History of Art & Design Styles: from c 1900

Meditations on natureWith cry me a river, Ugo Rondinone returns to his roots. This monograph, published in conjunction with his retrospective at Ku...

The Russian avant-garde of the 1920s is broadly recognised to have been Russias first truly original contribution to world culture. In contrast, So...

Still Modernism offers a critique of the modernist imperative to embrace motion, speed, and mobility. In the context of the rise of kinetic technol...

One of the most important and underappreciated visual artists of the twentieth century, Romare Bearden started as a cartoonist during his college y...

How to use design as a tool to create not only things but ideas, to speculate about possible futures.Today designers often focus on making technolo...

The artists as explorers: the Expressionist artists Kirchner and Nolde studied non-Western lifestyles and incorporated them into their artistic pro...

This is a book about contemporary literary and artistic entanglements: word and image, media and materiality, inscription and illustration. It prop...

A brilliant introduction to the work of Jules Schmalzigaug (1882-1917), Belgium's sole representative of the Futurist movement. The Royal Museum of...

A glittering account of John Singer Sargents relationship with an eminent Edwardian family. In Family Romance, Jean Strouse tells the story of John...

Essays bilingual (English/German) / Catalog raisonné monolingual (German) Georg Eisler (19281998) showed unwavering commitment to figurative pai...

A must-have for the core contemporary art audience: Robert Storr's singular and long-awaited book is unprecedented in treating the full range of Lo...

How did the revolutionary Left view cultural modernists? Their uneasy relationship is illustrated in this book with quotations ranging from Alexand...

A celebration of 'womens work', this book features contemporary artists from around the globe who are transforming what it means to make craft. Wom...

How are aesthetics and ethics related to the practical realities of the global fashion industry? Both have played an important role in academic fas...

The first comprehensive survey of contemporary artist Dustin Yellin, showcasing his surreal glass sculptures with fantastic dystopian themes. For ...

IPPY 2012 Gold Award in the Fine Arts category (Independent Publisher Book Awards)ForeWord Reviews 2012 Book of the Year Award FinalistFor centurie...

Since the democratisation of the clothing industry in the early 19th century, buyers have become increasingly disconnected from the creative and hu...

Tracking the postconceptual dimensions of contemporary artIf, as Walter Benjamin claimed, it is the function of artistic form . to make historical ...

The first publication dedicated exclusively to Mark Rothkos art during the critical formative period of the 1940s. Examining the development and ar...

Carsten Höller has created a world that is equal parts laboratory and fun house. He explores important themes such as architecture, childhood, love...

A gorgeous color depiction of every remaining structure designed by Louis Sullivan Louis Henry Sullivan (18561924) is a foundational figure in Amer...

Most art historians agree that the modern art adventure first developed in the 1860s in Paris. A circle of painters, whom we now know as Impression...

Most art historians agree that the modern art adventure first developed in the 1860s in Paris. A circle of painters, whom we now know as Impression...

Most art historians agree that the modern art adventure first developed in the 1860s in Paris. A circle of painters, whom we now know as Impression...

Most art historians agree that the modern art adventure first developed in the 1860s in Paris. A circle of painters, whom we now know as Impression...

Most art historians agree that the modern art adventure first developed in the 1860s in Paris. A circle of painters, whom we now know as Impression...

A monograph on the work of Annick Tonti (19512023), known by her alias moholinushk, featuring refined and singular drawings that observe the world ...

A reformatted and reduced price editionincluding a revised and updated introduction by Sam Durant and new text on the artist today by Colette Gaite...

Depicted here, Ruby s YARD paintings test the formal limits of the medium, using rollers and brooms to spread a multicolored palette of acrylic pai...

An exploration of the human figure and artistic imagination in public art of the American Renaissance, from the nations centennial to World War I  ...

What is form in modern art? How could a work of art achieve its organic life in a world increasingly dominated by mechanism, by new technology? In ...