History of Art & Design Styles: from c 1900

Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) was an English surrealist artist and writer who emigrated to Mexico after the Second World War. This volume approach...

The John Rylands Library houses one of the finest collections of rare books, manuscripts and archives in the world. The collections span five mille...

What would it mean to be avant-garde today? Arguing against the notion that the avant-garde is dead or confined to historically "failed" movements,...

Cecily Brown (b.1969, London) is one of the most acclaimed painters working today. Her inimitable style shifts effortlessly between abstraction and...

This is the first volume to focus on the diverse permutations of international surrealist cinema after the canonical interwar period. The collectio...

The History of Art as it developed after the Second World War, is an important chapter in world cultural heritage. During this period art developed...

This is a book about artistic modernism contending with the historical transfigurations of modernity. As a conscientious engagement with modernity'...

From the time of his first trip to Ireland in 1913 and his last trip in 1928, American artist Robert Henri created masterful paintings of the Irish...

A volume considering questions of conservation that arise with new artistic mediums and practices. Much of the artwork that rose to prominence in t...

A strikingly original exploration of the profound impact of World War II on how we understand the art that survived it By the end of World War II a...

This monograph is the first comprehensive publication of Julius von Bismarck's work, which has already attracted considerable notice on account of ...

Is gender implicated in how art does its work in the world created by global capital? Is a global imperative exclusive to capital’s planetary expan...

Crafting design in Italy is the first book to examine the role that craft played in post-war Italian design, one of the most celebrated design epis...

What does it mean for a sculpture to be described as ‘organic’ or a diagram of ‘morphological forces’? These were questions that preoccupied Modern...

Seditiously garish paintings, watercolours, animated films, absurd journals, and extensive installations - all of these are only a small part of ...

Looking at the newspaper clipping from 1870 to 1930 in art and science, this study examines knowledge production and its visual and material backgr...

Berlin has a special architectural treasure: six residential estates in the Modern Style, built between 1913 and 1932, are remarkable both for thei...

Art Nouveau thrived from the late 1890s through the First World War. The international design movement reveled in curvilinear forms and both playfu...

Images have never been as freely circulated as they are today. They have also never been so tightly controlled. As with the birth of photography, d...

Hirst’s Psalm paintings allude to Gothic stained glass windows and the circular patterns of Buddhist mandalas This beautifully illustrated book co...