History of art & design styles: from c 1900 - books

Reflecting on 20 years of making art, Jeff Koons talks to Hans Ulrich Obrist about his vocation and its frequently...  Read More >>

In order to view the images in this concise artist's book, one must cut the Japanese-bound pages by hand. Within...  Read More >>

American avant-garde filmmaker Paul Sharits (1943-93)--a protagonist of the ""structural film"" movement, alongside...  Read More >>

The Project for a Discourse of all Figures in Three Parts, previously unpublished and documented here in facsimile,...  Read More >>

Between 2010 and 2011, curator Elena Filipovic along with artists Danh Vo, Carol Bove and Tino Sehgal, organized...  Read More >>

Working in sculpture, installation and video with powerful, often brutal images and materials, French-Algerian conceptual...  Read More >>

Looking at hotels in art and cinema and the cultural history of the hotel since 1840, this fascinating, handsomely...  Read More >>

Foreword by Anja Nathan-Dorn. Introduction by Kathrin Jentjens.  Read More >>

Deutsch-englische Ausgabe So präzise sich die Konkrete Kunst auch gibt, über die genaue Geburtsstunde ihrer Namensgebung...  Read More >>

Be a hopeful traveler. Someone who understands that life is more about the journey than the destination. This...  Read More >>

In a well-known debate with Geraldo Ferraz in 1948, Lúcio Costa argued that modern architecture as practiced in...  Read More >>

A publication documenting Scottish artist Callum Innes’s Tondos – round paintings that continue a long tradition...  Read More >>

This Book examines an interplay between discourses on the city that stress the need for rational-functional order...  Read More >>

A collection of highlights from Mary Ann Caws's long, highly distinguished career writing about literature, art,...  Read More >>

A series of insights matched with provoking imagery to stimulate the imagination and lead us to a new path and insights...  Read More >>

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A revelatory, beautifully produced compendium of the influential Japanese commercial design journal, with posters,...  Read More >>

The first publication in almost forty years on the work of George Hoyningen-Huene; the photographer whose images...  Read More >>

Renowned for his distinctive, elongated female nudes, Amedeo Modigliani is a legend of early modernism. His unique...  Read More >>

Premodern archives from the Middle East show rich and diverse homoerotic worlds that were disrupted by the colonial...  Read More >>

The traumatic surreal is the first major study to examine the leading role Germanophone women artists have played...  Read More >>

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An exploration of late nineteenth-century American literary posters—a vibrant genre at the vanguard of modern commercial...  Read More >>

Gauguin began his artistic life as an Impressionist in Paris, but yearning for a wider world view he experimented...  Read More >>

An elegant consideration of the Surrealist movement as a global phenomenon and why the movement continues to resonate...  Read More >>