Art & design styles: c 1900 to c 1960 books

In the 1920s, Germany was in the grip of social and political turmoil. This book shows, these years of upheaval...  Read More >>

These books provide a historical overview of the development of different types of art and artistic movements; explore...  Read More >>

Provides information on the fundamental role that Picasso played in the development of modern American art, both...  Read More >>

Decorative and applied arts played a major role in shaping the modernist aesthetic. Western artists and collectors...  Read More >>

The relationship between humor and figurative art has been explored frequently ever since Giuliano Briganti's parodic...  Read More >>

First scholarly monograph devoted to Klee's poetry illuminates the reciprocity of poetry and painting in Klee's...  Read More >>

Reproduced directly from three of Benedictus's highly prized and rare portfolios, these luminous images blend squares,...  Read More >>

A sequel to The Honeywood File (originally published in 1929, and reissued by Academy Chicago in 2000), it takes...  Read More >>

Presents a collection of Klimt's landscape paintings, bringing various aspects of the Viennese painter's uvre. Accompanied...  Read More >>

This lavishly illustrated art history situates the work of pioneering mid-twentieth-century Native American artists...  Read More >>

This lavishly illustrated art history situates the work of pioneering mid-twentieth-century Native American artists...  Read More >>

What is abstract art good for? What's the use - for us as individuals, or for any society - of pictures of nothing,...  Read More >>

Surrealism is a particularly complex international movement. This book documents the origins and development of...  Read More >>

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Eminent scholar Rudolf Kuenzli presents a rich selection of the Dadas' experimental visual and literary works to...  Read More >>

Vienna was home to some of the most extraordinary minds of modern times, and was a vigorous melting-pot of radical...  Read More >>

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The revolutionary Dada movement, though short-lived, produced a vast amount of creative work in both art and literature...  Read More >>

The revolutionary Dada movement, though short-lived, produced a vast amount of creative work in both art and literature...  Read More >>

Asmara, the capital of the small East African country of Eritrea, has one of the highest concentrations of Modernist...  Read More >>

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""Published in conjunction with the exhibition 'Designing the modern utopia: Soviet textiles from the Lloyd Cotsen...  Read More >>

In Dime-Store Alchemy, poet Charles Simic reflects on the life and work of Joseph Cornell, the maverick surrealist...  Read More >>