History of Art & Design Styles: from c 1900

The German writer and art critic Carl Einstein (18851940) has long been acknowledged as an important figure in the history of modern art, and yet h...

María Izquierdo (19021955) and Frida Kahlo (19071954) were the first two Mexican women artists to achieve international recognition. During the hei...

This is the first book in English to examine Gutai, Japan's best-known modern art movement, a circle of postwar artists whose avant-garde paintings...

Few American artists have captured painters imaginations with the gripping force of Albert Pinkham Ryder (1847-1917). The brooding spirituality of...

Two wartime artists, one bustling harbour, and a city ravaged by the Halifax Explosion. Two perspectives on Halifax one year after the Explosion.A ...

Shortlisted, Best Atlantic Published Book Award and Canadian Regional Design AwardA major publication comprising 240 pages with 75 colour plates an...

A philosophical consideration of Soviet Socialism that reveals the hidden desire for capitalism in contemporary anticapitalist discourse and theory...

First book to place the art of British sculptor Lynn Chadwick in its international context. Examines in particular the reception and promotion of C...

This is the catalogue of the exhibition held at the Opera Gallery in Paris, dedicated to the Sardinian artist Pino Manos. Manos is renowned for fou...

Roy Cross RSMA GAvA began work as an illustrator in Fairey Aviation during World War II. Over the next thirty years, he progressed from line illus...

Robert Rauschenberg (19252008) was a breaker of boundaries and a consummate collaborator. He used silk-screen prints to reflect on American promise...

The definitive monograph on one of the most revered artists of our time.Ellsworth Kelly will forever be remembered as one of the most distinctive ...

In Kyffin Williams centenary year, this monograph examines the life and work of an artist who, over six decades from Slade student to Royal Academi...

An essential and handy visual vocabulary of modern architecture. How to Read Modern Buildings is an indispensable pocket-sized guide to understand...

The event occurs in and over time; the aftermath concerns the traces, which are frozen into images, objects, re-presentations. Traditionally, art h...

A vivid, gripping narrative supported by photographs of great impact, this book takes the reader through the most innovative and groundbreaking eve...

Cedric Morris (1889-1982) and Arthur Lett-Haines (known as Lett) (1894-1978) were an extraordinary couple who were at the centre of the Modern Brit...