History of Art & Design Styles: from c 1900

Positioning Alice Neel as a champion of civil rights, this book explores how her paintings convey her humanist politics and capture the humanity, s...

A monumental, lavishly illustrated book that offers the first global portrait of a complex and definition-defying genre of cultural production.Over...

The first retrospective on a fascinating protagonist of the 1970s Pattern & Decoration movement, who defied Minimalist orthodoxy with humorous ...

In the twenty-first century, we are continually confronted with the existential side of technology—the relationships between identity and the mecha...

The New Art Examiner was the only successful art magazine ever to come out of Chicago. It had nearly a three-decade long run, and since its foundin...

Malvin Gray Johnson, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, and Max Weber were three New York City artists whose work was popularly assigned to the category of "racial a...

The Visual is Political examines the growth of feminist photography as it unfolded in Britain during the 1970s and 1980s. This period in Britain wa...

Kunstwerke lassen sich nicht allein auf die Lebensgeschichte von Künstlerinnen und Künstlern zurückführen, doch es wäre auch falsch anzunehmen, das...

René Lalique: Selections from the Steven and Roslyn Shulman Collection introduces the artistic innovations and legacy of renowned French Art Deco a...

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

How do students develop a personal style from their instruction in a visual arts program? Women Artists on the Leading Edge explores this question ...

A novel account of the relationship between postindustrial capitalism and postmodern culture, this book looks at American poetry and art of the las...

Few regions of the country produced such a distinctive group of artists with such a particular view on the modern world as did the Pacific Northwes...

Focusing on artistic evocations of the irrepressible Gedes - an increasingly dominant family of trickster dieties - In Extremis examines the striki...

Dada is often celebrated for its strategies of shock and opposition, but in Dada Presentism, Maria Stavrinaki provides a new picture of Dada art an...

Born in Mallorca, Pere Joan Riera (known professionally as Pere Joan) thrived in the underground comics world, beginning in the mid-1970s with the ...

Tracing the configuration of the slapstick, destitute Peladita/Peladito and the Pachuca/Pachuco (depicted in flashy zoot suits) from 1928 to 2004, ...

A comprehensive monograph on the pioneering artist Anthony Caro. Regarded as the greatest British artist of his generation and represented in mus...