Mass culture, popular taste and kitsch, previously considered outside the limits of fine art, were the inspiration and provocative themes of pop art. This ...
Patrick Heron, as one of the first British artists to embrace abstraction, he introduced a post-war generation ot the delights of luminouspure colour, distilling ...
Futurism, brainchild of the Italian writer and impresario, F.T. Marinetti, was the defining avant-garde art movement of the 20th century. This book traces it ...
By 1914, the broader concept of Expressionism permeated German culture at many levels. It flourished in metropolitan culture but was marked by a profound ...
Sargent and Fashion explores the dynamic relationship of painting and dress ? from portraits and performance, gender expression and the New Woman, to the ...