History of Art & Design Styles: from c 1900

In his highly original, wide-ranging and abundantly illustrated book, Alistair Hicks demonstrates his belief that no single curator, critic or deal...

Figurative art is currently riding high. Contemporary works depicting the human form grace the walls of public institutions and commercial gallerie...

Philippe Apeloigs design career began in 1985 at the Musée dOrsay when he designed the poster for the Museums first exhibition, Chicago, Birth of a...

Emerging from the unlikely background of the Scottish coalfields, unknown and untutored, Jack Vettriano has become Scotland''s most successful and ...

Shirley Trevena is a well-known and successful watercolourist, with a huge international fan base. Throughout her career she has pushed the boundar...

his book accompanies the first full-scale retrospective of David Diao's entire oeuvre. It is a career of twists and turns- Diao's work was original...

Fernand Léger is one of two new volumes being published this autumn in the MoMA Artists series, which explores important artists represented in dep...

In his Ten O'Clock Lecture in 1885, American James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) presented himself as an artist set apart from the public, bearing n...

Over the past decade, German artist Michael Riedel has incorporated a wide range of media into his practice, including large-scale works on canvas,...

Mirage is an installation by Norwegian artist Marianne Heier (born 1969), consisting of ten identical drinking-water wells equipped with hand pumps...

Louis Comfort Tiffany was highly skilled in jewellery design, ceramics, enamels, and metalwork but he is best known for his beautiful stained-glass...