This biography of Picasso - by a close friend and neighbour - explores the great artist's life, appreciating the distinctly Mediterranean origins of his character and art. The man that emerges from the pages is full of contradictions - mean, yet generous and affectionate, but cold.

An examination of the work of expressionist Egon Schiele. This book explores Schiele's obsession with sex, life and death, which gave rise to his famous female nudes and nude self-portraits, and examines his vision of the artist in society, and his work as a landscape and portrait painter.

In-your-face, brutally pleasing, achingly simple, deceptively frank, the work of Christopher Wool is so very New York. Exploring Wool's work, this monograph analyzes Wool's career from its roots in the early 1980s to its state as one of the important and widely celebrated in contemporary art.

Expressionism is a style of art in which the intention is not to reproduce a subject accurately, but instead to portray it in such a way as to expressthe inner state of the artist. The movement is also associated with Germany in particular, and was influenced by such emotionally-charged styles as Symbolism, Favism and Cubism.

Features essays that are the result of reflection in the wake of World War II. These essays comprise a study of surrealism, insisting on its importance as a cultural and social phenomenon with far-reaching consequences. They explain Bataille's links with the surrealist movement, and describe his complex relationship with Andre Breton.

The Brucke (established in Dresden in 1905) is, together with the Blauer Reiter in Munich, the most important movement in German expressionism. This book covers the work of founding members Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Erich Heckel, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, and Fritz Bleyl, as well as works by their friends, such as Emil Nolde and Otto Mueller.

Containing six chapters - The Brucke Group of Artists, Northern German Expressionism, The Blaue Reiter, Rhenish Expressionism, The City and Expressionism in Vienna - this work deals with a German artistic revolution, a phenomenon that has quite accurately been described as the most significant German contribution to 20th century European art.

Duncan Grant was one of the best-known names on the British art scene and the most charismatic member of the Bloomsbury set. His life spanned great changes in society and art, from Edwardian times to the 1970s.

Cubism initiated a pictorial revolution through its radical approach to image-making, invention of the new media of collage and sculptural assemblage, and evolution towards pure abstraction. This work aims to reveal these innovations as integrally related to rapid changes in French society.

A definitive collection of critical essays from the world's leading authorities on Picasso and Cubism, published to accompany a major exhibition celebrating the centenary of Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.

The young painter Francoise Gilot met Picasso in a Parisian cafe when he was 62. During the next ten years they were lovers, worked together and had two children, Claude and Paloma. In an account filled with intimate revelations, the author paints a portrait of her turbulent life with Picasso.

Provides information on the fundamental role that Picasso played in the development of modern American art, both through his friendships with individual artists and through the dissemination of his evolving work. This book also documents the accessibility of Picasso's work in the United States between 1911 and 1957 in exhibitions and collections.

In this text, Andre Malraux recollects a number of his conversations with Picasso. Malraux was intimately involved in French intellectual life, as philosopher, novelist, soldier, statesman and Secretary for Cultural Affairs, and he knew the painter well.

One of a series introducing major movements in modern art to general readers, students and gallery visitors, this text looks at Cubism, perhaps the seminal movement for the arts of the 20th century, and certainly one of the most complex.

By 1914, the broader concept of Expressionism permeated German culture at many levels. It flourished in metropolitan culture but was marked by a profound ambivalence towards modern life. In this text, Behr explores themes of opposition and the practice of various communities.

This work explains the context in which abstract expressionism, seen by some as the first truly American art, emerged. It discusses the work produced by such artists as Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still and Barnett Newman.