A comprehensive compendium of contemporary art at the beginning of the 21st century.

Between 1900 and 1942, New York City was the site of extraordinary creative exchange where artists could share ideas in a global context. This book focuses on key artists from the Caribbean and Latin America who entered into dynamic cultural and social dialogs with the American-based avant-grade.

An anthology of Futurist manifestos, poems, plays, and images.

Offering a comprehensive overview of Charles Burchfield's work, this book presents the artist's expressive watercolors and provides a definitive account of his life and career.

Dutch artist Theo van Doesburg (1883-1931) is perhaps best known as a prime mover in De Stijl, the Dutch artistic movement that demanded an extreme simplicity and abstraction in architecture and painting. This work explores the true extent of his influence, demonstrating that it reached far beyond Holland, in Europe, into Russia and beyond.

Mark Rothko belongs to the generation of American artists who completely revolutionized the essence of abstract painting. His stylistic evolution, from a figurative visual repertoire to an abstract style rooted in the active relationship of the observer to the painting, embodied the radical vision of a renaissance in painting.

The Mexican artist Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) is one of the most important 20th century painters, and one of the few Latin American artists to have achieved a global reputation. In 1983 her work was declared the property of the Mexican state. Kahlo was one of the daughters of an immigrant German photographer and a Mexican woman of Indian origin.

Offers a look at how, through the manipulation of signs and pictorial language, Picasso oscillates between figures and objects, animating what is inanimate and vice versa. This book features a selection of art, providing an opportunity for readers to rediscover the art of Picasso: an art that is more vital and more powerful than ever.

A tragic icon of Abstract Expressionism, Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) took influences from Picasso and Mexican surrealism and developed his own way of seeing, interpreting, and expressing. Though his name inevitably conjures up images of the drip paintings for which he is most famous, this technique was only developed midway through his career.

A study of artists in exile in Britain between about 1933 and 1945. It deals with those artists mostly of German and Austrian descent who fled Nazi persecution, and comprises paintings, prints, sculpture, ceramics and posters by artists such as Kurt Schwitters, Jankel Adler, Hans Feibusch, Hans Schleger and Else and Ludwig Meidner.

Alexander Rodchenko (1891-1956) and Lyubov Popova (1889-1924) were involved in the Russian avant-garde during its most exciting period following the Russian Revolution, as they and other artists took part in the attempt to create a new world. This book focuses on their achievements and the extent of their influence.

A comprehensive annotated bibliography of texts relating to the artist, with an introduction examining the critical reception of Matisse during his life and after his death. This is volume 1 in the ARTISTS RESOURCE MANUALS series. A comprehensive survey of English and European language sour

Featuring the entire collection of Egon Schiele's works from the Leopold Museum, this lavish book includes major works from the artist's entire career.

The first publication in a new 5-volume series covering the fundamental events and pivotal works of 20th century art.