Art & design styles: c 1900 to c 1960 books

Architect, theorist, dadaist—van Doesburg describes the circumstances of being an artist in the increasingly capitalistic...  Read More >>

A comprehensive study by Gropius’s protégé, Adolf Meyer  Read More >>

An important new survey on abstract art that takes content as a guide to form, and breaks open the canon to make...  Read More >>

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Schlemmer’s vision of how to define dance, theater, and music  Read More >>

This catalogue shows works by Jana Schröder from the past 10 years and includes an extensive interview with the...  Read More >>

In the spirit of classical trompe-l’œil painting, Czupryn is a master of aesthetic deception who translates the...  Read More >>

A fascinating history of the artistic innovation and political debates that took shape in New Deal–era murals  Read More >>

Objects: USA 2020 hails a new generation of artist-craftspeople by revisiting a groundbreaking event that redefined...  Read More >>

Essays and Lectures Oscar Wilde *** HISTORICAL criticism nowhere occurs as an isolated fact in the civilisation...  Read More >>

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The 'new urban municipality of Berlin', also called Greater Berlin, was created 100 years ago, on 1 October 1920,...  Read More >>

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"On the brink of fame and fortune, Jimmy Quentin, poet maudit of the Q-tips, leaves it all behind and takes to the...  Read More >>

A dazzling dual portrait of Frank Lloyd Wright and early twentieth-century New York, revealing the city's role in...  Read More >>

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Provides a succinct and insightful introduction to a little-known period of the artist's career: his years in Switzerland....  Read More >>

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The Fruits of Empire is a history of American expansion through the lens of art and food. In the decades after the...  Read More >>

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

The Sophie Taeuber-Arp Coloring Book has 22 illustrations of Sophie and her work. A great companion to A Gallery...  Read More >>

English summary: After the end of the Second World War, numerous states, including the Federal Republic of Germany,...  Read More >>

The Modernist Bestiary centres on Le Bestiaire ou Cortège d'Orphée (1911), a multimedia collaborative work by French-Polish...  Read More >>

Verschiedene Szenen des Graphierens, Praktiken und Konzeptualisierungen von Linien und Fragen der Buchästhetik in...  Read More >>