Art & design styles: Modernist design & Bauhaus books

Wassily Kandinsky and Josef Albers were colleagues at the Bauhaus school in Dessau, Germany. Their correspondence,...  Read More >>

Joseph Maria Olbrich (1867-1908) is famed for his Vienna Secession building (1898) and the Hochzeitsturm, or Wedding...  Read More >>

One of America's foremost modernists, John Storrs (1885-1956) produced a remarkable body of work that helped re-invigorate...  Read More >>

Since 1976, the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center of New York has hosted its annual International Studio Program, providing...  Read More >>

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A superb graphic guide to the shockwave of innovations that hit art, architecture, music, cinemas and literature...  Read More >>

Discussing an aspect of the European avant-garde that has often been neglected-its relationship to the embodied...  Read More >>

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The Wayne County Jail was built in the residential area of Butternut Street in Lyons, NY in 1856. For 104 years,...  Read More >>

A catalogue that presents a selection of approximately 100 of the finest watercolours, pastels, and drawings by...  Read More >>

Addresses the paradox of Matisse's status as a canonical modern artist, but one whose work and career cannot be...  Read More >>

Welcome to Millionaire's Row, where the Gilded Age mansions and clubs of high society still exude a faded elegance....  Read More >>

This is a faithful reproduction of the 1938 sketchbook of Philip Ayer Sawyer, which he hoped would eventually illustrate...  Read More >>

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"Welcome to Millionaire s Row, where the Gilded Age mansions and clubs of high society still exude a faded elegance....  Read More >>

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A document on modern design history. It features the individual Wagenfeld designs in the artistic product photographs...  Read More >>

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This is the authoritative work on the causes of World War One. The author, Sidney Bradshaw Fay (1876-1967), was...  Read More >>

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In his most ambitious endeavour since Freud, acclaimed cultural historian Peter Gay traces and explores the rise...  Read More >>

The Bauhaus movement developed in three German cities - it began in Weimar between 1919 and 1925, then continued...  Read More >>

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