History of Art & Design Styles books

Public Displays of Affection: Fifty Years of the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art recounts the half-century crusade of...  Read More >>

A NYT bestseller, this is the tragic story of the talented painter Jean-Michel Basquiat, detailing his turbulent...  Read More >>

Twentieth-century Japanese printmaking—especially the refined art of shin hanga (new prints)—has long remained underappreciated....  Read More >>

The first full-length biography of one of South Carolina's most significant African American visual artists Excluded...  Read More >>

This book shows how novels and films set in the near future can shed light both on our failures of imagination before...  Read More >>

Modelmaking meets mythmaking in Boone’s life-sized bronzes of toy figurines As part of his artistic practice exploring...  Read More >>

Utilizing case studies from Caribbean and Latin American history, Cruz redefines artistic and cultural practices...  Read More >>

Artists from across the African and South Asian diasporas grapple with colonial legacies through a reimagining of...  Read More >>

This book explores how contemporary craftspeople, artists and other creatives identifying as LGBTQ+ use craft materials...  Read More >>

Featuring contributions from renowned scholars, curators and creatives, this edited collection re-evaluates British...  Read More >>

A book with bestseller potential - Edvard Munch, a key figure of European modernism, and one of his most important...  Read More >>

The people and places of Los Angeles serve as familiar subjects in this collection of previously unseen photographs...  Read More >>

Visualizing the collective imagination of Palestinian and Arab filmmakers across 75 years of exile, dispossession...  Read More >>

Go behind the scenes and discover how Sid Meier and his team created the remarkable world of Civilization VII!  Read More >>

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Castro’s intimate, small-scale works confront the disenfranchisement of racial and gender minorities Through paintings,...  Read More >>

The Ends of Art Studies explores the goals and limitations of fin de siècle art studies (Kunstwissenschaft) as a...  Read More >>

Modern Iran and the Avant-Gardes, 1948-78 explores how the complex cultural tensions of this period led to artistic...  Read More >>

This book explores how contemporary craftspeople, artists and other creatives identifying as LGBTQ+ use craft materials...  Read More >>

Featuring contributions from renowned scholars, curators and creatives, this edited collection re-evaluates British...  Read More >>

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This volume presents art with light in all its facets - using mirrors, black light, neon tubes, and bottles, Brigitte...  Read More >>

Gothic Modern illuminates the pivotal discovery of medieval Gothic art for Edvard Munch, Käthe Kollwitz and their...  Read More >>

A topic that affects us all - family. Everyone has it, and everyone has it differently. Contributions from newspapers,...  Read More >>

Examines how the cultures and identities of the intermediaries involved in the Anglo-American ceramic trade shaped...  Read More >>