History of Art & Design Styles: from c 1900

From Dawoud Bey and Lorna Simpson to Sondra Perry and Kerry James Marshall, a multiethnic group of artists explores what it means to be seen, not s...

The first book to devote serious attention to questions of scale in contemporary sculpture, this study considers the phenomenon within the interlin...

Consuming Surrealism in American Culture: Dissident Modernism argues that Surrealism worked as a powerful agitator to disrupt dominant ideas of mod...

The long-awaited work monograph on the biennial and documenta artist Reinhard Mucha. For me, things only become interesting when they contain som...

Audio Erotica is a perfectly pitched visual anthem to home audio entertainment. Using sales brochures from the 1950-1980s, a symphony of graphic no...

In Cartoon Vision Dan Bashara examines American animation alongside the modern design boom of the postwar era. Focusing especially on United Produc...

Francis Bacons portrait of his first partner Peter Lacy is somehow simultaneously attractive and repulsive. The monumental portrait dating from 196...

The Minjian Avant-Garde studies how experimental artists in China mixed with, brought changes to, and let themselves be transformed by minjian, the...

Fashion is a subject that has long been marginalized in art history and in museums. And yet, one of the most well-known artists in the twentieth ce...

Fantasy art, that colorful blend of myth, muscle and sexy maidens, took off in 1923 with the launch of Weird Tales magazine, was reinvigorated in t...

Chinese ink painters of the Republican period (19111949) creatively engaged with a range of art forms in addition to ink, such as oil painting, dra...

'Hugely entertaining history' - MojoBetween the late '60s and early '80s, design house Hipgnosis created some of the most iconic and ubiquitous alb...

An extraordinary publication with new research and writing on world renowned Japanese multi-media artist, singer, songwriter and peace activist, Yo...

City and Campus tells the rich history of a Midwest industrial town and its two academic institutions through the buildings that helped bring these...

More than 600 archival color and black-and-white photos take readers inside the magnificent Hotel des Artistes on Manhattan's West Side. This i...

Modern Painting in Egypt is an invitation to travel through the Egyptian art scene of the 20th century, highlighting several major painters, as wel...

Swiss surrealist artist HR Giger (19402014) achieved international fame in 1979 for designing the fantastic creatures and eerie environments that t...

The second of an important multi-volume catalogue project, this publication features work by Francis Picabia (1879-1953) that dates from 1915 into ...

Mysterious and mathematical at once, the magical visual world of Dutch artist M.C. Escher (18981972) has captivated scientists and scholars and mad...

Burst! Abstract Painting After 1945 looks at the close, but previously unexplored relationship between Abstract Expressionism and Art Informel. Thr...

The art of Gerard Collins resists categorisation. Over a 50-year career, Collinss conceptual imagination and dizzying array of influences has produ...

A Financial Times Book of the Year 2022A landmark volume presenting the history of Indian art across the subcontinent and South Asia from the late ...

Exploring the career and legacy of the artist Nancy Elizabeth Prophet, whose sculptural figures embody her uncompromising sovereignty over her work...

There are deep black nationalist roots for many of the images and ideologies of contemporary racial justice efforts. This collection reconsiders th...

Luigi Russolo (1885-1947) - painter, composer, builder of musical instruments, and first-hour member of the Italian Futurist movement - was a cruci...

As inviting and sensual as a warm summer day, this opulent exhibition catalog offers a deep appreciation of Klimt's ornate, exquisitely detailed, a...

Since entering the performance lexicon in the 1970s, the term Live Art has been used to describe a diverse but interrelated array of performance pr...

Featuring 20 removable art pieces of your favorite World Warriors!Cover the walls of your personal dojo with classic heroes Ryu, Chun-Li, Ken and G...

Brushes With War is a unique history of World War I in broad brush strokes. Over 230 original paintings, drawings, sculpture, and trench art by the...

R. Sikoryak is the master of the pop culture pastiche. In Masterpiece Comics, he interpreted classic literature with defining twentieth-century com...

In the aftermath of the 2016 US elections, Brexit, and a global upsurge of nationalist populism, it is evident that the delirium and the crisis of ...

The Anahuacalli Museum in Mexico City, a pyramid-shaped structure of volcanic stone, was intended to be the final mansion of Diego Rivera and his w...

A timely exploration of the work and lived experiences of a postwar generation of women artists that have largely been omitted from art historical ...

The most comprehensive collection of Medal of Honor paintings ever created by a single artist! At the age of 82, renowned illustrator and form...

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 ...