History of Art & Design Styles: from c 1900

Modern Art: A Global Survey from the Mid-19th Century to the Present is a broad chronological history of painting, sculpture, photography, architec...

The first-ever monograph on American artist Hugh Hayden, whose sculptures are known for their engagement with notions of class, race, and cultural ...

A Pedagogy of Observation argues that the fascination with learning about the past and new locations in panoramic form spread far from the traditio...

An urban history of modern Britain, and how the built environment shaped the nations politicsFoundations is a history of twentieth-century Britain ...

Drawing Degree Zero examines a pivotal moment in the history of drawing, when the medium was disengaged from its connoisseurial associations and po...

Mark Rothko's awe-inspiring yet deceptively simple, iconic colour field paintings belie the mythical and emotional complexity behind them. Rothko p...

Where do we begin to talk about abstract art? This question depends on ones worldview. From the point of view of the collection included in this bo...

The Sister Chapel (1974-78) was an important collaborative installation that materialized at the height of the womens art movement. Conceived as a ...

The Swiss artist David Bielander (b.1968) is one of the most significant proponents of contemporary art jewellery in the world. With him, nothing ...

Showcases the extraordinary work of notable American and European postwar artistsSeattle art collectors Richard E. Lang and Jane Lang Davis were fr...

The Loft Generation: From the de Koonings to Twombly; Portraits and Sketches, 19422011 is an invaluable account by an artist at the center of a lan...

Published in 1929, From Material to Architecture contains the main features of László Moholy-Nagys teaching program at the Bauhaus. With its focus ...

Boris Chukhovich's book Usto Mumin: Love, Friendship, Eternity explores the first and most significant creative cycle of the artist Alexander Nikol...

This is an absorbing look at the work of three artists who paved the way for ceramics to be considered fine art. Clay's Tectonic Shift focuses on a...

Die 1945 zu weiten Teilen zerstörte Stadt Mainz wollten die französischen Besatzer unmittelbar nach Kriegsende zu einem französisch geprägten Mayen...

In den elektronischen Bildmedien tritt uns Joseph Beuys als veritabler Medienkünstler entgegen. Kaum überschaubar sind die Fotografien, Filme und V...

Felt provides a nonlinear look at the engagement of the postwar avant-garde with Eastern spirituality, a context in which the German artist Joseph ...

Throughout the silent-feature era, American artists and intellectuals routinely described cinema as a force of global communion, a universal langua...

This book celebrates and seeks to understand the overlooked appearances of hybrid forms in visual culture; artefacts and practices that meld or int...

Auf den ersten Blick mag es überraschen, den Revolutionär Che Guevara als Heiligen und Jesus Christus, den Sohn Gottes, als Revolutionär zu sehen. ...

A year of weekly interviews (1949-1950) with artist Diego Rivera by poet Alfredo Cardona-Peña disclose Riveras iconoclastic views of life and the a...

A 2008 cover of The New Yorker featured a much-discussed Black Power parody of Michelle and Barack Obama. The image put a spotlight on how easy it ...

A richly illustrated exploration of Mina Loys art and writingsMina Loy (18821966) was one of the most iconoclastic figures in modernism. A groundbr...

Axé Bahia examines the unique cultural role played by Salvador, the coastal capital of the Brazilian state of Bahia. An internationally renowned ce...

For decades, aesthetics has been subjected to a variety of critiques, often concerning its treatment of beauty or the autonomy of art. Collectively...

An encyclopedic and richly detailed history of everyday life in the Soviet UnionThe Soviet Union is gone, but its ghostly traces remain, not least ...

An acclaimed history of Harlems journey from urban crisis to urban renaissanceWith its gleaming shopping centers and refurbished row houses, todays...

A critical look at the competing motivations behind one of modern architectures most widely known and misunderstood movements  Although mid-century...

A critical look at the competing motivations behind one of modern architectures most widely known and misunderstood movements  Although mid-century...

In 1935, the United States Congress began employing large numbers of American artists through the Works Progress Administration--fiction writers...

In this collection of taxidermy art, youll find a winged monkey with a fez and a martini glass, a jewel-encrusted piglet, a bionic fawn, and a pola...

Cartoonist Winsor McCay (1869-1934) is rightfully celebrated for the skillful draftmanship and inventive design sense he displayed in the comic str...