History of Art & Design Styles: from c 1900

In this remarkable study by the late Francis Pound, author of the landmark Invention of New Zealand, we are introduced to the making of a New Zeala...

A lively introduction to and history of international contemporary art from 1960 to the present. What does it mean? Is it really art? Why does it ...

The Caribbean has been traditionally associated with externally devised mappings and categories, thus appearing as a passive entity to be consumed ...

The first place the twenty-year-old Yan Pei-Ming visited in France in 1980 was Ornans, the birthplace of the French Realist Gustave Courbet. Thirty...

Fragmented and hybrid in style, On Comics and Grief examines a year in comic book publishing and the authors grief surrounding his mothers death. T...

In Germany, 1969, Eugen Fink's Fashion: Seductive Play was published. This first English language edition, updated with an introduction by Stefano ...

An Encounter Between Art and the Technosphere Proprietary algorithms, secret data troves, and inscrutable systems rule the day. How is this regist...

Since TASCHEN released The Great American Pin-up, international interest in this distinctly American art form has increased exponentially. Painting...

As his personal circumstances move in constant flux, Ai Weiwei remains a cultural magnet. Renowned for his political activism and social media acti...

For anyone with an interest in Judaica and sacred objects, this book presents some of the most outstanding examples of contemporary Judaica that ha...

From Tudor times to the First World War, Now You See Us: Women Artists in Britain 15201920 will chart the journey of women to becoming professional...

The traumatic surreal is the first major study to examine the ground-breaking role played by Germanophone women artists working in surrealist tradi...

Kunst der Vereinigten Staaten 17502000 ist eine wegweisende Anthologie, die drei Jahrhunderte amerikanischer Kunst anhand einer breiten Auswahl his...

Surrealist womens writing: A critical exploration is the first sustained critical inquiry into the writing of women associated with surrealism. Fea...

Accompanying the bestselling English and German language editions of September developed by HENI Publishing and published by Tate Publishing and Bu...

Accompanying the bestselling English and German language editions of September developed by HENI Publishing and published by Tate Publishing and Bu...

Reluctant muse and feminist champion society heiress and rebel refugee the last of the Surrealists: Leonora Carrington played many roles in her lon...

Examining architectures foundational role in the repression of democracy   Reinhold Martin and Claire Zimmerman bring together essays from an arra...

Examining architectures foundational role in the repression of democracy   Reinhold Martin and Claire Zimmerman bring together essays from an arra...

The colorful, visual universe of a globe-trotting street artist who paints with purposeFor street artist Seth, walls around the world have been can...

Gleaned from thousands of images, this book offers the best of American print advertising in the age of the Big Idea. From the height of American c...

With essays by Pedro Alonso, Pedro Álvarez, Nicole Cristi, Francisca Espinosa, Mario Garcés, Michael Lemon, Eden Medina, Carlos Montes de Oca, Hugo...

Milton Glasers postersmore than 450 since 1965combine conceptual rigor and originality with a mastery of visual language and a high level of artist...

This vibrant and entrancing book invites readers on a journey around the world. Artist and globetrotter Shirin Sahba celebrates the diversity of pe...

In Insurgent Aesthetics Ronak K. Kapadia theorizes the world-making power of contemporary art responses to US militarism in the Greater Middle East...

The work of German cultural theorist and art historian Aby Warburg (18661929) has had a lasting effect on how we think about images. This book is t...

Maple, birch, walnut, lemonwood and palisander are just a few of the woods from which Liv Blavarp (b. 1956) creates exceptional one-off jewellery ...

How did women begin wearing pants? Prior to the 1920s it was a rarity to see women in pants in the Western world, but as the silk pajama trouser su...

How did women begin wearing pants? Prior to the 1920s it was a rarity to see women in pants in the Western world, but as the silk pajama trouser su...

Through the 1940s and 1950s, PAGON (Progressive Architects Group Oslo Norway) was an alliance of young CIAM-affiliated Norwegian architects known f...

Master of sensuality and the architectural utopiaThe Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer (1907-2012) is a twentieth century classic. He became world...

Only in the darkest moments of our lives do the brightest stars appear.An artist, mother, teacher, and rebel, Audrey Flack is counted among the mos...

Motherhood, whether achieved through biological or other means, is not a rare experience; dressing oneself, even less so. The two phenomena are int...

An essential examination of how emigration and resettlement defined modernismIn the fraught years leading up to World War II, many modern artists a...

The artist, dancer and educator Suzanne Harris (1940-79) was a protagonist of the downtown New York City artists community in the 1970s. With her b...

David Drake, also known as Dave the Potter, was born enslaved in Edgefield, South Carolina, at the turn of the nineteenth century. Despite laws pro...

Painting as simulation and hyperreality: Peter Halley and the digital age. In the 1980s, Peter Halley revitalised painting by relying on sociology...

With contributions from outstanding specialists in glass art and East Asian art history, this edited volume opens a cross-cultural dialogue on the ...

Norman Bel Geddes has long been considered the founder of American industrial design. During his long career he worked on everything from theatre d...