Art & design styles: c 1900 to c 1960 books

A milestone Bauhaus birthday offers an excellent opportunity to take a critical look at its legacy in contemporary...  Read More >>

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Dolores Soldevilla Nieto was a passionate Cuban artist whose career blossomed in the 1950s. Following early professional...  Read More >>

Pierre-Auguste Renoir was one of the foremost Impressionist artists, known for his en plein air scenes of middle-class...  Read More >>

In this beautifully illustrated book, Ann Sumner explores the life of this prodigious painter and the subjects that...  Read More >>

He did not paint his pictures; it was like he exhaled them in a gasping, boiling breath - Julius Meier-Graef Van...  Read More >>

Gustav Klimt's exotic, sensuous paintings recall the art of ancient civilizations - their patterns and ornamentation...  Read More >>

After the Crisis offers a platform for discussions between some of today’s leading artists, writers, theorists,...  Read More >>

A close examination of an iconic small town that gives boundless insights into architecture, landscape, preservation,...  Read More >>

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In the words of Matisse and Picasso, Paul Cézanne was the 'father of us all', his approach to color and perspective...  Read More >>

"""Fret-Sawing For Pleasure And Profit (How To Use The Fret-Saw, by An Old Amateur)"",1877 published by Henry T....  Read More >>

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Explores the life, career, and intellectual debates of art historian Meyer Schapiro, who worked at the nexus of...  Read More >>

By examining the studios and studio-houses used by British artists between 1900 and 1940, this book reveals the...  Read More >>

Radical Women tells a fresh, new story of British modernism, as the first to cover the entirety of Jessica Dismorr's...  Read More >>

The worldwide use of building envelopes in steel and glass is one of the characteristic features of modern architecture....  Read More >>

Als der Tanz im frühen 2 . Jahrhundert zunehmend von modernen und außereuropäischen Einflüssen geprägt wurde, stellte...  Read More >>

Sargent's portraits in charcoal constitute a gallery of the great and the good and the talented, scarcely less remarkable...  Read More >>

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English summary: Johannes Itten (1888-1967) introduced the method of analyzing Old Masters into his teaching at...  Read More >>

Explore the oeuvre of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, one of the most important German Expressionist painters of the 20th...  Read More >>

The definitive guide to Art Deco buildings in Britain, written by leading architectural historian Elain Harwood....  Read More >>