History of Art & Design Styles: from c 1900

Filipino painter Ronald Ventura (born 1973) combines references to art history with underground culture to reflect upon the relationship between th...

Aby Warburg's Mnemosyne Atlas (1925-1929) is a prescient work of mixed media assemblage, made up of hundreds of images culled from antiquity to the...

In remembering the murder of the Jews during the period of National Socialism in Germany, the contribution made by artists in the first twenty year...

Monumental in scale and rich in detail, Konstantin Makovsky's stunning paintings epitomize the charm of Old Russia. His early career blossomed in l...

Intellectual, emotional, restless, dogged, loyal, selfish; Kandinsky was an artist and a man of contradictions. This genre-defying painter didnt...

A colourful showcase of one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Inspired by Oxfords unique architecture and historic university, over 50 a...

Liu Kang, one of Singapore's first generation artists, was a seminal observer, commentator, and visionary of modernity in Singapore art history. Th...

Nathalie Djurberg (*1978) and Hans Berg (*1978) create animated worlds with objects, music and moving images dreamlike realms where we might lose ...

Siapa Nama Kamu? weaves together a rich and captivating narrative of artworks in a broadly chronological sequence, covering Singapore's art history...

At the turn of the 20th century, Vienna became an epicentre for new thought. A multi-disciplinary environment emerged where music, writing and inte...

Futurism was Russia's first avant-garde movement. Gatecrashing the Russian public sphere in the early twentieth century, the movement called for th...

One word of truth shall outweigh the whole world Aleksandr SolzhenitsynIn the first month of the First World War the Russian campaign against the G...

The first art book to explore Rossetti's art and poetry together, including her own artworks, illustrations to her writing, and art inspired by her...

A brand new look at the extremely beautiful, if underappreciated, later works of one of the most inventive artists of the 20th century Between 1935...

Chicago has for decades years been one of the most prominent cities where European surrealism is avidly collected and displayed. However, there has...

Before Projection: Video Sculpture 1974 1995 shines a spotlight on a body of work in the history of video art that has been largely overlooked s...

A groundbreaking study of visionary artist Hilma af Klint. When Swedish artist Hilma af Klint died in 1944 at the age of 81, she left behind more ...

During the five years Franz Marc and August Macke knew each other, the two men carried on an artistic and personal friendship that had an immense i...

Modern Art takes the reader through individual movements from Impressionism to Conceptual Art, situating these within five broader chronological th...

A thoughtful presentation of five years of new work from the renowned Belgian painter.

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880 1938) is one of the most important artist personalities of the twentieth century; many of his works have become icon...

Mary Fedden (1915-2012) is one of Britain's most popular artists. The focus of this acclaimed book, newly available in paperback in celebration of...

Memorials have long been an important part of our built environments. In recent decades, there have been enormous changes in who and what we commem...

St Ives is unique in the story of modern art in Britain - and perhaps anywhere in the world. No other small seaside town has been host to such a ro...

Why painting today? In the digital age, with its powers of instant recall and infinite reproduction, why are we witnessing an unprecedented revival...

This is the first book to look at an increasingly popular form of street art: the paste-up or 'wheatie'. Many street artists dont graffiti or stenc...

Francis Bacon was one of the giants dominating the artistic landscape of the mid-twentieth century, and served as the inspiration and launching poi...

In 1956 Time magazine referred to Pollock as 'Jack the Dripper'. His iconic paintings stretch out with the generosity and scale of the landscape of...

This is a groundbreaking look at Muslim South Asian art. This pioneering work traces the emergence of the modern and contemporary art of Muslim Sou...