History of Art & Design Styles: from c 1900

Walter Gropius (18831969) set out to build for the future. As the founding director of the Bauhaus, the Berlin-born architect had an inestimable in...

In 1956, TIME magazine called him one of the defining form-givers of the 20th century. Today, Marcel Breuer (19021981) remains a locus classicus of...

An intimate look at Ben Nicholson's everyday inspirations Throughout his career, Ben Nicholson (18941982) transformed everyday homewares into extra...

The works of Christo and Jeanne-Claude are monuments of transience. Gigantic in scale, they are always temporary, created to exist only for a limit...

A great monograph on Joana Vasconcelos, the internationally acclaimed Portuguese artist. This book contains creative output from the period betwe...

Lady Gaga, Jilet Aye, Müslüm, Andy Warhol and Sun Ra are nationally and internationally known artistic characters. This publication deals with arti...

An Earthy Entanglement with Spirituality offers compelling perspectives on literature and art whose common ground lies in their diverse evocations ...

What does it mean to render the processes of making art-cutting, pasting, and projecting light-as a series of metaphors for how we think and how we...

From the end of World War II until the mid-1960s, exciting things were happening in American architecture. Emerging talents were focusing on innova...

Designed to be a companion to our classic title 1000 Chairs, this edition contains an awesome selection of over 1000 lights. Presented chronologica...

A beautiful presentation of fifty masterworks of late 19th- to mid-20th-century avant-garde European art from one of America's most distinguished p...

A unique survey of 350 artworks by a global and diverse array of LGBTQ+ artists many underrecognized and overlooked from the last 50 years Though...

John Marin was a major figure among the cutting-edge circle of American modernist artists who showed his work in Alfred Stieglitzs New York galleri...

Wiener Werkstätte: Textiles and their design This book presents new research and archival findings on the textile and fashion designs of the Wien...

This book aims to investigate Surrealisms precedents in visual tradition and to explore its influence on contemporary art. Taking the ideational po...

A deep analysis of an enigmatic artist whose oeuvre opens new spaces for understanding feminism, the body, and identity Popular and pioneering as a...

Phyllis Dodd was born in Chester and studied firstly at Liverpool School of Art 1917-21 After winning a Royal Exhibition scholarship spent a furthe...

Deco dandy contests the supposedly exclusive feminine aspect of the style moderne (art deco) by exploring how alternative, parallel and overlapping...

An immense contribution to scholarship on Ed Ruscha and his pioneering artistic practice, offering thorough documentation of his works on paper Thi...

Dissident Authorship in Mozambique: the Case of António Quadros is the first monograph on the literary works of the pennames of Portuguese poet and...

In this book, contributors identify and explore a range of iconic works Mistress-Pieces that have been made by feminists and gender activists sin...

Collage and Literature analyzes how and why the history of literature and art changed irrevocably beginning in the early years of the twentieth cen...

An important resource for scholars of contemporary art and architecture, this volume considers contemporary art that takes architecture as its subj...

Focusing on W.B. Yeats's ideal of mutual support between the arts, Karen Brown sheds new light on how collaborations and differences between member...

During the period in which Expressionist artists were active in central Europe, art historians were producing texts which also began to be characte...

A leading figure of the postwar avant-garde, Danish artist Asger Jorn has long been recognized for his founding contributions to the Cobra and Situ...

The Triangle region of North Carolina is a little-known hotbed of outstanding modern architecture with roots that trace back to the Bauhaus and h...

Originally delivered as the prestigious Mellon Lectures on the Fine Arts in 1995, After the End of Art remains a classic of art criticism and philo...