Art & design styles: c 1900 to c 1960 books

Explores how the widespread circulation of pictures reshaped a nineteenth-century US culture that was accustomed...  Read More >>

From the Gilded Age to World War II, elite collectors and museums in the United States transformed from owning a...  Read More >>

The early years of the fashion icon The beginnings of Chanel's fashion brand lie in the French seaside resorts....  Read More >>

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An interdisciplinary approach to medical history that shows the key role that drawings and photographs had in shaping...  Read More >>

This book compares political propaganda and abstract-concretist art, two representational systems at opposite ends...  Read More >>

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In a city reeling from Bolshevik revolution, a group of Ukrainian transplants formed the Factory of the Eccentric...  Read More >>

A visual journey through five centuries of the city known as ""La Serenissima""--a unique and compelling story for...  Read More >>

Reflecting Oil presents innovative reflections on crude oil, one of the most important fossil fuels characterising...  Read More >>

Exploring the work of avant-garde artists in Cuba from 1940 to 1952, this book provides the first comprehensive...  Read More >>

Culture in Common explores the transnational history of traditionalist art in modern East Asia through a contextualist...  Read More >>

This volume takes stock of five years of provenance research at Kunstmuseum Basel. Eleven essays, the result of...  Read More >>

In this lavishly illustrated volume that includes nearly 400 color images, renowned scholar and photographer of...  Read More >>

Since about the middle of the nineteenth century, a specter has haunted the European mass media entertainment market:...  Read More >>

On the cusp of the twenty-first century, the notion of art as revelation of reality held sway in film aesthetics...  Read More >>