History of Art & Design Styles: from c 1900

Arranged alphabetically, this biographical encyclopedia features every major photographer of the 20th century alongside her or his most significant...

Bestselling author Phoebe Hoban chronicles Alice Neel's colourful and chaotic life, from her turn-of-the-century upbringing through her later years...

The unfading popularity of Gustav Klimt (18621918) attests not only to the particular appeal of his luxuriant painting but also to the universal th...

Lampooned during his lifetime for his style as much as his subject matter, French painter Édouard Manet (18321883) is now considered a crucial figu...

It was the decade of daring Expressionist canvases, of brilliant book design, of the Bauhaus total work of art, of pioneering psychology, of drag b...

It was the decade of daring Expressionist canvases, of brilliant book design, of the Bauhaus total work of art, of pioneering psychology, of drag b...

Edward Hopper (18821967) is something of an American success story, if only his success had come swifter. At the age of 40, he was a failing artist...

From impossible staircases to tessellated birds, Dutch artist M.C. Escher (18981972) crafted a unique graphic language of patterns, puzzles, and ma...

In the architecture of Richard Neutra (18921970), inside and outside find their perfect modernist harmony. As the Californian sun glints off sleek ...

In the mid-1950s, Yves Klein (19281962) declared that a new world calls for a new man. With his idiosyncratic style and huge charisma, this bold ar...

A survey of the work of one of Chicagos most prolific artists. Edgar Miller (18991993) arrived in Chicago in 1917 and, over the next fifty years, e...

This book examines the work of several modern artists, including Fortunato Depero, Scipione, and Mario Radice, who were working in Italy during the...

This is the first comprehensive English-language study of East Asian art history in a transnational context, and challenges the existing geographic...

Hailed the Prince of the Impressionists, Claude Monet (1840-1926) transformed expectations for the purpose of paint on canvas. Defying the preceden...

This book examines contemporary feminist visual activism(s) through the lens of embodiment(s). The contributors explore how the arts articulate and...

Transnational Perspecives on Feminism and Art, 19601985 is a collection of essential essays that bring transnational feminist praxis into conversat...

This book examines the artistic practices of a range of British-based artists of East Asian (Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Taiwanese) heritage to c...

This book explores the effects of the Instagram platform on the making and viewing of art.Authors Lachlan MacDowall and Kylie Budge critically anal...

Postmodernism in the visual arts is not just another 'ism.' It emerged in the 1960s as a transformation of artistic creativity inspired by Duchamp'...

Is art created with computers really art? This book answers yes. Computers can generate visual art with unique aesthetic effects based on innovatio...

This book examines contemporary feminist visual activism(s) through the lens of embodiment(s). The contributors explore how the arts articulate and...

The first book in English on Maruja Mallo, this volume is an insightful examination of the life and work of this seminal artist of the Spanish avan...

All cultures make, and break, images. Striking Images, Iconoclasms Past and Present explores how and why people have made and modified images and o...

Reveals the contemporary art phenomenon of disrupted realism through the paintings of 43 artists at its core. Profoundly shaped by the events,...

Fair Women was the Victorian equivalent of a blockbuster exhibition. Organised by a committee of women, it opened to great fanfare in the Grafton G...

This book gathers the published and unpublished writings of Dr Grace Pailthorpe (1883-1971), English surgeon, specialist in psychological medicine ...

In this unique book the author explores the history of pioneering computer art and its contribution to art history by way of examining Ernest Edmon...

This book gathers the published and unpublished writings of Dr Grace Pailthorpe (1883-1971), English surgeon, specialist in psychological medicine ...

The first book to devote serious attention to questions of scale in contemporary sculpture, this study considers the phenomenon within the interlin...

Taking citizenship as a political position, cultural process, and intertwining of both, this edited volume examines the role of visual art and visu...

A mini art show of the celebrated artist's best-known and little-seen paintings, reproduced on stamps from around the world.  Exceptionally pr...

This book, a biography on Francis Bacon, is inspired by the friendship the author had with Bacon and based on records of the conversations that too...

This book examines a range of visual expressions of Black Power across American art and popular culture from 1965 through 1972. It begins with case...

This collection of essays considers artistic works that deal with the body without a visual representation. It explores a range of ways to represen...

First published in 2006, this volume provides the first in-depth analysis of the place of visual representations within the process of decolonisati...

The Burlington Fine Arts Club was founded in London in 1866 as a gentlemens club with a singular remit to exhibit members art collections. Exhibit...