History of Art & Design Styles: from c 1900

Calles seminal 1979 series of people sleeping in her bed: now in English In one of Sophie Calles first artistic experiments, she invited friends, ...

Poised at the start of the 21st century, we can see clearly that the previous century was marked by momentous changes in the field of design. Aesth...

Immersive installations of found objects and sound machines create an experiential score incorporating feedback and distortion Swiss artist Jan Vo...

Friedrich Stowasser, born in Vienna in 1928, called himself Friedensreich Hundertwasser Regentag Dunkelbunt. True to the variety of his names, his ...

Les diners de Gala is uniquely devoted to the pleasures of taste If you are a disciple of one of those calorie-counters who turn the joys of eatin...

In a fleeting fourteen year period, sandwiched between two world wars, Germanys Bauhaus school of art and design changed the face of modernity. Wit...

In a fleeting fourteen year period, sandwiched between two world wars, Germanys Bauhaus school of art and design changed the face of modernity. Wit...

Art in Hong Kong is a fascinating analysis of the history, current status and possible future of Hong Kong as an international art hub, written by ...

A woman once rang me up and said, Mr. Escher, I am absolutely crazy about your work. In your print Reptiles, you have given such a striking illustr...

In a fleeting fourteen year period, sandwiched between two world wars, Germanys Bauhaus school of art and design changed the face of modernity. Wit...

Starting from the premise that after modernism and postmodernism in the Anthropocene an artwork cannot rest upon its separation from the planet, ...

«With astuteness and feeling, Stina Barchan captures the wonderful friendship between Hannah Höch and Kurt Schwitters and their artistic affinities...

Svetlana Boym was a prolific writer, a charismatic professor, a novelist, and a public intellectual. She was also a fiercely resourceful and reflec...

This book considers the sculpture of Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) in light of psychoanalyst D. W. Winnicotts (1896-1971) radical ideas regarding tr...

Considering intergenerational and cultural inheritance through the prisms of intimacy and infrastructure Designed as both a reader and an exhibiti...

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2010. Designing the Modern Interior reveals how the design of the inside spaces of our homes and public buildi...

Visions of modernity Architect, artist, designer, and visionary, Frederick Kiesler was one of the most fascinating figures of the twentieth centur...

How did German aesthetic values change during the Weimar Republic and after its immediate collapse at the beginning of the National Socialist perio...

Modernist painter, socialist realist, Holocaust survivor, and student of the Parisian Avant Garde, Jewish-Polish artist Henryk Streng was extraordi...

This book presents innovative analysis of emergent visual trends in Japan from the late 1960s to the present day. Adopting a thematic approach, thi...

The new photo-illustrated magazines of the 1920s traded in images of an ideal modernity, promising motorised leisure, scientific progress, and soci...

While the history of the non-violent Civil Rights Movement, from Rosa Parks to Martin Luther King, is one of the great American stories of the twen...

Named a Best Gift Book by InStyle Nathalie Lété is the rare artist whose work is so distinctive and widely appealing that she has become a global b...

What does it mean to be called an industrial designer? This book traces the remarkable rise of this professional identity in historical perspective...

Weaving Europe, Crafting the Museum delves into the history and the changing material culture in Europe through the stories of a basket, a carpet, ...

It was simple furniture ... and we were makers of it.In 1931, the English designer Gerald Summers and his partner Marjorie Butcher opened their bus...

This book highlights the significant role that production artists played when Russian cinema was still in its infancy. It uncovers Russian cinemas ...

The 1970s is often considered the period that design forgot. In Private sets out to challenge this view, offering a cultural history of domestic in...

The first publication of its kind, connecting a constellation of artists working at the forefront of abstraction in the early 20th century Orphism...

The art of Paule Vézelay (1892-1984), celebrated in this groundbreaking publication, is remarkable in its breadth. Over her long career she created...

The debate about the return of cultural assets to former colonial territories is highly topical and at the same time much older than most assume. ...

Gary Deirmendjian is a compelling and original voice in the realm of contemporary art. A Prevailing Sense of Disquiet is a visually rich and multi-...

Reverence, Revelation, Devotion is a new large-format hardback publication showcasing the complete works from three new series of paintings by Dami...

This volume is the first to address the concept of spontaneity from an art-historical perspective. The term, located in the creative field today, ...