Karel Teige (1900-1951), one of the most important figures of avant-garde modernism of the 1920s and 1930s, influenced virtually every area of art, design, ...
A detailed examination of the relation between visual artists and the American Communist movement during the 20th century. Andrew Hemingway charts the rise and ...
Calligraphy is often regarded as the purest manifestation of an artist's inner character and level of cultivation, as well as the expression of his ...
Individual essays discuss Byzantine conceptions of paradise, the textual evidence for monastic horticulture, animal and game parks, herbs in medicinal pharmacy, and the famous ...
This popular anthology of twentieth-century art theoretical texts has now been expanded to take account of new research, and to include significant contributions to ...
A fundamental tenet of the historiography of modern architecture holds that cubism forged a vital link between avant-garde practices in early twentieth-century painting and ...
