History of Art & Design Styles: from c 1900

The Saint Louis Art Museum has assembled one of North Americas largest and most comprehensive collections of German Expressionist paintings. Redisc...

The work of mid-twentieth century art theorist Anton Ehrenzweig is explored in this original and timely study. An analysis of the dynamic and invig...

This book presents the work of Ceija Stojka (1933 2013), an Austrian Romni writer, painter, activist, and musician, and survivor of the Holocaust. ...

Bust through the heavens with your soul, Gurren Lagann! Featuring buxom babes, brutal beastmen, and mountainous mecha as only GAINAX can deliver, G...

In recent years, there has been increasing scholarly interest in the history of museums, academies and major exhibitions. There has been, however, ...

At age thirteen, most boys are finding trouble in all its infinite forms. In 1939, thirteen-year-old Jon Lippenss worst troubles found him in a pre...

New Surrealism: The Uncanny in Contemporary Painting by Robert Zeller offers a sweeping exposition of both historical Surrealism and its legacy in ...

The Sculpture of William Edmondson: Tombstones, Garden Ornaments, and Stonework is the first large-scale museum examination of the artist's career ...

Women Art Dealers brings together fascinating case studies of galleries run by women between the 1940s and 1980s. It marks a departure from other w...

The Hall of Fame for Great Americans provides a window into the cultural changes taking place in the United States from the turn of the twentieth c...

Numerous contemporary artists, particularly female artists, have chosen to examine the idealization of the female body. In this crucial book, Emily...

A landmark study of how the famed Bloomsbury Group developed their distinct aesthetic  [Fascinating and wide-ranging. . . . Will be enjoyed by both...

The Origins of Minecraft, Journey, Limbo, Dead Cells, The Banner Saga and Firewatch and other incredible Indie video games! Video games have grown...

Art and physics collide in this expansive exploration of how knowledge can be translated across disciplinary communities to activate new aesthetic ...

This important new book argues that at the root of the contemporary crisis of climate, energy, food, inequality, and meaning is a certain core pres...

This important new book argues that at the root of the contemporary crisis of climate, energy, food, inequality, and meaning is a certain core pres...

This book demonstrates that numerous prominent artists in every period of the modern era were expressing spiritual interests when they created cele...

To the Collector Belong the Spoils rethinks collecting as an artistic, revolutionary, and appropriative modernist practice, which flourishes beyond...

Thematically focused analysis of modern architecture throughout Texas with gorgeous photographs illustrating works by famous and lesser-known archi...