History of Art & Design Styles: from c 1900

A vibrant critical exchange between contemporary art and Christianity is being increasingly prompted by an expanding programme of art installations...

When the body is foregrounded in artwork as in much contemporary performance, sculptural installation and video work so is gendered and sexualise...

This book analyzes practices of collecting in European art museums from 1989 to the present, arguing that museums actualize absence both consciousl...

By uniquely treating Gerhard Richters entire oeuvre as a single subject, Darryn Ansted combines research into Richters first art career as a social...

Pop art was essential to the Americanization of global art in the 1960s, yet it engendered resistance and adaptation abroad in equal measure, espec...

Based on rare archival material and numerous interviews with practitioners, Art in the North of England 1979-2008 analyses the relation between pol...

Disclosing the interconnectedness of human and nonhuman bodies, understood here as more/than/human entanglements, this book makes a crucial interve...

Replication and originality are central concepts in the artistic oeuvres of Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray. Remaking the Readymade reveals the underlyi...

This title was first published in 2001. An examination of art and patronage in Britain during the post-war years. It consists of five case studies,...

Fragmentation of the Photographic Image in the Digital Age challenges orthodoxies of photographic theory and practice. Beyond understanding the ima...

This book examines the art of Cobra, a network of poets and artists from Copenhagen, Brussels, and Amsterdam (19481951). Although the name stood fo...

This edited volume examines the history of abstract art across Latin America after 1945. This form of art grew in popularity across the Americas in...

This title was first published in 2001. An examination of art and patronage in Britain during the post-war years. It consists of five case studies,...

This book provides a conceptual and global overview of the field of Surrealist studies. Methodologically, the companion considers Surrealisms many ...

This book maps key moments in the history of postwar art from a global perspective. The reader is introduced to a new globally oriented approach to...

The Routledge Companion to Art and Activism in the Twenty-First Century brings together a wide range of geographical, cultural, historical, and con...

The beginning of the 20th century saw literary scholars from Russia positing a new definition for the nature of literature. Within the framework of...

In the era of the Anthropocene, artists and scientists are facing a new paradigm in their attempts to represent nature. Seven chapters, which focus...

Enriching the existing scholarship on this important exhibition, Italy at Work: Her Renaissance in Design Today (195053), this book shows the dynam...

First published 1990, this volume consists of an introductory essay by Ian Lowe and a comprehensive catalogue of all Wilfred Faircloughs prints, so...

Mapping Paradigms in Modern and Contemporary Art defines a new cartographic aesthetic, or what Simonetta Moro calls carto-aesthetics, as a key to i...

Modern Art in Pakistan examines interaction of space, tradition, and history to analyse artistic production in Pakistan from the 1950s to recent ti...

For René Magritte, painting was a form of thinking. Through paintings of ordinary objects rendered with illusionism, Magritte probed the limits of ...