History of Art & Design Styles books

Published in association with a solo exhibition Since first revitalizing figurative sculpture in the late 1990s...  Read More >>

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

The life of the world’s greatest modern artist by one of Britain’s greatest artists. 'Positive, original,...  Read More >>

A long-overdue English translation of Munari's seminal tract on the everyday value of architecture and design education...  Read More >>

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

A celebration of contemporary Native American art featuring work by artists from the nations of the Great Lakes...  Read More >>

In this open-access text, Z.S. Strother uses ethnographic studies of individual mask cultures in Africa to dispute...  Read More >>

Twenty full-color gallery-quality tear-out prints celebrating the art of Marvel Rivals! Twenty full-color gallery-quality...  Read More >>

Born just fourteen months apart, one in London and the other in rural Suffolk, J.M.W. Turner and John Constable...  Read More >>

As the first volume in the new series Art &, this book signals a bold new vision for a more dynamic study of art...  Read More >>

A chronological illustrated analysis of fifty-eight years of work by the collective Art & Language  Read More >>

An invitation to look closely at artworks and explore the techniques artists use to draw viewers in and keep them...  Read More >>

Exploring the captivating works of Carla Arocha and Stéphane Schraenen, which reference both popular culture and...  Read More >>

A comprehensive presentation of the Yale University Art Gallery's collection of Italian paintings from the thirteenth...  Read More >>

The first major biography on artist Louise Bourgeois brings the life and work of an iconic twentieth-century artist...  Read More >>

An environmental history of chemical photography through the lens of its deep connections to empire and industry....  Read More >>

A showcase of innovative new photo-based work by an acclaimed contemporary artist While best known for large-scale...  Read More >>

While preparing for an event at the University of Sydney in 2017, a librarian turned to the back page of the library’s...  Read More >>

""A collection of essays examining how medieval visual culture can be studied through fragments. Explores how incomplete...  Read More >>

These volumes brings together the complete catalogue of 15th- and 16th-century paintings from the Galleria Borghese,...  Read More >>

West African combs: a hundred sublime pieces from an exceptional private collection. A tribute to sculpture and...  Read More >>

Discover a century of African art, from its emergence to today’s global success, driven by an ancestral vision and...  Read More >>

Unearth a contemporary art collection that shares a profound connection with nature. Text in English and French....  Read More >>

A poetic journey through a unique place that holds an exceptional nature and a remarkable collection. Text in English...  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 >>