World of Art series

Modern & Contemporary Art

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Abstract Expressionism

Abstract Expressionism

  • Paperback
A wealth of well-chosen illustrations … an informative account of the work of Pollock, de Kooning and Rothko, amongst many others – The Sunday Times

Abstract Art

Abstract Art

  • Paperback
Packed with information and insight – Art Monthly

American Art and Architecture

American Art and Architecture

  • Paperback
All the major American artists and works are included; dozens of building types are illustrated and discussed – from the earliest colonial houses and churches to the most spectacular modernist and postmodernist stores, museums, stations, and iconic skyscrapers.

American Art Since 1945

American Art Since 1945

  • Paperback
An excellent introduction to the social and political complexities surrounding the creation of ‘art history’ … a valuable addition to any library or reading list – The Lecturer

Art Since 1960

Art Since 1960

  • Paperback
Reveals and makes coherent sense of the often bewildering diversity of styles, forms, media, techniques and agendas that proliferate in contemporary art

The Body in Contemporary Art

The Body in Contemporary Art

  • Paperback
An international survey of art made since the early 1990s that has the body as its focus, from painting and sculpture to installation, video art and performance.

Concepts of Modern Art

Concepts of Modern Art

From Fauvism to Postmodernism

  • Paperback
A useful and mercifully jargon-free introduction to a very complex subject – Richard Cork

A Concise History of Modern Painting

A Concise History of Modern Painting

  • Paperback
By far the best introduction to the subject – Alan Bowness

Cubism and Culture

Cubism and Culture

  • Paperback
The works are centre-stage, and yet this is a book whose great achievement is to bring out the importance of the Cubists in a history far bigger than the history of art. – Christopher Green Courtauld Institute of Art

Dada

Dada

Art and Anti-Art

  • Paperback
One of the best documents on this extraordinary movement – The Sunday Times

Digital Art

Digital Art

  • Paperback
Impressive … readable … capacious captions accompany many illustrations – Publishers Weekly

Fauvism

Fauvism

  • Paperback
A remarkable, comprehensive achievement – The New York Times Book Review

Graffiti and Street Art

Graffiti and Street Art

  • Paperback
Analyses not just the work, but the functions of graffiti and street art and their increasingly important role in urban visual culture.

Impressionism

Impressionism

Origins, Practice, Reception

  • Paperback
Belinda Thomson's Impressionism is an art-historical tour de force, compressing into a relatively short text an enormous amount of information … it is incisive and original … full of new insights and informed by recent developments in the social history of art … eloquent and eminently readable – Linda Nochlin

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