History of Art & Design Styles: from c 1900

In answering the question posed by its title, and drawing on his twenty year relationship with the artists, Michael Bracewell is the first writer t...

Your letters are a great pleasure. I lap them down with breakfast and they do me more good than tonics, blood capsules or iron jelloids Lytton Stra...

A sequel to Winifred Nicholson: Liberation of Colour, this book is the first monograph on this highly talented artist who deserves to be better kno...

There have been volumes written on and by Terence Conran and Mary Quant, but this is the first time they have been placed together in a book. And i...

It was a dappled and daubed harbor scene that gave Impressionism its name. When Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet was exhibited in April 1874, cr...

After World War II, the concept of borders became unsettled, especially after the rise of subaltern and multicultural studies in the 1980s. Art at ...

Have you taken children to a gallery recently? Did you struggle to explain the work to them in plain , simple English? With this new Dung Beetle bo...

Bharti Kher is a contemporary Indian artist whose work encompasses painting, sculpture and installation. Relocating to New Delhi after studying art...

Given unprecedented access to Calders work and life during the course of their friendship, acclaimed photographer and graphic designer Herbert Matt...

A unique and visionary generation of young Chinese artists are coming to prominence in the art world just as China cements its place as the second...

This visually stunning and timely book reveals how leading artists of the twenty- first century are reinvigorating the still life, a genre previous...

The first dictionary to gather, delineate and make accessible the literary, artistic, critical, cultural and political practices that we associate ...

Bhajju Shyam - a brilliant artist from the Gond tribe in central India - was commissioned to paint the walls of an Indian restaurant in London, an...

Come as You Are: Art of the 1990s is the first major museum survey to historicize art made in the United States during this pivotal decade. Showcas...

100 artworks have been chosen for this beautifully illustrated book to represent each year from 1916-2015. They trace the story of Irelands creativ...

This publication documents Gerhard Richter''''s experiment of taking an image of an original abstract painting and dividing it vertically into two....

During the early 1960s, Rileys black-and-white work employed elementary shapes to convey movement and light. Having tested this limited set of mean...