History of Art & Design Styles: from c 1900

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

Encountering Things brings together leading design scholars to explore the relationship between thing theory and design, exploring production proce...

Encountering Things brings together leading design scholars to explore the relationship between thing theory and design, exploring production proce...

Reading Graphic Design in Cultural Context explains key ways of understanding and interpreting the graphic designs we see all around us, in adverti...

British Design brings together leading international scholars, designers and journalists to provide new perspectives on British design in the last ...

Walter Kaesbach gehört zu den engagierten Persönlichkeiten des deutschen Kulturlebens der zwanziger und dreißiger Jahre des letzten Jahrhunderts. E...

Much of modernist architecture was inspired by the emergence of internationalism: the ethics and politics of world peace, justice and unity through...

Jeanne Mammens watercolour images of the gender-bending new woman and her candid portrayals of Berlins thriving nightlife appeared in some of the m...

Despite a European training and an early career working with Peter Behrens, a migration from Vienna to the Australian state of Queensland positione...

In The City as Subject, Carolyn S. Loeb examines distinctive bodies of public art in Berlin: legal and illegal murals painted in West Berlin in the...

In the years before, during, and after the First World War, hundreds of young Jews flocked to Paris, artistic capital of the world and center of mo...

Futurism and early cinema shared a fascination with dynamic movement and speed, presenting both as harbingers of an emerging new way of life and ne...

A groundbreaking volume resituating the Harlem Renaissance as integral to the development of twentieth-century modernism   Beginning in the 1920s, ...

A unique journey with James Ensor through the history of still life in Belgium in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries   Still life played an imp...

Les diners de Gala is uniquely devoted to the pleasures of taste If you are a disciple of one of those calorie-counters who turn the joys of eatin...

Since 1953, the Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft im BDI e. V. has awarded the annual ars viva prize for visual arts to outstanding young artist...

Tanz auf der Klinge. Hold Me is the first monograph by the artist Willehad Eilers aka Wayne Horse (b. 1981). This publication features works create...

Roy MacGregor grew up in Huntsville, close to his beloved Algonquin Park, where he spent his childhood surrounded by stories of the famous painter...

Christine Ödlunds (*1963) first monograph is composed as a coherent whole, with each part interacting and resonating with the next. Paying particul...

The first book to chart Scott Burtons performance art and sculpture of the 1970s. Scott Burton (193989) created performance art and sculpture that ...

How can we reconfigure our picture of modern art after the postcolonial turn without simply adding regional art histories to the Eurocentric canon?...

The second book in a three-volume series on Black American artists, featuring work from the 1950s to the 1970s that responded to the cultural, poli...

A unique body of work and a radical contribution to our understanding of magic, art, sexual enlightenment and female desire, this exquisitely illus...

How do comics produce such a striking range of vibrant stories, representations, and expressions of the sensibilities of their creators? Henry John...

Paris, Shanghai and New York: Georgette Chen, one of Singapores foremost artists, once counted these cultural capitals as home and cut her teeth as...

Presenting key examples and case studies of how design has responded to the pandemic, Design and Covid-19 offers lessons and approaches to design f...

Presenting key examples and case studies of how design has responded to the pandemic, Design and Covid-19 offers lessons and approaches to design f...

A design monograph series on the most remarkable architects, designers, brands and design movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, ea...

A design monograph series on the most remarkable architects, designers, brands and design movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, ea...

From the late 1910s through the 1950s, particularly, the Caribbean nation of Haiti drew the attention and imaginations of many key U.S. artists, ye...

Compelling survey of Xicanx art that has shaped visual culture over the last 50 years. Xican-a.o.x. Body centres the political and creative resist...

Redefining the artistic movement that helped shape American modernism   In the early decades of the twentieth century, a loose contingent of artis...

Tells the fascinating story of the journey taken by the Bauhaus both the concept behind the school and some of the individuals who represented it ...

Marcel Duchamp is today considered one of the most significant 20th century artists worldwide. His far-reaching influence is visible within a varie...

A new and challenging perspective on Nazi exhibition design In one of the most comprehensive analyses ever written on the subject, Michael Tymkiw r...

Threads of globalization is an interdisciplinary volume that brings fashion-specific garments, motifs, materials, and methods of production into di...

Strategies of Playful Resistance Within the Consumer Society Guy Ben Ner makes a lot out of very little, radically integrating both himself and hi...