Art & design styles: c 1900 to c 1960 books

Examines the paintings of Kamran Khavarani. This book delves into the beauty, passion and intensity of Khavarani's...  Read More >>

Through an innovative manner of handling paint, a group of American artists around 1900 created deceptively simple...  Read More >>

Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, George Grosz, Emil Nolde, E.-L. Kirchner,  Read More >>

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Explores and celebrates the work of five modern artists. This work accompanies an exhibition at Dublin City Gallery...  Read More >>

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What does it mean to write ""This is not a pipe"" across a bluntly literal painting of a pipe? By exploring the...  Read More >>

An examination of artist Constantin Brancusi by art historian Edith Balas.  Read More >>

Looks at the work of influential women artists and at the import of feminism in their practices. Examining painters...  Read More >>

Edited by Roland Wetzel. Text by Olivia Levental, Sigrid Schade.  Read More >>

During the same period that Surrealism flourished between the wars, great advances were being made in the field...  Read More >>

In this new biography of Salvador Dali, highly respected art and literary historian Mary Ann Caws explores the life...  Read More >>

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Presents a universe rich in impossible objects, optical deceptions, double perspectives, transformations, anamorphosis...  Read More >>

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Examines the attempts of the French surrealist artist Andre Masson (1896-1987) to define 'self' in his art in the...  Read More >>

In the autumn of 1924, two men met in Paris for the first time. Georges Bataille was 27 and had started working...  Read More >>

An illustrated monograph of Barbara Rae's career. It features an essay situating the work in its twentieth- and...  Read More >>

This volume trace the Russian-American artist Ary Stillman's development from his early impressionist and representational...  Read More >>

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner is considered among the most important illustrators of the 20th century and was one of the...  Read More >>

The ""Brucke"" (established in Dresden in 1905) is, together with the Blauer Reiter in Munich, the most important...  Read More >>

A biography of Robert Desnos (1900-1945), which re-evaluates the surrealist movement through the life and works...  Read More >>

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Cy Twombly's oeuvre featuring paintings, sculptures, works on paper and photographs displays a highly personal,...  Read More >>

In 1920, at the age of thirty-five, Amedeo Modigliani died in poverty and neglect in Paris. An Italian Jew from...  Read More >>