The Greek architectural orders'Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian'lie at the heart of the classical traditions of building, and yet satisfying accounts for their origins have ...
This is the first major book to study English architecture between 1945 and 1975 in its entirety. Challenging previous scholarship on the subject and ...
This magnificently illustrated people's history celebrates the extraordinary feats of cultivation by the working class in Britain, even if the land they toiled, planted ...
This highly anticipated book--the first in a series of three--comprehensively chronicles the first two decades of Ed Ruscha's (b. 1937) work on paper, which ...
Louis Kahn (1901-1974), one of the most important architects of the postwar period, is widely admired for his great monumental works, including the Kimbell ...
That Ireland is picturesque is a well-worn cliche, but little is understood of how this perception was created, painted and manipulated during the long ...
James Stirling was one of the most influential architects of the late 20th century. His formally inventive yet historically informed designs inspired a generation ...
Kazimir Malevich's painting "Black Square" is one of the twentieth century's emblematic paintings, the visual manifestation of a new period in artistic culture at ...
Accompanying the first United States retrospective of British sculptor Anthony Caro's work in almost 40 years, this collection places the prominent artist firmly within ...
Home to an extraordinary collection of treasured masterworks, including the famed Unicorn Tapestries, The Cloisters is devoted to the art and architecture of medieval ...
As a prolific photographer for House Beautiful, Better Homes and Gardens, Architectural Digest, and Sunset magazine, Maynard L. Parker (1900-1976) was a pioneer in ...
