History of Art & Design Styles: from c 1900

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 ...

This volume features new paintings and drawings by the American painter Elizabeth Peyton, published on the occasion of her first solo exhibition at...

A catalogue documenting two exhibitions and five years of new work, from 2007 to 2012, by American artist Mark Tansey, held at Gagosian Gallery, Lo...

An intellectual history of architectural modernism for an age of rising global inequality and environmental crisis.The Earth That Modernism Built t...

An intellectual history of architectural modernism for an age of rising global inequality and environmental crisis.The Earth That Modernism Built t...

This book is the first substantial study of the presence and relationship with the concepts of apocalypse, eschatology, and millennium in modern Br...

Fall under the spell of Gustav Klimt. Over a century after his death, Viennese artist Gustav Klimt (18621918) still startles with his unabashed ero...

A major voice in the architectural culture of the fifties and sixties, Sibyl Moholy-Nagy was uniquely engaged with modernism and modernity. As the ...

Material Modernity explores creative innovation in German art, design, and architecture during the Weimar Republic, charting both the rise of new m...

'Art is continually haunted by the animal', wrote Deleuze and Guattari. Over the past two decades, animals have quite literally invaded the gallery...

Awarded an Honourable Mention by the Association for Israeli Studies. Exploring the politics of the image in the context of Israeli militarized v...

Ellen Emmet Rand (1875-1941) was one of the most important and prolific portraitists in the United States in the first decades of the twentieth cen...

Knitting together two fascinating but entirely distinct lives, this ingeniously structured braided biography tells the story of the lives and work ...

Through its examination of five quite different art events in cities across Europe, Contemporary Art Biennials in Europe offers a compelling explor...

One of the most enduring and pervasive myths about modernist architecture is that it was whitepure white walls both inside and out. Yet nothing cou...

In Images of War in Contemporary Art, Uro Cvoro and Kit Messham-Muir mount a challenge to the dominance of theoretical tropes of trauma, affect, an...

The emergence and the activities of a second public sphere in the areas of Soviet influence were intricately linked to the performative and interme...

Central to the development of abstract art, in the early decades of the 20th century was the conception (most famously articulated by Walter Pater)...

The captivating watercolors of James Prosek, the artist the New York Times calls the Audubon of the fishing world. In the tradition of his acclaime...

Surveying three decades of the British painter Cecily Browns career, with its vibrant mixture of gestural expression, canonical and pop references,...

Technologies and techniques have informed artistic practices and discourses since the avantgardes' heyday, and their proliferation, now in an incre...

A timely survey of this significant British artist and the complexities surrounding his work and reputation today Famed for his depictions of sun, ...