Konsthistoria & stilar från 1900

Kan något gott komma ur postmodernismen? På senare år har begreppet postmodernism blivit ett slagträ i debatten om allt från identitetspolitik och sanningsrelativism, skola, vård och vårdköer, konst och konspirationsteorier. Litteraturvetaren Frid...

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New expanded 248pp 2019 Edition. The single best collection of photography of Banksy's street work that has ever been assembled for print. If that isn't enough there are some words too. You Are An Acceptable Level of Threat covers his entire stree...

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Return to the Lands Between reunite the fractured world reforge the Elden Ring! The two-volume Elden Ring: Official Art Book contains a plethora of artworks from the games Lands Between and its inhabitants in stunning oversized hardcover editions....

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Susan Herbert's delightful feline reimaginings of famous scenes from art, theatre, opera, ballet and film have won her a devoted following. This unprecedented new compilation of her best paintings provides an irresistible introduction to her ...

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The perfect gift for Hockney fans and dog lovers everywhere, David Hockney's Dog Days, now in a gift edition, is an album devoted to two of the artist's closest friends, his dachshunds Stanley and Boodgie. This beautiful and engaging boo...

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Never before published, this self-curated, intensely personal collection of travel notes and sketches by the world's most revered performance artist offers readers a kind of iconography of Abramovic 's daring and utterly original body of...

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Alla känner till Carl Larsson-gården i Sundborn, det världsberömda konstnärshemmet i Dalarna. Alla vet vem Carl Larsson var. Och alla har sett hans Karin på tavlorna. Många vet också att hon i likhet med sin man hade konstnärlig begåvning och en g...

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Designed to be a companion to our classic title 1000 Chairs, this edition contains an awesome selection of over 1000 lights. Presented chronologically by decade are the 20th centurys most interesting electric lights, from Tiffanys beautiful leaded...

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Postmodernismen hör till de senaste decenniernas mest inflytelserika teorier. I När postmodernismen kom till Sverige skildrar Johan Lundberg hur det postmoderna tankegodset slog igenom på svenska kultursidor och i kretsen kring Svenska Akademien p...

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Färgstark, subjektiv, hyllad, kritiserad. Sjutton arkitekter, stadsplanerare, byggnadsantikvarier och konstvetare granskar ismen som bröt med postmodernismens formspråk. Genom texter, bilder, planritningar och skisser undersöker de 1980- och 90-ta...

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Hailed the "Prince of the Impressionists", Claude Monet (1840-1926) transformed expectations for the purpose of paint on canvas. Defying the precedent of centuries, Monet did not seek to render only reality, but the act of perception its...

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Celebrate the epic journey of the LEGO minifigure. Features an exclusive orange spaceman! Enter the world of minifigures with this fully updated edition. The first minifigure was created in 1978, and today the entire minifigure population could ci...

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Record covers are a sign of our life and times. Like the music on the discs, they address such issues as love, life, death, fashion, and rebellion. For music fans the covers are the expression of a period, of a particular time in their lives. Many...

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Dark Horse Books and Nintendo team up to bring you The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Historia, containing an unparalleled collection of historical information on The Legend of Zelda franchise. This handsome hardcover contains never-before-seen concept a...

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In a fleeting fourteen year period, sandwiched between two world wars, Germany's Bauhaus school of art and design changed the face of modernity. With utopian ideals for the future, the school developed a pioneering fusion of fine art, craftsmanshi...

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Vincent van Goghs story is one of the most tragic in art history. Today, he is celebrated the world over as one of the most important painters of all time, recognized with sell-out shows, feted museums, and record prices of tens of millions of dol...

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The creator of the ubiquitous Knoll "Tulip" chairs and tables, Eero Saarinen (1910-1961) was one of the 20th century's most prominent space shapers, merging dynamic forms with a modernist sensibility across architecture and design. Among...

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Published in its entirety, Frida Kahlo's amazing illustrated journal documents the last ten years of her turbulent life. These passionate, often surprising, intimate records, kept under lock and key for some 40 years in Mexico, reveal many new dim...

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This definitive appreciation of Kahlo's career features gorgeous full-page reproductions and insightful commentary to illuminate connections between the artist's life and work. Few painters have been as celebrated and adopted into popular culture ...

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" Boken är skriven ur ett promenadperspektiv, och flexbandet med mjuka pärmar gör den även lätt att stoppa ned i väskan och ta med på egna upptäcktsfärder. " Maria Bennmalm, BTJ-häftet Följ med på spaning efter portaler i Jugend och Art ...

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The photographer and visual artist Erik Johansson creates surreal worlds through his own unique method. It often takes him months just to create one image, in a process where his photographs are combined so that an original place emerges. The resu...

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Return to the Lands Between reunite the fractured world reforge the Elden Ring! The two-volume Elden Ring: Official Art Book contains a plethora of artworks from the games Lands Between and its inhabitants in stunning oversized hardcover editions....

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Four stunning pocket-sized fashion books in one box set. Includes Little Book of Chanel, Little Book of Dior, Little Book of Gucci and Little Book of Prada telling the stories of four iconic fashion houses. With images of the four houses' mos...

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'He makes us see a subject we thought we knew so well from a completely different angle; in writing that is deeply researched, but inviting, warm, and full of personality' Katy Hessel 'Charlie Porter is a magician' Olivia Laing...

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As the book's provocative title indicates, a woman reading was once viewed as radical. In chapters - such as: Intimate Moments and The Search for Oneself - Bollmann profiles how a woman with a book was once seen as idle or suspect and how wom...

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The rise of the major European avant-garde groups -- the Realists, Impressionists, Post-Impressionists, Symbolists, Cubists, and Surrealists -- between 1851 to 1929, was also a time of rapid social, economic, and political change, encompassing a r...

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Paul Klee was one of the most inventive artists of the twentieth century. Influenced by Surrealism, Cubism and Impressionism, he had an undoubtedly distinctive style. A keen student of colour theory, his works are powerfully effective, and this ca...

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No other artist, apart from J. M. W. Turner, tried as hard as Claude Monet (1840-1926) to capture light itself on canvas. Of all the Impressionists, it was the man Cezanne called "only an eye, but my God what an eye!" who stayed true to ...

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In the mid-1950s, Yves Klein (1928-1962) declared that "a new world calls for a new man." With his idiosyncratic style and huge charisma, this bold artist would go on to pursue a brief but bountiful career, producing more than 1,000 pain...

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With some 280 colour illustrations, Introduction to Modern Design takes us on a visual survey of design from the Industrial Revolution of the eighteenth century to the Maker Movement of today. It offers a new understanding of the birth of modern d...

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