Art & design styles: c 1900 to c 1960 books

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How postwar abstract modernist paintings came to be seen as metaphorical embodiments of masculine selfhood; an examination...  Read More >>

In the history of 20th century art, Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) stands out over all the others. In Picasso's paintings,...  Read More >>

Dedicated to the study and presentation of the history of the Bauhaus, including the new Bauhaus in Chicago and...  Read More >>

An exploration of the unsettling collisions of art and culture in Georges Bataille's revolutionary...  Read More >>

Most people think the proud tradition of modernist architecture in California never caught on north of the San Fernando...  Read More >>

At the turn of the 20th century, Vienna was one of the most exciting cities on earth—the central gathering spot...  Read More >>

Catalog of an exhibtion held at the Tate Modern, London, Mar. 9-June 4, 2006, the Kunsthalle Bielefeld, June 25-Oct....  Read More >>

In essays as revealing of their author as they are of their subject, Rilke examines Rodin's life and work, and explains...  Read More >>

Surveys Paul Klee's imaginative hand puppets. An introductory essay is dedicated to Klee's connection to the theatre,...  Read More >>

How the formal ingenuity of abstract art has been cross-fertilized by creative discrepancies—a cross-cultural voyage...  Read More >>

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Reprinted from a rare 1910 portfolio, 160 sensuous and exotic images depict a breathtaking array of florals, geometrics,...  Read More >>

The art world acknowledges Amedeo Modigliani, an Italian Jew from a bourgeois family, as a master whose oeuvre-sculptures,...  Read More >>

Provides an account of a pivotal period in European cultural history. This book articulates the relation between...  Read More >>

"This issue of Yale French Studies on ""Surrealism and Its Others""examines the works and theories of writers, artists,...  Read More >>

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Preface by Jan Hoet. Essays by Georg-Christof Bertsch, Mel Byars, Hartmut Braun, Victor Margolin, Mathias Remmele,...  Read More >>

Exploring cross-cultural scenarios in 20th Century art, this collection alters the understanding of abstract art...  Read More >>

"Published to accompany the exhibition at the Museum of Biblical Art, New York, USA, this work offers a set of prints...  Read More >>

Painter, sculptor, writer, and filmmaker, Salvador Dali (1904-1989) was one of the century's greatest exhibitionists...  Read More >>

Offers a record of Roland Penroses' encounters with the artist, Picasso, and his family, friends and associates,...  Read More >>

Rudolf Szyszkowitz gehört zu den bedeutendsten österreichischen KÃ""nstlern des 20. Jahrhunderts. 1905 in Kärnten...  Read More >>

In this volume, first published in German in 1927, Walter Curt Behrendt presents a revisionist concept of style...  Read More >>