History of Art & Design Styles: from c 1900

Vincent van Gogh's Sunflowers are seen by many as icons of Western European art. Two of these masterpieces the first version painted in August 188...

Abstract Expressionism is a fresh and authoritative examination of one of the greatest art movements of the twentieth century, featuring works by J...

The first English collection of writings by Henry van de Velde, one of the most influential designers and theorists of the twentieth century. Bel...

This book explores the interaction between collectors, dealers and exhibitions in Pablo Picassos entire career. The former two often played a deter...

In a contemporary and ever-changing society, the visual has become a dynamic element that traverse all parts of current life all over the world wh...

Though one of the most popular artists of the twentieth century, Salvador Dalí is typically seen as peripheral to the dominant practices of moderni...

Inside the Invisible provides the first examination of the work of Turner Prize-winning Black British artist and curator Professor Lubaina Himid CB...

This book sets out to explore the way, with the onset of a new and integral relationship between text and image, the modern poster is able to evolv...

Art and Social Movements offers a comparative, cross-border analysis of the role of visual artists in three social movements from the late 1960s th...

Die ästhetische Bedeutung der Kraft mit ihren semantischen Nachbarn Intensität und Energie wird seit einigen Jahren verstärkt in der Literaturwisse...

In München baute der Kunsthändler Günther Franke (1900-1976) ab 1923 erfolgreich ein Netzwerk aus Künstlern, Sammlern und Museen auf und wurde zu e...

the Body Concept - [De] Construction exhibition catalog continues the MUSAs journey through the history of its Austrian contemporary art collectio...

Colonizing, Decolonizing, and Globalizing Kolkata offers an extended analysis of the architecture and urban planning of Kolkata from the earliest d...

In a contemporary and ever-changing society, the visual has become a dynamic element that traverse all parts of current life all over the world wh...

Art and the Nation State is a wide-ranging study of the reception and critical debate on modernist art from the foundation of the Irish Free State ...

While Indonesian contemporary art is currently on the rise on the international art scene, there hasn't yet been an in-depth study of the works of ...

Discussing an aspect of the European avant-garde that has often been neglected-its relationship to the embodied experience of food, its sensation, ...

The paintings of contemporary Thai artist Pichai Nirand (b. 1936) are a vivid exploration of the interplay between Thailands Buddhist roots and its...

From a Nation Torn provides a powerful critique of art history's understanding of French modernism and the historical circumstances that shaped its...

In Passionate Pursuit: The Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Collection and Legacy is the first comprehensive publication to document the richly diverse ...

How does South Africa deal with public art from its years of colonialism and apartheid? How do new monuments address fraught histories and commemor...

Yusuf Franko Kusa Bey (18561933), a high-ranking bureaucrat in fin-de-siècle Ottoman imperial administration, was also a talented caricaturist. Bec...

Bioart -- art that uses either living materials (such as bacteria or transgenic organisms) or more traditional materials to comment on, or even tra...

This beautifully illustrated book is the first full-length critical study to focus on the watercolours of multitalented British artist and designer...

Germaine Richier, the first woman to have an exhibition of her work at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris (1956), is a remarkable figure in the worl...

Die Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen gilt als eine der wichtigsten deutschen Sammlungen für moderne und zeitgenössische Kunst. Mit dem Gründungsja...

Die Geburtsstunde der Fotografie im Jahr 1839 hat die internationale Bildwelt fasziniert und erschüttert zugleich. Nie zuvor war es möglich gewese...

Der Briefwechsel des Malers Hans Purrmann (1880-1966) und seiner Frau und Künstlerkollegin Mathilde Vollmoeller-Purrmann (1876-1943) der Jahre 1909...

Als zentraler Künstler der frühen Moderne hat Alexej von Jawlensky (1864 geboren in Torschok/Russland, 1941 in Wiesbaden gestorben) die Möglichkeit...

Ab 1789 brachen auch Künstler im Zuge der Emigration zahlreicher Menschen aus Frankreich auf. Die meisten trieb der Niedergang des Kunstmarkts auße...

From 1977 until his retirement in 1999, Wilhelm Holzbauer was Head of one of the three master classes for architecture at Vienna University of Appl...

Im monumentalen Format und in irritierender Figuration reaktivieren Thomas Schüttes Frauen das intensiv debattierte Feld des tradierten weiblichen ...