History of Art & Design Styles: from c 1900

New Surrealism: The Uncanny in Contemporary Painting by Robert Zeller offers a sweeping exposition of both historical Surrealism and its legacy in ...

The Sculpture of William Edmondson: Tombstones, Garden Ornaments, and Stonework is the first large-scale museum examination of the artist's career ...

Women Art Dealers brings together fascinating case studies of galleries run by women between the 1940s and 1980s. It marks a departure from other w...

The Hall of Fame for Great Americans provides a window into the cultural changes taking place in the United States from the turn of the twentieth c...

Numerous contemporary artists, particularly female artists, have chosen to examine the idealization of the female body. In this crucial book, Emily...

A landmark study of how the famed Bloomsbury Group developed their distinct aesthetic  Fascinating and wide-ranging. . . . Will be enjoyed by both ...

The Origins of Minecraft, Journey, Limbo, Dead Cells, The Banner Saga and Firewatch and other incredible Indie video games!Video games have grown e...

Art and physics collide in this expansive exploration of how knowledge can be translated across disciplinary communities to activate new aesthetic ...

To the Collector Belong the Spoils rethinks collecting as an artistic, revolutionary, and appropriative modernist practice, which flourishes beyond...

Thematically focused analysis of modern architecture throughout Texas with gorgeous photographs illustrating works by famous and lesser-known archi...

With thirty-four original chapters from three dozen top scholars, The Oxford Handbook of Silent Cinema provides a thoughtful and provocative re-exa...

The volume offers an unprecedented reflection on the work of Lucio Fontana, whose art appears to be not so much masculine, volcanic, demiurgic, as ...

This is the first anthology to bring transnational feminist theory and criticism together with womens art practices to discuss the connections betw...

It is Jean Franois Lyotard's political focus that singles him out from his poststructuralist and postmodernist contemporaries. He is invariably 'th...

An interdisciplinary reference source of the critical, cultural and political practices associated with modernismMuch of the literary and cultural ...

It is Jean Franois Lyotard's political focus that singles him out from his poststructuralist and postmodernist contemporaries. He is invariably 'th...

The first book by Helene Cixous on painting and the contemporary arts. This collection gathers most of Helene Cixous' short texts devoted to contem...

'Lotte has told me that she is an insomniac, and at night she lies excitedly thinking of Loch Eribol, which is down-croft from her unslept in sleep...

Futurist Women broadens current debates on Futurism and literary studies by demonstrating the expanding global impact of women Futurist artists and...

In the second half of the nineteenth century, plants gained great popularity as providers of ideas for artistic form. Collections of designs whose ...

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 ...

Written by Marilyn Martin, a former director of the South African National Gallery, Between Dreams and Realities is based on extensive research and...

Reconstructing modernity assesses the character of approaches to rebuilding British cities during the decades after the Second World War. It explor...

A seminal text in the history of modern art, from one of the most famous artists of the twentieth centuryArt is the language that speaks to the sou...

Film is the art form of our times. It has formed the background of our lives, informed visual arts practices, and formed our cultures stories, its ...

Finalist, Ottawa Book Award (English Non-Fiction)A Globe and Mails Spring Book Preview SelectionMolly Lamb and Bruno Bobak shot to prominence as wa...

Générations raconte lhistoire des Sobey, famille visionnaire de la Nouvelle-Écosse qui, depuis trois générations, veille à la valorisation de lart ...

Générations raconte lhistoire des Sobey, famille visionnaire de la Nouvelle-Écosse qui, depuis trois générations, veille à la valorisation de lart ...

Indonesian art entered the global contemporary art world of independent curators, art fairs and biennales in the 1990s. By the mid-2000s, Indonesia...

Memory Work demonstrates the evolution of the pioneering minimalist sculptor Anne Truitt. An artist determined to make her way through a new aesthe...

Can't get enough of Haruhi and the SOS Brigade? Then Haruhi SuzumiyaIllustrations: Autumn & Winter is the art book for you! HaruhiSuzumiya Illu...

The first biography of Gilbert Spencer, recounting the life and career of a long-overlooked twentieth-century British artist   Gilbert Spencer (189...

Throughout the Great Recession American artists and public art endowments have had to fight for government support to keep themselves afloat. It wa...

Surrealism is widely thought of as an artistic movement that flourished in Europe between the two world wars. However, during the 1960s, 70s, and 8...

This luscious book marks the first appearance of Marc Tetro's wonderfully expressive canines in art-book form, documenting his incredible style tha...

Museum collections of Asian art in Central Europe.Rather than centering on the well-known collections in Western European and North American museum...

Public space is political space. When a work of public art is put up or taken down, it is an inherently political statement, and the works aestheti...