History of Art & Design Styles: from c 1900

Painting after Postmodernism: Belgium - USA investigates why so many believed Marcel Duchamp when he made his infamous statement of 1918: that pain...

J. D. Fergusson (1874-1961) is one of the four artists known as the Scottish Colourists, the others being F. C. B. Cadell, G. L. Hunter and S. J. P...

Over 90 reproductions of paintings and sculptures by Robert Helman Robert Helman is one of the 20th century's major artists. Based in Montparnasse ...

Armando Romero's paintings often juxtapose his re-painting of historical works by Old Masters like Velazquez, Bosch, and Veronese with images from ...

The fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm according to David Hockney are like no other version you will have read before. Although inspired by earlier ...

F.C.B. Cadell was born in Edinburgh, where he lived for most of his life, and studied in Paris and Munich. This book illustrates many of the works ...

This jewel-like book evokes unmistakable Italian landscapes and cityscapes. Anne Desmet's pen commits every detail to paper, and the small-scale fo...

The Insta Grammar series explores the best of the best in amateur photography, focussing on the immensely popular social media site, Instagram. Aft...

One of the best-known artists of her time, and a true American legend, Anna Mary Robertson Grandma Moses (1860-1961) was often marginalized as a la...

In 2014, the contemporary painter George Shaw (b. 1966) began a two-year post as associate artist in the National Gallery, London. This book docume...

Born to a prominent family in Havana but exiled to the United States as a girl, Ana Mendieta (1948-1985) is regarded as one of the most significant...

The BP Portrait Award, now in its thirtieth year, is one of Britain''s most prestigious art prizes, and is the leading showcase for artists throug...

Galerie nachst St. Stephan is one of Austria''s, and indeed Europe''s, most eminent and distinguished galleries for contemporary art. Located in th...

Born in New York in 1941, Joel Shapiro is one of the most significant artists of his generation. Since the first public showing of his work in 1969...

For her most recent series, Austrian artist Katharina Anna Loidl has reworked steel engravings of Swiss alpine landscapes, transforming the origina...

Cecile Wick's work- oscillating between photography, painting and drawing- ranks among the most important oeuvres in contemporary Swiss art. Amendi...

Since the 1970s, Swiss artist Manon has been confronting observers with their own vision. Her performances raise question about the boundary betwee...

Sonja Sekula (1918-63) was born and educated in Lucerne, Switzerland, but emigrated to the United States with her parents in 1936. In 1941, she beg...

A richly illustrated study of the interplay of word and image in representations of the English countryside, built environment, and domestic space ...

Art Galleries across the world are now full of works that are so bizarre or devoid of skill. Anything including a kitchen sink can be called ''Art'...

By what means did so much beauty and ingenuity appears in articles of everyday rural life in Portugal? How did the shape of these objects balance n...

Dutch artist Theo Jansen (b. 1948, The Hague) has achieved worldwide recognition for his imposing and ingenious strandbeests, which are much more t...