Art & design styles: c 1900 to c 1960 books

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More than 300 historic fabric samples from the mid-1920s and 1930s provide a visual textbook of design ideas prevalent...  Read More >>

Duncan Grant was one of the best-known names on the British art scene and the most charismatic member of the Bloomsbury...  Read More >>

"""Eastern Dada Orbit"" is composed of two distinct parts and describes two largely unexplored aspects of Dada....  Read More >>

Recognized today as one of the great modernist painters, Paula Modersohn-Becker was also a gifted writer, and her...  Read More >>

This book accompanies the first exhibition of Mary Watts' work which celebrates the centenary of the building of...  Read More >>

Ben Nicholson (1894-1982) was one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century. Norbert Lynton's study on the...  Read More >>

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Perhaps no twentieth-century artist utilized puns and linguistic ambiguity with greater effect - and greater controversy...  Read More >>

An assessment of James's interaction with the visual arts, literature, dance and interior decoration, both as an...  Read More >>

This book includes discussions and reproductions of paintings, posters, panneaux decoratifs, pastels, drawings,...  Read More >>

This text, which accompanies an exhibition organized by the MIT List Visual Art Center, explores specific aspects...  Read More >>

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"A collection of essays around a central thesis with implications for the history of the avant-gardes. The author...  Read More >>

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Kazimir Malevich’s sudden realization of a non-objective way of painting, which he termed Suprematism, stands as...  Read More >>

Essay by Mary Ann Caws. Text by Donna De Salvo. This collection of essays on surrealism by the Wexner Center for...  Read More >>

The first book to be published in association with the prestigious Design Museum, this volume presents in one book...  Read More >>

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This work is an attempt to bring the latest findings of cognitive psychology to bear on the interpretation of Abstract...  Read More >>

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An illustrated biography of Claude Cahun (1894-1954), poet, actress, translator and, especially, photographer. The...  Read More >>

A close look at the widely accepted but little scrutinized belief that cubism forged a vital link between avant-garde...  Read More >>

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