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

“It was simple furniture ... and we were makers of it.” ""In 1931, the English designer Gerald Summers and his...  Read More >>

Rewrites the history of architectural modernism for an age of environmental crisis and enduring colonialism.  Read More >>

The life and times of extraordinary Philadelphia art collector Albert C. Barnes Philadelphia art collector Albert...  Read More >>

Experience the Wizarding World like never before through the 100 objects that make the films of Harry Potter magical....  Read More >>

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Rewrites the history of architectural modernism for an age of environmental crisis and enduring colonialism.  Read More >>

St. Louis scholars contribute essays on the untold stories of the 1904 World’s Fair. The 1904 World’s Fair was...  Read More >>

The life and times of extraordinary Philadelphia art collector Albert C. Barnes Philadelphia art collector Albert...  Read More >>

'Women's work' has historically been relegated to the domestic - absent from galleries and discussions of 'art'....  Read More >>

An original interpretation of the final years of Van Gogh’s career, exploring the people and places that take over...  Read More >>

Focuses on the visual culture of the American meat industry between 1890 and 1960. Describes how, during that period,...  Read More >>

The publication addresses a highly topical subject: the interaction between art, science, and social processes -...  Read More >>

A clever collaboration between potter, Herman C. Cole, and artist and entrepreneur, Anna M. Graham, led to the creation...  Read More >>

This book is a groundbreaking bottom-up history of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, exploring both its triumphs and...  Read More >>

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A new history of Futurism and its fraught ideological ambitions, centered on sculptural experimentation  Read More >>

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How San Franciscans exploited natural resources such as redwood lumber to produce the first major metropolis of...  Read More >>

Through panoramas of mood, ideas, and emotions, Expressionism stands as one of the most reactionary and influential...  Read More >>

Per Fronth is one of Norway’s most distinctive contemporary artists. He produces large-format artworks in different...  Read More >>

The artistic society known as ""Groupe de Saint-Luc"" left its mark on the artistic and cultural heritage of Switzerland,...  Read More >>

Alongside many decorative arts, the artists of the Groupe de Saint-Luc invested in all fields of the glass arts...  Read More >>

Armoured soldiers, sexualized machine men, mechanized athletes: Between 1914 and 1926, artists of the German and...  Read More >>

This volume analyzes the post-WWII artistic initiatives via in-depth case studies of the complex, often interconnected,...  Read More >>

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