Art & design styles: c 1900 to c 1960 books

An alternative genealogy of abstract art, featuring the crucial role of 19th-century German literature in shaping...  Read More >>

The son of Oregon pioneers, Walter D. Pugh spent his career as an architect building landmarks throughout his home...  Read More >>

A thrilling story of the pioneering Tumlinson family and their quest westward to Texas, formation of the Texas Rangers,...  Read More >>

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This immersive dive into the life and work of Salvador Dali unlocks the secret of this creative genius and reveals...  Read More >>

Texts by established and emerging writers who address the social and political dimensions of art and art writing...  Read More >>

Forty-one thoughtful and generous contributions by artists, scholars, scientists, and ocean activists in response...  Read More >>

"English summary: The Werkbund is certainly the most famous forerunner of the Bauhaus. As early as 1907, this working...  Read More >>

"IV libro della mia Storia dell'architettura per architetti alla maniera delle ""Vite"" del VASARI, che ho chiamato...  Read More >>

New reference book on Villa Empain, a true Art Deco temple of architect Michel Polak in the early 1930s, whose tenth...  Read More >>

English summary: Karl Ernst Osthaus had the Hohenhof in Hagen (today part of the Osthaus Museum Hagen) built by...  Read More >>

As Jewish writers, artists, and intellectuals made their way into Western European and Anglo-American cultural centers,...  Read More >>

Published on the occasion of an exhibition organized by the Richard H. Driehaus Museum and Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian...  Read More >>

The son of Oregon pioneers, Walter D. Pugh spent his career as an architect building landmarks throughout his home...  Read More >>

This two-sided, bilingual map is a guide to Prague's most distinctive 20th century architecture, from Cubism to...  Read More >>

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Postmodernism has been a buzzword of contemporary society for the last decade. But how can it be defined? In this...  Read More >>

Living Landmarks of Chicago goes beyond the what, when, and where to tell the how and why of fifty Chicago landmarks....  Read More >>

Yusuf Franko Kusa Bey (1856–1933), a high-ranking bureaucrat in fin-de-siècle Ottoman imperial administration, was...  Read More >>

The Austrian artist Hans Zatzka (1859-1945) captured his dream world on the canvas. This coffee-table book is a...  Read More >>

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A lavishly illustrated celebration of artist and illustrator John Hassall, known as ‘The Poster King’.  Read More >>

Restoring a “perfect painter” to the Cubist canon    Read More >>

The first investigation of how race and gender shaped the presentation and marketing of Modernist decor in postwar...  Read More >>