Art

Examining the complex set of political, social and cultural circumstances that produced one of the most important art movements of the 20th century, this book also serves as the catalogue...

Incorporating work from all periods and geographical areas, this is an introduction to the many collections in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. From Ancient Egypt comes the...

This revised work provides a basic introduction to prints and printmaking. The book provides explanations of different techniques of printmaking and illustrates both details and whole prints to show the...

This book is the first of its kind to focus exclusively on the unique talents of iconoclastic artist-writer Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957) as a portraitist. Lewis was the most important British...

This is a biography and critical analysis of Sir John Lavery (1856-1941), best-known as one of the "Glasgow Boys" and one of the most "French" of the British impressionists. Born...

Egon Schiele lived in Vienna during its last years as capital of the declining Habsburg empire. Rejected by his family and hounded by society for his interest in young girls,...

Arshile Gorky was born in America, borrowed a famous Russian name from his hero Maxim Gorky, and paradoxically changed the course of American modern art, influencing painters such as de...

Rodin - passionate, demanding, sensual: and his whole personality went into his sculpture. He created a new sculptural language, realistic and physical, highly charged with emotion, conveying sexuality more directly...

Edward Hopper (1882-1967) is considered the first significant American painter in 20th-century art. After decades of patient work, Hopper enjoyed a success and popularity that since the 1950s has continually...

A biography of the controversial sculptor, Jacob Epstein. Recognized as a seminal figure in 20th-century art, his powerful and often explicit sculptures, monumental in scale, were hailed as the work...