Brazilian artist Cildo Meireles (b 1948) has made some of the most philosophically brilliant, politically telling and aesthetically seductive works in recent art. An important theme in the Brazilian post-war avant-garde, from which...

Kurzbeschreibung J.M.W. Turner was Professor of Perspective at the Royal Academy for thirty years (1807-37). Although an awkward public speaker, Turner captivated his audience with the remarkable perspective drawings he produced for his...

Joan Miro's paintings are among the most widely recognized of any modern artist, reproduced everywhere from books to t-shirts and Spanish tourist posters. While he is most often seen as a surrealist or a post-war abstract painter, terms...

A revelatory cultural history revealing what spirits, ghosts and apparitions can tell us about our culture, and about ourselves. Ghosts are woven into the very fabric of life. In Britain, every town, village, and great house has a...

Claude Cahun (1894-1954, born Lucie Schwob) was a poet, essayist, literary critic, translator, actress, Surrealist, revolutionary artist and photographer. Although primarily a writer, the range of Cahun's activities as an artist was...

Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) was one of a generation of artists that helped transform painting during the first half of the twentieth century. As a painter, he preferred to work from memory - imaginatively capturing the spirit of a moment...

Tate Gallery collections. Vol 2. Mit zahlr. auch farb. Abb. Fadengehefteter Originalpappband mit Schutzumschlag. London : Tate Gallery with the assistance of the J. Paul Getty Trust,

"A Child of Six Could Do it: Cartoons About Modern Art" von J.R. Glaves-Smith ist eine humorvolle Sammlung von Cartoons, die sich mit der Welt der modernen Kunst auseinandersetzen. Das Buch bietet eine satirische Perspektive auf die oft...

Modernism is a broad term, used generally to convey a faith in progress and a healthy scepticism for received ideas and traditional values. More specifically, the Modernist tendency has often been associated with the main developments in...

Das Buch "Robert Rauschenberg" von Leah Dickerman bietet eine umfassende Analyse des Lebens und Werkes des einflussreichen amerikanischen Künstlers Robert Rauschenberg. Es beleuchtet seine Rolle als Wegbereiter der Pop Art und seine...

Realism in the art of the 20th century is striking for its diversity. Although not bound together stylistically or by a "manifesto" of intention, a common thread in realist art is a commitment to the modern world and to things as they...

"Journey on a Stairwell" von William Grimes ist ein fesselnder Roman, der die Geschichte von Alex erzählt, einem jungen Mann, der in einem scheinbar endlosen Treppenhaus gefangen ist. Während er versucht, einen Ausweg zu finden, begegnet...