History of Art & Design Styles: from c 1900

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Towards the end of his monumental career as a painter, sculptor, and lithographer, an elderly, sickly Matisse was unable to stand and use a paintbr...

An extraordinarily prolific artist, Norman Rockwell (18941978) produced some 4,000 paintings in his lifetime, not including a prodigious quantity o...

With his graphic style, figural distortion, and defiance of conventional standards of beauty, Egon Schiele (18901918) was a pioneer of Austrian Exp...

Towards the end of his monumental career as a painter, sculptor, and lithographer, an elderly, sickly Matisse was unable to stand and use a paintbr...

Diego Rivera (18861957) is a loud presence on the art historical stage. With devout political principles and a turbulent romantic history, he was a...

With his graphic style, figural distortion, and defiance of conventional standards of beauty, Egon Schiele (18901918) was a pioneer of Austrian Exp...

With his graphic style, figural distortion, and defiance of conventional standards of beauty, Egon Schiele (18901918) was a pioneer of Austrian Exp...

Resisting interpretation or classification, Mark Rothko (19031970) was a prominent advocate for the artists consummate freedom of expression. Altho...

An extraordinarily prolific artist, Norman Rockwell (18941978) produced some 4,000 paintings in his lifetime, not including a prodigious quantity o...

Armoured soldiers, sexualized machine men, mechanized athletes: Between 1914 and 1926, artists of the German and French avant-garde used the mechan...

Munich was one of the earliest and most important centres of Art Nouveau in Germany. After the founding of the first Secession here (1892), the ma...

In the mid-1950s, Yves Klein (19281962) declared that a new world calls for a new man. With his idiosyncratic style and huge charisma, this bold ar...

An extraordinarily prolific artist, Norman Rockwell (18941978) produced some 4,000 paintings in his lifetime, not including a prodigious quantity o...

With his graphic style, figural distortion, and defiance of conventional standards of beauty, Egon Schiele (18901918) was a pioneer of Austrian Exp...

Diego Rivera (18861957) is a loud presence on the art historical stage. With devout political principles and a turbulent romantic history, he was a...

Diego Rivera (18861957) is a loud presence on the art historical stage. With devout political principles and a turbulent romantic history, he was a...

While anchoring his practice in the traditions of antiquity and the Renaissance, Auguste Rodin (18401917) paved the way for modern sculpture. From ...

Das wechselvolle Verhältnis zwischen dem Plakat als künstlerisch-gestalterisches Medium und der Rolle, die Frauen einnehmen, ist das Thema der begl...

What does art know? It is not just one of the issues, it is the issue of current art schools and their politics: artistic research. But what is art...

Accompanying an exhibition at BASTIAN, London, this striking publication presents works by the German-born American artist Hans Hofmann (18801966),...

Eliot Hodgkin (1905-1987) is best known as a painter of still life subjects beautifully executed in tempera. His depictions of everyday objects su...

Both a translation and critique of an early 20th century seminal French text on the physical effects of corseting, The Bad Corset explores contempo...

Both a translation and critique of an early 20th century seminal French text on the physical effects of corseting, The Bad Corset explores contempo...

Providing a recent history of Southeast Asian art linked to the social and political contexts in which the illustrated work emerged, this groundbre...

Das Habitat-Diorama ein Schaukasten, in dem Tierpräparate in einer gestalteten Landschaft hinter Glas präsentiert werden ist eines der wichtigste...

AI and the Art Market is the first book to offer an approachable introduction to AI for art-market professionals, considering AIs impact on and pos...

In the mid-1950s, Yves Klein (19281962) declared that a new world calls for a new man. With his idiosyncratic style and huge charisma, this bold ar...

The story of the creative relationship between the Dutch artist Piet Mondrian (18721944) and the British artist Ben Nicholson (18941982) is largely...

The English painter Stanley Spencer (18911959) is perhaps best known for his mystical biblical scenes and candid self-portraits, but it was his mag...

This catalogue presents a selection of important European terracotta sculptures from the neolithic to the neoclassical periods. The accompaning exh...

This important publication accompanies a major exhibition at The Courtauld Gallery, London, of paintings by Edvard Munch, one of the worlds greates...

Patron Saints: Collecting Stanley Spencer is a revealing new exhibition at the renowned Stanley Spencer Gallery in Cookham Spencers spiritual home...

The collection at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum includes an astonishing array of objects, including renowned paintings, rare books, sculpture...

Throughout his long career, David Hockney has insistently explored diverse ways of depicting the visible world. He has scrutinised the methods of t...

After missing out on a role in EastEnders, Cindy Lass was feeling down. Forget it, comforted her mother. Paint me a vase of flowers for this wall h...

A draughtsman of remarkable ability, matching even his mentor Augustus John, Henry Lamb (18831960) was a founder-member of the Camden Town Group, e...

This brand new full-colour art book reveals in sumptuous detail more than 100 paintings based on The Lord of the Rings by acclaimed Dutch artist, C...

A key figure in the international avant-garde, Piet Mondrian (18721944) was at once an extraordinary painter and leading art theoretician whose inf...

On Tropical Grounds develops a new approach to the avant-garde and Surrealism in Caribbean and Atlantic studies. The book examines how islands and ...

On Tropical Grounds develops a new approach to the avant-garde and Surrealism in Caribbean and Atlantic studies. The book examines how islands and ...