History of Art & Design Styles: from c 1900

Nobody doubts that the contemporary art of Turkey has arrived on the international stage: Hale Tengers work has been bought by the Pompidou Centre;...

In 1936, an American ornithologist named James Bond published the definitive taxonomy Birds of the West Indies. Ian Fleming, an active bird-watcher...

Ever since electricity became ubiquitous artists have been fascinated by the manifold possibilities to create works with it. The catalogue Kinetism...

Painter, draftsman and engraver, Pierre Lesieur (1922-2011) was one of the most influential French artists of the second half of the 20th century. ...

Ilya Kabakov (*1933) is one of the former Soviet Union''s most important and influential international artists today. After the two-volume catalogu...

The effervescent, creative synergy among Italian artists and designers in the post-war, post-fascist period is the subject of this exhibition c...

Carta Canta shows a selection of Alechinsky's working on paper from 270 works that were donated to the royal museums in the past, as well as a numb...

The studio and residential building at Wuhrstrasse 8/10 in Zurich is a unique place: Commissioned by the Painters & Sculptors Cooperative Zuric...

This catalogue for a show at the Tornabuoni Gallery in Paris pays homage to two outstanding Italian women artists of the second half of the 20th ce...

Narcissus Quagliata is considered one of the most significant contemporary artists in glass. He has defined a new pathway in this field by combinin...

'Heady, lively, engaging...brings Montmartre's heyday back to life' Sunday Times'Brilliant' GuardianThe real revolution in the arts first took plac...

A new, updated and expanded edition of this classic survey on the history of Caribbean art, featuring the work of over 100 artists from the period ...

Edmund de Waal's art speaks to his enduring fascination with the nature of objects and the attendant history of their collection and display. Confr...

A seminal experience on the Italian art scene of the 1960s. At the height of the economic miracle of the 1960s, artistic experiments in Italy kept ...

Accrochage brings together about seventy works from the Pinault Collection produced by thirty artists since the 1970s. The works-never sho...

I like my paintings to have one foot in the grave, to be not quite of this world. For me they exist in a dream world, a world that is made up of al...

Over a period of 100 days from July to October 2009, 2,400 people stood on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square for one hour. They were free to do...

Street art is part of every cityscape. By street art, we mean the crazy and wonderful stencils, paste-ups, paintings and little sculptures that dec...

Sympathy for the Devil refers to the first track on the Rolling Stones album Beggars Banquet. Each of the selected art works in this book about con...