History of Art & Design Styles: from c 1900

Time for Magic offers an entrancing overview of Jamie Reid's incredible art, structured around the eight seasonal festivals of the Wheel of the Yea...

2023 Outstanding Book Award, National Association for Ethnic Studies Finalist, 2024 Charles Rufus Morey Book Award, College Art AssociationHow Lati...

The ways we encounter contemporary art and performance is changing. Installations brim with archival documents. Dances stretch for weeks. Performan...

The First World War is usually believed to have had a catastrophic effect on British art, killing artists and movements, and creating a mood of bel...

Wassily Kandinsky was a renowned Russian-born painter who is often regarded as one of the earliest pioneers of abstract art. This art calendar brin...

CLEVER AND CONTEMPORARY ILLUSTRATIONS - 50 witty illustrations by Baltimore-based illustrator, designer and educator George WylesolTHE PERFECT GIFT...

Since the 1960s, artists have questioned the traditional idea of opposition between art and nature. They have incorporated animals and plants as co...

Deutsch-englische AusgabeSo präzise sich die Konkrete Kunst auch gibt, über die genaue Geburtsstunde ihrer Namensgebung lässt sich dagegen nur Unge...

Western Frontiers of African Art navigates the problems and prospects of prometheusis in creative cultural productions. Artists, writers, musicians...

An exploration of the world of Arne Jacobsen, one of the twentieth centurys most influential architects and designers   The Danish architect Arne J...

Our era is defined by the model. From Victoria's Secret and America's Next Top Model to the snapshots we post on Face-book and Twitter, our culture...

Thirteen years after her first Rizzoli monograph, British artist Jenny Saville releases this much-anticipated volume--her most comprehensive to dat...

Diversity in artistic research This book presents the results of the Octopus Programme, an innovative fellowship in the field of artistic researc...

An elegant consideration of the Surrealist movement as a global phenomenon and why it continues to resonate  Mr. Polizzotti carefully balances the ...

Robert Smithsons earthwork, Spiral Jetty (1970), an icon of the Land Art movement of the 1960s and 1970s, is located on the northern shores of Utah...

This book examines the art and writings of Wassily Kandinsky, who is widely regarded as one of the first artists to produce non-representational pa...

This guide introduces aspiring manga artists to drawing chibi characterswide-eyed caricatures beloved for their cartoonish exaggeration.Drawing Cut...

In his first U.S. one-man exhibition, Italian painter Walter Bortolossi comes to one of our nations centers of European cultural influence for a sh...

The Chatter of the Visible examines the paradoxical narrative features of the photo montage aesthetics of artists associated with Dada, Constructiv...

Revised and expanded final edition of the authoritative monograph on this modern master.

Ronald Lockett (1965-1998) stands out among southern artists in the late twentieth century. Raised in the African American industrial city of Besse...

A fascinating life of Sergei Shchukin, the great collector who changed the face of Russias art world Sergei Shchukin was a highly successful textil...

Werner Graeff painter, graphic artist, typographer, photographer and sculptor is an important Bauhaus artist and a significant representative...

An essential guide to how the power of art has been harnessed to effect political change across the modern world, from the struggle for universal s...

The story of the friendships that made modern art. Brought together in the UK for the first time in 80 years, this exhibition book offers unprecede...

The story of the friendships that made modern art. Brought together in the UK for the first time in 80 years, this exhibition book offers unprecede...

How did modern Chinese painters see landscape? Did they depict nature in the same way as premodern Chinese painters? What does the artistic percept...

This ground-breaking and extraordinary examination of the work of Abstract Expressionist painter Helen Frankenthaler overturns assumptions about th...