In his fresh take on abstract art, now available in paperback and expanded to include sixteen new contemporary artists from six continents, noted art historian Pepe Karmel chronicles the movement from a global perspective, while embedding abstraction in a recognizable reality. Moving beyond the...

A lively history of Surrealism, from its beginnings in Paris to its expansion into an international artistic movement. Dreamworld: Surrealism at 100 celebrates the centennial of André Breton’s Manifesto of Surrealism (1924), which launched one of the essential currents of twentieth-century thought...

The celebrated and influential teaching of Hans Hofmann is presented through the voices of the artist and his former students. Hans Hofmann (1880–1966) was a German-born American painter known for his prominent role in the emergence of Abstract Expressionism and widely revered as one of the most...

Fernande Olivier, Olga Khokhlova, Marie-Thérèse Walter, Dora Maar, Françoise Gilot, and Jacqueline Roque. These six extraordinary women loved and inspired Pablo Picasso. They frequently appear as the women in his portraits, but they also pursued their own ambitions in dance, writing, painting, and...

An epic journey through the world of Korean art, ranging from the first century BCE to the mid-twentieth century. The 150 artworks showcased in this elegant book represent the vast and varied traditions and the extraordinary range of media encompassed in the Korean art world. The objects—which...

Captivating artworks by renowned painters including Seurat and Signac are explored alongside pieces by lesser-known Neo-Impressionists, such as Anna Boch. This catalogue accompanies the National Gallery’s first-ever exhibition devoted to the vibrant Neo-Impressionist movement. Organised...

The first book on an innovative artist who uses modified typewriters to create abstract and colorful bookworks and paintings. Raffaella della Olga makes unique artist’s books using modified typewriters and multicolor ink ribbons on a range of materials—from tracing paper to photo paper to...

In this prescient and beautifully written book, Booker Prize-winning author John Berger examines the life and work of Ernst Neizvestny, a Russian sculptor whose exclusion from the ranks of officially approved Soviet artists left him laboring in enforced obscurity to realize his monumental and very...

Modern art from the Nordic countries—Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and Iceland—tends to be represented by a few famous artists, and an aesthetic known for combining originality and continuity of tradition. Although influenced by the wider international art movements of the time, modern Nordic...

In Artists, Siblings, Visionaries, acclaimed biographer Judith Mackrell tells the stories of brother and sister artists Gwen and Augustus John. As siblings, they could hardly have seemed more unalike. Augustus was in every way the larger of the two; vivid, volatile, and promiscuous, he was a hero...