Denmark, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Sápmi, and S...

Hot Art, Cold War Northern and Western European Writing on American Art 1945-1990 is one of two text anthologies that trace the reception of Ameri...

Modern Art in Cold War Beirut: Drawing Alliances examines the entangled histories of modern art and international politics during the decades of th...

Avant-Garde and Psychotechnics presents an innovative look at the Russian avant-garde and its cultural encounters with the sciences in the 1920s. T...

Set within the broader context of post-war Austria and the re-education initiatives set up by the Allied forces, particularly the US, this book inv...