History of Art & Design Styles: from c 1900

The new photo-illustrated magazines of the 1920s traded in images of an ideal modernity, promising motorised leisure, scientific progress, and soci...

While the history of the non-violent Civil Rights Movement, from Rosa Parks to Martin Luther King, is one of the great American stories of the twen...

Named a Best Gift Book by InStyle Nathalie Lété is the rare artist whose work is so distinctive and widely appealing that she has become a global b...

What does it mean to be called an industrial designer? This book traces the remarkable rise of this professional identity in historical perspective...

Weaving Europe, Crafting the Museum delves into the history and the changing material culture in Europe through the stories of a basket, a carpet, ...

It was simple furniture ... and we were makers of it.In 1931, the English designer Gerald Summers and his partner Marjorie Butcher opened their bus...

This book highlights the significant role that production artists played when Russian cinema was still in its infancy. It uncovers Russian cinemas ...

The 1970s is often considered the period that design forgot. In Private sets out to challenge this view, offering a cultural history of domestic in...

The first publication of its kind, connecting a constellation of artists working at the forefront of abstraction in the early 20th century Orphism...

The art of Paule Vézelay (1892-1984), celebrated in this groundbreaking publication, is remarkable in its breadth. Over her long career she created...

The debate about the return of cultural assets to former colonial territories is highly topical and at the same time much older than most assume. ...

Gary Deirmendjian is a compelling and original voice in the realm of contemporary art. A Prevailing Sense of Disquiet is a visually rich and multi-...

Reverence, Revelation, Devotion is a new large-format hardback publication showcasing the complete works from three new series of paintings by Dami...

This volume is the first to address the concept of spontaneity from an art-historical perspective. The term, located in the creative field today, ...

Svetlana Boym was a prolific writer, a charismatic professor, a novelist, and a public intellectual. She was also a fiercely resourceful and reflec...

Miguel Covarrubias enjoyed transcultural encounters and exchanges in the cosmopolitan centers of Mexico City, New York, and Europe, where he met an...

An essential African American artist of his era, Archibald Motley Jr. created paintings of black Chicago that aligned him with the revisionist aims...

This volume presents for the first time in English a curated selection of writings by the design thinker Gui Bonsiepe from the 1960s to the present...

Sabotage is the deliberate disruption of a dominant system, be it political, military or economic. Yet in recent decades, sabotage has also become ...

Die sehr reich bebilderte Publikation zur Sammlung des Bröhan-Museums, das 1973 von dem Sammler und Unternehmer Karl H. Bröhan (19212000) gegründet...

2023 marks fifty years of the She-Devil with a Swords adventures, and to honor the occasion Dynamite is going big! Join the celebration with this o...

This book situates the development of 20th and 21st century Chinese art in such fundamental contexts as Chinese politics and social change and is i...

Elegant vandalismIn 2024, the Musée dart et dhistoire de Genève (MAH) awarded a Carte Blanche for the fourth time: to the Belgian artist Wim Delvoy...

Contemporary Black artist Trenton Doyle Hancock responds to the provocative images of twentieth-century Jewish painter Philip Guston   A defining f...