Art & design styles: c 1900 to c 1960 books

"Quinto è il SESTO libro della collana I MIEI CENTO ARCHITETTI + 1: la mia STORIA DELL'ARCHITETTURA scritta per...  Read More >>

Casting new light on the relationship between photography and film, Still Modernism articulates the struggle between...  Read More >>

The first substantial book on the French Neo-Romantics, a cosmopolitan group working in 1920s Paris who turned against...  Read More >>

Since the Second World War, ""Modernism"" in the arts has been overwhelmingly associated with the cultural and political...  Read More >>

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This is a meticulously researched and liberally illustrated account with exquisite drawings of key people and selected...  Read More >>

"The fascinating untold story of how Nazi architects and planners envisioned and began to build a model ""Aryan""...  Read More >>

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A revelatory, fast-paced account of the most exciting, frenzied, and revolutionary decade in art history--1905 to...  Read More >>

The lives, loves, and works of key British Surrealists revealed by one of the last surviving members of this movement,...  Read More >>

A short introduction to the art and life of Jean Baptiste Camille Corot (1796-1875), the French 19th century master...  Read More >>

This book productively contests the supposedly exclusive feminine aspect of the style moderne (Art Deco). Through...  Read More >>

The book tells the story of individual artists in Central Europe who believed in art's power to change the world;...  Read More >>

Rembrandt is in the Wind is part art history, part Biblical study, part philosophy, and part analysis of the human...  Read More >>

Now available in paperback, this book on the celebrated Dada artist Hannah Höch explores her use of collage as the...  Read More >>

The first monograph on artist and filmmaker Leslie Thornton- essential, foundational scholarship on her influential...  Read More >>

This volume explores the changing process of evaluating objects during the period of Japan's rapid modernization....  Read More >>

An authoritative re-definition of the social, cultural and visual history of the emergence of the “avant-garde”...  Read More >>

""A collection of essays examining surrealism's cultural adaptations and genealogical descendants from the 1960s...  Read More >>

The theater known today as the Detroit Opera House has been an integral part of the city's culture and history as...  Read More >>

Experiments with Body Agent Architecture explores the notion of body agents: animate and highly specific figures...  Read More >>

"A proposal that artists are the anthropologists of our new era or ecological crisis. A proposal that artists are...  Read More >>

At the dawn of the twentieth century, the world yearned for a new design style that would embody contemporary culture....  Read More >>

Collecting the majority of William Morris’s wallpaper designs in one volume, this lavishly illustrated volume is...  Read More >>

This is the catalog of the great retrospective set up in Vercelli from 19th December 2021 to 27th February 2022...  Read More >>