History of Art & Design Styles: from c 1900

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, ...

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

Miguel Covarrubias enjoyed transcultural encounters and exchanges in the cosmopolitan centers of Mexico City, New York, and Europe, where he met an...

An essential African American artist of his era, Archibald Motley Jr. created paintings of black Chicago that aligned him with the revisionist aims...

This volume presents for the first time in English a curated selection of writings by the design thinker Gui Bonsiepe from the 1960s to the present...

Sabotage is the deliberate disruption of a dominant system, be it political, military or economic. Yet in recent decades, sabotage has also become ...

Die sehr reich bebilderte Publikation zur Sammlung des Bröhan-Museums, das 1973 von dem Sammler und Unternehmer Karl H. Bröhan (19212000) gegründet...

2023 marks fifty years of the She-Devil with a Swords adventures, and to honor the occasion Dynamite is going big! Join the celebration with this o...

This book situates the development of 20th and 21st century Chinese art in such fundamental contexts as Chinese politics and social change and is i...

Elegant vandalismIn 2024, the Musée dart et dhistoire de Genève (MAH) awarded a Carte Blanche for the fourth time: to the Belgian artist Wim Delvoy...

Contemporary Black artist Trenton Doyle Hancock responds to the provocative images of twentieth-century Jewish painter Philip Guston   A defining f...

A brilliant introduction to the work of Jules Schmalzigaug (1882-1917), Belgium's sole representative of the Futurist movement. The Royal Museum of...

Art at the Crossroads: The Surprising Aesthetics of the Texas Panhandle underscores the striking richness of art stories about the Texas Panhandlea...

In contrast to the divide between conception and execution advocated by Anglo-American artists in the second half of the 1960s, this book reapprais...

Lisa Levy is an established New York visual artist who hosts the popular podcast Dr. Lisa Gives a Shit on Apple Podcasts. There are over 100 images...

Haplomatics is an animated techno-fantasy that combines original text and music by the American composer James Sellars with xerographs by the Briti...

For almost half a century Valentino dominated Italian haute couture, dressing the worlds wealthiest and most glamorous women. Only a few years afte...

Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) is without doubt the most famous Latin-American painter of the 20th century and a fundamental figure in Mexican art. Her wo...

A fun and fact-filled introduction to the dismissed Black art masters and models who shook up the world.Elegant. Refined. Exclusionary. Interrupted...

In a fleeting 14-year period between two world wars, Germanys Bauhaus school of art and design changed the face of modernity. With utopian ideas fo...

A new history of Futurism and its fraught ideological ambitions, centered on sculptural experimentation   As the first comprehensive avant-garde of...