Perhaps no twentieth-century artist utilized puns and linguistic ambiguity with greater effect--and greater controversy--than Marcel Duchamp. Through a careful "unpacking" of his major works, ...
Marcel Duchamp is a founding figure of twentieth-century art and culture, the common source to which many contemporary movements trace their roots. His career ...
This text aims to integrate tiles and their design and manufacture, with the architectural and social environment in which they were used. It concentrates ...
Reacting to the mechanization of the industrial revolution, late-19th-century designers in England and America urged a return to the fine craftsmanship exemplified by medieval ...
Another in the StyleBooks series from Abbeville Press, this pocket-sized reference serves as a clear, readable introduction to Art Nouveau. A highly decorative art ...
This book, as a more or less encyclopedic critique of aesthetic theories from a Wittgensteinian perspective, will be enlightening to aesthetic theorists who want ...
Internationally recognized as a pioneer of abstract art, the founder of Neo-Plasticism, and the ideological father of the De Stijl movement, Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) ...
Meikle, professor of American studies and art history at the University of Texas, presents a splendid history of plastic. The book is authoritative, thorough, ...
This text is an informative volume on the uses and applications of steel, primarily in architecture (high-rises and long-span building) but also in engineering ...
