20th Century History

"Encounters with Australian Modern Art" represents a vital milestone in the presentation of Australian art to a world-wide readership. It is published in French and English, and lavishly illustrated with...

The book titled Race, Sex and Gender in Contemporary Art: The Rise of Minority Culture by the author Edward Lucie-Smith. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more...

This volume presents the history of the Archigram Group which revolutionized British and European architectural thinking in the 1960s. Peter Cook, Ron Herron, Warren Clark and Dennis Crompton proposed a...

Frances Burke was Australia's most influential and celebrated textile designer of the 20th century. From the late 1930s to 1970, her designs achieved a prominence unparalleled in Australia before or...

Ten-year-old Jan Senbergs landed with his family in Melbourne in 1950, driven by tragic and violent events in the closing months of World War II from his native Latvia. His...

Much of the Gothic Revival's modern appeal derives from furnishings, liturgical metalwork and other arts and crafts, all of which are illustrated in this book.

Through conversation, essays, photos, and drawings, this book documents and explores Francis Alys' new project Seven Walks. Over the past five years, Francis Alys has been walking the streets of...

The author presents a survey of over 30 Swedish designers, from glass and textile designers to ceramic artists and furniture makers, which provides an insight into Scandanavian design philosophies. The...

"New Art Two" continues the pattern established by its popular predecessor presenting profiles of important contemporary artists in Australia - whether newly arrived, emerging or increasingly recognized. This volume presents...

Established in 1895, the Venice Biennale is one of the world's most important critical forums for contemporary visual art. Thousands of the world's leading curators, collectors, gallery directors and critics...

Painting is enjoying a remarkable creative renaissance in the 21st century. Many of the world's leading artists now work in this most enduring and seductive of media. 100 Painters of...

Contemporary British art has been reaching wider audiences in recent years at home and abroad, with the nation-wide interest attracted by the Turner Prize and the increased profile of young...

This extraordinary, visual journey documents Nelson Mandela's 27 years in prison on Robben Island and contains previously unpublished images, documents, and diary and letter excerpts, as well as some original...

This is the story of a woman who played a significant role in the avant-garde of Paris in the 1920s. A working woman, wife and mother, Sonia Delauney was married...

The outstanding legacy of the Russian goldsmith and jeweler Carl Faberge has captured the public's imagination for many years. During his lifetime, Faberge's extravagant jewelry and "objects d'art" brought him...

Since its inception nearly 25 years ago, the feminist art movement has transformed the art world. Now, co-editors Norma Broude and Mary D. Gaffard, professors of art history at the...

Carlos Mota is the mastermind behind the amazing photographs seen in all the top design magazines, including Architectural Digest, Elle Decor, and Interior Design, to name a few. His gifted...

This companion deals with the artists, ideas, movements, and trends of painting, sculpture, and the graphic arts in this century up to the 1970s. Coverage is world-wide.

One of a series of monographs on great 20th-century artists, this title is concerned with Oskar Kokoschka, a major figure in the Expresionist movement. After studying in Vienna, where he...

This revised text covers movements in art since 1945.

Up to his untimely death in 2006 at age 41, Jason Rhoades carried out a continuous assault on aesthetic conventions and the rules governing the art world-wryly subverting those very...

Intellectual, emotional, restless, dogged, loyal, selfish; Kandinsky was an artist - and a man - of contradictions. This genre-defying painter didn't pick up a brush until he was thirty years...

John Olsen's atelier, The Bakery Art School, was a uniquely exciting arts institution that deserves to be better known. Established in an old bakery building in Sydney's Paddington in 1967,...

In 1970 in Munich Gerhard Richter met Brigid Berlin alias Brigid Polk, Andy Warhol's legendary muse and enfant terrible of New York's high society. This meeting gave rise to Richter's...

Manifestos and immodest proposals from China's most famous artist and activist, culled from his popular blog, shut down by Chinese authorities in 2009. In 2006, even though he could barely...

Examines the works of Monet from a new perspective, and traces the changes in his style as brought about by the changes and problems in his personal life

The catalogue is arranged in three parts: firstly, a biographical section, incorporating portraits and records of events of both personal and national significance; secondly, a section drawn from Queen Elizabeth's...

In 1959 Daniel Spoerri pioneered the first programmatic series of multiples three-dimensional objects issued in edition to be broadly distributed. With a radical emphasis on multiplication and movement, Edition MAT...

Founded in 1984 by women around Gabriele Stoetzer, the Erfurt Women Artists' Group pursued a radically creative lifestyle to counter the rigid structures of everyday life in the GDR, over...

The art of Boris Lurie (* 1924, Leningrad) and Wolf Vostell (* 1932, Leverkusen) is determined by the break in civilization in Germany in 1933, which made the German genocide...

Richard Hamilton was the most influential British artist of his generation. Often described as 'the father of Pop art', he produced experimental and multilayered work in a range of media...

Summary of the major art movements that have influenced contemporary art. From the landscape tradition that formed the background to Australian art history, to the movements that have enlivened and...

Banksy's manager, Steve Lazarides is known for his eye for subversive, intelligent, attention grabbing artists. He has now gathered together the best of them to create a collection of Outsider...

From the day he left art school, Ricky Swallow has been making waves in the contemporary Australian and International art scenes. His idiosyncratic approach to art has made Swallow a...

The relationship between Henri Matisse and his son, the influential art dealer Pierre Matisse (1900-1989), is at the heart of this biography. Closely involved with great art from an early...

Bringing together photographs taken during the mid 1970s through to the early 1980s, Turn and Face the Strange covers the eclectic range of subjects that passed in front of Jane...

Perhaps best known for hyper realistic portraits of subjects from Kate Moss to the heavily tattooed Mr. X and Zoe which take the process of portraiture beyond the photographic medium,...